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"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command" - George Orwell.
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Better Call Paul
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Better Call Paul
@Wired2Jam
USMC veteran. Small business owner. Musician. Software Engineer. ADHD. INTP. GOP cult escapee. No DMs. Unless you’re famous. Or hot. Or funny af.
Washington, DC Katılım Mart 2017
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@mtracey @JustinRYoung Dude, you need to back off like your hairline. You look like a doughy dipshit trying to be a bully. Is this because the girl wouldn’t fight you?
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LIVE STREAM: Jim Acosta threatens to fight me at Substack party
This was recorded last night with @JustinRYoung at some bar, after BOTH of us got thrown out when Jim Acosta made a ridiculous drunken "scene," and I got blamed for it (of course) 😂
mtracey.net/p/jim-acosta-t…
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@yxalag32 @lifeof_jer He should be complaining about not having a current backup before turning his workload over to a bot.
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@Wired2Jam @lifeof_jer Then he can’t complain about his database getting erased 😁😁
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@elonmusk Imagine being the richest man in the world and spending your time helping divide America on a social media platform you turned into a foul smelling septic tank.
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@yxalag32 @lifeof_jer Those days are over, buddy. This is real and this is happening.
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@lifeof_jer Well… next time, just hire a developer instead of this agent crap
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Jim screamed at me, “LET’S STEP OUTSIDE” and I replied “OK JIM LET’S GO.” Then he had the security do his dirty work instead. Pussy. @Acosta
Michael Tracey@mtracey
Jim @Acosta threatened to fight me tonight at the Substack party
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Still have no idea whatever went on with Trump tonight, just know Jim @Acosta threw a fuckin’ hissing fit. Pussy! Jim, meet me in front of the Hampton Inn:
901 6th St NW
Washington, DC 20001
United States
Michael Tracey@mtracey
Jim @Acosta threatened to fight me tonight at the Substack party
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@JDvdiq Sounds like you're making the case to stop having sex too
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¿Qué sucede si dejas de masturbarte durante un año entero?
Estos son los cambios que ocurren en tu cerebro y cuerpo durante 12 meses:
1. Tu pene se vuelve más...
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More years ago than I care to remember, I seem to remember I had to restructure a manufacturing area when people still operated machines. My research at the time (before the internet and the Thomas Registers WAS my internet) showed that the high pressure sodium lights were better for our eyes to see better - not the mercury lights or whatever was common at the time. It may have had to do with shadows.
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I'm old enough to remember before cities had a sodium glow and everything looked like a Michael Mann film.
You don't want yellow. You don't want blue. You want 2700K.
[ Technically, the human eye is more sensitive to red, I get that, I'm talking aesthetics, not energy consumption ].
𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗@shagbark_hick
I understand that many towns are changing over to LED's as their yellow sodium streetlights start to die. But why do they have to be bright white? Is there a yellow LED that is as cheap as the bright white one? I'd love to pitch my town supervisor on keeping our town yellow.
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Not alone, but rare. Although there are countless trillions of stars in the universe, only 5% are suns such as ours - stars that burn for billions of years. The planets around those stars, assuming in the habitable zone, need to be protected from mass extinction events. Simple life is probably abundant. Complex/intelligent capable of posting anonymously on Xitter - not so much. It takes a freak set of events over billions of years. When you start whittling it down, there's not as much opportunity as you would expect. But mathematically speaking, it's definitely a non zero chance there is other complex life in the universe.
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Do you think we’re really alone in the universe?
With a universe 93 billion light-years wide and still expanding, it feels almost endless
So many galaxies… so many possibilities
What do you think; alone or not?
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@Saganismm Under what laws of physics? How many dimensions? Does time exist? If so, how is it scaled compared to us? What are the fundamental forces? How many are there? This sounds like a clever response when it's bullshit because it's framed with bullshit metrics.
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"If we say God made the universe, then surely the next question is, "Who made God?"
If we say God was always here, why not say the universe was always here?
If we say that the question "Where did God come from?" is too tough for us poor mortals to understand, then why not say that the question of "Where did the universe come from?" is too tough for us mortals?"
= Carl Sagan
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@Math_files Not just photons. This has been done with electrons, protons, complete atoms, and molecules.
