Dr Theosib, CPU expert’s Tweets

Jun 19, 2020

In 1987, we got a flash of light from a supernova in the large magelanic cloud. About 8 months later, a ring of debris lit up, indicating a radius of 0.66 light years. The viewing angle of the ring is 0.808 arc seconds. 0.66 / tan(0.808/3600 * PI / 180) = 168484 light years.

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Why is there something rather than nothing? Postulating an uber-complex mind that made it only makes the situation worse. So there's no reason we should exist. Therefore we don't exist.

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If you throw out the laws of physics, then the whole flood idea becomes entirely moot. It would make far more sense for God to just poof the unrighteous out of existence and avoid all of the collateral destruction.

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A lot of "Christian morality" seems to be about imposing rules to constrain or making us feel bad about design flaws that would be the fault of our designer. Blame the designer then!

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Suffer the little Mathematicians😋

Sep 23

"I used to be gay, but now that I've married someone of the opposite sex, I feel about myself. Somehow." 🙄

Sep 23

TFW you feel the urge to complement someone on something but you don't because it would be creepy.

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Clearly, eating too much sugar and fat can make you overweight, harm your cardiovascular health, disrupt your intestinal microbiome, and many other things. We don't need to rattle on about it being "sinful and soul-destroying" to know we should follow better nutrition.

"All trans women are MEN" is an extreme & anti-empathic position to take. But so is "being transgender always leads to dysphoria, & the only valid gender affirming care is hormones & surgery." Hard to say what "gender" really is. But clearly something substantive is happening.

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There is more than enough real science that shows how porn can be addicting, can make it hard to perform without watching porn, can lead people to become superficial and misogynistic, etc. I'm not sure why you have to be so hyperbolic about it, though.

Examples: Some GC deny that trans is a thing & will ignore any science that says it is, e.g. hormones affecting brain & body differently in gestation. Some TRA also don't want to hear inconvenient science, e.g. that puberty blockers can make males permanently anorgasmic.

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It's amazing how many people are totally unaware of arguments that go against their position and don't care to know, OR they completely distort the opposing position. Many creationists are like this. But I've also encountered a few trans activists and gender critical like this.

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Why are people so worked up over who plays a fictional character? The actress needs to be able to sing well. And act. And look decent made up like a mermaid.... Which is a fictional thing. Were people bothered by Morgan Freeman as God?

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@brettd65

· Sep 20

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Morder dee dishes.

So far, 100% of the time I have tried to debate someone on Twitter, they have declined or had some reason why they couldn't do it. Very disappointing. I'm not here to win or lose. I just want to participate.

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But you know who DOES create thing? ENGINEERS. They use scientific knowledge to design all manner of useful conveniences for you, including electronics and high-yield farming techniques. Some gratitude seems warranted.

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Theories don't create things. Theories are models that encapsulate our knowledge of a phenomenon so as to make testable, novel predictions. Scientific theories are USEFUL because of this, including evolutionary theory. If it weren't, petrol companies wouldn't use it to find oil.

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@CosmicSkeptic

. The depth of his religious and philosophical knowledge is impressive, of course. But what's really amazing is his patience, his calmness, and his ability to engage with people of opposing viewpoints and get everyone to listen.

Even if God does exist, it's not obvious to me that God would care to have a relationship with us, or bother to create moral codes, etc. It seems more likely that people who want to follow or force others to follow a cherished moral code use "God" as a an excuse.

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It's important that people not go around acting like they know the absolute truth, because we all have the potential to be wrong about things, there is nothing that can completely mitigate all of our human imperfections, and every "truth" we've been told came from another human.

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Does my coffee cup have the potential to become a chicken?

"If you don't believe as I do, it means you believe something scary and depressing and will ultimately give up end it all."

Free will: The idea that it should be desirable to make decisions based on something other than our current best knowledge and experience.

"All groups of people other than my own are completely homogeneous and can be described accurately in overly simplistic, broad-brush, and prejudicial terms."

Arguing with people on Twitter is mostly a waste of time, although it does, I think, help a bit with my mental health. But I absolutely marvel at the sheer magnitude of time waste that is "Globe busting." OMG. People dedicate their lives to this absolute insanity.

The Hendrix Chord (7 sharp 9) is what you'd call a "crunchy" chord. Yes, that's a technical term. 😉

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What Is Blaccent And Why Do People Keep Using It?

Is it "vocal black-face" for a white person to quote a black actor's line from a movie in your best approximation of their speech patterns? youtube.com/watch?v=8mXacc Besides, who doesn't love the sounds of Eddie Murphy, Samuel L. Jackson, James Earl Jones, or Morgan Freeman?

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I enjoy mixing up my comebacks, and often say (when the answer is an obvious yes) "does the pope shit in the woods?" (corollary, is a bear catholic?).

"Time to grow up." --

@steve_shives

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Entropy is a scientific concept so why bring it in when you reject science 🤔

I also love the double standard. When we refer to naturalism, they demand that we explain every chemical process. When we ask them to do the same, they act like we're being unreasonable.

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Father Josh

@FatherJosh6

· Sep 19

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“Account for every detail”, huh? Hahahaha. “Let’s just write off this gigantic problem as a little detail”, ahahahahahaha. I’m gonna mute now because this is too unserious.