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@kevin_jordan__ I feel this hard. I was addicted for years and when I got off I felt useless. I had to entirely change my career to one I could do without triggering my need for addy. My life is totally different than it was 3 years ago

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@donalddhoffman Hi Mr. Hoffman, have you ever studied the philosophy of Roy Bhaskar? Having read your homepage, I think you'd really like his conceptions of Stratified Emergence and the 3 domains (real, actual, empirical). It changed the way I viewed observed reality.

Good luck!

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@dioscuri I used to live stumble upon back in the day. I feel like the modern day social media algorithms took a lot of inspiration from it, but then cranked up the addiction factor by 10

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@donalddhoffman Well that sounds really interesting. I can't wait to see the kinds of experiments y'all propose

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@ShaneFrakes So we're monkeys who carry around radios blasting hits from https://t.co/th9DgPG3Wp ?

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@kevin_jordan__ Oh, idk if this is just me, but my ADHD brain really likes spreadsheets and databases. Love them. The amount of times I've "started" big projects, but only accomplished "the most over engineered task management list ever" Is truly mind boggling.

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@kevin_jordan__ I really struggle to do #2, because I always feel the need to accomplish something small and menial first before I'm mentally ready to do the other thing. Obviously this often leads to it not being done. Do you have any advice on how to take that first 'right' step in the day?

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@SunWeatherMan Hey Ben, when we see prolonged periods of higher solar wind that excess positive charge gets balanced through lightning right? Can we predict where that is, or is it too widespread to forecast?

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@NWSSWPC Y'all scared me with the all caps 😂 for a second my sleepy brain thought you meant "supersedes all prior watches... Ever."

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@rrichcord I'm a little confused here. So I understand that solar wind can cause atmospheric stripping which can become energized and escape, however, wouldn't this be much much weaker than the solar wind that's already hitting us? How are we determining it's Mars?

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So Texas has a public database containing every single businesses monthly Alcohol sales. Unlike most govt sites it's extremely well made and has tons of database filter tools built right in. Lots of awesome research potential.

Here's the link - https://t.co/LW2d4u2XIp

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@ayojoestar Holy shit that was me. I remember reading the sixth harry Potter book in a single night, never moving from the couch, getting up and then passing out in the floor 😂

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@readswithravi His wife was also cucking him with a Roman soldier. Bro had to tell himself that to get through the day

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@JoePBeauchamp @PhysInHistory @grok

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I feel this. When people ask me if I believe in Aliens I say "I believe in Santa Claus" so why not.

This is long winded, but hear me out.

We typically define something as "real", when it exists physically as matter, or when we can observe its existence through its interaction with matter (waves).

Humans are "real" because we have physical bodies. You can observe us directly, or indirectly in the way we shape the physical world around us. Dirty dishes in the sink, foot prints in the sand.

Santa consists of more physical matter than any "human" ever has through movies, tv shows, newspapers, and children's drawings. He's been made into action figures, Christmas ornaments, lawn decorations, and macy day balloons.

Every year thousands of "Santas" flood shopping malls, run bar crawls, and visit children in hospital rooms. Millions of children receive presents from him and leave cookies in return.

Santa impacts the physical world by moving "through it" like a wave of human action. He can be measured by the magnitude of observable change. Thus Santa exists as the sum of the differences between a world in which he exists, and one in which he doesn't.

So Aliens aren't just "real", they're already here 👽

[Oor @txrrxstrxxl]

Aliens will show up as

ideas
tech
policy
people 👀

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@Fenrisianspirit Brother... We're in Stargate NOW

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I got this from @CKlosterman book Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs

Let us assume you met a rudimentary magician. Let us assume he can do five simple tricks–he can pull a rabbit out of his hat, he can make a coin disappear, he can turn the ace of spades into the Joker card, and two others in a similar vein. These are his only tricks and he can’t learn any more; he can only do these five.

HOWEVER, it turns out he’s doing these five tricks with real magic.

It’s not an illusion; he can actually conjure the bunny out of the ether and he can move the coin through space. He’s legitimately magical, but extremely limited in scope and influence.

Would this person be more impressive than Albert Einstein?

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@taijitu_sees Yeah, that one is still a mind fuck for me. Especially when the balls were locked up in the most secure and environmentally controlled safe possible.

Has anyone actually figured that one out yet?

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@IndSocEnjoyer Yep, it certainly seems that way. I think culturally we've been taught "big vacuum" for some reason, but even Wikipedia says there's an interstellar medium.

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https://t.co/7k0NJ0Lq6t

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Wow, I just remembered a really cool philosophy book I read 10 years ago. It's called "My years of Magical Thinking" by Lionel Snell.

In the book he creates a framework of 4 "cultures" - art, religious, scientific, and magical, which he maps to different types of truth.