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2022-01-06 at 2:33 PM UTC in Sad updateThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2022-01-06 at 12:50 AM UTC in Confused
Originally posted by Bradley I think anti matter is a fabrication in order to explain things that we currently don't understand.
Except we can create and detect it. Plus the math predicts it.
Anti-matter just means normal matter with the opposite charge. An electron has a certain charge, take something exactly like an electron and uno reverse the charge and you get a positron AKA an anti-electron.
Also OP you were probably reading about something breaking time symmetry. I don't think that's allowed by the laws of nature. Look up CPT Symmetry. Finally protons have positive charge electrons negative charge but an anti-proton has to be made out of anti quarks. Normal ones go two UP quarks one DOWN quark. I think if you do two DOWN quarks one UP quark you just get a neutron.
Reality is weird.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2022-01-01 at 4:42 PM UTC in A Mind of Type: GerminaThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-12-31 at 3:15 AM UTC in A Mind of Type: GerminaHumans are ultimately animals, mister Pelican. And we are fragile too: no tough hides or scales. We don't have sharp claws or wings either. We are not particularly fast and we are quite vulnerable to panic and fear.
Pelican stayed silent and watched as Crane began loading a revolver.
This is the part where someone tells you that what we do have, what makes us special, is something along the lines of intelligence or language or cooperation or maybe even our ability to run long distances...
Crane turn the revolver around and handed it to Pelican. Then he gestured towards a metallic door behind him.
When people say "thank God", I think "thank God for the world". And in the world there are people who I should thank. And when they curse god, I say "curse God for the world but in the world there are people you should curse."
The door slowly slid open and a brightness lay beyond it that cast Crane into shadow.
And so it is that we generate the basis for the existence of heaven and hell: they are real features of the world, mister Pelican. The roads to heaven and to hell branch from every juncture.
Pelican's eyes adjusted to the new light.
And when you look upon the world to make your choices, you must see yourself as Adam in that garden, whose challenge is to distinguish the calls of Lilith and of Eve. Then to answer only to The Word.
I don't know about all of that said Pelican. He walked past Crane, into the blinding light.
The door slid shut behind him, leaving Crane again in the dimness with a metallic echo that dulled to silence.
A laugh rang out from a corner.
Doesn't it feel like we're picking the road to Hell at every turn, mister Crane?
Duck rose from his seat and walked over to press his thumb to a panel beside the door.
Limbo is worse, Crane replied simply.
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2021-12-26 at 9:38 PM UTC in Best way to kill 100 people along with SWIMselfYou’ve got to put the poop on darts and shoot 100 people with those darts. Poop in the bloodstream will cause sepsis and eventually death, make sure they can’t get out after they’ve been shot.
There would be a huge immune reaction due to an “unknown substance” that also contains numerous bacteria usually prevented from entering the bloodstream by other defence mechanisms.
The immune system will have a hard time fighting the disease and will cause sepsis. If you wait any longer your veins will dilate due to the immunereaction and, due to cell damage, will leak fluid from the blood into the space between cells, a.k.a edema or swelling & pain.
This will lower the total volume of blood within your veins which will significantly lower your blood pressure and your (vital) organs won't get sufficient blood to function. This is called a septic shock. If you wait any longer after edema sets in you will slowly sink away into a coma and die.
Sounds like a fun experiment? I must disappoint you because you won't be the first. It has already been done by Joseph Mengele in German concentration camps on jedi prisoners and by Shiro Ishii in Unit 731 (Japanese death camp). Results weren't pretty…The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-12-22 at 4:15 PM UTC in BradleyBs Better Beef Stew
I combine my celery and onion from the food pantry with a can of beef stew from Aldi and these slimy jalapenos. Fry up veggies then add beef stew from can with butter knife.
Heat.
Prepare salad fresh from bag salad from food pantry thatz sell by date was 8 days ago. Shredded cheese on the bitch
I use french dressing cuz u guessed it. I'm exotic. Serve with Italian bread
Add horse radish to stew.
Cut up lime in water to serve with cold creamy coffee
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2021-12-01 at 6:55 PM UTC in Lol that 16 yr old I met at the mall
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2021-10-22 at 9:23 PM UTC in The Friday ThreadGoing to Baltimore to film a skate video starring Cly.
Probably stopping at Ikea just to traverse though the never ending rooms full of strangers.
Sunday I am going to go to Cly's dad's church to praise the lord.
Then after that we are going to go get prison bricks.
