I am highly skilled at pedantry and enjoy challenging arbitrary lines. I bet there’s even a way to argue that we’re all stones or made up of the same stuff as them.

Does sand count as stones?

Glad you’re still alive, bud.

Yeah, the showing off is what I was getting at. The first experiment seemed more like an experiment and an accident but the demonstrations with the screwdriver seemed more like someone doing pull-ups over a fatal drop just to show how badass they are and accidentally landing on other people on the bottom when he slipped.

Thanks for the in depth response though, this gives more context to this than I’ve had before.

And just guessing on the other two attitudes before looking anything up (haha maybe wanting to challenge my intuition like this instead of just looking it up is one), one is probably related to laziness (eg assuming something is fine and doesn’t need to be checked when going through the pre flight checklist). And maybe the other is being too trusting or not assertive enough (eg colleague says something is OK, you don’t fully believe them but don’t challenge them on it). Am I close?

What was the point of these approaching criticality experiments anyways?

Has it ever been proven in any of the shows that the transporter didn’t kill everyone that used it and just made such prefect copies that no one realized?

Like it created an extra copy of Riker and there was the tragedy of Tuvix. Though I’d say the former is evidence that it is new copies but the latter might be evidence against it, since they each had memories of their time merged when they separated. Actually, that whole incident kinda brings into question what’s going on for a transporter to accidentally merge two people and not in a “horrible teleportation into a wall accident” way and then somehow de-merge them.

Not in Canada. Unless they want to go out of business.

So… Did you guys eventually get the kinky glassware you ordered and did they make you return the chemistry glassware they accidentally sent?

Oh no, it shouldn’t take a day to get to the cupboard and back. I think OP is dead or maybe just incapacitated or napping.

To be fait, a lot of sci fi does involve very advanced computing, like HAL in 2001.

Like removed them removed them or just filled it up with spam “clicks”?

Second one is annoying and shouldn’t be possible but first one is concerning and really shouldn’t be possible. Makes me wonder if there’s a way to access the links in the back list via js. What browser btw?

One trick for the “back button doesn’t work” is to right click it and select the page you want to go back to from that list.

Though I do wish back buttons worked on clicks rather than loads or anything a site can override with javascript. I hate the sites that treat scrolling to the next article as a new page. It trains me to not scroll to the next one, even if it looks interesting, because they fuck with my browser like that (even though I can work around it, fuck them for the attempt).

But then there’s quantum immortality which kinda is like that. Your consciousness picks a universe where you don’t die for you to experience. Maybe it even picks an ideal reality, though in a “reality I need” kind of way, not necessarily a “reality I want”.

Ken M’s grankid doesn’t get him.

It is that simple but it isn’t easy. It’s like finding enlightenment from Buddhist parables. They don’t all click the same for everyone. Once they click, it can seem obvious, but before that, they can seem meaningless, trite, or misleading.

From my pov, the image is accurate but not the clearest. It can only get you part of the way and only if it resonates with you. It doesn’t surprise me that it generates cynicism similar to the “gee thanks, I’m cured” responses to mental health advice.

My interpretation of the message in the meme isn’t so much a “present vs future thinking” as it is a “you don’t need to search for happiness because your brain determines your mood, not outside factors.” I’m not saying you should just ignore your issues (which would make things more difficult over time), but that you can be happy despite them. Happiness isn’t a goal, it’s a state of mind.

As for the millionaire example, that they wouldn’t be living paycheck to paycheck is the whole point. It was intended to frame happiness/unhappiness in a different context that was easy to understand (he lost money he had spent a lot of time getting) but was still left in a position that most would be happy to find themselves in, but instead he’s probably miserable about it.

My line of thought for this is that stressing about whether you’ll have enough money to cover rent won’t make it any easier to cover rent. Happiness is more about mindset than circumstances. It is easier said than done, for sure, but if one needed to have 0 problems to be happy, there wouldn’t be many happy people.

Consider a millionaire who checks the markets one day only to realize their portfolio has dropped by 30% wiping out all of their gains for the past two years and leaving them with only 3 million. They’d probably not be very happy with that, despite still being in a position that many would trade everything to be in.

I’d even go so far as saying that fraud is pretty rampant in all levels of society.

Monkey’s paw curls. Now abortions are legal and forced.

Yeah, they are morally dubious at best. But there’s just something about watching things fight to the death that makes it so fascinating. Though I agree that it is best if they are each in their own natural environments rather than just shoved in a glass box together. They should have the option to disengage, too, because it’s also interesting to know when two killing machines opt to not try each other (and based on the one video I did see of wolf spider vs black widow, I’d guess most of them would go that way because the wolf spider wasn’t very interested in getting anywhere close to the widow and only killed it in the end because it kept trying to web it up).

That makes me wonder how many of the animal vs gladiator fights would have resulted in them walking away from each other.

I’m going to need to see some videos before I can determine who is winning this debate. With heavy metal background music, though I would also accept a David Attenborough narration. With and without the wolf spider swarm.

sigh For completion sake, should probably also check out some videos of each of those spiders vs other things like scorpions, mice, mongeese, non-mon geese, snakes, etc.