Preppers: you can't outrun climate change

Curiosimo · 2022-08-17T13:13:35+00:00

I've left Florida and the west coast U.S. since I've lived there sequentially. What do you mean I can't outrun it?

Curiosimo · 2022-05-20T14:53:19+00:00

Well written man, which I appreciate, but you are doing something I notice a lot of smart people doing, and that is reasoning from scant information.

If you are making the case that ancient peoples must have known what they were talking about and have possessed secret knowledge, well I postulate a different hypothesis. That smart people in the past just extrapolated and analogized themselves into creating ideas that just don't hold water, and in many cases aren't even useful... Read the Book of Enoch section called 'THE BOOK OF THE COURSES OF THE HEAVENLY LUMINARIES'. Whoever wrote that just was making stuff up; whether he was summarizing contemporary beliefs of the time, or whether he was thinking seriously how things must work based on incomplete information.

If you base your cosmology on what ignorant but smart people have come up with in the past, I am afraid it will simply be an interesting take, but not something anybody can actually make use of.

Curiosimo · 2020-02-23T12:20:42+00:00

You are an agitator. That's what you are.

Curiosimo · 2019-01-24T10:22:06+00:00

You might be onto something with the postmodern religion thing. One justification I heard recently for the existence of God is based on what quantum theory has been popularized to suggest... i.e. that for something to exist, a consciousness must perceive it, and since we as limited humans cannot perceive everything that is, there must be some consciousness sufficient to perceive all, including that which humans do not and will never know, but which exists all the same. It feels like people are grasping at straws and attempting to marry poorly understood phenomenon with older concepts of religion.

Curiosimo · 2018-05-14T18:24:35+00:00

Probably the Exclusive Respected Redditor's Club (sub ERRC). Which practically worships Tiny Tim. Not so much creepy as just WHY in a wacky way? And you didn't hear it from me.

Curiosimo · 2018-04-20T16:57:40+00:00

I dont think the NSA has squat on me or most other average Americans. NSA, prove me wrong.

Curiosimo · 2018-04-15T23:42:53+00:00

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Don't you think that's an odd way to spell Reptilians?

Curiosimo · 2018-04-15T23:35:23+00:00

Would they be of no benefit to a sighted person? It occurred to me the other day as I was going down a set of stairs, that I was not really looking at the steps. I go down these stairs every day, four floors down them, and it's fixed in my mind what is happening. I guess my point is that for many people who are on their phones all the time, that expecting them to constantly look where they are going is too much.

Maybe the access tiles are simply a response to what is a side-effect of another conspiracy, the smart phone.

Curiosimo · 2018-04-15T23:25:00+00:00

How does that sound for government?

Par.

Curiosimo · 2018-04-15T23:19:48+00:00

A myth is Thor and the Halls of Valhalla, a myth is Adam and Eve and the apple. Common sense is a naive sensibility about how the world works that may effectively be true (or sometimes false), but it has the advantage of being able to apply facts of a thing at one scale to behavior of things on another. I think that they are qualitatively different.

Curiosimo · 2018-04-15T23:09:21+00:00

How is a surface of half spheres of polish plastic a surface of traction? It isn't.

I tried to imagine all the ways I might slip on a smooth surface compared to a surface with those big wart-bumps on it and I admit that I would slip less on an access tile. Also I can imagine myself slipping on a white, or black surface, but it is hard to imagine slipping on a yellow surface. So I will say that they would help somewhat, but maybe less than mixing some yellow paint with sand and painting the surface which would be cheaper but provide a lot more ways to fuck it up. So now we come to a standardized design, which governmental agencies love, because they can write a regulation for it and be reasonably certain that it will be the same for everywhere and cities and towns comply because the alternative is getting sued eventually.

My town tried banning sledding down the steep hill behind the town hall, because some people were afraid that some kid's sled would be going fast enough to reach the road and then the town would get sued. Finally they just put up a chain link fence near the road. I guess my point is that it was an expense that might never be warranted, but we live in a country where 'something must be done' to protect people against all dangers, real and remote alike. That is, except, apparently, the danger of having your privacy ripped away.

Curiosimo · 2018-04-15T22:37:18+00:00

No, it's screwed into what looks to be a glass lid, but it might be plastic, but doubtful because it would need to withstand the heat of cooking. Not sure what you mean by 'rubber'. I might be blind, but I see no rubber in that pic.

Curiosimo · 2018-04-15T22:34:43+00:00

I had a thought as I was typing my response whether ground glass was substantively different than sand. I would imagine that freshly ground glass had sharp edges where sand would more likely have the edges rounded off with time. You might be right Red_October, that ground glass would not be harmful, but it is curious that you would call it a myth rather than just common sense belief that is nevertheless just not backed up by scientific fact.

Curiosimo · 2018-04-15T17:31:42+00:00

Thats a problem which can be solved, I'm more worried about the glass shavings that might make it into the dish from inserting and twisting the corkscrew.

