I suggest everyone research Friston’s Free Energy Principle then you’ll see a common thread between most human irrationality.

Basically the whole brain even down to individual neurons view updating predictive beliefs as energy intensive and it’s life mission is to reduce that energy.

This leaves a few strategies:

1: Create a simple and sophisticated enough mental framework that will turn out right in most cases. “What goes up must go down” is a useful belief that is rarely contradicted.

2: Change the world to align with your beliefs. “Humanity is meant to care for nature” then you save an animal to prove your belief.

3: Create an unfalsifiable belief. “God has a plan” well no one can disprove this so this belief never needs updating.

or 4: Shelter yourself from evidence through isolation, exlusive communities, habitual lying, ect. “Immigrants are ruining the economy” well if you lead a life that rarely engages with immigrants like humans then you can count the rare instances as exceptions to the rule and never update this belief.

I’m sure there are more but the Free Energy Principle explains a lot of behavior. Like why do people get addicted to games of chance? Because they know winning is possible and they want to predict it, but you can’t predict true randomness so the free energy cannot be reduced. Also why we cling to anything that gives the illusion of reducing uncertainty, like a gambler “having a system” or a football fan having lucky charms.

If it’s doubling each time wouldn’t this imply a forbidden C+? Maybe even a C- before that?

Here’s my answer that works with any kind of lightbulb.

Flip switch 1 on, switch 2 off, and get switch 3 stuck in a halfway point which I’ve done on both lever switches and flat switches.

If it’s on it’s switch 1, if it’s off it’s switch 2, if it’s flickering or dimmed it’s switch 3 and you should probably turn it off to stop damaging the relay.

I do the default monthly donation, Wikipedia is a world wonder that has many frothing at the opportunity to burn it.

I’m 25 and I played Roblox as a kid. Back then it was just digital legos, now there’s mass produced bootleg copies of games accurate enough to be a financial threat and enough integrated microtransactions to make a mobile game blush.

PETA is weird because they’re not so much “pro animal rights” or “pro eco friendly” as they are “anti domesticated animals” including pets.

As a result a lot of their messaging is desperate propaganda, like spreading the pseudoscience that milk causes autism, or trying to imply that shearing sheep for wool hurts them somehow.

They’ve also done some pretty evil things because they believe animals are better off dead than domesticated.

Getting taken to an eccentric rich person’s island and being relieved it’s just a hunt to the death.

I love how through extraordinary luck and circumstance a group of apes gained a divine awareness that let’s us have unprecedented power and control over the natural world and we use it to produce images like this.

In other words, nature gave monkeys guns and it’s been a fun circus since then.

The yellow sticker usually correspond to what tote they belong in and the order they’re in for the delivery route, first thing you typically do is unpack a tote in the truck and sort them by number for ease of access.

My brain wants to trigger this sorting mode whenever I grab my packages, and it just reminds me of that terrible job.

Amazon has a system of desperate contractor companies that are absolutely reliant on amazon since they own the warehouses, trucks, and everything, but are also a moment away from having their contract ended, basically destroying the company. As a result you’re not really respected even if your employer tries hard to, they just can’t care for employees at risk of dissolving.

Used to be an Amazon delivery driver. Cursed with the knowledge of what all those stickers mean on my packages.

Also you’ll start noticing their massive delivery trucks everywhere.

Either they ran out of all those simultaneously or the wife has agreed this is an acceptable solution.

STEM fields are just full of furries, I don’t make the rules.

I think the NFT bubble is more apt.

Nothing you said about black holes really contradicts what they were saying? Even if a star and black hole can have the same gravity, there is still a shell of space that once you pass you cannot ever return. I’m sure Superman could go into a star and come back out, not so much with a black hole.

It likely was the most efficient energy-wise, why waste energy going against the current when it’ll undo itself anyways.

Constrain the design by strict fake rules and you get Monster Hunter.

It’s accessible for new users, easy for old users, but ironically the hardest if you know only just enough to be dangerous.

Sincerely, Someone who broke their desktop gui by tinkering, twice.

The official hosting of it has censorship applied after the answer is generated, but from what I heard the locally run version has no censorship even though they could have theoretically trained it to.

Thing I hate about exercise, it’s a fine line between “feel the burn!” and “you’ve done irreparable damage”.

Feels similar to the Plato quote “those who seek power are unworthy of that power”.