I just learned that there's a neurological disorder that causes you to continuously make bad puns and inappropriate jokes. It also makes you unable to appreciate anyone else's jokes or understand comedy in general.
I just learned that there's a neurological disorder that causes you to continuously make bad puns and inappropriate jokes. It also makes you unable to appreciate anyone else's jokes or understand comedy in general.
Under the "no punching down" rule, the only people allowed to make jokes about Witzelsucht are those that have it and therefore can't.
Neurological disorders like that are kind of deeply existentially terrifying, like peeling back the siding on the house of consciousness to show just how rooted in flesh, neurons, and glands our minds are. Your mind and your consciousness are as mutable and physical and fallible as your body, because they are your body.
I just learned that there's a neurological disorder that causes you to continuously make bad puns and inappropriate jokes. It also makes you unable to appreciate anyone else's jokes or understand comedy in general.
I just learned that there's a neurological disorder that causes you to continuously make bad puns and inappropriate jokes. It also makes you unable to appreciate anyone else's jokes or understand comedy in general.
OK, so... does the entire Internet have Witzelsucht, then? Because that is consistent with its behavior, and it's a much less disturbing explanation than all the Extremely Online people being rabid monsters.
(I know which of the two it actually is, unfortunately.)
Neurological disorders like that are kind of deeply existentially terrifying, like peeling back the siding on the house of consciousness to show just how rooted in flesh, neurons, and glands our minds are. Your mind and your consciousness are as mutable and physical and fallible as your body, because they are your body.
I've come off of general anesthesia after surgery, been given morphine twice, and took (prescription) Oxycodone for a day, and each one of those experiences reminded me that 'my mind' and 'my personality' are really just a collection of gears and cranks and screws and doodads that happen to interlock in a certain way - but any number of them can just fall out of the mechanism and it'll still mostly work and still do mostly the same job, but will be noticeably different.
I was prescribed that Oxycodone years ago after my first chemo session, and after taking it I think twice, I was like "Hahaha no, I'm actually just going to endure this unendurable pain rather than deal with the absolute existential horror of trying to navigate from the couch to the bathroom with my mind operating my body via a lossy, high-latency remote control".
EDIT: Honestly, even just having a conversation with my wife when one of us is awake and the other is only ostensibly awake is a reminder of how many moving parts "consciousness" actually consists of. There've been so many times when my wife asks me "Hey, do you remember when you woke up and said/did X?", and sometimes I absolutely don't, and other times I distinctly remember being awake enough to process what was going on around me and formulate a cogent response in my head, but absolutely not being enough in control of my faculties to actually say the response. Usually I try to say something or pantomime it, and then just give up and roll over and go back to sleep.
My dad took a veritable cocktail of medications due to poor health and I have seen what that shit can do to your mind.
Like, yeah, we are Us only so long as nothing fucks with our us-code. One little chemical blip and you're a completely different human being. Or I dunno, you turn into a pile of goo after all your gene bits disconnect. I didn't pay that much attention in high school biology.
It seems to me the idea of uploading your consciousness outside of your frail meaty chassis is doomed for what of your conciousness would remain divorced from said meat
I imagine the best we could do is upload a static copy of our consciousness as it is in that moment. Where it goes from there would be divorced of the meat and beholden only to its own thoughts.
Of course "we" would still inhabit our meat while the copy is functionally immortal
My dad took a veritable cocktail of medications due to poor health and I have seen what that shit can do to your mind.
Like, yeah, we are Us only so long as nothing fucks with our us-code. One little chemical blip and you're a completely different human being. Or I dunno, you turn into a pile of goo after all your gene bits disconnect. I didn't pay that much attention in high school biology.
People have been driven insane just from having their nasal turbinates removed (Empty Nose Syndrome). I can’t imagine the effect the permanent loss of all bodily sensation would have.
I think the best we could hope for is to donate a copy of our memories to an AI that could access them like any other data, but that AI certainly wouldn’t be “us”.
On the subject of snake antivenom treatments, this story will probably make your blood boil. A friend of mine ran a hospital in Papua New Guinea (PNG). There are heaps of very deadly snakes there, and they actually pump millions of dollars into antivenom programs, most of which is provided by foreign aid.
Turns out the minister of health there just embezzled millions of dollars, and bought some cheap as shit cobra antivenom from India. This is a problem because 1) it's cheap as shit so it's probably expired/ineffective 2) antivenom generally needs to be from the snake what bit you to be effective. There are no king cobras in PNG! Hundreds if not thousands of people died so one guy could get stinking rich
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This thread has just been rough for a while so I want to put in something interesting and something positive.
Iceland is one of the few places in the world that still doesn't use a surname system. There are a few people (mostly immigrants) that have surnames, sure, but most of the time when you see an Icelandic name, it'll be something like, well let's use the Mountain as an example: Hafþór Björnsson. He is not of the family Björnsson. His father is named Björn, so he is Hafþór son of Björn. He has a sister, Hafdís Björnsdóttir, so Hafdís daughter of Björn. It's most common and traditional to use a patronym, one's father's name, but plenty of people are the son or daughter of their mother, and people can just choose to do that if they like. Thus, since they aren't properly last names, just patronym/matronyms, the polite form of address towards an Icelander is to use their first name (or if there would be confusion, using the full name is fine). People are listed alphabetically by first name in registers and phone books. When your entire nation has a whole 360,000 people or so, you can get away with this pretty well.
