techno hippie
see c/UGEM for UnderGroundElectronicMusic. :) (I was going to set up something like that when saw someone else had already requested to make it. Good stuff. Populate it.)
Gets me wondering which type of "Christian".
Reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8swSkk9yeV8 .
There are many christians (not of that^ ilk) who very much are into the sciences, and are undogmatic in their approach to either religion or science. ... Which was a surprise to me and my teenage militant aitheism that had swallowed the false dichotomy whole.
Like I just replied a moment ago earlier in this thread.
Imagine where we’d be if not for Bernays, Anslinger and Hearst.
Imagine how good the soil, water, air, and minds would be, if we had still been growing hemp copiously.
Unlike many other plant defences to insects, cannabis/hemp has sticky trichomes to capture them, and the main nutritious part for us is another two layers deeper. Not to mention, we have other uses for the trichomes, like for (very benign, non-lethal, non-addicting) medicine (... "king of panacea" they called it). And the plant is so vigorous itself, it's often called "weed", out competing other weeds we have less use for.
Ironically, hemp's even a powerful bio-accumulator, and can be used to clean up polluted soils. And can leave the soil in a better condition. Can even be grown in the same location for 20 years without rotation before any depletion/imbalance to the soil occurs.
This along with all the other advantages... how it produces versatile super-strong fiber along with food and medicine. Not to mention oil (for lubricants, fuels, plastics, etc), and nowadays, there's even a very cost effective way to produce graphene from hemp, so we can create things like carbon nano-tubules and buckyballs to make solar panels out of, or leave it as graphene sheets and create capacitor bank batteries, and more.
And it cleans the air 7 times more than pine forests do. Ever been in a pine forest? That's some seriously clean air already.
And I forget how many times more paper it can produce than trees too. And paper that lasts longer (way, way, way longer), and requires orders of magnitude less chemical processing too. And it's stronger. Same with cotton, orders less chemical processing, less labour intensive, and produces a product that lasts way longer.
I could go on and on and on further yet. But suffice to say already even at that point, one can see why the competing industries banded together to eliminate the competition.
Either we restore cannabis and start growing it again profusely, sooner, in wisdom, or, we do so later, in desperation (... or not at all (~ too late, all dead)).
And the scam ruining so many farmers, especially in India, where many took their own lives, by guzzling the very poison that ruined their land and their freedom to plant and preserve seeds. "Terminator genes" in more than one way.
Imagine where we'd be if not for Bernays, Anslinger and Hearst.
Imagine how good the soil, water, air, and minds would be, if we had still been growing hemp copiously.
Worse now.
Glyphosate's not just used as a weed killer, but as a desiccant.
Sprayed directly on our "food".
Oh but don't worry, our obedient STEM dogmatists can reassure us that it's no harm to us because humans don't have the shikimate pathway that it acts on. Pay no attention to our microbial biome, where the majority of our immune system is, and how nearly all of it does (nor other pathways, nor the cumulative toxicity of the other breakdown products, and certainly not any attention to the man behind the curtain with his Codex Allimentarius plans to own all life). ... Cherry picking like that is at least as bad as "because it's got electrolytes". Socrates, Socrates, where for art thou Socrates? Not in the minds of those who pre-decided the answer and presume to know.
How do you know when a conspiracy theory is very unlikely? The more important it is and the more people who must participate in it, the less likely the theory is to be true. That’s why you can write off flat earth theories almost instantly with very little knowledge of science.
For a start, probably more sound footing not to start with a presumption presented in a pejorative, to be truly open minded and enquiring, seeking the truth.
The flat earth stuff's fascinating...
Bear with me. LOL.
There are several allusions being masked by the dumb litteral.
And I don't mean the under-the-fundament or matrix simulation stuff.
For one,
Maps.
For another, arguably even more intriguing,
Legal fiction. (And all bureaucracy and its reductivism (~ see, not just "flat" because it (once was) on paper)).
"The flat earth", being a term used to refer to these.
But, if all you ever hear about is the dumb literal stuff, and presume to know, and believe your beliefs, unwittingly being naive realist, then you never get to the deeper stuff.
