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The debt is going to come calling, and I'm sure you'll blame Republicans, and I'm sure they'll blame you.

Perhaps I'll have my place self-sustaining by then, perhaps not. But I'll be sure to keep plenty of popcorn stocked.

Took a long time and a lotta effort.

Nah. Both sides are off their rockers. Absolute fucking nutters. One's just more violent. But neither can be trusted with any kind of control over others.

Your options are "grow" or "repeat". Unfortunately, you're the one most equipped to take responsibility for your own life, but you evolved into this situation, and evolution is messy. It's not your fault, bit it's your responsibility.

Accepting those things deeply enough, and what they mean personally, changes everything.

It's kinda funny how fanatically people point out that it's the other side that's the problem.

I'm glad there's someone else out there with the same concerns.

I'd be more glad if unknowns and inconsistencies were frankly acknowledged. Even though in some senses Feynman contributed to the metaphorical tech debt, one of the things I love about his lectures is his frankness in regard to the (then) current state of knowledge, and about how much was simply unknown. Much of that is still unknown, and there are major glaring inconsistencies that are handwaved into oblivion.

To be clear, this is not an "anti-science" comment, but rather a desire to see the institution of science become more consistent, and to address unknowns honestly.

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The state cannot have been absolutely static - if it was, the big bang would not have occurred, and the same stasis would be existing now, unchanged.

Darn. I fold.

Time is change, and exists whether or not we measure it.

shrug it's a post currently showing up in "all".

Go ahead and get another last word in if you like - you're arguing with your own ghosts, mostly. Have a good night.

Pretty clear that's the case here in the comments on this post.