I have so many accumulated hours listening to just this album and the connection never came to me organically man idk how

this is a big reason why i also don’t believe in car dependent infrastructure bc not everyone’s such a big boss man that they need to be in charge of a damn vehicle. leave it to the bus driver and stop feeling “condescended to” because you relied on public infrastructure. be a bit of a bum

also Gemini advertising their ai image generator as “imagine an apple” “imagine an Eiffel Tower made of bubble gum” or whatever shit is so stupid

imagining is a biological function of beings with brains, you can already do it for free by closing your eyes. ai doesn’t imagine literally anything

privilege blind spots bro no one’s immune

individual solves and skeletons of what would later be broad algorithmic systems, put in textbooks and into common knowledge by Muslims. that is objectively huge, not a pedantic goalpost. im deeply confident in my claim and feel odd about you undermining persian/islamic history so im muting you lol

I never said their math wasnt math man and I never shifted the goalpost, that has been my stance from the beginning and why I said “the claim is mostly true” based off of the source. it seems like you’re suggesting im undermining the earlier accomplishments but im not, what i mean is they existed as

where the Greeks and Indians work was first translated, then studied, and then through their work algebra was systematized and then transformed into a teachable discipline

basically the Greeks and Hindus unlocked the skill tree while the Islamic world filled it out

the entire source is about that

i disagree with you that it’s contradictory or false

“the [islamic world] is where maths was expanded beyond addition and subtraction“
in this claim i interpret “maths” as the school subject.
Greeks and Indians were far beyond addition and subtraction in private study, but the Islamic world is