I cant find the clip online, but i seem to remember a scene in ‘Lucy’ where she, while on an airplane, pulls out two laptops and uses them both, one with each hand, to do some tech magic.

Neat!

Ive not taken the time to verify any of the information in this post, but lets assume for the moment that good science has been done and these claims are legit. Lets also take consider other similar research that has been done in the arena of plant and animal “awareness”. Are we approaching a point in the scientific community where some level of awareness ahould be assumed for creatures beyond ourselves? It seems that every time we look close enough at a product of nature (fungus, plants, etc) we discover some new element of what we would call “awareness”. Hell, I’ve even seen claims that certain plants can be anesthetized, with drugs that work on humans no less.

Say that we discovered life as we know it on another planet, and what that would do to our perception of “life” throughout the universe. Once could be a fluke, twice could be a coincidence, but given the scale of our universe if we were to find any life, in our own galaxy especially, it would drastically change our perception of the rarity of life.

Now, consider that we have primate relatives who show many of the some properties of awareness that we do, and the pile of other research pointing to varying levels of “awareness” for virtually everything we look at, including creatures such as planta and fungi. How this hasn’t led to a general acceptance that every “living” thing likely has a subjective experience is a bit beyond me, but I also am not a trained scientist, so maybe someone here can shed some light.

Take solace in the fact that you are part of said nature :)

Mars Express - Really enjoyed this one. Like Scavengars Reign and Blade Runner had a baby.

Manjummel Boys - Almost lost me with some corny intro stuff, but it picked up quickly after that and turned out really enjoyable.

Boy Kills World - I read “action movie fever dream” in the description and went for it. Story is a bit flat (it was based on a short film, so whatever) but the fights were pretty awesome, with equally awesome cringe-worthy gore (if you’re into that)

Civil War - I really appreciated the level of ambiguity in the movie, as it forced me to focus on the experience of the people in the story. Ultimately it doesnt really matter who the bad guys are, war is hell.

Oh, I do the same for other things and didnt mean to imply you should do anything differently, everyone has their “line”. I’m just saying maybe you dont have to throw out the baby with the bathwater. The Foo Fighters, particularly Dave Grohl, are some of the more humanitarian artists out there. Dave himself routinely puts on BBQs to feed the homeless. So considering your comment about actions having consequences, they’ve earned a little bit of wiggle room in my eyes.

But regardless, I respect ypur opinion and enjoy your weekend!

Oh, dont get me wrong, most anyone hoarding that much wealth is an asshole by default, but theres a lot worse out there than those guys. Hell, just this year Dave BBQed for 24hrs to feed the homeless, and has done many such events over the years.

Obviously it’s entirely your prerogative what artists to support, but I’m having a hard time understanding how the Fighters of the Foo accepting money from rich douches changes how you feel about them. Now, if they took an Amazon record deal and wrote a bunch of garbage jingles or something, then yeah, id bail on em too. But in this case, I don’t hink theyve done anything they havent done 1000x before; Played on a stage for a few hours, shook some hands, took some photos, and went home with some extra zeroes in their bank account.

What harm are they doing though? They’re being paid to do a private concert, not donating to their super PAC. It goes without saying that lavish spending on executives when people are being laid off is super gross, but at the end of the day I dont think the band did anything worth being chastised for.

“You rape em, we scrape em”

(I do not condone this message)

The Golden rule in action; the one with the gold makes the rules.

I hate how long it took me to find the title of the movie, its called “The Substance” for everyone else.

Now if they can just spread that to the rest of Nintendo…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_enforcement

Thank you very much for the thought out explanation, i think im beginning to grasp the concept. To summarize to make sure:

• accelerating mass causes gravitational waves
• two bodies orbiting eachother are also accelerating towards eachother by virtue of centripetal force.
• the energy to generate this wave is stripped directly from the kinetic energy of the system, causing the orbit to decay.

So the comparison to atoms releasing EM energy is a bit more apt then I initially thought. Thanks again!

The passage of time is always consistent for the observer, in that a clock next to them will always tick at the same interval. The tidal wave planet from Interstellar is a good example of this, in that only a short time had elapsed for the people on the surface, but back home on earth over 20 years went by. -Edited, didnt explain correcty the first time

Could you explain what you mean by “emitting gravitational radiation”? Gravity is how we perceive distortions in spacetime, the strength of which being determined by the mass of the objects. I understand that orbits can “decay”, but that is not the same as radioactive decay.

Could you fill me in as to why Brave is only advertiaed as secure? I understand the ads/crypto thing, but if you arent opted into that and just block the ads, is there anythimg else? I also understand its a Chromium browser, but that doesnt mean google has their hooks in it (necessarily).

Laura Linney playing Wendy Byrde in Ozark, and Pablo Shreiber playing Sean Hauser in Law and Order SVU.

Makes you wonder what happens to a person who now accepts the voices in their head as divine mandate…