loaExMachina
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- Comment on Last time I go to Great Clips 3 hours ago:
On the bright side, you can now steal people’s souls from their buttholes. (I’m not kidding, that’s a thing kappas do, look it up)
- Comment on Hold on! 9 hours ago:
I feel I’d be inclined to help the turtle in the scenario you describe; but since you’re question implies I’m not doing it, I guess I must be in a hurry for something really important. Or maybe there’s a bunch of bikers speeding between me and the turtle and I can’t get to it without getting crushed. Or maybe it’s an extremely creepy and off-putting turtle, like Moral from the Neverending Story.
- Comment on If a child went into a coma and woke up as an adult what would happen ? 2 days ago:
Apparently this condition exists and is called “locked-in syndrom”, tho I don’t know about the specific case mentioned here.
Closest match my quick search revealed was Martin Pistorius Not everything matches, this one was had locked-in syndrome for “only” 12 years, but the symptoms check out. Apparently there’s a book about him called “Ghost Boy”, so maybe that’s where the other details are from.
Christine Waddel was the longest case of the syndrom I could find, paralyzed for 15 years.
I also found something closer to the 30 years claim, Rom Houben’s story… Which was a horrible hoax. A man had been in a coma for 23 years, and a psychiatrist claimed that he was actually conscious. He was provided a communication facilitor, used to communicate via a keyboard, and he shared his whole story… But that was all fake, the psychiatrist or someone working with Hil was writing these messages. But for several years, people wrote about this and believed it, you can still find articles from 2008-2009 that don’t really question the story. Maybe they’re quoting this story without having seen the refutations; but this still would involve some additions or errors on their part (Rom never recovered, for one).
- Comment on Was Isaac Newton physics jesus? 4 days ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Was Isaac Newton physics jesus? 5 days ago:
The thoughts experiment are no different from the maths and wouldn’t have occurred in any context, or at least wouldn’t have come close to yielding the same conclusions. The most famous one was Einstein imagining himself riding a beam of light iirc. As you say, he imagined time and space stretching. Why would someone have imagined that in the 1600s? What reason was there to think riding light was any different from riding a very fast stream on a boat? Who knew then that you couldn’t just add the speed of lights to other speeds like you do in every galilean frame in Newtonian physics? You conceded that Fizeau’s experiments were a starting point. These experiments would’ve never happened without the questions raised by the discrepancy between Newton and Maxwell’s laws! And if they had, someone with no prior knowledge of Maxwell’s laws wouldn’t have had any interest or use for these results.
- Comment on Was Isaac Newton physics jesus? 5 days ago:
I think several other people have a better claim to that title, like Galileo Galilei and Roger Bacon. Bacon is one of the first to spell out the scientific method and Galilei… Well, you know what he did. I’d say Galileo is more Jesus-like because he was persecuted by the dominant church. And Galileo moved things a lot. Remember, Newton was born around the time Galileo died, he was born in a period of scientific upheaval. Galileo also introduced concepts that played a big role in Newtonian physics, like Galilean frames, the relativity of speeds, the idea that speed is conserved in the absence of a force…
You could argue there was also a slow acceleration of progress before Galileo 's time, and also that Copernicus is another good candidate for example, but if you really wanna emulate the Christ-like narrative, Galileo seems better. He’s even named after a region where Jesus might’ve lived.
- Comment on Was Isaac Newton physics jesus? 5 days ago:
A lot of what Newton used in Principia was already more or less in the air, it was just a matter of someone picking up the pieces and seeing the big pictures. It couldn’t have been more than a few decades at most until someone found out if it hadn’t been Newton.
- Comment on Was Isaac Newton physics jesus? 5 days ago:
No it shouldn’t? Without Mercury’s orbit having been noticed, there was no need yet to question Newton’s theory, they simply worked as far as anyone could see; so why complicate it? And without the Lorentz transformation, the math Einstein used wasn’t there. And without Fizeau’s experiment, the fact that the speed of light is the same in every frame wasn’t known, and that’s a huge part of the theory. And if he had intuited it somehow, the Maxwell’s equations were even there either. Special relativity is at it’s core a way reconcile Maxwell’s equations with the core tenants of Newton’s theory. There was no way special relativity could’ve been found even half a century earlier, let alone over two centuries…
- Comment on This just in 1 week ago:
If I’m not mistaken, Temüjin first got on the war path because Zuckerberg had kidnapped his favourite wife. When he raided the camp where he thought he’d taken her and found a shaman who told him “Sorry, your princess is in another castle”, that’s when he came Genghis Khan. Even after he got her back for real he kept chasing the Zuck all over Eurasia.
