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by kulahan 1y ago
Kind of a silly ending to the article. >I think Bessel van der Kolk and Gabor Mate’s heavy handed trauma narrative is [bad] followed immediately by >However if they ‘treat’ their trauma with things like yoga, meditation, psychedelics
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by kulahan 1y ago
People who face reality and climb towards real growth are also suppressing their negative emotions, surviving, and moving on. Children are specifically different from adults because they don't have any emotional regulation. They ju
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by kulahan 1y ago
Doesn't France have a fundamentally different legal system from the US and British versions? IIRC, USA etc. rely primarily on precedent for their legal systems. France, Germany, and others rely on written law specifically. I imagine in
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by kulahan 1y ago
A touchscreen on a primarily-outdoor device makes no sense to me. It's just a single point of failure for fanciness. Transit safety should be taken more seriously, with controls you can operate by feel, rather than vision. It's no
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by kulahan 1y ago
Of course it's related to your doom scrolling-provided depression. You think every single civilization is going to wipe itself out? You think most will? You think half will? Why, because humans are mean? I've seen Cosmos. It'
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by kulahan 1y ago
Just how scientists learned a lot during their witch-hunts regarding Ignaz Semmelweis. I haven't trusted medicine since.
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by kulahan 1y ago
Your infantile reading comprehension is a terrible counter to my comment. >"I looked in every volcano on Earth, and was unable to find life. This is evidence that Earth is a lifeless husk." How did you pull that out? This is
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by kulahan 1y ago
Probably thousands of years from now, but I do wonder when people will stop using "the universe is too vast to know anything" as an excuse. We've still got people pretending the ocean is an enormous, occluded mystery.
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by kulahan 1y ago
Sure thing. We've been to the moon. There are no machines. We've been to Mars (via machines). There are no civilizations. We've seen the orbits of thousands of planets which are absolutely too hot for any biological processes
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by kulahan 1y ago
A billion people don't believe there's some truth to what the homeless man outside of your window is saying, and someone leading a legitimate-enough revolution that they're put to death by the King of Rome is probably a tin
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by kulahan 1y ago
One mildly interesting fact that MANY Christians get wrong: There is no lead-up to the apocalypse. The Messiah will return "like a thief in the night" and "nobody, except my Father, knows the hour of my return" (I probab
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by kulahan 1y ago
It's probably worth considering that across a sufficiently large distance, they effectively no longer exist. Their signals haven't reached you, and with the increasing speed of the universe's expansion, they will never reac
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by kulahan 1y ago
You're right, but it doesn't matter - we're finding evidence of absence everywhere we look. (Again, please note that I'm only speaking to technological civilizations; I fully believe the universe is teeming with microbia
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by kulahan 1y ago
Oh, then sure, I won't argue with you there. It's up to you at that point to find the arguments convincing or not. I think the idea of Imago Dei is actually the most believable part. I am absolutely convinced that we're the f
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by kulahan 1y ago
Lots of things seem arrogant to lots of people, but without some logical basis, it's worth ignoring.
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by kulahan 1y ago
Building the fuel refinery is a high upfront cost which will quickly disappear. The delta-V required to exit Earth's surface is nearly an order of magnitude higher than what's required to exit the Moon's surface, and the moon
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by kulahan 1y ago
Thankfully, unless somehow everything manmade disappears, we'll have scraps of windmills, solar panels, and hydro electric generators - with that laying around, it's easy to eventually figure out the underlying concepts and rebuil
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by kulahan 1y ago
tl;dr Humans were first and most important, but if you're omnipotent and building an ant farm, it's logical to provide a nearly infinite number of things to interest and enrich your creations. If there are other creatures, and the
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by kulahan 1y ago
In the end, I kinda... don't care. Look up - there's nothing. There should be at least some alien civilizations trying to make their presence known. There should be some signs somewhere that could be recognized universally as ei
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by kulahan 1y ago
You can't imagine that one single alien race anywhere will deviate from this? Wouldn't that kinda imply that your vision on the topic is almost certainly wrong anyways?
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by kulahan 1y ago
The Catholic church answered this question ages ago. I assume the other major religions did too. It's really not concerning at all to the institution; the major problem would be with people who don't actually understand their own
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by kulahan 1y ago
I cannot imagine any scenario where we're just 100-200 years away from "no more tech" that isn't purely total nuclear destruction. Even then, we'd probably be so close to getting back to a technological civilizati
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by kulahan 1y ago
For a serious answer: it's a lot cheaper to launch rockets from there, and we're running out of stuff to do in the region immediately surrounding Earth.
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by kulahan 1y ago
So just like every other deadline I'm given, then.
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by kulahan 1y ago
That makes sense. A direct scale instead of degrees of representation. Thanks for the correction.
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by kulahan 1y ago
Nope, spam is specifically unwanted. Also, I'm saying "jump in the leaves, it's fun if you don't try leaping in from a mile up" and you're saying "NO LEAVES KILL PEOPLE ALL THE TIME" lol.
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by kulahan 1y ago
Chickens are dumb, but they still have plenty of natural reactions. If you throw something at them, they don't just "take it", they'll try to dodge. I imagine this speed is absolutely sufficient. That being said, if this
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by kulahan 1y ago
This isn't even remotely true. In its current iteration, it's one of the best jumping-off points for getting up to speed on the basics of a new topic.
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by kulahan 1y ago
LLMs are only valuable to me at the moment explicitly because ads are not part of the scene. Maybe for a while others will use it, but it will be on the exact same treadmill as anything else ad-based: you will become the product, any reco
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by kulahan 1y ago
Do people on the dopamine drip really care how real their content is? Tons and tons of it is staged or modified anyways. I'm not sure there's anything Real™ on TikTok anyways.

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