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1. about 23 hours ago on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

   Within the Copenhagen interpretation, eigenstates and eigenvalues are created at and by measurement. Schrodinger presumed that measurement is made by humans only – an actual observation by actual eyes, for instance. So, if instead of a cat there was a human in the box/room? would that change the argument since there is a human involved. Is dying a measurement? If it is for a human it is not for a cat? Or measurement needs another formalism? Surely the being cannot be alive and dead, so the problem must be the definition of the measurement that collapses the state.

2. 3 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   My post is inflammatory to you only. And nobody appointed you official comment policy enforcer. Do you go other people’s parties to enforce their rules? In any case, I will now stop replying.

3. 3 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   yes, yes, and yet it is still true that I found in that song the spark of joy that made me want to resist a while more against the tide of lies, stupidity desinformation and, yes, fascism that is sweeping vast swaths of this world.

4. 6 days ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   the things we have to read… you would still be queuing on soup kitchens if it weren’t for the Social Security Act and the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933.

5. 6 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   no, trolling is deliberately being annoying or trying to cause distress in others. I’m stating that I find these times oppressive and the song Pastis brought up cause me joy, which I used to cope and resist another day. And Pastis comics are very political in case you haven’t noticed.

6. 8 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   well, no. the resistance part is important.

7. 10 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Because this song brought me joy. And joy, in these grim days, became political, an act of resistance, as another great band said.

   Great, you got the youtube url thing.

8. 11 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   youtube[dot]com/watch?v=ovoBi3pXD_A

   That bass line is great to keep the spirits high to fight against the fascist tide.

   Dance, love, organize, resist, repeat.

   It is what can be done for now.

9. 26 days ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   Yes, most of us will not have the guts or the moral fortitude to stand up and resist. I, for instance, do not know if I’m truly equipped to resist. I’m surely not different from the majority here. Hence the tolerance to the preposterous, it is easier. Organize, do not fight alone, is my only advice to self.

10. 27 days ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

    When I read about the rise of the third Reich in Germany, I used to think how extraordinary their days must have been until things like the annexation of Sudeten took place. But no, if you read the newspapers of that time, you realise that pretty common news would find their way into the 1st page.Maybe people in Germany, as we now, were expecting rough times but never imaging the worst. Maybe, as now, they saw the government’s actions as a form of burlesque entertainment. They had the hubris and stupidity leading to 1st war as a warning. We have 2WW as warning. But maybe humans just have a very large tolerance for the preposterous.I hope I’m wrong. If I’m not, I fear that suffering at an unimaginable scale will be needed to defeat these vampires. And there will be no Soviet Union to provide the millions of dead in battle. That will be up to us.