neatchee
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- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
you still didn’t answer my question about all the people who lived before the Quran. Were they all immoral? Was slavery morally allowed before the Quran was written? Or were they immoral but ignorant of their immorality only because nobody had told them yet?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
So then everyone before the Quran was immoral? literally not a single human being existed before the Quran was written who was moral? Or were they immoral without knowing it because nobody had told them “slavery is wrong” yet?
It’s also important to note that according to Surah Al-An’am 6:112, any human who rebels against God and dedicated themselves to leading others astray is classified as a demon.
So I guess enslaving an atheist activist like Richard Dawkins is morally acceptable according to you? Since he is, according to the Quran, a demon?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
I don’t think we understand sentience yet. I think it is possible, if not likely, that there are sentient things which we believe are not.
i also don’t think a heart is relevant at all to sentience, as it plays no role in perception which I believe is the core of sentience. The heart is just a pump that moves resources through the body.
I don’t think a nervous system is necessary either, unless you define “nervous system” very broadly. I think any sufficiently complex sensory input system would be enough to provide the elements of perception required to foster sentience.
As for the brain…. I’m not convinced it has to look like a brain as we know. The brain provides a few primary functions, but only a few of them are related to perception (many are instead related to automation of bodily functions). I think any system that can receive input, store a memory (and I don’t mean cognitive recall, I just mean historical record in the loosest sense), and perform complex conditional responses based on the input and memory could produce something we would call sentience.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
at what point do you distinguish a thing from the components it’s made of?
You say neurons have qualia, but its parts certainly don’t. Proteins don’t. Lipids don’t. Molecules don’t. But when you put them together in a specific configuration you say they do?
How is this different from silica? Why can’t a thing composed of silica have qualia even if the parts individually don’t?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
so do you believe everyone was immoral until 150 years ago (end of and tolerance for slavery) or do you believe we are immoral today for denying the right to own slaves (as allowed by religious texts)?
- Comment on SBA #119 maths 2 weeks ago:
Addition asks “What do you get when you combine these two numbers?”
Subtraction asks “What do you need to combine with this number to get this result?”
Multiplication asks “What do you get if you add this number to itself this many times?”
Division asks “How many times do you need to add this number to itself to get this result?”
In many ways, all of these operations are syntactic flavor for addition. Subtraction is addition in reverse. Multiplication is repetitive addition. Division is repetitive addition in reverse. Exponents are recursive repetition of repetitive addition. And so on.
Look into the axiomatic proof of 1+1=2. It will shed some light on how mathematics is just complex notation for very, very simple concepts at scale.
- Comment on SBA #119 maths 2 weeks ago:
This is the correct answer and it drives me crazy how often this comes up.
As another user commented, division and subtraction are just syntactic flavor for multiplication and addition, respectively. Division is a specific type of multiplication. Subtraction is a specific type of addition.
And so there is a reason mathematicians do not use the division symbol (➗): it is ambiguous as to which of the following terms are in the divisor and which are part of the next non-divisor term.
In other words, the equation as written is a lossy representation of whatever actual equation is being described.
tl;dr: the equation as written provides insufficient information to determine the correct order of operations. It is ambiguous notation and should not be used.
- Comment on You know, you look like your head fell in the cheese dip back in 1957 2 weeks ago:
Oh no you just unlocked a memory I haven’t recalled in a long time: the infamous “wat” video
- Comment on You know, you look like your head fell in the cheese dip back in 1957 2 weeks ago:
Completely unrelated to OP but I really want to believe your username is a “treating people like objects” joke
- Comment on And toxic in large amounts! 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on What happened to the Dem Party in America? It's kind of like once Kamala lost, which they deserved, and lost congress. They ran like a dog with its tail between its legs instead of fighting? 1 month ago:
Yes. Please list things that a sitting politician can do when both chambers of Congress and the presidency are in opposition party control, which are not purely performative nonsense
- Comment on Has society or scientists ever solved definitively the Chicken and the Egg theory? Or is it just like a whose on first thing? 1 month ago:
I’m going to try to give you an actual answer to your question as I believe you intend it …
First: Let’s agree that the question being asked is NOT “did chickens or eggs exist first?” but rather “If chickens lay chicken eggs, and chickens are born from chicken eggs, and any egg not in this category is not a chicken egg, then is this not a paradox? If there was no chicken, how could a chicken egg be laid? And if there was no chicken egg, how could a chicken be born?”
