They got like 3% of their funding from the Gates Foundation, not exactly like they’re fully beholden to them.

IIRC, there’s evidence that many of the central statues on the cathedral were originally painted, but those installed later typically were not.

Hydro doesn’t boil water, either. Just moves it around.

It is, has been for almost 2 years. I’ve had mine in the US since Oct 2024.

It’s not compatible with some NA networks, but it is available for use with providers that it is compatible with.

Fairphone.

Some algal species can be used as biodiesel sources due to their high oil content, so you could probably just diversify the kinds of algae.

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.

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.

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.

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.

*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

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

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

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.

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