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No one thinks they’re a bad person, but bad people exist.

Person is singular and people is plural.

Humanity is many concurrent experiments.

Yes, a rather important collection of them have rotted.

The old world is refusing to gracefully build for the new one to grow into its place.

What do we want to build after this wildfire?

Vishnu’s defense against the rage of Shiva takes priority now. Vishnu must think and plan to defend what resources to preserve for Brahma to start growing something new.

I’d say that caring for our planet, our planetary neighbors, and our people are more important than any profits, petroleum, plastics, wars, or mass surveillance spyware systems with giant data centers chugging our freshwater to inefficiently do things we had solutions for in the 90s.

I had to fill out an outlook form on my phone for a job fair. Slowed down my phone so much I had to wait for the letters to appear after typing. Scrolling and moving between text fields was also a pain. Crashed once and I had to refresh the page and start over. Why isn’t this a simple html webpage? Submitting forms with text fields is basic html. Lightweight, low power use, works everywhere. The page needed nothing else.

Web2.0 (e.g. Twitter, Facebook, Amazon Web Services) was a scam takeover of a free technology system by oligarchs just as the general public started to use it writ large thanks to smartphones. Everything since has been them using their oligarchic control over our societal brain to take over society itself.

What’s that supposed to be in the picture?

I agree that he couldn’t have made things better, but he could have made things much worse.

For one, he could have caved and signed away the mineral rights.

He also could have engaged in the clown show at the white house last week. Instead he refused to even play dress-up and stood his ground. He communicated the truth well to anyone who cared to listen.

America’s role in WWII is too “woke” for the current administration.

Ukraine has been caught between two dictators with an alliance before.

I’m glad Europe is uniting.

Right.

The 16oz can says 130 calories.

So we’d expect the 23 oz can to have 190 calories.

But it says 150… so is it watered down?

So, the bigger can is watered down? Or is the point that the calorie labels aren’t trustworthy?

What’s this about a grocery order? Powerade??

Eww, no way. Humans suck.

No humans. They can be as greedy as you dragons.

Playing in the mud is fun, though! I’m always down for that.

I’ve been in that situation. I couldn’t see it until I left. If you love them let them be free. No creature should be owned. No creature can consent to being owned.

And then it’s right back to What’s New Pussycat!

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Yoga and canning beans are both great hobbies. You pick weird things to use as examples of the worst way getting sucked into QAnon could go.

That’s a really weird and gross way to talk about drag’s fiance.

I agree.

It was drag who first described drag’s fiance as a dragon in a human’s body (weird but cool), and as an owned pet (gross and toxic). Weird-ass dragonfucking I’m fine with, but ownership is gross.

More alcohol at the end with the same amount of sugar at the beginning means less sugar remains after fermentation. Alcohol is a solvent that is better at carrying aromatic molecules than water is. Higher abv percentage means less sweet and more depth of flavour. Especially if the wine is barrell-aged, the higher alcohol content helps it absorb a wider spectrum of available solutes.

I don’t really like wine, regardless, but I’ve heard this argument from several people that really like wine or that make wine and it seems reasonable. The few times I’ve had to pick a wine, it’s worked well for me.

Improv is an important part of acting.

Trump’s white house chose to broadcast that conversation. That was a conscious choice.

Right.

EDIT: Yeah, I got rid of it. I had some poor and unclear word choice. I was just trying to say that Zelenskyy’s face is very communicative. He’s a skilled actor who can emote with his face and body language to communicate his position to the audience, at times without even having to get a word in edgewise. His time on TV as a comedian gave him a lot of practice. Communication is a great skill for a leader; subtle communication is a great skill during war. He clarified Ukraine’s position, and got Trump to clarify America’s change of course. He could have handled America’s heel turn in many different ways. He chose not to rise to the aggression and barbs being flung. He just clarified his country’s position and got Trump to focus on how much he wants the “raw earth”. Zelenskyy did a great job with what little he could say to guide the short exchange to expose America’s position behind Putin, and that we are only interested in Ukraine to plunder its mineral wealth.

Not quite.

Entropy is mathematically equivalent to information content: how much information do I need to describe this system. It can play many roles depending on what that information content is. A fractal is one example of a set with both high structure and high information content. How the information is arranged matters.

Classic example where entropy aligns with disorder:

If we have water in a glass bottle, then we can describe the distribution of both materials using the shape of the bottle (defining where the glass is) and saying that the water is inside and filled to a certain level. We can describe this configuration with a single sentence.

If the bottle falls and breaks, we now have to describe many things. We must consider where the many of pieces of glass went along with each of their unique shapes and sizes; we have to describe where the water splashed and its interactions with the various new forms of matter with which it is in contact: how well it wets each new surface, and how it may have gotten absorbed into any new materials.

When entropy aligns with order:

You. You are an information system. A bundle of structured entropy. You feed your body structured foods (other organisms), and they get broken down via cooking, chewing, digesting and then redistributed. That’s all information increase and entropy increase. Then you turn that chemical energy and entropy into information processing in the brain, mechanical energy in the muscles, and always some waste heat. Each step of the way, you’re increasing entropy. You are a machine that is a ball of structured entropy whose operation increases entropy in a slow and controlled manner. Eventually, if you increase entropy too quickly or too much over time, the structure of your information can break to become digested and processed by the next phase of the circle of life.

Imagine a multi-species society that didn’t grow out of the xenophobic genocide that led to us being lonely Homos.