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OK, so one of them is run by a mad dictator and.. Oh never mind.

This has nothing to do with there being “no such thing as people.” The core issue here is identity, social cohesion, and empathy. Leaving aside the mystical woo of oneness, we really are just one element of the universe in human form for a little while. When we see ourselves as separate or different, we act accordingly. We become tribal, competitive, amd less cooperative. When we see ourselves as part of a larger whole, however, we see others as extensions of ourselves and tend more to protect and nourish them much like we would our own family.

At first reading I assumed he meant electron/positron pairs had positive/negative masses, and stopped reading. Turns out he's actually implying the direction of a vector potential makes it positive or negative absolute value, not just convention. And again I stopped reading...

Ideally, yes, but the Military Industrial Complex isn't a free market. There is little to no competition. Those who award the contracts either worked in the defense industry before taking office, or they will work there again once they leave (or both). The few players that dominate the market (Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Boeing) all have their niche and don't step on each other's toes. The Pentagon is never audited. This is what "capitalism" looks like in the military: https://newstarget.com/2017-07-03-f-35-fighter-jet-project-a-total-bust-planes-dont-work-nearly-a-trillion-dollars-flushed-down-a-dark-hole.html The F-35 fighter jet project is the most expensive weapons system ever designed, but apparently no one is sure that it works or that it will meet expectations. About 10 years behind schedule and as yet not living up to all of its design requirements, American taxpayers will have to cough up about $1.5 trillion to pay the tab before all is said and done. Approximately $100 billion-plus has already been spent on the program in sunk costs for planes that have a price tag of about $100 million each, apparently double what was originally promised. Why do we even need all of these things? We're stuck in a vicious circle. The Military Industrial Complex demands hundred of billions per year to essentially line the pockets of shareholders. Politicians give it to them and then get cushy jobs once they leave office, or they take "campaign contributions". Meanwhile demand has to be created for all this advanced weaponry. In this case DEMAND = CONFLICT. So the defense industry is always looking for the next conflict that the US can get involved in (or start) to maintain their raison d'etre in the eyes of the taxpayers. Or they sell off last year's technology to some developing country, so now they're armed to the teeth. Imagine if there was an industry of similar magnitude devoted to fighting climate change and protecting the environment? And every year taxpayers spent 600 billion dollars on it....

There was a time when I was sleeping and all of a sudden I dreamt of being inside of a large field and a giant light in the sky came to me and tried to speak with me without words. Only communicating using a "feeling." I would guess what it was and it would only "appear" to be more and more angry. It was only when I called it "God" that a large trumpet began to play. It was like I was not being "told" what to do, but instead guided. After waking up I thought back on it and it made me realize two things; that I was indoctrinated too much when I was a child to the delusion of a "God" and that I should probably try and watch what I eat before I go to sleep. Your mind is a VERY powerful thing, which tries to recognize patterns and attempts to make itself more "important" than everything else in the universe. It is not, we have more efficient tools which remove the personal bias in which the brain attempts to create. One of these is called science. True "enlightenment" is not knowing that you are absolutely "right." It is knowing that you are filled with biases and trying to mitigate those biases in order to develop the correct truths to better both yourself and those within your environment.

I always use whole numbers and even ( or odd, depending on my mood ) numbers to show the one-to-one correspondence. Most people would think that there are only half as many even numbers ( 2,4,6,8,10,...) as there are whole numbers ( 1,2,3,4,5,6,...). But you can easily see that each whole number can be doubled to give each even number, so in the case of infinite sets of both there is a one-to-one correspondence between each n, and 2n ( for whole and odd, n and 2n-1 ). That means the two infinities are equal. If you can't do a one-to-one correspondence then the two infinite sets cannot be equal and one must be greater than the other.

Unfortunately, we're catching up... 🙄

But if that were to rule out a simulation on a grid, it would not rule out a simulation. And if it were to show a lattice structure to the universe, it would not rule out that being completely natural. Either result could be either a simulation or natural. But even if those were to find the results they claim would support a particular type of hypothesis, there is absolutely no reason to not just assume that "that is the way the universe works". Whatever results they get could be either a simulation or natural. Evidence that space is quantized on a lattice, or that things only come into existence when observed (or any other claimed evidence for simulation) may be consistent with the simulation hypothesis. But it can't rule out the alternative that we just live in a world that behaves like our idea of a simulation. Nothing can. There is nothing you can come up with that could only happen if the universe were a simulation. And nothing you can come up with that would be impossible if the universe were a simulation. Nope. It is the philosophical equivalent of solipsism or Last Thursdayism. Completely unfalsifiable by its very definition.

Are you suggesting that the positron or electron has negative mass ?

Apologies if this has already been shared, but it's too good not to be sure. A dashboard with drill-down capability for infections and recoveries from Johns Hopkins: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

MigL i bet you feel like a empowered egotistical male when you are writing assumptions and slandering an individual who could be suffering from a disorder for all you know. It doesn't matter what you think or say. You do not know the weight of the situation in all of its entirety. In fact you sir are as sick as they come with lack of compassion and virtue and the understanding of the inner working of the minds. So as it may be to you garbage, or something you can bat at like a cat at outoff curiosity and play and there is no desire for seriousness for your lack of knowledge. In fact you knew it all the time there is no evidence. In fact sir this is a joke haha thanks for laughing and your mockery. May life give you its fullest blessings gentlemen.