29 - he, white - cant tag unreality or describe all images - icon: anime shouyou - banner: manga utsuro saying "it is your fate to keep killing that man (shouyou)."
*grabbing you by the hair while you are blindfolded and kneeling* no damnit, thats the phillips-head screwdriver, you can tell because its vibrational aura is two waves, the yin being a half cycle out of phase. try again. place your fingers into the toolbox again, but this time feel with the spirit, not the body
remember cable tv? coming home and turning on the background noise machine and sometimes u end up catching a really cool random episode you have no context for? maybe you dont even know the show and can't keep any of the characters straight from scene to scene but it's still doing something interesting that grabs you? well do i have a group dash activity for you!
open for anyone who wants to follow along via dash liveblog to drop in or out at anytime. star trek familiarity isn't needed - this is how i got into star trek! i still frequently have no idea whats going on lol.
pluto.tv has multiple trek channels (we'll be switching between whichever of voy and dsnine is more interesting each week, probably. i miss my wives if im away from either one too long. they also aired in the same time and have some plot/character crossover). pluto is usa-only but can be vpn worked-around. pluto also runs like shit and breaks often. woo!!!!!!!!!!
[my wife dsnine channel]
[ID from alt: odo looking over a ship railing contemplatively, narrating, "nobody ever had to teach me the justice trick."]
the queer polycule of coworkers in the space mall deal with the aftermath of space fascist occupation and the threat of repeated space war. with religious background shenanigans i still dont understand. the ferengi rehabilitation show that fails at that spectacularly. the charismatic as all get out antagonists who genuinely suck show <3 half of whom are jeffrey combs. loves a hamfisted harrowing historical allegory
[my wife voyager channel]
[ID from alt: tuvok, wisely: you should anticipate paradox.]
they want to get back to earth and can't get to earth ): a resistance group and a state military group get stranded on the ship voy together and learn to overcome their differences in definitely politically coherent ways. i got banned from social media for saying what captain janeway did to her cyborg mentee she's teaching to be human again. loves a harrowing "wouldnt that be fucked up if?" psychological labyrinth
I think detaching disgust from morality is one of the keys to Chilling Out. You can find inner peace by being able to go "hm! Gross" and recognize if it's an actual problem or not. Cause if it's not an actual problem... it's not your problem 🙏 god bless
when I see something dated 2019 I think “oh that’s not too long ago” and then I remember that 2019 was not only five years ago but those five years have somehow contained several lifetimes
From these lecture notes by Harvey Friedman comes one of the best metamathematical anecdotes I’ve ever heard (and yes, I’ve heard my share). Apparently Friedman was attending a talk by the “ultra-finitist” Alexander Yessenin-Volpin, who challenged the “Platonic existence” not only of infinity, but even of large integers like 2^100. So Friedman raised the obvious “draw the line” objection: in the sequence 2^1 ,2^2 , …, 2^100, which is the first integer that Yessenin-Volpin would say doesn’t exist?
Yessenin-Volpin asked Friedman to be more specific.
“Okay, then. Does 2^1 exist?”
Yessenin-Volpin quickly answered “yes.”
“What about 2^2?”
After a noticeable delay: “yes.”
“2^3?”
After a longer delay: “yes.”
It soon became clear that Yessenin-Volpin would answer “yes” to every question, but would take twice as long for each one as for the one before it.
And they say complexity has no philosophical implications - Scott Aaronson