endoblast

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by endoblast 4mo ago
Vila 'There isn't a lock I can't open if I'm scared enough' Restal was one of the finest sci-fi characters on British telly. The caustic exchanges between him and Avon were priceless. > Michael was asked whether
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by endoblast 5mo ago
Consciousness and God both seem to have this property in common: they're real but not what we think they are. Only when we have a decent theory of consciousness will we know what counts as evidence for whether a particular entity is
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by endoblast 6mo ago
When Wellington thrashed Bonaparte, As every child can tell, The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well; Yet Britain set the world ablaze In good King George's glorious days
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by endoblast 8mo ago
The temperature a few metres below ground level is consistently cool (approx. 15 celcius) year round. Could this be made the basis of an efficient cooling system?
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by endoblast 8mo ago
It's funny how every source of knowledge converges to the same thing: mass media. Telling you what to think and trying to influence your behaviour rather than trying to inform you. Using facts, omitting facts or emphasising particular
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by endoblast 10mo ago
It's hard not to trust answers which are superhumanly plausible. Imagine being offered a choice of two oracles. The first oracle would give you an answer that is inspiring yet mysterious and oblique. The second gives an answer that is
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by endoblast 10mo ago
I miss being able to spontaneously buy a ticket and travel off to see a friend in another town or city. I did quite a lot as a young man with the help of my 'young person's railcard'. The cost would be prohibitive nowadays be
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by endoblast 11mo ago
Relatedly, microdosing with lactulose (which is very cheap) has a probiotic effect. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8353095/
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by endoblast 11mo ago
Yes. There are distinct male virtues, such as courage, nobility and authority. But if a man isn't honest then he's not worthy of consideration. Or, if you like, he hasn't yet matured into manhood. This is why so much of total
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by endoblast 1y ago
>the heat is moved to the ground for storage ..or into a giant sand-filled barge which transports the thermal energy up north for the winter.
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by endoblast 1y ago
Doubling down and doubling down on some feeling (or lack of feeling) repeatedly isn't merely a strategy. It is the selling of ones's soul. There's no one left inside by the end of it, just a shell, with no creative power or f
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by endoblast 1y ago
I think you've got it the wrong way around. All ideology is wrong, incorrect and fails in contact with reality. The true purpose of ideology (or 'the system') is to provide its adherents with the excuse they need to act badly
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by endoblast 1y ago
I go for a decent walk most days and it doesn't require effort or get boring. It goes well with listening to headphones and relaxing the eyes on the horizon plus seeing a bit of nature and humanity in action. This does me a lot of good
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by endoblast 1y ago
Author is clearly not a happy bunny. Some people may be motivated by a wish to escape other people, but many will want to go to space because it's so cool. In other words: for adventure, romance and blazing a trail for other people to
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by endoblast 1y ago
I'm not even a programmer, but I can tell that dates are ambiguous a lot of the time. e.g. dd/mm/yyyy (British) and mm/dd/yyyy (USA) can be confused for the first twelve days of every month. So, given the high volum
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by endoblast 1y ago
Thumb on white notes. 4th finger on black because it is weaker than 2,3. But these are rules of thumb(!)
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by endoblast 1y ago
The original reads easier in the voice of the cookie monster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shbgRyColvE
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by endoblast 1y ago
I used to think the same when people spoke of social media being addictive, but not any more. Drugs aren't autonomous either, however they clearly do remove some people's autonomy. I can well imagine now that a person could be add
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by endoblast 1y ago
>tools that augment cognition when used intentionally can become parasitic when designed to maximize engagement at the expense of user agency Wonderful definition, thank you. It has reach beyond software I think, into areas like harmful
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by endoblast 1y ago
Chemotherapy as I understand it works by killing rapidly-dividing cells (which is why your hair falls out). Fenbendazole purportedly slows down cell division, allowing the immune system a chance to catch up with the cancer cells. So they wo
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by endoblast 1y ago
Yes! Similarly for text books, which are riddled with errors, generally speaking. They should have have an email address for reader-submitted errata printed in large friendly letters on the inside front cover.
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by endoblast 1y ago
Thanks. Yes it is strange. I do accept there's some overlap between propaganda and memeing. Yet whatever the intentions (or paygrade, or artistic ability) of the author of a meme, the fact remains that once it is posted he has no cont
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by endoblast 1y ago
Nah. Compressed ideas are simply very good explanations! Ideologues aren't open to changing their ideas, but some other people do so occasionally. One can have philosophical assumptions and/or preferences without wishing to impose
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by endoblast 1y ago
Not everyone is an ideologue. Some people are just on the side of what is , or what is real.
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by endoblast 1y ago
Yes however I was not referring to memes in the broadest sense but memes as humorous (usually) images with captions, shared online. Unlike propaganda and advertising these are spontaneously created by unpaid individuals (though Omar is righ
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by endoblast 1y ago
>Managing, employing and leveraging memetic power This is propaganda, or advertising, not memeing. Propaganda is used to promote specific ideologies; memes arise spontaneously to counter them. Since all ideologies/-isms are by nat
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by endoblast 1y ago
I realise the word 'gluttony' is off-putting (for atheists for instance) but I don't know a better one. Perhaps 'over-excitement'? The symptoms of excitement are of course similar to the fight-or-flight response. Ra
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by endoblast 1y ago
One factor that scientific food experiments don't seem to include is gluttony . Presumably because it is subjective (though nonetheless real for that). Yet if people are motivated by the amount of comfort and/or pleasure they obt
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by endoblast 1y ago
Would adding Oxi Clean or somesuch powder to the wash help to sterilize clothing?
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by endoblast 1y ago
>In what manner are they procured? This really is the key: the manner reveals the motivation and morality is about motivations, which makes it understandable why slavery existed in the ancient world. Suppose your country is invaded by

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