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my money’s on it being due to his actual opinion/views being revealed in the Dominion case discovery Fox knows he’s lost his only currency - the illusion of credibility in the eyes of those who'll believe anything - and couldn’t continue to push to company line after being so comprehensively outed i...

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Your consciousness is intrinsically linked to your humanity.

if you're saying consciousness can only manifest biologically - then i respectfully disagree

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Replicate human consciousness digitally? I'd argue very strongly that your humanity is intrinsically linked to being a mobile bag of fluid tied to the physics of the universe. A digital human consciousness is just a digital human consciousness, and no longer human. 'humanity' is intrinsically linke...

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towny wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2023 8:47 am
What is the threat that will otherwise take us down?

you name it... meat sacks are horribly fragile and evolved for exactingly specific conditions - the sooner we're rid of them the better

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"I worry that the... Singularity... will be an ill-fated (and very possibly an ill-intended) global attempt to convince humanity that consciousness can be uploaded onto a digital platform, and therefore reducible to 1s and 0s." My only worry about this is that we won't be able to do it. If we don't...

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so, according to The Guardian, and various posters, Frizzell and Reece deserve life sentences... and you're ensuring that's exactly what they get...

... enlightened stuff

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Einstein had initially believed that the universe was static even though others had adapted parts of his General Theory of Relativity to show that the universe could expand. - that's my take on it as well... with 'could' being the crucial component the BBC produced a documentary called 'What happen...

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There’s some [admittedly limited] speculation that red shift has been misinterpreted. The theory is; friction at sub-plank / extra-dimensional geometries is de-energising photons and increasing their wave lengths - rather than expanding spacetime being the culprit. This reopens the door for steady-s...

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nice post Farva - interesting!

for mine, all three fall under the same category as any and all theological creation explanations: the answer to a question you don't understand and can't possibly know

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The EPA ruling has the potential to cause more damage than overturning Roe v Wade – well done! It completely exposes the GOP’s false narrative of protecting God’s handiwork [as does resistance to gun law change] as utter bollox - because if an unborn ‘child’ is the Lord’s creation - then what exactl...

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... the carnage continues... US marks Memorial Day weekend with at least 11 mass shootings "After a shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, that claimed the lives of 19 children and two teachers last week... mass shootings have already happened again – and again. "At least 14 mass shootin...

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Roe v Wade is a tool Republican lawmakers utilise for the purposes of division; deepening and widening the line in the sand to further demonstrate how wrong liberals are and how right conservatives are… This isn’t about women’s rights, their health, or protecting the unborn – it’s just another means...

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I believe there is life pretty much everywhere you could look in the universe and it's possible that the earth isn't a particularly remarkable or even diverse example of it. Everything is so far away from everything else though. A few million years from now, the only evidence that we all lived on e...

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"There's nothing out there but noble gases and carbon compounds... " the array of 'things' that had to occur for us to be having this conversation is absurd to the point that even in a galaxy with x-billion solar systems - we're the only ones talking to each other all that's out there are basic lif...

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facilitate ... americans seem to use it a lot, and incorrectly the way they add it to simple sentences is pure, unadulterated verbosity, commonly using it as 'to do', when it actually means to 'make (an action or process) easy or easier' verbosity ... only an internet w@nker would use a word like t...

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not sure if true... but here it is: Reuters reports that Ukrainian ambassador to the United States, Oksana Markarova, has claimed that Russia has used a vacuum bomb. Vacuum bombs are thermobaric weapons which suck oxygen from the air to create a high-temperature explosion. The weapons, often referre...

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while death exists, so will god the question is: once we’ve surpassed biology, will religion persevere? but between now and then science is shaping up to be the next great religion Dawkins has already said “if something can’t be measured scientifically, then it doesn’t exist” – which is the narrativ...

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after watching Facing Ali, I felt genuinely sorry for Fraser who Ali tormented relentlessly and savagely... the poor bloke simply didn't have the ability to combat Ali's rhetoric honestly, Ali hurt him more with his words than he did with his fists... and that's freaking saying something after what ...

