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No, he’s the same guy who carried a snowball on to the House floor and held it up during a speech claiming that it proved climate change isn’t real.

Also, history is a big topic. It pretty much encompasses everything. Might help to narrow it down a bit.

Correct. In a cloaked Klingon ship, no less. AFAIK, it was not a nuclear wessel

You’re one of the fist folks I ever saw emphasizing that important difference btw trust and faith in response to folks conflating faith that the sun will come up or science is mostly accurate with faith that a white bearded guy surfing among the clouds cares if we masturbate or eat meat on Fridays (or pork on any day).

It still boggles the mind how many people continue to buy into this nonsense, and it’s worse now all these years later as millions upon millions of believers are simply migrating their religious beliefs over into QAnon conspiracies.

There are, but it really has nothing to do with novelty and familiarity. It's all just basic reward mechanism and what drives the biggest dopamine hit for us / reduces cortisol and adrenaline levels. It's all related to experience. How we interpret new experiences against past experience. How that stimulates us intellectually and emotionally. How that triggers good and bad memories from childhood, etc. Even experiencing the same place over and over and over again some more is going to be novel each and every time due to the way it IS a different experience each time... given how we've changed and evolved since the last time we experienced it... or even just given how we happen to be feeling that day, how we slept the night before, or what we most recently ate... every single time is a new experience even if we've been to the place before. Your question is making too many assumptions and is really ill-formed. Every experience is novel. Novelty is not on/off binary, and instead exists along a spectrum of extremely novel or barely.

Agree completely. It’s the only city I ever got completely lost walking around in. 😂

Agenda and soap boxing much?

Well, for males anyway, larger ejaculate volume when orgasming might be a benefit of masturbation avoidance. Regardless, whether you’re considering physical benefits or mental benefits of avoiding masturbation, these should be weighed against any risks or stresses this avoidance behavior may simultaneously create.

Oh. A keyboard. How quaint lol

No. By this same logic, heating ones home in winter is manslaughter because of the way it pollutes the air. Assault also generally requires intent. People merely standing beside you in public spaces cannot in most cases be considered to be “intentionally inflicting harm” on you, especially if they don’t believe themselves to be infected. I think it’s you who needs to begin thinking about where you do and don’t stand and what PPE you use when encountering circumstances where the distance between people is smaller than you prefer.

Lernins fer librils n dumbacrats u soshalist! #Trump2024!!

Nice work, Moon! That’s the most transparent plywood I’ve ever seen!

Assignment for work in APJ a few months and good friends

It’s amazing, indeed. I stayed there briefly about a decade ago. What about the engineering did you wish to discuss, though?

Is what a bot?

Because right and wrong aren’t objective states that apply consistently across domains. They’re based merely on local behavioral norms and cultural expectations. These unwritten “codes of conduct” evolve over time and vary from one community to another.

And perhaps my computer is powered by unicorn farts and leprechaun laughs. We may never know

Repeating this since the last poster so clearly missed it (or simply didn’t care)

It's known as the subjectivity bias, and you seem uninterested in recognizing that this is no way to arrive at an accurate or useful model of the cosmos (or simply following the rules to which you agreed when creating your account here).

I remember him from even before that on yet another site called Hypography.

Also, birth control. The cost of accidental birth is nearly zero for men, and decidedly NOT zero for women.

I tend to align with that perspective