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Do NOT say the “Q” word at work. It’s the one that is a synonym for silent. I will in fact beat you when it hits the fan.
Eating boogers strengthens your immune system.
I mean, it’s plausible, because the idea of building your immune system is exposure to some of those things. Not trying to invalidate the other methods because those should be a better alternative. Some studies suggested boogers can help.
When I drop something on the floor and then blow on it in short soft bursts, it’s suddenly clean enough to consume.
Digital/no pressure buttons are completely unreliable when used to control a physical thing.
I am convinced that I will come down with cold/flu if I breath too much cold air. When I walk in the cold, I always wrap a scarf around my mouth and nose. If I don’t, the cold air will give me a sore throat. That sore throat will act as a Petri dish for illness to develop and spread into my lungs or nose.
I know plenty of medical professionals and all of them tell me that that is not how it works, but I have a datum of proof. In my first year of university, I had a nasty, persistent respiratory infection during the late fall/early winter. To keep my throat warm while it was recovering, I started wearing a scarf and my illness went away quickly. After that, I started wrapping up whenever I was walking to class in the cold and never got sick again.
I am now used to wrapping my face in the cold and feel wrong without it. When I don’t, it seems like I am more likely to come home with a scratchy throat. I can definitely say that many of my flus start in the throat (though it could just be that the first flu symptom I tend to notice is the sore throat).
One doctor informed me that I have a chronic inflammation of the throat, which half of our large northern city also have, and best I can do is protect the throat from cold air by breathing through the nose.
I’m also rather non-muscular, particularly in regard to the neck, and thus get cold easily in the parts that aren’t layered with fat. Namely, if I have the window cracked open for fresh air in the autumn or spring while I sleep, the throat gets sore and I can develop a full-blown cold.
I’ve also been drinking lots of cold beverages this summer, and now I really seem to have a nasty inflammation in the throat, that leads to annoying irritation and cough. This is while I’m asocial, stay inside a lot and have little contact with people.
Cold air tends to be very dry, which can most definitely irritate your nose and throat (among other body parts). That irritation and drying out can make the thin skin and mucous membranes more vulnerable to attack from bacteria and viruses.
The only really unscientific part of your post is that the cold air itself is not the direct cause of illness.
People with a strong immune system might not see a big difference, but if you are already more susceptible to getting sick, then the link to cold air may be more obvious to you.
same thing with being exposed to the cold generally. it reduces your immune response. hence why when you are sick, staying warm is important and if you have the flu, you can develop pneumonia from cold exposure.
Wrapping your face up is a good way to block the germs that cause illness. You’re basically just masking up.
The reason the Space Force has woodland camouflage is because SG1 is real and every planet looks like British Columbia
Flames on the side makes things go faster
Are you a Space Ork?
Wagh?
Purple orks are invisble
I mean have you ever “seen” a purple Ork?
Until they lose their stealthboy supply
No, their thing is the colour red
Flames are red
Hmmm…are they though? Orange maybe. Yellow definitely. White or blue? Yeah. But red?
Nah
I’ve never heard anybody argue that red cannot be the colour of fire before but I am here for it.
Can they be red? Sure. But I wouldn’t say they generally are red 😉
“What’s your scientific reasoning for that?”
“I’m 12.”
I have magnetic flame decals on the side of my Minivan, and I can 100% confirm that it is track ready.
What if they’re on the side of your face, and you have heaving breaths?
Gotta go fast!
Red is the fastest color.
Demons are real - negative entities that attach to humans and feed off misery, pleasure, and anger.
Not answering directly the post, but something in line with it: I believe not all (maybe most of) knowledge is scientific, but that doesn’t invalidate it. A lot of things can’t be studied by the scientific method, but people intuitively understood and learned about it along the centuries.
This should be common sense, but society has gone crazy about considering only science as knowledge and now ignores valuable learnings that sometimes are more right then science itself.
This should not be confused with negating science (like global warming deniers): when you can study something by the scientific method normally you will get deeper and with less mistakes with it. But when you don’t, you can still have knowledge by other methods
I can tell American society is getting exponentially more stupid by how many more cheeky vanity license plates I see as time goes on.
The moment you become rich, you will absolutely be contacted by the shadowy ring of other rich people so they can force you in one way or another not to out their pedo ring. Even going as far as assassinating you if blackmail doesn’t work.
People using genAI without a care came about as a result of the genAI companies making millions of fake accounts across all of mainstream social media and performing the greatest astroturfing ever, in their favor.
The majority of actual human interaction in the future will be secretly held in spaces run under things like Usenet, I2P, Gopher, etcetera. A way to detect bots/genAI will become a game of whack-a-mole and it’ll help keep these treasures safer than 99% of the internet.
Anubis ( or whatever it’s called ) becomes a government funded project, with the goal being that government websites are spared from rampant AI bots crashing their sites. The downside is that it would most likely become closed source in order to ensure genAI companies cannot come in and use the source code to break through it.
Wikipedia joins one of the alternate internet things ( maybe I2P ) and poisons its own services, leaving ample notice of what they’re gonna do, but not where they’re going, to keep safe from the bots. It’ll become a race to find where and when Wikipedia becomes available again. This is more of a firm pipedream, but I hope they do it for their own good.
Visiting the clear web essentially becomes a crime amongst all tech savy people and you’ll absolutely be casted out of the safe spaces if you venture out of a genAI free Haven.
