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  • It’s actually not cheaper because they tack on $10 or $20 or whatever the charge is for the car wash to the bottom of your bill after charging you the “lower” price for gas. Usually they’re good for a week or two and they’re hoping you’ll forget about it altogether but even if you do use the car wash, what they have charged you is 1000% more than the car wash costs them. It’s scammy all the way around, very typically American, sadly.







  • Supervisor194@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyz"Trippy" Reality
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    8 days ago

    There are no interpretations of quantum physics that require consciousness for observation, so maybe you should look a little closer at what it actually does say? You can pick and choose the science you want to subscribe to of course, but it’s been making verifiable predictions for a hundred years now. If you ignore it because it disagrees with your preconceptions… well, that’s called religion. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


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    to say that reality is subjective or something, as if a blood clot in my leg that I’m just not aware of can’t REALLY kill me.

    It’s not that reality isn’t subjective it’s that acting as if it is subjective isn’t useful for our everyday experience. So we act as if it is objective. But acting as if reality is objective so you can live your life does not mean reality is objective, and personally, I think being absolutely certain that it is objective leads to shit like “Jesus loves you and died for your sins” - not to great science.

    There is a uniform and self-consistent reality

    The great value of science is to give us greater access to that reality

    I’m really not trying to be shitty or anything about this, but science is increasingly showing us something considerably more complicated than that. Science absolutely gives us greater understanding of classical reality which is useful to us because airplanes fly. However, like it or not, science also is telling us that reality is a strange miasma of superpositions and that we actively participate in the creation of reality by simply existing/observing. At the very least, your outlook that it “is… uniform and self-consistent” does not appear to represent what is truly happening, it just represents what you think is happening, which is, ultimately, the point of the OPs meme. Everything you think you know is being filtered through your experience of it and whether this represents some objective reality or not, it represents it enough for you to live your life and feel like it is objective and consistent. But that isn’t necessarily so. As wild as it sounds, there may be an infinite number of branching realities and you are walking down only one, and considering it as “objective reality.” Nevermind that “reality” is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes - there is no way to determine that what you think you experience as “reality” is anything more than the qualia of a brain in a jar. This is Descartes 101.

    Anyway, for anyone interested in this stuff, there’s a great video from Sean Carrol about that outlines the uncomfortable unanswered questions in quantum physics and their implications about reality here.

    Edit to add: on somewhat of a tangent, there’s a fascinating book regarding your brain and reality I really love called Free Will




  • Ranch has more salt than anything and more MSG than garlic, look at the ingredients on a pouch. Ingredients are listed by order of volume. It has more corn starch than onion. It has basically traces of anything else. I know this because I spent not a small amount of time replicating Ranch dressing.

    Although there are a hundred MSG-conspiracy-nut websites that will tell you you don’t need MSG to make Ranch dressing, there is no Ranch dressing recipe that tastes anything at all like Ranch without MSG. Full stop.