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Eating boogers strengthens your immune system.
I mean, it’s plausible, because the idea of building your immune system is exposure to some of those things. Not trying to invalidate the other methods because those should be a better alternative. Some studies suggested boogers can help.
I fully understand that it’s correlation, not causation, but I believe some inanimate objects want to work well, and others want to work poorly. In that same vein, there are people that inanimate objects respect and work well for, and there are people that inanimate objects dislike or enjoy aggravating.
Just psychological failings, self-confidence issues and such I know are wrong. Firmly held, but wrong.
…Otherwise it feels like an oxymoron.
Not answering directly the post, but something in line with it: I believe not all (maybe most of) knowledge is scientific, but that doesn’t invalidate it. A lot of things can’t be studied by the scientific method, but people intuitively understood and learned about it along the centuries.
This should be common sense, but society has gone crazy about considering only science as knowledge and now ignores valuable learnings that sometimes are more right then science itself.
This should not be confused with negating science (like global warming deniers): when you can study something by the scientific method normally you will get deeper and with less mistakes with it. But when you don’t, you can still have knowledge by other methods
Do you have any examples?
When I drop something on the floor and then blow on it in short soft bursts, it’s suddenly clean enough to consume.
Anything powerful enough to make you sick from a few seconds floor contact with the food is probably gonna get you anyway.
The soul is a thing, and it’s what gives you consciousness
I can tell American society is getting exponentially more stupid by how many more cheeky vanity license plates I see as time goes on.
The moment I catch a driver who has the bumper sticker or window decal of a stick figure with the ‘It’ on the right side humping it, that’s a person with 60 IQ right there.
I raise you sovcit plates.
Demons are real - negative entities that attach to humans and feed off misery, pleasure, and anger.
I am convinced that I will come down with cold/flu if I breath too much cold air. When I walk in the cold, I always wrap a scarf around my mouth and nose. If I don’t, the cold air will give me a sore throat. That sore throat will act as a Petri dish for illness to develop and spread into my lungs or nose.
I know plenty of medical professionals and all of them tell me that that is not how it works, but I have a datum of proof. In my first year of university, I had a nasty, persistent respiratory infection during the late fall/early winter. To keep my throat warm while it was recovering, I started wearing a scarf and my illness went away quickly. After that, I started wrapping up whenever I was walking to class in the cold and never got sick again.
I am now used to wrapping my face in the cold and feel wrong without it. When I don’t, it seems like I am more likely to come home with a scratchy throat. I can definitely say that many of my flus start in the throat (though it could just be that the first flu symptom I tend to notice is the sore throat).
One doctor informed me that I have a chronic inflammation of the throat, which half of our large northern city also have, and best I can do is protect the throat from cold air by breathing through the nose.
I’m also rather non-muscular, particularly in regard to the neck, and thus get cold easily in the parts that aren’t layered with fat. Namely, if I have the window cracked open for fresh air in the autumn or spring while I sleep, the throat gets sore and I can develop a full-blown cold.
I’ve also been drinking lots of cold beverages this summer, and now I really seem to have a nasty inflammation in the throat, that leads to annoying irritation and cough. This is while I’m asocial, stay inside a lot and have little contact with people.
Wrapping your face up is a good way to block the germs that cause illness. You’re basically just masking up.
Except that I am using a very porous knit scarf as a mask and only masking up outdoors (the opposite of proper masking).
Hopefully none. I do hold some that you could call a-scientific, or something, because existing science has no impact either way. Like what kinds of foods are good or bad. Or morality.
Unscientific in a different way, but I think the universe is basically a digestive organ for some impossibly unknowable, incredible higher dimension being.
Like the big bang is when it feeds or otherwise takes in energy, then as trillions of years pass and entropy takes hold that is it effectively digesting that energy.
Interesting!
I mean, science doesn’t say it’s not that.
The great A’Tuin
In countries with over a few million citizens, the political hierarchies quickly get too far away from the people there, accumulating corruption.
The moment you become rich, you will absolutely be contacted by the shadowy ring of other rich people so they can force you in one way or another not to out their pedo ring. Even going as far as assassinating you if blackmail doesn’t work.
People using genAI without a care came about as a result of the genAI companies making millions of fake accounts across all of mainstream social media and performing the greatest astroturfing ever, in their favor.
The majority of actual human interaction in the future will be secretly held in spaces run under things like Usenet, I2P, Gopher, etcetera. A way to detect bots/genAI will become a game of whack-a-mole and it’ll help keep these treasures safer than 99% of the internet.
Anubis ( or whatever it’s called ) becomes a government funded project, with the goal being that government websites are spared from rampant AI bots crashing their sites. The downside is that it would most likely become closed source in order to ensure genAI companies cannot come in and use the source code to break through it.
Wikipedia joins one of the alternate internet things ( maybe I2P ) and poisons its own services, leaving ample notice of what they’re gonna do, but not where they’re going, to keep safe from the bots. It’ll become a race to find where and when Wikipedia becomes available again. This is more of a firm pipedream, but I hope they do it for their own good.
Visiting the clear web essentially becomes a crime amongst all tech savy people and you’ll absolutely be casted out of the safe spaces if you venture out of a genAI free Haven.
Or most likely out of everything, in a decade or less, the clock strikes midnight and once the dust settles, everyone left alive will be afraid when the wind blows.
The “fuzziness” inherent in reality once you get close to the Plank distance is clear evidence that we exist in a virtual universe whose computing power goes only so far. Reality breaks down at the Plank distance because that’s the pre-programmed limit of detail in the simulation.
I hold a very similar view, I usually express it like so:
If you were to develop a simulation of a universe you would have to make some concession to be able to run such a large simulation:
- You would have to limit causality, since the communication from one part of the cluster to the next would not be instantaneous you would need to limit the speed at which those communications can happen, that way you guarantee that one part of your cluster can’t interfere with another, think of it like a loading screen.
- Speaking of loading screens, you could make the vast majority of the thing empty, that would limit stuff going over from one part to another.
- You could gain lots of performance by only simulating the micro stuff when required, so an electron could be a wave of possibilities until they need to be somewhere, think of it in the same manner as current games don’t draw what’s not on screen.
Well there’s also the double slit test and Mandela effect too so more and more things to add to that maybe it’s a simulation bucket.
What would you expect to see in a ‘real’ universe?
Well in a real universe I expect a tool that we can use to measure things, let’s call it a ‘ruler’. And our ruler is small, like the smallest thing we have discovered. So when we try to measure something smaller than that, hmm… I guess it kinda gets fuzzy…
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