I'm 99% sure the narration is AI-generated using Watts's voice, and I don't think it was quoting Watts directly. The on screen text needed quotation marks to show what, if any, words were taken directly from Watts. Misleading, yes, but I don't think intentionally so.
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Entire too relatable. I grew up in much the same way. Having that feeling as my baseline, my "normal", made everything else feel wrong, but I could never fully put my finger on why. I developed a sense of stoicism so that I could get through each day showing as little outward reaction as possible. However, I confused that stoicism for calmness and stability; inside my mind everything still roiled as my instincts and senses were always watching and waiting, preparing for the next time things became dangerous.
Decades of living with that level of hypervigilance paired with the effort needed to put forward a stoic exterior has worn me down. The physical symptoms of chronic mental and emotional exhaustion are debilitating; the body really does pay a toll for the mind's wounds. Maybe if twenty years ago I had the knowledge and resources that I do now, I could have done something to stave off what I'm going through.
All this to say: if you aren't already, please seek counseling as soon as possible. Don't make the same mistake I did; just like the smoker who denies that their habit it harmful, if you don't work to heal your psychological wounds now, then it will eventually catch up to you. Be well, and take care of yourself.
It was supposed to be once the bread and circuses became unaffordable, but we're all so overworked that we don't have the energy to punch up.
Many Americans proclaim that they are a "Christian" nation, even though its own founding documents prescribed no religious alignment. It's not hard to figure out why.
When the printing press was invented, the Church was against it because it did not want the knowledge of the scriptures to be accessible by commoners; it wanted control over how the scriptures were interpreted to keep the common folk acted in line with the Church's interests.
For the most part, their fears were unfounded. Even today, with near-universal literacy rates, the average religious American has not actually read their holy book. They rely instead on preachers and the media to interpret the text for them, hence America's widespread endorsements of the "prosperity gospel" and "empathy is a sin".
I'm sorry that you and yours have had to put up with that kind of stuff for so long. When I was a kid I really believed that we'd have gotten over all of this racist bullshit by now, but I was always a little too starry-eyed for my own good.
On the side of the Earth facing the sun, the magnetosphere extends about 40,000km into space. On the side facing away from the sun, the solar wind stretches the magnetosphere into a tail that extends well beyond the Moon's orbit. The ISS orbits at an altitude of about 400km; it is well within the magnetosphere.
Because it is above the majority of the atmosphere (and also because it just barely passes through the lowest part of the Van Allen radiation belts), astronauts in the ISS are exposed to higher levels of radiation. However, the ISS has shielding specifically designed to minimize radiation, and astronauts living there are considered to be within safe levels of exposure.
This is a very wholesome(?) case of "username checks out"... 😅
Some would say that's a slippery slope argument, but leave it to America to do just that...Montgomery County rejects sidewalks because of “stranger danger”
Thanks for clarifying; I know tone is hard to convey on the internet. Sarcasm and "gotcha" replies have been the default tone since the beginning, even if that's not the poster's intent. I honestly was curious what you meant :)
My favorite thing about this community is that while I come for the memes, there's almost always something new to learn in the comments. Or a knew line of inquiry where I can start looking into videos or articles to learn more.
This is what I love about this community. Come for the memes, stay to learn something new.I'm double-dipping for dopamine.
This thread reminds me of an Asimov short story where someone discovers that humor is just a vehicle for psychological experimentation being done on humans by an extraterrestrial intelligence. Now that humans know where jokes come from, it's no longer a useful tool to the observers and is removed from the testing environment...
"The gift of humor is gone," said Trask drearily. "No manwill ever laugh again."And they remained there, staring, feeling the world shrinkdown to the dimensions of an experimental rat cage---withthe maze removed and something, something about to be put in its place.
http://blog.ac-versailles.fr/villaroylit/public/Jokester.pdf
I've often thought that 'clearing' it's orbit is misleading. I believe the definition ought to be changed to 'controls' or 'governs' its orbit. This allows for objects in stable L4/L5 locations without inviting the caveats that 'clearing' needs.
Help me understand the point you are trying to make. Are you trying to hand-waive categorization as superfluous to developing broader understanding?
Natural satellites fall within the primary body's Hill sphere, where the gravity of the larger mass dominates. The Earth/Moon system co-orbits the sun. Saturn has two satellites that orbit each other, and that system co-orbits Saturn.
The Earth/Moon system does not qualify as a binary planet because it does not meet the L4/L5 instability threshold. In a system of two orbiting masses, the larger needs to have at least 25x the mass of the smaller for the system to have stable L4/L5 points. Earth is ~80x more massive than the Moon, allowing the system to have stable L4/L5 points, and is therefore a satellite system.
There once was a poster onlinewho stacked strawmen neatly in lineon a slope slick with spinthey kept sliding right indeclaring each fall a design
I meant to reply the other day but, well, everything is a distraction.
I checked out Black Vomit and really enjoyed it! That's the kind of noise-as-music that I like. It is equally background and foreground; melts into my environment while I'm focusing on something else, but interesting and attention-grabbing in the moments when my focus waivers. Excellent recommendation, thank you!
I wrote down your jazz recommendations and am slowly getting to them (lately I haven't been much in the mood for jazz, but the mood always comes back around eventually). Free Lancing was a hell of a ride, and I loved every track. Shared it with a friend of mine who also likes experimental/eccentric guitar-focused music and they also liked it. I'll add your other recommendations to the list and will definitely give them a listen in the coming weeks. Thanks again! :)
Oooh! What is the album? I'm a sad fool for noise-as-music. The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation and Black Boned Angel are some of my favorite backgrounds.
Please accept this hug from an internet stranger that is likely heading down the same road... hoping the symptoms end up being a huge nothingburger, but if not then I'm going to miss my hobbyist equipment.
Love it! Do you have one that comes in Spider? Or perhaps House Centipede?