Non-belief ftw.
It helps you look deeper, beyond the shallows.
"It is the mark of an educated mind, to be able to entertain an idea without necessarily accepting nor rejecting it" -- ... Who said that?
Far fewer babies get flung out with the bathwater, with this approach.
Then also, it's easier to see more of the lies within lies, and the lies so vast that not even their inverse are true, and can easier cease identifying with any position on any matter, and watch, unscathed, as strawmen are felled all around you.
Imagine if we learned the spirit of egalitarian pedagogy in school, instead of the many toxic social-domination/social-survival lessons learned.
Science classes
And [other1] philosophy, especially epistemology.
... And it's quite telling and daunting that
But how do you teach those skills directly
was asked.
Like it was missing the question mark because it was rhetorical. Like it's beyond their conception, and as if in absence of evidence (or experience) it's presumed to be evidence of absence of possibility or means to do so.
Looking forward to this year, and more people realising more of how much has been stolen from us.
[ 1 Because science is just another branch of philosophy. Natural philosophy. ]
"That's impossible!"
"No. It's necessary."
-- Interstellar.
Otherwise... doomed.
I hear children in France are taught philosophy from around age 5 or something.
Imagine that...
Starting education with a firm footing in epistemology. Learning the ability to discern the difference between what's merely a valid argument, and a sound argument. Learning the ability to discern what's true and what's not.
Now contrast that to what's happening in various other places (especially you-know-where)... Where it's pure indoctrination, that they do not want you to have the ability to discern truth from lies... Because they're peddling almost nothing but lies.
SO true.
It used to be A LOT easier to rummage through research papers online. Abstracts alone just don't cut it.
The internet of around 2000-2005 was a very different place, back when the internet was more library than TV.
So much more "Well! Looks like we got a reader!" added to the world, by making it even harder to access.
So much more easement of corruption of science too. "Many eyes make all bugs shallow", Linus's Law -- ESR.
It's like free thought has become neglected in the set of fundamental freedoms. "Freedoms forgotten are freedoms lost". Leaving group think, mass formation, and totalitarianised psyches in the wake of this loss. Where every and any atrocity gets seen as a necessary virtue to protect "the one true way" dogma in the minds of the terrorised and totalitarianised.
Cui Bono (who benefits) from the paywalling of knowledge? Not us. Not science. The corrupt.
I was all in on chemistry in highschool. But then they bait-and-switched. Instead of educating on chemistry broadly, they trained us to be drones of the petrochemical industry.
That was merely the first time (of 3 times) when the education system bait-and-switched, going from one course, promising to extend and deepen the education in the following year, only to replace it with training on some narrow specific portion that I was disinterested in.
After renouncing formal education, I learned more in my first year alone with an internet connection and a library card than I had in the entire 14 years of formal education prior.
Would be nice if the education system really were an education system.
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nearly indestructible
Yeah. Nearly. That's why some got replaced with concrete to keep up appearances.
What if the light's on with a combination of different positions spanning 2 or all of the switches? How many possibilities then? Plus the possibility none of these switches have anything to do with that light, and the original question had a fallacious premise. Then even the possibility that the light has different states from different combinations... and/or that the light functions differently at different times, and/or different combinations of other criteria. How many possibilities do we have now? ... I can't be bothered doing the maths. I gotta get breakfast. n_n
Dear Microsoft,
Could you please squeeze your users a little harder yet.
We're eager for the year of the linux desktop.
LMAO.
Best answer!
XD
Could just set it up to make a loud explosive bang, for the real world scenario where you cant rely on the interviewer being terrorised and blackmailed into giving you a perfect score.
take a picture
I think you mean have a live video feed.
Otherwise, decent answer.
pull the cables
LOL.
the walls are glass
Or use psychic powers. XD
Could arrange a series of mirrors, if it's around too many corners for the light to bounce. Wedge any doors open if necessary. Thus another plausible zero-entry solution.
Dang! Good to not be absent minded, and actually check out the chemical equation, and consider the implications.
Good to be reminded, and learn from others mistakes.
Glad he survived mostly unscathed.