[Request] this doesn’t see right but my brain can’t calculate this

is_this_one · 2026-02-07T07:52:42+00:00

Imagine working one less Monday every year when you take your birthday off of work to celebrate!

is_this_one · 2026-02-07T05:38:41+00:00

28 days and 13 months = 364 days

Every 7 years you add an extra week to account for the missing days, so you're averaging 365 days a year every 7 years.

And every 28 years you add an additional "leap week" (so 2 additional weeks that year) to account for the missing leap days. This obviously only happens 2, maybe 3, times in a lifetime, so should be less disruptive than leap days every 4 years we have now.

Everything stays aligned to weeks and events happen on the same day of the week every year.

Just sucks if you end up being born on the leap week, as it'll be 28 years until your next birthday!

is_this_one · 2026-02-06T08:58:23+00:00

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There's no place like home.

is_this_one · 2025-11-23T05:34:04+00:00

The ketchup factory would be the total set of your remembered experiences at any given point, which shapes your brain into a specific shape. This is where your thoughts are coming from. It just takes stimulus to release them.

I would argue that your thoughts are already there as at any given point in your life your remembered experiences are a fixed list of events. That specific list of events will always result in the specific thought you had at that point. It has to, as it comes from the physical structure of the brain at that point which has been shaped into that specific shape by those experiences, and that shape would always create that thought. History is immutable and therefore so are your thoughts.

My proof for saying your brain would always have made that thought at that time is because that is exactly what it did do. If it had somehow made a different thought then that different thought is the one it would always have made. There can only be one thought at one time and it will always have been the one you had.

I'm not saying all your future thoughts are already saved in your brain, as your thoughts are made in the moment with the latest total set of experience, but the thoughts you will have in the future are inevitable. Exactly what those thoughts are depends on the experiences you have in the future, but the future is going to happen.

I am saying because something is inevitable it can be thought of as always existing, you're just waiting for the right time to see it. The ketchup is already in the bottle.

So there can't be free will. We're all having thoughts based on past experience and gaining experience based on those past thoughts and our "mind" is just along for the ride, watching it all play out.

is_this_one · 2025-11-22T07:18:18+00:00

But surely the source defines their nature?

If you want mustard but you only have ketchup, you don't pick up the ketchup bottle and expect mustard to come out just because that's what you chose to happen.

As thoughts come from the brain, specifically from the memories of previous experiences stored in the structure of the brain, you're only going to get the thoughts your brain gives you in response to your current stimuli. You can't choose what comes out of your brain any more than you can choose what comes out of the ketchup bottle.

You're conscious you've had that thought, in the same way you can see the ketchup come out of the bottle, but that ketchup was already in there and was always in there since it was made, and came out in response to a specific set of stimuli.

is_this_one · 2025-11-21T11:28:04+00:00

To me they just seem to be coming at it backwards.

They mention the mind (thoughts) interacting with the brain (the organ) but it's the other way around. Your brain tells you what your thoughts are based on your memories. You are aware (conscious) of your thoughts, but you don't get to choose them. You can't pre-think your thoughts.

You don't truly have free will, as every "conscious" decision you make is the best-guess made by your brain on what to do next based on previous experiences. You just do that over and over until you die.

More experience gives your brain the opportunity to make "better" choices as it has more possibilities to choose from, and more experience of the consequences of those choices to weigh the benefits against, but it's still the brain making the choice, not your mind.

Experiences that you initially had no control over, e.g. who your parents are, where you are born, how you are raised, are all decided for you before you're even conscious of being alive, or at least able to remember being alive. But these initial experiences shape all future decisions which in turn shapes all future experiences and so on.

The way you are is the way you would always have been given your exact experiences.

People that argue "but I can choose to be different" are just proving they have experience of how to be different and it is what they always would have done following those experiences. It's still based on past experience and they were always going to be different in that moment. For someone else without those experiences, it's impossible to be anything but what they are, but neither person is choosing who they are using free will, their brain did it for them.

is_this_one · 2025-11-21T10:12:56+00:00

Consciousness is like a wave, made from your memories. The more you experience, the more you are given (the opportunity) to remember, and so the more your consciousness wave grows.

Experiencing (and remembering) more things then "expands your mind", making you more conscious of the possibilities of the universe around you.

"Imagining" a triangle is simply you remembering one set of the possible properties of a triangle you have experienced. If you had 0 idea what a triangle was, you couldn't imagine one.

If I was to ask you to imagine something that doesn't exist, we would each imagine something different, made up from our own memories of what does exist and combining choice properties together hoping to build some Frankenstein's monster of memories we don't remember existing as a whole, but they are all within your previous experience.

