VoterFrog

I think the real chaos is how it would affect dates. "The store is closed on the 25th" now would necessitate specifying the exact hours and dates because it would likely bleed from the 24th or into the 26th. Anyone filling out a form would have to be careful to check the time to make sure they get the date right. Even just the simple statement "Let's get together Tuesday" becomes ambiguous.

It would be pretty dumb to add all that confusion to the vastly more common use case, for what?

They've got more pressing issues to deal with. Trans people aren't going to ban themselves from bathrooms.

Love that the picture associated with this article is Trump staring into the eclipse. Fucking moron.

If we're in a simulation, it's probably a massive universe-spanning one. We're just a blip, both within the scale of the space of the universe and within the history of time of the universe. In that case, we're not important enough for a simulation creator to even care to adjust our capabilities at all. They're not watching us. We're not the point of the simulation.

Everyone's talking about encyclopedias but they weren't always that useful either. They can only fit so much information in those books so some topics would only get like 3 sentences dedicated to them. So yeah, if you were writing a research paper for school you'd spend lots of time at the library trying to find books that had another smidge of information you needed.

If you were lucky, you'd find a really good book that was very relevant to your topic and lean heavily on that. Otherwise, you'd wind up with like a few sentences each from a dozen books that you have to tie together somehow. Wasn't fun.

"Come to my restaurant that exclusively makes dog shit and I'll give you a fine dining meal that's definitely not dog shit. Yes, I already got you in once by making the exact same promises and fed you nothing but dog shit but it'll be different this time, I promise." Still sounds stupid as shit to me.

Guy says "No, not entirely" and then proceeds to explain that they're mostly ignorant and willing to vote for anyone who offers change even if they're an con man who's stated positions will very obviously make things worse. I don't know what this guy's criteria for stupid is but that sounds like people are pretty fucking stupid to me.

It's not the free fall that I'm worried about. It's what comes after.

Seconded, though I would advise getting the DLC after completing the main game.

I'll tell you why I say the answer is no to whether or not the occult, demons, or ghosts exist. There's a phenomenon in statistics where if you were to select a random element from an infinite set of equally probable elements, the probability that a specific element will be selected is 0%. Not close to 0, literally 0.

These kinds of supernatural phenomena that have no evidence belong to an infinite set of equally unlikely phenomena with no evidence. Their likelihood of being real is 0%. Only when phenomena has some tangible evidence explaining it can we elevate it to a finite set with a non-zero likelihood of being real.

Sorry but I'm going to call out what I see as some pretty blatant motte-and-bailey argumentation by the OP and their offense taken to people trying to nail down the definition of supernatural is illustrative.

They have their bailey, belief in things like the occult, ghosts, demons, etc, that are almost certainly bullshit. To the extent that they can be falsified, they have been. This is the typical definition of what people think when you say "supernatural" and people are right to answer "no" when asked if they believe in it.

But then you have OP falling back on their motte when this happens, taking a nebulous definition of supernatural and asking rhetorical philosophical questions about reality, perception, and the unknown. The fallacy is that these questions do nothing to strengthen or refute the original argument about the supernatural.

Nobody is here to argue that nothing is unknown and even unknowable but that doesn't make the things that people typically call "supernatural" any less bullshit. Demons and ghosts are just not the kinds of things that are waiting around to surprise us. And shifting the conversation from your bailey to your motte to protect your feelings on the former is not a good way to have a friendly debate.

All that aside, if you are interested in expanding your understanding of the universe then I'd really encourage you to divert the effort you're putting into the "supernatural" into learning about the actual natural universe instead. Our universe really is fantastic on its own. There's plenty of interesting, wacky, and unknown things happening all around us that you can learn about without resorting to magic. If anything, magic is the boring answer imo.

It can't be expressed in any integer-based notation without an infinite number of digits. Only when expressed in some bases which are themselves, irrational. It's infinity either way.