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Cake day: June 6th, 2023

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  • There is a Segway between boomer and Gen X but every generation has an overlap. I’m a Gen X. It is a small generation that lived through the creation of the internet society. We were also responsible for 90s independent music labels and the production of the greatest music since the 60s (you are welcome btw). Boomers are post war nationalists that stopped learning anything new after their 18th birthday.


  • My point is, the zero point has to be so small it becomes subject to the uncertainty principle, which is not a Newtonian law. So while the maths might resolve to the unexpected excitation event it doesn’t make sense in reality because we don’t apply Newton’s laws at the tiny point sizes needed here?

    When you plug crazy small numbers into Newton’s laws don’t the answers stop making sense, so you have to use Einstein rather than Newton’s physics?

    So frequently, philosophy forces us to think about wonderful ideas that lead us to amazing realisations, but so often those same ideas breakdown when applied to reality. This is where physics steps in.


  • As a total amateur my instinctive response to the “unexpected” result is to validate that apply Newtonian physic is appropriate, and if not, we should look for an explanation at a level where the unexpected phenomenon becomes possible, aka non-Newtonian physics. We know that Newtonian physics works fine until we try to explain things at the atomic or subatomic level, or under extreme gravity, or close to the speed of light. Why not the same at extremely small points on a dome?

    The dome used is the same shape as the graph she showed. The closer to zero you get on the graph the more vertical the line “looks”, but with enough resolution in the data it becomes clear line is never vertical except at the starting position of zero. When you make a dome based on the same curve the zero point is so small that it falls into the realm of non-Newtonian physics where you run into uncertainty. I can’t do the maths myself but I’m going to guess the zero point needs to be subatomic in size for the “unexpected” excitation event to have an impact. If true, and the zero point is too large, the ball is going to remain stationary until an explainable force acts on it.

    I’m guessing the ball needs to be a perfect sphere. Does the maths incorrectly neglect the ball?






  • I’m looking for evidence that this post is real. It is too perfect, like the stuff chatgpt produces. But I’m old and very cynical.

    One alternative is her low IQ diagnosis was off. I suggest seeing someone to have that rechecked. If it turned out to be closer to the average 100 it could make her feel more positive about her own potential.


  • Speaking from my own experience here is my method.

    1. Start by accepting that you will suffer, but think of the suffering like having a bad cold or the flu. You’ll hate it but it will pass.

    If you are quite a light smoker (handful per day) I would just quit and ride it out. If things get really bad allow yourself 1 but no more. You’ll be surprised how quickly the worst cravings go away after a week.

    If you’re a heavy smoker take more of a run up to it, as follows.

    Put off the first smoke of the day for as long as you can. E.g. if you usually smoke as soon as you get up then hold off until after breakfast. Next Day try for just before lunch, and so on over a week or so. Try to also put a gap between eating and smoking. Once you are down to a few a day then do the cold turkey thing.

    The trick is actually not buying more cigarettes. If you have them till probably smoke them. But if not, that barrier helps.

    I smoked from about 19yo until I was in my early thirties (about 1 pack per day). I also spent the nights smoking a lot of spliffs as well (that’s weed with rolling tobacco). Now I only smoke Weed when I go down to see my friends which is like twice a year. I bring back enough tobacco to make 3 or 4 small roll ups which gets me through the come down over the following week. Then it is done.

    Quitting the first time is fuck hard but the cravings pass. Now I find it quite easy because I’m used to doing it.

    Good luck. You can do it.