Reno is the best. I love Tig Notaro’s dry-ass sarcasm.

Carbon tax employers for miles commuted by employees, unless c-suite and board salaries are equal to the general population median salary for a 15 mile radius from the office location.

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Lying and pretending to know something who’s actually a complete stranger to them

When the stranger is a drunk woman in distress clearly trying to get away from a predator.

Yes that’s my understanding as well

I’m probably skipping some steps, but lowtax banning hentai drove the weebs to 4chan, and 8chan. 8chan was the home for all the “Q” posts that started Qanon which riled up the Republican base and led to the Jan 6 insurrection

I can confirm for you that northern California is nicer

You visited the worst parts. No wonder.

Try Yosemite, Oakhurst, Morro Bay, or Monterey.

Yeah, I’ve thought about this a little bit but again my math isn’t so strong.

I guess approaching this more from computer science (something I’m more familiar with) you could compare with stuff like the NP Hard class of problems. And thus I offer that unproveable does not mean “wrong”. We generally “know” that P=NP is wrong but we cannot prove it only because we lack omniscience. Us lacking the information (in the physics sense of the word i.e. Hawking radiation) doesn’t mean the information isn’t there to be quantified.

Yeah, when writing this I sort of had the notion that any argument against hard determinism using quantum mechanics would instead 1) actually prove multiverse theory, and 2) therefore still prove in favor of determinism.

Maybe? My layman understanding of that topic is that the act of observation collapses alternative waveforms down to a single observed state. And if that’s the case, why couldn’t you “observe” the whole brain?

In this case the K in K-pop stands for Klingon

I’m glad you’re enjoying this topic as much as I am

I think this is my favorite answer so far.

That was poetic and beautifully described.

Fascinating. 🖖

Thank you for a fun answer.

I’ll have to find some gummy bears.

I like this take, but it also makes me feel like I could do a better job describing the intent of my question in more scientific terms. I hope to do so, here.

If one were to have sufficiently advanced technology akin to future MRI machines that could image the state of the human brain at Planck time resolution, my argument is that the very process of “a decision” (act, choice, idea, etc.) could be quantified. And if that is the case, then there must be chemical triggers and causal events that could have predicted that state of the matter and energy. And if that’s the case, then we must really be products of our environment in an (currently) incomprehensibly large chemistry equation.

If any one decision could be quantized, reverse engineered, and then predicted through such means, then it stands to reason every decision can be. And if that’s the case, free will cannot exist.

I’ll have to check it out

It kinda did with Sense8, due to overwhelming fan support for at least completing the story. Netflix caved and they produced a movie to wrap it up.

As this episode will remind you, it’s rude to assume all Orions are pirates.