swayvil

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601.
by swayvil 3y ago
Do they make them without glass tops?
602.
by swayvil 3y ago
Our vast prison industry suggests that they don't gaf about our relationships. I think they just want to separate the sheep from the goats. And then dispose of the goats.
603.
by swayvil 3y ago
You could do nonuniform probabilities. Of course the same could be done using multiple dice (ex 3d6) but yes, options.
604.
by swayvil 3y ago
This bad stuff won't happen because reason leads us to it. We will come to it because stressful circumstances and/or promises of gain leads us to desiring it. Then we will contrive justification. Inscrutable medical scientific aut
605.
by swayvil 3y ago
1. Locate individual who refuses to do what all the good, right-minded people know to be scientifically appropriate. 2. Blood test. 3. Help the unfortunate person with large doses of mandatory etc.
606.
by swayvil 3y ago
That's some fine semantic tapdancing.
607.
by swayvil 3y ago
How does he fill his free time? I'd call that the #1 distinction. These days it's the ubiquitous volcano of entertainment : social media, youtube etc. Back then it was what, bake brownies?
608.
by swayvil 3y ago
>on the internet people will scroll through pages of agreeable comments looking for something disagreeable. I thought that I was the only person who does this. Therefore, given a forum full of people, the chance that you will offend some
609.
by swayvil 3y ago
What if it went the opposite way? What if perfect brainreaders/liedetectors became as common as smartphones. Used on everybody all the time. From politicians and cops to schoolkids and your own siblings. What would be an optimistic ver
610.
by swayvil 3y ago
A lie detector? If it can extract words from my grey spaghetti then maybe it can extract my intention too. That's probably incredibly obvious and I'm silly for even bringing it up.
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by swayvil 3y ago
There will always be many many assholes. In the past, time and space have insulated us from them. But now we have the internet. The assholes can see you, touch you, talk to you, even decide what you are allowed to say. This is a mark agains
612.
by swayvil 3y ago
I'm rolling through Google images. Looking for examples of this famous pretty structure. Not finding.
613.
by swayvil 3y ago
It's funny. A conversation with 5 people is nice. 10 is hard. 100 is impossible. So conversation could be called unscalable that way. So the internet, social media, big forums like this, paradoxically, fail.
614.
by swayvil 3y ago
Is there a wood that's already almost transparent? Can we selectively breed it to be more transparent?
615.
by swayvil 3y ago
Might be easier to colorize and machine too. Like for stained glass type construction. If we could show the grain of the wood a bit, that would be lovely.
616.
by swayvil 3y ago
Note that the sun produces collimated rays too. And the stars even moreso. Which is to say, the rays are always parallel if the source is far enough away. Which feels like a good metaphor for something.
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by swayvil 3y ago
The trick would be to find a real phenomenon that expresses itself symbolically. Like discovering an animal born with a nametag. I think you'd have to look in the realm of thought for that. Surely it isn't just empty space where w
618.
by swayvil 3y ago
You always hear "the map is not the territory". Which is to say, names are applied, models are asserted and all our fine ideas about the world are our own contrivance, not the world's. But how close could we get?
619.
by swayvil 3y ago
During the past 100 years atmospheric oxygen has declined by 0.1% Fruits, vegetables, and grains grown today carry less protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, riboflavin, and vitamin C than those that were grown decades ago. Low-level exposure
620.
by swayvil 3y ago
Could the lower oxygen content of the air, the lower nutrient content of the food or the antidepressants in the water have anything to do with it?
621.
by swayvil 3y ago
Create a sphere out of bar magnets. The interior hollow. The shell comprised of bar magnets with all the PLUS pointed inward and the MINUS pointed outward. That would be like a MINUS MONOPOLE. Yes no maybe?
622.
by swayvil 3y ago
So less consistent philosophy, more steadycam
623.
by swayvil 3y ago
Doesn't it have to be transparent? Are phone screens (minus the phone etc) transparent?
624.
by swayvil 3y ago
Because EVIL = RPM X WEIGHT. And we can't reduce RPM. Get it light enough and you don't even have to center it that good.
625.
by swayvil 3y ago
It's so smooth!
626.
by swayvil 3y ago
There's gotta be some way to replace the rack-of-leds-spinner with something lighter. Mirrors? Acrylic light pipe matrix?
627.
by swayvil 3y ago
This is tight. Presently working on a list of uses. Need one the size of a 5gal bucket. As it is, I'd stick one on my gimcrack cabinet.
628.
by swayvil 3y ago
We should dissect them to find out how they do that.
629.
by swayvil 3y ago
Well they do call it "complexity".
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by swayvil 3y ago
Think of it as an exploration. How might resonant orbits, a flock of rocky planets with fat atmospheres and a good hot sun serve a hypothetical starsystem engineer?

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