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The real question is, how do you raise your kids so they don't turn into the next Pete Buttigieg?

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 month ago (2 children)

imagine getting owned by your kid's fundamental questions about the physical world and society, like damn should have read some books dummy

skill issue

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Wearily explaining, again, to a three year old that while the regimentation of time is an artifact of the development of the capitalist mode of production and the requirements of wage labor it's still naptime and they still have to lay down

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Same people that complain that school doesn't teach anything useful.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I love going a layer deeper over and over until I'm like "because a star exploded and deposited heavy elements into a massive disk, which slowly formed into planets.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gravity and time select for stable patterns in the configuration of matter.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

because unstable patterns break apart when met with random and wild phenomena. In a universe full of so much chaos, stable patterns are the only patterns that don't break apart.

why?

because their cohesion is stronger than the forces trying to break them apart

why?

these patterns build upon themselves and create a collection of energy that works together that is more than chaos can muster

why?

because chaotic energy isn't going to be cohesive and collect enough force to beat a stable pattern

why?

because if chaotic energy were so cohesive and structures, it would be a stable pattern and thus, not chaotic. Chaos, is by definition, an unstable pattern

why?

because it is an axiomatic definition of chaos

why?

because if we are to talk about this subject, we need definitions to work with

why?

because the amount of information being passed from me to you would be negligible unless we can use a common language

why?

because without common words, you wouldn't be able to understand anything I'm trying to say

why?

because information needs to be encoded before it can transfer from my brain to yours

why?

because only I am able to see into my internal consciousness

why?

because consciousness, as it is conventionally understood, is a solo venture

why?

because a star exploded and deposited heavy elements into a massive disk, which slowly formed into planets.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

this reads like something douglas adams would write. love it

sometimes I like to use "nobody knows, but some people have ideas"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

This is really lovely thank you.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

That last, eternal "why?" that's where God goes. Now shut up, luv, i'm trying to watch the telly

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This but unironically. I have exhausted so many kindergarteners. They end up saying they don't want to know anyway and then I can hit them with trans-uno "Why?" trollface And if they don't like it then they shouldn't have asked someone with AuDHD a question relating to one of their special interests. Stupid toddlers.

except when it's about physics or space stuff I don't find that interesting so I don't know it