Sweet of you to call me babe. How much did I drink last night?

Title: George Carlin Doesn’t Vote. Reaction: Idiot.

Subtitle: George carlin speaks the truth, Voting Is another way to keep you in a closed distracted bubble. Reaction: George Carlin is working to bring about the end of democracy in the USA. Clearly he doesn’t believe in it. I do.

Well, the shit of foxes, but yeah, bit unfair that.

With fox shit, you can put it in the bin and never see it again, but Farage is more of a stinky, greasy, smearing, permanently unflushable turd that’s been hanging about in the loo for decades. Every so often you think he’s gone away, but it turns out he was just lurking the other side of the u bend and pops back again.

I was experiencing some slight hearing loss because of a noisy environment at work. The audiologist looked in my ears and said she was worried that I might have done compacted earwax and asked if I used Q-tips. I sometimes did. She told me to stop and to clean them out by putting olive oil in each one, holding it for a while then letting it run out into tissue paper. I can’t remember how much or for how long, but it definitely did the trick.

I can relate to the picture, very much, even though I don’t use Q-tips any more.

I use drummer’s ear buds now and they’re great because my hearing recovered quite a lot, the tinnitus went away entirely and I can hear what people are saying when I’m wearing them.

Because Donald J Trump is their guy. He might well win.

The world tends to find that having an extraordinarily wealthy parent makes its own luck.

Exactly. Unfortunately “move fast and break things” has some disadvantages when it comes to driving in traffic.

At first I read that as an old printer from a school, and thought that was a very weird thing to want, but then I realised you meant a printer that was old school, and it all suddenly made sense to me!

You have the right to be an asshole. Mods have the right to ban you for being an asshole.

Making out that they’re nasty for having some standards of behaviour in their area is calling good bad and bad good.

(Censorship is when local or national government put you in prison for protesting or ban your book or ban your ideas. That’s when your free speech rights are being infringed.)

I know three.

In fact, come to think of it, I only know two trans women, so I know more trans men than trans women.

Well, perhaps it might be possible to catch some tummy bug from someone else, I don’t know, but you inhale the fecal particles when you flush anyway I suppose.

The lid stays down all the time (well, in between use) at our house, with the idea that you minimise the amount of fecal particles floating around your room. I know it doesn’t eliminate it, but I want to flush as much as possible of the poo and not inhale it, so I insist on the lid being closed.

I’m not claiming danger, I just don’t like the thought.

Which part of “figure trebles since 2017” were you thinking was the fault of someone other than the tory government, and by what means did they cause it, and what, ffs, has it got to do with pronouns?

I wouldn’t put toilet paper up my nose - I don’t trust other toilet users to not touch the toilet roll and I don’t trust the room to not have fecal particles from lidless flushing on things. I don’t want tu put someone else’s poo up my nose.

Alright, you win, I’ll never use my phone in portrait ever again, especially not to film my dog in a storm. I’ll make sure I turn that baby right to your preferred orientation and I’ll stop complaining about pointless bars at the side of other people’s portrait content.

If you want, I can go back through my canara roll and delete everything that’s in portrait just in case I’m ever tempted to sell it to a news organisation. I’ll make sure to only ever post landscape content to whatsapp, signal and especially tiktok and instagram, because otherwise some relative, friend or random Internet user might share it in portrait.

You’re right. That’s definitely a better solution than not putting annoying fuzzy bars on portrait content.

And when anyone films in portrait, make sure to punish anyone trying to watch the footage with a similarly criminal portrait orientation, by putting borders round the side of the portrait content to force it to be landscape, thus shrinking the content to roughly a ninth of their screen, unless they switch to the blessed landscape orientation when it will fill a glorious third of the screen. Let no one watch it full size for the creator thereof has sinned against the gods of landscape.

This is the right and proper punishment for content creators who break the landscape law: let no one see this video fullscreen, for they have sinned against landscape. https://ibb.co/x2MQQG2 let the borders of landscape wrath descend and pad, and let fullscreen be disabled for all, for if landscape viewers are denied fullscreen EVERYONE MUST SUFFER.

Oh, or you could just skip the fuzzy bars in portrait mode if you’re feeling more accommodating to phone users.

Many of the references are 404, and the key papers according to the article are by completely different authors than claimed with different titles than claimed, and nothing to do with “information thermodynamics”. I suspect that this is AI generated nonsense.

Many of the references are 404, and the key papers according to the article are by completely different authors than claimed with different titles than claimed, and nothing to do with “information thermodynamics”. I suspect that this is AI generated nonsense.

From the citations, many of which are broken links, we find links to Vopson’s key papers on which this article is built:

Vopson, M. M. (2021). The second law of information thermodynamics. AIP Advances, 11(8), 085008. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0056955

Vopson, M. M. (2023). The second law of infodynamics and its implications for the simulated universe hypothesis. AIP Advances, 13(10), 100301. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0105241

The first one isn’t about “information thermodynamics” at all, it’s entitled A monolithic linear motion platform driven by a piezoelectric and fluidic pressure-fed dual mechanism

And the second one is rather more prosaic than the article implies, and is actually entitled Reduction of bolt product defects at PT. GIP using Six Sigma method

I begin to suspect that it’s an elaborate hoax, possibly AI generated.

It seems to me to be more at the philosophy end of the spectrum than science. Extract from later on:

TANTALIZING CLUES BEYOND THE VEIL

Reports from visionary plants like ayahuasca and DMT describe encountering seemingly autonomous alternate realities inhabited by discarnate entities and dimensions (Luke, 2011). Users vividly perceive realities dissolving into underlying geometric grids flickering with cosmological symbols and machine elves, as though witnessing reality’s informational matrix. Psychedelic researchers speculate such visions reveal the program-like underside of consciousness itself (Hoffman, 2019).

“The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.” - Joseph Campbell, mythologist

The uncanny parallels between trippers’ subjective experiences and notions of simulation theory are striking. Potential clues also arise in near-death experiences where people report transitional states surrounded by complex fractal patterns and life reviews mimicking digital recreation (Alexander, 2012). Might mystical and visionary states reveal glimpses of nature’s hidden informational architecture? While anecdotal, subjective reports remain intriguingly consistent with Vopson’s information-based paradigm.

Transcending Materialism: Vopson’s Law and Bridging Science with Spirituality

Dr. Vopson’s proposed law of information dynamics has profound implications extending beyond its radical scientific interpretations. His findings resonate strongly with perennial spiritual intuitions and reported insights from mystical states that reality is informationally generated. This section explores potential bridges between information physics and nonordinary states revealing nature’s deeper workings.

Vopson might well be doing science, but I think this article is definitely doing philosophy.

Yes, and that’s great, it really is, but when the footage you have is portrait, don’t pad it out to force landscape orientation on it irrespective of the orientation of the viewer’s screen, just let portrait content be full size portrait when viewed on a portrait screen. That is the beginning, the middle and the end of my point. It’s all I’m asking for.