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Cool it with the racism, buddy
What if?
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saddamhussein
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if bizarro is an opposite copy of superman, and is indeed his mirror in every way, the following two questions apply:
1. is bizarro circumcised if superman is uncircumcised? if so, who performed the circumcision?
2. if superman is straight, is bizarro gay? would that even work? wouldn't he technically be a woman or at the least trans if he's the complete opposite of superman?
1. is bizarro circumcised if superman is uncircumcised? if so, who performed the circumcision?
2. if superman is straight, is bizarro gay? would that even work? wouldn't he technically be a woman or at the least trans if he's the complete opposite of superman?
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If you were a Boltzmann brain that is lucid dreaming, you wouldn't be able to tell that apart from normal lucid dreaming, so it doesn't prove anything.
False premise. There is nothing about a Boltzmann brain that makes it by definition capable of consciously altering the reality it believes it is experiencing, therefore there's no A => B step.
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that depends on how good it's memory recall is. if it's minimal, it won't notice changes in the canon in it's universe, and if it's perfect, there are no changes in canon in the first place. But if its memory is in between, It can be thinking of something, think about something else, then when it think about the first thing it'll eventually realize it's slightly different now
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Better to allow divorce, but put a max cap on what the wife gets so that she needs to be very frugal or find another wallet
pentangle
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can't put a price on the pain of losing someone you have a history with (nor not being able to trust that they'll stick around or on all the intergenerational trauma broken homes cause including the rise of troons)
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What if I'm right about this?
I'm not denying the existence of Covid-19 or anything like that. But I think there have been some very... careful considerations in how the healthcare, pharmaceutical, tech, and media industries have covered this rapidly-evolving viral infection – in an attempt make the world more culturally-conservative, communist, and collectivist.
First, there is no such thing as the "Covid-19 virus" in technical literature. Covid-19 is technically the CoronaVirus DISEASE 2019. Referring to the virus as the covid virus is like referring to a hammer as a "blunt force trauma device". The virus is in fact the Sars-COV-2, a subspecies of the SARS virus! It's SARS, through and through! A virus that has already been named and added to spell-checkers. COVID had to be added later on, forcing mass software updates, updates to style guides, etc., and forcing everyone to learn this new term at a time when the English language was already rapidly evolving.
Second, the language of the "essential worker" is something I can't help but feel could qualify as a potential attempt to communize the US and other developed nations. To tell the masses to initially only leave home if absolutely necessary, while forcing the world's foodservice, retail, and "blue collar" professions to keep leaving the house, breeding resentment among the lower classes and medical professions, while also making most non-medical white collar professions seem frivolous.
(I can also see a trend where tech is no longer seen as a liberal-minded profession - I sometimes wonder if it will intentionally attract the conservative-minded in the future, who will call for it to be regulated like cars, raise prices, and scare progressive people away from using it while turning a once-rebellious pastime and career into something for the rule-obsessed puritans and overly-empathetic prudes who will make sure people only ever use these devices for serious business. I think the use of quiet ringtones and a very soothing default alarm tone in IOS 17 was an intentional choice, as is the fact that the new OS will show key files and photos on your lock screen sidebar. Gotta scare the kids away from downloading porn and sensitize them to the point where Snails House to them sounds like GWAR to elders!)
Third, the pandemic has incentivized young adult college students to go back home and therefore spend more time among their elders, exposing them to more conservative cultural ideas, especially when their grandparents might now be in the picture. No one in your meatspace might use the pronouns you fought for. No one will hold back when telling you that you'll magically outgrow your gayness when you turn 25. You'll be given the side eye for not praying, and feel guilty if those prayers are fake, if you're an atheist or pagan. You'll be hounded for going out late or not clenching your legs together if you sit if you're a woman. You'll be around older dialectical standards, which almost feel like an older "operating system" incompatible with newer ideologies - even something as innocent and common as electronic music might be harder to justify - the idea that "quiet" and "soft" are separate concepts, or that music doesn't necessarily have to be performed, are foreign to older dictionaries. Try justifying social constructivism to people who believe that God himself imbibed words with their meanings, and folk etymologies based on bad Biblical translation practices. And with high-fives being a high risk, expect to also hear conversations about how you should never take the risk of having sex outside marriage.
