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31. She/her. Doctor Who, other forms of generalized nerdiness. Talks in tags. Enjoys explaining things. Autistic. Bi AF. Proud ally of my trans, intersex, ace/aro, and nonbinary siblings.
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doctor who

is a very good show and i love it very much

ok ttfn <3

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hollowtones
Anonymous asked:

If you fold a pizza in half, is it a sandwich?

the language is not some inherent truth of life. we made the words as a lens to better understand the world.

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no one in the comments has listened

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papasmoke

i think if you folded a pizza in half it wouldn’t be very easy to eat and i would not eat it anyway actually because i am lactose intolerant. but if i did eat it i would unfold it first because the folded pizza would be too tall to fit in my mouth unless i squished. also if i shoot a bullet from the moon and it kills someone in texas do the texas police have jurisdiction or do the moon police?

you, though. 

you have listened.

The first crime alleged to have happened in space was identity theft. In 2019, NASA astronaut Lt Col. Anne McClain was accused by her estranged wife, Summer Worden, of illegally accessing the couple’s finances while she was aboard the International Space Station. The matter was investigated by the NASA Office of the Inspector General. McClain was cleared of all charges in 2020.

By international treaty, no country can claim territory in space, so space is considered “international waters” and maritime law applies. Jurisdiction over maritime crimes can get quite complicated, but here’s a transcript of a statement given by FBI Assistant Director Salvador Hernandez to a Congressional committee in 2007. Since the murder happened on American soil and the murder weapon crossed jurisdictional lines, the FBI would have at least some jurisdiction, likely in cooperation with relevant Texas police. If another country is involved, it’d be up to the US Department of State to reach an agreement with the other nation’s government. So if you were standing on a European Space Agency-owned lunar lander when you fired the shot, the EU would have to be consulted. The NASA OIG might get involved, too, but they don’t do their own enforcement, they hand their findings off to the Department of Justice.

Who folds an entire pizza? Who bites into an entire pizza, folded or not? Cut it into slices first. (And put ranch on it. It’s good.)

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To summarize literally 2000 years of occult philosophy in a tumblr post:

Reality is fundamentally flexible, it is fluid, pooling in some places and running thin in others. You may be familiar with the idea of a "thin" or liminal space, and their rarely-cited opposite, the proximal space.

All things exist on a spectrum of "real" to "not real" but they can never actually be 100% real or 100% unreal.

For example: prove to me right now that you're real.

Basically, it's impossible, we have to trust that our eyes and ears and tongues aren't lying to us when they tell us "yes we are experiencing the world right now" but they could be lying to us! This could all be a vivid dream and tomorrow we could wake up as a frog. That isn't likely, but the world is full of unlikely things.

So, if you can't prove that something is real, there is no capital-T Truth to reality, but (and here's where the woo-y occult philosophy bits come in) that means that there's also no capital-U Untruth to reality either.

Hence, all things exist on a spectrum between truth and untruth, all built on the flexible and (and manipulatable) nature of human perception.

#idk about the proximal/liminal thing but i mean#the more Science! we do the more we learn how limited our capacity to perceive and interpret reality is#you can hold a rock in your hand and it'll be real to you#brown. smooth and rounded. cool. heavy. hard.#but the rock is none of those things#it's a complex arrangement of atoms bound together in specific ways#there's nothing about what you're holding that is brown or cool or hard. that's just the way you perceive it#the rock isn't brown. it isn't a color at all. nothing has an inherent color. color is a trick of perception#is it actually smooth or can our fingers just not feel the countless tiny bumps of its surface?#it's not cool. that's also a trick of perception. so is weight.#and ''hard'' is a relative term at best#we exist in squishy electrochemical computers called brains#and our brains take in data from sensors on our bodies and process that data into what we perceive as reality#but the actual truth of reality#how it works on a fundamental level#is imperceptible to us#the more we figure out about the things underlying the fundamental nature of the universe the weirder it gets#how does DNA even work? what's dark matter? what are the implications of the double slit experiment? aaa. AAAAAAAA#anyway. so. it's a bad idea to think about that stuff all the time. sometimes you just gotta be a simple caveperson with simple needs#ug drink water. water tasty. brings life#but i think it's worth considering the nature of reality and our perception of it#not just because funsies but because it can encourage us to be kind to one another and to ourselves#nobody realllllly knows what's going on#Nobody Knows#we're all unimaginably tiny squishy lil organic robots tootling around on the surface of a radioactive dust mote#as it travels through an incomprehensibly vast and bizarre cosmos#we're so smol you guys#but at the same time#every single one of us is the unique product of 3 billion years of biochemical engineering#each of us a distinct variation on an unending melody
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