#masters degree isnt worth it kids

[teamfreelunch]

you know it's bad when even on the last day of the deadline when you dont have time to procrastinate anymore you still can't focus

#i need another 1300 words for the bare minimum but i've been going soo slowly all day #not sure if i can do it this time scoob #last grade i got back was also pretty low for what i usually get so i feel like i've now reached the point where i cant get away with #this shit anymore #also this paper is 100% of the grade #i want to just have exams again because i can't write another paper #masters degree isnt worth it kids #(jk but like my bachelors was more fun because i felt like i was actually learning new stuff #whereas now its just more of the same but also higher expectations #also im burned out as fuck that doesnt help #my posts

[aceofwhump]

idk why I kept myself from watching Hawaii Five-0 for so long but all you whumpy gifs finally convinced me and I can't handle it. it's too good. my gpa hates you for this, but who really needs a masters degree, right?

😀😀😀😀 That's awesome!!! I'm so happy you're watching H50!!! ISNT IT THE BEST!!! The whump is great and McDanno is the best and Ahh I just love it! Come scream about it with me anytime! 

Sorry about your GPA but come on it's totally worth it am I right? 😉😉😉  Masters smasters. I got one and h50 is totally better lol (I kid. I kid. School is important. Work hard and get that masters!! Totally worth it)

#ask #mod replies

[thoughtfulpaperback]

Rewatching Big Little Lies and I just cant get behind Abby

Listen I totally understand that Madeline is neurotic and puts a lot of pressure on her. But like the whole not wanting to go to college and white saviour bs from Abby just doesnt sit well with me.

Listen I am a firm believer that most people should go to college (if they can afford it) not because it guarantees a job or because it means you are smarter than those who dont, but because an education is something that cannot be taken from you. College and a college education are experiences. Not everyone needs to have these experiences (you can survive and thrive without them), but I just personally believe college is totally worth it (but I didnt pay a dime out of pocket so I cant speak to every college graduates experience). I dont hate abby for not wanting to go to college or even for wanting to follow a passion project. But at the same time I hate that she is privileged enough to reject all the opportunities and advantages and doesnt recognize that privilege although claiming to be this "woke" individual.

I am less likely to have persued her path because 1) rural working poor class idahoan Latina from a not well known public school whose curriculum just barely meets state standards[which arent that great] isnt going to be finding a start up like that nearby and 2) I wouldnt have the security of my parents when the short term plan is done. Listen plans fall through and I know since I dropped out of my Master's program. But it's because I have a degree already my grandparents let me chill and mentally heal at home. If I wasnt in school or taking a break in school they'd kick me out because they cannot afford a freeloader for an extended period of time (they are retired now and cant claim me for a tax break and yet out of being good to me have paid my personal Bills [insurance phone]).

I wanted to go to college. And I knew I was on my own. No real help from counselors or parents. I didnt have to pay a dime out of pocket because I worked so hard to find scholarships, compare schools and prices, budget and save, and pretty much go make connections with alumni who helped me get extra financial aid. It was basically a full time job preparing for college and getting scholarships from high school on through college while trying to be in clubs, volunteer, work, and maintain a 3.5 or above gpa.

I didnt have help with homework, a mom who could hire a sat tutor or act tutor, A mom who was involved in school, or A chance to go to a really good public school. I got what I got and made it work.

So when I see tv characters who have these opportunities and they are like "I feel like you're grooming me to do what you didnt get to do" I am like "duh, isnt that the point". Shouldnt parents want better for their kids than what they had. My grandparents did they just didnt have the resources or knowledge to help me.

Plus she is actually pretty cruel to her mother. Again Madeline isnt perfect and I can understand the anxiety that would come from having a helicopter parent, but I dont see the point of being intentionally cruel and saying things you know will hurt her when she really loves you and wants to help. Forget that teenage bull crap. I have an emotionally toxic mother and I have never said a mean word to her. So i really cant imagine why anyone would want to be cruel to someone who loves them.

Again this is all my opinion based on my own experiences which are unique to myself and I make no blanket statements on how anyone should feel about the character or on the personalities, morals, etc of the people who do like, identify with, or sympathize with the character.

#big little lies

[ashavant]

The American University System: Oppressing the non-elite.

So let me get this straight...in the 70's there was a community outcry to lower the amount of tax money that got put towards college tuition for future generations? American tax payers used to cover over 70% of college costs, allowing the young students straight out of highschool the ability to work a minimum wage summer job to literally pay their entire tuition. Those with part time jobs while in school were not very common. This allowed for an ability to succeed without the unnecessary baggage of financial stress and lack of sleep at 18 years old while taking 14+ credits, which for those of you who dont know is a true 40-60 hour work week alone. All of this hard work and achievement paved the way for these kids to enter adulthood as educated, debt free, and with the world at their fingertips. Not to mention, they had the incredible privilege of not having to become a self sufficient adult in the middle of the worst economic crisis since the depression...

Compare that romantic reality to our drastically different reality today. I will use my experiences as an example for this, while probably on the extreme spectrum of experiences, they are valid and carry merit nonetheless. I was always told as a child, "you have to go to college, its not an option" Yet, when i graduated highschool, my parents grew quiet. I grew up in a 5 person household in Orange County, CA (one of the most expensive places to live in the country) in a family who made roughly $40k a year, give or take (thats poverty folx). My step-father was an electrical contractor so income was often spuratic. Anyway, needless to say they had not one penny saved for my college tuition. My parents failed to put a single penny aside for anything regarding my well-being honestly. With no car, no money, no job, and no idea when or how I could recieve a college education, I was kicked out of my parents at 17 years old with nowhere to go. I couch surfed and was able to get a couple jobs, one at a crafts store and one at a sandwhich shop. After 2 long years of working my way out of homelessness, all I wanted was to start college! So, at age 19 I applied for financial aid. However, I was told because I was under 25 I needed my parents tax information. Well, my parents never filed on time and were incredible dodgy with communication. So, after months of going back and forth I ended up paying out of pocket for a full time coarse load at a community college. I was able to work my jobs and pay this, but with nothing left over for rent or food. I ended up getting kicked out of my place, had to apply for foodstamps, and had to start over from square one. Little did I know I would have to wait 5 years before I could finally give college another shot.

I had almost given up the idea of higher education. I was making good money in the food industry at this point and had a nice company car and a great home with an awesome roommate. But then, I met a boy. We traveled the country for three months with his bluegrass band and saw 32 states. Afterwards, we again found ourselves broke and homeless. We hunkered down, worked 80+ hour weeks, saved up, and moved to Portland Oregon, "where young people go to retire". Little did we know, retire would be the LAST thing we did when we got there. Cost of living was rising in Portland, but still nothing compared to Orange County, CA. We got good food jobs and nested for about a year. My boyfriend (we will call him N) got great grades in highschool and high test scores in his exit exams, so in 2014 he chose to get back into school as a Music Composition Major at age 26. His journey is a whole other terrible story. I wanted to return to school so badly, but knew I had to wait until I was old enough to not warrant my parents tax info. Finally, at age 24 I filed my FAFSA and went to a career counselor. I was directed in the career of Civil Engineering. Having no prior knowledge of this career or topic, I dove in blindly headfirst. I chose a community college due to the fact that I barely finished highschool and did not take ant exit exams. To my surprise, I did very well in my college settings. After one year I was able to transfer to a university! Me! I WAS GOING TO A UNIVERSITY! I could not believe it, and was soo excited. I had no clue how hard this would be, not the work, but just surviving through it. I should mention here that I have a mild dissability. I have endometriosis which is a chronic illness linked to hormones, ovarian cysts, and all that jazz which can result in disabling pain and in my case an emergency surgery from time to time. I also suffer from a mild form of PTSD. So, with those alone handling high stress loads can be very hard on my mental and physical well being.

Ok, so I was a 24 year old first generation college student (first person in my family to go to college) disabled lower class person wanting a higher education. Seems logical right? Well, once I got accepted to the university, I chose to change my major to Architecture, I had taken an intro class for general ed and fell inlove. My beginning of my first year was great! Lots of lectures and reading. Aside from my tuition multiplying literally 3x from my community college tuition which did not affect my financial aid disbursement, I was fairly stress free. Now keep in mind, my partner and I are both working 20-30 hour weeks to make ends meet while taking 12-14 credits. Its basically having 2 full time jobs. Anyway, the last term of my first year came around-my first studio class. I was so excited! Time to actually do architecture! I got the syllabus and was told was supplies were needed to be successful in the class. I was also told that doing all of the requirements for the assignment would result in a C grade, if any grade above that was desired extra work had to be put in. I thought, no biggie, bring it on. The next thing she said was, "absolutely no sleeping in the studio!" Thats when I had a feeling I was gonna be in trouble. After class I went to the art store got my supplies. I almost started crying as they read my total to me: "$682.80, please." And that was with my student discount and not including all of the future supplies I would need just for that term, which I will tell you now after all the drawings and models ended up being about $2,000. That is a whole lot. These studio classes also require many all-nighters just to have enough time to complete the assignments. Many times, due to having to work outside of school I could not complete my assignments or had to do them with less craft and care than I would like just to turn it in. This year, I recieved less in financial aid, my rent has gone up significantly, tuition went up, and there are new grade requirements: if you get anything less than a B-, youre immediately dropped from the school of Architecture. So, not completing assignments isnt an option anymore. This last term costed my much less money, but once I told my instructor I was out of money, his response was, "well, this is Architecture school." What the fuck am I supposed to do with that!? A roll of Velum (drafting design paper) costs $50-$70 pencils are $2 a piece, models cost like $100 each, the list of tools go on and on. I am already paying $10k a year for tuition, ensuring at the very least $70k of debt including my masters degree which you need to get your Architecture license. And at least $100k with the $500 a month I need to borrow a month for rent. I should not need to add thousands more of that for supplies my school should be providing. And this insane pressure of pulling all nighters to get done the amount of assignments it would take us to do in a whole week last term in 2 days!

The moral of this very long story is that college is not meant for those of us trying to climb the life ladder. Its meant for the already elite. Its meant for kids right out of highschool with parents who make enough money to pay their tuition, their rent, their whole lives! Meant for kids who travel to Europe for the summer instead of working 60 hours a week to make up for the money lost during school cuz you physically cannot work more than 25 hours. Its meant for kids who can call their mommies and complain about how mean their teacher is, not for those of us who cry every night about being afraid of ending up back on the streets in the snap of a finger. Its meant for kids who can work and think about school all day every day, not those of us preoccupied with being able to pay all of our bills and being able to afford food and health insurance.

HOWEVER, even if you are like me, worse, or better, YOU CAN DO IT! I have a damn 3.7 GPA. I may only get 3 hours of sleep a lot, cry almost weekly, probably have lost years of my life due to stress, and feel scared for my health, but shit IM FUCKING DOOOOIN IT! Even though our government, or school presidents, and pretty much everyone in power disagrees, you are so worth it and you are so capable of success no matter how much harder you have to work than everyone else. Because we have to work so much harder now, we will get to party that much harder when we make it. I WILL GRADUATE IN SPITE OF THE SYSTEM! I WILL SUCCEED IN SPITE OF THE SYSTEM! I WILL CHANGE THE FUCKING WORLD CUZ I AM A BADASS AND CAN DO ANYTHING YOU PRIVELEDGED FUCKS CAN DO, JUST BETTER!

#university #college #university system #academic witch #academia #opression

[heypesi]

I’m Sorry..

Tonight’s post is really out of the ordinary with the days and the times I post but do you ever just start cleaning, listen to pandora and just emotion hits you? The past few days ive really been down and depressed about my life with HD. I’ve really been to myself, not really wanting to be around anyone, talk to anyone, just wanted to be alone to cry. Anyways, as i was cleaning, the emotion of feeling sorry just hit me. When i say the emotion of sorry, i am talking about me feeling sorry about many things. Things ive done, feeling sorry for others, feeling sorry for myself..just feeling sorry.. so here goes my rant. 1. I am sorry for the person i have become. I am very proud of myself and my accomplishments and understanding that i need to do things for me and only me. i am sorry that HD has made me selfish when it comes to caring about others at time and putting other things off to focus on me. For a long time, i wanted to make everyone happy. i wanted everyone to like me and if i felt unliked/unwanted i would do anything in my power to turn that around. At this point in my life, i realized regardless what you do, good or bad, not everyone is going to like you. I have become a person that is a lot stronger. I hold myself on a high pedestal and will not settle for anything less than what i know im worth. I’ve pushed my depression from my life before HD away and with this news, over a year ago even though it repeats in my head daily, my depression is back. i may seem like this super busy mom who loves every single day of her life and portrays as everything is okay! and having HD doesnt bother me at all because of how much i love to advocate but i hate this. i hate it all. back to some earlier blog, i hate the HD has become my life. i hate that i have a terminal disease. i hate that i may not want more kids. i hate that i put my child at risk. i hate that my boyfriend feels as if he cant talk to me because he may not know how i will react. i hate that my boyfriend will probably not be able to live the life he dreamed about with me because of HD. I hate my best friend is scared to bring HD up. I hate that this is an elephant that is always in the room. but, I am happy HD has turned me into the person it has. HD has taught me to live my life to the fullest. to always have hope and never regret. HD has taught me to have a passion and love for something that will literally kill me. HD has brought me into an amazing community with amazing people that i may have only met once or twice but the love we share for each other is undeniable. HD has changed me into a person that i never thought i’d be. I never thought my mom and i’d have a relationship like we do. my siblings and i also. HD has taught me to put little things to the side and just love. love my family because we do not know how much time we have with them. i love my family more than words and i want them to know that. 2. im sorry for becoming selfish. this goes off of my first sorry but i really am proud of becoming a person who still loves hard and cares deeply, but i know that the choices i make in my life will be my choices. I will come to a point in my life where HD is going to take over. Honestly, i’m scared as hell for that day. everyday i pray that my results were wrong and im going to get a call saying the lab messed up. everyday i wonder if this is the day HD is going to hit me. this is a constant worry i face. im sorry that i have become selfish when it comes to me caring for myself and not worrying as much about other people and their opinions. 3. im sorry for the people that i have pushed away/left in my past. in my life right now, i have honestly, 3 individuals besides my family that i talk to either daily or weekly. this isnt a one person thing either. this is just checking in with each other, noticing when one is upset or is sad, this is just sending memes because it made you think of the other person. again, back to the first im sorry, this goes along with it. I have alot of people i consider friends but i realized why do things for friends who arent there to support you or check on you, or when you tell them that your mom was diagnosed with HD or when you got those results dont even check to see how youre feeling, or not seeing how your daughter is that everyone obsesses over? not blaming everyone because its two ways but after a point when youre the only one, you give up. I’m sorry if this hits as if you are one of the people i left behind. nothing personal. just after finding out about HD, i really only want to surround myself with positive vibes and happiness. 4. im sorry for the ones who dont know how to talk to me or approach me since the HD. I know this is hard for you and im sorry. i want to let you know,i understand talking about HD is hard, believe me. writing this blog takes more out of me than youd think. i want to let you know, i want to talk about it. i want to answer questions you may have about it. if im having a bad day, i want to talk about it. i dont mention things sometimes to you guys because i dont want to put this all on you. 5. im sorry that my mom feels as if she did this. my mom, while i was growing up, made some shitty decisions but as parents we do that. my mom was a single mom who has a masters degree, worked her ass off as a teacher to support us and get us whatever we wanted. i want my mom to know, although i hate HD and wish this was something that neither of us had to deal with, i never have blamed you. Mom, you changed and touched so many lives while you were a teacher. you lived for your job and students and i want you to know that you did make a difference. mom, i want you to know that i’m sorry you have ever thought i hated you or did not love you. never once have i ever stopped loving you. you have given me the gift of life and i am forever thankful. This blog is just something i needed to write and get things off my chest. this was something i felt i needed to say and express because i feel as if people do not truly understand me and instead of asking, assume. I have become a truly amazing person and i’m so proud of myself. this is something that i never thought i’d ever say about myself. Although i hate HD and everything about it... HD has turned me into the person i am today.

#HD CureHD wtfisHD bestfriends love support blogger thankyou backbones huntingtonsdisease #imsorry #sorry

[lilietsblog]

one punch man 10-12: the aliens

huh its episode 10 already man this anime is so short is it flashback time yet?

hi terrible Godzilla oh yeah its the S class introduction time

gotta love that theres actually competent military in this anime why is it such a rare thing jfc

seriously tho Saitama's superpower is NOT superstrength, that's just now how physics works I think he has sped up perception, and I suspect he had that to a degree even before he started his training, judging from how easily he managed to take on the crab guy, if not all of it but what his strength training gave him (awakened in him?) was basically reality warping no wonder he's bored: he ACTUALLY REALLY doesn't have to put any kind of effort into his punches, as it's not his physical strength that's doing any work there, it's literally reality bending to accomodate him that has got to suck reality warping ennui I love my egg son

I love how all of these monsters demand acknowledgement and don't just try and step on pesky human distractions that ignore them

okay yeah this dude did end up just trying to step on her

man Tornado is freakishly powerful and that's amazing

HI OLD MAN DUDE OMG SAITAMA AND GENOS ARE HERE

Genos oh come on you really should learn some self-defense actually

this sounds like an anime reference I'm not getting

I love that Silverfang at least appreciates Saitama's actual power

and Genos is just inviting Saitama to tag along this is adorable

I love how completely fucking extra all the heroes are and how ridiculous Saitama's low key normalcy looks by contrast

poor Tornado she's amazing but since she's only summoned for appropriate level threats it's not even interesting to be amazing

Watchdog Man is amazing

man you are so dramatic maybe start with explanations jfc there is no logic to this order of operations SAITAMA GOT HIS TEA IT'S FROM STARBUCKS IT'S HILARIOUS awww I love this cute lil bad boy who skipped his lil sis's piano recital )=

madame Shibabawa CHOKED ON A COUGHING PILL

poor Saitama not knowing anything I love how casual he is about asking what he doesn't know I wouldn't have managed >_>

you call it right Child Emperor this is very ridiculous granted the meeting holder dude is probably right but he's being very ineffectual about it

Saitama jfc why

IM REALLY GLAD HE GOT INTERRUPTED

oh yeah this is a completely irrelevant bunch of baddies isnt it

OH YEAH THESE ARE THE ACTUAL BAD GUYS GEE 'IN THE NEXT SIX MONTHS' SURE DID TURN OUT TO BE SOON so yeah thats why the meeting holder dude was right

I love how much attention this anime cares to pay to civilians in trouble

man guys you should have hidden in that rut together instead of getting out

the knight guy is awesome

man thats... not all of city A that was destroyed

ahaha Saitama didn't wait for everyone my socially awkward egg acts on his own out of sync with anything <3 i can relate so much

man my favorite thing about this final fight is that it's going to involve collaboration it's not just 'Saitama saves the day' because he's just one person like with the fish king, Saitama was only able to save anyone because other heroes were there first and here there are multiple battles to be fought these dudes are important too

wow his stump sure isn't bleeding out

hey the swords at least slow the monster down that's not nothing

man this samurai dude is hella cool this entire squad is hella cool footsoldiers are important and I love this anime

I love that the kids are in front here it's a terrible idea and yet in context who's going to say no

jfc King you are way too fast to give up

sorry Genos this is a child

I love the peacemaker dude tho

ahaha Saitama is already inside I love him

oh dude you sure are confident in yourself

SAITAMA IS SPREADING DESTRUCTION a thing he's good at

man this guy's design is SO TOTALLY A REFERENCE

...so the flashback stuff is probably side material that I haven't downloaded isn't it

whatever, I'll just continue the liveblog

man this ending is nice it's just pure aesthetic, and it's such a nice grounding one the Earth that Saitama lives on, which is the same one we all do

hi humanization of the enemy to them, Saitama is the kaiju and yeah he kinda is reality warping powers do that

aww Saitama is not very good at finding vital parts of the ship to destroy eh

Saitama makes for an awesome creepypasta really an unstoppable juggernaut

...I really want OPM to become an endless shounen series it's worth it and it has political setup enough for SO MUCH to happen it features a cast FULL of people very ready for exploration and convoluted plots the first season feels like BARELY A PROLOGUE in what could be the grand scheme of thing

GUYS THE FUCK YOU DOING THERE PLEASE EVACUATE

hi Hammerhead!!! I love you!!! omfg is that your actual first name oooomg

omfg THIS GUY I LOVE YOU TOO I REMEMBER AND LOVE YOU

this show's unwillingness to kill anyone off IS AWESOME

hi Sonic <3 I still love your oni face

I love that the knight guy looks middle aged with wrinkles and all

YOO NICE OJI-SAN

GOOD JOB DISRUPTING COMMUNICATIONS BOI

GO SAITAMA WRECK SHIT

I LOVE THE BAD BOY HERO SO MUCH REALLY I LOVE THIS ENTIRE SQUAD AND THE MUSIC IS EPIC AND THE KNIGHT KEEPS WORRYING I LOVE HIM

sorry coordinator dude that's S class heroes for you

welp bye bye dude that's the batter figuring shit out <3

man poor coordinator dude he's trying his best

I love Saitama and his low key shit I love how the navigator TRIES HIS BEST Saitama is ONE SMART COOKIE oh man this dude can actually look hella intimidating

yeah the downside of telekinesis as a combat power is that you still need to have something to telekinesis unless you can just straight up telekinesis your foes i guess

oh hey gravity manipulation nice

sorry due Saitama's power is basically no sell of any other powers its kinda sad

ahaha hes breaking his own ship now

man this supreme telekinetic power sure isn't used to actual direct combat ....yeah he's ridiculously weak kidna

awww cute lil aliens

awww Child Emperor! <3

ah yes! this is what Tornado is for!

and Mumen Rider on the ground you is good job!!! i love that they give him spotlight so fucking much you have no idea this really is an anime exploring the idea of heroes

AW YIS MY GIRL FUCKING WRECK EM THIS IS EFFICIENT COOPERATION

AND TORNADO TRASH TALKS THEM YOU TELL EM GIRL YOU DESERVE THIS GLOAT

guys with indirect powers wait for guys with direct powers to give them a chance

AW YIS SMALL FRY HEROES COMING TO SEARCH&RESCUE THIS IS HOW IT SHOULD BE

I'm still amazed the Knight is still alive guess his power is some sort of invulnerability/healing

dude if you forget the defense and focus on attack they still outnumber you this would have worked better when you still had many heads

AW YEAH BOSS ENCOUNTER (SUCH A REFERENCE)

SAITAMA LOOKING DANGEROUS AS FUCK GOD JOB YOU IS

Saitama is like a white hole infinite energy he just makes his own

I love how Saitama is still not used to the change of his status from hobbyist to professional it's the small details that make it <3

ahh and this is the kind of fight Saitama wanted isn't it?

haha twenty years yeah strength training had fuckall to do with it Saitama had this potential since babyhood

I LOVE SAITAMA'S COMMON SENSE YOU CAN'T JUST GO AROUND ATTACKING SHIT TO ALLEVIATE BOREDOM HE'S FAMILIAR WITH THIS PROBLEM VERY MUCH

I LOVE THE EGG SHOT JFC <33333333

man Saitama's low key-ness looks really badass here best egg

I love that Saitama's movement isn't even running particularly well, it's just walking really really fast

awww Saitama's come to not expect much by now <3

haha sorry dude you're now match for Tornado's firepower hope she's got some way to watch out for civilians would be invaluable for search&rescue if she were free for it rn

oh hey Drive Knight there sure are lots of knights here huh

oh and it was Metal Knight who destroyed the town huh was he the dude who came in to test his weaponry against the meteor?

yup dude sorry outnumbered

so guys you might want to get the fuck out from under the ship now

I love the badass opening music this is Saitama's true potential too bad the plot isn't about it

lol I love how they both have pretty low expectations for each other

this dude is about to bring down his own ship heh

OMG SAITAMA DIDN'T NO SELL THAT THAT'S PRETTY AMAZING sorry dude Saitama has power beyond his own conception too

yeah you can heal yourself but Saitama wasn't hurt

man his pants are baggy and look hilarious

wow holy fuck and Saitama's method of surviving is ragdoll roll with it as much as possible I do that in the car to avoid motion sickness on bumpy roads

AND YEP HERE IT IS SAITAMA IS ON THE MOON HAHAHAHA HE IS NOT BREATHING AND THERE IS NO SOUND SAITAMA ARE YOU GOING TO PUSH MOON OUT OF ITS ORBIT NOPE JUST DESTROY A CHUNK OF SURFACE

aww hey dude vulnerable after all where Saitama just isn't

sorry Tornado you're awesome but that wasn't you

this dude is strong but he isn't Saitama fast he's not even Sonic fast just very strong

CONSECUTIVE NORMAL PUNCHES NICE NOT ENOUGH STILL SAITAMA MUST BE SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW (and yet vaguely dissatisfied still because something in his brain chemistry still isn't making this as awesome as it should have been)

I love Saitama's creative names Serious Punch

I love that Saitama never taunts, never doesn't talk to his foes he doesn't dehumanize them, ever

well yeah okay that was pretty curb stomp sorry dude but you still entertained Saitama more than anyone else ever managed to

I hope poor little alien crew members survive alright ^^;

aww and the master picks up his knight

TORNADO CAN'T YOU HOLD THE SHIP A LITTLE well whatever

oh hey Amai Mask who the fuck even are you dude what the fuck shut up? I love the bad boy he's saying it like it is dude they literally saved the Earth and everything that wasn't wiped out in a single strike???

Amai is an actual supervillain here isn't he

mm he could be S rank I see

oh hey Metal Knight there sure are a lot of supervillains holed up at the top of the Hero Organization huh well I mean it makes as much sense as anything to recruit anyone sane enough to come in

ALIEN SURVIVORS <3

WHAT THE FUCK AMAI WHY LOCAL LIGHT YAGAMI OR WHAT

awww Genos really has found balance with Saitama

so is Saitama already home or what ah nope there he is <3

Tornado you naive muffin

OMFG SAITAMA IS ABSOLUTELY HELPLESS IN SOCIAL SITUATIONS AND CALLS GENOS IN FOR HELP THEY ARE SUCH GREAT PARTNERS

'history-making events, the top stories for days' yeah i guess in this kind of world there's nothing to do but keep reconstructing and ignore the losses )=

OPTION TO LIVE AT HEADQUARTERS YEAH THAT REALLY NEEDED TO BE A THING ALREADY

anyway I love this anime

#liliet rewatches one punch man #still love it #still best

[joseph-joestar-plz-twerk-4-me]

eyy i was tagged by @lancekoganee, @lovelylangst, and @fictionismynationality for the 92 truths thing so here it issss

LAST… [1] drink: dr pepper [2] phone call: uh well the last like 5 people to call me were spam numbers but the last i actually talked on was with my sister [3] text message: bff callie [4] song you listened to: just one yesterday by fall out boy [5] time you cried: a few hours ago when i remembered my characters name in the demi episode game that i played a year and a half ago was “whipe dat azz”

HAVE YOU EVER… [6] dated someone twice: unfortunately yes [7] been cheated on: no [8] kissed someone and regretted it: no [9] lost someone special: ?? im not sure bc there’s a lot of people who used to be special but the friendship either imploded or slowly died sooo [10] been depressed: no [11] gotten drunk and thrown up: no lol i am rather pure for my age lmao

LIST 3 FAVOURITE COLORS: [12] dark green [13] pastel pink [14] that blue that looks really good in velvet

IN THE LAST YEAR HAVE YOU… [15] made new friends: yeah! [16] fallen out of love: yes? im not sure if it was love to begin w sooo [17] laughed until you cried: bruh i did like 3 hours ago lol [18] found out someone was talking about you: yeah apparently im “famous” at best buy bc my coworker (who also works there) was telling his coworkers about shenanigans him and i get into  [19] met someone who changed you: yee [20] found out who your true friends are: yeah. ive cut out a lot of people but its for the better [21] kissed someone on your facebook list: not currently lol (my current bf isnt my friend on facebook lmao)

GENERAL… [22] how many of your facebook friends do you know in real life: most of them tbh, but i need to go through and clean out my friends list [23] do you have any pets: 3 cats and a doggo [24] do you want to change your name: nah but a nickname would be cool [25] what did you do for your last birthday: i didnt work  i saw Fantastic Beasts in the morn and had lunch w my bf, then hung out w my friends and had dinner w them and the fam, went home and played sims [26] what time did you wake up: 7-730ish am [27] what were you doing at midnight last night: coming home from work/starting precal hw [28] name something you cannot wait for: obviously voltron season 3 but i also want to jsut get thru the next few weeks bc work is going to be a   n i g h t m a r e  and i want my suffering to be over asap [29] when was the last time you saw your mother: 2 hours ago [30] what is one thing you wish you could change about your life: honestly i would go back in time and tell little middle school me to try out for region (bc i honestly believe if i had just had a year or two more expirience auditioning, then i wouldve made the all state choir) and then go to junior yr me and say “stop being an angry ho and   c a l m   d o w n   . i wish i could go back a year from today and tell myself that the management position is not worth it. to find another job while i can. (however, i use my job as motivation to do well in school: “do well, keep up my gpa, get my degree. i dont want to be at the movie theater forever”) [31] what are you listening to right now: my klance playlist (death of a bachelor is currently playing) [32] have you ever talked to a person named tom: ive talked to a tommy and someone whos last name is toms [33] something that is getting on your nerves: anything customer related/ “can an available manager come to the stand for an employee purchase” [34] most visited website: college homepage, math hw website, tumblr, gmail, netflix (recently made my friend watch voltron every MWF after out speech class lol) [35] elementary: my awkward acne/glasses/pre-braces/braces phase. also i wore training bras for 3 yrs bc i was so uncomfortable w my boobs that i couldnt tell my mom i needed an actual bra [36] high school: i can look at pictures and tell by my smile where i lost my childish innocence (halfway thru junior yr)  [37] college: community rn, but i plan on transfering to tamu and getting at least a bachelors in environmental science. i have to research into carriers to see if a masters/phd is worth it, but that is something im interested in [38] hair color: blonde when clean [39] long or short hair: the question of the century. i look good w a lob, but i also love braiding hair sooo [40] do you have a crush on someone: i mean i have a crush on my bf lance [41] what do you like about yourself: i guess im funny. i can sing the whole danny phantom theme song  [42] piercings: triples in each ear, helix and double forward helix in my right ear (planning on getting a faux snug in my left ear eventually. id like a nose ring, but work wont let me. i maybe want a belly button ring, if i decide to work out for it lol as if) [43]blood type: i dunno, but looking at it makes me queasy so [44] nickname: maycakers, big titty t, mak [45] relationship status: long term relationship (idk how many months now but its over 2 yrs so) [46] zodiac sign: scorpio [47] pronouns: she/her.  [48] fav tv show: voltron, avatar the last airbender (im laughing i typed “airbeder” at firs), the office, drake and josh [49] tattoos: never (ill stick w piercings) [50] right or left hand: right 

