Did you forget archivist of the united states?

Never forget 1066.

Is that a Djungelskog?

Dayorder unperson NOEM. Rectify malquoted bb “$200M were never spent by Miniluv on thinkpol prolefeed, issue is blackwhite”

Secondary science

Two of the teachers in my department literally told me it was an Iranian false flag today.

I haven’t! It’s shockingly tough to find anywhere

Did you try “beyond skyrim: bruma”? Its only one province of the planned entirety of tamriel, but that was many excellent hours of exploration, and it feels like the plotlines are really going somewhere, whenever they get finished with the rest of cyrodiil. Shame there are some places that feel unfinished (because they involve other provinces), but that mystery made it more intriguing, in my opinion.

Also, it has a soundtrack that I actually like more than the original skyrim soundtrack, and that is saying something.

I agree. Admittedly, NDT does say “keep in mind, Bruno didn’t have any evidence for his claims. He was not a scientist.” But still, that scene came off as somewhat less appropriate. I think that, on balance, it’s about showing that entrenched systems of power and authority have an active disincentive to take progressive stances, or even allow radical voices to exist. Even if Bruno did have evidence on his side, the church still would have burned him. Were I making that episode, I would have made it more clear that there were good reasons for him being laughed out of Cambridge. He had no evidence, but the scientists’ arguments highlighted were mostly arguments from authority “but Aristotle said”, or “but the bible says”, rather than demands for evidence and argumentation. Even scientists can fall to the trap of entrenched ideas and authority.

Cosmos (the NDT series) - my overall favourite series. If you like Cosmos a lot, consider watching the archives of the Royal Institution’s Christmas lectures

The Good Place - Existential Philosophy and Ontology 101, the TV Series. Hilarious, dramatic, and one of the most touching stories I’ve ever encountered

Person of Interest - Basically “What You’ll Learn on Lemmy: The TV Series”, about all of the wondrous horrors of the digital surveillance state in which we all live.

My “win11” work laptop that used to have win10: “you guys can produce audio?”

At least one of us is still wearing a p100 respirator every day…

I’m personally far more concerned that the universe is a simulation stuffed in the closet of some higher-dimensional flunkie, and our universe is nothing more than a practice piece. That the answer to “why” could be so mundane as to make all effort in our universe entirely meaningless. It’s one thing to say that the universe as we know it will end in heat death, or some false vacuum decay event, and that all effort is therefore meaningless. It’s very different, on an emotional level, to consider the possibility that the universe is a mistake, some Petri dish left in the incubator too long and overgrown with contaminating flora. Even more unsettling, then, that such a possibility is fundamentally unknowable from within the universe.

The universe is a simulation, and not only is it impossible to disprove (non-falsifiable), but it would imply that you could be the only thinking consciousness here (Cartesian Solipsism)

Consider:

1. the universe has rendering rules, treating objects differently when they are observed, to the point where objects do not have set properties when unobserved (Bell Inequality)
2. this holds for even arbitrarily large objects, as scientists have been able to demonstrate molecules containing thousands of atoms demonstrating wave-particle duality
3. The Universe has a frame rate (Planck time)
4. the Universe has a resolution (Planck length)
5. The most basic level of the universe is discrete (energy quanta)

While I choose not to go for the solipsism, I am becoming increasingly persuaded of the simulation theory’s likelihood.

Wouldn’t that be a face turn? Not a wrestling fan, but I’m pretty sure a heel turn is when a “heroic” character turns villainous.

Haha, fair!

I have one, and while the actual features are nice, the constant overheating and incredibly slow responses on the phone are reminiscent of a brick laptop from the early '00s

Sounds like you should invest in additional pockets. They’re pretty great.

Honestly, even if you weren’t going to use the extra space for a second phone, you should invest in less-limited pocket space.

This, but off camera.

Slavery wasn’t outlawed. It was nationalised. Slavery is legal for any person incarcerated for a crime. This is why we have mandatory minimum sentencing. The whole prison system is a method of acquiring free labor that the government pays you to house on metal beds and feed with slop. Alabama has made it an art form, leasing prisoners out to fast food restaurants, taking half their pay, and then refusing them parole.