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[dragdeler]

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It's just the felt presence of an other from the voice in your head reverberating. A vague impression that got cultivated into god, santa and the cia sees all; couldn't imagine why someone would benzdit from that.. Okay your actions will leave an inerasable effect on the chronologic chain reaction, still you were born alone and die alone, even twins don't get shat out parallelly.

Anyway remember how a while back I inquired aboutmaking homemade waterbased vape juices. And do you also remember our recent discussions about anthoposophism. Well I stumbled upon something that made my broken brain tie these together because I'm bored at work and writing this is more entertaining than reading tea leaves in scientific articles that exceed my STEM skillset.

As to anthroposophism: when we talked about it and went to check the Rudolf Steiner schools webportal because I was reluctant to acknowledge there is probably a fair amount of jute bag wearing antivax cooks. Well the corona section features lecutres with pretty sensible titles but zap in twenty minutes and you will see a retard who can't help to insert their healing crystal nazi pet theory: sun cycles... Not that there couldn't be such a thing but somehow these retards manage to tie everything to it. But in my opinion, just because you deem frontal school courses ineffective don't mean you have to gobble up all the stupid shit from "unauthoritative sources". So here is another perspective. It was the fucking health nuts all the time. The kid only gets wooden toys so no vaccines for our precious precious Malte either. Sure they are invulnerable because of their food supplements, but if a bubble bursts on the surface of the sun it spells doom. I mean ask fucking no experimental treatments JoeRogan who injects vitamine D into his brain arteries and has monoclonal antibodies treeatment (the epitome of personal autoimmune strength am I right?!) when his too healthy to be vulnerable to diseases body catches a negligeable case of sniffles. I see these people at the recycling parc too, too healthy and self important to flatten their fruit cardboard boxes. Of course the only reason they could fall ill is because of astronomic events... So I'm not saying only a narcissist would take care of their health, but those who think a bunch of food supplements/ fresh fruit make them invulnerable are definitly as narcissistic as they are retarded. There is no healthy molecules, only aminoacids that facilitate metabolism of the more rare stuff one might ingest.

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In one particularly striking case study, an 11-year-old was given 2–4 ml per day of PG containing vitamin D for 13 months. Estimated daily dose for this subject was 114 mg (2-ml dose) to 228 mg (4-ml dose) of PG/kg body weight (Arulanantham and Genel, 1978; LaKind et al., 1999). After 13 months of repeated exposures, the child began to have seizures and lapsed into unconsciousness. Once the PG/vitamin D preparation was stopped, the child recovered (LaKind et al., 1999). In another example, a 15-month-old infant receiving large doses of a vitamin C suspension in PG orally had episodes of unresponsiveness, diaphoresis, tachycardia, tachypnea, and hypoglycemia (Martin and Finberg, 1970).

[A_Curious_Cat]

Why hasn’t anyone started an RTD called “Roll to Doge”?

[King Zultan]

It is be cause we are not worthy!

[Rolan7]

I was thinking "What kind of creature would be less likely to invent or fully develop projectile weapons?"  And now I'm thinking of adorable little armadillos, operating some very alien machinery with their little paws.  Having conflicts and fights, but they're so used to that being nonlethal.  With tech on our level obviously they *could* operate a machine in such a way that, rube-goldberg style, someone dies...  but perhaps such an idea is an extreme taboo to them.  Of course it would happen, but such abberants would be isolated (perhaps until starvation) and spoke of in whispers.

I'm also thinking about how cute an armadillo would be, operating advanced technology.  One makes tools which make tools which make tools, and the end result lies in their cute little paws which they operate like it's a four-legged Dance Dance machine.

I'm also thinking about first contact with such a species.  I assume humans would be perceived as acting slowly, not to mention unnaturally tall.  Other stuff too - raising our arms to indicate being unarmed might be so alien.  Backing away is probably an understood signal of non-violent intent (though in our culture, with guns, it really isn't...).  Maybe kneeling would be a positive signal - offering vulnerability by reducing mobility, and signaling a desire for equality?

Whatever we do, we better not straighten our limb hairs!

[MaxTheFox]

Heh. I am actually writing an ultra-hard SF story (the one big lie is that FTL exists but it's fairly restricted). Thanks for the idea Rolan.

[Rolan7]

Oh nice, you're very welcome to it!

[Frumple]

"Any tale belongs to whoever can best tell it." -- J. Frank Dobie.

Thing keeps popping up in my mind since I read it on the back of one of their books a few weeks back. One on hand, it basically encapsulates a great deal of my (low ) opinion of copyright, super succinctly.