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The overwhelming majority of issues, obstacles and problems facing humanity are not worth worrying about because they’ll all soon be redundant, as we’re on the cusp of disappearing down a virtual rabbit hole Virtual rabbit holes are incorrectly interpreted as the great filter Consciousness is singul...

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Question: if you apply the rugby adage 'forwards determine whether you win or loose, the backs by how much' to cricket - then who's who? for test cricket the bowlers must be the forwards - as you can't win without taking 20 wickets yet for ODIs and T20s the most runs wins - so batsmen are the forwards

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Morikawa's swing tempo is a thing of beauty...

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well, first thing you need to decide is what you actually mean or want when you say 'freedom'

do you want live in a place where you're free to do shit... or in a place that is free from shit?

there's a world of difference and IMO, generally, you can't have both... it's one or the other

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each to their own... but I won’t be watching these games - and I freaking love the Olympics I simply won’t support an organisation or an individual it's enabling, that is knowingly cheating and using the ‘technically we’re doing nothing wrong’ line to justify it Someone should introduce the NZOC to ...

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if i had money, without any doubt it'd be on this lot: https://lppfusion.com/

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"I think our students learn more when they... look at different scientific theories."

oh dear

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badmannotinjapan: "My gut is TR is a faster all round 'boat"

Well, we're all about to find out - T-15 mins to kick off

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Anonymous 1: So what. The ref said there was nothing wrong and he wasn't cited so that is the end of it. Plus we won the game. So then you agree that Tana and Kevin were wrongly accused?

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Experts Alarmed as CDC Abruptly Changes COVID-19 Advice Amid Reports of Interference https://www.sciencealert.com/cdc-changes-its-mind-on-just-who-needs-to-be-tested-for-covid-19 After previously encouraging people without COVID-19 symptoms to get tested if they have been exposed to someone diagnos...

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Probably pretty low. The one return that was leaked was 2005 and showed he paid about $30MM in tax that year. He would have had the benefit of accrued losses for some other years but the likelihood of escaping liability entirely is fairly remote.

check!!

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Cabbage wrote:Question about Trump's tax returns. What can they reveal other than some 'embarrassing' info, like him possibly not as rich as he says? Anything illegal would have been identified already no?

what are the chances he hasn't paid a single cent of personal income tax in years, or maybe even decades?

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don't know who these 'experts' are, but if this is anywhere close to being so, then the 'plan' to effectively ignore Covid and focus on the economy is going to go down as an all-time example of putting the cart before the horse: US government experts have said they believe more than 20 million Ameri...

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Southern Softie's departure was a significant loss... anyone remember his 'MAGS' - i used to hate myself for finding it so funny

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this is Thad Roberts talking about an 11 dimensional [9 space, 2 time] reality, based on the premise that ‘space’ is, at its fundamental level, constructed of quanta it's a TEDx talk he gave 10 years ago, so it seems the established scientific community hasn’t paid it much [any] attention... methink...

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Tucker just waded in

… testing and social distancing are only preventative measures… a cure can only come from science and the president knows this… which is why he’s been talking about various ways of discovering a cure since the beginning…

Seneca be many proud

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reportedly, in excess of 21 million cell phone accounts and 840,000 landlines have been cancelled in China during the past three months "... recently Beijing authorities announced on March 19 that more than 21 million cell phone accounts were cancelled while in the past three months 840,000 landline...

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India and Bangladesh may well end up topping this 'leaderboard' - and by a considerable margin

They could both end up having to use their military to bury the dead and collect rubbish, otherwise the spread of secondary infection could be devastating

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speaking of 'near eternal canvases' i can't help thinking how freaking awesome a big budget series based around Gurgeh from The Player of Games could be...

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Babble – The Stone
Generic ‘rainforest in a thunder storm’

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first confirmed case in the US... either quarantine everyone inbound from China, or add your patch to the quickly growing list

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Reynold's Revelation Space books are fantastic. For me, they're better than the Culture books. *prepares for backlash* i find them difficult to compare re: world building... Banks gave himself a near eternal canvas on which to paint with the Culture, while Revelation Space is relatively confined i ...

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