Posts posted by iNow
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18 hours ago, swansont said: The OP seems to be based on (or possibly even actively promoting) poorly constructed propaganda
It’s the latter clearly, plus a dash of shit stirring to get people who are otherwise friends to turn against one another. Basically every post they’ve made since joining further evidences this assertion.
Neither action nor reply needed, just amplifying your obviously correct point.
1 hour ago, swansont said: Blaming the system is a red herring, IMO, because the problem is inherent in any population of people.
Again hitting nails squarely on their heads.
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On 12/20/2025 at 7:00 AM, raphaelh42 said: I don't understand what you want/wanted to ask me exactly...
There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding in this thread. It’s okay. We can move on.
I suspect it’s not certain human rules from which you want freedom, but instead certain humans in your life. If so, then I’m sorry to hear that and wish you well.
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15 minutes ago, raphaelh42 said: if you want real freedom, you need to learn to live naked, without money, like an animal
Even here, you won't be free. You won't be free from struggle. From suffering. From a need to find and protect shelter. From the need to locate and acquire food and resources.
Quite the contrary. Without money to make those things easier to acquire, you'd be less free. Losing all of your time simply finding the basics for survival and having no other time for anything you wish you were free to do.
I'm not saying availability of money is required for freedom. I'm saying your freedom to choose to do whatever you want is facilitated by it.
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Edited by iNow
It depends a bit on how you define time. It is, however, a concept that is frustratingly resistant to simple definition.
Many of the words you use are ambiguous and vague. They’re not helpful in understanding. Precision matters in topics like this.
Instant is meaningless. You cannot stop time. Time is change. Entropy increasing.
Perhaps you mean what our feeble limited human minds perceive as time. As right now. As this moment or this instant, but even that is delayed by several hundred milliseconds from when the event occurs. There is a measurable space between interactions and our awareness of them.
There are perhaps other dimensions to consider, too. We are aware of 3-dimensions and exist in 4, but perhaps there’s more. That likely informs the answer here.
Without input of energy, disorder increases. Time is a way we use imperfect human terms to describe that growing entropy. It’s a measure like distance and you’re essentially asking “how does distance pass?”
This conversation will forever remain a philosophical one, and it requires you ask better questions with clearer terms. This is part of why math is so appealing on this topic. Clarity is embedded and misinterpretation mitigated.
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5 hours ago, Markus Hanke said: Is there any way to change one’s display name on this forum? Maybe I’m blind, but I wasn’t able to find such a setting anywhere.
IIRC, Admins like @Cap'n Refsmmat can do it, but Mods nor Members cannot
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10 minutes ago, Linkey said: all of these phenomena have a common cause: politics.
You misspelled cell phones and social media
11 minutes ago, Linkey said: Western democracy is illusory, the deep state rules there.
For someone who laments politics, you sure do bandy it about heavily in all your posts.
12 minutes ago, Linkey said: I am certain that if we introduce a political system with many referendums, people will easily make friends anywhere, and loneliness will disappear, as well as alcoholism.
Well, so long as you’re convinced that’s good enough for me!
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55 minutes ago, studiot said: Thanks iNow.
So why does this option not appear in the Edit Profile option that you first get ?
Because not all people doing software and user interface (UI) design give a shit about user experience (UX), or when they do "changing profile photo" doesn't rise to the top of their priorities list
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22 hours ago, dimreepr said: Trump just wants a deal
Actually, he just wants to be able to claim he got a deal. The deal itself is secondary and he doesn't much care whether it's real so long as he gets credit
21 hours ago, Science screw up said: If the courts rules against him he doesn't do it.
False.
21 hours ago, Science screw up said: Correct me if I am wrong but didn't Biden ignore the supreme court ruling against his power to give students debt relief?
False.
21 hours ago, Science screw up said: You are free to complain all you want.
I'm not complaining. I'm highlighting facts, but thanks for trying to dismiss them like a good little boot licker.
In 165 cases where the courts ruled against Trump, he's defied and ignored 57 of them (35%) as of March. And guess who controls the part of the government in place to enforce those court orders? I'll give you a hint: The courts don't have their own police nor justice department.
How should we use AI in medicine ?
in Medical Science
Bravo. Agreed. /chefskiss