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wolframhydroxide

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  • As another commenter pointed out, this is a bad description of nihilism. That sentence describes empiricism.

    You are probably an empiricist.

    As that other commenter pointed out:

    Nihilism is the rejection of meaning, ethics, or knowledge as things that actually exist objectively.

  • What lurking suspicion do you have about something but is hard to prove?

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  • I'm personally far more concerned that the universe is a simulation stuffed in the closet of some higher-dimensional flunkie, and our universe is nothing more than a practice piece. That the answer to "why" could be so mundane as to make all effort in our universe entirely meaningless. It's one thing to say that the universe as we know it will end in heat death, or some false vacuum decay event, and that all effort is therefore meaningless. It's very different, on an emotional level, to consider the possibility that the universe is a mistake, some Petri dish left in the incubator too long and overgrown with contaminating flora. Even more unsettling, then, that such a possibility is fundamentally unknowable from within the universe.

  • What lurking suspicion do you have about something but is hard to prove?

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  • The universe is a simulation, and not only is it impossible to disprove (non-falsifiable), but it would imply that you could be the only thinking consciousness here (Cartesian Solipsism)

    Consider:

    1. the universe has rendering rules, treating objects differently when they are observed, to the point where objects do not have set properties when unobserved (Bell Inequality)
    2. this holds for even arbitrarily large objects, as scientists have been able to demonstrate molecules containing thousands of atoms demonstrating wave-particle duality
    3. The Universe has a frame rate (Planck time)
    4. the Universe has a resolution (Planck length)
    5. The most basic level of the universe is discrete (energy quanta)

    While I choose not to go for the solipsism, I am becoming increasingly persuaded of the simulation theory's likelihood.

  • Whats the flaw of the "Nothing to Hide" argument?

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  • This is called "security theater"

  • The latest skincare fad is rubbing salmon sperm on your face

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  • To be fair, they didn't know that ambergris was an excretion of the whale until long after they started using it for these purposes. It was just "that waxy thing we find floating in the ocean." Also, it's apparently not vomited, but defecated.

  • No More Neutral ⚛

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  • "Wish granted. Electrons, being a human construct, have now always been defined slightly differently. Just as Franklin got the polarity wrong and you still use his labeling system, J.J. Thompson will now have fundamentally misunderstood the nature of the electron, leading to a cascading assumption by later scientists that the number of electrons in a neutral atom is one greater than the number of protons. Even though this completely breaks the math of quantum mechanics, everyone is just used to subtracting one at this point. This is a minutely worse world, but as a bonus, every physicist who sees you will now be preternaturally certain that you are personally to blame. You're welcome."

  • Liminal Space

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  • Science didn't give us the guillotine, no matter which scientific method or forbear you're using to determine scientific nature. At best, engineering gave us the guillotine, but I rather doubt there was any actual engineering design going on when they first made the Halifax Gibbet, except insofar as "I need a simpler and more consistent way to lazily kill petty criminals" was "defining a need".

  • Connections #988 2026-02-23

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  • Connections #987 2026-02-22

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  • Does anyone have a debunk for eucharistic miracles?

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  • You do understand that there is no difference between 'blood from a heart' and, say, 'blood from a spleen' or even 'blood from an erect penis'. There's a reason it's called the "circulatory" system... It... circulates.

  • FCC asks stations for "pro-America" programming, like daily Pledge of Allegiance

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  • Wouldn't that be a face turn? Not a wrestling fan, but I'm pretty sure a heel turn is when a "heroic" character turns villainous.

  • Small little shenanigans

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  • All excellent points! I concede to your deeper consideration. (Though I do think that a "roughened" ball bearing would rather prove my point for me, and that those which appear roughened are largely also those under other balls, lessening the chance that they are moving)

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  • Zinc has a characteristic light bluish tint and oxidizes to white, not yellow or brown. Some of them appear slightly dull and oxidised with a grey or white layer.

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  • Except that they're clearly zinc shot. I think the poster made a funny without realising that they aren't steel, unless it's zinc-coated

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  • These aren't bearing balls. They're zinc shot. Perhaps they're steel inside, but the outside is clearly zinc.

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  • And that's zinc shot. Perhaps they're steel inside, but the outside is clearly zinc.

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  • But that's zinc shot... It doesn't even look like steel. It shouldn't be attracted to a magnet. Perhaps they're steel inside, but the outside is clearly zinc.

  • Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 days

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  • Haha, fair!

  • Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 days

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  • I have one, and while the actual hardware features are nice, the constant overheating and incredibly slow responses on the phone are reminiscent of a brick laptop from the early '00s. I am instead just running e/OS on an old pixel 4a (since it still has a headphone jack)

  • politics @lemmy.world
    wolframhydroxide @sh.itjust.works

    Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes

    www.mcsweeneys.net /columns/lest-we-forget-the-horrors-an-unending-catalog-of-trumps-cruelties-collusions-corruptions-and-crimes
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    wolframhydroxide @sh.itjust.works

    Since we're doing magic eyes now...

  • politics @lemmy.world
    wolframhydroxide @sh.itjust.works

    Lest We Forget The Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump's Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions & Crimes

    www.mcsweeneys.net /articles/lest-we-forget-the-horrors-an-unending-catalog-of-trumps-cruelties-collusions-corruptions-and-crimes