Why did I think taking a 4 week biology class would be fun? Its a full class, but 4x as fast. I just now finished all the assignments for today. Its 9pm. I've been working since 1pm, after studying since 8am. I have both a lab and lecture exam tomorrow... I have had exactly zero time to study for them, and I really do mean that - every second of every day, minus the minute or two here on nostr, has been spent just doing the assignments. I don't know how this us supposed to be done.

Even if we're experiencing fundamentally different realities, its still basically the same reality if a truth in one corresponds to a truth in another - so pain makes it real. We have subjective experiences, but that doesn't negate an objective reality. We can never directly experience objective reality, but we can deduce that it exists.

Apocalypses are always happening, and there's always something that comes after. We'll survive and reach even greater heights (literally) of civilization. Hopefully a decentralized anarcho capitalist civilization.

If I kick you in the shins, will you feel it?

Bitcoin socks!?!? Oh man.... I owe certain people revenge socks for Christmas... I'm bookmarking this!

If Elon Musk ain't a government agent, or a robotic sock puppet, I'll eat my sock. No one who thinks data centers in space will be economical (think waste heat) has an IQ over 100, and that's being generous.

Agreed. We'll do that first. We'll probably even figure out artificial gravity first, and I don't mean by rotating a thing and living in the inside. But... Eventually, someone is gonna want to terraform Venus. Maybe after we realize that Mars is a bad idea.

Mayyyyyybe. If you and I both are the universe experiencing itself, then which one of us it mirroring? If the answer is that its a partial mirror, then divide the mirror amongst all participating consciousnesses. And that, I think, takes you right back to the same experience as pure materialism.

The radiation is a big problem, but if you can work around it somehow, then Ganymede becomes the gas station of the solar system, and we could put geosynchronous satellites in sequence over Jupiter itself and live there - there's an amazing quirk that right where Jupiter's atmosphere ends, is 1 g, so millions of years in the future the ultimate megaoroject will be turning Jupiter into a living space equivalent to a few hundred Earths.

Oh its a response to the troll, who I'm pretty sure was a monero shill a few months ago. Blocked that dumbass yesterday.

Which side was core on in the block size war?

The atmosphere will have to change. It'll be a long project, probably thousands of years

Meh. If usdt, it just proves btc's value

How'd they get them?

Maybe it maximized the benefit of sharing. You let people sort themselves, which leads to more honest and better targeted conversations.

Sharing is part of learning. You learn much better when you open up to potential criticism or conversations. Learning for yourself us hard ; learning for other people is less hard.

🤔 for a period of hundreds to thousands of years, there will be a trash economy throughout the solar system, where the minimum bidder for trash will always be the Venutian Terraforming Project because they will be collecting mass for a man-made moon. They will be able to export basically anything, so the terraforming project will be well funded, since the intensity of sunlight is some multiple greater than at Earth's orbit. Cheap energy is the ultimate subsidy, and they'll use it to build a moon.

Close. The pleroma is the heaven you want, but its fundamentally different from the heaven that Jesus said would pass away. Heaven is part of this creation. The pleroma precedes it. Ignorance is the root of all evil - pretty sure that's in the Gospel of Thomas, but I'm not inclined to look it up right now. Paul was not wrong when he said that the love of money is the root of all evil - its basically the same. Money is an imperfect estimation of value, rooted in the fear of an uncertain future. That's the basic architecture of this world. All organisms are trying to store up value against uncertainty, often in the form of fats and carbohydrates, but also currency with humans. This is opposed to the pleroma because there's no uncertainty in the fullness of God. Love is freely given and magnified between god and all aeons and between the aeons. In this way, this world is a mockery of the Good - its an inversion of the currency of God, which is love. The demiurge is you. You're the imperfect one (you as in everyone including me). Your redemption is the redemption of the demiurge, the lower God, full of ego and storms and rage. Not the God of peace and love. The hermetic principles work because of this fact. Its you. That's precisely why escape from this hell, which is a projection of yourself, relies entirely on your love for others, which itself is highly dependent on your faith, which is to say, refusal to succomb to the harsh realities of this... Hell. You keep the faith despite all evidence pointing to this world being a hell - God works in mysterious ways ; thou shalt not judge, which works both for faith and for love, since a love that follows judgement is actually just self serving. So... I wrote the truth.

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I truly can't fathom how any biologist can be atheist. Watch this... Narrated by some middle schoolers, and amazingly well done... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OT5AXGS1aL8 And ask your questions - I've spent more than just this afternoon needing out on this one piece of biology. Notice the driveshaft... Notice that the whole thing requires all functional parts - the driveshaft, the proton gradient, the membrane holding the acidic solution (literally a battery). Take away any, and doesn't work. There are two things happening over and over in cells - dehydration synthesis, and phosphates being used here there everywhere. Dehydration synthesis is popping off a water molecule to join two other molecules into or onto a macromolecule. Phosphates are a functional group - functional groups change the chemistry and geometry of a molecule. Water... And phosphate... Phosphor - light. Water and light. And this water and light is arranged into an array of machines vastly more complex than our best technology. This is just one. Multiply this complexity by a couple million and that gets you to one cell, maybe. #Biology #atheism #god #wow

I think she's been bleeding, both health-wise and money-wise, for a very long time. And academia might be a very good place for orange pilling. Teachers work very hard, then get shat upon by society, while making way too little money. There was another thing... One morning before class, I overheard people loudly speculating about Satoshi's identity in some room. It was before any classes opened up, so I assume it was faculty or student workers. One guy was saying it means "hidden intelligence," so he must've been CIA or something. I just giggled as I passed.

Yeah I'm trying to be careful around that subject. Everyone is quite proudly Christian, which is nice, but it's too risky to bring up Israel. Another thing I'm noticing is people are basically bowing and scraping the moment they find out I was in the military. Like... what is this... Its annoying and worrying. Its one thing to express appreciation, but this is a level beyond that. The trend makes me think we're headed towards a military caste system. So basically I'm keeping my mouth shut about it and it might eventually seem rude because the guy sitting next to me is a vet and he talks about it and I haven't reciprocated at all, so he doesn't know... Imo its gone way too far. The military is just a job. Its not "service" - we got paid. That "service" thing annoyed me back then, too - right from basic, we got a nice little ribbon just for being there, just a stupid little participation trophy, and they said it was for serving. Grr. My annoyance snowballed here... Texas... Christianity and military... And both in absolutely idolatrous ways. But no commies is nice.

I forgot to mention this here... I've been so busy... My biology professor brought up bitcoin while I was chatting with her after class. She brought it up, not me. She was trying to orange pill me. We're winning.

There aren't many socialists here. This is Texas.

One thing I'm noticing this second time around in college is, these kids are a lot healthier than my cohort was at that age. Its weird because I'm pretty sure the food is even worse now. But there's not a single fatty in my class. And the chicks are all, like, model quality... Oh, there's another thing I'm noticing - very few dudes. I think its gotta be something like 80% female at this college. Maybe more. Probably more.