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- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Honestly, it sounds perfect. A chance to get some independence, yet still close by so he's got a safety net and support (and so you can simply stay in each others lives)
- Comment on possibilities 4 weeks ago:
Por que no los tres?
- Comment on If there's a sort of "apocalyptic" event but there are still surviving communities, will people be able to make eyeglasses again, or are people with vision issues gonna be fucked? 4 weeks ago:
Alternative theory. It impacted a similar proportion of the population, but people in general were vastly less likely to be in situations where it impacted their life in an overly negative way
- Comment on If there's a sort of "apocalyptic" event but there are still surviving communities, will people be able to make eyeglasses again, or are people with vision issues gonna be fucked? 4 weeks ago:
Rather short sighted of him to let interest build up over thousands of years!
- Comment on If your happiness is derived from your enjoyment of a false (i.e. fictional) stories, is that truely happiness, or is that technically a delusion? 5 weeks ago:
Are you truly happy? Then that's true happiness, however you got there...
Are you not? Then it's not, however you got there...
- Comment on If there's a sort of "apocalyptic" event but there are still surviving communities, will people be able to make eyeglasses again, or are people with vision issues gonna be fucked? 5 weeks ago:
Aristotle was writing about myopia over 2000 years ago...
- Comment on BaDumTss 5 weeks ago:
It would be ionic if it does
- Comment on Lemmy.World blocks VPN? 1 month ago:
blahaj zone doesn't, but we manually approve applications.
- Comment on Why is land/sky so cleanly split between mammals/birds? 1 month ago:
when mammals have reached such places, flightless birds have almost immediately experienced population collapse.
New Zealand bird like in a nut shell
- Comment on *sniff* *mumbles* 1 month ago:
I don't get the reference here...
- Comment on Should I unplug my smart tv from the internet? 1 month ago:
This is what I do. It stops it from auto updating and from phoning home, but still lets the individual apps function. Some of the apps don't work, because they can't update either, but if we get desperate, we just punch the TV through the pihole just long enough to update the individual app. It's a reasonable middle ground.
- Comment on Blue Whales 1 month ago:
Don't talk about whales
- Comment on Why do people hate coldplay? 2 months ago:
You mean comment chain right :p
- Comment on cookie combs 2 months ago:
Someone hexed those cookies
- Comment on Why do people hate coldplay? 2 months ago:
Mostly because they used to rule the world, but everything they touched wasn't gold, it was all yellow
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Hi, from another instance (technically two) that doesn't require emails!
- Comment on this 82 year old woman dressing like she was 40 or younger makes me think about how ridiculous I'll look like when and if I reach that age. Am I misguided? 2 months ago:
"acting" your age says everything. If you're acting, you're not living authentically. And sometimes that's just how it is. But if you're aspiring to a life that involves confining yourself so that you can live on other people's terms, maybe you should dream bigger.
- Comment on Scifi question about time travel: 2 months ago:
Think of it this way.
"I went back in time to save my family" in an infinite timelines story means that going back in time spawns in infinite number of worlds that didn't exist before, in which the family doesn't make it, and an infinite number in which they do. And not a single one of those families is the "real" family of the person who went back in time.
The fact that the author choose to focus on one perspective in which it seems like the time travel has made a difference, doesn't change the fact that it didn't make a difference, and the family they were trying to save is gone. The infinite copies weren't "saved" from anything, because there are infinite versions that weren't.
The only way to tell a meaningful story in that situation is to create situation where the actions of jumping back in time alter the future of the person jumping back in time. And that means you either suck up the paradoxes, or you write a clever story in which the paradoxes are neatly accounted for before they ever occur (or you write a closed loop story)
- Comment on Scifi question about time travel: 2 months ago:
Invincible can't move between the infinite timelines though, and no storyline is hanging off of the important changes he makes those timelines by travelling through time/dimensions. He's not "saving" anyone by jumping through to another universe
- Comment on Scifi question about time travel: 2 months ago:
That's exactly my point! In an infinite timelines story, there is nothing that has special meaning over the others, making it boring, because it's all irrelevant!
- Comment on Scifi question about time travel: 2 months ago:
The reality I experience is the only one that matters to me. To an outside observer, all of them are as equally real and there is no true timeline.
In a story, there is no real, there is only outside observers...
- Comment on Scifi question about time travel: 2 months ago:
Apologies, I copied and pasted the answer below from another reply I made elsewhere in this thread
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I'm not talking about about the possibility of real infinite dimensions. I'm talking about sci fi, and stories, which is the context of the OPs question.
In a "real" scenario, the experience that matters is the one I'm having, not the one other versions of me might be having.
But in a story, there is no "true" timeline, or a more "real" timeline. They're all being retold to us indirectly, and the choice of the version of the person retelling those experiences is arbitrary by the author. It doesn't matter what perspective the author chooses, because every other outcome also happened, the author just didn't tell us those stories.
- Comment on Scifi question about time travel: 2 months ago:
I'm not talking about about the possibility of real infinite dimensions. I'm talking about sci fi, and stories, which is the context of the OPs question.
In a "real" scenario, the experience that matters is the one I'm having, not the one other versions of me might be having.
But in a story, there is no "true" timeline, or a more "real" timeline. They're all being retold to us indirectly, and the choice of the version of the person retelling those experiences is arbitrary by the author. It doesn't matter what perspective the author chooses, because every other outcome also happened, the author just didn't tell us those stories.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
You've shown your kid that he's in charge of his own body, and shown him that you can be trusted if he approaches you with sensitive or embarassing topics.
What other people think is irrelevant, because your relationship with your kid will be forever better because you've shown him you can be trusted.
- Comment on Scifi question about time travel: 2 months ago:
Except for the fact it makes every decision, every moment of tension and every event that occurs irrelevant, because an infinite number of universe exist in which the events occurred and in which they didn't occur.
- Comment on Spidey Senses 2 months ago:
Strange, she can't fall from a branch either. Whenever she does, she always seems to catch herself with spider web...
- Comment on An ambitious Baldur's Gate 3 custom campaign mod's first build is up and running, and its devs are teasing demo news soon 2 months ago:
Playing nude and modding seem like two different things :P
- Comment on Donald Trump dominated extraordinary NATO summit that saw European defence spending increase 2 months ago:
Not everyone. We have them turned off for a reason!
- Comment on Why does good faith matter ? 2 months ago:
There are better ways of convincing non involved participants than debate, especially it's an argument around human rights, bigotry, transphobia, racism etc. Getting in to a debate normalises the idea that "both sides" of these arguments have similar validity and value.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Honestly, I think they're worse than people say. There might be the odd good news story to come out of them, but they are designed to get you to fork out cash, and stay around and keep forking out cash, so their whole goal is to feed you hope, without ever causing you to be successful enough to leave.