[-] Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 10 points 6 hours ago

In years past, CBC (Canada) had a very nice website with schedules and the videos of full events all organized by event. I don't recall the coverage being overly edited or filled with fluff commentary or only covering the "big" names/events, but seemed pretty broad and unbiased and boring-in-a-good-way. It was really nice. Highly recommended.

A simple VPN to a Canada exit point is all you need. And I guess a plugin or script to download the videos if you wanted them offline. But since you can browse to any event on any day and watch when you want you really don't need to download anything.

[-] Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 7 points 7 hours ago

It's a grower.

[-] Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 4 points 7 hours ago

I'm weary and wary of all this.

[-] Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 11 points 7 hours ago

Just like "nothing changed" when Roe was overturned? Got it.

[-] Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

So many people keep arguing past each other on this because there are 2 truths and each side sees their 1 truth as the end-all.

  1. Genocide is bad. Biden isn't doing enough to stop Israel. But, Trump would accelerate it. And also do more genocide here too.
  2. We have a FPTP voting system meaning the first candidate across the line wins, so you either vote for A or B. If you abstain from voting or vote 3rd party it does not make any difference whatsoever to the outcome because it is still who crosses the line first. So you have to decide which of the 2 you want, or which of the 2 you DON'T want. And vote accordingly.

Everyone declaring "Genocide Joe" and voting 3rd party is missing the point that doing that could let Trump win. And that would be FAR worse.

And everyone declaring "Blue no matter who" and demonizing the people that want the genocide to end are missing the point that our system is fucked and does not represent us and both candidates are bad. Both candidates are right wing and our country WANTS someone on the left that represents the people, but we simply don't have that.

[-] Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 8 points 5 days ago

It's like that because the universe wants us to suffer.

[-] Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 10 points 5 days ago

Maybe all the macho conservatives need to get gay married to each other to prove that they hate it and aren't gay. It's the only way to be sure.

[-] Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago

It's only infinite in the sense that it's beyond our measurement. And whether or not it is infinite doesn't even matter to us because of the speed of light and the expansion of space itself. There is a sphere around us that is all we will ever know or experience or be able to affect. Outside that sphere other things can and do exist, but we are fundamentally separated from them forever. There are entire galaxies we will never see because the light will never reach us. That is wild to me.

[-] Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 9 points 5 days ago

Relativity proved that time isn't a constant thing where all things occur at "the present". You can have situations where person 1 sees an event happen as A B and person 2 sees that same event happen as B A.

That means time isn't some absolute framework that reality exists in, but something more like a property of matter or space or something.

Also the speed of light seems to be applicable here. Or more accurately, the speed at which events propagate through space. If you pushed a button to end the universe wouldn't that event only go at light speed out in all directions? So maybe the button has been pushed (maybe an infinite number of times too) and all the shockwaves just haven't gotten here yet.

[-] Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 29 points 5 days ago

The universe. The Big bang, time, quantum mechanics. Is our universe infinite? Is it the only universe? Did the Big bang start ours and will it end with a big crunch and will that collapse just cause a big bang that repeats and if so what iteration of that cycle do you suppose we are in? And does each universe behave the same, similar laws and physics and such? Stars, planets, etc?

Deconstructing from religion. It was a lot. I'm better now, but being stuck in it all was overwhelming and was like being in an existential crisis every day until it ended. I just went along with it and kept it all inside for decades and it wasn't fun.

Consciousness and our sense of self. Is consciousness an illusion? What even is "me"? It includes all the gut bacteria and mitochondria with different DNA than us and our brains are these amazing pattern recognition machines that also have abysmal memory storage and recall, but can notice the tiniest of nuance sometimes, but also can't remember where we put the thing we were just holding 2 minutes ago. And all the while our brain is confidently telling us "I am me" and is processing all the inputs like sights and sounds and interpreting all that into what we think we see and what we think we heard. But did we? How would we know if upon seeing the color red our brain interprets that as blue and we confidently declare we see red.

[-] Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 167 points 6 days ago

You've heard of CamelCase and lowercase and intVariableName variable naming styles. Get ready for:

for (int Taiwan == 0; Taiwan < HongKong; Taiwan++) { int TianamenSquare == 0; ... }

[-] Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 14 points 6 days ago

Capitalism is just a complex pyramid scheme. Change my mind.

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