The “real” answer: What this question actually demonstrates is a weakness in language. It is an ambiguity in the term “chicken egg”. It leaves open for interpretation by the listener what a “chicken egg” actually is, what makes it a “chicken egg”. On the one hand it could be “eggs produced by chickens”. It could be “eggs from which chickens hatch”. It cannot actually be both; they are different, though in practice only slightly. So the answer changes based on how you define “chicken egg”.
My “best effort” answer: If I want to try to answer the question literally, I define “chicken egg” as “An egg which, if allowed to hatch, reach maturity, and breed, will likely produce another of itself (i.e. another chicken egg).” In which case the answer is clear: the chicken egg came first. There was a proto-chicken, someone very much like a chicken but not quite a chicken. It laid an egg with the genetic mutation that made it a “chicken egg” instead of a “proto-chicken egg”. And thus began chickens.
- Comment on kinky 1 month ago:
but who would ever frown while wearing a ball gag? 🤔
- Comment on kinky 1 month ago:
CPBGP
Constant positive ball gag pressure
But that might cause confusion with internet routing standards and US presidents where CPBGP stands for “Child Predator Border Gateway Protocol”
I apologize for this incredibly specific and terrible nerd slash dark humor joke
- Comment on kinky 1 month ago:
it is 100% a CPAP mask. you can see the other step mark arching toward the top of the nose, and the mask mark across the bridge of the nose.
source: am CPAP wearer, have strap marks, don’t own ball gag
- Comment on Schrodinger's Precious 2 months ago:
poison is vile, looking cats is vile, I see absolutely no problem here >.>
- Comment on Schrodinger's Precious 2 months ago:
….. it’s a sealed box with no holes ….. the cat is very dead or will be very soon
- Comment on Schrodinger's Precious 2 months ago:
Yup. Turns out he was super wrong though and existence is just that fucked up at the quantum level
- Comment on Schrodinger's Precious 2 months ago:
no, the vile of poison and radioactive particle connected to a device that breaks the vile when it detects the particle’s decay is what makes the cat’s state probabilistic. Otherwise it’s just a cat in a box
- Comment on Schrodinger's Precious 2 months ago:
Nasty hobitses did not mention radioactive particle decay or poison vile! Cat is just dead dead dead!! Suffocated, starved, sensory deprived cat!
- Comment on What are your hallmark games? What games have shaped how you view games? 2 months ago:
A discord community I’m in has been sharing 3x3 cover image grids of the games that “define you”. I’ll just paste my response from there:
I’m not bothering to share an image because it would just be 7 Kingdom Hearts titles, Tribes 2, and Oregon Trail
- Comment on ShitpostID: 4185519047 2 months ago:
Your shitpostid is in the format of a North American phone number, with an area code in Quebec.
Nothing implied by that, just couldn’t help but notice.
- Comment on Am I right to be afraid of germs / is my family disgusting or am I overreacting and this is germaphobia? (read post) 2 months ago:
This type of environment, and OPs reaction to it, is how people develop compulsive behaviors that are unhealthy. You can hear it in how they talk about even simple things, like their extreme disgust towards saliva deposited in a trash can. Revulsion towards saliva in a trash can is not normal. Saliva left on a surface? Or on their person? Sure, gross. But a trash can is an appropriate place for someone to spit. It doesn’t deserve the vehement disgust OP displays.