Fourth, the standards used by different countries are inconsistent. The US used 6 feet, and some other countries used 2 meters - 6 feet and some change. But many other countries used 1 or 1.5 meters, roughly 3 1/2 and 5 feet respectively. The world simply wasn't built for this distancing. And combining it with masks basically made things difficult for the hard of hearing, or for those with sensory issues who find it hard to decipher voices over even quiet machinery. Many people rely on lip reading. And the sparser requirements made taking buses and metros a pain, potentially breeding resentment in those who can't afford cars, don't have licenses for various disabilities, or have a DUI.
Fifth, the masks. There was so little standardization in mask design, and for a while, you were shamed for using an N95 or KN95 if you weren't immunocompromised or were a medic. They couldn't just ramp up production or convert some factories - even in China, where an electronics factory that produces synthesizers one week could make self-refilling dog bowls the next. The mainstream masks, no matter how tight I'd bend the metal, would always fog up my glasses, discouraging me from wearing them to class.
Sixth, ZOOM. Fucking ZOOM. In theory, much of it is mean to simulate eye contact, which isn't even a universal for good communication. Autistic people often find it HARDER to listen when eye contact is forced. BECAUSE THEIR TRAIN OF THOUGHT IS EXPENDED ON EYE CONTACT! That plus the fact that it isn't even natural eye contact - not only is everyone looking below the camera, but everyone is looking at everyone! People are uncomfortable in their own homes, and you'll often have to screen-share, and often SHOW THE CLASS OR BUSINESS MEETING YOUR FUCKING DOWNLOADS FOLDER! I hope you don't have any obscure fetishes that are legal but could make you subject to judgement! ZOOM and its requirements mean people are also designing computers around these kinds of video calls - at the expense of things like animation rendering time, audio performance, etc., meaning people with these hobbies have to shell out more. My Mom's $1000 PC Laptop could barely handle Ableton Live when she wanted some audio software on it! I wouldn't dare try Maya on it even if she begged me to install it. But it runs Zoom no problem.
Seventh - "indefinitely". This word seemed to have regained its original meaning of "until possible further notice overnight. Everywhere was closed indefinitely - a term that semantically now means "infinitely" or "permanently". If Chili's closes indefinitely, to my eyes and ears and brain between them, that means THERE AIN'T GONNA BE NO MORE CHILI'S! News organizations generally avoid ambiguous language like this - so why use it? Well, in addition to introducing those new terms, there might have been an attempt to get people used to more academic language. This might sound like a contradiction of my first point, but it actually amplifies it. SARS-COV-2 is distinct from SARS-COV-1, despite both being the same species! It fits into the same philosophy that educated people ought to say "man" or "woman" instead of "person" because even a deductive analysis of a dictionary can justify this idea that anything a man or woman does will inevitably be colored by their gender. Similarly, while descriptive dictionaries like Webster's will put the "infinite" definition of "indefinite" first, the prescriptive ones like American Heritage or Oxford will put the definition of "vague" or "without a fixed or known end" first - and you're expected as an educated person to just know that.
Eighth, the entire situation has forced people to spend more time around doctors' offices. Half of everyone I know is on some sort of psych med now. People are being pushed on Rybelsis or Ozempic for weight loss and paying for it with the size effects. People are giving up hobbies and interest they love because a therapist told them that using tech for entertainment was an unhealthy addiction, or that women being aggressive was destructive to your very synapses - and just noping out of friendships left and right. It's not respectable to be a gamer anymore. Tech is for ZOOM.
I'm not denying the existence of Covid-19 or anything like that. But I think there have been some very... careful considerations in how the healthcare, pharmaceutical, tech, and media industries have covered this rapidly-evolving viral infection – in an attempt make the world more culturally-conservative, communist, and collectivist.
First, there is no such thing as the "Covid-19 virus" in technical literature. Covid-19 is technically the CoronaVirus DISEASE 2019. Referring to the virus as the covid virus is like referring to a hammer as a "blunt force trauma device". The virus is in fact the Sars-COV-2, a subspecies of the SARS virus! It's SARS, through and through! A virus that has already been named and added to spell-checkers. COVID had to be added later on, forcing mass software updates, updates to style guides, etc., and forcing everyone to learn this new term at a time when the English language was already rapidly evolving.