- Comment on What realistically would happen if someone came back to life from the dead ? 1 week ago:
Most of them are buried, so I’d say they die again.
- Comment on Anon makes a troubling connection 1 week ago:
Fertility rates are on the decrease everywhere.This doesn’t mean that population is decreasing, population increases as long as the fertility rate is superior to 1, which is still the case in a large portion of the world, but I think humanity on a global scale is expected to go beneath that treshold around 2050-2060.
- Comment on Awkward 1 week ago:
Oh, you just made me understand the joke. I thought he was gonna put the condom on the shiver and use it as a dildo, but makes more sense this way.
- Comment on Maybe next year 1 week ago:
Try early January
- Comment on Anon is a winner 2 weeks ago:
I only saw the first and it already made me wonder “How do they tell which animals are magical and should be hidden from the muggles?”, like how would muggles knowing about the blast-ended skrewts or that platipus-like think lead them to know about the wizarding world?
- Comment on Anon's strict mom 2 weeks ago:
More like “what kind of shower drain is clogged by semen”. And indeed, there are some. One at a place I’ve lived had a filter that had to be cleaned every now and then. No fapping in it was a given, but even some melted soap that re-hardens in it could end up clogging it.
- Comment on And because you deserve it, here's one from the top shelf 2 weeks ago:
Once a relative was prescribed antidepressants but decided not to get them because they figured they’d rather cope in their own way than use a potentially addictive psychoactive substance to mask their symptoms without fixing the main cause. It made perfect sense until it turned out “their own way” involved frequently drinking alcohol.
- Comment on New social experiment 2 weeks ago:
Memes/
- Comment on Is it normal that I get wet water all over myself when taking a shower? 2 weeks ago:
No, you’re only supposed to get covered in earth, wind and fire. To send something crashing against your body is antagonistic, and water no get enemy. Be like water, my friend.
- Comment on If God is all powerful and created human. How come God in endowed with human emotions? Shouldn't he or she be beyond that? 3 weeks ago:
Calvinism still has a notion of divine will, even if there’s no divine judgement. Maybe the notion of “will” can be dissociated from the notion of “feeling”, but that’d be a debate in itself, I personally tend to think that it can’t: Awareness can only indicate what is, not what should be.
As for all the religions with an intermediate between God and men, either they represent God’s will… In which case, God does have a will; either they have their own will. And this just displaces the question, because if God has no will but his angels do, then the angels are effectively the Gods: They’re the ones whose favour prayers are supposed to get.
Also, when I mention the “societal use” of a religion, what I mean isn’t how the religion is useful to the believer, but how it makes the believer useful to the state and/or clergy. My point was that religion with a personalized God who directly judge human actions tend to dominate because they’re most useful as tools to influence people’s actions.
- Comment on Buddy baka 3 weeks ago:
As you say it’s subjective, but I don’t find Shinji that annoying for most of the series. And it’s not just a downwards spiral, he and the other characters have ups and downs.
Even the conclusion of the End Of Evangelion is that something is better than nothing. A big part of Shinji’s character is hesitation of what is or isn’t worth doing, and the big final choice he’s offered when he’s at his lowest possible point is basically end the existence of humans as individuals and all the pain that goes with it or let humanity be reborn. It’s a metaphor for being on the fence about suicide, and he choses life. Which is pretty strong knowing how Hideaki Anno was himself struggles with depression when he wrote this.
I know it’s a bit stupid, but this series kinda feels like a depression toggle switch for me: It makes me feel depressed if I watch it while not depressed, but had the opposite effect if I’m already feeling depressed.
- Comment on If God is all powerful and created human. How come God in endowed with human emotions? Shouldn't he or she be beyond that? 3 weeks ago:
The answer differs depending on which religion/sect/philosophy you adhere to, but God is usually attributed some sort of emotion, or at least a will, because without it the belief in God can’t serve a societal use.
