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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paypal won't let me remove by Debit card⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I have this card.

  I’m an immigrant to the US by way of marriage. When I moved here we opened an account at chase where my now wife banks - a joint for us both and one for me.

  When faced with having three near identical blue cards I asked if there was any option other than blue

  Imagine my face when I heard possibly the most American phrase I’ve ever heard: “You can have the brand colors, or Disney”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Christopher Nolan Forgot To Credit Over 80% Of VFX Crew On ‘Oppenheimer’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  in that case crafty is probably more vital to a movie happening than the DP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shrodinger’s Megamind⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  for one - it’s an infinite warehouse, so the parts of it that are near stars, black holes, planets, moons and comets are destroyed, sucked in etc, creating several stable “rare-Earth” conditions at the Goldilocks distance from heat sources, and using the debris from collision follows the same basic principle of how life on Earth started, but with melted plastic from the burned cds instead of in water. Life - uh - finds a way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shrodinger’s Megamind⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I know I’m nit picking here but that’s the point of examining infinity, but wouldn’t it be foolish to say “there are no examples of hydrogen gas becoming sentient under any circumstances!” because, well, we’re both sentient decendants of a reaction between two or more hydrogen atoms.

  Yes the conditions that led from hydrogen > helium > deuterium > … > … > … single celled organisms > … > … primates > … > … humans are incredibly complicated and specific. But what if we applied the same complicated and specific process (or an infinite variation thereof) to the CD factory. Are you sure it’s impossible? and worse yet - can you prove it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shrodinger’s Megamind⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  due to the nature of infinity — a la monkeys and typewriters — you could have not only a single CD that due to a catastrophic series of errors is actually something completely different from a CD — but an infinite number of them.

  Is it entirely beyond the realms of possibility that an infinitesimally small stroke of luck could create a sentient race of CD people? Except “small” doesn’t make sense in infinity — “small” just means “a less common certainty”