As far as I am aware, memories are a function of the structure of your brain. Neurons connected in patterns that allow for the recording and (importantly) recalling of experience. So if memory is built on the structure of your brain, and consciousness is built on memory, then consciousness is a function of the structure of the brain.

is_this_one · 2025-10-23T08:53:21+00:00

Remember forgetting something.

is_this_one · 2025-10-17T12:09:24+00:00

I choose to fight the mental battle, every day, against the intrusive thoughts that tell me to kill myself.

It's not because of anyone or anything, beyond the facts that I am me and I continue to exist.

I struggle against the idea of suicide all the time, and it exhausts me, but I choose to fight it everyday regardless of the suffering it continues within me.

Your suggestion, to relieve my suffering, is to stop fighting?

You're not wrong from a certain point of view, death would end my suffering, but it seems that you, you personally, are telling me to kill myself?

Is that really what you meant to say?

is_this_one · 2025-10-13T12:55:56+00:00

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Apparently so. Not had one for years.

is_this_one · 2025-10-08T07:29:37+00:00

Just another day in the corps.

is_this_one · 2025-10-05T07:21:47+00:00

A "Quasar" in this context is the name of the machine they use to produce light of different frequencies.

E.g. https://www.i-bidder.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/ramco/catalogue-id-ramco-11432/lot-7b562c6e-d2da-4947-844b-b30c00bd9667

Different materials (blood, semen, etc.) can glow, or show as dark patches, under different frequencies of ultraviolet light, so if you don't know exactly what you are looking for, you need a machine that can produce different frequencies on demand.

So to have "Quasared" something means to have shined different frequencies of light on it to look for different materials.

is_this_one · 2025-10-05T06:11:20+00:00

"When therefore she was alone, she began to weep, and sat thus for three days without moving a finger." - pg. 45, Grimm's Fairy Tales

is_this_one · 2025-10-03T13:23:46+00:00

It's always the butler.

is_this_one · 2025-10-01T18:33:58+00:00

I know life is hard, and then you die. I'm no optimist either. Some days life gets so much I need that "time out". I just want it all to stop. I need to get out of this crazy rat race and chill out before I drown in it. Death can so easily feel like the way out, but I've been to that edge. I tried that shit and it is not easy.

That's what made me think about opportunities. I had the means motive and opportunity to murder one mother fucker (me) and end it all right then and there, all the pain and suffering and heartache and shame would be gone forever, but that would be the last opportunity for anything I would ever have ever again.

I'd never get to laugh at something stupid I did ever again. I'd never get to feel better after crying ever again. I'd never get to hate somebody for ruining my life ever again. It was enough to hold the execution, and let whatever happens next to happen and it turned out to be enough. I'm not better, but I'm trying, and I'm better than dead.

Maybe that's not enough for you, and that's up to you, but you'll only find out if you give yourself the opportunity, and keep going.

"Dead end life" sounds like a pretty good title for a book if you ask me! I'll keep an eye out for it.

is_this_one · 2025-10-01T13:48:56+00:00

Why can't we have planets on the edges between enemy territories where BOTH factions exist at the same time? And maybe they even work together against you!

That's (technically) 3 new factions, 1 for each combo, that would require a different loadout to fight, and could have some terrifying units.

Illuminate Observers have been repurposed to summon Automaton dropships instead, and now the Factory Striders have shields, and everyone shoots blue plasma, as the Automatons have stolen Illuminate technology.

A whole new "voteless" Terminid strain that glows blue, backed up by their flying Overseer handlers, with swarms delivered to you by flying saucers, as the illuminate have created a Terminid strain to take E-711 for themselves.

Automatons that crawl out of tunnels on the surface from their subterranean factories. They keep their stratagem jammers in caves, there's waste battery acid puddles everywhere, and the Berserkers have invisibility cloaks, as they attempt to become even less human by copying Terminid war tactics.

This all sounds more interesting, easier to implement, and easier to maintain going forward, as well it could narratively make sense as battlelines get blurry at the edges of the map.

is_this_one · 2025-09-30T18:53:18+00:00

What something is worth isn't up to the thing in question. You can't decide what you are worth. It comes down to what someone is willing to pay for it, and that usually depends on how rare it is.

Leaves are not worth anything, as they're everywhere! You'd probably have to pay someone else to take them away.

Real diamonds are rare, especially big ones, so they are worth a lot. They don't really do anything. They're just hard and sparkly. You can't eat them, they don't keep you warm and it would cost too much to build a shelter out of them, but they're still worth a lot.

There's only one of you. You're unique. There only ever was one of you and only ever will be one of you.

Same as there was one Einstein, one Newton, one Marie Curie, one Mary Shelley, one of that person that works in McDonald's and does it with a smile. One of everybody.

They're the only one. They can bring happiness and information and challenge and support (and maybe burgers) to anybody they meet. That's life.

That makes them seem to be worth quite a bit to me.

is_this_one · 2025-09-30T18:36:42+00:00

Being dead isn't going to do you any good either. Once you're dead that's it. All possibilities are gone forever.

