The Fallacy Of Relative Privation

Stacey Travis is still alive. The largest earthquake ever fairly close to Wollongong was a 5.5 in Oakdale about 45 years ago. Brisbane had tennis ball sized hailstones in 2014. Moving on.
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There's so much overlap in the pigeon chess defenses I'm not sure I have the right logical fallacy. I think I do, but if I describe it then merely the titling is wrong. This is going to gather together some of the more interesting tricks to number generation in the past few months. The difference at this point than, say, a year ago, is that they just kept chugging along unchallenged. Let's throw in this occasional weird trick to justify a number in the middle of a set of more conventionally derived values. Maybe it will become alternative mainstream. Maybe not. It will at least get a ❤ and a cookie.


The justification for insertion of these is much like the defense I have seen for the existence of 3,902,721,883 elisions. "Well, I only use four!". To me this seems like relative privation. "It's a good idea to elect Trump because he's not as bad as Hillary". It may or might not be true, but ignores electing Trump based on his or her own merits. If you don't like the lesser of two evils scenario the classic example is, "Well, Stalin wasn't as bad as Hitler".


Just because you don't use Septenary doesn't change that the gematria values others use are invalid. They still get thrown in to the stories.


There's been an alarming number of new additions to the number changing arsenal lately, as if being called out on the questionability of some things makes the desire to make more matches counter the fact that forced creation of new matches is the problem. So from a logical standpoint, they're just digging their own graves. So here we go.
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1). All the additional cipher additions.
2). You can now spell out a number as a word at least twice.
3). You can parse, e.g. 1393 is 13, 93.
4). You can concatenate. 13, 93 is 1393.
5). You can parse and concatenate. 139 months 3 weeks is 139,3-->1393-->13,93
6). You can add days together. <Month> 27th and <Month> 29th=27+29=56.
7). You can add the values of separate elisions together.
8). You can reverse the digits of a gematriot and add them together, parse or manipulate in further ways.
9). Distances can be expressed as those between and the diameters of celestial bodies.
10). Date numerology can use multiplication.
11). You can eliminate any multiple digit - 1556-->156.
12). The digits of Euler's number.
13). Trig values.
14). Star numbers
15). Portions of a large prefixed number, e.g. 1 billion-->1,000 million. (Used in spelling out numbers as words.)
16). Date spans can be at least two days different instead of just the old fashioned one depending on inclusion of end date.
17). With Franc Baconis especially you don't need to capitalize the first letter like it almost always used to appear. computer vs. Computer.
18). Single initials count for names.
19). Roman numeral letters can have their Arabic numeral value in place of the elision based value. E.g., AVA Gardener, AVA can be 1+22+1 or 1+5+1.


I'll have to add more later, I'm sure I missed some. Note that the list doesn't include the common tricks like primes and mirror images. The fallacious defense is, "I don't add two ciphers together, so mirror images make sense because I'm not so bad." You don't use the trick, but you certainly don't openly condemn it. At times it even gets a high five and a cookie.


I suspect that the current trend is to get away from the "entire language is encoded" stupidity by use of the brute force impossible not to find a match by infinite ways to manipulate stupidity. There's no way around both of them.