You can get as much entertainment for free by going on a long hike through a park or state forest. Pack a picnic lunch This is what a friend of mine used to do every weekend with their family. I've lived all over the US and have never been far from such activities. Make it a habit.
I found land at $400/acre. I still see it advertised all the time. It's not good farming land, but is good enough to raise animals and have a personal farm. Most of the good farming land that look at is $4-5k/acre. You just need adequate land for yourself and family, not profit maximizing land.
As long as you look for problems and not answers, you will fail.
What ideas?/just curious, not really interested in doing techy stuff anymore (but can), programming since trs-80 late 70's, mostly hard RT embedded. One of my crazy ideas was to buy up a ghost town (there are a lot in rural areas) and build a community of maybe semi retired tech people without money and can't find work... I think most people want to live in a big city and not do manual labor though.
Go buy some cheap land. Grow your own food. I tried it because I had nothing to do for a few months and haven't been back to work in ten years. It's fun and challenging and you learn a lot of new things, meet a lot more people, have free time all day and night, breath clean air, no stress, good food and it's almost free. Just do it or stop complaining and looking for reasons why you can't. per aspera ad astra
According to a Colorado survey, 86 percent of high-level quadriplegics rated their quality of life as average or better than average, while only 17 percent of their ER doctors, nurses, and technicians thought they would experience an average or better quality of life after sustaining a spinal cord injury.
What's to say it's not? Neuroscience shows that free will is an illusion I mean if you believe that the universe follows a set of rules, even if we don't understand them (QM), then it is a big state machine and we're all automatons. How could free will even exist? It would be like a computer deciding that it did not want to take a particular branch this time around.
He didn't form anything. It's a very old philosophical argument (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_reality) and was made into a major motion trilogy 15 years ago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_%28franchise%29). Also known as the simulation argument, there ave been a few philosophical papers written on it in the last few years, notably one that says odds are we are likely in a simulation that came out about ten years ago (along with he proof).
I attended a lecture, sales pitch actually, by a guy at a college who said it did. This was back in the 80's when climate change meant the next ice age was nigh...anyway, as more ice accumulated at the poles, it would compress the Earth and crack along tectonic plates. He was selling blue green algae as a solution to this (somehow). I can only assume he succeeded beyond his wildest imagination.
where you raise the pitch of your voice at the end of every sentence
Oddly enough, my Russian teacher told me that this is normal in the Russian language and that it is backwards from English. Dropping the pitch implies a question.
What exactly does his mean? I don't know anything about the amish, but I'd doubt many went hungry or without shelter. I live in one of the poorest areas of the US and I don't see many people truly lacking anything. Sure everybody drives a beater 1978 truck and lives in a dumpy house, but no one is hungry and everyone has a house and a car.
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You can get as much entertainment for free by going on a long hike through a park or state forest. Pack a picnic lunch This is what a friend of mine used to do every weekend with their family. I've lived all over the US and have never been far from such activities. Make it a habit.
As long as you look for problems and not answers, you will fail.
The average American is an idiot too.
What would be an acceptable proof?
http://www.simulation-argument...
He isn't doing anything other than saying that Nick Bostrom (who presented a proof) might be right.
Exactly. Not only that, but freewill can not exist within any number of layers of universe(s).
Then you have no say in the matter.
And that there is no such thing as freewill. All rationalism leads to nihilism.
What ideas? /just curious, not really interested in doing techy stuff anymore (but can), programming since trs-80 late 70's, mostly hard RT embedded. One of my crazy ideas was to buy up a ghost town (there are a lot in rural areas) and build a community of maybe semi retired tech people without money and can't find work... I think most people want to live in a big city and not do manual labor though.
Stop worrying about the world and concentrate on your friends.
Go buy some cheap land. Grow your own food. I tried it because I had nothing to do for a few months and haven't been back to work in ten years. It's fun and challenging and you learn a lot of new things, meet a lot more people, have free time all day and night, breath clean air, no stress, good food and it's almost free. Just do it or stop complaining and looking for reasons why you can't. per aspera ad astra
According to a Colorado survey, 86 percent of high-level quadriplegics rated their quality of life as average or better than average, while only 17 percent of their ER doctors, nurses, and technicians thought they would experience an average or better quality of life after sustaining a spinal cord injury.
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This is the full argument by the person who said that odds are we are living in a simulation: The simulation argument
Physicists do this all the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
What's to say it's not? Neuroscience shows that free will is an illusion I mean if you believe that the universe follows a set of rules, even if we don't understand them (QM), then it is a big state machine and we're all automatons. How could free will even exist? It would be like a computer deciding that it did not want to take a particular branch this time around.
There was one experiment a few years that attempted to show that time was quantized, but it showed the opposite IIRC.
He didn't form anything. It's a very old philosophical argument (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_reality) and was made into a major motion trilogy 15 years ago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_%28franchise%29). Also known as the simulation argument, there ave been a few philosophical papers written on it in the last few years, notably one that says odds are we are likely in a simulation that came out about ten years ago (along with he proof).
Childhood nightmares
Climate change doesn't cause earthquakes.
I attended a lecture, sales pitch actually, by a guy at a college who said it did. This was back in the 80's when climate change meant the next ice age was nigh...anyway, as more ice accumulated at the poles, it would compress the Earth and crack along tectonic plates. He was selling blue green algae as a solution to this (somehow). I can only assume he succeeded beyond his wildest imagination.
No one in the west believes they are part of the the 99.9%.
often advertisements are skipped
If google knows so much about me, then why do they keep showing me tampon commercials before my requested video of Norwegian tractor pulls?
where you raise the pitch of your voice at the end of every sentence
Oddly enough, my Russian teacher told me that this is normal in the Russian language and that it is backwards from English. Dropping the pitch implies a question.
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hit much harder than most Americans.
What exactly does his mean? I don't know anything about the amish, but I'd doubt many went hungry or without shelter. I live in one of the poorest areas of the US and I don't see many people truly lacking anything. Sure everybody drives a beater 1978 truck and lives in a dumpy house, but no one is hungry and everyone has a house and a car.