It is highly unlikely, but possible, that the majority of the people you are talking to are wearing clothes they made themselves without aid of machine.

It is highly likely, that at least one person reading this DOES believe we should destroy all the factories and return to the trees.

How they manage to have that argument on the internet without imploding due to cognitive dissonance is beyond me, but I have seen more impressive feats of confusion in my days.

Please send me a web app you have made without the assistance of a computer. I will wait.

I have a degree in electrical engineering, happy to decode, DM for the address.

It’s very similar to learning how to use a computer in 1995. I’m just old enough to remember meeting these people.

There is this thing, which, supposedly, can help you do your job better, it’s being pushed by management, and it is sometimes expensive, often confusing, and obsoletes the skills you spent years to acquire.

Fast-forward 30 years, and it’s very, very, very difficult to find people to talk to who still argue computing doesn’t belong in the workplace, and that using a computer isn’t essential for virtually all work.

The reason it is difficult to find these people, is because they were left behind.

Just another useful political wedge.

Thank you, maybe if someone hadn’t shot John he would change the lyrics to include an exception for the aboriginal mythology of australia, specifically the parts about peace and not the parts about tribal rights or boundaries.

But you know it’s besides the point, peace isn’t readily understood by most anyone anywhere, so much so that it’s probably beyond most people’s understanding.

Just kill kill kill.

You can tell me your story if you want, I’ll read it and listen, it’s probably not recorded anywhere, might as well share it here.

Sure, the people indigenous to the region around Mexico City have a rainbow serpent, it settled on a cactus and let them know they could kill the other indigenous people who were already there and take their land.

The feathers are more important than the colors, but that’s one I know off the top of my head, that should suffice.

I have to admit I have very limited knowledge of Aboriginal Australian religion, there really isn’t that much of it out there, because, you’re fucking right, the missionaries who go out and make a point of destroying them in the name of God are a bunch of cock weasels.

It really doesn’t matter, I’ve read most of them and justifying killing is high on the list of Important Things To Touch On In Religious Works.

So much so that it really is hard to imagine the world John Lennon describes.

Killing time it is then!

Edit: You should start with everyone not of your faith, as your God invariably commands you.

Some people understand peace, some people only understand war, so if you want to bring an understanding of peace to everyone… Guess it’s time to get killing!

Or, maybe, there’s another way; a way to find nothing to kill or die for.

We watch the BBC live action version every year. ofc the hogfather is made up, Santa is real though.

Also strongly recommended The Life and a Adventures of Santa Claus by Frank L. Baum for anyone navigating these waters with their own kids.

I spent a couple days on and off reading about this theory, I read a few papers in the field and some of Penrose’s work (I didn’t go grab his books). So, thanks. It was interesting. I have had some physicists mention to me in passing that quantum consciousness was a junk field, but I hadn’t looked into it.

I agree, this is definitely bullshit.

1. Penrose himself attempts to dodge this in the first paragraph, but why are we groping for a special theory of consciousness at all?

2. Quantum mechanics is in everything, without it, fundamental processes (like light passing through your window) can not adequately be explained. Just because something has ‘got a quantum’ or whatever doesn’t instantly make it special from a physical perspective (you don’t see scientists tossing out conversation of energy or causality because stuff’s ‘got a quantum’ or whatever).

3. You might be interested in some of the recent work demonstrating that anesthetics work on plants. Not a microtubule in sight.

Hey, look, you can read the paper! I wonder if the paper tells us what it is about?

courses.csail.mit.edu/6.803/pdf/turing.pdf

Of course! This has been true for almost 30 years!

But if your argument amounts to, “the soul exists because the brain has got quantum hootnannies in it”; well… :gestures broadly:

I always forget that computers use those special non-quantum electrons. Thanks!

The best part is, this dumb cheater has strictly reduced their odds of victory. This is bait.

Ah yes, the stable and sane business environment of the 20th century, which brought us totally sane and obviously correct investments like Xerox.

Absolutely nobody gives a fuck.

Crime scene, blood everywhere, factory owner should be charged for every pollutant found in a 10km radius on the assumption it came through that pipe at some point and we’ll walk it backwards from there.

Ah, that’s your problem, you’re buying Dell and HP laptops, which start off as e-waste. Their batteries have thermal issues while they’re still on the factory line and their laptop power supplies are engineered to die no more than 3 minutes after the warranty expires.

We’re probably talking past each other. I recommend switching to ASUS.

You’re arguing that something I’ve been doing for over a decade can’t be done.

Why? Look at my perspective. On one hand, I have 10+years of lived experience doing this thing, on the other hand there’s internet guy who says it can’t be done?

Just compare a mini-pc to a entry level laptop with the same specifications from any manufacturer.

An Asus NUC with no disk or ram and an Intel 250 (celeron) uses 65W of power and starts around $300. It has 2 cores at 1.8ghz and costs go up from there.

From the same manufacturer at the same time, I can find over 300 laptop SKUs at the below $300 price point to choose from including the entry level zenbook 14, which, in addition to being complete (having ram is nice) packs a significantly more powerful processor and only uses 45W.