What is the actual chance there is a series of perfect gravitational interaction events like a set of ever escalating influence dominoes that you set in motion in a solar system, starting even with only 10^21 J initial energy cost and then many body interactions cause ejection of a particularly potent celestial body that ultimately targets a planet decades or centuries later. The sequence is extremely difficult but with so many objects in the solar system there could easily be a solution only AI can find.

Not even ai can beat chaos, I'd say.

Zeno living the life. I am jealous.

Well surely eventually that is true but there are effects that can be calculated if you have enough accuracy in all the objects involved up to a point in the future without concern for perfect final accuracy (ie Liapunov exponent type thing) . I am imagining here some 1-2-3-4-5-6-7 punch type sequence that wont happen in real life by chance as often because it requires fine tuning that only intelligence can design that way.

Please cooperate with chaos in an orderly manner?

You never expect the pastor showing up at the mandatory public school awards event during school’s hours at the invite of the principle, posted on the agenda, saying a religious prayer. They won. God was spoken about devoutly in school yesterday.

God was put back in schools. I’m busy raising money for field trips the new principal says the school can’t afford while he is exposing the school to legal risk which ain’t at all as cheap as a bus to the archives and history museum. Direct violation of amendment one witnessed before mi eyes. Experienced. I kept my head up and watched that pastor and principle like hawks to see if they were praying while looking around like hypocrites. That’s how they prey and I hope they never forget my eyes or my child’s unbowed head. That’s life. Theocrats never expect to be disrupted.

They have Christmas and Easter school holidays now? WTF?

We hosted Santa Claus, a mythical saint, in the school library outside of school hours, open to all but not at all mandatory. I’ve decided I believe in the unconditional divinity within the hearts of children. Checkmate theocrats. No prayers required as long as children are present.

You're allowed to carry money in Alabama schools, right?

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

I am allowed to choose who I trust- because that is my response to that slogan. It’s reasonable, more so compared to presuming group trust with out choice.

Santa was great. The person in the role has real rosy cheeks with his real beard and a jolly disposition. I felt like we won th Santa lottery and the children showed up and we did lots of family photos with a reputed Saint in the school library.

It’s all about imposition and how to choose to best defy it.

I forgot the best part. It was free. The PTO board personally paid Santa. So people had a non-preferential Christmas event (Santa crosses over to secular like he is Saintly) and without the consumerism of going to see the Mall Santa. Public school library, community of a place where people builds trust. Theocrats skip the building phase. They tainted the library a little, but I’m organizing a science fair and a chess club this spring. Too late theocrats, we already arrived with choice to trust.

It’s going to be okay Charlie. It already is. The principle was extra nice today, he may have read my social media report about the event.

One detail that I almost overlooked was that the pastor came with 2 bankers. We are supposed to be grateful I guess because they donated a huge TV to the school no parent I can find asked for. What a mess of fascism. A public service hierarchy is infested with religious-aligned business interests with help from an unlawful authority on top of the hierarchy.

I can’t just drink beer and laugh. It’s ridiculous. And those religious-business interests haven’t once reached out to either of the PTO co-presidents. Is it their territory now?

Note announcement; 2+2 will be down from Friday night (1/25, assume pacific time zone) to sometime on Saturday morning (1/26). Anticipated downtime to upgrade sever is eight hours. It could be longer depending. Use this time wisely. Do I need to suggest slamming down a massive amount of beer?

It's not, Spank. Greed and selfishness and ignorance are not going to go away.

No.

https://foxandhoundssw1.co.uk/index.php

Yes, but punk ain’t dead nor lost, it’s alive and well, taking punk back still...

https://youtu.be/vbYkz5CBMas

I mean if you aren’t impressed with materialisticism, all they got is authority they use badly. It’s clue because no one said they have a monopoly on authority but them.

They can be defeated with better education, better social fairness and stability in income and resources ie prosperity and a society that rewards responsible behavior and punishes unethical behavior a little more seriously or makes selfish behavior that initiates conflicts to others that did nothing essentially wrong financially not as rewarding. So competition must be there but not unethical competition as much.

You need a world that rewards effort and service to the community and ethical conduct overall as agreed by most people (what that is and adjusts in time), offers chances to all and substantial education and mentor-ship to all kids. So the family has better chance to be a good family to the kids and the environment cares for them so that they grow up more educated and with more opportunities and aware of the possibilities and problems around them instead of randomly left in their good or bad luck.

People that grow up to be educated, confident, shaped in character by the understanding that you can achieve a lot with fair effort in a more just world will have fewer insecurities and feel less of a desire to operate unethically to get ahead. Education and especially math builds character (ie confidence and humility at the same time, understanding of higher complexity and the limitations of one's knowledge and the power of expanding that knowledge that can lead to better decision making and citizenship), discipline, reduces the negative power of frustration and laziness and offers a sense of purpose in personal growth and the pursuit of happiness with legitimate means that are not short lived and ignore the reality of one's condition. A society that is forgiving and helpful in a non intrusive but responsible manner will help people out of the misery of insecurity, selfishness, mediocrity, unhealthy addictions and simplistic reasoning. Study what makes a person happy and how to responsibly provide that to most with common efforts, higher technology and science. A responsibly happy person with life that rewards the experience of having it is no longer as much of a problem to others around them but tends instead to be more friendly, confident and not depressed.

MdZ,

I agree with much of that and in terms of my own personal life wholly agree. But I Thin that you are terribly naive and idealistic to imagine that the strategy you articulate is either available or of any interest to most people. Somewhat more specifically, I think the venal and corrupt rationalize to themselves that heir actions are actually just, and that path is simply easier than the one you suggest — and thus more likely for most people.

masque comes across as a really nice person. I propose that we map his brain and use it as the template for our soon to arrive AI overlord.

I think I am willing to live in a universe where MdZ is a benevolent dictator.

Hold on a sec. I just realized that I don't know his views on unhealthy snacks which might make me revise my position.

What exactly do you have in mind?

Greek olive oil french fries and feta cheese with fresh baked bread, pop corn with butter and salt, ice cream, chocolate, cheesecake with blueberries, strawberries & kiwi, croissants, donuts with various things in them, souvlaki with pita/gyro, pizza, shrimps in chef (pink) sauce, fish and calamari, Szechuan Pork or other Sichuan cuisine dishes, old fashioned style family owned old country hamburgers, cheese steaks etc?

How about spanakopita, tiropita with nice phyllo, galactoboureko, baclava, diples?
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/70320/galaktoboureko/
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/216882/tiropita/
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/21496/spanakopita/
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/9645/baklava
https://www.thespruceeats.com/greek-...recipe-1705540


While at it why not spoil youself more

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loukaniko
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meze (appetizers sure...we will go with that)

And lets not forget if from trusted source the most disgusting delicious food better not ask what you are eating
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokoretsi

Nasty snacks haha. We cornered the market for have funners anonymous worldwide lol.

In scientific society the idea is to have fun and let science deal with the consequences of bodily harm inflicted by all those criminal elements lol.

But its also possible to modify appetite and not be addicted to abusive behavior that is harmful or direct it to more intense pleasure with less harmful solutions that only mimic the experience of the bad ones.

La classe degli asini.

The Scientific Society sure sucks the fun out of unhealthy snacks.