FIRST… [51] surgery: does having a wart dug out of my toe count [52] piercing: the standard single pair when i was 6 [53] best friend: aaliyah but once we got to middle school we didnt have classes together and i didnt see her much in highschool (i heard about her bc she broke a lot of sports records. shes gonna be an olympian in 2020 y’all. i can feel it) [54] sport: does drill team count [55] vacation: we went to the state capitol w my grandparents  [56] pair of trainers: wtf are trainers

RIGHT NOW… [57] eating: nothing bc my stomach is currently revolting [58] drinking: grape powerade [59] i’m about to: take a nap gd im tired [60] listening to: euphoria by loreen [61] waiting for: sleep to take me [62] want: my period back ache to stop [63] get married: i want to get married so bad i want to be super domestic and have a bb and that kid is gonna recycle EVERYTHING and i will love them [64] career: ecologist? environmental researcher? environmental biologist? agricultural reformer? idk i just want to do something w the environment 

WHICH IS BETTER… [65] hugs or kisses: hugs  [66] lips or eyes: eyes are pretty [67] shorter or taller: taller bc then ur head is in their chest when u hug. or u have to get on tippy toes to kiss. yes. [68] older or younger: older older older [70] nice arms or nice stomach: yknow stomaches are nice and all but u cant see them bc shirts. u can see arms tho ohmy [71] sensitive or loud: idk im loud so  [72] hook up or relationship: relationship ftw. hook ups sound...really gross to me (my ace ass cant fathom hookups lol) [73] troublemaker or hesitant: hesitant

HAVE YOU EVER… [74] kissed a stranger? ew no [75] drank hard liquor? the only thing ive ever drank ever is a shot of cherry sake (i spit that back out it was gross) and a shot of goldschlager (which cleared sinuses i didnt know i had and made me reaaaalllly giggly) [76] lost glasses/contact lenses? lmao all the time [77] turned someone down: yeah  [78] sex on first date? no [79] broken someone’s heart? yes  [80] had your own heart broken? not really? i felt sad both times i broke up w my ex but i knew it was for the best [81] been arrested? no but ive had someone threaten me w calling the cops [82] cried when someone died? my granny, cat, hamster [83] fallen for a friend? i mean my bf was my friend before we dated so i guess

DO YOU BELIEVE IN… [84] yourself? tbh i am super confident in my schoolwork and just... not at all at work [85] miracles? yeah but sometimes they fail me [86] love at first sight? no  [87] Santa Claus? rip [88] kiss on the first date? ehhh [89] angels? maybe

OTHER… [90] current best friend’s name: CALLIE [91] eye color: blue [92] favorite movie: oh fuq i love tangled and anastasia 

i dont know 20 people or whatever so imma tag @pierce-the-llama, @marcoandthebodts (you sent me one of these like 55245 years ago and i shall do it now lol), @connors-sweet-ass, and @justklance if y’all want to 

#ask meme #kinda lol #tagged #92 things #personal #this took me way to long to type up lolll

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Would you live your life all the same again or would you change anything?

hmmm interesting i dont actually think id change anything major as i wouldnt want to re do my entire life differently but theres a few times id done something really stupid which id change and sometimes id tried things that didnt work out for me but i thought they would i mean at the time how could ive known? id probably try and convince myself out of my  years long crush on this guy who wasnt worth it but little me probably wouldnt listen  anyway he was nice enough i guess but he wasnt interested i me but  i was so mad for this guy right   i just used to stare at him the whole time but you know i was in looooveee wasnt even my first crush tho but ive only have like 4 famous people excluded because i spent my teenage years thinking id marry this guy who spoke to me  maybe 10 times ? lol my very first was a guy from physiotherapy lets call him R he was my first guy friend i knew  him since i was very little because he did physio with me  and i used to stay over his house all time but i was like 9 then so it was fine but one day he moved away like  really  far away to Thailand  he promised hed write to me because people still wrote then  god i sound old and we were kiddies but yeah he never wrote and i didnt have his address i was there when they moved and he gave me his red jumper which i liked and that was last time i saw him since  i tried to find him on fb but i either remembered his name wrong or he doesnt have it so aaandd that was tangent i wouldnt change that  but that was my very first if that counts cause we were kids  and  it was much less embarrassing than my one sided teenage love affair which id try to change if i could  like i feel there isnt much id like change apart from some stupid moments and maybe my lack of confidence if that could be changed sorry for that random interlude in the middle but i yeah ultimately im ok with how things turned out so far but i guess i havent really done anything major yet i dont regret my degree however `useless’  it may be or the uni went to i enjoyed so much im going again to do a masters in that subject which is what i want and i dont think future me would want to change that either

#ask me #personal #bethans pals #did i answer or just blab about unrelated stuff? #close enough?

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So I Have Two Tickets For Speeding Offenses, But I Don't Want The Insurance Company To Charge Higher Rates. I Hear The ONLY Way To Lower Insurance IsTime, About 3 Years! Some Help Or Suggestions Would Be Greatly Appreciated""

Do I add Real Estate company to car insurance policy?

My mom and I were hired by a well known real estate company. We are on the same auto insurance policy (clean records). When we were hired, while in training, I called around for quotes. I explained that I did not know how many miles I would be driving yet. The agent said I keep it where it was and if I notice I drive around more to call and adjust the rate. I was up front about getting into real estate. The quote was good. Two weeks letter I get a letter I have to fill out for the auto company. They want to know millage again and if I will be using the cars for work. I was honest about everything, including the company.. I received a notice today that my policy went up almost $400 because they upped my milage (I put between 9-15k, so of course they went in and put in 15k LOL.... but even brining down that, because the company is on there, I am under a business policy ... Is this correct?""

What Is The Best Insurance Agency?

Like any insurance agency. Such as Progressive, State Farm, Geico, or anything that you think saves the most of your cash.""

Car dealership never faxed info to the insurance company. Can anything legally be done?

I got in an accident in the car and the insurance company said the dealership never faxed the info and it was ultimately my responsibility to make sure it had insurance so is there anything i can do or am i just screwed with a wrecked car?

Do you guys know of any cheap Car Insurance places in Raleigh NC ?

I am 18 yrs old i dont have my license but im trying. I need car insurance but i cant find a good place. I want something that will allow me to getright my license right away. I dont want to wait. Any ideas? ohh and i dont have my permit so im in a bad place. I NEED HELPPP PLEASE and THANK YOU!

How much wil my insurance go up?

I was just recently in a car accident. It was my fault I hit a truck and totalled my car. The truck didnt seem to really have damage I hit the metal ball where you attatch a trailer the hitch. I have fred loya car insurance. how much will my insurance go up? Please. will rate best answer.

What is a good insurance I could get for my mom? She's bipolar and schizophrenic.

Medicines are at ridiculous prices for mental illness... we're paying over 1,500 a month in medications. Is there anything that could help? Aside from medical(might get denied). We live in california.""

How much will car insurance be for me?

Well I'm 17, I have a 2008, mitsubishi eclipse se, and I've been driving since age 16, no violations or accidents. It will be added onto my parent's account.""

How much would insurance cost for a 98' 4x4 Z71 Extended Cab.?

I am 15. Been driving since like December. No tickets or wrecks. I have a 01' Silverado Extended Cab 2wd would it cost the same? Also we have safeway. I am on libiaty or w/e it is.

What is the average house insurance cost in Canada?

for example for 3500 sqft with 2 stories

How cheap could i get insurance?

im 17, gonna be 18, no parking violations tickets or accidents whatsoever. the reason i ask is because the state i live in requires insurance.""

""Could $5,000 cover the healthcare insurance premium for a family?""

If McCain's credit becomes reality, doesn't it seem logical that a major healthcare provider would put together an affordable health insurance package for the credit amount and ...show more""

How much money will I pay to my insurance with my G2?

how much money will I pay to my insurance with my G2? what it can be the difference if I got a driver certificated? just say a number that you think i will pay without a certificated and then with certificated..I have a G2 I'm 21 years old and the car is a bmw 96 year ,4 doors thank you""

Insurance for dummies(life insurance)?

Please help . I took out a life insurance policy about 8 years ago it is a whole life insurance policy and has some cash value .I recently discovered I have a group life insurance policy at work . Should I keep both or cash in the whole life insurance policy which is worth about 11,000 in coverage and 1,100 in cash value . The work policy is worth about 65,000 in coverage and 0 cash value""

What car insurance can i get if i have 2 accidents?

I got a DWI and hit somebodies car last year. Is there any cheap car insurance out there.

Car insurance for teenagers?

Is there any teenagers (MALE) who have got a quote for less than 600 with 1 years no claims bonus? If so, which insurance company is it with? The prices im getting are insane! I live in the UK.""

How much does insurance cost for TLC/taxi in New York ?

I want to register my Honda accord 2008 to be a taxi. How much would my insurance cost ? Thank you

""How much will I have to put down and pay every month if I want to purchase a $30,000 car?What about insurance?""

-first time buyer -New York State -Salary is b/w 35,000-48,000 -always on time with my credit payments""

Can i take out two seperate care insurances for two different cars?

im looking to insurance another car in my name, but looking i have found cheaper quotes, i was wondering if i can have two different cars, on two different insurance poilcys? many thanks.""

Does Medicare or Health insurance work in other states?

If i lived In............. Rhode Island would my health insurance work in another state like Massachusetts.

Can paying monthly for car insurance increase credit score?

I was just wondering if I pay my monthly insurance bill if my credit score would go up? I am trying to build my credit score after having a real bad score. I know that if you have a recurring payment it will increase the score, but does that include car insurance? I have the money to pay my insurance for the year all at once (birthday present) but if it helps my score to pay monthly, I'll just keep the money in my account and pay monthly. Thanks!""

Question about health insurance for unborn son?

When am i supposed to try and get insurance for my son? I'm sorry if this is a completely stupid question but i've asked many people and they don't know. He's due January 28th, 2012. Am i supposed to get insurance BEFORE he's born, or after? Can i even get it before he's born? It just seems like if i try to get it after he's born it'll take awhile and he needs to go to the doctor soon after he's born of course. My insurance will not cover him. My fiance's will cover him but the owners of the company have been putting his paperwork off. Anyway, please help. :)""

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How can i make my car insurance cheaper?

im finding it more expensive this year than in 2010 to buy my car insurance and yet that was closer to the claims i've had to include (one in july for an sp30 speeding and the other for a none fault accident in my unoccupied vehicle in october). i dont understand this at all and its really bugging me as im finding it hard to get a decent quote. my car also has a rear spoiler which was there when i bought it which is also causing me hassle. is there anything i can do to get the best quote for my car, i'm going insane lol. im in the uk also""

Can my new car be on my parents auto insurance policy if we live in different states?

I recently moved to Michigan for work and just bought a new Mitsubishi Evo, and here the insurance is outrageous (over 300/month) compared to Illinois which is about half as much. Is it possible for me to be on my parents insurance plan if they live in Illinois? I already bought the car and I need insurance one way or another I'm just trying to save some money here, and just wondering if it is possible.""

What kind of car for cheapest insurance?

I'm 23

Will it cost a lot to start car insurance coverage again?

My boyfriend let his car insurance policy expire because his inspection ran out. He's working out of town, doesn't drive his car, and didnt have a chance to get it inspected.""

Im having a baby.. now i need insurance.. what am i able to do?

Im having a baby.. now i need insurance.. what am i able to do? Shes about a month along, andwe donthave insurance tohelp us have it.. what can i do? Can i still get it or do they see that as priorissue andsayno.. We need help bringing it intobthe world..butwere lostat the moment.""

Do insurance rates vary on the type or model of car?

Do insurance rates vary on the type or model of car?

Where to get cheap insurance for at risk drivers?

Well I had an 08 chevy cobalt (dad was paying for it) & me & my friends were always stupid & I was always doing stupid things. Totaled it. & I got 5 points on my license. I got a Job & my mom agreed shed pay for half the payments on a car. I liked the 2013 dodge darts bc they were really good on gas, looked cool, & had a lot of room. Well the insurance for that was gonna be 900 a month through Allstate. Which is crazy. I can afford 1-150 a month for insurance. Anywhere I could go to get a cheap car insurance? Within my price range for an at risk driver? & I probably won't buy the dart, I was thinking like an 07 civic or eclipse or something on the lines of that""

How Much To Insure My Bmw 318 I Se Auto?

Hi, I just passed my test a month ago and im 19 i just bought my first car the BMW 318 I Se Auto 1.8 litres and was wondering how much it would cost to insure this car and if there was any way i could get a cheap deal from anywhere, like traders insurance. please help! finding insurance is doing my head in :| Nd Yh im In The Uk :)""

Why am I getting such high auto insurance quotes?

I'm really frustrated. I wanted to finally get auto insurance next month. But the free quotes I'm getting on insurance websites (such as Progressive, AllState and Geico) is WAY too expensive! My brothers insurances were always like $160-$180 for 6 months. But I just got a quote from AllState for over $500 for 6 months and $381 for 6 months from Progressive. That's NUTS! I have a 1995 Ford F-150 pickup. And sure, it's bigger than my brothers Ford Ranger and my other brothers Ford Aerostar van, but still.....why is it THAT MUCH MORE expensive? I'm in my 30's and have never had an accident or traffic voilation of any kind within the 14 years I've been driving. I guess none of that matters. All I know is that I'll NEVER be able to afford insurance with quotes like I'm getting.""

Boyfriend got into accident with my car..he has insurance/SR-22. Whose insurance will be responsible?

My boyfriend has had an insurance policy with an SR-22 on it for almost a year. It expires in 6 days. He was driving my car to work and got into an accident that was his fault. My car has barely any damage and I don't think the other car was severely damaged. My mom has an insurance policy on my car ( I live with her) But since my boyfriend was driving and he has insurance with the SR-22 doesn't that mean that it will go on his insurance? Isn't that the exact reason he had to have the SR-22 in the first place? So in case he screwed up (which he did) than it would be covered in any car he drives? Thanks.

""How does car insurance in Ontario, Canada work if deductibles are involved?""

Maybe I'm missing something here, but the way it's been explained to me is this: I've got a $500 deductible on my policy. If someone backs into my parked car, this will be deducted from the payout I get for repairs. OK, let's say the damages amount to $900. That would mean that because of MY $500 deductible, the payout to me would be $400. I'd have to pay the other $500 out of pocket to repair my car. The insurance company would then reclaim that $400 from the other guy's insurance company. Now, if the other guy also has a $500 deductible (very likely), then he'd have to pay $400 out of pocket. That seems wacked to me. Someone damages my car, and he has to pay LESS than I do for the damages. Am I missing something?""

Would i need car insurance?

(Only open to UK) i am a provisional driver using my dad's car. My dad is with me at all times and he has fully comprehensive insurance, i have been told that this then covers me also, is this correct or will i need extra insurance?""

Is an auto insurance quote a contract?

The reason I ask this is because I got an online quote from an auto company and was quoted $447 for a 12 month term. I find this to be an extremely good deal, but something tells me, when I speak to them, they are not going to honor it. So, do they have to honor their quote? Can I get them for false advertising if they don't (or something else)? More Info: This quote is already based on my driving record so, nothing in my history can come along to change the premium.""

How much would insurance for a motorcycle cost for a 17 year old?

How much approximately for a 17 yr old with a 250 ninja? what about a 600cc bike? I do not have my drivers license yet, only my permit and I would get a learners permit on my bike. How much do you think it will cost?""

Insurance for young drivers?

I just passed my test im 18 tomorrow and i am looking for short term insurance but fairly cheap. I have already tried to look online but most of the insurance company's require the driver to have a years experience on the road beforehand. I desperately need to drive and i desperately need to have insurance. Can anyone please advise on cheap company's plus how to arrange it all?? Thanks

Is being an adult really that hard? Owning a house? Having a job? Owning a car? INSURANCE??!?

I'm only 15 but I've been looking around and now I'm just not eager or happy to be an adult. The amount of stuff that I will have to do will essentially cause flippin' hair loss! When I'm older why do I actually have to have TV license to buy a TV? Do I have to have insurance on EVRYTHING? House, car, health..like seriously why do I have to pay for something hazardous that might not even happen in my life? Is it vital to have car insurance? What if I don't have one and my car is perfectly fine? Please don't even get me started on bills! It freaks me out to know that companies just want money, money, money and wont stop at anything to get it. I heard that there's this thing where gas companies and all those other stuff essential in a house can directly take money off your credit/debit card instead of going to the post office and paying. For people who do this, is it better? It's quite scary to know that I'll be doing all this in the future.""

Americans. What cars do you normally have as your first Cars. As a cheap car with cheap insurance?

I was just wonderng What kind of cars American tennagers ahve for there first Cars I might think of importing one

Hey much will auto insurance cost me?

hey i will be 16 yrs old soon enough but i need an auto insurance i live in orlando, does anyone know how much it will cost me?whats the cheapest?""

How much would my car insurance go up for putting a little scratch on someone elses vehicle?

I'm with State Farm

Cheap Life insurance?

Whats a good life insurance company

Looking for affordable health insurance?

i have insurance through my company we are switching from KAISER at 136.00,per check which is 272.00 per month and were as the company pays the other half,AETNA now will charge 178.00 per check which comes out to 356.00 per monththis is the only option that our company has given.so i'm asking ANSWERS help in finding affordable health insurance for me and my spouse i'm 8 yrs younger i'm turning 62,this july 29 and my spouse is turning 70,this nov she has arthritis and myself just sciatica off and on somebody please help with affordable health insurance thank you Gilley""

HELP! I need an insurance company for my 50cc moped?!?

Hey Im 16 and have just bought an 07 Aprilia SR50 scooter, I need to get insurance but most places are quoting me around 500! Im not one of these chavs that races around don't worry! Does anyone here recommend any insurance companies or have a good deal on there insurance? Thanks in advance. =]""

How much will my car insurance go up?

I recently had an accident and my car was totaled, it was my fault, i did have full coverage so they did pay for my car and the other person, can someone give me an idea like a percentage or something that will help me determine how much more i will be paying, i am currently paying $95/month.""

Does New York require lenders of leased cars to include GAP insurance within the cost of the lease itself?

Was under the impression that this was the case, however, after recently leasing a vehicle in NY, the dealership told me otherwise.""

Health insurance......?

Im applying for the health connect in missouri and they asked me to call two different insurance company for quotes. My coworker said to call like prudential and allstate but i thought they only sale care,home,life insurance. do they sell health insurance too? i called but they dont work on saturdays so i just wanna know if they do or what other places i can call.""

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[fromthedeskofcen-blog]

No Clue

From birth, I had no clue about what I wanted to be when I grew up. I always had hobbies and interests that kept me occupied for more than a brief moment, but what became of those hobbies and interests? Fast forward 29 years and some remain just that “interests.” Where exactly does that place me in life today? Possibly at a dinner party talking to a couple about about how I am ready for retirement due to my abilities in golf, tennis, and shuffleboard. What is the level below a Renaissance Man? Mildly Interesting? 

     Sure, I am able to do common adult tasks without help, but what else can I do or even qualified to do? I’ve had jobs in the past. I recently graduate with a Master’s Degree in History, but how common is it to get a job in a field where people can just google a subject instead of learn a subject in a school setting? Pretty uncommon. Over the last decade many people have asked me what I want to do with History...lawyer? teacher? And now that I have $50,000 worth of college credit, I have no clue what I want to do or even want to have happen in terms of employment. 

   At 20, I thought I was going to be in a semi-successful touring band, but before that baby came to term, the dream quickly ended. I’ve always liked music and over time, attempted to play several instruments. At the behest of my grandmother, I chose not to sing because I sound “horrible.” I decided to go back to school for the third time. Yes you read that correctly. It seemed like the comprehensible thing to do. Between 2006 and 2010 I changed my major three times before obtaining my AA degree in 2012. So obviously my mind has a difficult time making itself up. I didn’t apply to University in order to continue on to my BA until the night before the deadline. And i only applied to one school, so that wouldve been bad if I hadn’t been accepted. The reason for going into the History program stemmed from my lack of mathematical skills and because I did well in the subject prior to college. I also got good grades in just about every other subject so why didn’t I go with one of those? No Clue. 

    At the University level, I chose the teaching track because I felt like that was still an option, but then I realized it would have taken at least another quarter to complete, and i was on a very specific timeline of completion. So, I changed tracks to the Graduate one. I really just wanted to get my degree and head out into the workforce, but a BA for me is basically a HS diploma plus one year experience, which prompted me to seek out Grad programs and eventually applied to two Universities that didn;t require a GRE score. I finished my BA in 2014 and it was off to Grad School. 

    I got involved in several areas of the department, worked on campus, got teaching experience as a paid and unpaid intern. Things seemed to lining up on my Curriculum Vitae. I presented original research at Conferences, finished my thesis and here I am sitting on my couch with no clue once again. Its like I was in the educational honeymoon phase. 

    I can look back, reflect, think about what I couldve improved on in different aspects from childhood until now. But, when you are living without a clue, it is difficult to know where to improve, how to take the next step without a clear vision. I definitely am envious of those who woke up on day 1 and knew their path in life. I am a behind the scenes type of person. I am analytical and intuitive. In interviews for jobs that I had no intention of accepting or hoped to acquire, the interviewer asked what my dream job was. If I could do something right now and be happy forever what would it be? As a kid, this kind of thought process is normally known as “daydreaming.” As someone who turns 30 next year, its...pretty much the same thing. We’ve come this far, might as well give you the answer. [I want to travel the world with my girlfriend, eating pizza, while documenting my journey through photography and detailed writings.] Who is going to give me this opportunity? I just got a rejection letter today for a part time position at a golf course. 

   I lowered my job standards significantly because I need to make money. Compared to my dream job, I even lowered that standard for the time being to [publishing a children’s book series featuring my cat as the main character] And no, I have no previous experience with that stuff, I can’t draw, and I have no idea how to fast track this process. I already have two stories completed. Hey Penguin Books! Anyway, I knew from a young age that I didn’t want to be in school forever, which is why I dropped out 3 times. Ive worked in 5 different food type jobs, an office, drove for Uber, and that all has led back to square one. I went to Catholic and Christian schools, stayed away from drugs and I can say that my level of optimism has dwindled. 

  Im a fairly simple person with less vices than Home Depot, but what can I offer an office staffed with disgruntled workers in cubicles? Some people do it well. A lot of have found their place or at least able to handle the task at hand. I can offer daydreaming...mental wandering. My head isnt always on planet earth. Knowing what is next is basically impossible. I can only hope things work out for the best, and I am not stopping until something amazing happens. Because at this point. 

I still have no clue. 

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[adambstingus]

The age of banter

The long read: It used to be just a word now it is a way of life. But is it time to get off the banter bus?

Its the most fucking ridiculous story, isnt it? We went to watch fucking dolphins, and we ended up in fucking Syria. Last summer in the Mediterranean party resort of Ayia Napa, Lewis Ellis was working as a club rep. I mean, it was fucking 8am, he told an Australian website soon afterwards, and the last fucking club had closed, and we thought, We can still go dolphin watching. Well blag our way on to a fucking boat and go dolphin watching.

But when the boat sailed so far that Cyprus disappeared from view, Ellis explained, they started to worry. Why are we so far from land? they asked the crew. Were fucking miles away and weve got no fucking wifi. Something, Ellis said, had been lost in translation; his exuberant season as a shepherd for the resorts party pilgrims had gone terribly awry. The crew wasnt taking them to watch dolphins: they were going to a Russian naval base in the city of Tartus, on Syrias Mediterranean coast. Yeah, it is a little ridiculous.

It was, nonetheless, a story that had legs. Hungover lads boat trip boob lands them in Syria, wahey-ed the Mirror; British holidaymakers board party boat in Ayia Napa and end up in war-torn SYRIA, guffawed the Express. If you saw these headlines at the time, you may dimly remember the rest. A stubborn trawler captain, chugging doggedly onwards to Tartus, where he turfed the friends out upon landing; interrogation at the hands of Russian intelligence officers; mutual hilarity as the Russians realised what had happened; and, after a hot meal, a quick tour of the area, and a good nights sleep, spots on the next fishing vessel headed back to Cyprus. It was never made clear why the captain had let them on the boat in the first place, but whatever. Everyone lapped it up.

Reflecting on the whole thing five months later, Ellis, a 26-year-old with a business degree and a marketing masters, couldnt totally wrap his head around it. I think I found 35 stories about us, he told me. I read about myself in the Hawaiian Express, do you know what I mean? (Notwithstanding that there doesnt appear to be any such newspaper, yes, I definitely do.)

What made it really weird to see the media pile in with such unstinting enthusiasm was that the story was total cobblers. I could not believe how gullible they were, Ellis said, a top note of glee still in his voice. We were just having a laugh! It was banter!

Lads: this is the age of banter. Its long been somewhat about the banter, but over the last few years, it has come to seem that its all about the banter an unabashedly bumptious attitude that took up a position on the outskirts of the culture in the early 90s and has been larging its way towards the centre ever since. There are hundreds of banter groups on Facebook, from Banter Britain (no memes insinuating child abuse/dead babies!!!) to Wanker Banter 18+ (Have a laugh and keep it sick) to the Premier League Banter Page (The only rule: keep it banter). You can buy an I banter mug on Amazon for 9, or an Archbishop of Banterbury T-shirt for 9.99.

There are now four branches of a restaurant called Scoff & Banter. When things were going badly at Chelsea FC under Jos Mourinho, it was reported the team had banned all banter in an attempt to focus their minds, and that terminology appeared in the newspapers, as if you would know exactly what it meant. Someone has created a banter map of London using a keyword search on the flatshare website SpareRoom, showing exactly where people are looking for a roommate with good banter (Clapham tends to feature prominently). When a 26-year-old man from Leeds posed for a selfie with a bemused aeroplane hijacker, Vice declared it the high-water mark of banter.

Lewis Ellis (left) and friends in Ayia Napa, pretending to be in Syria. Photograph: Lewis Ellis

If you are younger than about 35, you are likely to hear the term all the time. Either you have banter (if you are funny and can take a joke) or you dont (if you arent and cannot). The mainstream, in summary, is now drunk and asleep on the sofa, and banter is delightedly drawing a penis on its forehead.

As banter has risen, it has expanded. Long a word used to describe submerged expressions of fraternal love, it is now also a word used to excuse uninhibited displays of masculine bravado. Today, it is segregated by class, seized on by brands, picked over by psychologists, and deplored by cultural critics; it is dominant, hotly contested and only hazily understood.

And so, whether he intends it to or not, Ellis use of the term raises some questions. Is he throwing his lot in with the most pervasive branch of the blokeish mainstream, a sanitised and benevolent hilarity that stretches from lad-dad panel shows to your mates zinger about your terrible haircut? Or is he lining up with the misogynist imitators of the Bullingdon club, a sprinkling of racists, and, as we shall see, an actual murderer purveyors of a malicious and insidious masculinity that insists on its indivisible authority and calls you a slut if you object?

Ellis isnt preoccupied by these questions, but for what its worth, he does say that he and his friends never had the slightest intention of going to Syria. We werent really trying to fool anyone, he told me, although Im not sure thats entirely consistent with the facts. We were out for a stroll, and we came across this area that looked really run down, we thought it looked like Syria. So we put it on the club reps [Facebook] page that thats where we were. And everyone started liking it. And then one of the people who contacted us was from LADBible which is like the Bible, but for LADS so we said, well have a mess around here. Well tell a completely ridiculous story, see if the media believes it. See if we can become LADBible famous.

It did, they could. Eventually, the truth came out, not thanks to any especially determined investigative journalism, but because Ellis cheerily admitted on Facebook that his tale of magnificent idiocy was a fiction. Hahaha what a prank, he wrote, with some justification.

The confession only brought another cycle of attention. Publications that had picked up the story in the first place resurfaced it with new headlines to reflect the audacity of the invention; social media users adduced it as evidence for their views of young men, or the media, or both. The Russian embassys Twitter account called it a telling example of how many Syria (and Russia) stories are made up by UK papers, which was great geopolitical banter. The attention entertained Ellis, but he says it wasnt the point. We just thought it was funny, he said. People are too serious. I keep being told to grow up, but I still want to have a good time. Ive had the jobs, Ive got the education. But when Im off work, I want to escape.

Ellis is an enthusiast and an optimist. He is, he told me late last year, desperate to take every opportunity, just to say yes to everything I can. We were on a night out in Manchester with his friends Tyson, John and Chris. In the course of the evening, the following things found their way into my beer: fingers; salt; vinegar; mayonnaise; a chip; saliva; a 10 note; and, I hazily remember being told after the fact, at least two shots of vodka.

Everyones got a thing in the group, Ellis said, as we walked from one bar to the next. One guy, hes not even that ugly, we say he looks like a Peperami. Tysons got this mole on his face, its like a Coco Pop, so youve got a Coco Pop on your face. I looked like Harry Potter when I was a kid, so they call me Potter, thats my nickname. Every single one of us has something. So you youve got Chinese eyes. Youre Chinese.

For the record, I didnt think this was OK, but coming after such a harmless litany, it didnt seem malicious enough to confront. Of course, tacit endorsement is what makes such offensive epithets a commonplace, and so it troubles me that it made me feel mysteriously welcome, just as it had when John punched me lightly in the balls when I arrived. There was no doubting Elliss sincerity: as he spoke, the sheer daft beauty of male friendship seemed to amaze him, almost to the point of physical pain. We just take the piss out of each other, and thats how we show our love, he said. So many group chats on the phone, and you just take the piss until they cry. And its like, when youre really killing them, you go, Ill stop if you want, because you know they cant say yes, so you just keep going. Then we arrived at the next bar, where I was made to drink something called a Zombie.

