The best way to soothe trump election anxiety to to picture the universe as a single 4D object of space time and remember that to an external observer, the flow of time would simply be another dimension like width or length is to us
except for the minus sign on the metric in the time dimension
The best way to soothe trump election anxiety to to picture the universe as a single 4D object of space time and remember that to an external observer, the flow of time would simply be another dimension like width or length is to us
except for the minus sign on the metric in the time dimension
that sneaky, sneaky minus sign
Oh you extra dimensional creatures you.
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Apothe0sisHave you ever questioned the nature of your reality?Registered Userregular
Having watched the series that had Geena Davis as the president of the united state I am confident that Bill Clinton will become the commissioner of baseball and that Hillary will declide to pardon a mentally retarded drug addict from death row but will update the declaration of independence to be "all men and women are created equal"
My hard core conservative stepdad loves that show and it is the weirdest thing to me until I remember he's got a thing for Geena Davis.
SurfpossumA nonentitytrying to preserve the anonymity he so richly deserves.Registered Userregular
@MrMister I'm not coherent enough to respond to your struggles in one piece, but here are some Thought Fragments:
sort of like what Spool said
Stephen Hawking brings up symmetries at one point in A Brief History of Time, focusing specifically on T-symmetry. I'm not sure I entirely understand the concept myself, but I think it's basically saying that if you have a state A that after time T becomes state B. However, state B does not necessarily become state A if you simply reverse T. Example: if A is an egg 5 feet above the floor, state B is the egg splattered. But state B may not contain sufficient information to arrive at state A merely by going backwards in time: the egg may have been lying on the floor for T/2 or T/4, and these possibilities will greatly affect the condition of the egg in state A.
The point of this nonsense is that perhaps some aspect of the scenario has a similar T-asymmetry: consciousness, or morality, or responsibility, or somesuch. Thus some future consequences may not have enough... information encoded in them to have any imperative over our present actions or lack thereof.
on consciousness
I assume you're aware of split-brain stuff, we had a very interesting thread on it here at one point. There is some reason to think that severing the corpus callosum can result in an individual consciousness in each hemisphere, which potentially leads to an interesting question if you successfully argue for procreation: should we feel ethically obligated to split consciousness as much as possible, to create as many as we can? Perhaps there is an argument to be made that we shouldn't reduce the number of conscious individuals (with exceptions etc.) but there is no imperative to increase the number?
on dogs
Well I guess I've used up all my personal time for the evening.
I had something else in mind I think but now it's all just bark bork bark.
Brad Bird's Jerry Orbach Memorial Art Car kickstarter got funded with 3 hours to go. This is awesome.
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I will probably not watch the election coverage unless there is an actual chance of Trump winning. I certainly don't see a reason to celebrate any more than I'd celebrate avoiding any other sort of needless calamity in a way that left me unscathed but with a real concern for the intentions and credulity of at least 45% of the people in my community.
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MortiousThe Nightmare BeginsMove to New ZealandRegistered Userregular
Man that was a good bacon sandwich.
Now to hide the evidence before my wife gets home.
I will probably not watch the election coverage unless there is an actual chance of Trump winning. I certainly don't see a reason to celebrate any more than I'd celebrate avoiding any other sort of needless calamity in a way that left me unscathed but with a real concern for the intentions and credulity of at least 45% of the people in my community.
they say that one becomes extremely amorous after a near death experience (as in, almost getting hit by a truck. not the nonsense about leaving your body and going toward the light), it is life affirming
Apothe0sis on
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My favorite Donald Sutherland role was in Backdraft where he played an arsonist.
That film had a really good cast. De Niro still in his give-a-shit phase, Kurt Russell, Sutherland, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Scott Glenn, Rebecca de Mornay, and one of the Lesser Baldwins
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
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a wow sized sword with an engine and a chain and housing and shit? Nope. NOPE.
NOPE.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
except for the minus sign on the metric in the time dimension
that sneaky, sneaky minus sign
An entire faction uses them.
Lilypichu's voice is indistinguishable from Lulu's VO
You just have to two hand the sucker.
And be huge.
I am off to bed.
*cough*Skulls for the skull throne.*cough*
Oh you extra dimensional creatures you.
I too enjoyed the show.
If Hillary wins Texas I'm good for at least a round at PAX South.
Shit if Hillary wins Texas PAX South is going to be where [Chat]ters go to die.
There are power weapons that are basically warhammers in 40K though, or there used to be
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
what if I told you there were genetically engineered ubermensch designed and supported by a magic space fascist?
I am pretty sure that regardless of what happens on the 8th, Wednesday is going to be a bad day for me.
Hell, I have one comp day left, I might wind up taking it that Wednesday just to avoid most of the post election furor.
Which I did not like, not one jot
i should probably take Wednesday off now.
i am don't know if I will be able to function
My stepdad asked "has Donald Sutherland ever played a role where he wasn't a slimy piece of shit?"
All I could come up with was the film version of M*A*S*H
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
on the one hand I want to stay up late watching the election and coverage
on the other hand no matter how tired I am I expect to be carried through wednesday on either a cloud of joy or a river of shit
sort of like what Spool said
The point of this nonsense is that perhaps some aspect of the scenario has a similar T-asymmetry: consciousness, or morality, or responsibility, or somesuch. Thus some future consequences may not have enough... information encoded in them to have any imperative over our present actions or lack thereof.
on consciousness
on dogs
I had something else in mind I think but now it's all just bark bork bark.
seriously
there's a bar 200 ft from my apartment, and they are super liberal.
it meas i get to see my family less around xmas. but there's just no way i will be able to be sober enough to drive the next day.
He was Merrick in the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer and he was a good dude if something of a cypher and a weirdo
also this:
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that geena davis show, he was a piece of shit, but he wasn't slimy.
or maybe he was slimy, but he wasn't a piece of shit.
Dirty Dozen, and Kelly's Heroes.
Which was then remixed and rereleased with this video clip which always slays me and is true facts history of the world
He was a protagonist in Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Now to hide the evidence before my wife gets home.
It’s not a very important country most of the time
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they say that one becomes extremely amorous after a near death experience (as in, almost getting hit by a truck. not the nonsense about leaving your body and going toward the light), it is life affirming
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That film had a really good cast. De Niro still in his give-a-shit phase, Kurt Russell, Sutherland, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Scott Glenn, Rebecca de Mornay, and one of the Lesser Baldwins
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
@mazzyx yeah if you find a good deck you can hit upper levels easy. Noice