theilleists

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[–] theilleists@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Rhythmic? No, not really. More exciting if the musician could somehow anticipate this fundamentally unpredictable event? Absolutely.

[–] theilleists@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

In Aristotelian geography, the coastline is infinitely divisible.

[–] theilleists@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

And even then, if you look at quantum mechanics through the right lens, its apparent randomness is only an illusion of perspective. If you flip the quantum coin, then with 100% certainty, perfectly deterministically, it will come up heads in one timeline and tails in the other. It's only because your two future selves can't interact with each other that they can't have an argument about what the result "really" was, so one says, "it actually came up heads, and the result was completely random," and the other says, "it actually came up tails, and the result was completely random."

[–] theilleists@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Quantum cryptographically signed memory certificates from my designated reality broker or it didn't happen.

[–] theilleists@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

In my experience (which, to be fair, seems to be different from many people's), it couldn't be any worse than the real thing. 12 different licensed and trained medical providers each responded to my complaints about the ongoing traumas in my life with some variation of "Sure, but focus on the positives!" I'd have been better off saving the money and venting to a chatbot, if venting did anything for me.

Please don't tell me to see a 13th. I'm completely done with the idea.

[–] theilleists@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What game is this?

[–] theilleists@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

On the starship Enterprise, under Captain Kirk!

[–] theilleists@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Counterpoint: he's controversial because of what he says and does, not because of lies people tell about him.

[–] theilleists@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

It also doesn't help that the third person feminine is ambiguous. There's often no distinction between the accusative "her" and the possessive "her" (except when the pronoun appears in a different part of the sentence and becomes "hers" - fuck I hate English), so it could be interpreted as fitting either rule.

[–] theilleists@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don't care if it's not correct - I use "theirself" and "theirselves." It jibes with "yourself," "myself," and "herself."

"Himself" is a frustrating outlier, but I do know at least one person who says "hisself," and that's enough precedent for me.

[–] theilleists@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

For airborne contagions. Next question.

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