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men assigned to SCP-173 will literally blink one eye at a time

metaculus.com/questions/7027/t "How many refugees will be admitted to the US from 2021 to 2024?", current community median is 300k (75k/yr), vs 120k under Trump, 260k and 290k under Obama, 200k under Bush

real tradhumanists get brain implants that stop them from using twitter

ha, nice try mugger, because if that it so, then the cosmic experience would just be stabbing itself, and likewise the cosmic experience would just be giving its wallet to itself, and this would be futile, it would only make sense for it to be in a state that's best for itself

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ha, nice try tetraspace, but we both know that factoring experience into different "person-moments" is fallacious, an illusion brought on my memory. there's one cosmic person which is everywhere and everywhen with a single eternal experience

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ha, nice try mugger, but if I don't give you my wallet, you won't be stabbing me, you'll just be stabbing a totally different person-moment in the future that remembers being me

that I now have three incomplete openings to my story about an akratic self-insert god that can’t finish a world was accidental but actually perfect for the story

i meet mitch calrus and hes just like ??? and im like "nah dont worry im not a part of this imprisoning god thing. just hanging out" then vanish.

me: time to clear my mind of thoughts and observe the impressions on consciousness as they enter and leave
my foot: STATUS REPORT: I AM A FOOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the ppl who say "lord give me the unearned confidence of a mediocre &c" will never get such confidence because they think they themselves have to earn it

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