Spending your limited time on earth wisely : whitepeopletwitter

[-] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago

Jumping to the grave could save him some death latency issues.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago

My missus always leaves her MacBook overhanging the edge of surfaces like this and then does Surprised Pikachu Face when it falls off, complaining about how slippy the case is.

[-] [email protected] 51 points 2 days ago

Bullshit to Business, Shit as a Service

[-] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago

This picture makes me nervous, that laptop is going to fall any moment now

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

It looks like there is a window there. You can see the frame on the right side of the photo.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Yep. Also exposed type A receptacle. OK for table tops. Not OK for outdoor balcony railing.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

Good point

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

Good.

[-] [email protected] 39 points 2 days ago

The sarcastically-packaged wisdom in this post is important. Thank you for sharing this, OP.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Thought this was [email protected] until the check mark

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Same. Definitely has that vibe.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

A jail nearby is next to one. It's very depressing.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

Is that where the jail buries prisoners whose family dont take the body?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

I think so tbh, there isn't a church there.

Just one of the many things that sucks about the local County Day Care

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Plot twist: Flo is a necromancer

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Boy 2 Boy Shit And A Shower

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Damn I wish we had stuff like this in the states. We're so weird about death

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

US doesn't have graveyards? Do you just burn your dead

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

they just pile up on the sidewalks. Which is why you can't just walk everywhere. It's all just completely covered in piles of corpses

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

We do ofc they're just in the middle of nowhere isolated from people. The only time you see graveyards near a town center is when you go to the oldest parts of your city

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Nah, I saw place with grave stones and nearby there's the front of a house literally facing it right across the street, with just a one-way-street's distance apart. Not even that "isolated" or "middle of nowhere".

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Generally, they will move the graveyard is there's nearby construction. They need to get permission from the next of kin to do it though. There's one semi-famous example in New Jersey where they could not find any next of kin for a single grave and ended up building around it. There's also one graveyard that's been cut right in half by a highway.

American's value capitalism more then the Japanese respect their dead, so it's not hard to convince Americans to truck their ancestors around.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

And old age.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I wish Boost didn't crash every time I save an image, because I definitely have people to send this to..

[+] [email protected] -6 points 2 days ago

I find it odd that we doubt the afterlife.

This is a universe where nothing is ever truly created or destroyed, merely changing form from one thing to another.

And yet the view we associate with "Science!" is that conciousness is the one exception? What makes you think you're so special that the universe will only experience you for a limited time? You're not a happy meal promotion, you're as immortal as everything else.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

Information is destroyed all the time, conciousness is just information, and will cease to exist in a meaningful form when the structure of matter hosting it (your body, and in particular your brain) ceases to function in a way that supports that.

The energy that motivated your body and acted as signals in your brain will disipate. Your actual matter will stick around in one form or another. After all, we are all "star stuff", and given long enough, our "stuff" will return to the universe at large.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

You just angered all quantum physicists everywhere: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-hiding_theorem

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I'm sorry, maybe I'm just dumb, but I didn't think information could be destroyed.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Consciousness isn't a tangible thing. It's just a label we use for a type of brain behavior. Once there's no brain, there's no more behavior. Just like once your heart dies, there's no more heartbeat.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I dunno we still see things like Terminal Lucidity and NDEs all the time.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

One of those is pre-death and the other is near-death. I don't see how either suggests that there's some ghost-brain that functions after death.

[-] [email protected] -2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Saying "Oh that's just near death. Never mind that we are seeing active consciousness where none should exist."

Isn't that just moving the goal post at the end of the day?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

No, both of those still involves some form of brain consciousness. What we don't have any evidence of is consciousness existing without a physical body.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 47 minutes ago* (last edited 45 minutes ago)

I find NDEs fascinating because so many have tried to debunk them and they keep failing.

At first they tried to say they weren't real, but then they kept happening

Then they tried to say that were dreams but the effects were too profound

They tried to say it was oxygen starvation but people under an NDE tend to be lucid and those oxygen starved tend to be dizzy.

They tried to say it was a religious delusion but then a cursory glance over the NDEs show them to be too universal, the only thing that changes is whether someone sees Jesus or Buddha...

They even thought they had the smoking gun when the effects were replicated under DMT only to find that the human body doesn't have enough native DMT to trip on.