Once I get back home I plan on getting some ice cream bars that I have been craving along with the rest of my groceries and later I might go back out and hit up an all you can eat buffet followed by a clown show. -
2021-09-24 at 5 PM UTC in Whats your ultimate sexual fantasy?Like 10 25-yr old girls all sucking my dick one after another where they all say "omg this dick is amazing" and they pass it around and I sit there in shock watching them pass my dick around and the last girl, Leslie, holds it front of me and slaps it on her face and asks me how I feel and I tell her I don't feel anything because the blood loss from my detached pean has me numb and weird.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2020-10-02 at 4:17 PM UTC in NiS Biggest Loser: September EditionIm late voting but Bill Krozby is the biggest loser for September.
Congrats Bill Krozby.
Anyways i dont have any hard feelings about him lying to me.
It's not like he lied about smoking my weed...
Bill Krozby is a cool cat tho. I do like him.
Deep down and at the end of the day I just want the best for everyone and want everyone to be happy.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2020-09-17 at 12:35 AM UTC in Fuck it, I'm quitting NIS for good because ofPlease don't ever quit.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-06-27 at 8:13 PM UTC in atlas tuggedThis was the first "chapter book", as my teachers used to say, I have read for leisure since high school. I read it over the course of about a year or 2 with about 2 months of heavy reading, then a 6 month break, then 2 more reading months, etc. I read a lot of it during WD last year because Suboxone makes me want to sit down and read for some reason. I want to share some of my thoughts on the book and author with you.
For those of you who don't know, this a really really really long book about a philisophy called Objectivism and its applications through ficticious literature. It is longer than War and Peace. She took amphetamine for weight loss while writing he most famous works, it kinda shows.
A concept that I like, is that it takes the premise of a fractured society and really does flesh out nearly every nitty gritty instance and detail of how a slowly decaying society falls, tries to repair itself, and continually fails through utter unwillingness to let go of a comfortable and familiar, but doomed, system. Hence, the length.
The writing style is romantic; it takes a "perfect" (in a sense) person and reveals glory through accomplishment. Romantic paintings, for example, follow this style by showing pure emotion and awe from the artist's perespective. When I think of Romanticism, I imagine a "New dawn", or ultimate triumph, so to speak. Rand does a good job of expressing this; tere's not a ton of new age romantic writers out there.
As this is more or less the manifesto of a philisophy, (Rand has written more formal works but they are much less popular) there is an almost divinely portrayed protaginst who emobdies Objectivism in totality:
A faultess man. This is a concept in which I run into a lot of my beef with Rand. She claims that she has always held herself to her doctrine 100% of the time throughout her whole life. I understand that she's big on reason, which is great, so am I. But you can't tell me that you have never done anything unreasonable before in your life.
I would argue that a lot of the best parts of life are unreasonable. Humour is unreasonable. Love, sexual proclivity, things that make you roll your eyes and smile. Humanity loves a contradiction. Ever notice how great movie villains tend to contradict themselves or be conflicted in their descision making process?
I agree that reason is the best course of action for business and material pursuits, as well as for gaining knowledge, pursing justice, and resolving issues. You have to ground yourself in reason to efficiently and effectively do these things. Fart jokes are funny because they just are.
If you read this book, you'll notice right away that Rand's verbiage is just awkward. I want to take her to a nice lunch and leave her with the bill everytime she uses the phrase "lighted a cigarette". Some of her more adult-oriented passages are well done and evoke a good response from me. Others just sound painful, violent, and there's nothing sexier than something along the lines of "he kissed her effieciently as the loosely stressed dimensions of her dress unfurled incredulously" - not a quote, I don't have the book on me. You will incredulously see the wordincredulously every other page because that is her favorite word.
To the philisophy of Objectivism, which would be a better post for Oh The Humanites!, I'll briefly say that I agree with many, but not all of the principles and not to the nth degree of infinity as she does. Me not believing in 100% of her principles alone, literally makes me an untouchable in her view, and not worthy of life.
She is a purist, and the more I read, the more distanced I feel. To me, purists of any sort, whatever the position, tend to be complete asshole pricks incapable of empathy for any non-purist. She cannot see another point of view, therefor other points of view are not worthy of existing. What a shitty way to live, if I only talked to people I agreed with completely, I would talk to about 0 people. So would everyone else. I can empathize without agreeing with the opposing viewpoint. Rand cannot. She also ran out money and lived off SSI towards the end of her life but insisted she was consistent with her views.
It is a well written book, and is worth reading if your views fall within even distant earshot of the views of the intended audience. It remarkably doesn't lag either until the late second act. There are moments in the book that I have never seen done before in any medium that were extremely satisfying to read, and it deserves to be considered a modern classic, just one with several disclaimers attatched before picking it up.
