charonn0

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[–] charonn0@startrek.website -1 points 2 years ago

I don't know what you're saying, but I infer it's not meant kindly.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago

Where was the nuance in Proposition 8?

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Good enough for this gay Californian.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago

In the context of this discussion about attitudes towards CA, the fact that CA is held to a higher standard than other states is worth talking about.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

But it's not clear what they're trying to say.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago

That sort of self-gratifying nonsense only works if the target is more successful than you.

Using it against a target that is less successful than you would be picking on people who can't defend themselves.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Notably these are all problems in other states too. Most of them just use police to lock them up instead. Not better.

They don't always lock them up. Sometimes they put them on a bus to California.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Perhaps you should use more than two words.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago

California's natural beauty is world-renowned and a major tourist draw.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

What's wrong with the idea?

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm a theoretical theoretical physicist. That's double the theory.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 35 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I have a theoretical degree in nuclear physics, and it seems to me that sub-atomic scale events like quantum tunneling suggest that reality is neither fully determined nor fully chaotic, but something in between: probabilistic. Whether we can consciously affect the probabilities of our own actions remains an open question, but we can at least say that causality is not the whole picture.

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