Early in the evening, before any of this had undermined my ability to take useful notes, Ellis broke off from talking as we walked down the street and sidled into a window display at Next Home, where he Tracey Emined a carefully made bed by climbing into it and rolling around. Everyone cracked up. Give the world a laugh, Ellis tends to think, and the world will smile back at you. Jump on a boat, and youll end up somewhere great; make the boat up, and youll get there faster. Its all about having fun, its all about the banter, he said, after hed rejoined us outside. Banter is about making the world a more exciting place.

If nobody can agree on what banter is, thats hardly a new problem. The first usage of the word recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary comes from noted Restoration lad Thomas dUrfey, also known for his hit song The Fart, in a satirical 1677 play called Madam Fickle. Banter him, banter him, Toby, a character called Zechiel urges, which may be the first time that someone called Toby was so instructed, but certainly wasnt the last.

The OED also notes early attempts at a definition by Jonathan Swift and Samuel Johnson. (Swift mentions a banter upon transubstantiation, in which a cork is turned into a horse, and fair enough, turning a cork into a horse would be classic banter.) Both are a little disgusted by the word, and neither unearths much of an origin story: by their accounts, banter is so coarse that it emerged, fully formed and without antecedent, out of the mouths of oafs.

As it turns out, though, the OED is not at present fully able to handle the banter. According to Eleanor Maier, an associate editor on the dictionary, a search of earlier English texts reveals that a number of previous examples are missing from the dictionarys definition, which was first drafted in 1885 including a quote from a 1657 translation of Don Quixote. (After examining the history, Maier told me that she would be adding banter to the list of entries that are up for review.)

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February 26, 2017

In recent years, banter has barged into our lives at a remarkable clip. Googles Ngram Viewer, a tool that assesses (with some limitations) the frequency with which a term appears in a large database of written sources, finds that banter popped up about twice as often in 2008, the most recent year covered, as it did in 1980.

But banter plugged away for a long time before it became an overnight success. In the 19th century, it often denoted a kind of formal sparring. Even as the term evolved over the 20th, it continued to seem a little prim. In the House of Commons in 1936, Ramsay MacDonald, the former Labour prime minister who had returned in a new seat after losing his old one, was subjected to a good deal of banter Dear old Granny MacDonald!, among other witticisms.In 1981, a Guardian report that chess champion Anatoly Karpov and his handlers had successfully protested at his challenger Viktor Korchnois constant cross-board talk ran under the unlikely headline: Chess banter banned.

Such stories do little to prepare us for what banter has become. Consider the viral video that became known as #bagelgate earlier this year. In the recording, a minor scuffle broke out on the 00.54 train from Kings Cross to Huntingdon, and then for no obviously related reason a woman who had a large bag of bagels decided to put one on the head of the guy sitting in front of her, and then another after he took it off and threw it out of the window, and another and another, and then everyone in the carriage started chanting hes got a bagel on his head, and eventually the slightly spoddy victim who is me when I was 13 and someone filled my pencil case with Mr Kipling apple pies (squashed, oozing) because I was fat lost it and screamed Get the fuck out of my face!, and then another fight broke out on the platform, and then the police got on to the train, and every single person fell into not-me-guv silence: this is not Granny MacDonalds banter any more.

If it is hard to understand how these activities can fall under the same umbrella, it should be noted that a phenomenon may predate our choice of term to describe it its just that the act of definition makes it more visible, and perhaps more likely to be imitated. At some point, though, banter became the name for what British men already regarded as their natural tone of voice. There is a very deeply embedded folk culture in the UK of public ribaldry, extreme sarcasm, facetiousness in other words, of laddishness, says Tony Thorne, a linguist and cultural historian. What you might think of as banter now is rooted in that tradition.

That tradition first lashed itself to banters mast in the early 1990s, and controversy soon followed. In June 1992, a Guardian story headlined Police fire sex banter officer, about the dismissal of a sergeant for sexual harassment, recorded an early skirmish in the modern banter wars, and an important new layer to its meaning in the wild: The move is seen as part of the Metropolitan polices desire to reassure women officers that what has previously been tolerated as banter is no longer acceptable. Two years later, the lads mags arrived.

The first edition of Loaded magazine appeared in May 1994, with a picture of Gary Oldman on the front smoking a dog-end, under a banner that declared him a super lad. What fresh lunacy is this? the editors note read. Loaded is a new magazine dedicated to life, liberty and the pursuit of sex, drink, football and less serious matters Loaded is for the man who believes he can do anything, if only he wasnt hungover.

If banter dismays you, James Brown, the magazines first editor, is quite an easy bogeyman. As he acknowledges himself, he created a title that defined a genre. Loaded was swiftly recognised as a foundational text for a resurgent and ebullient masculinity that had been searching for public expression. While it was always overtly horny, the magazine was initially more interested in a forlorn, slackjawed and self-ironising appreciation of A-listers (one reversible poster had Cindy Crawford on one side and a steam train on the other) than the grot-plus-football formula that successors and imitators like Maxim, Zoo and Nuts milked to destruction. But it also flirted with something murkier.

To its critics, Loaded and its imitators aimed to sanitise a certain hooliganistic worldview with a strategic disclaimer. Banter emerges as this relentless gloss of irony over everything, said Bethan Benwell, senior lecturer in language and linguistics at the University of Stirling and the author of several papers on mens magazines. The constant excusing of sexist or homophobic sentiments with this wink that says you dont really mean it. Benwell pointed to Loadeds emblematic strapline: For men who should know better.

Brown denies that his magazine invented banter. Instead, he says, it captured a zeitgeist that the media had previously failed to acknowledge; the folk culture that Tony Thorne refers to, brought out into the open. Before Browns intervention, GQ had run John Major and Michael Heseltine as cover stars, for Gods sake. I took the interests and the outlook of the young men that I knew, and I put them in a magazine, Brown said. Im not responsible for the tone of the later entrants to the market. We were criticised because we fancied women, not because we belittled them.

The thing about Loaded was that the way we wrote reflected the way we were with our mates, he went on. Theres definitely a thing that exists in the male outlook: you take the piss out of the people you like, and you ignore the people you dont.

Accept this as your starting point, and objections become exhausting to sustain: what youre objecting to is an act of affection. Of course, this is what makes it insidious. Because Browns account rests on the intention behind the magazine, and Benwells on the effect it had, they are impossible to reconcile. Its a very difficult thing to resist or challenge without looking like the stereotypical humourless feminist, said Benwell. But by laughing, you become complicit.

Loaded gave this new kind of banter escape velocity, and it began to colonise other worlds. On BBC2, for example, David Baddiel and Frank Skinner were staking out their own territory with Fantasy Football League, a mixture of sketches and celebrity chat that managed to be enthusiastic and satirical at the same time, and reached its peak when the pair became national icons, thanks to their Euro 96 anthem, Three Lions. While a long-running joke about the Nottingham Forest striker Jason Lees pineapple haircut seems flatly racist in retrospect Baddiel did an impression of him in blackface by and large, the tone was milder and more conventional than the magazines were: this was the sensibility of the university graduate slumming it before embarking on grown-up life.

Baddiel implied that laddism could easily occupy a spectrum from ogling to literature, drawing a line to Nick Hornbys memoir of life as an Arsenal fan, Fever Pitch. Hornby once said to me that all this stuff you know, fantasy football and his book is men talking about things that they like and for a while in the mid-80s they werent allowed to, he said in 1995. Ive always liked football and Ive always liked naked women, and its easier to talk about that now than it was eight years ago. Those comments reflect a kind of sneer at its critics that you could often detect in Fantasy Football League, even as its hosts protested that they were just having a laugh though Baddiel himself denies that view. Twenty years on, he, like Brown, is at pains to draw a line between the approach that he and Skinner popularised, and the forms that came later. I guess me and Frank did specialise in banter, he said in an email. In a time before it was known as bantz.

Over the next 10 years, two things happened that ushered in the age of banter. (You might call it mature banter, except that its also the opposite.) First, instead of just being a thing that happened, it became a thing that people talked about. Then, as it became a more tangible cultural product, everyone started trying to make money out of it. The watershed moment, the forms equivalent to Dylan going electric, was the invention of Dave.

Like most good ideas, it looks simple enough in retrospect. Before Dave was Dave, it was UKTV Gold 2. The predecessor channels audience share was 0.761%, and no one could tell who on earth it was supposed to be for. But we had the content, says Steve North, the channels brand manager in 2007 and content of a particular kind that the existing name did very little to communicate: Have I Got News for You, They Think Its All Over, Top Gear. Viewers said they loved the repartee, the humour. It reminded them of spending time with their funniest friends.

The first issue of Loaded magazine, from May 1994

The target audience was highly specific. It was men married or in relationships, maybe with young children, not going to the pub as much as they used to, says Andy Bryant, managing director of Red Bee, the agency brought in to work on the rebrand. And they missed that camaraderie.

Their purpose thus fixed, North started to run brainstorming sessions at which people would shout out suggestions for the name. One of the ones we collected was Dave, he says. We thought, great, but we cant call it that. But then we thought, Its a surrogate friend. If the audience really sees it as that, if they see it as genuinely providing the banter, maybe we can really give it a name.

They put their hunch through its paces. The market research company YouGov was commissioned to test Dave alongside a bunch of other names (Matthew and Kevin were also on the shortlist), but nothing else had the same everyman resonance. For us, Dave is a sensibility, a place, an emotion, a feeling, said North, his tone thoughtful, almost gnomic. Everyone has their own sense of who Dave is, thats the important thing. Its hard to find anyone who doesnt know someone called Dave.

Now the channel had a brand, it needed a slogan. Lots of people claim they played a part in the naming, says Bryant. But it was just as important to encapsulate what the channel was all about. And at some point someone, I dont know who, wrote it on a board: The home of witty banter. The rebrand added 8m new viewers in six months; Dave saw a 71% increase in its target audience of affluent young men.

Conceived by the first generation of senior professionals to have grown up with banter as an unremarkable part of their demographics cultural mix, the channel crystallised a change, and accelerated it. In 2006, The Ricky Gervais Show, in which Gervais and Stephen Merchant relentlessly poked fun at their in-house idiot savant Karl Pilkington, became the most popular podcast of all time. In 2007, the year of Daves rebrand, Top Gears ratings shot from below 5m to a record high of 8m. The following year, QI moved from BBC4 to BBC2. (A tie-in book published the same year, QI: Advanced Banter, sold more than 125,000 copies.)

North saw the kind of fraternal teasing that was being monetised by his channel, and the panel shows that were its lifeblood, as fundamentally benign. The key thing is that its two-way, he said. Its about two people riffing off each other.

But like his 20th-century forebears, he can see that something ugly has evolved, and he wants to keep his brand well away from it. Bants, he said with distaste. That thing of cover for dubious behaviour we hate and despise it massively. When we launched, it was about fun, being light-hearted, maybe pushing each other without being disrespectful. When people talk about Ive had a go at that person, great banter no, thats just nasty.

By the turn of the decade,as other branding agencies mimicked the success of Dave, banter was everywhere, a folk tradition that had acquired a peculiar sort of respectability. The men who celebrated it werent just lads in the pub any more: they had spending power and establishment allies on their side. But they were, by the same token, more visible to critics. Aggression from an underdog can be overlooked; aggression from the establishment is serious enough to become a matter of public concern.

Take Richard Keys and Andy Gray, Sky Sports brand-defining football presenters, who got themselves up to their necks in some extremely bad banter in 2011. Keys blamed dark forces, but everyone else blamed him and Gray for being misogynists. We knew this because there was footage.

The firestorm, as Keys called it, centred on claims that the two men had said and done heinously sexist things off-air. Most memorable, at least for its phrase-making, was the clip in which Keys eagerly asked his fellow pundit Jamie Redknapp if hed smashed it it being a woman and asserted that he could often be found hanging out the back of it.

Gray went quickly. In the days before he followed, Keys burned hot with injustice in a series of mea-sorta-culpas, particularly focused on the tape in which he expressed his derision at the idea that a woman, Sian Massey-Ellis, could be an assistant referee in the Premier League.

It was just banter, he said. Or, more exactly, just a bit of banter, as he said Massey-Ellis had assured him she understood in a later telephone conversation in which, he added, much banter passed between us. She and I enjoyed some banter, he protested. It was lads-mag banter, he insisted. It was stone-age banter, he admitted. We liked to have banter, he explained. Richard Keys was sorry if you were offended, but also, it wasnt his fault if you didnt get it. It was just banter, for goodness sake!

Up to their necks in some extremely bad banter Andy Gray and Richard Keys in 2011. Photograph: Richard Saker/Rex

Keys insistence that his mistake was simply a failure to move with the times was nothing new: banter has always seemed to carry a longing for the past, for an imagined era before male friendship was so cramped by the tiresome obligations of feminist scrutiny. But while his underlying views were painfully dated, his conception of banter was entirely modern: a sly expansion of the words meaning, and a self-conscious contention that it provided an impregnable defence.

The Keys variation understood banter, first, as a catch-all means of denying responsibility if anyone was hurt; and, second, as a means of reinforcing a bond between two people by being cruel about a third. The comparison wouldnt please a couple of alphas like Keys and Gray, but both strategies brought it closer to a style of communication with classically feminine associations: gossip. Deborah Cameron, the Rupert Murdoch (lol) Professor in Language and Communication at Oxford University, argues that the two modes of interaction follow basically the same structure. People gossip as a trust game, she said. You tell someone your unsayable private secret, and it bonds you closer together. Theyre supposed to reciprocate with a confidence of their own. Well, banter works in the same way now. You say something outrageous, and you see if the other person dares to top your remark.

The trust game in banter was traditionally supposed to be: do you trust me when I say were friends in spite of the mean things Im saying about you? But now theres a second version of the game: do I trust you not to tell anyone the mean things Im saying about other people? I think originally it was a harmless thing, said Cameron, whose analysis is rooted in an archive of male group conversation, mostly recorded by her students, that goes back to the 1980s. But then it started to be used as an excuse when men were caught out engaging in forms of it that werent so harmless.

It comes down to context and intent, says the comedian Bridget Christie. The gentler form of banter is still knocking around, she suggested, but now it exists alongside something darker: I found The Inbetweeners adolescent banter hilarious, because it was equal and unthreatening. But there is obviously a world of difference between a group of teenage boys benignly taking the piss out of each other, and a bigot being racist or misogynist and trying to pass it off as a joke.

Trace the rise of banter, and you will find that it corresponds to the rise of political correctness or, anyway, to the backlash against political correctness gone mad. That phrase and just banter mirror each other perfectly: one denoting a priggish culture that is deemed to have overreached, the other a laid-back culture that is deemed to have been unfairly reined in. Ironically enough, just banter does exactly what it accuses political correctness of, seeking to close down discussion by telling you that meaning is settled by category rather than content. Political correctness asserts that a racist joke is primarily racist, whereas banter asserts that a racist joke is primarily a joke. In the past, the men who used it rarely had to define it, or to explain themselves to anybody else. Today, in contrast, it is named all the time. The biggest change isnt the banter itself, says Bethan Benwell. Its the explicit use of the word as a disclaimer.

By sheer repetition and by its use as an unanswerable defence, banter has turned from an abstraction into a vast and calcified description of actions as well as words: gone from a way of talking to a way of life, a style that accidentally became a worldview. He bantered you, people sometimes say: you always used to banter with your mates, but now it often sounds like something you do to them. Once it was directionless, inconclusive chatter with wit as the engine that drove it, said the comedian Russell Kane. Now, if I trip you up, thats banter.

You might think the humiliation suffered by Keys and Gray would have made banter less appealing as a get-out, but not a bit of it. Banter, increasingly, seems like the first refuge of the inexcusable. In 2014, Malky Mackay, who had been fired as manager of Cardiff City Football Club a year earlier, was caught having sent texts that referred to Chinese people eating dogs, black people being criminals, Jewish people being avaricious, and gay people being snakes all of which were initially optimistically defended by the League Managers Association as letting off steam to a friend during some friendly text message banter. The comedian Dapper Laughs, whose real name is Daniel OReilly, established himself as banters rat king, with his very own ITV2 show, and then lost it after he suggested that an audience member at one of his gigs was gagging for a rape. A man was convicted of murder after he crushed his friend against a wall with a Jeep Cherokee after an argument over badger-baiting, a course of action that he said had been intended as banter. Another slashed the throat of someone he had met in a pub and described the incident as a moment of banter after 14 or 15 pints. Both are now in prison.

By any sane measure,banter was falling into disrepute, as often a disguise for malice as a word for the ribaldry of lads on the lash. Still it did not go away: instead, the worst of it has mutated again, asserting its authority in public and saving its creepiest tendencies for the shadows or, at least, for the company of five, or 10, or 20 of your closest mates.

At the London School of Economics, it started with a leaflet. Each year at the universitys freshers fair, LSE Rugby Football Club distributed a banterous primer on rugby culture. In October 2014, says the then-president of the student union, Nona Buckley-Irvine, a student came to her in tears with a copy in her hand. The leaflet talked about trollops, slags, crumpet, mingers, and the desirability of misogyny; there were passing references to the horrors of homosexual humiliation and outright homosexual debauchery. Anyone charmed by all this was invited to sign up for the club and join the banter list, entitling them to participate in the exchange of chappish email conversation.

To anyone with a passing knowledge of university laddism, it was hard to imagine a more ordinary iteration. Still, after the unreconstructed chappishness of the leaflet came to light, the club knew it had a problem. It issued a collective apology acknowledging that we have a lot to learn about the pernicious effects of banter, and promised to organise a workshop. But there was reason to be sceptical about the depth of that commitment.

When Buckley-Irvine and her colleagues published a report on the incident, they noted a string of others, including an antisemitic assault on a university ski trip to Val dIsere in 2011. And there were other indiscretions it didnt mention. According to two people who were present, one club dinner at an Indian restaurant on Brick Lane ended with a stripper having bottles thrown at her when, already intimidated, she refused to take her clothes off. She hid in the toilet, and had to be escorted out by a member of staff as the team vandalised the restaurant.

Photograph: Alamy

According to five people who were either members of the rugby club or closely associated with it, one notorious senior member was widely thought to be responsible for the leaflet. (He did not respond to requests for comment.) But when they came to defend themselves to the student union, members of the club fell back on one of the most revered pillars of laddism: all for one, one for all. Theyd clearly worked out a line, says Nona Buckley-Irvine. No one individual was responsible. They were sorry. It was just banter. Thats what they all said.

The accountancy firm KPMG, which sponsored the universitys wider Athletics Union, decided that banter was not an especially helpful brand association, and withdrew funding worth 22,000. The students union decided to disband the club for the academic year. The decision moved some observers to disgust. It was a gross overreaction, a former team member told me. We were the best-behaved team when it came to actually playing rugby but they banned that bit and they couldnt ban any of the rest.

Others took a less measured tone. I had old members emailing me and calling me a fascist, says Buckley-Irvine. Asking me if I didnt understand that it was just banter. Rugby players chanted abuse at her on nights out, she told me. They shoulder-barged her, and called her a cunt.

These kinds of interactions would tend to take place on Wednesdays, also known as sports night, at a bar in Leicester Square. Sports night was the apotheosis of the rugby clubs bleak solidarity. In deference to what you might call the wingers-before-mingers code, for instance, members of the club who were expected to dress in suits werent allowed to speak to women before 9pm. So they would just shout abuse instead, one female former student, who Ill call Anna, remembered. One chant, she said, went, Nine nos and a yes is a yes. At the time, Anna thought that it was all a joke. People would say, Its just banter all the time. After everything. Absolutely everything, she said, sitting in a cafe in south London. If you were meeting someone new, saying they had good banter, that was a pretty high compliment. Whereas if you dont go along with that stuff, its seen as, you cant take the chat, you cant take the banter. And its not seen as having a stance against it. Its seen as not being able to keep up.

After the rugby club was disbanded, nothing much changed in sports night social life. Many members of the club still went on the same nights out; they just colonised other teams. They still addressed girls as Sarah 2 or Sarah 8 depending on how attractive they considered them out of 10; they still had shouted conversations about their sex lives in front of the women they had slept with but refused to acknowledge.

That culture was not confined to Wednesday nights. Anna remembers a guy who took her picture as she slept, naked, in the bed they were sharing, and circulated it to another non-university sports team via WhatsApp. She wasnt meant to see it on his phone.

Ask anyone well-informed where banter resides now, and theyll give the same answer: WhatsApp groups and email threads, the safe spaces of the lad class. What youd get out of those WhatsApp threads, its another world of drama, one former member of the football club said. The details of girls bodies that youd read, a few funny jibes, that was the limit for me. But when it moved on to, like, really, really bad stuff, always about sex it was too much. Those threads are the source of everything.

If the threads were an outlet, they were by no means the limit. Banter, by common consent, wasnt confined to mocking each other: it was about action. If you dressed up for a night out, one female student remembered, it was just kind of status quo that you could have your arse grabbed. It was just like, Oh, that was kind of weird, but OK, thatll happen. Like everyone else willing to speak about it, her view of that culture was perplexingly nuanced, sometimes contradictory. It sounds scary, she said, but that being said, some of my best nights were there, and like it was fun. But then she said: What was defined as serious just got so pushed. I think for someone to lodge a complaint they would have to be actually hurt.

Anna remembers lots of sketchy incidents. She recalls nights when her choices faded into a blur, and she wondered if she had really been in control. But at the time, I would never call it out, she said. And then, youre all living in halls together, and the next day, its like: What did you do last night? Thats hilarious. Thats banter.

When Anna thinks about the behaviour of some of the men she knew at university, she finds it hard to pin down exactly what she thinks of them. Theres one in particular who sticks in her mind. On a Wednesday night, he was a banter guy, she said. He was a Wednesday animal. But the rest of the time, he was my friend.

Controversial though all this was at the time, no one seems to think that it will have cost the perpetrators much. Ive tried so hard to leave all that behind, said the former member of the football team. But those guys theyre all going on to run banks, or the country, or whatever. The senior rugby man who many held responsible, by the way, has landed on his feet. Today, he has a job at KPMG.

In 2017, every new instance of banter is immediately spotted and put through the journalistic wringer. (Vices Joel Golby, who wrote the definitive text on the bagel thing, has made a career from his exquisite close readings of the form.) But when each new absolute legend emerges, we dont usually have the context to make the essential judgment: do the proponents tend towards the harmless warmth of Ellis and his mates, or the frank hostility of the LSE rugby boys? Is their love of irony straightforward, or a mask for something else?

As Richard Keys and Dapper Laughs and their cohorts have polluted the idea of banter, the commercial entities that endorsed its rise have become uneasy with the label. They wanted it to go viral; they hadnt expected it to go postal. Dave, for example, has dropped the home of witty banter slogan. Its not about classic male humour any more, its a little bit smarter, says UKTVs Steve North. We definitely say it less than we used to.

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The age of banter

The long read: It used to be just a word now it is a way of life. But is it time to get off the banter bus?

Its the most fucking ridiculous story, isnt it? We went to watch fucking dolphins, and we ended up in fucking Syria. Last summer in the Mediterranean party resort of Ayia Napa, Lewis Ellis was working as a club rep. I mean, it was fucking 8am, he told an Australian website soon afterwards, and the last fucking club had closed, and we thought, We can still go dolphin watching. Well blag our way on to a fucking boat and go dolphin watching.

But when the boat sailed so far that Cyprus disappeared from view, Ellis explained, they started to worry. Why are we so far from land? they asked the crew. Were fucking miles away and weve got no fucking wifi. Something, Ellis said, had been lost in translation; his exuberant season as a shepherd for the resorts party pilgrims had gone terribly awry. The crew wasnt taking them to watch dolphins: they were going to a Russian naval base in the city of Tartus, on Syrias Mediterranean coast. Yeah, it is a little ridiculous.

It was, nonetheless, a story that had legs. Hungover lads boat trip boob lands them in Syria, wahey-ed the Mirror; British holidaymakers board party boat in Ayia Napa and end up in war-torn SYRIA, guffawed the Express. If you saw these headlines at the time, you may dimly remember the rest. A stubborn trawler captain, chugging doggedly onwards to Tartus, where he turfed the friends out upon landing; interrogation at the hands of Russian intelligence officers; mutual hilarity as the Russians realised what had happened; and, after a hot meal, a quick tour of the area, and a good nights sleep, spots on the next fishing vessel headed back to Cyprus. It was never made clear why the captain had let them on the boat in the first place, but whatever. Everyone lapped it up.

Reflecting on the whole thing five months later, Ellis, a 26-year-old with a business degree and a marketing masters, couldnt totally wrap his head around it. I think I found 35 stories about us, he told me. I read about myself in the Hawaiian Express, do you know what I mean? (Notwithstanding that there doesnt appear to be any such newspaper, yes, I definitely do.)

What made it really weird to see the media pile in with such unstinting enthusiasm was that the story was total cobblers. I could not believe how gullible they were, Ellis said, a top note of glee still in his voice. We were just having a laugh! It was banter!

Lads: this is the age of banter. Its long been somewhat about the banter, but over the last few years, it has come to seem that its all about the banter an unabashedly bumptious attitude that took up a position on the outskirts of the culture in the early 90s and has been larging its way towards the centre ever since. There are hundreds of banter groups on Facebook, from Banter Britain (no memes insinuating child abuse/dead babies!!!) to Wanker Banter 18+ (Have a laugh and keep it sick) to the Premier League Banter Page (The only rule: keep it banter). You can buy an I banter mug on Amazon for 9, or an Archbishop of Banterbury T-shirt for 9.99.

There are now four branches of a restaurant called Scoff & Banter. When things were going badly at Chelsea FC under Jos Mourinho, it was reported the team had banned all banter in an attempt to focus their minds, and that terminology appeared in the newspapers, as if you would know exactly what it meant. Someone has created a banter map of London using a keyword search on the flatshare website SpareRoom, showing exactly where people are looking for a roommate with good banter (Clapham tends to feature prominently). When a 26-year-old man from Leeds posed for a selfie with a bemused aeroplane hijacker, Vice declared it the high-water mark of banter.

Lewis Ellis (left) and friends in Ayia Napa, pretending to be in Syria. Photograph: Lewis Ellis

If you are younger than about 35, you are likely to hear the term all the time. Either you have banter (if you are funny and can take a joke) or you dont (if you arent and cannot). The mainstream, in summary, is now drunk and asleep on the sofa, and banter is delightedly drawing a penis on its forehead.

As banter has risen, it has expanded. Long a word used to describe submerged expressions of fraternal love, it is now also a word used to excuse uninhibited displays of masculine bravado. Today, it is segregated by class, seized on by brands, picked over by psychologists, and deplored by cultural critics; it is dominant, hotly contested and only hazily understood.

And so, whether he intends it to or not, Ellis use of the term raises some questions. Is he throwing his lot in with the most pervasive branch of the blokeish mainstream, a sanitised and benevolent hilarity that stretches from lad-dad panel shows to your mates zinger about your terrible haircut? Or is he lining up with the misogynist imitators of the Bullingdon club, a sprinkling of racists, and, as we shall see, an actual murderer purveyors of a malicious and insidious masculinity that insists on its indivisible authority and calls you a slut if you object?

Ellis isnt preoccupied by these questions, but for what its worth, he does say that he and his friends never had the slightest intention of going to Syria. We werent really trying to fool anyone, he told me, although Im not sure thats entirely consistent with the facts. We were out for a stroll, and we came across this area that looked really run down, we thought it looked like Syria. So we put it on the club reps [Facebook] page that thats where we were. And everyone started liking it. And then one of the people who contacted us was from LADBible which is like the Bible, but for LADS so we said, well have a mess around here. Well tell a completely ridiculous story, see if the media believes it. See if we can become LADBible famous.

It did, they could. Eventually, the truth came out, not thanks to any especially determined investigative journalism, but because Ellis cheerily admitted on Facebook that his tale of magnificent idiocy was a fiction. Hahaha what a prank, he wrote, with some justification.

The confession only brought another cycle of attention. Publications that had picked up the story in the first place resurfaced it with new headlines to reflect the audacity of the invention; social media users adduced it as evidence for their views of young men, or the media, or both. The Russian embassys Twitter account called it a telling example of how many Syria (and Russia) stories are made up by UK papers, which was great geopolitical banter. The attention entertained Ellis, but he says it wasnt the point. We just thought it was funny, he said. People are too serious. I keep being told to grow up, but I still want to have a good time. Ive had the jobs, Ive got the education. But when Im off work, I want to escape.

Ellis is an enthusiast and an optimist. He is, he told me late last year, desperate to take every opportunity, just to say yes to everything I can. We were on a night out in Manchester with his friends Tyson, John and Chris. In the course of the evening, the following things found their way into my beer: fingers; salt; vinegar; mayonnaise; a chip; saliva; a 10 note; and, I hazily remember being told after the fact, at least two shots of vodka.

Everyones got a thing in the group, Ellis said, as we walked from one bar to the next. One guy, hes not even that ugly, we say he looks like a Peperami. Tysons got this mole on his face, its like a Coco Pop, so youve got a Coco Pop on your face. I looked like Harry Potter when I was a kid, so they call me Potter, thats my nickname. Every single one of us has something. So you youve got Chinese eyes. Youre Chinese.

For the record, I didnt think this was OK, but coming after such a harmless litany, it didnt seem malicious enough to confront. Of course, tacit endorsement is what makes such offensive epithets a commonplace, and so it troubles me that it made me feel mysteriously welcome, just as it had when John punched me lightly in the balls when I arrived. There was no doubting Elliss sincerity: as he spoke, the sheer daft beauty of male friendship seemed to amaze him, almost to the point of physical pain. We just take the piss out of each other, and thats how we show our love, he said. So many group chats on the phone, and you just take the piss until they cry. And its like, when youre really killing them, you go, Ill stop if you want, because you know they cant say yes, so you just keep going. Then we arrived at the next bar, where I was made to drink something called a Zombie.

