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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldBig oof
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    14 hours ago

    I can find an endless stream of cops escalating violence against people who are not visibly armed.

    Can you show me one instance of police escalating to violence against a protestor with a rifle in their hands?

    Cops are scared bullies, they attack the weakest targets.

    When they see rifles, they go elsewhere.

    It’s not a “take” it’s what the fucking numbers say. Opinions aren’t relevant, neither is you believing anything.



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    He had a concealed weapon he never reached for…

    I’ve never seen cops start beating a person that was carrying a rifle.

    Because the rifle is a visual deterrent. A concealed pistol is not a deterrent, because it’s fucking concealed.

    If Alex Pretti had an AR15, the cops wouldn’t have started beating him or likely others.






  • In general:

    It is hypothesized that contact with a single microscopic seed crystal of the new polymorph can be enough to start a chain reaction causing the transformation of a much larger mass of material.[5] Widespread contamination with such microscopic seed crystals may lead to the impression that the original polymorph has “disappeared”. In a few cases, such as progesterone and paroxetine hydrochloride, the disappearance gradually spread across the world, and it is suspected that it is because Earth’s atmosphere has over time become permeated with tiny seed crystals. It is believed that seeds as small as a few million molecules (about 10−15 grams) are sufficient for converting one morph to another, making unwanted disappearance of morphs particularly difficult to prevent.[3] It is hypothesized that “unintentional seeding” may also be responsible for a related phenomenon, where a previously difficult-to-crystallize compound becomes easier to crystallize over time.[5]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearing_polymorph

    The actual thing I was thinking of and not my butchered spelling:

    During development—ritonavir was introduced in 1996—only the crystal form now called form I was found; however, in 1998, a lower free energy,[54] more stable polymorph, form II, was discovered. This more stable crystal form was less soluble, which resulted in significantly lower bioavailability. The compromised oral bioavailability of the drug led to temporary removal of the oral capsule formulation from the market.[53] As a consequence of the fact that even a trace amount of form II can result in the conversion of the more bioavailable form I into form II, the presence of form II threatened the ruin of existing supplies of the oral capsule formulation of ritonavir; and indeed, form II was found in production lines, effectively halting ritonavir production.[52] Abbott withdrew the capsules from the market, and prescribing physicians were encouraged to switch to a Norvir suspension.[55] It has been estimated that Abbott lost more than US$250 million as a result, and the incident is often cited as a high-profile example of disappearing polymorphs.[56]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritonavir

    But thanks for actually asking.

    And sorry I guess for being off a decade, names and dates aren’t as easy for me as concepts and science.




  • mechanistic process of wavefunction collapse through gravity, somehow suggesting that gravity is responsible for the appearance of our conscious thoughts in our heads??

    I mean, it’s the same question as Plato’s cave, or “if a tree falls in the forest…”

    It’s not new, we just have more science to describe it.

    But that’s a different question entirely.

    I’ve just been convinced by my dog that I have a more developed level of conciseness compared to him, just as he has a more developed sense of smell compared to me.

    No, what sets human apart is how we can communicate in detail and specifics. A single human conciouness sucks, it needs to learn from others. Just like a well trained dog will seem smart. It can’t speak, but it can listen if someone teaches it.

    Which is why shit gets so fucked up when people stop communicating and get tribal about shit. And why nothing speeds up technological advances than increasing communication speed, up to a point which caused the current plateau.


  • Sounds a little hippy to me

    Yeah…

    Because it is?

    Quantum physics has been proposed to be part of the solution for the mystery of consciousness. In particular the holistic character of quantum entanglement might provide an answer to the binding problem14. In the 1990s, Penrose and Hameroff proposed a theory of consciousness based on quantum computations in MTs15,16,17,18. Computational modeling suggested that electron resonance transfer among aromatic amino acid tryptophan (Trp) rings in tubulin (subunits of MTs) in a quantum electronic process could play roles in consciousness19. Craddock et al. showed that anesthetic molecules might bind in the same regions and hence result in loss of consciousness20. In a recent experiment, Zhang et al. observed a connection between electronic states and vibrational states in tubulin and MTs21. However, quantum electronic coherence beyond ultrafast timescales demands more supporting evidence and has been recently challenged experimentally22. In contrast, quantum spin coherence could be preserved for much longer timescales23. For example, Fisher has proposed that phosphorus nuclear spins could be entangled in networks of Posner molecules, , which could form the basis of a quantum mechanism for neural processing in the brain24. However, this particular spin-based model also requires more supporting evidence and recently has faced experimental challenges25.

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-10068-4

    Most people just can’t understand that shit, so when someone talks about it in easy to use terms, it sounds “a little hippy”.

    Like, that’s where the hippies got their words from in the first place bro…

    “Vibing” is an accurate scientific description of two consciousnesses that are agreeable with each other. The people saying it don’t always understand it, but most of what “hippies” say about consciousness is pretty fucking accurate.

    Why not leave consciousness alone

    Why keep insisting the people who always used the term correctly stop because it doesn’t match the simplified version you were taught decades ago in jr high?


  • Is this the game where we stretch the meaning of words beyond usefulness to force an exciting story. Consciousness is a peculiar state, if everything is then nothing is, is that the point of the exercise.

    No, you just don’t know what you’re talking about…

    A simple aromatic ring can experience two states and prefer one or the other, they’re not only a basic conciouness, but they’re OCD too. Whichever state they prefer, they start organizing shit like that. And that leads to biological life.

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-10068-4

    That paper covers a lot of what you’ll need to know for that to make sense.

    But that’s also why true alien life is a 50/50 death sentence no matter what, if they have “left hand biology” any contamination would be a total wipeout. At the base level the new addition would outcompete the host base level, because nothing would be capable of using it as food.

    Like that shit in the 80s with Revinar, it was an HIV medication that was liquid, however a crystalline molecule was created accidentally. Which made an entire production facility inoperable, no matter what they did they kept getting crystals not liquid.

    Then it started spreading to other facilities and they could track it from specific people moving between locations.

    Because just a single molecule in a lab was enough to make all future distiliations copy it.

    Revinar is like a brick mansions, “left hand biology” is the scale of a single brick.

    And an Aromatic ring can just be some kid who spends all day making little bricks for fun.




  • It’s not just plants…

    A cell is part of your body, but is still it’s own unique thing.

    And it is conscious.

    That’s 30-40 trillion cells per person.

    What matters is how big of a microtubule racetrack can be built to support higher consciousness. But even what we think of as human consciousness is just a middle manager summarizing and reacting to shit.

    Most people just don’t know shit about how any of it works because science spent 40+ years saying the smartest mathematician alive had a flawed premise. Since humans can’t maintain the quantum superposition in laboratory setting, we insisted evolution couldnt figure out how to do it in a human body.

    But we can, and we do.

    And those microtubules that link up to create that race track where quantum superposition is possible, are in literally every living cell. They’re the same thing that pulls DNA apart for replication, they’re fucking everywhere, in every living cell.