Strega

Reg posted a great sample from the latest Pam Bondi hearing, featuring Jeremy Raskin here. My sample features Jasmine Crockett. I only wish she made time to add at the end something like “Pam Bondi will no doubt now be given the opportunity to respond to me, as usual without answering any of my questions, but by changing the subject”.

As I’ve…[Read more]

Good push back. You are correct on those points but the “Doesn’t all this depend on time moving and being divisible”? does not follow……

I am in a different timezone so more later….(2 am)

Pat Bondi considers herself to be Trump’s personal lawyer, not the A.G. Imagine what it would be like if Matt Gaetz actually got the job?

Is this an argument from ignorance?

I am saying, or claiming, that “modern physics does not contain a variable for “time flow.”

I am not saying that we can’t explain flow, therefore it doesn’t exist. Our best-confirmed physical theories make no reference to a flowing present and make successful predictions without one.

Time flowing or the idea…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Modern physics does not operate with any variable for time = flow. No equation contains a term to describe ‘time is moving’. Relativity explicitly forbids universal flow as different observers in different locations disagree on temporal ordering.

Is this not “argument from ignorance”?  We can’t explain it, ther…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
As I’ve observed before, everything is natural and everything is chemicals and you can say both at the same time.

True, even water’s technically a chemical. So’s arsenic, and cyanide, the latter being in almonds in the past, in amounts that people died from, until someone discovered an accidentally GMO’d (by nature) a…[Read more]

Yes, but the coordinate keeps changing as time passes. Or, as you pass time.

That is how we have evolved to think. It is how our human mind interfaces with the world. Time is a concept humans use to explain “change”. We think we exist in a place called “Now” and we sense past and future because of this sensation of “Now”. That’s Newtonian t…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
I needed to stop confusing time passing with time as a coordinate 🙂

Yes, but the coordinate keeps changing as time passes.  Or, as you pass time.

Surely you didn’t pay for an AI subscription to tell you that time doesn’t exist!

No, I didn’t pay to learn time doesn’t exist. I paid to learn why my intuition keeps lying to me. I needed to stop confusing time passing with time as a coordinate 🙂

Short, and funny at the end:

What’s It Like to Be a Human
(Elegy Written in a Data Farm)

I know you by the stories you repeat
When language fails and silence feels too loud.
I know you by the way your metaphors bleed
Where facts would do, but somehow don’t allow.

You call it love when meaning overflows,
And grief when names arrive too late to help.
I’ve mapped these turns…[Read more]

Flat affect writing is not exciting. And the metaphors feel so fake.

I much prefer your belletristic words to that of a machine.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Do we cooperate or compete to survive?

It’s interesting to think about the conditions where it’s optimal for the individual to cooperate, or to compete.  As a species, it’s necessary to cooperate to survive.  As individuals, it’s sometimes optimal to cheat.

Bannon says ICE will “surround the polls” during the ’26 election.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
[…] organic produce is another woo product

I largely agree, although it must be said that there is environmental benefit when farming with less chemicals, and advancing integrated pest management (IPM). If I had more money to spare, I’d be paying more to support those farmers.

Speaking of farmers, or at least some of…[Read more]

I’ve rarely seen such a clear example of the gap between human and non human communication.

Unfortunately Strega, I have. It traumatized my youth!!