I’m not diminishing how unhygienic and disgusting their family is. The photos make it clear that they live in a completely inexcusable level of filth. I just don’t want OP to continue down this path of obsessive, compulsive cleanliness. There’s a happy medium.
- Comment on Am I right to be afraid of germs / is my family disgusting or am I overreacting and this is germaphobia? (read post) 2 months ago:
So, based on your description and the pictures, here’s my take:
Your family is unhygienic and gross. Water leaking from surfaces can pick up all sorts of gross stuff. Leaving food waste (I see banana peels I think?) out and exposed to open air leads to rotting and mold which can definitely make you sick. Used toilet paper with fecal matter on it left in an open trash can? HELLA gross.
BUT
Your reaction to this environment is going too far. Disinfecting your phone constantly? Concerns about people spitting in the trash? Not eating any leftovers or drinking from any container you didn’t open yourself? These are going too far. As others have pointed out, some contact with germs is important to maintain a healthy immune system.
There’s a middle-ground that both you AND your family are missing.
Wash your hands after using the bathroom and before eating, sure. Don’t leave things that rot out in the open, of course.
Putting the garbage can next to the table while clearing it? Totally fine. Eating leftovers that have been refrigerated for a day? Totally fine.
I understand why you’ve developed hyper-vigilence living in that kind of environment. It makes sense. But I think you’re probably overcompensating.
You might benefit from learning more about the human immune system, food safety, and other science-based topics. Did you know that urine, for example, is sterile? You can literally safely drink human urine (with some exceptions). Feces, on the other hand, is total opposite of sterile.
I’m sorry you have to live in such a gross environment. I hope you can find a way to convince your family to meet you in the middle.
- Comment on The Helldivers 2 Community needs to get a fucking grip on itself 2 months ago:
haha wow this comment is amazing satire! you really nailed the elitist, dismissive, generally toxic attitude of the people described in the OP!
Your devotion to playing the part is brilliant. you didn’t even put a /s at the end of anything!
bravo on your satirical masterpiece!
- Comment on I wish I could do executive orders 🤔 3 months ago:
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- Comment on Which one is it? 4 months ago:
Step away from the keyboard and abandon whatever institution provided this questionnaire
- Comment on Alchemy is so hot right now. 4 months ago:
My guy, Au-197 is what’s being created, as stated in the screenshot, and it is the stable isotope of gold. It’s the naturally occurring one.
And the reaction doesn’t need to be especially stable on its own when it is a bonus byproduct of existing fusion reactor processes. The point is that we can take existing and new reactors, add this process, and immediately gain significantly extra value from the stuff we’re already doing.
it’s like hybrid electric cars that charge their batteries using the brakes. You’re already breaking and losing a ton of energy as waste. ANY way to recapture and use that waste energy that yields more value than the materials required to capture it, is an immediate win.
- Comment on Alchemy is so hot right now. 4 months ago:
The jewelry and investment industries name up 45-50% of gold consumption. Practical and industrial uses make up only 5-10%.
As such, while flooding the market with cheap gold would rapidly lower value, is the amount of gold being generated from fusion reactors is orders of magnitude less than the global consumption rate from jewelry and investment, which seems likely, then the value of the generated gold would remain relatively stable.
in other words, considering that the gold market generates something like $350bn USD per year, and the total market value of “above ground” gold around $25tn USD, even if fusion reactors generate $1bn USD worth of gold it would have a negligible impact on the price of gold while providing significant value to the reactor operators (incentivizing the growth of the fusion reactor industry)
- Comment on Do I have extreme anxiety? 4 months ago:
Nobody here can diagnose you, but what you’ve told us is more than enough to tell us you need to seek a professional opinion.
Find a psychiatrist who can see you ASAP about the anxiety, stress, panic attacks, etc
Find a physician who can see you ASAP about the migraines/headaches.
If either continue to worse or more frequent, seek immediate care at your local Urgent Care or ER.
Don’t gamble with your safety please ❤️🩹