Early in the evening, before any of this had undermined my ability to take useful notes, Ellis broke off from talking as we walked down the street and sidled into a window display at Next Home, where he Tracey Emined a carefully made bed by climbing into it and rolling around. Everyone cracked up. Give the world a laugh, Ellis tends to think, and the world will smile back at you. Jump on a boat, and youll end up somewhere great; make the boat up, and youll get there faster. Its all about having fun, its all about the banter, he said, after hed rejoined us outside. Banter is about making the world a more exciting place.

If nobody can agree on what banter is, thats hardly a new problem. The first usage of the word recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary comes from noted Restoration lad Thomas dUrfey, also known for his hit song The Fart, in a satirical 1677 play called Madam Fickle. Banter him, banter him, Toby, a character called Zechiel urges, which may be the first time that someone called Toby was so instructed, but certainly wasnt the last.

The OED also notes early attempts at a definition by Jonathan Swift and Samuel Johnson. (Swift mentions a banter upon transubstantiation, in which a cork is turned into a horse, and fair enough, turning a cork into a horse would be classic banter.) Both are a little disgusted by the word, and neither unearths much of an origin story: by their accounts, banter is so coarse that it emerged, fully formed and without antecedent, out of the mouths of oafs.

As it turns out, though, the OED is not at present fully able to handle the banter. According to Eleanor Maier, an associate editor on the dictionary, a search of earlier English texts reveals that a number of previous examples are missing from the dictionarys definition, which was first drafted in 1885 including a quote from a 1657 translation of Don Quixote. (After examining the history, Maier told me that she would be adding banter to the list of entries that are up for review.)

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In recent years, banter has barged into our lives at a remarkable clip. Googles Ngram Viewer, a tool that assesses (with some limitations) the frequency with which a term appears in a large database of written sources, finds that banter popped up about twice as often in 2008, the most recent year covered, as it did in 1980.

But banter plugged away for a long time before it became an overnight success. In the 19th century, it often denoted a kind of formal sparring. Even as the term evolved over the 20th, it continued to seem a little prim. In the House of Commons in 1936, Ramsay MacDonald, the former Labour prime minister who had returned in a new seat after losing his old one, was subjected to a good deal of banter Dear old Granny MacDonald!, among other witticisms.In 1981, a Guardian report that chess champion Anatoly Karpov and his handlers had successfully protested at his challenger Viktor Korchnois constant cross-board talk ran under the unlikely headline: Chess banter banned.

Such stories do little to prepare us for what banter has become. Consider the viral video that became known as #bagelgate earlier this year. In the recording, a minor scuffle broke out on the 00.54 train from Kings Cross to Huntingdon, and then for no obviously related reason a woman who had a large bag of bagels decided to put one on the head of the guy sitting in front of her, and then another after he took it off and threw it out of the window, and another and another, and then everyone in the carriage started chanting hes got a bagel on his head, and eventually the slightly spoddy victim who is me when I was 13 and someone filled my pencil case with Mr Kipling apple pies (squashed, oozing) because I was fat lost it and screamed Get the fuck out of my face!, and then another fight broke out on the platform, and then the police got on to the train, and every single person fell into not-me-guv silence: this is not Granny MacDonalds banter any more.

If it is hard to understand how these activities can fall under the same umbrella, it should be noted that a phenomenon may predate our choice of term to describe it its just that the act of definition makes it more visible, and perhaps more likely to be imitated. At some point, though, banter became the name for what British men already regarded as their natural tone of voice. There is a very deeply embedded folk culture in the UK of public ribaldry, extreme sarcasm, facetiousness in other words, of laddishness, says Tony Thorne, a linguist and cultural historian. What you might think of as banter now is rooted in that tradition.

That tradition first lashed itself to banters mast in the early 1990s, and controversy soon followed. In June 1992, a Guardian story headlined Police fire sex banter officer, about the dismissal of a sergeant for sexual harassment, recorded an early skirmish in the modern banter wars, and an important new layer to its meaning in the wild: The move is seen as part of the Metropolitan polices desire to reassure women officers that what has previously been tolerated as banter is no longer acceptable. Two years later, the lads mags arrived.

The first edition of Loaded magazine appeared in May 1994, with a picture of Gary Oldman on the front smoking a dog-end, under a banner that declared him a super lad. What fresh lunacy is this? the editors note read. Loaded is a new magazine dedicated to life, liberty and the pursuit of sex, drink, football and less serious matters Loaded is for the man who believes he can do anything, if only he wasnt hungover.

If banter dismays you, James Brown, the magazines first editor, is quite an easy bogeyman. As he acknowledges himself, he created a title that defined a genre. Loaded was swiftly recognised as a foundational text for a resurgent and ebullient masculinity that had been searching for public expression. While it was always overtly horny, the magazine was initially more interested in a forlorn, slackjawed and self-ironising appreciation of A-listers (one reversible poster had Cindy Crawford on one side and a steam train on the other) than the grot-plus-football formula that successors and imitators like Maxim, Zoo and Nuts milked to destruction. But it also flirted with something murkier.

To its critics, Loaded and its imitators aimed to sanitise a certain hooliganistic worldview with a strategic disclaimer. Banter emerges as this relentless gloss of irony over everything, said Bethan Benwell, senior lecturer in language and linguistics at the University of Stirling and the author of several papers on mens magazines. The constant excusing of sexist or homophobic sentiments with this wink that says you dont really mean it. Benwell pointed to Loadeds emblematic strapline: For men who should know better.

Brown denies that his magazine invented banter. Instead, he says, it captured a zeitgeist that the media had previously failed to acknowledge; the folk culture that Tony Thorne refers to, brought out into the open. Before Browns intervention, GQ had run John Major and Michael Heseltine as cover stars, for Gods sake. I took the interests and the outlook of the young men that I knew, and I put them in a magazine, Brown said. Im not responsible for the tone of the later entrants to the market. We were criticised because we fancied women, not because we belittled them.

The thing about Loaded was that the way we wrote reflected the way we were with our mates, he went on. Theres definitely a thing that exists in the male outlook: you take the piss out of the people you like, and you ignore the people you dont.

Accept this as your starting point, and objections become exhausting to sustain: what youre objecting to is an act of affection. Of course, this is what makes it insidious. Because Browns account rests on the intention behind the magazine, and Benwells on the effect it had, they are impossible to reconcile. Its a very difficult thing to resist or challenge without looking like the stereotypical humourless feminist, said Benwell. But by laughing, you become complicit.

Loaded gave this new kind of banter escape velocity, and it began to colonise other worlds. On BBC2, for example, David Baddiel and Frank Skinner were staking out their own territory with Fantasy Football League, a mixture of sketches and celebrity chat that managed to be enthusiastic and satirical at the same time, and reached its peak when the pair became national icons, thanks to their Euro 96 anthem, Three Lions. While a long-running joke about the Nottingham Forest striker Jason Lees pineapple haircut seems flatly racist in retrospect Baddiel did an impression of him in blackface by and large, the tone was milder and more conventional than the magazines were: this was the sensibility of the university graduate slumming it before embarking on grown-up life.

Baddiel implied that laddism could easily occupy a spectrum from ogling to literature, drawing a line to Nick Hornbys memoir of life as an Arsenal fan, Fever Pitch. Hornby once said to me that all this stuff you know, fantasy football and his book is men talking about things that they like and for a while in the mid-80s they werent allowed to, he said in 1995. Ive always liked football and Ive always liked naked women, and its easier to talk about that now than it was eight years ago. Those comments reflect a kind of sneer at its critics that you could often detect in Fantasy Football League, even as its hosts protested that they were just having a laugh though Baddiel himself denies that view. Twenty years on, he, like Brown, is at pains to draw a line between the approach that he and Skinner popularised, and the forms that came later. I guess me and Frank did specialise in banter, he said in an email. In a time before it was known as bantz.

Over the next 10 years, two things happened that ushered in the age of banter. (You might call it mature banter, except that its also the opposite.) First, instead of just being a thing that happened, it became a thing that people talked about. Then, as it became a more tangible cultural product, everyone started trying to make money out of it. The watershed moment, the forms equivalent to Dylan going electric, was the invention of Dave.

Like most good ideas, it looks simple enough in retrospect. Before Dave was Dave, it was UKTV Gold 2. The predecessor channels audience share was 0.761%, and no one could tell who on earth it was supposed to be for. But we had the content, says Steve North, the channels brand manager in 2007 and content of a particular kind that the existing name did very little to communicate: Have I Got News for You, They Think Its All Over, Top Gear. Viewers said they loved the repartee, the humour. It reminded them of spending time with their funniest friends.

The first issue of Loaded magazine, from May 1994

The target audience was highly specific. It was men married or in relationships, maybe with young children, not going to the pub as much as they used to, says Andy Bryant, managing director of Red Bee, the agency brought in to work on the rebrand. And they missed that camaraderie.

Their purpose thus fixed, North started to run brainstorming sessions at which people would shout out suggestions for the name. One of the ones we collected was Dave, he says. We thought, great, but we cant call it that. But then we thought, Its a surrogate friend. If the audience really sees it as that, if they see it as genuinely providing the banter, maybe we can really give it a name.

They put their hunch through its paces. The market research company YouGov was commissioned to test Dave alongside a bunch of other names (Matthew and Kevin were also on the shortlist), but nothing else had the same everyman resonance. For us, Dave is a sensibility, a place, an emotion, a feeling, said North, his tone thoughtful, almost gnomic. Everyone has their own sense of who Dave is, thats the important thing. Its hard to find anyone who doesnt know someone called Dave.

Now the channel had a brand, it needed a slogan. Lots of people claim they played a part in the naming, says Bryant. But it was just as important to encapsulate what the channel was all about. And at some point someone, I dont know who, wrote it on a board: The home of witty banter. The rebrand added 8m new viewers in six months; Dave saw a 71% increase in its target audience of affluent young men.

Conceived by the first generation of senior professionals to have grown up with banter as an unremarkable part of their demographics cultural mix, the channel crystallised a change, and accelerated it. In 2006, The Ricky Gervais Show, in which Gervais and Stephen Merchant relentlessly poked fun at their in-house idiot savant Karl Pilkington, became the most popular podcast of all time. In 2007, the year of Daves rebrand, Top Gears ratings shot from below 5m to a record high of 8m. The following year, QI moved from BBC4 to BBC2. (A tie-in book published the same year, QI: Advanced Banter, sold more than 125,000 copies.)

North saw the kind of fraternal teasing that was being monetised by his channel, and the panel shows that were its lifeblood, as fundamentally benign. The key thing is that its two-way, he said. Its about two people riffing off each other.

But like his 20th-century forebears, he can see that something ugly has evolved, and he wants to keep his brand well away from it. Bants, he said with distaste. That thing of cover for dubious behaviour we hate and despise it massively. When we launched, it was about fun, being light-hearted, maybe pushing each other without being disrespectful. When people talk about Ive had a go at that person, great banter no, thats just nasty.

By the turn of the decade,as other branding agencies mimicked the success of Dave, banter was everywhere, a folk tradition that had acquired a peculiar sort of respectability. The men who celebrated it werent just lads in the pub any more: they had spending power and establishment allies on their side. But they were, by the same token, more visible to critics. Aggression from an underdog can be overlooked; aggression from the establishment is serious enough to become a matter of public concern.

Take Richard Keys and Andy Gray, Sky Sports brand-defining football presenters, who got themselves up to their necks in some extremely bad banter in 2011. Keys blamed dark forces, but everyone else blamed him and Gray for being misogynists. We knew this because there was footage.

The firestorm, as Keys called it, centred on claims that the two men had said and done heinously sexist things off-air. Most memorable, at least for its phrase-making, was the clip in which Keys eagerly asked his fellow pundit Jamie Redknapp if hed smashed it it being a woman and asserted that he could often be found hanging out the back of it.

Gray went quickly. In the days before he followed, Keys burned hot with injustice in a series of mea-sorta-culpas, particularly focused on the tape in which he expressed his derision at the idea that a woman, Sian Massey-Ellis, could be an assistant referee in the Premier League.

It was just banter, he said. Or, more exactly, just a bit of banter, as he said Massey-Ellis had assured him she understood in a later telephone conversation in which, he added, much banter passed between us. She and I enjoyed some banter, he protested. It was lads-mag banter, he insisted. It was stone-age banter, he admitted. We liked to have banter, he explained. Richard Keys was sorry if you were offended, but also, it wasnt his fault if you didnt get it. It was just banter, for goodness sake!

Up to their necks in some extremely bad banter Andy Gray and Richard Keys in 2011. Photograph: Richard Saker/Rex

Keys insistence that his mistake was simply a failure to move with the times was nothing new: banter has always seemed to carry a longing for the past, for an imagined era before male friendship was so cramped by the tiresome obligations of feminist scrutiny. But while his underlying views were painfully dated, his conception of banter was entirely modern: a sly expansion of the words meaning, and a self-conscious contention that it provided an impregnable defence.

The Keys variation understood banter, first, as a catch-all means of denying responsibility if anyone was hurt; and, second, as a means of reinforcing a bond between two people by being cruel about a third. The comparison wouldnt please a couple of alphas like Keys and Gray, but both strategies brought it closer to a style of communication with classically feminine associations: gossip. Deborah Cameron, the Rupert Murdoch (lol) Professor in Language and Communication at Oxford University, argues that the two modes of interaction follow basically the same structure. People gossip as a trust game, she said. You tell someone your unsayable private secret, and it bonds you closer together. Theyre supposed to reciprocate with a confidence of their own. Well, banter works in the same way now. You say something outrageous, and you see if the other person dares to top your remark.

The trust game in banter was traditionally supposed to be: do you trust me when I say were friends in spite of the mean things Im saying about you? But now theres a second version of the game: do I trust you not to tell anyone the mean things Im saying about other people? I think originally it was a harmless thing, said Cameron, whose analysis is rooted in an archive of male group conversation, mostly recorded by her students, that goes back to the 1980s. But then it started to be used as an excuse when men were caught out engaging in forms of it that werent so harmless.

It comes down to context and intent, says the comedian Bridget Christie. The gentler form of banter is still knocking around, she suggested, but now it exists alongside something darker: I found The Inbetweeners adolescent banter hilarious, because it was equal and unthreatening. But there is obviously a world of difference between a group of teenage boys benignly taking the piss out of each other, and a bigot being racist or misogynist and trying to pass it off as a joke.

Trace the rise of banter, and you will find that it corresponds to the rise of political correctness or, anyway, to the backlash against political correctness gone mad. That phrase and just banter mirror each other perfectly: one denoting a priggish culture that is deemed to have overreached, the other a laid-back culture that is deemed to have been unfairly reined in. Ironically enough, just banter does exactly what it accuses political correctness of, seeking to close down discussion by telling you that meaning is settled by category rather than content. Political correctness asserts that a racist joke is primarily racist, whereas banter asserts that a racist joke is primarily a joke. In the past, the men who used it rarely had to define it, or to explain themselves to anybody else. Today, in contrast, it is named all the time. The biggest change isnt the banter itself, says Bethan Benwell. Its the explicit use of the word as a disclaimer.

By sheer repetition and by its use as an unanswerable defence, banter has turned from an abstraction into a vast and calcified description of actions as well as words: gone from a way of talking to a way of life, a style that accidentally became a worldview. He bantered you, people sometimes say: you always used to banter with your mates, but now it often sounds like something you do to them. Once it was directionless, inconclusive chatter with wit as the engine that drove it, said the comedian Russell Kane. Now, if I trip you up, thats banter.

You might think the humiliation suffered by Keys and Gray would have made banter less appealing as a get-out, but not a bit of it. Banter, increasingly, seems like the first refuge of the inexcusable. In 2014, Malky Mackay, who had been fired as manager of Cardiff City Football Club a year earlier, was caught having sent texts that referred to Chinese people eating dogs, black people being criminals, Jewish people being avaricious, and gay people being snakes all of which were initially optimistically defended by the League Managers Association as letting off steam to a friend during some friendly text message banter. The comedian Dapper Laughs, whose real name is Daniel OReilly, established himself as banters rat king, with his very own ITV2 show, and then lost it after he suggested that an audience member at one of his gigs was gagging for a rape. A man was convicted of murder after he crushed his friend against a wall with a Jeep Cherokee after an argument over badger-baiting, a course of action that he said had been intended as banter. Another slashed the throat of someone he had met in a pub and described the incident as a moment of banter after 14 or 15 pints. Both are now in prison.

By any sane measure,banter was falling into disrepute, as often a disguise for malice as a word for the ribaldry of lads on the lash. Still it did not go away: instead, the worst of it has mutated again, asserting its authority in public and saving its creepiest tendencies for the shadows or, at least, for the company of five, or 10, or 20 of your closest mates.

At the London School of Economics, it started with a leaflet. Each year at the universitys freshers fair, LSE Rugby Football Club distributed a banterous primer on rugby culture. In October 2014, says the then-president of the student union, Nona Buckley-Irvine, a student came to her in tears with a copy in her hand. The leaflet talked about trollops, slags, crumpet, mingers, and the desirability of misogyny; there were passing references to the horrors of homosexual humiliation and outright homosexual debauchery. Anyone charmed by all this was invited to sign up for the club and join the banter list, entitling them to participate in the exchange of chappish email conversation.

To anyone with a passing knowledge of university laddism, it was hard to imagine a more ordinary iteration. Still, after the unreconstructed chappishness of the leaflet came to light, the club knew it had a problem. It issued a collective apology acknowledging that we have a lot to learn about the pernicious effects of banter, and promised to organise a workshop. But there was reason to be sceptical about the depth of that commitment.

When Buckley-Irvine and her colleagues published a report on the incident, they noted a string of others, including an antisemitic assault on a university ski trip to Val dIsere in 2011. And there were other indiscretions it didnt mention. According to two people who were present, one club dinner at an Indian restaurant on Brick Lane ended with a stripper having bottles thrown at her when, already intimidated, she refused to take her clothes off. She hid in the toilet, and had to be escorted out by a member of staff as the team vandalised the restaurant.

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According to five people who were either members of the rugby club or closely associated with it, one notorious senior member was widely thought to be responsible for the leaflet. (He did not respond to requests for comment.) But when they came to defend themselves to the student union, members of the club fell back on one of the most revered pillars of laddism: all for one, one for all. Theyd clearly worked out a line, says Nona Buckley-Irvine. No one individual was responsible. They were sorry. It was just banter. Thats what they all said.

The accountancy firm KPMG, which sponsored the universitys wider Athletics Union, decided that banter was not an especially helpful brand association, and withdrew funding worth 22,000. The students union decided to disband the club for the academic year. The decision moved some observers to disgust. It was a gross overreaction, a former team member told me. We were the best-behaved team when it came to actually playing rugby but they banned that bit and they couldnt ban any of the rest.

Others took a less measured tone. I had old members emailing me and calling me a fascist, says Buckley-Irvine. Asking me if I didnt understand that it was just banter. Rugby players chanted abuse at her on nights out, she told me. They shoulder-barged her, and called her a cunt.

These kinds of interactions would tend to take place on Wednesdays, also known as sports night, at a bar in Leicester Square. Sports night was the apotheosis of the rugby clubs bleak solidarity. In deference to what you might call the wingers-before-mingers code, for instance, members of the club who were expected to dress in suits werent allowed to speak to women before 9pm. So they would just shout abuse instead, one female former student, who Ill call Anna, remembered. One chant, she said, went, Nine nos and a yes is a yes. At the time, Anna thought that it was all a joke. People would say, Its just banter all the time. After everything. Absolutely everything, she said, sitting in a cafe in south London. If you were meeting someone new, saying they had good banter, that was a pretty high compliment. Whereas if you dont go along with that stuff, its seen as, you cant take the chat, you cant take the banter. And its not seen as having a stance against it. Its seen as not being able to keep up.

After the rugby club was disbanded, nothing much changed in sports night social life. Many members of the club still went on the same nights out; they just colonised other teams. They still addressed girls as Sarah 2 or Sarah 8 depending on how attractive they considered them out of 10; they still had shouted conversations about their sex lives in front of the women they had slept with but refused to acknowledge.

That culture was not confined to Wednesday nights. Anna remembers a guy who took her picture as she slept, naked, in the bed they were sharing, and circulated it to another non-university sports team via WhatsApp. She wasnt meant to see it on his phone.

Ask anyone well-informed where banter resides now, and theyll give the same answer: WhatsApp groups and email threads, the safe spaces of the lad class. What youd get out of those WhatsApp threads, its another world of drama, one former member of the football club said. The details of girls bodies that youd read, a few funny jibes, that was the limit for me. But when it moved on to, like, really, really bad stuff, always about sex it was too much. Those threads are the source of everything.

If the threads were an outlet, they were by no means the limit. Banter, by common consent, wasnt confined to mocking each other: it was about action. If you dressed up for a night out, one female student remembered, it was just kind of status quo that you could have your arse grabbed. It was just like, Oh, that was kind of weird, but OK, thatll happen. Like everyone else willing to speak about it, her view of that culture was perplexingly nuanced, sometimes contradictory. It sounds scary, she said, but that being said, some of my best nights were there, and like it was fun. But then she said: What was defined as serious just got so pushed. I think for someone to lodge a complaint they would have to be actually hurt.

Anna remembers lots of sketchy incidents. She recalls nights when her choices faded into a blur, and she wondered if she had really been in control. But at the time, I would never call it out, she said. And then, youre all living in halls together, and the next day, its like: What did you do last night? Thats hilarious. Thats banter.

When Anna thinks about the behaviour of some of the men she knew at university, she finds it hard to pin down exactly what she thinks of them. Theres one in particular who sticks in her mind. On a Wednesday night, he was a banter guy, she said. He was a Wednesday animal. But the rest of the time, he was my friend.

Controversial though all this was at the time, no one seems to think that it will have cost the perpetrators much. Ive tried so hard to leave all that behind, said the former member of the football team. But those guys theyre all going on to run banks, or the country, or whatever. The senior rugby man who many held responsible, by the way, has landed on his feet. Today, he has a job at KPMG.

In 2017, every new instance of banter is immediately spotted and put through the journalistic wringer. (Vices Joel Golby, who wrote the definitive text on the bagel thing, has made a career from his exquisite close readings of the form.) But when each new absolute legend emerges, we dont usually have the context to make the essential judgment: do the proponents tend towards the harmless warmth of Ellis and his mates, or the frank hostility of the LSE rugby boys? Is their love of irony straightforward, or a mask for something else?

As Richard Keys and Dapper Laughs and their cohorts have polluted the idea of banter, the commercial entities that endorsed its rise have become uneasy with the label. They wanted it to go viral; they hadnt expected it to go postal. Dave, for example, has dropped the home of witty banter slogan. Its not about classic male humour any more, its a little bit smarter, says UKTVs Steve North. We definitely say it less than we used to.