Second, the language of the "essential worker" is something I can't help but feel could qualify as a potential attempt to communize the US and other developed nations. To tell the masses to initially only leave home if absolutely necessary, while forcing the world's foodservice, retail, and "blue collar" professions to keep leaving the house, breeding resentment among the lower classes and medical professions, while also making most non-medical white collar professions seem frivolous.
(I can also see a trend where tech is no longer seen as a liberal-minded profession - I sometimes wonder if it will intentionally attract the conservative-minded in the future, who will call for it to be regulated like cars, raise prices, and scare progressive people away from using it while turning a once-rebellious pastime and career into something for the rule-obsessed puritans and overly-empathetic prudes who will make sure people only ever use these devices for serious business. I think the use of quiet ringtones and a very soothing default alarm tone in IOS 17 was an intentional choice, as is the fact that the new OS will show key files and photos on your lock screen sidebar. Gotta scare the kids away from downloading porn and sensitize them to the point where Snails House to them sounds like GWAR to elders!)
Third, the pandemic has incentivized young adult college students to go back home and therefore spend more time among their elders, exposing them to more conservative cultural ideas, especially when their grandparents might now be in the picture. No one in your meatspace might use the pronouns you fought for. No one will hold back when telling you that you'll magically outgrow your gayness when you turn 25. You'll be given the side eye for not praying, and feel guilty if those prayers are fake, if you're an atheist or pagan. You'll be hounded for going out late or not clenching your legs together if you sit if you're a woman. You'll be around older dialectical standards, which almost feel like an older "operating system" incompatible with newer ideologies - even something as innocent and common as electronic music might be harder to justify - the idea that "quiet" and "soft" are separate concepts, or that music doesn't necessarily have to be performed, are foreign to older dictionaries. Try justifying social constructivism to people who believe that God himself imbibed words with their meanings, and folk etymologies based on bad Biblical translation practices. And with high-fives being a high risk, expect to also hear conversations about how you should never take the risk of having sex outside marriage.
Fourth, the standards used by different countries are inconsistent. The US used 6 feet, and some other countries used 2 meters - 6 feet and some change. But many other countries used 1 or 1.5 meters, roughly 3 1/2 and 5 feet respectively. The world simply wasn't built for this distancing. And combining it with masks basically made things difficult for the hard of hearing, or for those with sensory issues who find it hard to decipher voices over even quiet machinery. Many people rely on lip reading. And the sparser requirements made taking buses and metros a pain, potentially breeding resentment in those who can't afford cars, don't have licenses for various disabilities, or have a DUI.
Fifth, the masks. There was so little standardization in mask design, and for a while, you were shamed for using an N95 or KN95 if you weren't immunocompromised or were a medic. They couldn't just ramp up production or convert some factories - even in China, where an electronics factory that produces synthesizers one week could make self-refilling dog bowls the next. The mainstream masks, no matter how tight I'd bend the metal, would always fog up my glasses, discouraging me from wearing them to class.
Sixth, ZOOM. Fucking ZOOM. In theory, much of it is mean to simulate eye contact, which isn't even a universal for good communication. Autistic people often find it HARDER to listen when eye contact is forced. BECAUSE THEIR TRAIN OF THOUGHT IS EXPENDED ON EYE CONTACT! That plus the fact that it isn't even natural eye contact - not only is everyone looking below the camera, but everyone is looking at everyone! People are uncomfortable in their own homes, and you'll often have to screen-share, and often SHOW THE CLASS OR BUSINESS MEETING YOUR FUCKING DOWNLOADS FOLDER! I hope you don't have any obscure fetishes that are legal but could make you subject to judgement! ZOOM and its requirements mean people are also designing computers around these kinds of video calls - at the expense of things like animation rendering time, audio performance, etc., meaning people with these hobbies have to shell out more. My Mom's $1000 PC Laptop could barely handle Ableton Live when she wanted some audio software on it! I wouldn't dare try Maya on it even if she begged me to install it. But it runs Zoom no problem.
