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Space is discrete.

Nice to see Wolfram get excited about it.

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-have-a-path-to-the-fundamental-theory-of-physics-and-its-beautiful/

The doctor who coined the "RICE" method now says it may delay healing because inflammation is a necessary part of recovery.

That's just, oh, 40 years of expert advice actually harming people.

https://www.drmirkin.com/fitness/why-ice-delays-recovery.html

Caring what other people think about you generally detracts from the pursuit of truth.

https://theremnant.substack.com/p/seeking-social-approval-is-bad-methodology

The delight of reading the word "numpty" outweighs the pain of being called a numpty.

In which we discuss the possibility of Craig Wright as Super-Jesus.

Report your neighbor's cake parties if they violate Article 3.5 of Decree 187.

"Just don't work for a few months" is the 2020 equivalent of "let them eat cake."

A critical thinker must have the ability to zoom in and zoom out - to hyper-focus on cause and effect and to see how things interconnect in the big picture.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnbZwDptDKQ

Mental viruses are more dangerous to public health than physical ones.

St Kitts (can buy citizenship), Japan (best culture), or New Zealand (safe, closer to nature, and English-speaking).

All of them are islands - I know you like your ocean :).

Julia is reading comments of locals who are demonizing businesses for laying people off, shaming people for "hoarding" and "price gouging", and even suggesting people report them to the police.

The temptation to Shrug is enormous and grows every day.

If the coronavirus has proven anything, it's that tyranny is inevitable in the United States, whether it comes from the Left or the Right. It will be welcomed and celebrated.

The quality of the average American is too low to avoid it.

But not if it's a scientific tyranny. Then, it's not oppressive; it's necessary and just.

You're telling me your liver is being affected by a virus?

Quick, shut all the other organs down to make sure they don't catch it!

It's so clear, your grandmother could get it!

Calculus definitely does not solve Zeno's paradoxes.

The concepts of "convergence" and "limits" explicitly do not explain how infinite series can be completed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU59S5JDpSU

Calculus is the art of fudging the mathematics within your margin of error.

So true. Something did change just in the last few weeks because of the coronavirus. I shut down my FB temporarily, because the level of insanity was off-the-charts, even from otherwise-reasonable people. Tempted to due the same with Twitter.

Thanks for the thoughtful commentary!

Initial impression: Twetch looks sharp. I want to see where this goes.

It's not bad for a project that - if I understand correctly - game theory predicts cannot exist.

Y'all don't realize it yet, but this whole thing is theoretically impossible!

Pokin' around. 😎