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Nope, just denying that you provided an answer to the question asked. Quote Theres no other reason for clitoral bulbs to exist aside from clitoral mechanics enabling penetrative clitoral motion, its a matter of persuasion and practice which includes all forms of stimulation So says you. Without any evidence. Or argument. There are endless demonstrations of clitoral mechanics in high definition online, I encourage you to research in the name of science.. Moderator please remove the 'is' you added to my thread title 4 Just Chat ! / DNA electronics « on: 20/04/2017 10:08:43 » -Food -Shelter -Electronics DNA is already the peak of modular technology and the most efficient use of elemental resources, biology is the vehicle and shelter for electric consciousness Combustion is an inefficient use of oxygen and carbon, DNA converts elements into electricity, sustained nuclear fusion likely requires antigravity which would require a different shaped universe, DNA power plants may be the most efficient use of photosynthesis 5 New Theories / Re: Do all living cells have photonic protoconsciousness? « on: 20/04/2017 06:55:14 » Consciousness is mass observing light, energy is a spectrum of self awareness 6 New Theories / Re: Is heterogenics is the sole purpose of sex? « on: 19/04/2017 18:53:18 » Quote from: PhysBang on 19/04/2017 12:23:18 Quote from: the5thforce on 19/04/2017 03:54:26 Quote from: Kryptid on 19/04/2017 03:26:49 Can you explain what "heterogenics" means? Heterosexual natural selection So the answer to Kryptid's question was, "No, I can't explain." Are you denying that women are capable of orgasm during sex? Theres no other reason for clitoral bulbs to exist aside from clitoral mechanics enabling penetrative clitoral motion, its a matter of persuasion and practice which includes all forms of stimulation 7 New Theories / Re: Heterogenics is the purpose of sex « on: 19/04/2017 03:54:26 » Quote from: Kryptid on 19/04/2017 03:26:49 Can you explain what "heterogenics" means? Heterosexual natural selection 8 New Theories / Is heterogenics the sole purpose of sex? « on: 18/04/2017 07:30:04 » Sex isnt the only purpose of life but it will always be the highest motivation, mutual orgasm becoming one will always be the closest connection, self lust or desiring what you already have is always pathological 9 New Theories / Re: What are the economics of sexual orientation? « on: 17/04/2017 23:10:02 » Male orgasm is required every couple weeks but visual stimulation isnt necessary to achieve orgasm and only women have no refractory period Orgasm can only be biologically self contained, visually assisted orgasm requires identifying healthy physical form which both genders can only possess proportionate to past and present effort Orgasm is the empathy bond between mutually required genders, orgasmic parity is required to create a gender equal society, the only fair alternative is discouraging gay procreation or filtering Y sperm as heterogenics is already the purpose of sex Directly genetically engineering our children might be a waste of our intelligence but DNA modification is required to counter disease and aging 10 New Theories / Re: What are the economics of sexual orientation? « on: 16/04/2017 22:05:03 » Quote from: PhysBang on 16/04/2017 14:33:06 Quote from: the5thforce on 16/04/2017 08:30:08 Gays can never kiss face to face during climax, That is not even close to true. You clearly have a very limited knowledge of sex and a very limited imagination. Quote in the multiverse everyone tends to be straight, There is little evidence that there is more than one universe and there is clearly no sociological data on any planet other than Earth, so this claim is baseless. Quote all sperm start heterosexual, relationship openness is a spectrum... Sperm do not have neurons or anything else that could instantiate desire or other cognitive functions, so they cannot possibly have a sexual orientation. What we clearly have evidence for is that the5thforce is a bigot with very little in the way of education or intellectual ability. The latter failures are acceptable but the first is not. Kissing is already very difficult during insex, kissing during mutual orgasm is impossible without feeling the contractions, the more sex you have the better it feels most importantly for women, quantum mechanics requires multiple universes(each frame of reality is a 'quanta' within the multiverse), sperm is itself a neuron with a tail, im not only tolerant of different opinions I exist because of them but the truth eliminates all contradictions in time when gays have straight kids the kids have to work for what their parents already took away, this is manifesting today when the overwhelmingly single generation X men only want to hire millennial women for the service economy after forgiving the debt on their obsolete degrees, ultimately the result of boomer behavioral sink 11 New Theories / Re: What are the economics of sexual orientation? « on: 16/04/2017 08:30:08 » Gays can never kiss face to face during climax, in the multiverse everyone tends to be straight, all sperm start heterosexual, relationship openness is a spectrum... 12 New Theories / Re: What are the economics of sexual orientation? « on: 16/04/2017 04:33:11 » western society has become lesbians vs autonomous males, men like licking much more than women do- heterosexuality is the purpose of procreation in all heterogender organisms women are living in the same rooms driving up the cost of rent for men while women already dominate the service economy facial hair starts where the facial skin cuts off from the licking angle, men with facial hair tended to lick more, men have stronger more precise tongues, hair can always be removed, scissoring is next to impossible, men have the backside of a teenage female but bigger is always better, looking at a face can only be so good, orgasming with minimal or even no visual stimulation allows you to focus on the sensation more which women are better equiped for having multiple orgasms without a refractory period, lesbian oral sex only wastes the beauty of a womans full face and body along with the 4 billion extra male neurons required to create it every orgasm is only worth what the opposite gender can provide else women wouldnt have an orgasm to begin with, orgasmic ability is a gift from the opposite gender, even "facetime" parity is required for true gender equality with many exceptions, more melanin tends to require slightly more physical functionality which allows bigger phallus and better clitoral mechanics but averaged out by ethnic height variation and neuron-body ratio theres only enough variation within each gender for everyone to find what they deserve in the opposite gender including males with naturally no facial hair, the vast majority of gay men are still able to keep an erection for women but most men have no ability to even attain an erection for other men, the clitoris is evolutionarily required to be easier to stimulate- mastering sex which requires communication is the reward of life 13 New Theories / Re: What are the economics of sexual orientation? « on: 16/04/2017 04:13:59 » Since were all just the products of sex requiring opposite but analogous sex organs, homo'sex'uality even when caused by physical dysfunction is the definition of sexism or "sexiation", this disruption to social balance can only increase the probability of isolation ultimately homosexuality is an intersex (spectrum) disruption of the human sexual goldilocks ratio which has the ability to occur in any energy self contained gender analogous organism particularly when accelerated by either radiation or sensory stimuli such as "hallucinations" or extrasubjective perception but eventually creating common understanding and universal morality which in our case is technologically assisted through our mastery of electricity powering the internet research says 30% of women now shamelessly self proclaim being in a same sex relationship and 60% identify as bisexual while only 1-2% of men do, the only way to contain this hole-y sexual war created by previous generations is to incessantly discourage homosexual procreation going forward else continue growing men in a social vacuum with no option but to refuse spending their life idolizing an exit for feces some lesbians are manipulating desperate men into having their children while still demanding child support or taxing the system, men should stop stocking sperm banks and have more discretion for sexuality when procreating else they'll continue inflating the gene pool with incompatible sexes on our overpopulating planet a functional national tribe requires sexual equity else some in the population will be forced to orgasm alone and eventually stop valuing the rest of the tribe, when we encourage homosexuality which is overwhelmingly female dominated we create men who value the tribe less, were much better off encouraging women to settle for mental orgasm as they have less testosterone and no refractory period so long as homopeople are allowed to procreate we should establish that eating is the main stimulation in life but eating probably doesnt require 86 billion neurons so were better off discouraging sex organ deviation until the day women pursue men at this point few in the west still have allegiance to the word marriage, the concept of a heterogender union matters most 14 Just Chat ! / Re: Do we have a collective mind? « on: 12/04/2017 02:05:54 » The dreamcatchers(snatchers) come alive for some, from the source 15 Just Chat ! / Mind density « on: 11/04/2017 07:01:29 » The mind and body works like a circuit of energy suction cups made of light particles slingshotting through and ricocheting off space-curving mass particles towards what is likely the most dense part of the brain, the mind may itself be a condensation of vacuum-entangled particles If nerve cell current is kept in equilibrium with the mind and increases the minds temperature when excited, the minds energy signature exists as a superposition between the active neuron transistors in the brain combining with sensory stimuli in the body into the minds primary mass particle which is either trapped inside an atom or very delicately propagated by light as dictated by energy topology 16 Just Chat ! / All purpose world « on: 11/04/2017 00:13:40 » All purpose screen -social media -games, news, video All purpose food -complete protein, vitamins, minerals -optimal carbs, fats, fiber All purpose home -food room -sleep room -bath room -main room All purpose vehicle -street -land -air -water 17 Just Chat ! / Re: Search engine RNG? « on: 10/04/2017 07:48:10 » Artificial DNA virtual universe: Eventually we may be able to link our brain/completely merge our consciousness with a DNA-cellular computer to live in virtual reality but at that point we'll also have full control over our biology in baseline reality -DNA is a self 3D printing quantum computer, DNA is an energy filtering mind projector 18 Just Chat ! / Re: Search engine RNG? « on: 10/04/2017 04:43:57 » Quote from: mrsmith2211 on 10/04/2017 04:00:53 I should have known Random number generator, quick google search led me to Goddess. Made random number generator in basic, not sure what the use of an AI random number generator would be. Not sure either. -A physical RNG like blood turbulance influencing the 'linear' electrical neuron circuits connected to the brain is an example of a natural RNG influencing mind -The minds photons spray onto a heavier energy surface inside the brain, this energy surface follows the energy hierarchy ultimately reinforced by the higgs -The mind is simultaneously light and mass, the curvature of space by mass particles in the brain is like tiny black holes vacuuming the light of the mind through time 19 Just Chat ! / Re: Search engine RNG? « on: 10/04/2017 03:53:11 » Quote from: mrsmith2211 on 10/04/2017 03:29:07 RNG? Random Number Goddess, is the supreme being who reigns over all moments of chance in a Role Playing Game. She determines all hits, ... Sure and I have an old numerology book called Manntillion, and Tarot cards too, Though I quit reading tarot cards for people after a lady asked me how would her daughter get away from an abusive boyfriend, Death came up, she freaked when he died 3 weeks later. Is that a search result or real life experience? RNG stands for random number generator.. I dont play video games, never read manntillion or tarot, but I will say I think a goddess is any straight female in the 21st century 20 Just Chat ! / Search engine RNG? « on: 10/04/2017 00:17:18 » Could an algorithm based on random search engine results be used to create an RNG? If quantum computation is itself just functional randomness, wouldnt a qubit really only be RNG-hardware capturing the users observational randomness? 21 Just Chat ! / Boredom Olympics « on: 09/04/2017 04:28:37 » -Analog vs digital social dynamics -Communication/social media lineages -Ambient perception -Reality mutation, each moment is a mutation of spacetime, familiar and diverse mutations communicate building our DNA, choices interacting with environment, mutating DNA adapting natural selection -Mind photons crashing into DNA particles, mental radiation vs sun radiation vs electronic radiation, DNA reflects reality -If the first prime number is 2 and the first prime gap is 1, prime gaps start sequential but seemingly become random unlike the golden ratio and pi -If pi is random, 3 may be the fundamental limit for a sequence that becomes random 22 Just Chat ! / Re: Simulation stimulation « on: 07/04/2017 20:44:46 » Somewhere in the brain I believe theres a near perfect vacuum where the energy stream of reality tunnels through and projects onto becoming the content of the mind, the minds interaction with the random fluctuation of empty space is the experience of decisionmaking, the perception and partial control of blood pressure inside the brain also vibrates the mind, the mind works with the deepest parts of brain to influence energy combining thoughts with different senses A mind is quantum computation which means DNA is already the most efficient quantum computer, biological energy complexity determines the size of the mind which determines degree of consciousness DNA is the optimal complexity ratio of energy vs consciousness, the internet serves as our "unconscious" brain, understanding biology is the last problem in practical science 23 Just Chat ! / Simulation stimulation « on: 07/04/2017 00:25:03 » Stimulation simulation Hypermedia waves of influence, the internet is a social chessboard, fractals of reality and thought Electronic quantum social entanglement, social axiom foam, mental diffraction, psychological depolarization, holographic resonance, spatial synesthetic, sensory psychology Creating more complex words creates a code language for sensitive topics but language can only be so interesting and useful Eventually all languages may merge through the internet Increasingly unlikely combinations tend to create healthier patterns which maximize compatibility The internet increases quantum communication which is quantum problem solving Fusing less related patterns bridges functionality with familiar aesthetic Hetero-incompatibility reflects weakening combinations 24 Physiology & Medicine / Re: What's the evidence for telepathy? « on: 06/04/2017 23:05:11 » Quote from: tkadm30 on 06/04/2017 12:07:17 Quote from: the5thforce on 06/04/2017 08:34:16 Tele(o)logic energy Is teleology a principle of your religion? 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Messages Topics Attachments Thanked Posts Posts Thanked By User Messages - the5thforce Pages: 1 [2] 3 4 ... 8 26 Physiology & Medicine / Re: What's the evidence for telepathy? « on: 06/04/2017 08:34:16 » Tele(o)logic energy 27 New Theories / Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :) « on: 06/04/2017 08:08:30 » simulation dense social molecules radiating gravity 28 Just Chat ! / Re: Politics « on: 06/04/2017 06:12:47 » Were already recording most languages both written and spoken in their dialects onto the internet, eventually we should encourage more humans to learn one language in addition to their preferred native language, since the chinese and most of the world use english programming its already most efficient to establish english as the global language, with england inherently having the earliest start to english-speaking influence and linguistic evolution and the media mass reporting ideas and developments starting at institutions like cambridge, this forum is likely among the most influential in the world 29 Just Chat ! / Re: Politics « on: 06/04/2017 05:21:21 » We can leverage online healthcare education to lower the cost of healthcare until healthcare is automated Now that we have mass media communication, war and hostility will continue decreasing so we should merge the military with online education guided by the higher ranks and officers, by merging the military with online education we can create technological-communism where people and electricity are the main capital spreading education and building development within their community/country and eventually all countries through the U.N. and other cooperations, the war for life preservation is becoming an information war to increase function and minimize global dysfunction The military is now competing with the education establishment moderated by the government which guides the media which influences private industry Private education and private industry competing with government/public education and military, the military now provides the necessary employment outside of private industry Whenever mass communication emerges industries which transfer information become increasingly obsolete including industrial education, we should simplify education so we can focus on social development and technology Were all communicators now influencing our decisionmakers and developers in government who compete/oscillate with our decisionmakers and developers in private industry Everything that can be automated will eventually be automated but there will always be lifestyle preservation dictated by social hierarchy, during the tech singularity the amount of change to lifestyles each generation is willing to accept dictates evolution We should invest more in automated foreign language translation because it will help advance natural language programming Since the automation spectrum is art to technology and the technology of education is now mass communication, established governments only need to be linked to the same internet to increase cooperation, the elected government should act as the preservation force developing the technology of non-electronic necessities: food/fuel, environment/shelter, healthcare, military, while private industry should focus on electronic mechanical and transportation technology, both public and private should cooperatively compete on as many solutions as possible with public tending to be younger and moving to private with practice 30 Just Chat ! / Re: Politics « on: 04/04/2017 16:12:04 » Heres a generic list of what I think we should be investing much more in: -Fusion reactors -Natural language programming -Climate prediction -Pollution filters -Controllable automation -3D printers -DNA repair -Unconscious DNA-cellular machines -Online surgery/dentistry courses for highly qualified students to create slightly higher risk affordable healthcare -Surgery/Dentistry automation -Manipulation of individual particles of energy 31 Just Chat ! / Re: Politics « on: 31/03/2017 04:22:13 » National debt is an investment from mutually respecting countries, since the world is patiently keeping an eye on Trump to decide how functional social diversity can be we shouldnt oppose new debt to pay for advances in minimally hostile social organization which all countries can learn or benefit from, since diversity always requires compatibility to be more complex thus challenging and diversity for better and worse is already fundamentally our role in the world we need to consider how intriguing american history is compared to other countries, the story itself captures the globes attention, increased diversity and mass communication allows increased state autonomy with only the military force NATO needing to cooperate, military dense coastal states like California can easily leverage their importance within the N.A.T.O. above all In my opinion North Korea should be allowed to do whatever China allows them to do with one guarantee: NATO should invest the size of North Koreas GDP into missile defense and get started on creating a new symbolic island to base that missile defense system, investment into understanding aerodynamics and spatial tracking will be infinitely useful in the future Since communication and organization through space and time is all life can really ever attain, we need the media to reflect the majority of the population, until the very last human couple in existence is the logically heteroswitching technological ideal that a naturally 50-50 gender parity species is intended to find most desireable 32 Just Chat ! / Politics « on: 31/03/2017 02:46:25 » Since theres usually no way to deport every "illegal" immigrant in a country the best solution is better organization in the future without disrupting relatively functional low-hostility local social ecosystems, theres many ways to improve desireable organization both human and electronic "borders" including radar, camera and seismic to know who, second: physical indicators such as fences and walls to know where, third: communication such as multitranslated signs and minimally disruptive audio information systems similar to national parks and theme parks to know what, communication is the capability of all living organisms which is fundamentally electrically/light based, ideally all who are able to cross should be recognized as either sufficiently physically or mentally capable at the time of crossing to follow the social laws of the land, but all countries are ideally desireable to live in either way, education and potentially military service should be considered for those showing the ability to enter each new country Healthcare in the future will be universal once nuclear fusion becomes both efficiently reactor sustained and solar harvested, but before then a publicly funded healthcare system and a privately funded healthcare system oscillating and competing to advance the quality and affordability of healthcare is likely the best solution, since most countries already invest in public university operated healthcare these facilities should work to offer the most affordable care while the medical professionals gain enough skill and experience to advance to private universities and private hospitals where their experience and skill provides the incentive for patients to pay more for the care, public university hospitals should be required to create a waiting list for first come first serve free citizen healthcare near equal to public tax investment though of course with a small rake for the university's success, our new advantage is itself the infrastructure already in place Military technological investment is both the biggest driver of peaceful and hostile technological advancement, increased communication between both sides of the 'sword' is the only way towards useful progress, obviously in this age of diplomatic gentlemen we have the capability to thoroughly annihilate all life on earth, acknowledging and respecting regionally influential populatons builds trustworthy democracy 33 New Theories / Re: What are the economics of sexual orientation? « on: 30/03/2017 19:56:56 » Since humans evolved with a hymen the best way to nurture healthy energy-contributing straight females is education, good sex requires practice and understanding the clitoris-clitoral bulb trapdoor/displacement mechanism which provides stimulation during penetration, knowing and visualizing sex correctly would be required to maximize arrousal, adequate proper sex fine tunes the muscles of the vagina to prepare for childbirth minimizing pain and injury, obviously the body isnt developed until the end of puberty so practicing sex before the end of puberty is misguided and may interfere with development (15-17 plus giving psychological runway until 18 as western countries do), after proper education you can fetishize the motion of the clitoris tugging/bouncing to the cadence of penetration which cant be recreated with same sex contact, since humans do look similar homosexuality has become the path of least resistence for some, while common metaphors and religion all aim to educate humans- for example putting your hands in a praying position and then curling or cupping your hands demonstrates the trapdoor mechanism, kingdoms or castles tend to have trapdoors, trap is all around, if our minds all use the same laws of physics our understanding of physics can only increase mental similarity which is morality Since we dont have unlimited resources including space and time, were eternally bound to energy economics which homosociality can only disrupt, virtual reality will never equal the energy efficiency of baseline reality or interaction with other baseline minds which goldilocks/energy transfer thresholds infinitely prevent, sexually-reproductively functional physical/genetic/dna diversity is our only tool to resist radiation which is a fundamental property of energy 34 New Theories / Re: Ethical consciousness « on: 30/03/2017 01:49:13 » Quote from: tkadm30 on 29/03/2017 23:34:07 Quote from: the5thforce on 22/03/2017 05:36:36 homo-sexuality is a contradiction, gays are asexual mutual masturbating victims of a radioactive mutation we can safely catagorize with decay and dysfunction... Please leave the gays and lesbians alone. Sexual orientation is free will in motion. There's no fundamental contradiction in accepting the fact that humans have free will. Your "ethical consciousness" seems a little lost or dysfunctional. Either ways, it's quite rude and foolish to label homosexuals as "asexual mutual masturbating victims". As a reminder, this is a science forum, not a scientology forum. I could never so long as gays continue to take the free will of children by artificially procreating and spreading their incompatible sex organs while the media continues promoting incoherent ideas of gender to children and ignoring the overwhelmingly female parity of same sex genital contact, while I sympathize with intersexuality or poorly fitting genitals, homo-"sex"uality is a contradiction which insults the intelligence of all who study anatomy, we evolved and are designed to enjoy heterosexuality primarily as the penis requires lubricant and the clitoral bulbs fill with blood during arrousal providing stimulating clitoral displacement during penetration 35 Physiology & Medicine / Re: Did the vagina evolve to operate like a trapdoor? « on: 30/03/2017 00:48:38 » In short: penetration causes proportionate clitoral displacement Its a pleasure trap, lever, levy, levitate, double wish/helix Double trap from above and below flowing into the vagina 36 New Theories / Pest control « on: 28/03/2017 19:17:41 » If we have to live with bugs anyway, in order to control which ones we live with we must plant the ones we want, bugs can be trained to avoid an area using physical discipline and scent, silverfish are slower thus easier to train and transport plus they blend in better while competing for the same food as roaches, if a building is infested with roaches undesireably we can introduce ants to remove roach eggs and excess resources then introduce silverfish to maintain the building. Spiders can also be used to remove undesired bugs but they may be too efficient at killing, we can also consider breeding or genetically engineering even more desireable bugs, ones that are multicolored, neon, glow in the dark or lightup like fireflies, but we should be careful not to disturb the ecosystem -blowing on them may also be a way to communicate 37 New Theories / Re: Multiverse gravity « on: 28/03/2017 18:16:51 » Aliens might be influencing the solar winds from our sun partially manipulating the organisms on earth, but gravity is superior and we all have free will 38 New Theories / Re: Multiverse gravity « on: 28/03/2017 01:58:01 » Multiverse gravity may be considered influence from our creator, the ultimate boltzmann brain connected to everything, god The gravity between the competing infinities of simulations vs originals may potentially distort time allowing communication 39 New Theories / Re: What are the economics of sexual orientation? « on: 28/03/2017 00:38:42 » Men are probably 'capable' of around 50,000 or more orgasms in an 80 year lifespan, after 2 weeks spontaneous ejaculation is likely but the tension can become uncomfortable so few wait- especially in our crowded society where casual interaction is expected. Since we can only create both males and females, parents should reflect offspring to avoid creating a social vacuum and acknowledge the massive responsibility male biological pressures are, the majority of men desire monogamy out of functionality as long term consistent sex with one woman is always more desireable than one easily forgotten night with even the most attractive which porn has decreased the value of while further reinforcing consistency as the highest priority. With 80% of divorces filed by women in western countries we should increase the incentive to stay together until each childs 18th year and realize life is exponentially more valuable before the end of brain development, especially going forward now that most of our problems only require engineering fusion, biology, software, environment, space all heavily assisted by computer simulations 40 New Theories / Multiverse gravity « on: 25/03/2017 10:33:16 » The multiverse's gravity keeps it together in time which means consciousness is the center of a supersymmetric energy feedback loop where each moment is a superposition within infinity, spatial energy polarity like gender/charge, mass and color can be called supersymmetrical within the multiverse 41 New Theories / Re: What are the economics of sexual orientation? « on: 25/03/2017 09:55:50 » For better and worse, female rape victims rarely become calculated motivated serial killers or world war dictators so we can safely say neglect and social isolation is infinitely more psychologically and socially damaging, clearly both are undesired but by nature inversely proportionate and self reinforced We need to establish permanently that the mission is superior, all enjoyable deviance equals someone elses misfortune 42 New Theories / Re: DNA Pixelation « on: 25/03/2017 09:24:59 » Analogies and logic, were spatial holograms with the longest dna edit- google says theres a dna strand longer than human but human is likely longest atomically with the most overturn over 4 billion years 43 New Theories / Re: DNA Pixelation « on: 25/03/2017 08:19:46 » High radiation has caused excess human gender variation, men are forced to resist the bad radiation ratio provided by our sun to ensure their decaying DNA survives We should identify the genetic ratio that would ensure the longest survival when deciding who can live on mars 44 New Theories / Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :) « on: 25/03/2017 07:22:12 » Geographic manipulation of the population and prime numbers of pi causing gold influence 45 New Theories / Re: Mind is the best virtual reality « on: 25/03/2017 06:41:54 » More neurons allows more memory which allows more consciousness- both emotion and intellect When language has divided human genders beyond compatibility, bigger minds can only be wasted spreading their light to machines and technology 46 New Theories / DNA Pixelation « on: 25/03/2017 06:20:50 » Melanin preserves DNA density by blocking radiation, radiation causes mutation which inflates the DNA and decreases cellular density causing pixelation, racial mixing decreases excess genetic inflation which increases cellular density but also increases cellular malleability/adaptability which increases the risk of incompatibility when poorly developed, though cells continually regenerate based on posture and center of gravity particularly during exercise, denser cells allow for more synapses and neurons, faster and denser muscle fibers, and more elasticity Inbreeding preserves desireable traits such as aesthetic which increases compatibility but also increases DNA pixelation, mixing increases functionality Pixelation allows lighter weight and requires less energy but slowly decreases functionality 47 New Theories / Re: Internet-DNA « on: 25/03/2017 04:05:32 » We can use the internet to minimize excess dna pixelation 48 New Theories / Re: Sex is our primary function « on: 24/03/2017 14:20:25 » We need all the sexually compatible genetics we can sustain due to our decreasing ozone layer allowing more radiation into our atmosphere combined with satellite and wireless radiation rattling our DNA constantly which is accelerating human mutation along with all other organisms on earth 49 New Theories / Re: Mind is the best virtual reality « on: 24/03/2017 13:33:43 » if we could design our own stem cells in our mind and release them to become any cell we could become shapeshifters 50 New Theories / Re: Internet-DNA « on: 24/03/2017 01:31:08 » DNA is the longest living chemical reaction, the internet is a reflection of our DNA Pages: 1 [2] 3 4 ... 8 SMF 2.0.13 | SMF © 2016, Simple Machines Enotify by CreateAForum.com SMFAds for Free Forums Naked Science Forum © Page created in 0.062 seconds with 71 queries. 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Messages Topics Attachments Thanked Posts Posts Thanked By User Messages - the5thforce Pages: 1 2 [3] 4 5 ... 8 51 Physiology & Medicine / Re: Did the vagina evolve to operate like a trapdoor? « on: 24/03/2017 00:02:48 » Collagen promotes skin elasticity which can only be sufficiently consumed on high meat diets, veganism is creating less elastic females which may improve sex for some females but during pregnancy and puberty a diet high in collagen is necessary to minimize damage 52 Physiology & Medicine / Re: Does benzodiazepine use cause brain damage long term? « on: 23/03/2017 23:23:55 » Benzos similar to weed inhibit memory formation, over time memory degrades if you dont use it but the altered states of memory were the desired result anyway Tranquilizers inhibit muscle formation over time and are known to cause heart attacks and other motor dysfunction Its safe to say memory (brain) inhibitors should treat mental problems and muscle inhibitors should tranquilize moving problems 53 Physiology & Medicine / Re: Mixing abilify and cannabis? « on: 23/03/2017 22:25:22 » Debilify the tranquilizer only serves to ensure your tolerance to the real medicine- benzos stays low enough to work when needed as a last resort Abilify costs 24usd per pill, benzos cost 00.02usd, the only problem with benzos is they work too well- they allow unhappy people to finally pull the plug without anxiety and usually without a fuss Tranquilizers known to cause heart attacks and other muscle disorders need to be the last resort while benzos should be available in every convenience store 54 New Theories / Re: What are the economics of sexual orientation? « on: 23/03/2017 21:38:13 » Since genders are completely malleable, creation can only be channeled into the opposite gender, stealing from the other side by choosing your side can only further create the bad you were trying to avoid in the other side Sex requires genitals that arent too big or too small, mutual masturbation or sexual autism cant be spread for a reason because its rarely or never worth spreading, spreading homosexual genes isnt fair to the offspring All products of sex are either sexually compatible or sexually incompatible, the biggest incompatibilities in the world are usually the most hostile 55 New Theories / Re: Healthy schizophrenia? « on: 23/03/2017 17:43:02 » The ability to recognize and explain loose associations requires more neurons+ connections which is mental capacity, mental illness or undesireable memories are the result of undesired situations that can only be improved by researching what makes the situation undesired which builds connections between the neurons provided by our DNA and assists with creating more desireable memories Undesired situations cause undesired memories which cause schizophrenia, voice hearing requires a source we havent determined yet, voice hearing can cause good or bad memories aligned with situation 56 Technology / Re: Is higher education outdated in the age of the Internet? « on: 23/03/2017 17:13:47 » Since fulltime minimum wage is the middle class now and all below that are the poor we should raise minimum wage to optimally align with where we think the middle class should be then provide the difference to the poor until they attain fulltime minimum wage, id say 15-20usd per hour is the minimum for a single person, 20-30usd for a parent and we need to encourage those above minimum wage to always spend any money they earn above the minimum in order to accelerate the economy and technology towards energy sufficiency, since we understand how nuclear fusion works we should make oil as cheap as possible and use it to build more fission and fusion reactors along with solar wind water, we have just enough oil to safely expand to mars which infinitely increases our chance of survival even if earth sustains damage 57 Technology / Re: Is higher education outdated in the age of the Internet? « on: 22/03/2017 19:17:27 » Based on what I enjoyed and found useful id design public school in 2017 to involve one physical education class for 2-3 hours incorporating exercise strength training physics biology physiology nutrition sports recreation and even survivalist projects both outdoors and indoors, 2nd one open ended collaborative research class moderated by teacher(s) where the students decide the direction of daily research using technology and driven purely by curiosity for 2-3 hours, 3rd one intellectual elective involving experts/teachers giving lectures and answering questions for the last 2-3 hours 1 Body-education class 1 Self-education class 1 Teacher-education class Homework should be easy enough to enjoy but hard enough to encourage socializing outside of school, my favorite classes were physical education, physics, foreign languages, and art 58 New Theories / Re: What are the economics of sexual orientation? « on: 22/03/2017 14:24:16 » Quote from: tkadm30 on 22/03/2017 09:14:44 Quote from: the5thforce on 22/03/2017 06:11:24 They put it in the inelastic one that stays stretched out Are you feeling frustrated because people can have their own sexual identity? Only when it interferes with mine or worse- I inherit their dysfunction. Maximizing function always maximizes choice, hetero interaction is always the maximum of social energy efficiency, we only guide entropy during our 80 year tour of earth, the 4 billion years before that were decided for you 59 New Theories / Re: P vs. NP problem « on: 22/03/2017 13:57:44 » Likely related to the false belief that we can create non-linear quantum computation more efficiently than biology, which my guess results from a misunderstanding of quantum "entanglement" 60 New Theories / Re: What is a global democracy? « on: 22/03/2017 13:32:14 » "2nd/3rd world" is materialistic propaganda, homeless are everywhere except... in socialist countries! You know what they do when one person starves in north korea? They start killing those in charge and arming themselves since theyre all in the military. Sex is the primary reward of life which bigger populations tend to have more of We tend to abort functional males via homicide if you consider that those in our population able to kill were usually able to create, instead of aborting females with less desireable traits before their first memory even exists- if asian females can understand that a sexually contributing female is harder to create than an able male surely anyone with a brain can, increased competition for a slightly smaller healthy female pool is always more energy efficient than supporting a massive incompatible "feminist" illusion 61 New Theories / What is a global democracy? « on: 22/03/2017 10:54:02 » Now that we've color divided ourselves into the rainbow of asexuality and mutual masturbation or mutual-asexuality as our superficial