Seventh - "indefinitely". This word seemed to have regained its original meaning of "until possible further notice overnight. Everywhere was closed indefinitely - a term that semantically now means "infinitely" or "permanently". If Chili's closes indefinitely, to my eyes and ears and brain between them, that means THERE AIN'T GONNA BE NO MORE CHILI'S! News organizations generally avoid ambiguous language like this - so why use it? Well, in addition to introducing those new terms, there might have been an attempt to get people used to more academic language. This might sound like a contradiction of my first point, but it actually amplifies it. SARS-COV-2 is distinct from SARS-COV-1, despite both being the same species! It fits into the same philosophy that educated people ought to say "man" or "woman" instead of "person" because even a deductive analysis of a dictionary can justify this idea that anything a man or woman does will inevitably be colored by their gender. Similarly, while descriptive dictionaries like Webster's will put the "infinite" definition of "indefinite" first, the prescriptive ones like American Heritage or Oxford will put the definition of "vague" or "without a fixed or known end" first - and you're expected as an educated person to just know that.
Eighth, the entire situation has forced people to spend more time around doctors' offices. Half of everyone I know is on some sort of psych med now. People are being pushed on Rybelsis or Ozempic for weight loss and paying for it with the size effects. People are giving up hobbies and interest they love because a therapist told them that using tech for entertainment was an unhealthy addiction, or that women being aggressive was destructive to your very synapses - and just noping out of friendships left and right. It's not respectable to be a gamer anymore. Tech is for ZOOM.
Cardinal Cardinal
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What if there's some huge catastrophic event where the world goes into some post-apocalyptic dark ages? A world where "human rights" becomes a thing of the past and it goes "might makes right" again? Then after maybe even centuries of stagnation and brutality, there's another Renaissance, then another Industrial Revolution? Human rights make a comeback, but then Clown World with "social justice" returns? Then another collapse, and then that cycle repeats endlessly, hopelessly, until and if there is an extinction?
Makes this world sound like a hell, which it pretty much is. Though not a pure hell, as there is good.
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The Internet Dick
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The Devil could not have tempted Christ with the world if it wasn't the Devil's to give.
That said, the ancient Sumerians built a civilization that lasted 1500+ years, with their influence extending even to the present day. Funny thing: I bought a book of (translated) Sumerian poetry more or less on a whim and found poets writing love poems and the like that would be indistinguishable from anything written in the 20th Century. Getting into it further, I found out there's this one ancient clay Sumerian tablet found in the ruins of what had once been a scribe school 3,000 years ago. On the tablet was a pissed-off rant by one of the students, a teenager whose instructor gave him a failing grade for sloppy work and had told the kid's father about it, who in turn had grounded the kid for a week.
That kid's 3,000-year-old rant gave me hope for the future in a way hard to describe.
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What if you could prove the devil to be real... wouldn't that also prove the existence of God?
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“If there is a hell and these sons of bitches are from it, then there's got to be a Heaven, Jacob. There's got to be.”
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From Dusk Till Dawn. They're in a fight with demons and vampires and trying to convince a priest who has lost his faith that he has to quit being a little bitch and become a bad motherfucking soldier of God.
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Based beyond belief. Its been a minute since I have seen that movie. thx
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What if this world is overall a relatively mild hell that never ends? Like somehow the sun will never run out of fuel, and none of the "ultimate fates" ("heat death", etc)?
prollyanotherlurker
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Glad I clicked this before posting, because I wasn't sure. And am too new to really want to be starting a bunch of threads and be super annoying.
Anyway the thing I want to ask is.
Why do you a-log?
for people with enough self awareness to realize you are an a-log. Who do you find yourself a-logging? And why do you find a-logging them worth it?
This is more meant as actual curiosity that judgement. I would be really interested to hear what self proclaimed a-logs have to say.
Anyway the thing I want to ask is.
Why do you a-log?
for people with enough self awareness to realize you are an a-log. Who do you find yourself a-logging? And why do you find a-logging them worth it?
This is more meant as actual curiosity that judgement. I would be really interested to hear what self proclaimed a-logs have to say.
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Murder rates would sky rocket and still no woman would fuck you.
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So if some freak troons out and is fucking other people in the marital bed this should just be totally okay?