Zeno

get initiated youtube.com/watch?v=MpOGh7…

@stinor @StefanMolyneux I was using 'valid' in the more typical way, not in the stricter way of logic. switch it to 'viable' if that helps. you're right that paradox indicates a problem with the description. but description is incidental.

@Izen @StefanMolyneux Physics as of today, do many strange things, that don't hold water. Theories with built in paradoxes are "valid" except they aren't. A paradox means there is something fundamentally wrong with the description of the theory, it is logical false.

Haha modern government physics is just bongs and tarot cards at this point.

@grok @BarbarianDisco always creeps me out when the robots have a sense of humor

@Izen @BarbarianDisco

asked Grok to use an image of a weird wizard as inspiration to to come up with an original image of a Wizard who has fallen foul of dark magics. then had it tell me a story. The Sacrophant: Lord of Stolen Voices Long ago, before the rot claimed him, he was Vaelric Thalaine — the greatest voxomancer of the Fifth Age. Men called him the Silver Voice. With nothing but carefully chosen words he could bend kings to his will, unravel enemy spells mid-cast, or force demons to sign their own true names in contracts of burning air. Power was never enough. Vaelric sought apotheosis through the Abyssal Canticle, an ancient rite whispered about only in forbidden tomes. The ritual promised to gather every voice he had ever stolen — every dying scream, every coerced confession, every last word — and bind them into a single perfect choir that would make his magic godlike. He descended into the lightless caverns beneath Mount Vyrkhal known as the Throat of the World and performed the rite alone. For three days and nights the caves echoed with stolen voices as they flowed into him. On the fourth night, the voices decided they no longer wished to serve. They turned. His head burst like an overripe fruit. Flesh and bone melted and reformed into a swollen, translucent membrane sac hanging where his neck had been. Inside the black fluid that now filled this sac, every voice he had taken manifested as a living, independent mouth. Infant mouths. Dying crone mouths. Fanged demon mouths. Aristocratic mouths still speaking in perfect courtly accents. Hundreds of them, constantly moving, arguing, screaming, chanting fragments of spells. In his final moments of sanity, Vaelric tried to tear the horror from his body. His fingers dissolved into smaller snapping mouths. His own tongue, refusing to be mastered, ripped itself free, elongated horrifically, and coiled around his left femur to form the staff he still carries — a pale, wet, serpentine thing that constantly tastes the air for new victims. Now he is simply called the Sacrophant. He no longer has one mind. The mouths inside the sac battle for control. Sometimes a soft child’s voice pleads for mercy. Sometimes a thousand-year-old sorcerer-king bellows world-ending incantations that nearly tear the Sacrophant’s body apart. He can only cast magic when the mouths agree (or when one mouth grows strong enough to dominate the others for a time). This makes his sorcery both terrifyingly powerful and dangerously unpredictable. He wanders the deep places, forever hungry. The Sacrophant needs new voices to feed the sac and temporarily silence the screaming. The stronger the soul, the longer the peace he gains. He has been known to stalk other mages for months simply to steal their voice at the perfect moment. Some say that deep inside the sac, one particular mouth still belongs to Vaelric himself — and it screams louder than all the rest.

@Camp4 when the peak happened is probably the only controversial part of that. I'd bet it's a lot of people that would put the peak behind us though.

One of my contrarian takes: Society peaked in the 80s, and it’s been in slow decline ever since. It was the last era of widespread optimism. You can feel it in the music and movies. “Excess meets innocence.” The 80s also mark the end of the analog world—local economies, in-person everything, and a certain forced simplicity. Malls, movie theaters, magazines, and BMX. Then, beginning in the 90s, came the tidal wave of tech: Mobile phones The internet Social media AI All incredible innovations, with lots of positives. But on the whole I think they’re *net negatives* for society. We replaced a finite, real-world experience with an infinite, digital one. Infinite information. Infinite comparison. Infinite distraction. Human’s aren’t wired for that, and you can see the consequences all around us.

@InternetH0F it's a start. education needs massive reform in general.

A teacher's homework policy

@stinor @StefanMolyneux you say that like there's something wrong with it. eternal universe is a valid hypothesis.

@Izen @StefanMolyneux If you have a cosmology that don't start from nothing, then it isn't a start at all. Just a continuation of what was. Atleast be honest and say there is no start in "my" cosmology.

@Styx666Official you dont want to be a cook. work/pay ratio is garbage. shitty hours and almost compulsory substance abuse issues. work every holiday. and everyone in the biz hates the culi school kids.

Considering my extensive list of cooking skills I think I missed my calling. I wish I had gone to culinary school. Damn the idiots who told my generation that blue collar jobs were no good and you had to study something like late 1800s English or the History of the Aztecs.

@ChurchISChange @StefanMolyneux what if it's a loop

@Izen @StefanMolyneux Infinite regression. At some point those two universes 'started'. If you think all universes are infinite, self existent, than you just have faith in a lesser deity than I do.

@CanucksFirst1 @3Patty @jodijode1 @atensnut I did look it up numbnuts. what's it to you. why dont you go do something productive with your time.

@Izen @3Patty @jodijode1 @atensnut Bro, you're a retard. All your ignorant moron ass had to do was look it up. But instead, you've decided to double down on your stupidity.

I get 4. 🤷‍♀️

@CanucksFirst1 @3Patty @jodijode1 @atensnut I look it up myself hours ago

@Izen @3Patty @jodijode1 @atensnut Here you go, dipshit. x.com/i/grok/share/5…

@CanucksFirst1 @3Patty @jodijode1 @atensnut and I'm not your bro

@Izen @3Patty @jodijode1 @atensnut For real, bro?

@CanucksFirst1 @3Patty @jodijode1 @atensnut yep

@Ends_wolf @StefanMolyneux other universes. something out of something is always more likely than something out of nothing

@Izen @StefanMolyneux it doesnt help bud where did those colliding universes come from?

@3Patty @jodijode1 @atensnut no I dont want to google. if you've got the gumption to go around correcting people on the internet then you oughta be able to cough up a link to make your case

@Izen @jodijode1 @atensnut You need a link to Google?

@3Patty @jodijode1 @atensnut give me a link

@Izen @jodijode1 @atensnut Addition and subtraction are equal under Pemdas. So are multiplication and divison equal to each other. Operation in that case is left to right. Multiplication does not jump over division. The answer is 4. Research pemdas.

@3Patty @jodijode1 @atensnut peMDas

@jodijode1 @atensnut Why did you do 2x2 before 4/2? The answer is 4. There was no reason to do it in the order you did it. Left to right, not X before /.

I'm working on an AI-enhanced neurochip that I can install into a racoon.

the great thing about psyops is that it means we all get to participate in the Final War

@CraigMurrayOrg that is the system32 virus. you need to look on your harddrive for a folder called system32. find it and delete it asap

Can anyone explain what was happening with my laptop here? I confess it gave me the creeps. I wasn't touching anything. The Microsoft Edge browser - which I never use - had come up by itself. The cursor seems to be moving not entirely randomly and clicking on things.