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Why did "lmao" stick around but "rofl" die. Any theories on this

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OKAY series of polls about sock preferences because i'm a curious autistic fuck:

(if you don't wear socks don't answer any of the other questions)

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great, my post is in some sort of dungeon

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Spraying AllerSafe on other people’s furniture is probably not kosher but.

“ways to subtly make your hosts think their lives would be improved by AllerSafe”

(Honestly at this point the bad smells bother me more than the actual allergy symptoms but heck maybe AllerSafe would do something for those too. It “denatures proteins” or something really fake sounding like that, that seems like it could affect smells.)

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God bless Alka-Seltzer. I think basically all medicines should be able to be taken dissolved in water. Please keep expanding your remit endlessly with more variations. I can’t actually take them with my current allergy meds because of the magnesium in the base but at least I know they’re there.

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I don’t understand the question, what is a phone’s lifespan if not the time until it dies or you replace it? I don’t know where I’d look up “how long Apple expects me to keep my SE”. Which I think I’ve had for about 2 years and probably has another 2 years in it before it starts glitching enough that buying something new seems like a tempting prospect.

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#I enjoy literally all of these but soulmate mark stories have the highest proportion of pissing me off #or just getting really boring halfway through? #like oh okay wow you need to learn to trust how wonderful your soulmate is they are only this wonderful because of the soulmate thing tho #like that might piss me off if I weren’t so damn bored #you’ll take my crossovers and my time travel fix its from my cold dead hands

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Baffled by claims to the effect of "consciousness (in the sense of internal experience) doesn't matter/isn't real/might as well not be real because we can't measure it". True, we can't measure or detect it in an objective and repeatable way, as we'd very much like to be able to, but

That doesn't mean it's unobservable. I can observe it in myself. In fact I'm pretty sure I observe my own consciousness, very directly, every single waking moment. You'd be hard pressed to convince me it isn't there, about like how you'd be hard pressed to convince me my hands don't exist. It's right there!

Just because we can't measure internal experience objectively and repeatably right now doesn't mean we'll never be able to. Science abounds with things we couldn't measure until we could. Sure, maybe we'll just never be able to detect it in a way everybody can agree on... but maybe we will. It's a pretty strong claim to say with certainty that we won't.

This is probably the weakest objection of the three, but if consciousness is, you know, as good as bullshit... what is it that everyone keeps referring to when they talk about consciousness? And saying that they have? Uh like why, from the point of view that this consciousness stuff is Not Meaningful, does everyone keep going "I'm conscious"? Like what is the thing they are actually experiencing, if consciousness is a load of hooey?

I guess I just don't understand this position. It seems like denying what is plainly in front of your face. It seems, well, fiercely anti-empirical, to a degree even the big-daddy rationalist Descartes couldn't countenance.

To be super duper uncharitable, it sometimes seems to me like an ill-thought-through ingroup signal? Like "consciousness is a humanities thing, philosophy is a humanities thing, but I'm a Science Guy and we use measurement. Since I can't measure consciousness it is bullshit". And this ingroup signal leads one, as I said, to deny the basic empirical observation in front of them. Like, yeah, there is no objective and repeatable metric for pain either, but I think even the most hardcore Scientist would yowch and tell me to stop if I hit him with a big stick. I don't think he would say the concept of pain is meaningless because we can't (yet) quantify it objectively. And if he did claim that, I don't think he would live by it.

But, I don't know. Like I said, that is a massively uncharitable take. Maybe I'm misunderstanding the position. Or maybe I'm using the word "consciousness" differently. As I said, the thing I mean by this is internal experience, internality, the fact of there being some thing it feels like to be you.

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"Is Superman stronger than the Hulk" "Is Hawkeye a better archer than Green Arrow" "Dr. Strange vs Doctor Fate" All bullshit. I only have one DC/Marvel crossover question. If Squirrel Girl was dropped in Gotham City, how long would it take for her to realize that Batman cannot talk to Bats.

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my work charger stopped working i can’t believe it who could have seen it coming

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pym’s soggy sundays are what makes life worth living tbh

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Boop

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psa to all who practice:

don't forget about the cute but insubstantial jackets in the back of your closet that are only feasible to wear in April and May

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Just found out I was thirsty not by receiving a signal from my body about it but by dozing off and dreaming about cold water from different alluring angles. This is great. I think all my wants and needs should be revealed to me this way