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We can comprehend t the idea of something being in incomprehensible. The idea of the multiverse it so large that it can create a multiverse in a multiverse
Can bullet proof jackets stop bullets #bulletproofjackets
Did you know, chat gpt creates the illusion of thinking when it types out it's answer, in reality composes It's answer more or less instantly
Is predicate logic what type of statement is
P(x) depends on x
Something along the lines of
The truth value of "He is wearing a green shirt," depends on the shirt that he is wearing.
It seems like a tautology to me. Is this type of statement within the bounds of second order predicate calculus, or outside of it. I'm having trouble with "depends on". Don't know if I can represent "depends on" within second-order logic.
Today I was reading about circumcisions and it was obvious that Google was lying about most of its facts now I do not blame Google of course it's the websites but they're creating false narratives like for instance one said sex for a woman feels better with uncircumcised because the extra skin which makes your dick girthier makes her more wet therefore she feels less which made no sense to me and then they were saying you have a lesser risk of infection I've seen thousands of people that got infected and most of them were circumcised this was a thing created a very long time ago but nowadays people use it as an appearance base thing it carries no weight and no benefits including I've noticed a lot more women come up to me and saying uncircumcised men feel a lot better and last a lot longer now I'm not trying to put down anybody be you these are my personal experiences and a lot of other people's experiences but does not mean you should ever look at yourself different for something you couldn't change but they're pushing this narrative to get your kid circumcised now I do not agree with it but if you want to do it for the appearance I can't stop you but just know they lied you about most of all the risks it causes your baby more pain than it helps and it damages more than it helps and men do feel more pleasure along with women when the man is uncircumcised
It Puts The Lotion On The Skin Or Else It Gets The Hose Again!!!!!!! This random rant I raced hearlier today disappeared so I'm invested in spreading the word here straight from the good book. You know... not a dear penthouse but more closely related to the leather one with the T on it and a dirty hippie from like 2k years ago on the jacket cover. Am I at 50 Crnt and Robert Greene words yet The 50th Law??? Come on! All my words are in the photo. No hate. Only love.
In this article: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/microbes-humans-illness-survive-mars
They found out there are certain bacteria that could survive the harsh conditions of Mars. They have researched other bacteria but not ones specifically found in human bodies. They survived quite well and they are worried about the effects they would have on people. Its amazing how bacteria could survive in insane conditions like this.
I come from a family of readers. I'm probably the laggard of the bunch, but we grew up reading the Time-Life series of science books, sports novels, Hardy Boys, Readers Digest. Heck, when visiting our grandparent's home in Colorado on vacation we'd even spend hours reading the Encyclopedia and looking at maps of the world. Weird kids I guess. In any event, my Pop was a pretty conservative guy. And he was opinionated. . . . strongly opinionated. Although he would entertain my iconoclasm I suspect he would silently shake his head and say "Idiot boy".
Anyway, he was apparently either a member or entertained becoming a member of the John Birch Society (whatever that entails) and so we had the infamous "Blue Book" on a bookshelf in our modest library. And being a curious fellow I picked it one day and read it. I suspect I've always been interested in politics, at least when it used to involve policy differences. In any event, I read the book.
(Spoiler Alert!!!!) The book made was the distillation of a speech the founder, Robert Welch, made to a group describing the perils of the spread of Communism. I will say that F.A. Hayek's book "Road to Serfdom" is a far better analysis of the perils of collectivism and socialism, but there is one thing that stuck with my young mind when I finished the book.
Part of Welch's assessment of the dangers of Communism was his assertion that there was a conspiracy of wealthy Americans and other world leaders whose aim was to create one government that would rule the world and that government would apparently be a communist government. That secret society was led by David Rockefeller and the group is called the Tri-lateral Commission. From what I've read it started out as a group of leaders who were concerned about the effects of economic globalization. But, Mr. Welch suggested something more nefarious, where this organization's ambition was a one-world government led by David Rockefeller, whom the participating world leaders would all submit to, including Leonid Breshnev of Russia.
As a kid, I remember thinking to myself "Wait a second. You mean to tell me that all of the participating world leaders, with egos as large as the palaces they occupied, would "agree" that David Rockefeller would rule the world? Come on. There's no way these egos would agree to that." Thus began my journey of skepticism.
This is a very long way of saying that 99.90% of all conspiracies get outed. Why? Because big conspiracies have to involve a lot of people. And you know humans, they all have different circumstances, different ambitions, different morals and ethics. Someone always breaks from the sworn silence to either save their own skin or make some money with their knowledge. It's human nature.
And so, before one is tempted to fall in with a conspiracy theory, they should ask themselves "How many people would have to be involved in this conspiracy to make it work?" If it's more than a handful, it'll never succeed in staying secret. And conspiracies involving governments and political leaders will almost always be exposed and 99.99% of them are make believe stories that rely on tenuous connections between people and events, connections that cannot be proven or that are so fantastic they appeal to our fantasy like that of one daydreaming after they buy a PowerBall ticket. "Maybe, just maybe. . . . "
So, i really believe some people are unworthy of creating a coherent sentence, as the "statement" they've typed on their keyboards like some brave little soliders could have detrimental effects on our society as a whole. By polluting the imepccable optic fiber of the internet these people are contributing to the creation of a capitalist empire that is ruled by the likes pf Elon Cusk who feeds on the souls of the innocent and leaves all the twitter incels with 0 money to spend on their anime waifu throught the purchase of Twitter blue. This way, any worthless being has some sense of, what truly is, fake control over their lives which are in fact guided by the iron fists of the capitalists. #FreeTheWorld
"Logic trap" is what I call when someone like me or you (i.e. pedantic geeks) becomes trapped inside a perfectly logical conclusion because they can't see outside the limits of perfect logical deduction.
Logic traps make Real Smart people look
The normals get fooled by shiny objects, fancy dances, and rhyming couplets. Trapping a Real Smart person requires logic.
See, no stupid person would ever fall for that!
When they don't believe they can escape, Real Smart people sometimes drag facts through the bars into the trap with them:
Best punch line on the Internet!
You can hustle other people into logic traps:
But it's far easier to screw up and entrap yourself:
In virtually every encounter with boys, I did that — or something homomorphic with girls.