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Aren't we also "just" animals as well though?

(Not defending either side, I just really dislike it when statements suggest we aren't also literally animals that somehow figured out to think slightly more than others...)

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What is a creepy or weird fact that would scare even the bravest person?

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And that's the thing:

Assuming it did, you couldn't see it approach until it hit you because it's moving at the speed of light! It could also have happened, but just super far away such that it will never reach us due to expansion between its origin point and us being faster than c!

Also just because the universe is frickin old doesn't mean it is statistically bound to have happened. There are plenty of ways of making it even more astronomically unlikely but still possible...

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Crawford won't answer my calls.

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Now I want to know wether the rules allow you to stand perfectly inside your mirror image (don't have a 5th ed./any other D&D ed. rulebook to check myself, sorry)... Because if it does (without going all wavy or otherwise distorting) and it casts a reflection this could be a fun "find the hidden vampire in this banquet hall with mirrors" scenario!

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Also hang on, now that there officially are no more men in the United states does this mean Zuckerberg wants more immigrants in his company? Or would they also count as female once they entered the american workforce‽ So in effect does he want to outsource even more of the company or does he secretly want more immigrants and is just not allowed to say it like that?

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Well the thing is: it's even worse! We HAVE measured 'the' neutrino mass, sort of (not really). We have an absolutely fricking tiny upper bound! For all three masses added together... And yes, there are three separate neutrino masses just like there are sorta three 'types' of Neutrinos. But the real kicker is: it is literally impossible to assign any specific mass to any specific type!!

You can either talk about the type of a neutrino OR it's mass but not both at the same time because apparently we looked too close and quantum mechanics decided it needed to fuck with us some more to discourage further probing.

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Majority of Americans now use ad blockers

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Whaat‽ You mean auto downloading and executing foreign JavaScript in a users webpage from some server/CDN I might not even know myself as an ad company could be an attack vector? Never!

(This mostly for those people who may not know that some [most? Dunno don't have a source for this] ad networks literally allow advertisers to inject small chunks of html into pages for "more interactive/better ads"!!)

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AI in reality

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But/and also also, just because you might know what a multiplication is you still might not know how to use that to make audio louder! (You might say "well just add to the loudness!" or if you actually know it's not that easy you might say "just multiply it by 2!", but the computer doesn't simply take "audio" it takes some form of bytes in an array encoding said audio, let's say PCM to make it easier, and you still need to know how to loop over that and multiply every value by 2 to double the physical volume.)