Loopholes are a problem with a standard. But a problem that probably needs revision rather than just scraping the standards.

1. I said nothing about souls. If I'm talking about souls (without direct prompting), I'm deep in a psychotic episode.

2. I don't really get what you mean by the gestures broadly thing? I'm very open to an expansion on that thought, but have no current sense of what that means.

3. It's not just the vague idea of quantum hootnannies, it is the fact that intentionally inducing extra quantum hootnannies in the brain structure of animals has a noticeable impact on the effects of various anesthesia, i.e. the "anti-conciousness drugs".

I'm not claiming there is definitive proof, I'm simply stating there is some real, empirical evidence that supports the notion that consciousness is an emergent property reliant upon a maybe narrow range of emergent effects from quantum mechanics that are inherently absent from Turing machine computational models.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/374724769_Quantum_Consciousness_Empirical_Evidence_for_Quantum_Mechanisms_in_Human_Cognition_and_Consciousness

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12871-025-02956-9

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-85673-w

There is some limited empirical evidence to support the hypothesis, yes.

For example:

Through state-of-the-art spectroscopic techniques, specifically two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy (2DES), we've detected quantum coherent processes in the microtubules within neural structures. This provides empirical support to our hypothesis about the role of quantum mechanisms in cognition. Furthermore, we provide substantial empirical evidence for quantum mechanisms underlying cognitive processes, including decision-making and memory recall, and present a quantum model of consciousness.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/374724769_Quantum_Consciousness_Empirical_Evidence_for_Quantum_Mechanisms_in_Human_Cognition_and_Consciousness

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/human-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2025.1676585/full

Quantum effects are literally one of the things that computers are designed specifically to avoid. We're bumping up against the point where we can make conventional computer chips more dense the same ways we have previously since quantum tunneling causes some noticeable errors in computing when things get too much closer together.

*A person is smart, people are dumb. *

Everyone is stupid about some things, and some people are smart about how to grift those who are dumb about a category. And those people are heavily incentivized to do so with the things that they can gain things like money, control, ego. So voila, you have a significant percentage of the population that are dumb about things like politics because the grifter types have been manipulating more and more power while undermining systems designed to ensure people are properly educated and informed. This also improves the efficacy of things like election fraud.

It's a social cycle that repeats all over the globe time and time again. And unfortunately the cycle rarely resets unless things just break.

Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

--Marcus Tullius Cicero, ca. 50 BCE

It's a certified reference standard for scientific research, not food. The chocolate isn't even like expensive by the standards of NIST standardized food standards, e.g. NIST3287 blueberry is about half the price of the chocolate, but for 25g vs 455g.

Combined with it having been demonstrated in other animals, I sorta wonder if it is ingrained somewhere close to a DNA level. All known life on earth has the same handedness to their DNA (left) even though it is physically/chemically possible to have DNA strands that are righthanded. I wonder if the handedness of the DNA strands have any impact on results in emergent properties that impact the natural trend around macro-scale drifting while moving.

They tend to be labeled as "Intended for research use only. Not for human consumption." not as "To be consumed by amazing scientists."

It's actually a promotional item for the ideal substances from Sigma-Aldrich, though.

https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/US/en/campaigns/chocolate-raffle

The difference of scale is in the grey area of the difference of scale of quantum and classical mechanics, though. Conciousness very much could be something that depends on the emergent properties of quantum mechanics and doesn't reach classical mechanics.

Syria was doing its own terrible tyranny until pretty recently so Israel previously felt like the country could do its own internal unmitigated violence, and now its trying to trend towards something at least slightly better and they believe an improving Syria is a potential future threat. Turkiye is further away than either Syria or Lebanon, so they need to produce a better "excuse" to start shit there, but attacking Iran with little retaliation has them thinking they can shoot their missile-shots there soon as part of their attempts at broadly-regional dominance.

Pretty sure even if you don't spaghettify, you still get crushed to death by the pressure.

There may not be proof that LLMs aren't sentient, but there is some evidence and reason to believe that consciousness is an emergent property of quantum effects, whereas turing machines are relegated to classical mechanics. The same evidence would indicate it is unlikely that a turing machine could replicate the human brain since it uses fundamentally different layers of reality to calculate/think.

Option 1) The honey nut squash vine itself will have a slightly prickly stem, the pumpkin will have a softer hairy-prickly vine skin and the cucumber will have relatively smooth vines (or the most prickly, depending on species of cucumber).

Option 2) Trellis all of it and if you notice any growing into a pumpkin shape, add a sling support tied to the trellis to hold the weight of the fruit.

Option 3) Just let them all ramble around and harvest what seems to be working out.

Knit fabrics are your best bet, e.g. old pantyhose/tights, old t-shirts, etc that are securely tied to the trellis. Flexible and wont dig into the fruit, but will support a decent amount of weight. Many forms of stretchy-net-knit fabric will work out.

You can harvest obvious cucumbers (tube shaped fruits) fairly young if you notice them, let the others go until fully ripe late summer/fall. Honey nut squash can also be used as summer squash, fwiw, if you identify them and harvest them early (they tend to bulb at the bottom long before ripening).

Since honey nut squash, pumpkins and cucumbers are actually members of separate species within a genus, there's relatively low chance of them crossing (unless some close neighbors grew other varieties of one of those species), so if you have random clues from previous batches, there's a good chance they'll hold for newer ones.

Gatorade is yellow-green, you heathen. Anything other than lemon-lime Gatorade require the qualifier.

Oh, that's fair. I just vaguely assumed they were called bat flies because someone once upon a time thought they looked kinda like the fly version of some sorts of bats, but obviously didn't bother looking into that.

Not necessarily.

If I bake a cake, I can stop it from burning. If I leave that cake baking until my children are adults, they have no way to unburn the cake. At some point, they have to toss it in the compost bin and wait before it can help fertilize a new generation.

Why would bat flies have no wings? Bats famously have wings!

Who gives a flying fuck what terms one asshole is sick of? Fuck him, fuck vibe coding and trying to enforce language that appeals to what "elite" dipshits like.