So they started doing things like the AWARE study and the data keeps piling up. Machines that detect no brain activity and yet people accurately recalling conversations and seeing sights despite being incredibly close to brain death.

Even related phenomena like the Shared Death Experience and Terminal Lucidity were found.

Typically when something is superstitious nonsense it goes away when investigated.

NDEs do not

The best skeptics have is trying to say that the person recovering from brain death must have not REALLY been brain dead. To say that it doesn't count as coming back from the dead if you came back from what is defined as clinical death.

This is moving the goal post, sure we can't summon Capser up and ask him what being dead feels like.. but.. the data is still pointing in the direction of conciousness where none can exist. Conciousness that is powerful and lucid despite the "source" of it not working properly. Not just "kinda lucid" but more so than normal.

There are people who are born blind reporting what the room they were in looked like because their NDE let them see for the first time ever.

The human equivalent of me frying my mother board yet somehow windows is still booting up.

So at this point saying "Oh well you can't point to a ghost so this means nothing." Is as absurd as throwing out astrophysics because we haven't found out how to make an FTL Drive.

Now I'm not saying this proves God or anything, but at some point you have to say "Oh well how about that." To the thing that continues to happen

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

How do you define consciousness?
If it's any kind of complex system, then of course it can be permanently destroyed. The same way that a computer or a building or a car can be destroyed and not exist anymore, even if its physical components still do.
And if consciousness is a material or an energy or something real, what's the evidence that it even exists? Why do you believe it exists?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I believe it is something simple we do not yet have the capacity to measure and that which can not be recreated as an AI.

Why do I believe it exists? Because I experience it constantly.

I am going to tell you something based on a true story about a spring in Rome believed to cure disease. For centuries even after the fall of the Empire fell people flocked to it believing the Gods blessed it with healing properties.

The scientific minded said bad to the whole thing and assumed it nothing but a legend that fools took stock in. However people continued to come and be healed, no one could explain it.

Until the invention of the Geiger Counter and the discovery of radiation.

The legend had been true all along. The spring had been mildly radioactive! It was killing off what was killing the patrons!

No one had anyway of knowing until suddenly they did.

I believe conciousness to be a similar story that we haven't seen the end of. Perhaps free will is one as well.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

The thing is your story seems more to confirm the scientific consensus around consciousness as connected to the physical existence of the brain. You describe how ancient medicine functioned through trial and error. Some times they came up with stuff that worked, more often than not they didn't, and they had no way of knowing why a cure worked until scientific progress had discovered the underlying explanations for it. So when they found a cure that just happened to work on a certain disease, they would apply it for all sorts of diseases, or lacking proper diagnosis, would mistake other diseases for the disease it worked on and so forth.

It was blind chance without any actual useful theory behind it. Now we have useful theory which explains why consciousness would be linked to the physical cognitive functions of a brain, and less and less that would explain how it could exist without it.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I don't know about "afterlife" as in heaven or hell. I do think that there's some sort of energy not yet possible to measure with current technology. Some energy that goes on and form a part of a different living being. Not as in "reincarnation" where its based on some sort of "diety" or "karma", but just pure randomness. Now you're a human, maybe later your energy (or "soul") goes into an insect, or a cat (oh I love to become a cat). Humans couldn't see radiowaves for millions of years, perhaps the "soul" is just something we haven't developed the technology to see yet.

But for now, we can't prove it, so its just philosophy at this point, not scientific. Maybe we'll become some other living being again, maybe not, who knows...

I personally believe we're just energy that drifts when we die, and inhabit something else, over and over again. Kinda depressing when you really think about it. Forever cused to just die over and over again.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Imagine that energy leaves Earth and you become something higher than man

[-] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

Like a giraffe?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I find it odd that we doubt the afterlife.

Most people don't, unfortunately.

How do you define consciousness? How do you define "you"?

I believe that consciousness is simply an emergent property of our brain. Without the brain, there is no consciousness. A brain can be destroyed, just like a hard drive can be destroyed. Sure, the atoms are still there, but the "you" inside of them is as good as gone.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

It's 50/50 for me. I think with what we know about science it seems pretty clear that we end when we die. And with all that we DON'T know about science it seems just as possible that consciousness is eternal.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

It took me a while to find, but stuff like this research from Yale, reviving organs and brain function long after the point of death, makes it apparent that what it means to die is just as complex a question as what makes us us.

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