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When a laser sends tiny particles of light, called photons, toward a screen with two narrow slits, you might expect to see two bright lines—one behind each slit. But that’s not what happens. Instead, a series of bright and dark bands appears on the screen.
This pattern is called an interference pattern, and it suggests that light behaves like a wave. It’s as if each photon passes through both slits at the same time, and the waves overlap, creating regions where they strengthen or cancel each other out.
But here’s the surprising part: when scientists place a detector to observe which slit each photon goes through, the pattern changes completely. The interference pattern disappears, and two simple bands appear, just as you would expect from particles.
In other words, the act of measuring or observing seems to change how the photons behave. Without observation, they act like waves. With observation, they act like particles. Scientists still debate exactly why this happens, making it one of the most fascinating mysteries in physics.
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@brucekulick @rudysarzo I had quintuple bypass surgery 12 years ago due to a hereditary condition. Do everything they ask of you. Hit the breather hard and walk. A lot. I payed a gig 10 days after I got out of the hospital and never needed cardio rehab. You got this bro.
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Aortic valve was getting dangerous. Bicuspid congenital one that was discovered 12 years ago. Heart surgery is scary but remarkable. Thanks to my amazing surgeon and his staff. 🙏🫀🙏
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Astrophysicists have found evidence of UAPs in old photographic plates. Something seems to have been orbiting around our planet before we had satellites! This finding has been independently confirmed. Still, scientists are afraid to speak out. @DrBeaVillarroel @Rizstanford
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@Thevictoria76 I was waiting for the "Why are you recording?" until I realized that was the entire point of this. He should have at least looked into the camera and said, "Come back for part 2!"
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Some reunions just hit differently… after all those years, finding each other again is pure emotion. 😭❤️
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@jglover1199 @deesnider Good point. Orchestra and symphonies are just more sophisticated versions of cover and tribute bands.
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I dont disagree with you on this. It's sort of a hack thing to do when a band is still around, however, I have a specific carve out in my opinion for tribute acts that play music of no longer active bands.
Most people will never have a chance to hear the beatles live, but to hear the songs played live really well with special attention paid to the fidelity of the original performances is a nice experience.
What is your opinion of symphony orchestras playing beethoven or tchaikovsky's greatest hits?
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A person asked me what I as a person think of tribute bands. As a person I gave my (singular) opinion. Others can have their own. Clearly my opinion affects nothing. I hate golf too. Seems to be a very successful pastime in spite of my long standing feelings about it. :)
Dyson Sphere@DysonSphereUSA
@deesnider Hey, regular musicians need money too man. Most tributes I see are way better than the originals anyway.
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It’s not a straw man. It’s statistics. Intelligent design doesn’t equal religion. It doesn’t negate evolution. Naturalism is the least plausible explanation for our existence. It’s mathematically impossible. It doesn’t mean the math proves intelligent design either. But it is more plausible than “Oops. Look what happened”. The Big Bang and expansion happened with precision. Our fundamental constants are precise or the universe and/or life couldn’t exist. I’m not cheerleading for religion. I’m not religious. Religion has nothing to do with it.
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@Wired2Jam @ArchTheAtheist "i don't like naturalism" is not math. Especially when your attempt is a strawman
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I dare any theist to show the math on how they calculate the probability of a god 🤷♂️
And if you can’t calculate the probability then explain to me like I’m 5 why you’re using phrases like “it’s more likely there is a god”. How did you determine any likelihood at all?
Post Disclosure World@PostDisclosure
The probability of "God"? I just saw a wasp, fearing it, but realizing how extraordinary its biological machinery is. As I see it, there are really only two options. Either a dead substrate produced all of life's complexity by chance, or the substrate itself carries some form of living intelligence that gave rise to it. On probability alone, I find the second option more compelling. I'll admit the bias, but I've yet to hear a strong case that the first is more likely. It's not as if life emerging from a dead universe is somehow less mysterious than consciousness being fundamental to reality. They are equally astonishing. I believe in evolution. However, that doesn't answer the question of why life that emerges has the capacity to evolve in the first place. Again, this circles back to the substrate. Either dead matter randomly contained within it the information to produce life that knows how to evolve, or that information points to something conscious in the substrate itself. This tweet is not about religion.
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