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Well said.

Hell, look at the James Bond, John McClane any of Arnold’s heroes. They all joke.

It was one of the suggested ones on Memmy and the description seemed reddit-like so I picked it.

We know cause and effect exist in the universe. We can use this to gain control of a lot of things in our world: for instance, when I push the letter “A” on my touchscreen, the letter “A” appears on my screen due to these cause/effect systems we have set up.

However, we know that the universe is not entirely describable via cause and effect. Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle precludes us from fully observing all aspects of a quantum system, Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem shows that our knowledge of the universe will always be incomplete, and Schrödinger's Cat shows us the absurdity of trying to make concrete claims about observed phenomena using probabilistic models.

If the universe was purely deterministic and we were theoretically able to gain all knowledge of it, there would not be free will. But this is not the universe we live in. The universe we live in is one where:

• Probability exists, so we cannot fully predict the future state of events even with perfect knowledge (i.e. Schrödinger can never gain enough knowledge to predict whether the cat is alive or dead before opening the box, because the event is fully probabilistic.)
• There are aspects of the universe we cannot fully observe, because by focusing on some aspects we must filter out others, so observation will never be fully reliable.
• Regardless of how much we learn, there will always be knowledge we cannot fully categorize.

If events in the universe were fully deterministic, then free will would be an illusion, because everything could be traced to an earlier set of causes, and decisions would not actually exist. If events in the universe were random, free will would have no meaning, because decisions would be arbitrary.

But we live in a universe where things are not immutable, but things are not equally likely. I can roll a fair set of dice for randomness, or I can weight them to create an uneven probability, or I can select a number to eliminate probability altogether. And we all make decisions with limited observations using incomplete knowledge that will only have a partial effect to affect the probabilities of future events. And that means we shape events without controlling them, so all of our decisions have meaning. We can also tell objectively based on observations that some decisions are better than others, while at the same time conceding that no decision is 100% objectively right or wrong.

And that, my friend, is free will.

Offer once, if they refuse give a single counter and then if they still decline, accept it.

A: “I got it.”

B: “No, I’ll get it.”

A: “Are you sure? I don’t mind.”

B: “No, I insist.”

A: “Ok”

SSD for your OS. HDD for storage.

Nope, knew about both of those. Another joke is the natives are speaking Japanese, not Comanche, and the teepees are the Japanese flag. Which is why the natives keep assuring everyone that they are, in fact, Indians.

Shark Attack 3: Megalodon

Not sure it fits “so bad it’s good.” The jokes the movie wants you to laugh at are the jokes you laugh at, so it is an effective comedy.

He killed Tyrell in rage, and it’s implied he killed Sebastian as well.

Subbed!

The book was based on early drafts of the movie, so the movie is not beholden to the novel’s interpretation.

Xubuntu

• Simple, somewhat retro interface
• Highly customizable
• Stable as hell
• Fast
• Simple to setup
• Regular OS versions upgrades

Bud, a former president of the US has been indicted for 70 crimes in three different criminal cases, and is likely to be indicted with up to 8 additional crimes in a fourth case. This is the biggest set of indictments since Nixon. The notion that you would expect this not to be major news or that merely reporting on it suggests bias is mind-boggling.

It certainly leads credence to Steven Colbert’s claim, “Reality has a well-know liberal bias.”

You could always write something and submit a merge request:

https://github.com/LemmyNet

The simple explanation is your instance doesn’t “know” what’s out there. lemmy.world doesn’t know when lemmy.ml adds a community, and it doesn’t know when hypothetical.server pops up as a new instance. There’s not really a good way of knowing that without having a central repository, which defeats the purpose of a centralized platform.

One thing you can do is use Lemmy Explorer to search for communities on other instances and subscribe to them. This will fill up All for everyone on your instance.

Wonder Woman would have grossed over $1B if adjusted for inflation. Barbie has already passed its total inflation-adjusted gross, though.

Adjusted for inflation it still made over $1B.

Xubuntu. I have simple tastes.

2001: A Space Odyssey

Simply the sun rising over the Earth set to Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

They’re piracy sites.