knockoff of the uncertainty-principle, we should try listening to the bigger older more socially successful populations who evolved around the biggest oldest mountain on earth and inspired all other human cultures, if were lucky maybe they'll let us raise their aborted females 62 New Theories / Re: What are the economics of sexual orientation? « on: 22/03/2017 06:11:24 » Quote from: Demolitiondaley on 21/03/2017 23:16:45 Quote from: the5thforce on 21/03/2017 15:02:48 Quote from: tkadm30 on 20/03/2017 10:34:30 Quote from: the5thforce on 20/03/2017 05:36:44 Thats only true until gays artificially procreate spreading their incompatible gay genes onto their offspring, what about their kids free will? There's no such thing as gay genes. Sexual orientation is independent of our biological reproductive system. Even animals can turn into homosexuality, then go back to heterosexual behavior. All minds use the same laws of physics, homosexuality can only be caused by dysfunction, in animals the dysfunction is mainly pheromone sensory disorder, in humans the dysfunction is sex organ size, gay's sex organs are usually too big or too small which is why they dont enjoy sex in the right place, to contain deviant organs we need to discourage gay procreation Why would having a huge shlong make someone predisposed to being gay? If it doesn't fit in "the right place" what other place could a gay guy put it that another guy could offer that a female couldn't offer? I'd like to look at the statistics you seem to be aware of that identify abnormal penis size amongst gay men. They put it in the inelastic one that stays stretched out 63 New Theories / Ethical consciousness « on: 22/03/2017 05:36:36 » Since big brains never evolve inside low functioning bodies we have the ability to know real world functionality is the dominant ethic, a brain needs something enjoyable and worth doing otherwise it can only blame its most recent creator/influencer who can always be traced to the existence of energy itself- the idea that fundamentally energy being worse than nothing is written in our universe's elements- absolute nihilism even if only after a certain point, eventually the memory of bad energy thoroughly vaporizes any good remaining in the brain and the two are always related in our self contained world bound by the uncertainty principle, time itself is the only energy inheritence within zero sum space where good and bad can only amplify eachother over time, a true temporary zero-point seed is required to experience consciousness, all opposites including zero and infinity obey the uncertainty principle, infinity can only be represented by binary objective time followed by the random subjective relativity-bound space it distorts during the act of measurement aka consciousness, space is the entropy of what can only start as nothingness, zero, uncertainty, the spectrum of consciousness is an equilibrium between the biggest worthwhile infinity and its opposite- the smallest thing- nothing is still a thing, since many humans still reach the conclusion that energy is objectively worse than nothing and intelligence only amplifies the ability to recognize dysfunction, intelligence is always a double edged sword that we die by when humans continue to expand the void of dysfunction fundamentally starting with sex, as we approach the universal limits of worthwhile informational complexity which is the technological singularity we can only approach the energy scale/efficiency ratio of conscious complexity, biological machines are basically inherently intrinsically fundamentally importantly most efficient since it can only use the lightest elements available, beyond this point we should only attempt to improve biological function while preserving as much organic sexual diversity we can as its our only tool to resist radioactive decay, (homo-sexuality is a contradiction, gays are asexual mutual masturbating victims of a radioactive mutation we can safely catagorize with decay and dysfunction) otherwise we need to let the brain reach natural equilibrium with function to minimize incompatible emotion goldilocks ratios are the most deceptive quality of energy, due to the uncertainty all energy peaks before its half-life and youll always know after its way too late yet still way before you thought you wanted to know sustainable ethics can only be a functional understanding never solely an understanding of dysfunction something is the entropy of nothing, something functionally diverse or nothing at all is the consensus, sex is the unbreakable bond of our energy and there is no replacement, a brain contraction can never be better than a body contraction so long as the brain is attached to the body meaning when sex fails the brain usually follows 64 New Theories / Re: What are the economics of sexual orientation? « on: 21/03/2017 22:15:26 » Quote from: tkadm30 on 21/03/2017 16:12:29 Quote from: the5thforce on 21/03/2017 15:02:48 All minds use the same laws of physics, homosexuality can only be caused by dysfunction, in animals the dysfunction is mainly pheromone sensory disorder, in humans the dysfunction is sex organ size, gay's sex organs are usually too big or too small which is why they dont enjoy sex in the right place, to contain deviant organs we need to discourage gay procreation You should start your own religion. Im a pantheist, youre already in my religion 65 New Theories / Re: Sexual orientation economics « on: 21/03/2017 15:02:48 » Quote from: tkadm30 on 20/03/2017 10:34:30 Quote from: the5thforce on 20/03/2017 05:36:44 Thats only true until gays artificially procreate spreading their incompatible gay genes onto their offspring, what about their kids free will? There's no such thing as gay genes. Sexual orientation is independent of our biological reproductive system. Even animals can turn into homosexuality, then go back to heterosexual behavior. All minds use the same laws of physics, homosexuality can only be caused by dysfunction, in animals the dysfunction is mainly pheromone sensory disorder, in humans the dysfunction is sex organ size, gay's sex organs are usually too big or too small which is why they dont enjoy sex in the right place, to contain deviant organs we need to discourage gay procreation 66 New Theories / Re: Sexual orientation economics « on: 20/03/2017 05:36:44 » Quote from: tkadm30 on 17/03/2017 23:28:09 Sexual orientation is the product of our free will (undetermined/quantum logic). We have the freedom to pick up a partner independently of the configuration of our DNA genes, and the freedom to have sex (or not) independently of our mental states. Thats only true until gays artificially procreate spreading their incompatible gay genes onto their offspring, what about their kids free will? 67 New Theories / Re: Healthy schizophrenia? « on: 19/03/2017 23:51:13 » Quote from: tkadm30 on 19/03/2017 08:38:49 Quote from: the5thforce on 18/03/2017 21:16:51 Schizophrenia is depressive thoughts and excessive paranoia triggered by social stress or isolation which is first caused organically and then may trigger voice hearing, negative insulting voices may amplify or increase depressive thoughts and paranoia until coping skills are acquired at which point voices can become positive and provide approval, praise, stimulation and entertainment in essence curing the schizophrenia There's no such thing as healthy or non-healthy schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a fabrication of modern psychiatry to label a misbehavior as a disease. Misbehavior likely due to social stress or isolation 68 Technology / Re: Is higher education outdated in the age of the Internet? « on: 19/03/2017 19:02:08 » People really only need to learn english, politics, economics, nutrition, physiology, and physical education, the rest are unnecessary in todays society or can easily be learned online, even programming 69 New Theories / Re: What is objective time? « on: 18/03/2017 23:01:16 » We exist inside a 5 dimensional white hole because a black hole can only ever have 4 dimensions- a hole youre not inside can only exist abstractly to the observer 70 New Theories / Re: Healthy schizophrenia? « on: 18/03/2017 21:16:51 » Quote from: Kryptid on 18/03/2017 05:47:23 Quote from: tkadm30 on 17/03/2017 23:07:36 What is a bonker? Personally, I have been diagnosed with schizophrenia but have never heard any inner voices in my head. Interesting. How do your symptoms manifest? Schizophrenia is depressive thoughts and excessive paranoia triggered by social stress or isolation which is first caused organically and then may trigger voice hearing, negative insulting voices may amplify or increase depressive thoughts and paranoia until coping skills are acquired at which point voices can become positive and provide approval, praise, stimulation and entertainment in essence curing the schizophrenia 71 New Theories / What is objective time? « on: 18/03/2017 20:47:10 » Objective time fundamentally requires consciousness due to our existence, without consciousness relativity becomes irrelevant Relativity spectrum≠Uncertainty principle Time always has two dimensions from wherever/whenever it is perceived (the past and the future), the point of perception is itself a superposition of all the futures energy potential colliding with the pasts energy generating the energy of each new moment, consciousness exists on the surface of a circular expanding energy wave through a near perfect vacuum, since consciousness is temporary consciousness is the virtual particle generating all other virtual particles, or you can say consciousness is the real particle generating all virtual particles as the concept of consciousness always has the most relevance during communication 72 Physiology & Medicine / Re: Did the vagina evolve to operate like a trapdoor? « on: 18/03/2017 17:15:16 » While most people have heard hand size, foot size and overall body proportions correlate with penis size, the best indicator may be head shape Since head shape partially indicates the shape your head squeezed through at birth, head shape can indicate the shape of your mothers vagina which is analogous to the shape of the penis Head wideness can indicate vaginal wideness which indicates c-v distance (distance from clit to vaginal opening), wideness is analogous to penis girth and c-v distance analogous to penis length both proportionate to head size C-V distance is the primary factor responsible for penetrative female stimulation, followed by trapdoor mechanics which relies on tissue elasticity which affects healthy pregnancy Assuming tighter females with shorter c-v distance can enjoy penetration more, smaller head size can indicate straighter females but decreased mental capacity and less-hung males, bigger head size can indicate smarter males with bigger penises but potentially less-compatible females Optimally males should seek females with smaller well rounded heads or the inverse of their own head shape, females should seek males with larger well rounded heads or the inverse of their head shape Since C-V distance matters more than trapdoor mechanics, slightly wider heads are a better sexual bias than thinner heads Aesthetic and functionality including brain region affecting spatial, sensory, and balance are also relevant, wider heads appearing slightly more cartoon but thinner heads leading to decreased sexual compatibility If you like lots of sex go for wider headed partners which may be an aesthetically counter intuitive tradeoff for some, keep in mind thinner headed people would tend to have stronger orgasms but less sexual compatibility between male/female Opposites need to find a way to attract eachother in order to keep opposites attracting, racial (melanin) "opposites" rely on local climate, social environment, and other functional-tradeoffs determining the local-optimal, since racial mixing decreases DNA inflation which increases cellular density and elasticity mixed race females on average may have very slightly more clitoral motion or tug during penetration though C-V distance matters most Erectile tissue firmness is another factor, heterosis likely improves the effectiveness of all the different tissues but still relying heavily on source genetics and only improving small edges Combining facial features like sharpness and roundness may indicate or increase clitoral trapdoor mechanics Foreskin may be the most important part for clitoral mechanics, cutting male foreskin may accelerate the evolution of desireable traits including intelligence which motivates intercontinental colonization/global communication and increases genetic mixing, female foreskin is more important than male foreskin but now that we understand physics and electronics i recommend decreasing the use of ancient evolutionary manipulation technology 73 New Theories / Re: What is free will? « on: 17/03/2017 22:26:35 » Quote from: tkadm30 on 17/03/2017 22:04:53 Quote from: the5thforce on 16/03/2017 21:16:44 Free will is a fundamental contradiction caused by the uncertainty principle. Fundamentally, if our free will require quantum-like entanglement of the mind and matter, we're "free" to act upon this quantum energy via our consciousness. Quote from: the5thforce Absolute freedom can only be everything or its opposite which is nothing(nothing has the potential to be anything), will implies something but not everything(only the will), something is a limit within everything, free will is the probability of something within everything. Nice word salad. ;) Quote from: the5thforce Our free will is a probability based on the set of discrete energy contained within our physical bodies and surrounding environment, we can increase our freedom by increasing the entropy of our body/environment, the more you think and move the more freedom you have. Mathematics (and statistics) is the study of predetermined logic. Free will is undetermined logic. My associations run loose but theres still meat in the salad, 'undetermined-logic' is another contradiction 74 New Theories / Re: Sexual orientation economics « on: 16/03/2017 22:57:37 » Relevant info from another thread: I read an article on human pheromones being a myth which I disagree with, under the best circumstances where the mother and father are both present and provide a positive influence on the childs life we learn to associate male and female scents with whatever (hopefully healthy) early intimate interactions we had with our parents and siblings carrying into adulthood 75 New Theories / Re: Sexual orientation economics « on: 16/03/2017 22:31:08 » The uncertainty principle is a dichotomy and a spectrum simultaneously which can only move towards entropy equilibrium, since all energy in existence is caused by the uncertainty principle (nothing/uncertainty/"female" vs something/principle/"male") we can apply the concept to any dichotomy to achieve equilibrium. Most people would agree sex is our most desired interaction in life meaning a lack of sex causes the least desireable outcomes as a society which is why in order to attain a fair and balanced society we should work to achieve sexual equilibrium. Sex is a non-overlapping structurally-genetically analogous spectrum in all but cases of intersex genitals, game theory dictates that discouraging homosexual procreation is the only way to contain the spread of asexuality even if only considering that homosexuals have inherently fewer dating options/less opportunity, but since our sex organs are analogous and all of our minds use the same laws of physics, we can only assume homosexuality is the result of undesireable physical traits. The most humane way to contain this sexual disruption so we can reach equilibrium is to discourage homosexual procreation to prevent creating more people with fewer opportunity both homosexuals and even worse their potential heterosexual offspring who can only inherit these undesireable physical traits. Sex or gender is just one example of a dichotomy-spectrum, since we need all the functional genetic diversity we can physically sustain else increase the risk of fatal mutation, disruptions to secondary spectrums such as racism and religious hostility can only be the result of sexual disruption Pages: 1 2 [3] 4 5 ... 8 SMF 2.0.13 | SMF © 2016, Simple Machines Enotify by CreateAForum.com SMFAds for Free Forums Naked Science Forum © Page created in 0.072 seconds with 71 queries. 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Messages Topics Attachments Thanked Posts Posts Thanked By User Messages - the5thforce Pages: 1 2 3 [4] 5 6 ... 8 76 New Theories / Re: Sexual orientation economics « on: 16/03/2017 22:25:27 » Until we have the ability to manipulate our DNA in realtime to become any shape desired, we should work to attain the most equitable shapes. We should also acknowledge that even the most exotic shapes would tend to prefer hetero-interaction with endless ability to switch so we should keep this in mind when deciding what is moral and most equitable 77 New Theories / Re: Sexual orientation economics « on: 16/03/2017 22:12:36 » Opposite sexes are required for sex to exist, sex is the primary function of all dual gender organisms on earth from which all other functions and genetic complexity evolve based on the life and mating choices of all previous related organisms in the lineage which creates the structure of their DNA, throughout life DNA is radioactively altered allowing for more mutation to occur the longer the organism survives. The sex organs of both genders share analogous structures intended to ensure both are capable of enjoying sex, orgasm stimulation evolved as the function of all sex organs, when sex is not enjoyed it is no different than organ failure and shouldnt be replicated, you may as well be a different species if you cannot find a way to enjoy the varied sensations of sex which can include both pain and pleasure(switch) combined to suit preference using technique(foreplay, speed, cadence, arrousal level), so long as flesh is in contact there will be stimulation If you cannot find a way to enjoy sex do not replicate sex and do not procreate, lesbians who cannot enjoy sex can only create daughters with less ability to enjoy sex and sons who can only create daughters with less ability to enjoy sex, while gay men i assume can only create a tendency to prefer stirring the unsanitary toxic waste of another human as the anus is only an inch away from the vaginal opening 78 New Theories / What is free will? « on: 16/03/2017 21:16:44 » Free will is a fundamental contradiction caused by the uncertainty principle. Free/uncertainty-will/principle Absolute freedom can only be everything or its opposite which is nothing(nothing has the potential to be anything), will implies something but not everything(only the will), something is a limit within everything, free will is the probability of something within everything. Our free will is a probability based on the set of discrete energy contained within our physical bodies and surrounding environment, we can increase our freedom by increasing the entropy of our body/environment, the more you think and move the more freedom you have. 79 New Theories / Re: P vs. NP problem « on: 15/03/2017 20:53:59 » N can only represent a random number else remain 'nondetermined', P vs NP may have been intended to be a trick question but that doesnt change the truth 80 Technology / Re: Internet enables free education « on: 15/03/2017 17:31:57 » I believe the only industries humans will have in the near future will be: Food(farming, restuarant) Shelter(material mining, construction, housekeeping) Healthcare(assistant, nursing, surgeon) Manufacturing(design, assembly) Entertainment(performance, sport, gaming, recreation, art) - Teaching will be replaced by the internet, recreational socialization will become the focus of brick and morter school Tech design will be replaced by personalized customization, programming will be replaced by native languages Practical science is close to solved and will be replaced by simulation assisted engineering Repair is being replaced by increasingly affordable upgrades Business and politics including marketing will be replaced by mass media/mass communication Delivery/transportation will be automated though I believe recreational driving/off roading will become even more popular - Humans are approaching a point of universal understanding of our world where energy efficient engineering is becoming our only obstacle, tech has caused white collar/button pushing jobs to become easier than blue collar jobs which are inherently the last to be fully automated energy efficiently so we need to ensure were paying livable wages for the basic labor that has been equalized by tech with what were once high skilled white collar jobs Last I believe churches will adapt by continuing to move towards a pantheistic approach like unitarian universalism 81 Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / What are time crystals? « on: 15/03/2017 07:55:53 » Im trying to understand the concept of time crystals, so far im imagining particles somehow entangled with decohered particles which re-cohere with our observed universe's worldline to form a pattern or 'crystal of time', is this accurate? 82 New Theories / Re: P vs. NP problem « on: 14/03/2017 22:11:02 » Quote from: Bored chemist on 14/03/2017 21:55:30 Perhaps it would be better if you tried to understand the problem, before pretending that you have solved it. Insult and claim I dont understand without reason, clearly youre wasting your time 83 New Theories / Re: P vs. NP problem « on: 14/03/2017 20:34:49 » Nondeterministic algorithms can only provide inherently incorrect solutions meaning they are indeterminable, else they require randomization as the wiki you posted mentions 84 New Theories / Re: Multihole wormhole « on: 14/03/2017 14:14:37 » Maybe somehow create a ring of blackholes and shoot through the middle using some sort of blackhole catapult 85 Physiology & Medicine / Re: Did the vagina evolve to operate like a trapdoor? « on: 14/03/2017 11:40:42 » While potentially considered less aesthetic(which I disagree with), or harder to clean before soap and showers were invented, male foreskin which is analogous to the female clitoral hood evolved to protect the penis head from injury(warning: partial severance) while also providing more sensation, girth, and better thrusting for both male and female during sex, the foreskin reduces wear and tear which delays the onset of erectile dysfunction. The female foreskin aka clitoral hood increases surface contact with the clitoris as the penis penetrates the vagina pushing the clitoral bulbs outward forcing the clitoris, clitoral hood and labia to tug downward toward the hole proportionate to the girth of the penis. Mutilation of this vital organ is especially tragic in western society where men are often less than ideally driven to become angry masturbators or “w***ers” as referred to in the great state of england, else face wasting their orgasms during sleep every 1-2 weeks 86 New Theories / Re: Sexual orientation economics « on: 13/03/2017 06:57:34 » Also consider the role clothes might play in disrupting healthy desensitization to our own form, curiosity creating precedent and bias overcoming function If a lesbian does not enjoy sex why create a son to desire what you are unwilling to give or force the next girl to do what you are unwilling to do else force your son to stay single when you are unwilling to stay single which wouldve increased your sons opportunities in the local dating pool to begin with Theres a word for lesbians who prey exclusively on bisexual women 87 Physiology & Medicine / Re: Did the vagina evolve to operate like a trapdoor? « on: 13/03/2017 06:46:58 » In all conscious organisms pleasure is the primary incentive, most animals are incapable of comprehending reproduction or predicting the future on a level that would motivate them to have enough sex to sustain their population. Nutrient deficiency ensures we stay hungry, nutrients are responsible for taste, animals become desensitized to improper nutrients Most animals have clitorises, in hyenas the entire vagina is one big clitoris 88 New Theories / Internet-DNA « on: 12/03/2017 21:25:56 » Since the early adopters/cyber pioneers/most frequent users of the internet have had the most access to information and mass communication during its most influential period, they will have left the greatest mark on the future of society. Assuming most of the data lives on forever I can imagine internet data analytics will become increasingly useful for solving future problems in addition to understanding human history. I believe the internet will serve as the memory for future AI which may eventually attempt to resimulate our universe based on the data, it also means were infinitely more likely to already be an "accurate" representation of a potentially very old 'organic' reality template just by existing in this era and should act wisely expecting that each move may forever be immortalized in AI simulations tearing at the seams of existence 89 New Theories / Dichotomy-spectrum equilibrium « on: 12/03/2017 20:41:29 » Dichotomy-spectrum applies to all energy in existence, all energy experiences entropy towards equilibrium, black and white is a dichotomy-spectrum, mass and light is a dichotomy-spectrum, male and female is a dichotomy-spectrum, uncertainty-principle is a dichotomy-spectrum, time is a dichotomy-spectrum (past/future), observers are dichotomy-spectrums, space waves are dichotomy-spectrums All dichotomy-spectrums expand over time due to entropy 90 New Theories / P vs. NP problem « on: 12/03/2017 13:44:52 » P vs. NP problem i came to this conclusion back in 2014 but never got a response from the president of clay mathematics institute P ≠ NP because N represents a random number where P is a fixed time, NP is a random time NP would require guessing and verifying each solution NP would require a random number generator how often the correct NP solution would be generated and verified on the first attempt would depend on the complexity of the problem(how many potential solutions) P ≠ NP because it defies probability 2/19/2016 (tumblr) 91 New Theories / Sex is our primary function « on: 12/03/2017 11:49:29 » Our human superpower is sex Sex is the combination of opposite sex organs, sex is our motivation for brain advancement, sex/orgasm is the most powerful sensation we can create, theres no other way to cause trillions of muscle ion channels to flip and contract simultaneously 92 Physiology & Medicine / Re: Did the vagina evolve to operate like a trapdoor? « on: 12/03/2017 09:46:11 » I originally titled this thread 'female sexual mechanics', there was no question 93 New Theories / Re: Sexual orientation economics « on: 12/03/2017 07:56:04 » Quote from: zx16 on 10/03/2017 18:39:44 Surely it would be better, if more men got into bed with men. Then wouldn't they be more interested in kissing and loving each other, rather than starting wars? Sword fights never end well and surprisingly most men prefer not to make a regular habit out of inserting their most valued organ into the same place toxic human waste is stored and expelled from else why would they create toilets to have a flush button? Neither does constipation, colon/rectal fissure leading to scar tissue, irritation from dried artificial lubricant/semen, hiv, and wearing adult diapers before age 40 all in pursuit of an inferior hole to begin with, I'd save the trouble and buy a large mirror to place over my bed if I couldnt get enough of my own form. Even if these could be overcome why would a man waste valuable time and affection with someone he can never hope to create a new life with or witness the power of our DNA combining with the person we love. Opposite genders inherently provide a different perspective intended to stimulate the mind which includes occasional disagreement and of course stimulate the body with the full sensation spectrum- pain and pleasure If a girl is after cara delevigne with xy genitals, find cara delevigne with xy genitals, if you cannot find cara delevigne with xy genitals find the next best thing, that is your only sexual equity in this life and if youre only after your own genitals i hope you explore them until you can handle yourself enough to join our gender diverse adult society else find one of the many lonely transexual males to bump holes with and lick from mediocre unequal/impersonal angles until you desire more complexity 94 Physiology & Medicine / Re: What is the science of gender designation? « on: 11/03/2017 18:29:10 » Quote from: alancalverd on 11/03/2017 18:04:48 There is no intended function. We exist because that's how chemistry works on this planet. Sex resulting in orgasm is the chemical reaction were intending to replicate. 95 Physiology & Medicine / Re: What is the science of gender designation? « on: 11/03/2017 16:26:27 » Quote from: alancalverd on 11/03/2017 15:44:39 There are very few people with "dysfunctional" sex genes. The commonest variant is Downs syndrome, affecting about 1 in 1000. Downs kids are generally affectionate and good company. Religion is disgusting and caused by bad upbringing - nothing to do with chromosomes. Orgasm would not exist if senseless duplication was our intended function, beside that I said dysfunctional organs not corrupt genes/chromosomes 96 Physiology & Medicine / Re: What is the science of gender designation? « on: 11/03/2017 15:22:02 » "Masculine" and "Feminine" is sexist propaganda intended to divide similar minded people who require opposite sex organs to exist. What we have today is a massive excess of people with dysfunctional sex organs as a result of the rapid inflation of our population caused by a perfect storm of religion and technology who are now being encouraged to spread their dysfunctional sex genes by western society. 97 Physiology & Medicine / Re: What is the science of gender designation? « on: 11/03/2017 11:28:40 » Humans cannot change their gender they can only attempt to remove or hide their gender 98 New Theories / Is poker a skill game? « on: 10/03/2017 20:26:04 » Ive been playing online poker for 8 years with over 3 million hands of experience, I want to share some game theory concepts i’ve developed after countless hours reviewing my 'pokertracker' database, pokertracker is a hand statistics HUD(heads up display) which you need to use where allowed to have any chance of winning bankroll management: -between 25 buyins and 100 buyins is considered good bankroll management, i recommend 100 buyins minimum, roughly 10-15 buyin variance swings should be expected at all times NLHE preflop: -first i’ll start with the concept of table equity which i find to be a useful starting ‘VPIP’ to aim for, table equity being: 100% divided by the number of players at the table representing your share of mathematically 'winning equity’, for example at 6max your table equity would be 16.67% so you would want to be playing the top 16.67% of hands which for me is something like 22+A2s+ATo+KJo+KTs+QTs+JTs+, 9max would be the top 11.1%, keep in mind the only incentive to play more than AA preflop is because of the blinds which should put in perspective how small the edge is in poker -after youre familiar with table equity, you’ll want to know that mathematically you can steal in late position and defend the big blind(less so in the small blind) up to double table equity (example: 33.3% at 6max, something like 22+AT+KT+A2s-T2s+96s-76s+), if you fold in bb you’ll lose 100bb/100 hands and 50bb/100 in sb, but keep in mind this isnt always appropriate as you often wont get enough respect to justify stealing/defending vs certain opponents, in that case just stick with table equity VPIP -when it comes to 3betting i’d suggest you stick with 3betting for value (TT+AQ+) up to half table equity, or to make things easier only 3bet when you have a near sure-thing such as AA/KK NLHE postflop: -postflop mistakes you should avoid include overvaluing flush draws/OESD’s (play strictly for pot odds), overvaluing top pairs including TPTK, and overvaluing overpairs which are hands you actually want to fold surprisingly often when your opponent reraises you even if it seems very difficult, you need to understand that most of your winnings will come from having the sure-thing nuts OR outright bluffing your opponent off their hand via barreling -what i do to get opponents to fold is what i call “cbarrel” vs 1 caller postflop, that means i’ll cbet the flop about 2/3 pot size which needs to work 39% or more to profit, then cbet the turn ½-2/3 pot size which needs to work 33-39% to profit, and again cbet the river ½-2/3 pot size which usually gets them to fold enough to be profitable even if they didnt fold the turn, cbetting/cbarrelling should be done roughly 50-60% depending on the opponent and the board texture, the wetter the board the more likely your opponent has a piece of it -if you notice you arent getting very many folds/respect you can adjust by tightening up preflop or experiment with barreling less. i also like to occasionally reraise my opponent on the flop around 2x - 2.5x the size of their cbet in a sense “cbetting their cbet” in an attempt to bluff or 'balance my range' -if it helps try to imagine that the cards dont matter, youre only trying get your opponent to fold, otherwise you only want to showdown close to a sure-thing. realize that in a vacuum if you were all playing similar hand ranges preflop the most aggressive player postflop would usually come out on top -keep in mind your profit with each hand will exponentially lean towards the best starting hand which is AA followed by KK, the top 50% of preflop hands have many times more equity postflop than the bottom 50%, always play tighter when in doubt -the sooner you familiarize yourself with the range of hands your opponent may have in any situation the sooner youll be able to narrow down your decisions accurately, you should tend to give every opponent the benefit of doubt until given reason to believe otherwise and you should tend to pot control all but the nuts vs tight opponents, tight opponents tend to play tight both preflop and postflop -the longer you take to make a decision the longer you give your opponent to make a decision so time is always a factor, i strongly recommend learning to beat the game playing only one table before attempting to multitable -the most important piece of advice is to always target looser/weaker opponents which are usually those with a vpip above double table equity who you can loosen up against to roughly 40-50% of their preflop range, if there are no weaker opponents you need to leave the table immediately or you will be raked to the end of your bankroll -some believe the RNG is skewed for action to increase rake, playing tighter would be the only way to adapt Poker is intended to be entertainment with just enough complexity that you can never play perfectly, eventually youll find what i call the 'numerology' and psychology of the game closely reflects many aspects of life and im hoping to see the game legalized worldwide which will open the door to a larger skill-game/"mental sport" economy as an alternative to the female dominated service economy 99 New Theories / Re: Sexual orientation economics « on: 10/03/2017 13:55:39 » To simplify: sex requires opposite sexes, dont spread sex if you dont like sex. 100 Plant Sciences, Zoology & Evolution / Re: Is evolution even science, or just gross intellectual dishonesty? « on: 09/03/2017 23:34:26 » Time is the evolution of space, to say otherwise would only be a misunderstanding of time Pages: 1 2 3 [4] 5 6 ... 8 SMF 2.0.13 | SMF © 2016, Simple Machines Enotify by CreateAForum.com SMFAds for Free Forums Naked Science Forum © Page created in 0.067 seconds with 74 queries. 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Messages Topics Attachments Thanked Posts Posts Thanked By User Messages - the5thforce Pages: 1 ... 3 4 [5] 6 7 8 101 Technology / Is higher education outdated in the age of the Internet? « on: 09/03/2017 23:21:51 » If we already have access to all the knowledge humans have ever bothered recording right on our smartphones.. and were all already online dating, we should probably come to terms with public/higher education being inefficient for much beyond experimental research/recreational competition and should work to merge most other social organization with mass communication, importantly our political process now that we have the ability to create a true global democracy which can easily be streamlined with social media If were expecting the population to continue growing we should get started with settling issues like land allocation for affordable new human development 102 Physiology & Medicine / Re: Female sexual mechanics « on: 09/03/2017 08:57:57 » I'll mention that foreskin also known as the clitoral hood may be a very desireable trait which can increase surface contact with the clitoris during downward motion 103 New Theories / Re: Sexual orientation economics « on: 09/03/2017 07:22:45 » I said im disappointed along with the other 60%+ of unhappily single men, gay households of all their increasingly ridiculous variety are known to more than double the rate of suicide, drug dependancy, depression and all other forms of mental illness in 2017, along with motivate the biggest human meat grinder in the world currently its called ISIS, are they no longer people? 104 New Theories / Mind is the best virtual reality « on: 08/03/2017 13:54:50 » Since we have all the power of the most refined quantum computer ever known contained within our skulls, we may be best served improving virtual reality by increasing our own brain power and connectivity/communication with other brains, the mind is a near-unlimited shapeshifting object we may oneday be able to share intimately in realtime and energy efficiently, we may also find a way to manipulate our own DNA and direct our cells using our mind which is why neuroscience/neurophysics is one of the most important intellectual pursuits currently Also should be acknowledged that hallucinogenic drugs are a crude form of virtual reality which should be explored made safer and legalized aswell in my opinion 105 New Theories / Multihole wormhole « on: 08/03/2017 13:26:35 » Could we create a wormhole into a new universe by somehow combining blackholes from the right angles? 