If your body is underfed, your mind will feel pessimistic. If your income is unstable, relationships will feel tense. If your days lack structure, everything feels “blocked.” People then blame planets because it feels less humiliating than admitting material limits. Any improvement you experience will come from boring, repeatable actions you hate doing and stop doing too early and astrology will look “accurate” because hardship always sounds prophetic.
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You know, information becomes distorted the moment it enters human society. Everyone projects their fears, biases, and agendas onto the courier, and the person getting the information gradually stops trusting his own memory eventually
We build machines according to what humans want, then write laws to protect them from what they do with those machines. Governments trust laws more than people's judgment. Manufacturers trust people's desires more than laws. Humans like illusion of choice. A car that can go 240 km/h makes people feel capable. A speed limit of 100 km/h makes society feel safe. Two comforting lies living together in mutual denial.
@fixatedpersonsunit Time is a flat circle. I was a Firefox user that pirated stuff ALL the time. Then the internet got... better... and streaming came around as an alternative to the monopoly of cable, so I became a Chrome user that paid for the services I wanted to support.
Now Chrome is restricting everything and the "Warring States" period for Streaming is seeing them become the Cable companies they sought to destroy, so I am... a Firefox user that is pirating stuff ALL the time.
NASA should hire kindergarten teachers as mission planners. Teaching little kids is harder than rocket science. lol
How do you explain to a 7-year-old that 3 m is the same as 300 cm? She’s completely baffled that 3 and 300 can mean the same distance. She knows that 3 m is 300 cm because the textbook says that 1 m is 100 cm (and textbooks never lie, right?), but she’s still trying to figure out how 3 can magically turn into 300.
I'm sorry, but Forrest Valkai is just trying to push gender ideology. Intersex people are not a third sex; they have disorders of sexual development. I saw a video of him and someone else attacking Richard Dawkins just because he didn't agree with gender ideology. Most of Valkai's examples have nothing to do with human sex. Male seahorses getting pregnant doesn’t mean human males can. They're completely different. Sex is Bimodal Distribution (non binary sex part is spectrum)
If we die, the soul can't feel anything (because it doesn't have nerves), so how would burning in hot oil or getting beaten in a dark room in hell work as a punishment? And if the soul can feel like a human would, then what's the point of death in the first place?
#Instagram is full of teenage boys and girls posing with their faces obscured by stickers or shadows, and they all have private, locked accounts. Videos autoplay by default without any way to pause or stop them, and the algorithms force me to watch only one kind of content. The content is also useless - it's either Hindu-Muslim communal conflict, women shaming, gym bros, advertisements, reckless riders, and so on.
Type safety is enforced at compile time, but this is a fiction with extra tools. Rust uses escape hatches like unsafe, bypassing checks. Tools like Miri then verify unsafe code. It adds PhantomData for type markers, lifetimes that grow complex, and proc macros for custom compile-time logic. Rather than proving correctness via type tricks, systems should use runtime permissions. Only components with explicit capabilities can perform sensitive actions.
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