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Blue pill: Multiple civilizations spanning continents and centuries determined in complete isolation from one another that a pyramid was a fundamentally important architectural structure for astrological rituals.

Red pill: Multiplecivilizations spanning continents and centuries determined in complete isolation from one another that forcing someone to wear a silly hat was the ultimate own.
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@niplav Nice. Good call. I'll check it out, like it was a big tiddie goth walking across my path.

Wikipedia article on Banach spaces: “Maurice René Fréchet was the first to use the term »Banach space« and Banach in turn then coined the term »Fréchet space.«” that is very cute.

there are two types of panpsychism, and they can be distinguished by asking “if i shatter this glass, will it feel pain?”. one answers "yes", the other answers "no clue, but probably not"

online). a shelf copy of the mahabharata takes up 10 volumes

apparently the tibetan canon is *checks* 73 million words long. which would be 173,000 pages. yea

i think if wikipedia says that the chinese buddhist canon is 52,382,960 characters long, that would be around 50,000,000 words. mental

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i think india is actually the source of written religions. seriously, the tripitaka is so gigantic (50 volumes) that it hasn't been completely translated *until this day* (acessintoinsight.org summarizing it with the words “if you want to read the whole tripitaka, you'll have to learn pali”), and i can't find a description of how long the vedas are (except the 20379 mantras figure on wikipedia, which would be ~10,000 pages judging from the length of a mantra in the incomplete pdfs i've found

the adiabatic sutra, the inframeasure sutra, the acausal sutra

everybody being mad about pregnant man emoji, but im just happy emojis became horny with the biting lip one

Niplav Yushtun™: Paratechnē straight from the source

listening to the last 80k podcast i realize that there's a lot of α left in dvcs.

the silence prickles
a mind too fast for meaning
unwrapping my thoughts

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