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Dharma Curious (he/him) @ dharmacurious @slrpnk.net Posts 7Comments 1,157Joined 1 yr. ago
Dharma Curious (he/him) @ dharmacurious @slrpnk.net
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Jokes on you, I tunneled out of the bottoms corner years ago! Now I can sneak into The Basement of Aggressive Tops whenever I want!I haven't been able to sit down since 2009!
Finally! Some damn appreciation!
Swallowed a nail as a kid, got nothing but a trip to the ER and the embarrassment of an entire staff of people waiting for me to poop. I didn't know I needed a full dozen to win the prize!
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If I steal a gold coin from the year 2000, then, with that coin in hand, travel to 1999 and steal the same coin, I now have two copies. I then travel to 1998, 1997, et cetera, et cetera, on down the line, each time I gain an additional copy of the same coin. I then take all these coins with me to the present and spend them. Now just swap out the years for 2 minute intervals and you've got an infinite number of coins, or nearly so, anyway.
I know, but these are federal judges stating that the ban cannot go through because it violates federal law, is it not? Or am I misunderstanding and they are federal judges saying that TNs law violates TN own state constitution?
Yay! I can whack it again! I mean, I was gonna whack it either way, but now protonvpn isn't slowing my whacking it quite as much. Ain't got time for no forced digital edging while I wait on the buffering just so I can bust it at the exact right place in the video
I've never understood that shit. State a bans something, states b, c, d, and e also ban it. Federal judge comes in and says "state c cannot ban that. It's unconstitutional," how and why does that not apply to the others as well? It makes no fucking sense. Our country is fucking weird
That sounds amazing
I used to work at a place where the boss took the whole crew to lunch on Thursdays (about 10 of us), and no one liked lemons, so they'd all tell the waitress not to bring lemons with their water or tea. I would then ask the waitress for all of their lemons, and while those fools were getting full on bread waiting on their food, I would eat lemons like an absolute goblin. It was wonderful.
That's it! And yep, total mindfuck. But also sort of... Profound, I guess
I didn't either until recently. I knew that historically it hadn't always been the case, and that it was a quirk of the Catholics, not something based in the early church, but until I found the Episcopal church and started learning more about liturgical Christianity, I had no idea.
Not all catholic priests have to be celibate! Eastern rite Catholics (around 1 percent of Catholics) are able to marry and have kids! Also, there's something called the personal ordinate, where former Anglican priests can be ordained as catholic priests and Anglican parishes/congregations can be joined to the Catholic Church while retaining uniquely Anglican cultural and liturgical elements, and if the priest is already married they can still be ordained, even though they're ostensibly within the western rite (the one where priests can't marry), but AFAIK if they're unmarried when they make the switch they cannot then get married.
Orthodox priests can also marry (but only before becoming priests. If unmarried when ordained, unmarried you must remain*), and are considered to be in full communion with the Catholics, and while I've never looked into it, I'm sure there's something similar to the personal ordinate for them as well.
*I like this system better than western rite. Priests can marry but once they're in that position of power over people they can't. Because in theory at least, it'd be easy for an unmarried priest to take advantage of a parishioners they were sexually interested in, because there is such an inbalance of power between the two, like teacher/student but cranked up to 11. I personally like the Episcopal model
There's a principle, I can't remember the name of it, but basically it goes that the universe exists in such a way as to support life, because if it didn't, there would be no one around to discuss the ways in which the universe might have formed. Which is to say, while it's all good to contemplate a different set of physical laws in which we could not exist, we cannot use the condition of our existing as proof that the universe must allow us to exist. Any universe in which an observer exists is necessarily a universe in which an observercould exist. We will only ever get to observe that which allows our existence.
It's mainly used, to my knowledge, to attempt to dissuade the religious of ideas of a creator deity.
But I think here it has another application. If false vacuum decay happens, and all of everything just goes poof, that's not interesting. There will be no observer, no one to mark it, no one to study it. On top of that, no one to even know there was once someone. Who knows, maybe it's happened hundreds of trillions of times, maybe infinite times, maybe once, maybe never. Either way, we, and anyone else out there, will have no way of knowing, or remembering, or anything else. So it's not interesting. There's nothing of value to be learned, because there's no way to use the knowledge to do anything.
But contemplating the ways in which it could happen and we could survive? Suddenly a new set of physical laws govern us? Different, but just similar enough that we don't explode, implode, or just dissipate into component atoms (if atoms still exist!)? That's interesting! That's worth contemplation and thought! At the very least it's worth a damn fine dime store paperback sci Fi novel!
Let's do something interesting here! What's your wish list for a change in our physical laws that still allows our existence? I went utopian, ftl space flight, nothing else changes. But maybe it's some mad max universe now? Maybe it changes our physical structure enough that we're all cronenberg monsters limping our way through the universe in tiny, slapped together vessels that we put together as we saw what was approaching on the horizon of the observable universe, and in the new laws planets can't form? Searching, seeking, viciously lonely abominations, wandering a void unlike anything we've ever experienced?
Maybe the only change is that idiots stop voting and wealth disparity disappears somewhere. Be adventurous! Be the change you hope the decay will bring!
But if the laws of physics were to change, who's to say what's possible‽ Star trek future is in the works!
Unless they change into a set of physical laws in which magic is real, and the turtle of enormous girth holds us all together in his mind!
Does this mean the laws of physics could just... Change?
Hoping for the scenario that means FTL travel is possible and nothing else changes lol
My grandmother was 11 when she got married to her first husband. Her folks married her off to a 35 year old man. Not my grandfather. His name was Bost. She never would tell anyone his first name, she never wanted to talk about him. Had one daughter with him and he died. Never officially married my grandfather, but had several kids with him years later, and everyone thought they were married. But she also had several kids from other men, and told everyone they were his, but even the kids she admitted to (she actually sold several of her children to various people, including a few family member. Sold my uncle twice and got him back both times) she gave them all different last names, but said they were all granddaddy's.
She was crazy. Wonderful Grandma, mind you. But absolutely should never have had kids, violent woman with severe mental illness that mellowed out in her old age (mostly). So great grandma, but not a good mom. Used to wake the kids up randomly at like 3 in the morning on school nights and do white glove tests on their room, then lock herself in the bathroom with a butcher knife and scream at them through the door that she was going to kill herself because they were so ungrateful. One time she beat my aunt so badly she bled from her vagina for a couple days. When one of the daughters she sold showed up in adulthood, she was a deaf woman.grandma refused to acknowledge she was in the room, and then mocked her for making "those noises."
I firmly blame all of that on her essentially being sold as a sex slave at 11 years old. Me and my mom also have a theory that Bost never really existed, and that it was her father who got her pregnant, but that's entirely unsubstantiated. Just a theory. She had somewhere around 13 kids, but only admitted to 6 or 7, depending on the day.
My secondary vet had two calicos that lived there full time. Sadly, one passed last year, at nearly 18 years old, and the other is too old to still act as receptionist.
Anyway, routinely, they were the only ones at the front when you get there. There's a sign that says "tell Pig to go get Ashley"
And you say "hey, Pig. Mind getting Ashley?"
And pig fucking books it to the back of the house while screaming the whole way. It's amazing.
Nowadays, pig just sleeps, and get scritches, and you ring a little bell for Nevaeh, because Ashley doesn't work there anymore. But for a while, it was a glorious, and hilarious, system