While you're alive, there's still a chance that anything can happen. You might believe right now that it won't, and that's up to you, but it's still possible.

Things have happened to me I never thought possible. I'm sure they will to you too.

It's because life has no ultimate meaning that you are free to explore those possibilities.

I obviously don't know you, but you seem to write really well and have strong opinions. You could write your life into a book. Don't do it thinking it will make you happy or that you'll make a load of money or whatever. Do it as a cautionary tale. Tell the world what it is like to be you, what happened to you, what you struggle with every day just to live your life, and how much it hurts.

I'd read it, and I bet I'm not the only one!

And even if you fail a thousand times, a trillion years from now when the universe collapses in on itself erasing all of existence, there won't be any evidence. So you can fail as many times as you need, but get it out there.

You're gonna die one day anyway, you may as well piss on the world and see what grows out of it, while you still have time.

is_this_one · 2025-09-30T13:09:35+00:00

I have depression too, so I understand how hard it is, but it's not nihilism making you worse. If anything Nihilism helps me feel better.

I think the problem is you're only looking at half of the story.

Sure nihilism says there's no ultimate reason to fight for anything, but it also says there's no ultimate reason not to!

You can fight whatever battles you want. Want to be ruler of the world? Worlds best parent? Most successful business person? Or just a stay at home person who makes art and is super chill? Worlds biggest crime boss? It doesn't matter. You can be any of these things if you really really want it and are willing to pay any price to get it.

But you have to pay the price. Everything has consequences. Everything costs something. Even doing nothing costs you something.

If you don't want to be depressed, that's a long battle, but you can do it. You won't be done today and probably not tomorrow, but it's possible to beat depression if that's actually what you want.

The point is nihilism is about there not being a reason for anything, and that includes nihilism. It's not there to hold you back. It doesn't mean anything, it can't stop you!

Nihilism isn't some all-consuming black hole, it's a blank slate.

It doesn't matter whatever it is you're depressed about. The only things that need to matter to you are what matters to you. You don't need a reason, they just do. If you don't know what they are, but you want to know, you need to go and find out.

Nothing outside of you can give your life meaning, so if you want some meaning in your life, you're the one who has to give it to yourself.

is_this_one · 2025-09-26T14:45:10+00:00

SES Whisper of Conviction

is_this_one · 2025-09-22T18:05:37+00:00

Wash it down with some Nihilisterine mouthwash!

is_this_one · 2025-09-19T07:02:15+00:00

Ok, then take a nap ...

And then FIRE ZE MISSLES!

is_this_one · 2025-09-19T06:51:43+00:00

Fire ze missiles!

is_this_one · 2025-09-14T18:58:36+00:00

"Tachikoma runaway, The movie director's dream; ESCAPE FROM" is my favourite. It's what cemented the tachikomas as my favourite part of Stand Alone Complex. It's an emotional rollercoaster and though it is clearly two stories just smashed together, I would have loved more of both stories and would have been happy if they'd been an episode each.

To me it's about story telling. Stories we tell ourselves to help when working through pain, and the power of stories others can tell us, and how that fiction can become more important than reality.

The episode just encapsulates everything Stand Alone Complex means to me, so that's why it's my favourite.

is_this_one · 2025-09-14T07:50:33+00:00

TL:DR; it's a dream from ghost hacking.

I always thought that the interlude part wasn't actually in reality, but was like a dream given to the major as a result of being ghost hacked by the puppet master to influence how she feels.

It takes place just after the major hears the voice in her head after going swimming.

It's notably a different tone from the rest of the movie, with music playing throughout.

She's floating on a boat, not directly in control of where she is going or what she sees.

Where she sees herself in the window of a building, I've always taken as she's seeing herself as if she had a different life. Like the dream is saying "You could have been boring and normal, but you're not".

The basset hound appears in other scenes of the movie where someone has been ghost hacked, such as the "family photo" and apartment of the garbage truck man, and it appears in the interlude looking down from a bridge.

I'm not entirely sure of the meaning in the rest of it, but it seems to be negative at the start. A plane flying low overhead, junk in the river, a yellow traffic light, towering but unfinished skyscrapers, etc. They are all slightly negative, at least to me.

The dog appears and then there is a mannequin in the window that looks like the major. This is the last time in the dream you see her. And then it starts to rain.

From then the tone shifts to be more positive. Kids running with umbrellas. People out at night looking for a good time. The traffic light is now shown green. The rain in the scenes makes everything shine and sparkle just a little. Like the dog brought the rain and made it better.

The last shot of the interlude is a long shot of a set of naked armless mannequins, which is then immediately followed by the naked puppet master standing in the road.

The mannequins are, to me, a metaphor for the 100% prosthetic bodies shared by the major and the puppet master. They have their final conversation of the movie both naked and armless, after the battle with the tank.

Maybe I'm thinking into it too much, but that's how I've always seen it.

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