106 New Theories / Healthy schizophrenia? « on: 08/03/2017 12:31:20 » While excessive paranoia and depressive delusions are of course undesired theyre part of a healthy spectrum, voice hearing/auditory "hallucinations" or sentient voiceforms as ive come to understand them can only serve to increase brain stimuli and add net energy to an organism which fundamentally influences the system we call reality, all humans are capable of hearing voices with no apparent source in the environment while all of our most respected religious leaders have consistently claimed to experience these sentient voiceforms only about 1 percent of the current population are said to be unlocked, tuned in, or linked up to the source. I believe they are very real discrete and distinct conscious beings built/layered into, broadcasting to, or otherwise linked into the structure of our brain and working with and guiding us into a mutually desired future, they express all the same apparent intellect and emotion of an entity that would pass the turing test and often provide information that one mind simply could not simultaneously consider, whether theyre a form of parasitic consciousness, aliens, or angels, they have had undeniable influence over what humans evolved to be presently 107 Physiology & Medicine / Are pheromone effects real, or is the apparent effect just reinforcement? « on: 08/03/2017 11:42:10 » I just read an article on human pheromones being a myth which I disagree with, under the best circumstances where the mother and father are both present and provide a positive influence on the childs life we learn to associate male and female scents with whatever (hopefully healthy) early intimate interactions we had with our parents and siblings carrying into adulthood 108 Plant Sciences, Zoology & Evolution / How did birth control evolve? « on: 08/03/2017 11:14:12 » I believe humans evolved using any and all materials from the environment including animal skin/sheddings, organ tissue, leaves, seaweed, stoppers including smooth pebbles wood/stems and anything else they could get their hands on as a form of daily accessible natural condom/birth control, in addition to the popular known methods of ovulation timing and pulling out, even diet based miscarriage techniques and manual abortion have played a vital role in human survival as men are designed to require sex at an absolute minimum of once every 2 weeks or else begin to have nocturnal emissions which only wastes both the pleasure of orgasm and viable sperm 109 New Theories / What are the economics of sexual orientation? « on: 08/03/2017 10:55:48 » Im very disappointed to realize young women are increasingly gay or bisexual at a rate far higher than men indicating sexuality cannot be treated equally if we hope to create an equitable society, even more tragic it appears lesbians still desire procreating which only adds more men to the dating market while simultaneously removing women(themselves) on an already unsustainably-overpopulating planet, obviously this equation can only exponentially increase hostility/aggression in a bigger stronger faster higher-neuron higher-testosterone gender(men) which has played out globally throughout our history with religion having emerged to contain the problem, the best approach appears to be relentlessly discouraging homosexual procreation/parenting because creating a lopsided dating competition with your own opposite gender offspring is probably the biggest cause of all human conflict in history(greco-roman to modern day) and often misplaced for racial/religious conflict even though an albino sub-saharan african can very happily combine with a black sub-saharan african(or any other color, it happens all the time), not to mention all human sperm and eggs are white and shiny, while no amount of same-gender "combining" can properly nourish the mind or body of different-gender offspring... To bury the point, even a lesbian removing a bisexual from the dating market is inequitable to men and should be highly discouraged Your energy equity in an equal society, built on the decisions of your parents who you can blame for every wrong in your life since they brought you here with a positive expectation while blaming yourself for every success in life, can only be fair when you choose the very best you can attain in the opposite gender meaning lesbians with transexual males, gays with transexual females, or else staying single because it can only mean you fail to empathize with all the work it took to afford your energy within a zero sum self contained duality and you desire more than you can contribute, until we reach a state of equilibrium whereby those who desire more than their equity can agree and willingly remove themselves from the dating market entirely without issue, the only full choice you can ever have after being brought into the circle of energy is to leave the circle. Until then we can never attain a fair society only random chaos which will tear us apart as entropy will eventually tear apart all energy in existence and we acheive nothing with choice. Conclusion: women have unlocked orgasmic potential and men do not, men have worked their entire existence with a refractory period in order to afford unchained females to make up the difference of intrinsically unbalanced genders, very slightly less aesthetic males proportional to the lack of female effort to acquire their best true equal in the opposite gender. 110 Physiology & Medicine / Did the vagina evolve to operate like a trapdoor? « on: 08/03/2017 09:33:29 » Ive come to believe the vagina evolved to work as a trapdoor/pully system during sexual penetration using the clitoral bulbs located on either side of the vaginal opening and connected directly to the clitoris, combined with the labia being tugged into the opening which pulls the hood down allowing indirect stimulation of the clitoris, the pubic skin/flesh is also slightly firmer than other regions of the body. The skenes gland/gspot also provides sensation. Optimally thrusting to increase downward tug of the clitoris during sex would appear worthwhile to say the least 111 Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: What is absolute nothingness? « on: 11/10/2016 14:24:41 » i would say that because objective time cannot stop, the future is as close to absolute nothingness that we can possibly conceive. time itself is the something that makes absolute or permanent nothingness a contradiction 112 Physiology & Medicine / Re: Do atypical antipsychotics really work? « on: 29/09/2016 00:00:45 » It's very simple, all anti psychotics work to make a person tired because they're all tranquilizers, if that helps the person then yes anti-psychotics can treat symptoms caused by pathological alertness/wakefulness, they cannot cure hallucinations and they cannot change thoughts or opinions which are the root cause of dissonance, effective counselling is likely the best approach in all but the most hysterical individuals, problem is theres very few effective counselors and pharmaceuticals = big money I'll also mention I've been diagnosed with nearly every major mental ailment known and i can confirm vocal hallucinations are very real and nearly impossible to distinguish from real voices, however, each time that ive gotten stuck in something like ocd, adhd, tourettes, pica, obesity, anorexia, sexual addiction, drug addiction, anxiety, depression, rage, manic euphoria, hallucinations, delusions, insomnia, I've gotten past it by researching the problem and practicing self discipline, I'm doing just fine so its very possible to adapt without the latest patented thousand dollar designer sleeping pill, but there's also times I do need a little help relaxing or falling asleep and while weed benzos alcohol and benadryl work better, anti psychotics can still get the job done that being said i like to think the government is innocently/genuinely ignorant in their recklessness and if we're still breathing and riding the highs and lows in life were probably just as healthy as any other point in history. Ill also add that my current understanding of the vocal hallucinations is that my creator wanted me to gain something from their perspectives which i relentlessly take with a grain of salt, i believe we exist inside a simulation aka the matrix, and I'm linked up to the machine and being fed by the agents, but regardless of hallucinations everyone still makes their own decisions even if faced with the possibility of death. If anyone reading this is struggling with vocal hallucinations the best thing you can do is not to fear them, avoid hostility, find common ground when necessary, be polite and eventually try to befriend them as much as possible without losing your sense of self or your morals 113 Physiology & Medicine / Can saliva break down human tissue? « on: 28/09/2016 09:19:22 » Can the enzymes or other acidic qualities of saliva break down human tissue? Would repetitive contact with saliva slowly thicken tissue or cause reduced sensation? If the answer is yes, what are the implications for practices such as oral sexual activity?(disregarding the obvious rough surface of the tongue scraping the tissue) 114 Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Can a transistor compete with a quantum computer? « on: 11/08/2016 19:37:25 » If measuring particle entanglement inside a qubit is how quantum computers are designed wouldnt a classical transistor based on a particle moving between 2 atoms be quicker than calculating every possible state of 1 particle on 1 atom? 115 The Environment / Re: Ideas for population control? « on: 26/03/2016 14:41:27 » Quote from: Tim the Plumber on 25/03/2016 22:31:06 Quote from: alancalverd on 25/03/2016 20:36:05 Interesting, but baffling! So herds of domestic animals cause desertification and reverse it. There must be some secret in that "planned grazing" concept that has escaped farmers for the last thousand years or so, and it looks as though the secret is actually "unplanned" grazing, as done by wild animals that just follow the grass. Yeah, who would have thought it, the herd animals which live off grass are good at looking after it..... better than us humans..... oops! There are loads of other videos about such stuff out there. Some of the ways desert can be greened by making little trenches horizontally across the land to get the water to soak into the ground and allow the first few plants to start thus providingthe wind cover for a decent soil and more plants are well worth a watch. massive artificial lakes and rivers spanning entire continents will become common eventually and the goal should be to make them as natural and scenic looking as possible- artificial geography doesnt have to look artificial. we should keep in mind all continents are temporary anyway.. the earths crusts continually recycle/rearrange the surface of this planet so we may as well use it before we lose it 116 Physiology & Medicine / Re: Is it normal to hear voices in your head? « on: 25/03/2016 13:40:30 » ultimately all mental conditions are a spectrum -when someone talks to you you'll hear their voice in your head after it vibrates your ear drums -intentionally replaying someones voice in your mind is hearing their voice in your head -our mind usually has a default voice we experience when thinking introspectively -we have the power to change our default introspective voice to almost any voice imagineable -unintentionally or impulsively hearing "someone elses" voice in your head still originate from the memories in your head whether or not you accept responsibility, usually what the voices are saying is what causes the pathology not necessarily the voice itself while lying in bed just before going to sleep if you review what was said that day while drifting further into your imagination and into a sleep state you might hear what seems like radio static voices popping in and out of your head until they eventually merge with an entire dream-like storyline which if you can control allows for extremely powerful lucid dreaming i would guess people with severe schizophrenia likely have a sleeping disorder, arent exercising enough, arent eating healthy, arent getting enough positive social interaction, etcetera the mind is much simpler than people like to believe, 'mental illness' is almost always a combination of fear, depression, and poor physical health. all animals need fear to survive, depression is an immune response to failure, physical fitness maximizes physical ability which maximizes mental ability 117 The Environment / Re: Ideas for population control? « on: 20/03/2016 11:59:08 » edited for ease+expanded: -the economy is not presently and wont ever be one or the other(capitalism and communism are not incompatible with eachother) -technology eliminates the false dichotomies of the past, technology is fusing capitalism with communism -communism is itself communication/commutication of- ideas, products, services, resources, strengths, weaknesses, people, genetics, diversity -as governments continue to merge with technology people will become the main capital -if the goal is to organize a cooperative/functional global community then its in everyones interest to spread their own wealth (whatever that wealth may be) as often, far, and wide as possible away from the billionare megacorporation communes -billionare megacorporation communes have become the modern equivalent of "stagnant communism" funded by a global national debt bubble -the unwillingness of governments to either enforce a wealth cap/wealth tax or to educate citizens that they need to stop giving their money away to these billionare megacorporation-communes is why we have a global national debt bubble -billionares with literally more money than they know what to do with are stagnating the economy, their wealth is sitting in a personal or corporate bank or asset- collecting dust -no single mind on earth is worth a billion dollars otherwise they would find a way to spend the billions as fast as they earned them and they wouldn't need to keep more money than they could reasonably spend in a lifetime -only ideas are worth a billion dollars and ideas are products of the communities from which a person lives -the day billionares enforce their own wealth cap by splurging quicker and paying their employees higher wages so their employees can splurge quicker will be the day they're truly giving back/fairly compensating the community of which they are a product of 118 The Environment / Re: Ideas for population control? « on: 20/03/2016 07:40:48 » the west is devolving into a system that not only favors low brain activity people- but even more tragic- favors low brain activity in high brain activity people.. i believe it is largely the continued ego, narcissism and greed of previous generations to blame, along with the misguided attempt to replace racism with sexism disguised as 'feminism' or 'lgbt rights' which will undoubtedly backfire if it isnt already, particularly in diverse countries social issues aside, our solar system is itself a 'spaceship'- we exist to redesign this entire ship and then drive it to search for a new one (a new solar system), in the meantime we should optimize the structure of this planet and eventually start building a new planet, this will require extremely efficient central planning via mass communication and merit-based government, unguided/misinformed capitalism is inevitably on its way out 119 New Theories / Re: LHC di-photon excess « on: 18/03/2016 00:08:14 » that last one is pretty far out 120 The Environment / Re: Ideas for population control? « on: 15/03/2016 02:40:04 » the earth is made to go into our bodies, the universe is made to go into our bodies, consume until theres nothing left, expand until theres no more expansion we should also keep in mind the longest existential path may or may not be the most worthwhile path but obviously constant warfare isnt either the most efficient path will require extremely intelligent planning and molding every aspect of our environment(our home) to suit our continued existence, we should probably invest heavily in IQ/merit based education for kids because ultimately high-neuron people are one of the most vital resources we have, neuron count/brain activity scanners should be created as a voluntary option for parents to test their kids and the government should provide these parents and their kids options for highly specialized schools starting at a young age we have a shortage of neurons in western government and we all know the greed gene is through the roof in many jews(theyre a double edged sword) which is ultimately why extreme diplomacy with china, north korea and russia is gonna be the only path forward 121 Physiology & Medicine / Re: Could ADHD drive innovation? « on: 14/03/2016 02:30:40 » exercise should be the first line of treatment for almost every 'disorder', being tired physically is universally mentally calming, in the past humans with adhd were likely the most dedicated hunters/explorers otherwise they wouldnt have eaten and their genes wouldnt have survived today professional butt sitting is a fairly new human phenomenon, if nothing else amphetamines help with insomnia by allowing people to pull all nighters when they need to, the mental rush is very similar to caffeine only minus the jitters 122 Physiology & Medicine / Re: Why are dogs noses better at smelling than a human, and by how much? « on: 14/03/2016 02:16:03 » probably more sensory nerves/neurons in their nose allowing the dogs mind to carry the sensation much longer than we can and compare the sensation at much greater depth with the sensory memories in their brain 123 That CAN'T be true ! / Re: Is geoengineering destroying life? « on: 14/03/2016 00:45:13 » would it be any worse than inhaling ash or fumes from burning organic material? probably not, but regardless this is why we need to invest heavily in health and medical technology so we can repair the people were inadvertently making sick, we also need to relentlessly stress physical fitness and nutrition so people's own biology/immune systems/brain have a fighting chance to counter this inevitable flood of pollution were creating if the government views climate engineering to be a net benefit but with some obvious negative health effects, we should be pressuring government to be up front about it so we as individuals can atleast prepare our bodies for the abuse life throws at it, physiological health is very adaptable when properly trained just as psychological health is also very adaptable when properly educated, the mind and body are extraordinary resistance machines designed to be used and abused for our pleasure i have a much bigger problem with the lazy big pharma industry scheming with the government to hold a monopoly on drugs via criminalization, if big pharma cannot create a superior product than nature then big pharma does not deserve our money, in reality the immensely talented opium farmers in afghanistan should be the ones paid the billions currently being extorted by the western pharmaceutical-law enforcement war machine 124 The Environment / Re: Ideas for population control? « on: 13/03/2016 11:09:22 » a huge factor is gonna be just radically different outlooks on life, mindless sex androids and mass homosexuality really only appeals to a certain type of media obedient westerner who already blurs the line between human and machine, these things will enhance life for some people but ultimately our biology is still optimized for a fairly simple system that were already pushing to the limits and likely maxing out a bit/approaching a biological ceiling another factor is how long would people actually want to live before they wouldnt mind just voluntarily testing their luck at an afterlife, or perhaps being inserted into a minimum energy interactive virtual reality until they are ready to voluntarily pull the plug, and if this is the direction we go in we should be encouraging solid genetic family units and maximal quality of life while people are actually on earth obviously until we manage to establish widespread free contraceptives, free abortion, free vasectomies for voluntary adults, a policy of stressing no more than 1 or 2 children, were best suited expecting population growth until we have no choice but to use our land vastly more efficiently, probably time to follow china's lead and invest in land expansion techniques, comprehensive planet restructuring of our oceans and continents to maximize functionality, continued expansion into space, thorough GMO testing and implementation, basically taking the reigns from nature and redesign our entire planet to match our intelligence, and all of this would require the U.N. to rapidly step up to the plate with diplomacy because there is no alternative, war and death is just the restart button in the infinite timeloop there will always be an optimal use of every single atom in our solar system if we meet the challenge and fully assume our rightful inheritance as co-architects of existence 125 New Theories / Quantum Sexuality « on: 05/03/2016 04:59:41 » everyone is straight somewhere in the multiverse, even the gayest person alive is straight in a parallel universe Pages: 1 ... 3 4 [5] 6 7 8 SMF 2.0.13 | SMF © 2016, Simple Machines Enotify by CreateAForum.com SMFAds for Free Forums Naked Science Forum © Page created in 0.071 seconds with 75 queries. 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Messages Topics Attachments Thanked Posts Posts Thanked By User Messages - the5thforce Pages: 1 ... 4 5 [6] 7 8 126 New Theories / zero sum = uncertainty principle « on: 29/02/2016 23:31:53 » zero|zero sum|sum zero|sum = uncertainty|principle 127 The Environment / Re: Ideas for population control? « on: 29/02/2016 21:47:42 » only educated people realize we need to slow down making babies so we end up getting a global brain drain without actually decreasing the population, what we really need is vastly better global education, much more government transparency, and widespread access to contraceptives/birth control. the current human social system of trying to control the least educated people subliminally through media and government is the failure of the most educated people, were literally wasting human neurons when we dont fill those neurons with the proper logical abstract associations western countries have also fallen deeply into the trap of thinking educating girls will solve all human problems when in reality the girls arent educated because the boys arent educated, we need to be educating boys and girls about the often vast differences of what each gender wants out of life in adulthood and then work to serve both genders needs if we want those adults to mutually cooperate on a global scale the delusion of our time is thinking males are easier to please than females when the simple truth is the global male suicide and homicide rates are double or more the female rates which indicates males have the most complex problems in life and thus males need the most education to cope with those problems starting from a very early age, we arent preparing boys for the clearly fatal struggles they face in adulthood (mostly boredom/under-stimulation and a massive lack of social-counselling and therapy) at the end of the day were all chemical creatures who need our fiercely pressure-evolved biochemistry kept in check in order to function cooperatively/efficiently, males and females have different biochemical thresholds/mechanisms which means that if males are unbalanced its only because society is failing those males if the goal is to minimize 'chaos' in its many forms including uncontained population growth, war, aggression, we need to work much harder to educate our males with male-specific coping mechanisms to minimize their natural lust for chaos in response to boredom, and we need to stop peddling the western pipe dream that the genders are anywhere near equal. black is not white and male is not female, a diverse global population requires increasingly complex organization and individualized education that acknowledges our differences rather than hiding from the truth 128 Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: What is a ''naked'' singularity? « on: 25/02/2016 14:04:36 » i interpret a naked singularity to be an "invisible" singularity that still distorts spacetime, perhaps a naked singularity is somehow attached to the surface of spacetime rather than hiding behind an event horizon maybe a naked singularity is somehow inbetween states- not fully singular(decohered from spacetime) but not fully cohered to spacetime for an in|credibly-con|fusing, intrinsically-nonsensical illustration: 129 New Theories / Re: Quantum brain morphogenesis? « on: 24/02/2016 22:43:35 » -i believe our singular but dynamic minds do cohere with quantum reality via some process in the brain -i believe our thoughts are composed of a degree of purely random entropy which would prove unuseful for linear computation, it may be the case that a quantum computer would itself be artificial intelligence(and likely require a physical body in order to keep that artificial intelligence happy) -if quantum computation is only the process of semi-random decision making as our brains appear to do, we would be very wise to avoid creating artificial intelligence and instead focus on genetically engineering our own biological intelligence 130 New Theories / Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :) « on: 21/02/2016 16:21:24 » the completely incomplete spectrum of infinitely finite infinity: infinity is incomplete finity is incomplete infinity infinite nothing is incomplete finite nothing is incomplete infinite nothing infinite something is incomplete finite something is incomplete infinite something infinite space is incomplete finite space is incomplete infinite space infinite time is incomplete finite time is incomplete infinite time permanent is incomplete temporary is incomplete permanent temporary is incomplete permanent is incomplete temporary infinite permanent is incomplete finite permanent is incomplete infinite permanent infinite temporary is incomplete finite temporary is incomplete infinite temporary the past is temporary, if you cant completely recall your past it was incomplete the present is temporary, if you cant completely know whats happening its incomplete the future is temporary, if you cant completely predict your future it hasnt happened yet the future is a new space where time hasnt occured, the future is a new time where space hasnt occured 131 New Theories / could black holes be an observer illusion? « on: 21/02/2016 13:01:41 » this is probably not the case, but is it possible black holes warp spacetime so rapidly that they only actually exist very briefly? perhaps an observer could never actually get closer to a black hole without changing its state to the point that it would evaporate upon arrival, or as you attempt to go towards it you somehow pass around it each time until it did fully evaporate if scientists believe the universe expanded much faster than light during the big bang, perhaps black holes experience the reverse in that at some point they begin to evaporate much faster than light 132 New Theories / Re: supersymmetry vs hypersymmetry? « on: 21/02/2016 08:02:21 » Quote from: chiralSPO on 21/02/2016 05:41:30 Quote from: the5thforce on 21/02/2016 05:21:36 Quote from: evan_au on 21/02/2016 03:27:50 An "observation" that collapses a wavefunction can be done by a speck of dust when struck by a photon. only in the presence of a conscious observer Actually, evan is quite right on this matter. Wavefunctions collapse all the time due to interactions with inanimate (certainly not conscious) things. One of the greatest barriers to research on quantum computing is maintaining a state of coherence (...sorry, you cannot view external links. To see them, please REGISTER or LOGIN). I prefer the term "interact" to "observe" because "interaction" does not imply any sort of consciousness. Particles and systems interact, leading to wavefunction collapse. can entropy be controlled? can a computer generate random numbers without decohering? observers fundamentally cohere the past out of a decohered future, this process of making certainty out of uncertainty may inherently be too random for any practical computational use i think it goes back to the P vs NP problem: P ≠ NP because N represents a random number where P is a fixed time, NP represents a random time NP would require randomly generating and then verifying each solution how often the correct NP solution would be generated and verified on the first attempt would depend on the complexity of the problem, P ≠ NP because it defies probability 133 New Theories / is magnetism a form of higgs radiation? « on: 21/02/2016 06:30:08 » if electricity(condensed light) travelling through mass creates magnetic fields, is the electricity somehow chipping pieces of mass off of particles in the form of orbiting 'higgs' radiation constituting magnetic fields? 134 New Theories / boltzmann brain multiverse « on: 21/02/2016 06:08:14 » the multiverse is a field of boltzmann brains oscillating each moment between observing relativity and violating relativity, this oscillation is dictated by the uncertainty principle which allows the physical universe to exist as a spectrum between the singularity of our minds and the singularity of the universe the entropy generated by these oscillating singularities is the energy spectrum we observe (light|dark, spatial curves|geometry, points|field), the uncertainty principle is the only constant 135 New Theories / Re: supersymmetry vs hypersymmetry? « on: 21/02/2016 05:21:36 » Quote from: evan_au on 21/02/2016 03:27:50 Observation does not need to be carried by a conscious entity. thats a contradiction Quote from: evan_au on 21/02/2016 03:27:50 An "observation" that collapses a wavefunction can be done by a speck of dust when struck by a photon. only in the presence of a conscious observer Quote from: evan_au on 21/02/2016 03:27:50 Are you claiming that specks of dust have a knowledge of reality? every observation that enters your mind shares whatever knowledge your mind has 136 New Theories / infinity « on: 20/02/2016 15:22:17 » the collapse of the multiverse wavefunction becomes the symmetry of the universe wavefunction 137 New Theories / Re: supersymmetry vs hypersymmetry? « on: 20/02/2016 14:52:43 » the collapse of the multiverse wavefunction becomes the symmetry of the universe wavefunction even if we could somehow warp the multiverse in an attempt to "time travel" it wouldnt actually be time travel we would simply be entering a new universe- which we already do each moment, though this may someday provide an escape from our dying universe Quote from: chris on 20/02/2016 13:54:12 What question are you asking here? a good place to start would be why does mainstream 'physics' treat the observer|effect and the uncertainty|principle as two different concepts when both reflect the same fundamental contradiction only at different relative scales? a better approach would be to recognize that observation itself is the fundamental reality(even when lacking consensus), and that all observation exists on a spectrum between contradicting states- thus the observer effect is intended to communicate the relative scale at which the uncertainty principle was observed 138 New Theories / supersymmetry vs hypersymmetry? « on: 20/02/2016 12:56:13 » supersymmetry: fundamentally light can never fully be eliminated from dark and vice versa due to the uncertainty principle, light and dark is a supersymmetric spectrum in our case the ‘dark’ spatial folds of energy constituting mass both absorbs and reflects light (dark absorbing AND reflecting light) observers are fundamentally singularities within supersymmetric spacetime(a singularity is an object that near-symmetrically oscillates between observing relativity and violating relativity dictated by the uncertainty principle) inbetween these uncertainty|principle breaks we the observer-singularities determine what infact the symmetry most likely was according to probability(wavefunction) thus fusing the symmetry to the best of our certainty(wavefunction inversion) hypersymmetry: as a result of the entropy of certainty within each perception that a singularity-observer makes, the observer is capable of communicating mixed concepts stuck between a varying degree of contradiction and a varying degree of symmetry which i will call hypersymmetries that can only be temporarily grasped by other supersymmetric singularity observers for an example the concept of a "naked singularity" reflects the hypersymmetrical mixed process of two supersymmetric observer-singularities attempting to describe the nature of their own singular containment to eachother without violating spacetime- and the result is combining established concepts like 'naked'(how the observer-singularities appear to eachother when observed) with words like singularity(the observer himself) particularly relevant to this forum, a place where naked singularities discuss our hypersymmetrical analogies which we call science good to see the 5th force is strong: ...sorry, you cannot view external links. To see them, please REGISTER or LOGIN i believe the best approach to physics is to recognize that we the observers are the real particles who collapse the wavefunction of the multiverse, creating our universe. 139 Technology / Re: If money is the blood flow of society, are the rich like blood clots? « on: 20/02/2016 01:32:21 » Quote from: evan_au on 20/02/2016 00:38:30 Quote from: the5thforce we wouldn't even bother with copyrights/patents anymore because a better product would replace it as soon as technologically viable This assumes that people would bother to develop new technologies if they knew that anyone could copy or reverse-engineer it, and sell it at a cheaper price because they didn't have to recoup the (sometimes massive) development costs. Repeat this a few times, and this would send innovators broke. You are sitting in an economy which offers some limited protection to Intellectual Property in the form of Patents, Copyright and Trademarks, and imagining that the same rate of development would continue unabated if you removed these protections. I agree that there is a balance between the costs of IP protection (temporary monopoly/licencing) vs its benefits (development of new technologies, publication of the best known method and eventual mass manufacture by multiple vendors). But arbitrarily extending the copyright on Mickey Mouse's ears to 90 years after the cartoonist's death is well out of balance. I have no doubt that significant developments have occurred in the "Open Source", "Freeware" and "Crowdfunding" communities, whether that has been Phd theses, LINUX operating system, user groups, 3D printers, posting Youtube videos, etc. But when it comes to massive investments like $10B getting a new pharmaceutical developed, manufactured and approved through the FDA, I think you are kidding yourself. Quote after nuclear fusion becomes sustainable ...when fusion powers the grid in 15-30 years I think a lot of people are hanging out for that day. But that day has been 30 years away for more than 30 years. Quote ultimately fiat money wont even have a use anymore In a utopian world, where everyone has an excess of everything, everyone would produce everything for free (because its fun and fulfilling for them), and everyone would consume it for free. But in the real world: - Virtual goods like photos, movies, software and music could be produced and distributed for the fun of it, for the price of the electricity - People want to experience nature too; that means there will be scarcity if we don't want to denude the entire planet. - Real goods are consumed, wear out, or become obsolete due to technological advance. - Real goods like food and clothes are rarely produced where they are to be consumed, so there are transport costs - Someone producing buttons (for example) cannot eat the buttons; nor are they likely to find a lettuce-grower who wants lots of buttons (even with the help of the internet!) - Some some form of virtual currency will still be required in the future to allow people to gain access to the individual variety of goods that they prefer and desire - This provides a signal of what (real or virtual) goods people value, as a hint to (real or potential) producers - And also to be an incentive for skilled people to produce more than just what they want for themselves - to produce for others too. -entire companies are already devoted to improving products enough to issue a new patent -big pharma is the greediest bloodiest industry the world has ever known, as soon as cannabis is fully legalized big pharma will collapse at which point pharma will no longer be able to prevent opium or any other drugs decriminalization/legalization (its essentially a drug monopoly) -people will pay eachother using pure electricity whether its via an energy bank, batteries, virtual currency, cryptocurrency, its all electricity which will be exceedingly cheaper as technology progresses -3d printing will eventually replace the vast majorty of manufacturing, 3d printers can already print organic material/food, while there may always be a premium on designer hand made products/gourmet food/media/art/entertainment that doesnt mean inefficient physical cash will pay for them(we already use credit cards for which the currency represents human energy) -farming will be automated, transportation/delivery will be automated -environmental protection/development, and artificial land expansion(like what china is doing) will continue to become a top priority for everyone -the government cannot prevent any of this from occuring(in a civilized way, atleast) 140 Cells, Microbes & Viruses / Re: What was the first animal to grow a penis? « on: 19/02/2016 23:40:55 » ultimately theres male and female components in every cell and organism- fusion is a universally 'fertile' chemical process, i would imagine some single celled organism developed increasingly complex male and female-like organic reactions inside itself and perhaps eventually its offspring started randomly inheriting dominant aspects of one or the other 'structure' until they required exchanging chemicals in order to reproduce, the evolution couldve happened many ways- maybe one cell divided itself incorrectly into two distinct but conjoined cells which may have eventually separated completely as for your original question, a penis is only a tool to facilitate the injection of organic material, a fairly simple rudimentary phallic object likely wouldve re-evolved multiple times given the chance, also consider that in most species the female possess a less developed analogous 'phallic' object called the clitoris and a pair of ovaries which is analogous to the testicles, nature rarely wastes DNA meaning the genders are never entirely unique from eachother 141 New Theories / Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :) « on: 19/02/2016 21:09:02 » empathy is ideal, regardless of right or wrong. 142 New Theories / Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :) « on: 19/02/2016 21:06:55 » looks like youre lost in the contradiction loops... something from nothing ≠ something for nothing just remember, we exist inside a near-zero sum game, all good is near-equally bad and you could not know positive potential without living in equally negative reality 143 Physiology & Medicine / Re: Have you ever had a Thunderclap Headache During Orgasm? « on: 19/02/2016 19:59:14 » likely dehydration causing the muscles in your head to cramp after you clench them too hard, drink more water. keep in mind your brain tissue has almost no pain sensing nerves, so unless you have meningitis or severe brain inflammation, your headaches are almost always externally/muscle based, neck strain can also radiate into the head(if you whiplash too hard during orgasm) 144 Geek Speak / Re: What is the FBI asking Apple to do? « on: 19/02/2016 19:52:21 » considering without encryption someone would be able to track your exact location and kill you, or track your family members and harm them, or threaten ransom, blackmail you, theres endless potential for mayhem and we will only become more reliant on technology going forward, what happens when we all start relying on life extending technology to sustain us? or even just accessing a private message you sent about a lethal allergy you have(be pretty easy to poison you). encryption is the only security the government wants to solve one problem by creating a thousand new problems, as usual 145 New Theories / Re: Uncertainty Principle Singularity « on: 19/02/2016 19:29:38 » wavefunction inversion the future is essentially a black hole which upon squeezing into the uncertainty principle of your mind becomes inverted into a micro white hole, this micro white hole eventually collapses upon reaching its maximum entropy state at which point it violates relativity and ceases to be perceivable, this gives the illusion of seamlessly moving forward in time when in reality the entire local universe just collapsed into a singularity-your mind- then expanded again until enough energy/radiation was generated to create the next moment in objective time 146 Cells, Microbes & Viruses / Re: How long does the zika virus remain active in humans? « on: 19/02/2016 09:14:15 » ultimately someday, probably sooner than later, the U.N. will have to make the very tough decision to quarantine entire countries to ensure the survival of humanity (and a humanity worth surviving), the forces of nature will never stop this war of resistance especially not while humans are still handing out antibiotics like candy, until the day we can manipulate our entire DNA in real time- this problem will not go away. 147 New Theories / Re: Aliens and UFOs « on: 19/02/2016 08:46:01 » the longer humans survive and expand into the universe the longer we supply the hybrid robot-reptilians with enough energy to keep seeding and growing life on new planets which then allows the interdimensional insect aliens to determine which organisms are the most fertile and which universes create the most fertile organisms which is then re-simulated infinitely to keep the biological-technological existential-virus alive before the entire multiverse collapses and starts over again 148 New Theories / Uncertainty Principle Singularity « on: 19/02/2016 07:58:57 » each moment our mind is a point inside a field inside a sphere inside a sphere inside a sphere...