Say you assume a God without emotions. From this it results that nothing we may do or fail to do would impact them, so there are no sins, no divine laws, prayers and rites are useless… So your belief can’t be a religion; nor can it be used to control people. There’s no physical use to preaching belief in God, and not much of a metaphysical need either since God doesn’t care whether you believe in them. “God” becomes a concept like the laws of physics, there’s not even much meaning in considering it as a being. There’s little difference between an emotionless God and no God at all. So all religions will personify God to some extent.
- Comment on 🎶 Let it snu, let it snu, let it snu 🎵 3 weeks ago:
I’m merroused.
- Comment on Buddy baka 3 weeks ago:
If you’re wondering what narrative purpose this scene serves, you have to consider the whole series. It’s a mirror of a scene in episode one where Shinji also stands on top of a female character with a bodily fluid on his hand, but for a whole other reason: Shinji was told to pilote a giant robot he’d never seen before to fight a giant monster. He refused. The injured girl was brought on a strainer and he was told if he didn’t pilote the robot, she’d have to. The ground shook because of the robot, the girl (named Rei) fell from the strainer and Shinji rushed to see if she was okay. He looked at his hand and saw that he had her blood on it (obvious symbolism), then he accepts to pilote the robot.
That scene is what asserts Shinji as a protagonist. It’s the first showing him doing something for someone else, and he’s putting his life on the line to do so.
So mirroring this scene but having him do something cowardly and shameful, opposite of the bravery and kindness he showed in episode 1 makes him exit this role as a protagonist. And I don’t even think it’s necessary to understand it for it to work: For most of the movie after that, Shinji isn’t the protagonist, you follow other characters as they conclude their respective narrative arcs and without the hospital scene, I think many would feel frustrated and wait for Shinji to do something. Instead, we’re more prone to watch the other characters because we don’t really want to see Shinji anymore.
Another thing is, there characters have all been through a lot and been repeatedly traumatised. Not that it’s an excuse, but the series is also a bit original in the way it rejects the trope that hardship builds character and makes one better, without going in the reverse cliche of it making them a villain either. Trauma makes them mentally ill. Mental illness sometimes cause them to do bad things to other, which they then regret.
- Comment on I can feel it 4 weeks ago:
For all intents and purpose, I am neurotypical. Now, listen as I rant about how The End Of Evangelion makes perfect sense when considered as a mirror of the first episode, and the hospital scene has the reverse role as the strainer scene, making it completely logical and effecient in conveying th-
- Comment on Privacy: Breached 4 weeks ago:
With this many screens, I can watch all the Yu-Gi-Oh.
- Comment on nuclear 5 weeks ago:
Nuclear plant accidents have happened tho. Remember Fukushima? It was 13 years ago, not that long. It didn’t strait up explode like a nuclear bomb, and neither did Chernobyl, but still; contamination is a pretty big deal. You can argue that the risk isn’t that bad or that fossil energy plants also have risks; but you can’t just dismiss it as a superstition.
- Comment on Something's not adding up 5 weeks ago:
He couldn’t taste the colour of the sounds with his fingers.
- Comment on neotropical cockroaches 5 weeks ago:
I think I’ve read there where like 4000 cockroach species and only 30 that were ivansive, in human homes, mostly from just 3 genera. The rest only live in the wild, where they hardly bother anyone.
- Comment on Cozy socks and a little bit of self hosted raw-blogging 5 weeks ago:
Ah yes, the thriving Ergo Proxy fandom.
- Comment on Anon plays spin the bottle 1 month ago:
Anon didn’t make up the rules, and I wouldn’t wager that he was the one who decided to start that game. Everyone chose to play knowing they wouldn’t be comfortable getting anon. It doesn’t seem to me like anon made any advance at all. Rejecting someone’s advances for whatever reason is not morally incorrect, nor is denying them physical displays of affection. But going up to someone unprompted and telling them you find them unattractive and wouldn’t feel comfortable touching them is. This seem like an intermediate situation where they willingly and knowingly created a situation where they would have to do the latter. Refusing to kiss or touch anon wasn’t the fault here, initiating the game was.