You think that ruined your day? I had LASIK - I paid to read that more clearly.

Right, and you can find out what it looks like beyond the event horizon of a black hole by just throwing a probe in that can survive the approach. Mind you, you’re not getting any information back out of the black hole, but it’ll be there in the probe’s databanks regardless. I suppose you can have it back over the span of the rest of the black hole’s life; though, you’ll need to record everything else coming out of it and somehow cohere all that information back together in the right order.

Which is only about as difficult to get anything scientifically useful from as your probabilistic proof machine. Both involve lots of radiation though, so they’re basically the same thing! (👉ﾟヮﾟ)👉

And what is there to stop the collapse from being the branch point? In one world, it collapses one way; in another, another. There doesn’t seem to be any inconsistency there.

I’m aware of the double slit experiment and its variations, but I probably do misunderstand Many Worlds to at least some degree; how does wave collapse prove Many Worlds to be false?

I know this is a bot reposting from elsewhere on the internet, but I have a question for anyone lurking here who agrees with this and maybe knows more about it than I do:

I barely have the executive function to keep myself and my living space clean while I’m working full time. I also do what I can to stay out of the limelight. Do people like me have the energy or gumption for politics at this more local level?

There isn’t any “proof”; in fact, Many Worlds is what’s called “unfalsifiable”, which means we don’t have a way through the scientific method to show Many Worlds to be false.

Also, it’s not really

My God! There must be many worlds than just our one?

But more

There are moments in time where one path is taken and not another… but what if all paths are taken, somewhere?

It’s not meant to be a valid theory, it’s just a possible outcome of having a spacetime continuum; because it’s not falsifiable though, it’s not worth pursuing right now, only worth keeping in mind in case we come across new evidence to evaluate.

And, it should be treated like a loan, with the interest frontloaded.

Nope, but Australian healthcare is looking more and more like US healthcare every day, and whose fault is that?

It’s the strongest argument yet for adding Trump, anyway.

Yeah, really reaching into the ancient misty mists for that one, all the way back in the hoary years of 2023 when even real life was monochrome 🙄

Edit: I understand now it wasn’t intended as a rebuttal, but it sure came off like one. The date of publication is usually only relevant if the information has been superseded, or is so far in the past that the information is no longer relevant.

Unfortunately air traffic control has been underfunded and understaffed for multiple decades at this point… It’s no surprise that our aircraft are falling out of the sky now that Trump gutted the FAA, even if this particular tragedy was longer in the brewing.

You’re right that heads may not need to roll - but there needs to be a huge national push to train and hire new air traffic controllers, and to modernise all the ATC equipment at airports. We need to give the profession the support it’s been asking for.

I’ve been flying my whole life so I’m very comfortable with it, and even I’m unwilling to get on a plane if I don’t have to nowadays. I can only imagine the numbers of my company in that, but I doubt I’m alone, and if that attitude is spreading it’s bad news for airlines that are already struggling.

Main bedroom, guest room, and trundle bed in the guest room.

I don’t really worry about wear - the nice thing about Comfort Option is that when one of the foam layers wears out, you can buy a replacement from them and replace just that layer, instead of buying a whole new mattress.

Of course you don’t have to buy it from them - any foam manufacturer should be able to sell a sheet of the stuff that will fit in the cover, if you give them the measurements.

Where do you get that I’m “idolizing them” from my post? Whatever Valve pays to get this development done, it’s not pushing up the price of a device that runs Linux/Proton vs one that runs Windows, because Linux/Proton/etc don’t attract a licensing fee, while Windows does. That’s just objective fact. Meanwhile you’re over here speculating your tits off about stuff that might happen, so you can yell at me. The fuck did I say to warrant this aggressive bullshit from you?

I’m glad you’ve seen yourself the way she sees you, at least for a moment. My wife makes me feel the same way 😊 Love yourself, brother, you’re a good-looking dude!

Technically the OS isn’t free

And practically, that doesn’t matter. Valve isn’t charging anyone a licensing fee for the software they’ve developed, so as far as the cost of the device goes SteamOS is free. Just because they could charge for it doesn’t change that.

A good mattress is indeed one of the best purchases you can make! Online stores with a lot of marketing (Purple, Casper, etc) tend to be more expensive to make up for all the marketing though, and I’ve heard stories of off-gassing despite basically everyone claiming “our mattresses don’t do that!”. Did yours smell at all when you first got it?

Not trying to shade your choice at all, I’m just mentioning because I read a lot of threads like this when I was looking for a new mattress. I’ve gotten my last three mattresses from https://comfortoption.com/ and they’re more comfortable than anything else I’ve tried (including my old Serta memory foam block), and a few hundred bucks cheaper than the YouTube/influencer-marketed brands. My sister likes the one she got on my rec too.

I do understand those things, and Maher clearly doesn’t.

You said:

I think he only aligns with Trump on a single thing you listed, and even that’s is for different reasons than Trump’s.

But Maher said:

I told him I thought parts of his plan for Gaza were wacky but that I had supported him in the idea that Gaza could be Dubai instead of hell. I told him he was wrong when he tweeted the night before that I was critical of all things Trump. Not true — check the tapes.

Moving Israel’s embassy to Jerusalem? Loved it. The border did need to be controlled. I’m glad the cops are getting their morale back. DEI had gone too far. Biological men shouldn’t be playing women’s sports. Europe should pay for their defense. And of course, it makes sense that Arab countries should take in Arab refugees, like the million Syrians who wound up in Germany when Saudi Arabia took none. He said to me, ‘You’re right, they took none.’

• https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2025/04/12/bill-maher-donald-trump-full-monologue/83055277007/

It’s fine that you want to continue to enjoy his comedy, by all means go ahead. I just gave the reasons I don’t like it, and him; I’m not trying to attack you.

Ha! I don’t get how I’m being condescending though; those are the issues I have with him, and it makes it really hard for me to enjoy anything else he says. I also think he aligns with Trump on those things. Where am I wrong?

But also, it’s just his style of comedy; I’ve never been a fan. I don’t like Ricky Gervais’ comedy either, and I think it’s for a lot of the same reasons.

I’m glad he makes you laugh! I won’t begrudge you that. Though, it’s not that I forget he’s a comedian; his humour really doesn’t hit home for me. He’s had some takes that aged like hot milk, even recently, and the positivity after hanging out with Trump was and is weird.

Weird to me, anyway. But then, I understand the need for inclusive policies that serve a diverse population equitably, I understand how trans rights are human rights, and I understand that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, which puts me further from Trump than Maher is. Quite a bit further, possibly.

If you could get through the light without him condescending to you about your lighting technique, your rolling technique, the lighter, and the weed… yeah, he might get stoned enough to shut the fuck up for a few minutes. That would be alright.

Then again, he got along okay with Trump instead of telling him to eat a bag of fascist dicks, so maybe not.