On the other, I keep having idle thoughts on what a copyright schema would look like that played that to the hilt -- whoever can tell the tale best gets copyright control over an IP, with anyone being able to have a go at it whenever they want. What the hell does that even look like? Would there be multiple owners in cases where "best" is actually different based on audience or something? How do you tally, who measures and administrates? What do publishing logistics even look like in an environment where copy and distribution authority and royalties and all can shift based on something like that? Would there be yearly contests or something?

It sounds like it'd be wild, and a very different sort of creative environment than we're used to as a collection of civilizations. I kinda' want someone to, like... try it, somehow. Make a publishing platform where rights to a story or character or whatever belongs to whoever can use it best.

[dragdeler]

Basically the most liked version would be the most credited, super intuitive and organic.One could keep a ledger of all edits like some chinbloke, for historical accuracy...

And since everything is going into a subscription model anyway have all companies be under the umbrella of an institution  that splits revenue according to a few metrics (a little more than just views that can be farmed with SEO)

[methylatedspirit]

Playing around with Linux made me realize something: when you use Linux on a personal-use machine, you're both the sysadmin and user. You're responsible for not breaking stuff as a sysadmin as much as you're responsible for being a good user.

...or maybe I've just gone nuts from using TTY modes for system administration, as well as insisting on starting off with minimal installs for any distro I touch.

[Rolan7]

Moved to Railgun discussion.

[methylatedspirit]

What percent of keysmash is valid Perl?

Something like "alskjfsldkjflskdjs" (keysmash restricted to the alphabetical characters) is always valid because Perl reads this as a variable called "alskjfsldkjflskdjs", and because dynamic language, such a construct is valid, although meaningless.

Once you expand your horizons to allow symbols, though, your chances of emitting valid Perl through keyboard smash go down. "$^$%^&*$%%$&^(*%%$@#" looks like line-noise Perl (to Ms. Never Used Perl over here, mind you), but Perl looks at this and says:

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Scalar found where operator expected at perl-keysmash line 1, near "$^$%"
        (Missing operator before $%?)
Scalar found where operator expected at perl-keysmash line 1, near "&*$%"
        (Missing operator before $%?)
syntax error at perl-keysmash line 1, near "$^$%"
Execution of perl-keysmash aborted due to compilation errors.

So, you know, your chances do go down substantially, though if you started with a "#", that would be always be valid because that's a comment. Unless if Perl's more fucky than I thought. Perl parsing is undecidable, after all.

[Rolan7]

Alright, I've arranged all the uncomfortable business of tomorrow.  Now all I have to do is wake up and show up, groomed!
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I'll need to wake up pretty early to do that!
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Any time now... going to sleep on demand, yeah!
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Super hyped for sleep!
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(Try to imagine that feeling when woke up by an alarm, and you're SO tired.  Imagine it.  Focus on it.  Fail to wake up, that is to say, fall asleep)

[King Zultan]

I've noticed that when I need to get up earlier than normal I always have an incredibly hard time falling asleep.

[dragdeler]

A hundred businesses do 71% of emissions they say. I don't contest. It's just that I see where this myopic focus on ancillary facts (facts) leads; just juggle statistics with anti-maskers/vaxxers for a bit if you still think "a new study shows" has the potential to do anything but provide a springboard to pure narrative.

Somebody is upholding the demand, somebody is "buying all that shit".  And when you see what little consideration can be asked of absolutely normal people, how little can be too much to ask... We had a fake christmas tree on top of 25m³// about 6 tons of filth, being the only thing that peaked out of the container, well 3 out of 3 made me genuinly concerned they were gonna throw their dead leaves on top of it. I'm talking full on bag in hand, comparing sign and content of container, frantically searching for a justification to follow their instinct you could see them "think", even if doing that bullshit mistake won't even spare energy because it's easier or something, just plain old siren call of stupidity.

I had to move the fake christmas tree, I don't have attention to spare on such ineptitudes.

[Egan_BW]

I'm not really sure if this is more of a Railgun Thread question anyways, but I'll mention it here.

I think people tend to associate free will with the opposite of determinism, which would be randomness. As in, people see evidence of true randomness in physics and hope that it means that their own behavior is free, determined by random particle behavior, rather than trapped by deterministic processes. Because people don't like to feel trapped, and thinking about being a deterministic thing can feel like being trapped.

But wouldn't being random be worse? If your decisions are partly determined by the universe's randomness, isn't that something external to yourself making choices for you? Whereas if you assume that your decision making process is deterministic, then at least that means that you're making your own decisions based on your own state, able to act rationally rather than be subtly influenced by an unthinking universal law?

or does the fact that I can't really conceive of something which isn't either deterministic or random just prove that I'm a philosophical zombie myself