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Where’s my upstream explicit sync lads

Realistically (I know that word means nothing here), if FTL were possible and utilised by a galactic society, it would have to be the type you’re talking about.

Space is mostly empty, sure, but there is enough shit out there to be a problem if something hit it at light speed.

Imagine hitting the FTL button, the stars stretch around you, and then you appear at the other end to find a graveyard of spaceships around a dead planet.

Then the emergency lights start up, and then you realise half of your ship has been hit with the astronomical equivalent of buckshot. Your ship passed through screws and bolts; parts of Elon’s fucking Testla from five thousand years ago.

Fuck you Elon.

Discharge though. Ew.

While I agree with you, I don’t think this is the right way to go about it.

For what it’s worth, both sides of the vaccine debate need to make some concessions.

While the vaccines should have been taken by every healthy person to protect those who cannot be vaccinated, they didn’t deliver the promise of reducing transmission, only lowered the severity of illness (obviously still a good thing).

Also, the listed side effects, while being mild compared to the fullblown effects of covid, were not well understood and many people had symptoms like myocarditis after getting the Pfizer vaccine.

The other side, however, has a lot more concessions to make. The vaccines were nowhere near as dangerous as they claimed.

The claim that they were “experimental” is kind of interesting. It’s technically not true because they did have clinical trials. However, mRNA based vaccines were approved for the first time in many countries to immunise against COVID.

Many of these health regulators didn’t have the luxury of auditing these new styles of vaccine with their own establish policies and timelines.

My takeaway is this: Virologists say there will be another pandemic eventually, and COVID was a dress reversal.

As deadly as COVID was, it is very mild compared to some of the natural viruses we are aware of and could potentially hop species.

If we are to prepare for that, we need to iron this shit out before then. We cannot be bickering about whether it is against “muh freedom”. We need to be considerate of others, even at the expense of our comfort.

I don’t know whether to upvote or downvote.

I wouldn’t want the wrong kind of attention drawn here.

But I think if people have FB accounts that should look for this and report the fuck out of it.

Wait, what?

That’s like saying you don’t have to drive faster to win the race, you just have to cross the line first.

I’m pretty much on board, though how much anyone can agree is a matter of relativity.

We know about the closest stars and the planets within them, and based off spectrometry, we’re confident the planets “close” to us haven’t had life, though they might be capable.

The chances of there being no mass extinction events in the millions of years following abiogenesis is arguably smaller than surviving the five or so we’ve had. Given everything we know about astrophysics, we owe the asteroids a few clean hits, we have been astronomically lucky, and that’s not even taking into consideration every other cause of mass extinction.

15 billion years is still considered early in the grand scheme of things, it’s likely that we are the early ones. A billion years head start is plausible, sure, but it’s certainly less plausible than our existence.

All of this is to say that life is rare enough without them being a stones throw away.

And this is all disregarding any possible intent behind a visit. Any being capable of space travel does not need our resources.

Unless they’re sex tourists, which would explain all the anal probing.

On second thought, I choose to believe.

The chances of extra terrestrial life to have visited earth is very, very small.

The chances of life to occur are small enough,

The chances of evolution to pass through multiple extinction events and producing a being capable of higher intelligence is even smaller,

The chances they have done this faster than humans is smaller still,

The chances they have evolved close enough to us to have visited is near impossible.

The universe is huge, there’s almost certainly life elsewhere - but to ask whether they visited earth is like speculating on whether ghosts exist.

Also the universe is expanding at such a fast rate that unless we develop faster-than-light tech, we will never reach another solar system.

Statistically better than the choices I’ve made thus far I suppose.

Two things:

1. It sounds like you are blaming yourself, which is hard not to do when everything seems futile - but how you frame things is part of CBT.

You are responsible for the choices you make, but there’s a difference between learning, and beating yourself up.

Once you understand the underlying causes for your decisions, you become a different person, and it becomes harder to associate those old thoughts to who you are now.

2. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Be cautious of anyone who will accept the task.

I used to think my parents had shit figured out, then I realised how dumb they were.

Then I thought I had shit figured out, then I realised how dumb I was.

Then I thought I found my own guru who had shit figured out, but then I realised how dumb they were.

If you get lucky and find someone who provides valuable insights, understand this is gambling - eventually they will give bad advice.

What made it so good to you?

The atmosphere of oppression?

The depiction of descent into nihilism, then rebellion?

The reflection of a society which pushes those who deviate from the norm, not just aside, but explicitly down?

What did you think about the movie?

How would you score it?

Do you feel it’s under, or over rated?

You can literally just make the entire second pie chart “exploiting the working class”, because “birth lottery” is dependant on that.

I hate that while I’ve never heard this before, I could put two and two together.

And now I realise what i said. Let’s keep two and two apart.

I think the implication is that it might be porn you would rather not see.

Porn.

What’s the point?

Nevermind. Got high enough.

I’m not high enough for this. Someone tell me what I’m supposed to see which isn’t there.

The problem doesn’t stem from their critical thinking skills, but rather, a combination of indoctrination and religious beliefs which cause a series of presuppositions to supersede the conclusions the rest of us have taken as presuppositions.

In some sense I admire their dedication to challenge established facts about reality, that should be done in general.

To clarify the statement about indoctrination and religion: many people are not aware that flat earthers are religious wackjobs. Their thought process is as follows:

“If the universe contains trillions of celestial bodies and they’re all spherical, then we are inconsequential. It must be the case that we are special, and earth is not a sphere, but is flat.”

Some flat earthers will claim space doesn’t exist, even though their bible tells them God created other planets.