kalkulat

joined 2 years ago
[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Better a store you can go check stuff out in before you buy ... than looking at pictures on a screen and hoping it's what it pretends to be.

[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I can go to Starbucks and pay $5 for a coffee, or I can make better & get higher on at home for 25 cents.

[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

I mean, if I went around sayin' it was a pinko site just because some trippin coder had lobbed federation at it, they'd put me away!

[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

The platform that best supports my concerns is that of the US Green Party.

Unfortunately, it has far to go to represent that platform in any effective way. No possibly effective leader that I know of has ever emerged for it. (The current, so-called leader has zero presence anytime, anywhere.) If it could become at least -somewhat- sizeable, it could outreach its size in two-party deadlocks by trading deciding votes for concessions.

[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Hawking proposed in 2010 that BH can't collapse beyond the event horizon, that there isn't one. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/hawking-meant-black-holes

In 2014 Vaz said the boundary is outside the Schwarzschild radius. http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.3823

If they're right, then there's no inside to be trapped in.

[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Isn't another location

"previous" and "subsequent" locations in space are memory phenomena, High-energy location changes are closer together in memory. Our "time" is a bookshelf of physical events in space, one following another. Of course they're sequential, so it was convenient to 'measure' the 'distance' between the books for purposes of prediction. But we've invented that ruler, then forgot we made it up. Many indigenous people have no 'time', and they manage.

[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

If a one-ton boulder rolls down an Earthly hill in my direction and I don't move, what happens is not a manmade concept. Call it what you will.

Time on the other hand exists only as a useful mental tool to describe change. When I repeat the experiment of going to sleep, when I wake up it's still always now. That experiment -always- produces the same result.

[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

In 1738 the Pope forbid all Catholics from joining a Masonic lodge (open to men of any religion, and secretive, no doubt to avoid Inquisition), and called them 'depraved and perverted' (unlike the Church, of course). No doubt the faithful kept the rumor-mills turning.

 

What a sweet opportunity!