CarbonIceDragon @ CarbonIceDragon @pawb.social

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sorta makes me think of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPd3_nUnKK8

Fight what exactly? Determinism either is or isnt how the universe works, it isnt like some sort of external force of finite capacity that can be resisted by some application of effort. If it is true, then you have no choice but to act the way something like you would act, and the way humans are wired to think is in terms of choices and the possible outcomes of those choices, even if the choice you make and the thinking that leads you to it is inevitable. If it is not true, then the possibility of making different choices exists, but it doesnt look any different to you because you only get to perceive the result of following one set of them.

The thing about determinism is that while it may be an interesting philosophical exercise, beyond being difficult to maybe impossible to prove or disprove, it isnt really relevant to much. A deterministic universe looks, feels, and acts to us exactly like a nondeterministic one would.

I would absolutely download a reptile.

Rich people would try to develop a technique to identify and transfer their wealth to their next life. If no way exists to identify people apart from memory, you would probably get a lot of people claiming to be the same wealthy dead person.

Things also might get ugly if people or states try to punish the reincarnations of people for whom death or a life sentence wasn't determined to be "enough" (though on the other hand, I suppose murder would be less heinous a crime since the victim just comes back and isn't gone), or if people seek out the reincarnations of dead spouses, since those reincarnated people would now be babies.

On the brighter side, if those past memories are good enough, education becomes a lot more effective since it doesn't just teach the current person but all their future incarnations until the subject matter gets forgotten or out of date.

A person with only one leg who is unsure of their identity would get stuck, having no options that are not two and four.

For that matter, a horse with two legs cut off becomes a man, if only it could be taught to read a chart. Or at least not a horse anymore.

I mean, presumably fractions of a dollar still exist as a concept even if the coins don't, so if you're selling something that someone might buy in cash, one could just set the sticker price so that the final price plus tax ends up as a round number, essentially including tax when deciding on price and then taking it out again when making the labels, if one wanted to do that.

Suppose you want to buy something that costs a quarter, and what you have is 3 dimes. If there isnt a 5 cent coin, this creates a situation where you have enough money, but making exact change isnt possible, which while not impossible to deal with is bothersome. If we moved to only dimes and no quarters or nickels, it would never make sense to make a price end in 5 cents, so any price would be a multiple of 10 cents and change can always be made. Alternatively, if you get rid of dimes and nickels but keep quarters, then it doesnt make sense to charge a price ending in something other than .00, .25, .50, or .75, and so you can always make change for those prices with the coins one would have.

Comparing anything with lemmings is gonna be somewhat unflattering with that stereotype tbh. Which is why it's a great name for the network imo, it's got just a little bit of self-depreciating humor to it.

The whole "MSG is bad for you" thing was a myth, wasn't it?

Implied by the red box with yellow and white text saying "lemming characteristics", which could subtly be taken as a reference to "socialism with lemming characteristics" given the context and color scheme?

I've not done any traveling myself I'll admit, but I would have figured at least Germany Spain and Greece would have also made the list from how much I hear of people visiting them. Especially Greece.

literally the thing that made me decide to finally look into linux, recently resulting in my switching to it, is that for years Ive liked to have the taskbar on the right side on autohide, and on windows 11 they took away the ability to put it there.

No, just a weighted blanket and a regular pillow. I'm not sure why people find this weird tho, jeans are comfy.

1, t shirt and jeans.

Meanwhile, if you're looking for a somewhat older movie, in my experience you can find it about half the time by going to the "videos" search tab in a browser, using any advanced search options that may exist on that browser to limit it to longer videos, and searching "(movie name) Internet Archive".

I mean, wood already biodegrades quite readily, yet we are able to make some pretty long lasting things out of it anyway. Having a bacteria that can break down some variety of plastic doesn't really imply that all plastic things are going to rot away like old fruit.

Human psychology hasn't changed during that time, so the same kinds of tricks or weakness that can drive a population into that mode of thinking still work today, if the details around them are adapted for some modern culture. If anything, it might be slightly easier, given those trying to achieve it have historical examples of what is and isn't effective.

This is why I only ever get the creamy peanut butter and not the kind with peanut chunks in it.

I mean, the guy is a lawyer, I'm not sure I can think of a profession with a more "generic person in a formal but not fancy outfit" stereotype than that.

Anxiety and, due to a manufacturing bug or something, a second anxiety instead of something else.