Now you may be wondering, what room is there for nonbinary folks is such a heavily gendered system? Well, Icelanders put some thought into that. When they recently updated the registers so people can be listed as nonbinary, they also added an additional suffix option, -bur (child of) which carries no gender connotations but maintains their national tradition.
I would absolutely live in Iceland if it seemed like a plausible course reroute for my life's direction. Go on sick adventures to the volcanoes, get horribly injured, fail to learn the lesson and do it again ad infinitum.
Really? No decoy replacement toilet that's just a regular toilet spray painted gold? Couldn't even shut off the water before they removed it? Thieves have no panache any more.
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I’ve thought about it and an undignified death by cow would be very much in line with how my life usually turns out.
certainly would've shot some of the fuckers in the face outta spite at least
Under the "no punching down" rule, the only people allowed to make jokes about Witzelsucht are those that have it and therefore can't.
Just don't tie yourself to your dog when entering cow country.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/11/austria-to-introduce-rules-for-hikers-after-cow-trampling-death
https://gulfnews.com/world/europe/austrian-court-says-hiker-partly-to-blame-for-deadly-cow-attack-1.1566907887497
That's what she said!
(I know which of the two it actually is, unfortunately.)
I was prescribed that Oxycodone years ago after my first chemo session, and after taking it I think twice, I was like "Hahaha no, I'm actually just going to endure this unendurable pain rather than deal with the absolute existential horror of trying to navigate from the couch to the bathroom with my mind operating my body via a lossy, high-latency remote control".
EDIT: Honestly, even just having a conversation with my wife when one of us is awake and the other is only ostensibly awake is a reminder of how many moving parts "consciousness" actually consists of. There've been so many times when my wife asks me "Hey, do you remember when you woke up and said/did X?", and sometimes I absolutely don't, and other times I distinctly remember being awake enough to process what was going on around me and formulate a cogent response in my head, but absolutely not being enough in control of my faculties to actually say the response. Usually I try to say something or pantomime it, and then just give up and roll over and go back to sleep.
Like, yeah, we are Us only so long as nothing fucks with our us-code. One little chemical blip and you're a completely different human being. Or I dunno, you turn into a pile of goo after all your gene bits disconnect. I didn't pay that much attention in high school biology.
Unless you could...upload the meat.....
Of course "we" would still inhabit our meat while the copy is functionally immortal
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oh wait we're doing a different thing huh
I like saying flesh
Flesh
Flesh
Flesh
Fish flesh fresh fish
you're thinking of the many who is the exact polar opposite of shodan!
People have been driven insane just from having their nasal turbinates removed (Empty Nose Syndrome). I can’t imagine the effect the permanent loss of all bodily sensation would have.
I think the best we could hope for is to donate a copy of our memories to an AI that could access them like any other data, but that AI certainly wouldn’t be “us”.
Seen here a former member of the Kanto Women Delinquent Alliance
Turns out the minister of health there just embezzled millions of dollars, and bought some cheap as shit cobra antivenom from India. This is a problem because 1) it's cheap as shit so it's probably expired/ineffective 2) antivenom generally needs to be from the snake what bit you to be effective. There are no king cobras in PNG! Hundreds if not thousands of people died so one guy could get stinking rich
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
bit.ly/2XQM1ke
Iceland is one of the few places in the world that still doesn't use a surname system. There are a few people (mostly immigrants) that have surnames, sure, but most of the time when you see an Icelandic name, it'll be something like, well let's use the Mountain as an example: Hafþór Björnsson. He is not of the family Björnsson. His father is named Björn, so he is Hafþór son of Björn. He has a sister, Hafdís Björnsdóttir, so Hafdís daughter of Björn. It's most common and traditional to use a patronym, one's father's name, but plenty of people are the son or daughter of their mother, and people can just choose to do that if they like. Thus, since they aren't properly last names, just patronym/matronyms, the polite form of address towards an Icelander is to use their first name (or if there would be confusion, using the full name is fine). People are listed alphabetically by first name in registers and phone books. When your entire nation has a whole 360,000 people or so, you can get away with this pretty well.
Now you may be wondering, what room is there for nonbinary folks is such a heavily gendered system? Well, Icelanders put some thought into that. When they recently updated the registers so people can be listed as nonbinary, they also added an additional suffix option, -bur (child of) which carries no gender connotations but maintains their national tradition.
Reminded me of this:
Also I have never seen a hill that made me more certain there was some kind of troll or elf living there than I did there.
the treaty of echota, which led to the trail of tears, also technically allowed the cherokee nation to appoint a non-voting member to congress
and they finally have been allowed to after 200 years
she can sit in committees and speak on the floor
DAVE
Blenheim Palace was closed this morning.
Because it suffered some flooding damage last night.
Because someone stole a toilet that was still plumbed into the water supply.
Because the toilet was worth 5 million dollars.
Because the toilet was made of solid gold.
The solid gold toilet was named "America."
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/uk-blenheim-palace-gold-toilet-scli-gbr-intl/index.html
Really? No decoy replacement toilet that's just a regular toilet spray painted gold? Couldn't even shut off the water before they removed it? Thieves have no panache any more.