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[–] Viceversa@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

While that's true (speaking as a russian citizen), numbers are also true.
Unfortunately, those numbers don't convert to the happiness of ordinary Russians (and Ukrainians, ofc).

[–] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

numbers are also true

that really depends on the number, ~~non-positive ones~~ some are evaluated as false 😂

[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 2 points 16 hours ago

Some are even imaginary

[–] kopasz7@sh.itjust.works 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Programmer joke flying overhead.

[–] Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

that’s not correct. anything that isn’t 0 is true. only 0 is false. what has the world come to

[–] kopasz7@sh.itjust.works 3 points 21 hours ago

Casually spreading misinformation (for job security reasons)

[–] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

ok, fair, that was inaccurate. i was primarily targeting the silly statement of "numbers being true" used as a manipulation to support the argument.

[–] Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Viceversa’s point was that these numbers also have very great statistical meaning (and added zimself the significant caveat that the meaning in question is unrelated to the subject we’re discussing) and had seemingly nothing to do with Boolean logic. Viceversa’s point was that the numbers here aren’t being adjusted even though they show something different from the initial meme.

[–] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Viceversa’s point was that these numbers also have very great statistical meaning

and that is the point - they don't. if you live in a poor country, you and your neighbour both make peanuts, so your labour is cheap, you may be able to buy some of your neighbour's service and vice versa (pun not intended), but you collectively can't buy shit from abroad. ppp can be tool to evaluate the domestic market, but it is useless to compare countries internationally to determine which one of them is superpower (if we reduce that question just to economics).

it indeed had nothing to do with boolean logic, that was just my jab at "true numbers".

[–] Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

exactly, you have repeated what i said but with a first sentence that is the opposite of what you mean. you’re just saying what Viceversa said at three times the length at which ze expressed it: the numbers show that russia has a stronger domestic market to harness for war (and thus cannot be ignored as adjusted), which does not translate into the happiness of its domestic citizens.

[–] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

the original question was whether russia is superpower. russia is big country full of poor people, which is not the usual definition. unfortunately they also have the nuclear bomb, which is the only reason they can't be just laughed out of the room.

[–] Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

russia is big country full of poor people

The question was whether you were unfairly jabbing Viceversa, but even for this question, that is completely unrelated to whether or not it is a superpower. Russia lost its superpower gleam in the past five years not because they suddenly became superpoorer. The Soviet Union was a big country full of poor people. The Soviet Union was a superpower. Russia lost its superpower gleam because they picked a fight with a small country full of 3x poorer people and failed to steamroll them, to everyone's surprise.

[–] Viceversa@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

unfortunately they also have the nuclear bomb, which is the only reason they can't be just laughed out of the room.

That's not the only reason though: Ukraine isn't laughing, despite not being nuclear bombed.

I don't know, for how long we as Russians and Ukrainians can endure this shit, but it's there for years now, despite several countries helping Ukraine.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 21 hours ago

Yeah, a binary number that's all 0s is what it's looking for, which is 0 in every reasonable number format. Any other number has 1s in it, so is evaluated as 1.