never am i more convinced of computational materialism than when i'm consistently useless for several weeks straight bc my brain has nowhere to dump its waste heat

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this has very direct implications for why europe was the cradle of technological civilization

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RT @pee_zombie
air conditioning is the biggest equalizer, as the reason technological civilization first arose in white skin nations is due to climate. kind of hard to sit and think long and hard enough to invent cool shit when you're sweating profusely

also consider the rust factor
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