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[โ€“] Signtist@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago

๐Ÿง…^-^ anion

[โ€“] Signtist@lemm.ee 36 points 1 month ago

My mom died of cancer a few months ago because she was convinced that a combination of sunlight's natural vibrational frequency and some expensive "medical" herbal teas would cure her. Placebos affect people, but if you let them believe that they're an alternative to actual science and medicine, then they'll use them as such.

[โ€“] Signtist@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Because if you look closely, there's some light blue blobs near the top shaped like the great lakes.

[โ€“] Signtist@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

Getting around paywalls is all well and good, but the trick to making them go away is for everyone to ignore them - and, by necessary extension, the content they protect - completely and entirely.

[โ€“] Signtist@lemm.ee 20 points 2 months ago

People playing tag ๐Ÿ’ช

[โ€“] Signtist@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

Can they make it match the drapes?

[โ€“] Signtist@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Does Look Mum No Computer count?

[โ€“] Signtist@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That's exactly it. Determinism is the idea that all the various forces of the universe impact things in such a way that, however things play out, it's how they were always going to.

Imagine a time in your life when you made an impactful decision, and imagine you can go back in time to that moment. However, when you do everything is the same - you're thinking the same thoughts, feeling the same feelings. You've had all the same experiences, and are in the same frame of mind. Every single atom in the entire universe is exactly the same as it was in that moment. Would you ever actually make a different decision from what you had in that moment?

Determinism says no - if you had the capability to know the exact state of the universe in a single moment, you'd be able to tell what the next moment's state would be, and on and on to the end of the universe, since it's all nothing more than a single incredibly complicated chain reaction.

[โ€“] Signtist@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago

And he's got 38 degrees in fucking.

[โ€“] Signtist@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

But they were writing the letter under the guise of just being some guy. I'd believe the government could make the public think I'm some sexual deviant, but not a random person writing a letter to me.

[โ€“] Signtist@lemm.ee 15 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Is there something I'm missing, or is this letter nothing more than an old-timey version of modern internet comments and conservative "LGBTQ+ people are somehow pedophiles!" claims that are as outlandish as they are unfounded? Like, how is claiming a reverend has secret massive orgies he's clearly not having going to get him to kill himself? He probably just read this, said "Well that's a load of nonsense." and threw it away without another thought.

[โ€“] Signtist@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

I tried so hard as a kid to sing the entire list in one breath, but never made it...

 
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