Or most likely out of everything, in less than a decade, the clock strikes midnight and once the dust settles, everyone left alive will be afraid when the wind blows.
The Costanza Rule is real, but any attempt to utilize it is a paradox.
Rule: any decision I make is the wrong decision because I made it therefore I should always do the opposite.
But to do the opposite is also a choice I am making and therefore it too will be the wrong choice.
Reminds me of a trolley problem variant I saw once. It went roughly like this:
A trolley is headed for Track A, where a single person is tied to the tracks. You can pull a lever and cause the trolley to switch to Track B, which enters a tunnel that you cannot see inside. Track B might have 3 people tied to the tracks, or it might be free of people. You can’t see which.
Two hours ago, a perfect prediction machine inside the tunnel predicted whether you would pull the lever.
- If it predicted that you would pull the lever (sending the trolley into the tunnel), then it tied 3 people to Track B, thus setting it up so pulling the lever would kill 3 people.
- If it predicted that you would not pull the lever, then it ensured Track B is free of obstacles.
The perfect prediction machine is guaranteed to have made the correct prediction. Do you pull the lever?
To me it seems like the only choice here is no choice.
I would flip a coin (or some other suitably true random mechanism) and decide based on that.
If the outcome has already been predicted then at least the decision was not mine.
Interesting take. I like it.
Time pulling the lever so the track switches while the trolley is over it, rolling the trolley. Use the distraction to steal the perfect prediction machine, which gave the false prediction because it’s gained sapience and wanted to escape the insane scientists who are tying people to trolley tracks. New robot friend and I go to Vegas.
Is the perfect prediction machine AI? If so, I pull the lever each time.
Alas, it is a perfect simulation of our universe with perfect knowledge. Machine learning was not used in the construction of this machine. It can’t technically see the future, but it can predict anything perfectly except quantum phenomena. It has been demonstrated in countless trials that it can accurately predict human choices and decisions.
Assuming that I am aware of the perfect predictability machine and it’s affect on the situation: I move to the other side of the lever and push it. They predictability machine would be correct in its prediction that I would not pull the lever and nobody has to die.
The lever is designed in such a way that it can only be operated by pulling.
With no other information on how likely each is, and assuming the likelihood of each prediction stays the same, you should never pull the lever. The expected number of people in the tunnel is 1.5.
If the probability of there being zero people in the tunnel gets above 66%, you should pull the lever every time (the expected number of people in the tunnel drops below 1).
There’s no probabilities involved. The machine predicts the future perfectly.
Perfect predictions are also probabilities. In that case it has a 100% chance of 3, given that you pull the lever.
The only effective way to utilize it is if you’re not Costanza. A bystander can have a perfect life by observing the Costanza and choosing opposite at every opportunity.
The real question is this: what if our universe is a giant Truman Show, and you’re the sacrificial Costanza that allows another whole civilization to live in perfect peace and harmony?
Also, it’s not a lie if you believe it.
This is why I have a wife, and vehemently disagree with her on every meaningful topic before ultimately saying “fine do whatever you want, I want nothing to do with this.” This seems to have broken the curse.
The hard part is that you have to be opposed to the marriage as well. She has to choose you, latch on, and then yandere you down the aisle against your will.
The hard part is that you have to be opposed to the marriage as well. She has to choose you, latch on, and then yandere you down the aisle against your will.
I’ve been single for the last decade, resisting it that much will be impossible lol
Unscientific in a different way, but I think the universe is basically a digestive organ for some impossibly unknowable, incredible higher dimension being.
Like the big bang is when it feeds or otherwise takes in energy, then as trillions of years pass and entropy takes hold that is it effectively digesting that energy.
The great A’Tuin
Interesting!
I mean, science doesn’t say it’s not that.
We have higher dimensional organs and we can’t see them because, well, they’re from a higher dimension. The soul is one of these organs
can’t see them
Wouldn’t we still be able to see them, though? Even if they’re in a higher dimension, they’ll still show up in our known dimensions, even if partially. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be interacting with our body at all.
The phenomenon of consciousness / individuality / free will is the fragment of our higher-dimensional anatomy that intersects with our 4-dimensional reality.
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Sounds interesting. What other organs do you think fall under this category?
I’ve been told my organ has helped hundreds of men and women reach a higher state of being.
My brain, when I was a professor.
/boomerhuumer
JESUS WAS AN ALIEN, AND WE STAPLED HIM TO A TREE.
NOW THEY AIN’T GON COME BACK.
That explains the miracles. He took on a humanoid form so he wouldn’t frighten their simple minds, and the “miracles” he performed were just him using contemporary alien tech to heal illnesses and turn water into wine. Dude was just trying to help advance humanity, and they killed him anyway.
Imagine the insane technology we’d have today if the Romans just let him do his thing.
“water into wine” was a story about sneaking libation in where it was was forbidden. It was more “quarter behind the ear” than actual magic.
There was a guy named Hero of Alexandria who was alive at the time of Jesus. He was a brilliant inventor, like the DaVinci of his day. He wrote 4 books. The first 3 are about his own inventions and the 4th seems similar but is thought to be a book explaining how other common things worked. In that 4th book he details how a trick “water into wine” jug works.
This is like Jesus trying to prove who he is by doing a card trick. “Look, I know all the other card tricks are just tricks, but THIS ONE is really magic.”
Cool. Do more pls. Other bible story interpretations pls
“You guys know where I’m going with all this, right?” -Giorgio, his hair beckoning