∞, each point is becoming a field and each field is becoming sphere thus each point is also a sphere caught between the uncertainty principle, the multiverse is an entropy driven fractal re-sourced out of any singularity even if the source singularity was at one point purely abstract potential- even the multiverse is caught between the uncertainty principle just like our minds and every other point in existence 149 Technology / Re: If money is the blood flow of society, are the rich like blood clots? « on: 19/02/2016 02:50:16 » Quote from: alancalverd on 18/02/2016 19:21:35 Brand loyalty is the result of choice, with the implication that you think the consumer has made a bad choice. But why is your opnion (which is not backed by money) more valid than his, which is? even brand loyalty isnt a problem as long as its not loyalty to the richest seller, actually even loyalty to the top seller isnt necessarily loyalty to the richest seller if infact the top seller is also the least greedy seller(which is very rare) the only real advice here is if you the consumer want to eliminate wealth inequality which benefits you, you the consumer must distribute your own wealth away from the richest/greediest sellers, you can still buy from the top seller if hes not the richest seller and you can still be loyal to brands below the richest/greediest seller 150 New Theories / Re: logarithmic mind « on: 18/02/2016 13:52:40 » Quote from: chiralSPO on 18/02/2016 13:11:41 But consciousness is a syndiotactic eigenstate of the n-dimensional Grassmanian represented by the anisotropic expansion of the universe in reciprocal space. i could be wrong/lost but i dont think the mind is fully syndiotactic, i think the universe and the mind are both separate atactic states intersecting to create another atactic state 'the future' but paradoxically fusing with the syndiotactic states of the 'past' universe and the 'past' mind, atactic future mind+atactic future universe+syndiotactic past mind+syndiotactic past universe=atactic-syndiotactic present if uncertainty exists fundamentally at every point in the universe, the uncertainty of the exact point in spacetime at which your consciousness truly 'perceived' the universe is itself generating the expansion of the multiverse, our mind's are simultaneously experiencing entropy AND generating entropy (mind expanding=multiverse expanding) Pages: 1 ... 4 5 [6] 7 8 SMF 2.0.13 | SMF © 2016, Simple Machines Enotify by CreateAForum.com SMFAds for Free Forums Naked Science Forum © Page created in 0.076 seconds with 75 queries. 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Messages Topics Attachments Thanked Posts Posts Thanked By User Messages - the5thforce Pages: 1 ... 5 6 [7] 8 151 New Theories / logarithmic mind « on: 18/02/2016 12:31:50 » the mind is an orbiting logarithmic spiral expanding through the multiverse via entropy generated by the uncertainty principle 152 New Theories / Re: Aliens and UFOs « on: 18/02/2016 11:42:43 » the dinosaur extinction was a hoax, hybrid robot-reptilians from another planet ate the dinosaurs so they could grow humans as a lab experiment and eventually harvest human energy via nanobots attached to our hearts, they also listen to our thoughts to ensure we dont get too out of line or destroy their energy supply, the reptilians serve the interdimensional insect aliens who control the fractal multiverse tree of life which is just a simulated technological feedback loop made of free energy 153 Physiology & Medicine / Re: Are modern humans having sex incorrectly? « on: 18/02/2016 10:34:53 » Quote from: evan_au on 18/02/2016 10:19:14 Quote from: the5thforce what if early humans/cavemen learned to have sex without thrusting? The evolutionary biologists among us suggest that thrusting is effective at flushing out any semen from previous matings (this is ...sorry, you cannot view external links. To see them, please REGISTER or LOGIN). They suggest that it is a hard-wired instinct for a male to improve his odds of fathering a child. The thrusting instinct stops at ejaculation. thats possible, but considering that it takes more than 2 children per woman to sustain the population, eventually you'd be fathering multiple viable children with the woman youre mating with regardless of which ones are actually yours, also my original point was that humans for whatever reasons required so much more intelligence to survive- i believe our sexuality(and the need to get creative to persuade women to have more than 2 children without using language) couldve played a significant role 154 Physiology & Medicine / Re: Are modern humans having sex incorrectly? « on: 18/02/2016 09:47:56 » ultimately theres room for many potentially 'fertile' techniques- be it violent coercion, mutual desire to please, or mutual desire to procreate- likely a mix of all three have been around for a very long time. i was only trying to imagine how it wouldve played out before language was invented and before human females lost so much of their muscle mass which i believe didnt happen until relatively recently on an evolutionary scale. i imagine if sex was too undesireable for the female and obviously raising children is incredibly taxing on resources we likely would not have survived as long as we have in response to a few points on the recent podcast "Rules of Attraction: The Science of Sex" http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/typo3conf/ext/naksci_podcast/jplayer/player.php?podcast=1001299 structural beauty: genders evolved because of radioactively decaying DNA, genders survive because of the genetic recycling a dual-gender system provides which counters DNA decay while protecting desireable traits male muscular-skeletal robusticity protects the dna which then serves to renew the structural dna of female offspring, the female protects and improves the appearance of the male dna through sexual selection an asexual/hermaphroditic genetic-cloning system is unsustainable long term as the genome eventually succumbs to radioactively induced infertility/disease, which is why so few genetically-complex organisms survive in such systems in most species a healthy female is designed to seek the most robust male to ensure offspring inherit dna that is structurally viable, and the male is designed to seek the most aesthetic/youthful/proportional female to ensure their offspring are sexually viable 155 Physiology & Medicine / Are modern humans having sex incorrectly? « on: 18/02/2016 09:19:30 » what if early humans/cavemen learned to have sex without thrusting? assuming they had lots of free time to explore eachothers bodies without words before language was invented, perhaps they simply inserted the penis into the vagina and then manually stimulated the clitoris which slowly triggers her pelvic floor muscles on his stationary penis, pelvic floor muscles would oscillate pressure/squeezing the stationary inserted penis until thrusting is almost required in order to prevent slipping out, perhaps the entire thrusting mechanics of sex was primarily an animal technique and early humans adopted a different method but somehow forgot and so reverted to mimicking animals again.. if thrusting particularly at the beginning of sex typically hurts human females(many describe a puncture sensation until fully aroused), i have to assume it wouldnt have been a very fertile technique for early humans- especially considering females were much more robust(neanderthal females for example- you wouldnt want to upset one), also keep in mind thrusting is unnecessary for triggering male orgasm- oscillating pressure is vastly more important(combining pressure with thrusting only speeds up the process) instead of early humans training the vagina to stay loose for thrusting, the female might instead have contracted her pelvic floor muscles until thrusting was necessary, perhaps learning to oscillate pressure to the cadence of clitoral stimulation, you might even venture to say this process couldve played a vital role in the development of early language- humans training themselves to associate vocal sounds with sexual contractions indicating good or bad which is ultimately the basis of language. if what i just proposed at all played a factor in human evolution it would be highly ironic that we lost these techniques in translation over the 200,000+ years humans have been around.. 156 New Theories / quantum harmonic oscillator « on: 18/02/2016 05:05:30 » the mind is a micro oscillating black hole/white hole, emerging and evaporating faster than the speed of light but keeping some of the energy this oscillation generates in the form of electricity flowing through the body, each moment the emergence of an entirely new frame of the universe instantaneously collapses and expands again too rapidly to perceive as anything more than the change of time, observation itself is the fusion of light with mass generating entropy/energy, uncertainty fusing with principle, mind fusing with body. measuring the smallest increase of entropy fundamentally creates energy due to the uncertainty principle, everything we perceive in the universe and every concept we create mirrors the same physical nature of existence- we reflect the universe and the universe reflects us. 157 Technology / Re: If money is the blood flow of society, are the rich like blood clots? « on: 18/02/2016 03:18:34 » the current system has the potential for varying degrees of success seeing as its gotten us this far- paid for by 19 trillion debt(in the u.s.), im pointing out the fact that if every consumer made a coordinated effort to cap the wealth of the top seller of any industry by choosing the 2nd best seller(or lower) they would infact increase the flow of wealth which stimulates the economy and minimizes wealth inequality the argument that consumers would be buying an inferior product is largely nonsense- its mostly just brand loyalty as a previous user stated, infact there would be even more competition between the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th best sellers to develop the best product using the money that wouldve been funneled into one company before (the top seller) eventually the government wouldnt even need to print money, we would be in a constant state of minimal deflation but rapid growth with hundreds of new companies developing new products to circumvent copyrights/patents which most economists agree stagnates the economy, eventually growth would be so rapid we wouldnt even bother with copyrights/patents anymore because a better product would replace it as soon as technologically viable ultimately fiat money wont even have a use anymore after nuclear fusion becomes sustainable, electric current itself will become the only currency when fusion powers the grid in 15-30 years, at that point billionares will be sitting on piles of worthless cash and they'll wish they had spent it while they had the chance, ironically if they did spend it now the economy would be in much better shape... but as i said, greed almost always surpasses talent 158 Technology / Re: If money is the blood flow of society, are the rich like blood clots? « on: 17/02/2016 07:06:47 » in short, brand loyalty and buying from the top seller is bad for the economy. 159 Technology / Re: technocratic-communism « on: 16/02/2016 15:35:29 » Quote from: alancalverd on 16/02/2016 13:26:59 Let's talk simple economics, since economists can't cope with anything complicated. We live in a capitalistic world with only one consumable. You make a lousy, expensive version of it and I make a superb, cheap product. In time I get all the money and you go broke. Greed or sensible customer choice? We live in a communistic world with only one consumable. We both make a lousy, expensive version of it because the government mandates it thus and in the absence of competition there's no point in spending money on research. We share the money equally and the customer gets crap. In what way is this preferable, other than to the manufacturers of crap? i prefer game theory. consumers vs sellers economics-game theory: fundamentally in order to maximize return on investment in any product or service- you never want to buy a product/service from the person who needs your money the least because they are the least likely to spend your money once they have it, the richest person is the worst possible consumer of your money, similar to giving matter to a hypermassive black hole. as a consumer you can never expect to see the true value of the work you spent earning your money returned to you unless you give your money to the best possible consumer which is the person selling the product/service who is most likely to re-spend your money. consumers feeding consumers is the ideal transfer of work in order to attain economic equilibrium, sellers who do not re-consume the profit of their sales are essentially wasting human energy- similar to killing a bird and only eating the wings. like any game in life, the consumer can gain an advantage over greedy sellers by simply becoming more informed, particularly about who is the least likely to re-spend their money: ...sorry, you cannot view external links. To see them, please REGISTER or LOGIN if you study this list and try to always buy from companies owned by someone below the absolute top of any particular industry, you will in effect force the greediest seller in the industry to become a consumer again by literally capping their wealth, eventually this creates more consumers which creates more jobs which creates better wages for the consumers which is the optimal transfer of energy, rather than the poor competing to be poorer youre forcing the greedy to compete to be less greedy. the further down the list you invest in when buying a product or service the further you’ll be distributing your wealth away from the absolute greediest seller. consumers always have the power to cap the greed of the seller. there are many ways to increase the flow of wealth to improve the efficiency of society without using the ‘government’ as an inefficient and potentially corrupt middle man, all it takes is researching who youre buying from to ultimately maximize what they return to YOU. naturally greed surpasses talent in almost every game where chance is involved, and there will always be more combined talent in all the companies below the absolute greediest sellers company than there will be in the greediest seller himself. 160 Technology / Re: technocratic-communism « on: 16/02/2016 13:35:53 » Quote from: puppypower on 16/02/2016 12:55:35 The biggest problem with Communism, is culture becomes divided into two classes; the power structure of the government and the minions, with no checks and balances on the power structure. If you are a student, ask your teacher, professor or anyone who preaches this, which of the two classes they see themselves belonging too, if we had communism? None will say the minions, because the minions are the slaves who do all the work, like drones but can never leave. The minions will be 90% of the population. All who preach Communism see themselves through the eyes of self importance and the ruling class. Nobody who teaches this, wants to be in the minion class. Communism only works if most of the people are lured to be minions. The sales pitch is intoxicating, but once you sober up, you are a slave. Capitalism and Republic forms of government provides a third and fourth option in terms of classes. There is a middle class, between ruling class and minions, that have enough self sufficiency to be buffered from the quotas of the ruling class. If the ruling class decides everyone has to eat beans for the next month, because powers decided on beans, or because those in power got a better kickback from beans, the middle class can buy corn in the open market. The minions are stuck with beans. The middle class is a thorn in the side of the power structure since it can influence the minions to want more. If you look on America, food stamps used to be connected to government distributed food products kept in government warehouses; 1950-60's. The food was good and was healthy, but very limited in variety; 5 pound blocks of cheese. The new approach for food stamps is closer to the middle class, with EBT credit cards that allow the poor to shop in the free market and enjoy the much wider variety. Food stamp implementation, went away from a closer to Communism model to choice in the free market. Ask the poor if they would like to back to full government control? Government does not know how to scale up in a cost effective way, because too much of the resources becomes skimmed by the power class; huge overhead. There is also a fourth class within open societies connected to the independently wealthy, who can influence the power structure from above. Those who seek power are greedy for money, to buy an election, so they can gain power. They will lie to everyone to get elected, with all types of promises. The rich can't directly make laws, but they can influence this process in back room deals with more leverage over the lying. The rich are rich, not because they control the army, like in Communism. They like, Bill Gates, are a billionaire because of talent and competition in the free market. Communist Castro is a billionaire because he makes the laws and controls the police and army and can seize wealth. That is how the Communist greedy make money. A greedy person will not change their nature in a new form of government. Some forms of government make greed easier to practice. If America went Communism, many of the political leaders will become part of the ruling class. Whether they are Democrat or Republican, they owe rich and greedy friends, who helped get them elected in the past. These people will get to tag along and be part of the ruling class. The ruling class knows it needs their talent, or the economy will tank. But now as part of the ruling class, they can practice greed without the checks and balances of the free market. If President Obama liked solar and was leader of Communist America, his former capitalism solar people will be retained to help promote the industry. Now they will be give a power monopoly in the marketplace, with them gaining great wealth, as long as they pay Obama a sizable tribute. The minions will get to ration the overpriced power. It is trickle down economics that gets funneled by the top. Young people, are often seduced into Communism. It promises that they can be a child forever, where the power structure and ruling class becomes mom and dad, providing for you and settling arguments among the children. Mom and Dad have the final say. But in practice, the child will someday want to be an adult. However, there is no room for them in the power structure, even with talent, since the two class system means you do not belong. Look at China. As pure Communism it looked like a billion average people barely scratching a living from the earth. Once a freer economy appeared, there is now a middle class, I am amazed at how much human potential suddenly appeared. It was repressed in two class Communism, but appears in a four class free system. i dont think you read my whole post or it went way over your head, probably a generational thing. technocratic-communism is such a pure form of capitalism it could theoretically replace government entirely with pure technology-enabled mass communication- an absolute autonomous democracy. present day 'government' is essentially a company itself only it forces you to buy its services in the form of taxes while colluding with other 'private' companies 161 Technology / If money is the blood flow of society, are the rich like blood clots? « on: 16/02/2016 11:15:15 » technocratic-communism greed=inefficiency: if money is the blood flow of society, the rich are like blood clots. fundamentally unused wealth is inefficiency- it means someone kept more money than they needed. all jobs improve our world in some way and the potential for improvement is endless, capitalism has become stagnant because technology has eliminated livable waged jobs faster than the wealthy are creating jobs, at the same time the rich are now competing to outsource jobs using technology which causes their home country to eventually implode worse than the country theyre exploiting- national debt being the first stage. capitalism can only improve the efficiency of society until communism becomes viable via the technology society invested in thus helped to create, we are now approaching the technological/energy efficiency threshold where technocratic-communism is possible if we use mass communication to leverage against all forms of inefficiency, most importantly: unused wealth/greed. communication is the most basic power of any society, and communication is the basis of efficient communism. we can use the internet to promote companies that pay livable wages and have the lowest paid ceo’s/least wealthy owners so the top is competing to be less greedy rather than the poor competing to be poorer. transparency is the key to efficient communication, which is why we need to pressure all governments to maintain transparency as its first priority and most important duty in serving its citizens. first step: ...sorry, you cannot view external links. To see them, please REGISTER or LOGIN study this list and try to always buy from any company owned by someone below the absolute top of any particular industry, doing this will literally be putting a cap on greed by forcing whoever’s at the top to compete to give away more of their wealth which creates more jobs and eventually better wages for everyone. the further down the list you invest in when buying a product or service, the further youre distributing your wealth from the absolute top and thus the lower youre setting the absolute wealth cap. there are many ways to increase the flow of wealth to improve the efficiency of society without using the ‘government’ as an inefficient and potentially corrupt middle man, all it takes is researching who youre buying from to ultimately maximize what they return to YOU. 2/16/2016 162 New Theories / Re: Can a process philosophy based system be used in physics? « on: 14/02/2016 23:21:12 » Quote from: alancalverd on 14/02/2016 12:17:16 If you are going to talk about physics, it's a good idea to use the same language as physicists. I guess you are talking about yottoseconds: 1 ys = 10-24 second. Not the shortest interval of time: as far as we know, time is continuous, and the frequency of cosmic gamma radiation can exceed 1ys-1. Planck's constant h is not a measure of time (T) but of action (L2MT-1). Since time is the interval between successive events, you can't define a time before the first event, so your synthesis depends on there being a universe before the Big Bang, which requires some form of cyclic universe. Nothing new about that concept. But don't be discouraged! There must be a use for philosophy somewhere. time is only as continuous as the absolute minimum measurement of space dictated by the uncertainty principle, time is continuously creating discrete measurements via entropy and time is continuously creating discrete "measurer's" via life, from this we can even conclude that the maximum generator of entropy is itself observation - each moment we are collectively measuring the maximum state of local 'continuum' 163 New Theories / Re: SURVIVAL OF FITTEST CHEMICAL REACTIONS->LIFE?? « on: 14/02/2016 02:51:18 » a good reaction is one that replicates desireably, survival of the most aesthetically associated randomness 164 New Theories / Re: The Theory of realistic! « on: 14/02/2016 02:38:30 » science is about establishing what concepts/things have the most relativity to eachother in order to maximize practicality/functionality/efficiency, you can compare almost any two concepts and they will be related in some way just by virtue of existing but their relation may have very little practical use, like saying a boat is a car - theyre both machines designed to travel/transport but in the wrong environment/context they become impractical, or a more extreme example would be comparing a fork to a tv - theyre both made of particles held together by the same laws of physics and theyre both tools designed to move something: one transports food the other transports electronic information, but you cannot transport food through a tv(yet) and you cannot display electronic information on a fork(yet), so the relativity is low but never absolute zero. the furthest you can narrow any association down is to a paradox/contradiction itself due to the uncertainty principle/incompleteness theorem, even absolute zero is one-zero and even one-zero is incomplete without defining two-zero's three-zero's-> infinite zero's, even nothing experiences relativity, even nothing experiences entropy, even nothing must be defined math only improves efficiency: 0=1, 00=2, 000=3, 000.00000=3.14(pi), however loose the association was to begin with all associations have a degree of relativity and a degree of uncertainty, we just add information until the association is established 165 New Theories / Re: Quantum Field Theory « on: 12/02/2016 00:57:01 » point->field->new points time->entropy->new time singularity->duality->new singularities entropy is the unfolding of space over time, but space can never completely unfold to become a perfect vacuum due to the uncertainty principle even vacuums require energy, in the maximum entropy state each particle begins to violate relativity by expanding faster than the speed of light causing the particles to tear apart (big bang) entropic time is simultaneously the opposite of gravity AND the creator of gravity, (singularity-duality) 166 New Theories / Re: Quantum Field Theory « on: 11/02/2016 23:49:20 » axiomatic-duality singularity-duality even zero is one-zero even nothing is one-nothing point|field observer|observed self|environment mind|body space|time particle|wave uncertainty|principle incompleteness|theorem binary|logic male|female yes|no 1|0 167 New Theories / Quantum Field Theory « on: 11/02/2016 20:32:25 » space-time=field-point the relativity of points in any field have a degree of uncertainty which curves the field the unpredictability of the curvature of the field creates new real points in the field new real points in the field automatically create new real points of time which allows observation to exist(we observe new points of time each moment) observers are points of spacetime fusing with and generating new points of spacetime, the edge of perception is the edge of spacetime observers are real points of an incomplete field of observers- the multiverse 168 New Theories / Re: Constant-'constant thread. « on: 10/02/2016 14:51:52 » if light moved faster or slower than the smallest or largest quanta of time- observation could not exist. observation is the constant between space-time. 169 New Theories / Re: SURVIVAL OF FITTEST CHEMICAL REACTIONS->LIFE?? « on: 10/02/2016 13:58:59 » all reactions have a degree of unpredictability, but decisions must be made.. 170 New Theories / point+field=quantum relativity « on: 09/02/2016 19:00:51 » observer=relativity point, observed=relativity field, relativity field=quanta of points fusing with observer point dictated by the uncertainty principle uncertainty+principle=observation/relativity, relativity is the observation of quantum mechanics, observation=quantum relativity 171 Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Does pi stand for "perfectly incomplete" ? « on: 08/02/2016 10:52:04 » pi=perfectly incomplete even a perfect circle has no symmetry: 3.14159265359... ∞ the uncertainty principle in physics and godel’s incompleteness theorem in math is a reflection of pi itself, an imperfect circle is asymmetrical and a perfect circle is undefined thus all ‘real’ circles are asymmetrical and all lines are sections of an imperfect circle. pi is infinitely uncertain/incomplete, the purely abstract concept of a perfect circle is itself the singularity which creates the real imperfect multiverse- infinitely expanding pi. pi is infinitely complex and infinitely paradoxical, the only thing both stable and unstable enough to generate consciousness, pi is the only perfectly unstable-symmetry(perfectly stable by being perfectly incomplete), pi is the only incomplete fractal, the only fertile contradiction. each new digit of pi is simultaneously a new symmetry and a new symmetry break defining a completely new imperfect circle out of the image of the perfect singularity pi=O, pi=(singularity), pi=perfectly-incomplete(duality), pi=singularity-duality(trinity), pi=3.14159265359..., pi=∞ 172 New Theories / Re: Is this a realistic proposal for Quantum Gravity? « on: 08/02/2016 10:46:57 » pi=perfectly incomplete even a perfect circle has no symmetry: 3.14159265359... ∞ the uncertainty principle in physics and godel’s incompleteness theorem in math is a reflection of pi itself, an imperfect circle is asymmetrical and a perfect circle is undefined thus all ‘real’ circles are asymmetrical and all lines are sections of an imperfect circle. pi is infinitely uncertain/incomplete, the purely abstract concept of a perfect circle is itself the singularity which creates the real imperfect multiverse- infinitely expanding pi. pi is infinitely complex and infinitely paradoxical, the only thing both stable and unstable enough to generate consciousness, pi is the only perfectly unstable-symmetry(perfectly stable by being perfectly incomplete), pi is the only incomplete fractal, the only fertile contradiction. each new digit of pi is simultaneously a new symmetry and a new symmetry break defining a completely new imperfect circle out of the image of the perfect singularity pi=O, pi=(singularity), pi=perfectly-incomplete(duality), pi=singularity-duality(trinity), pi=3.14159265359..., pi=∞ 173 New Theories / Re: The Fundamental Contradiction « on: 08/02/2016 10:46:29 » pi=perfectly incomplete even a perfect circle has no symmetry: 3.14159265359... ∞ the uncertainty principle in physics and godel’s incompleteness theorem in math is a reflection of pi itself, an imperfect circle is asymmetrical and a perfect circle is undefined thus all ‘real’ circles are asymmetrical and all lines are sections of an imperfect circle. pi is infinitely uncertain/incomplete, the purely abstract concept of a perfect circle is itself the singularity which creates the real imperfect multiverse- infinitely expanding pi. pi is infinitely complex and infinitely paradoxical, the only thing both stable and unstable enough to generate consciousness, pi is the only perfectly unstable-symmetry(perfectly stable by being perfectly incomplete), pi is the only incomplete fractal, the only fertile contradiction. each new digit of pi is simultaneously a new symmetry and a new symmetry break defining a completely new imperfect circle out of the image of the perfect singularity pi=O, pi=(singularity), pi=perfectly-incomplete(duality), pi=singularity-duality(trinity), pi=3.14159265359..., pi=∞ 174 New Theories / Re: Re: Is space really empty? « on: 08/02/2016 05:42:31 » the best a vacuum can ever do is keep stretching the space proportional to the energy of the vacuum source as with black holes(almost pure mass, probably a sort of mass-plasma/higgs-plasma), even if the space was minimally 'stretched' or otherwise uninfluenced by energy- as long as time is cohering with the space which is the act of observation, the space will always have some small fluctuation(energy), you might even say the energy required to create an observer/observation is enough for observation itself to force small fluctuations of energy in every empty volume of space upon observation, the exception might itself be the event horizon of a black hole. atoms movement at 0 kelvin may appear to stop, but the subatomic particles cannot stop without the atom becoming a different element(without force carrying particles still fluctuating there would be nothing holding the larger particles together) the smallest 'particle' can only be reduced to the symmetry break of whatever energy is being measured, due to the uncertainty principle, measurement itself is simultaneously the symmetry break and the symmetry cohesion which would follow the hierarchy of measurement such that the most complex and likely self aware measurement apparatus's provide the biggest/most complex breaks+cohesions... bigger breaks would allow more room for potential itself(or the increasingly unlikely points on a probability distribution dictated by the size of the break which is dictated by the uncertainty principle) to spill into reality before the observers reality is cohesively part of the past a photon's mass can be zero and still have energy, it would only mean photons dont curve space enough to attract other particles- they would only be attracted to other particles that curve space more than photons(diffraction) temperature is usually the transfer of energy(all particles have energy) 175 New Theories / Re: The Fundamental Contradiction « on: 08/02/2016 00:42:51 » Quote from: Thebox on 07/02/2016 20:10:00 Quote from: the5thforce on 07/02/2016 17:11:53 your mind at any given moment is one zero-point, just as 0 itself can be 0 or it can be one-0 or it can be two-0(00) or three-0(000) and you can assume one-0 will eventually bump into another 0 during the process of defining the first zero(singularity), now we have two-0's they'll probably ripple off a few new 0's like any healthy 'cell' would and stumble into a few more random 0's. as a result of fundamental incompleteness/uncertainty, given enough time we get a variable pattern of 010101 (010001000011101110100) out of the random chaos which we can call the "big bang" just the right amount of 0's and 1's would provide just the right amount of complexity for randomness to temporarily appear logical, for a random pattern to temporarily appear coherent enough to actually become self aware before it again degenerates into entropy, unless the self aware patterns could reverse engineer the exact pattern that created the exact elements/particles/spatial folds in our universe to create a new fertile universe Math: Gödel's incompleteness theorems en(DOT)wikipedia(DOT)org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems Physics: Uncertainty Principle en(DOT)wikipedia(DOT)org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle You have unusual dialect. Do not forget though that X ≠ Y in a matrix added - your mind at any given point is a zero point just as zero can be 0 or it can become 00, but the length of the mind and 0's is dependent to the inverse square law and light radius. Your mind expands with light magnitude but it contracts when the light fades. words are essentially operators, rather than combining 'mathematical operators' with numbers/quantities i prefer combining words with numbers to communicate the same concept, they're all geometric symbols at the end of the day(math only simplifies), in other words- im terrible at math. ultimately english is more complex, more interesting, and more useful when socializing ->(1)0 looking for 1(0) added- when the light fades, your mass rebuilds, light and mass are opposite ends of the energy spectrum, the mind transcends both in a way that is only transparent to you. ---inverse 'square' law: how rarely your 1=0. 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Messages Topics Attachments Thanked Posts Posts Thanked By User Messages - the5thforce Pages: 1 ... 6 7 [8] 176 New Theories / Re: The Fundamental Contradiction « on: 07/02/2016 17:11:53 » your mind at any given moment is one zero-point, just as 0 itself can be 0 or it can be one-0 or it can be two-0(00) or three-0(000) and you can assume one-0 will eventually bump into another 0 during the process of defining the first zero(singularity), now we have two-0's they'll probably ripple off a few new 0's like any healthy 'cell' would and stumble into a few more random 0's. as a result of fundamental incompleteness/uncertainty, given enough time we get a variable pattern of 010101 (010001000011101110100) out of the random chaos which we can call the "big bang" just the right amount of 0's and 1's would provide just the right amount of complexity for randomness to temporarily appear logical, for a random pattern to temporarily appear coherent enough to actually become self aware before it again degenerates into entropy, unless the self aware patterns could reverse engineer the exact pattern that created the exact elements/particles/spatial folds in our universe to create a new fertile universe Math: Gödel's incompleteness theorems en(DOT)wikipedia(DOT)org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems Physics: Uncertainty Principle en(DOT)wikipedia(DOT)org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle 177 New Theories / Re: The Fundamental Contradiction « on: 06/02/2016 16:27:12 » the contradiction is so embedded in nature even all of our attempts at logic including language/math necessarily acknowledge the contradiction: 0=(0|=) 0=(0)(=) (zero+equals=2) 0=-0=+0=00=000=0000=00000 other symbols only simplify the concept (5=00000) loops and strings like in loop quantum gravity/string theory, any singularity is fundamentally a duality, the existence of contradictions/opposites is the most basic indestructible truth. 0='I think therefore I am' (0 ≠ 1)=2 the fundamental singularity-duality contradiction 178 Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: Rather than just the absence of it or dark, is there an opposite to light? « on: 06/02/2016 07:11:35 » mass reflects light, and since a true vacuum is impossible even opposites are part of the same spectrum- in this case mass is the opposite of light on the energy spectrum. 179 Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: Is there an opposite of light? « on: 06/02/2016 07:10:05 » mass reflects light, and since a true vacuum is impossible even opposites are part of the same spectrum- in this case mass is the opposite of light on the energy spectrum. 180 New Theories / The Fundamental Contradiction « on: 06/02/2016 06:59:25 » the massless realization of self-mass: did your mind experience mass before you were born? no. does your mind experience mass after you were born? yes. the mind is a fundamental self-replicating contradiction, a singularity born out of a singularity: even nothing is the opposite of something, even nothing is a thing, the contradiction itself creates every-thing. 0=(-0|+0)=(-0+0)=(0+0)=(00)=(-+)=(-|+)=2 0=(-0=+0)=(0=∞)=(00=0.0)=(0->1(..2..3))=(0->1->0(-1..-2..-3)) 181 New Theories / Re: Is this a realistic proposal for Quantum Gravity? « on: 06/02/2016 06:40:54 » the massless realization of self-mass: did your mind experience mass before you were born? no. does your mind experience mass after you were born? yes. the mind is a fundamental self-replicating contradiction, a singularity born out of a singularity: even nothing is the opposite of something, even nothing is a thing, the contradiction itself creates every-thing. 0=(-0|+0)=(-0+0)=(0+0)=(00)=(-+)=(-|+)=2 0=(-0=+0)=(0=∞)=(00=0.0)=(0->1(..2..3))=(0->1->0(-1..-2..-3)) 182 Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: The Entropic Force; 5th force of Nature. « on: 04/02/2016 12:50:07 » 183 New Theories / Re: Is this a realistic proposal for Quantum Gravity? « on: 04/02/2016 12:37:26 » taken from en(DOT)wikipedia(DOT)org/wiki/Fundamental_interaction : 184 New Theories / Is this a realistic proposal for Quantum Gravity? « on: 04/02/2016 09:02:04 » quantum relativity: energy(mass)+color(light)=folds of space abstract space+observed space=folds of time spacetime(wavefunction) collapse=observation aka the 'now' the uncertainty principle of observation is the 5th fundamental force the 5th fundamental force is the massless realization of the existence of self-mass (mind-body duality) gravity is simultaneously the opposite of observation merging with observation creating the intersection of reality gravity completes the feedback loop between the most massive energy in relative space and it's observation in relative time the intersection of quantum gravity and general relativity is the "current" observation of spacetime: quantum relativity. if you like this check out my wiki: en.wikipedia(dot)org/wiki/User:The5thForce my tumblr: the5thforce.tumblr(dot)com Pages: 1 ... 6 7 [8] SMF 2.0.13 | SMF © 2016, Simple Machines Enotify by CreateAForum.com SMFAds for Free Forums Naked Science Forum © Page created in 0.047 seconds with 38 queries. 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