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With the World Stumbling Past 1.5 Degrees of Warming, Scientists Warn Climate Shocks Could Trigger Unrest and Authoritarian Backlash in c/climate@slrpnk.net
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Apple Vision Pro available in the U.S. on February 2 in c/technology@lemmy.world
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What's the oldest piece of tech you still have running? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
What's the oldest piece of tech you still have running? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
What is the weirdest food your cat wants to eat? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] 15 points 2 years ago

My girl craves bananas and will circle the table when my son and I are having breakfast, demanding her share. She also likes pita chips.

My old boy (RIP) used to love avocado and seaweed snacks.

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    What are some physics-based arguments against hard determinism? (lemmy.world)
     

    I don't believe free will is real. I'm not a deep physics person (and relatively bad at math), but with my undergrad understanding of chemistry, classical mechanics, and electromagnetism, it seems most rational that we are creatures entirely controlled by our environments and what we ingest and inhale.

    I'm not deeply familiar with chaos theory, but at a high level understand it to be that there's just too many variables for us to model, with current technology, today. To me that screams "god of the gaps" fallacy and implies that eventually we WILL have sufficiently powerful systems to accurately model at that scale...and there goes chaos theory.

    So I'm asking you guys, fellow Lemmings, what are some arguments to causality / hard determinism, that are rooted entirely in physics and mechanics, that would give any credit to the idea that free will is real?

    Please leave philosophical and religious arguments at the door.

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    [UserScript] Lemmy Style Cleanup (greasyfork.org)
    submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/plugins@sh.itjust.works
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    A good chunk of this was borrowed from another thread by @mershed_perderders@sh.itjust.works at https://sh.itjust.works/post/70273 but I've also added:

    • clickable comment headers
    • big friendly up/down vote buttons for posts
    • rearranged comment up/down vote buttons and More button to shift things to be more visually pleasing (to me anyway)
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    YSK that kbin.social is now federating, adding hundreds of communities and ~26k more users content (lemmy.world)
    submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world
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    Because they don't get listed by browse.feddit.de you'll want to browse https://kbin.social/magazines to browse "magazines", which is what they call communities

    e.g. !RedditMigration@kbin.social

    or directly, https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration

    Why YSK: Federation literally just synched up thanks to the tireless efforts by @ernest@kbin.social over the past few days.

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