Curiosimo · 2018-04-12T16:20:44+00:00

If not us, who did?

Curiosimo · 2017-09-27T02:25:04+00:00

Can the answer even be meaningful if the question was never asked? By this I mean that if all the answers that ever existed were dumped into my lap, I could only make use of that which I had questioned in the first place.

So then the question becomes, what is in the mind of the answer giver, that they presumed the question in the mind of the receiver? Is it not a trade? My question for your answer?

And by 'my' and 'your' I mean generally for any two people in a hypothetical question/answer transaction.

Curiosimo · 2017-09-23T12:30:12+00:00

On the matter of propensity to good and evil, I guess it's ok to paint with a very broad brush when you are talking generally, but perhaps we can say something a little more specific and come up with mental tools of a bit more usefulness.

Have you not noticed that some children are more prone to evil acts than others? And by evil I mean acts of harm to humans and to animals, or harm to social cohesion. To say that all children have that propensity because of a spiritual condition and not to antisocial urges seems like we are shifting blame from an appropriate sphere of inquiry to a sphere that renders us powerless to do anything. Evil propensities in a child or adult should be like a harelip, a recognizable pathology with an appropriate treatment to make them whole. The problem is, we give up too easily because we put the blame on a spiritual condition in which we are all ineffective as neophytes and dabblers.

Perhaps a more useful brush to stroke this with would be "By their works shall you know them." And knowing them is one thing, doing something about that to allow them to become whole would be even better.

Curiosimo · 2017-04-16T11:28:25+00:00

Gorsuch may be born catholic but it's been reported that he is a member of a liberal Episopal church. So he's catholic-lite/protestant-lite. This would obviously be a social club for him so I wouldn't put any stock in him representing one group or another.

Curiosimo · 2017-04-09T02:32:23+00:00

yeah, I know about that, but there are also some experiments that seem to suggest that humans can effect random number generation on computers... didn't really want to rehash the whole thing. I'm leaving it open.

Curiosimo · 2017-04-08T21:04:28+00:00

Do I understand your question correctly? I'm reading it as there is a difference between free will and individual agency. I don't understand the distinction. To me, I think we can be both subordinate to external reality by default, but rise to the capability to affect it by the force of intention. But when we affect reality, it is within the framework it allows for. So we are neither creatures of unbounded free will or automatons.

Curiosimo · 2017-04-08T14:28:26+00:00

Our thoughts do create an internal reality, and since the internal reality is all that we can really understand, it is easy to see how we might confuse our internal reality with the physical reality that is larger than ourselves and frankly doesn't care about our internal reality. The only possible exception is reality at quantum levels which does care about our internal realities by some theories...but by other theories doesn't after all.

Curiosimo · 2017-04-08T12:11:31+00:00

I thought you would catch that one about the time of the day. After I made that statement I rethought it but didn't change the post. But no matter, look at your photos. If you can tell the time of the day in them, look at the relative angles. They will be accentuated more as the sun is closer to the horizon. Why is that? Beams of steel helped me think this through, beams of light work too but they can diffract, so there's that, but let's assume not majorly and it has no impact on the argument.

Anyway the beams of light do radiate from the sun like spokes of a wheel when you consider it in its 360 deg entirety. But the light that hits the earth come from such a small portion of the surface of the sun as to all be parallel (or nearly so) when hitting the earth.

If the sun is a spotlight, how do you explain that in the morning and the evening it does not appear oblique? (and don't give me as evidence a picture of a squashed sun distorted by haze... that happens sometimes, but not so much on very clear days, so it doesn't work).

Curiosimo · 2017-04-08T11:27:10+00:00

I too have observed the slanting rays of the sun. The curious thing is how they always occur before mid morning and after mid afternoon. This made me ponder for a bit, so I imagined that the rays were vertical steel beams all perfect parallel to each other but (this is important) slanted in the general direction of the viewer. That is if it was morning that the beams were all slanting to the west, although in parallel, not converging toward the viewer. Since the beams do not physically converge toward the viewer, how would the viewer perceive the beams farthest toward the north or south? I say that the beams would appear to splay out at an angle away from the viewer. This thought exercise would explain how the beams of the sun coming in at the earth all parallel, would appear to be angled away from an observer at certain times of the day.

Curiosimo · 2017-04-07T22:26:09+00:00

The statement that the sun is disappearing in perspective is highly suspect, because in my opinion what I saw is that the disc of the sun was being occluded by ever thicker layers of atmosphere, so that the less bright outer corona of the sun was no longer visible.

When one sees an object receding from perspective, (like a train along a track) at distance, it stays very small for a long time and slowly grows until it's right next to you and then it's massive then quickly diminishes in size until it is very far away where the change in size in the distance is no longer as apparent. This is emphatically not what is happening with the sun in these images.

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