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  • That really isn’t how that works. The US has declared that they won’t allow the international courts to get involved, but that doesn’t necessarily prevent those courts from disagreeing.

    “Jurisdiction” is only a thing when a court answers to some higher authority who has limited what that court can do. Since the international courts theoretically don’t answer to the US government, they can make any ruling they like.

    They’re unlikely to bother, since they probably won’t be in a position to enforce any ruling against typical foot soldiers, but they absolutely could if it came to that point


  • The point is that people are going to see that the post was edited, because most platforms will tell them, and the poster is saying “yeah, it’s edited. Don’t worry, the meaning hasn’t changed”.

    Asking how you’d tell if they were lying is really missing the point. It’s not evidence being presented in a court of law, it’s social etiquette.

    Handshakes date from a time when the person you’re meeting having a knife they intend to stab you with was a serious concern, so the custom of grasping each others dominant hand to say “look, I’m not holding a knife” became popular. Doesn’t stop people from having a weapon in their other hand, but would you say handshakes are pointless?







  • X^0 and 0! aren’t actually special cases though, you can reach them logically from things which are obvious.

    For X^0: you can get from X^(n) to X^(n-1) by dividing by X. That works for all n, so we can say for example that 2³ is 2⁴/2, which is 16/2 which is 8. Similarly, 2¹/2 is 2⁰, but it’s also obviously 1.

    The argument for 0! is basically the same. 3! is 1x2x3, and to go to 2! you divide it by 3. You can go from 1! to 0! by dividing 1 by 1.

    In both cases the only thing which is special about 1 is that any number divided by itself is 1, just like any number subtracted from itself is 0