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area 51 or whatever near that area, farts in the wind told me that the antimatter can create or clone other matter.

shit is twisting your sense of reality so hard when you see it happen irl

basically its like if we gave nuclear power plant to cave men, they will die fucking up somehow.

we have been given the technology of the universe itself and its kept a secret until they have a plan b and c :(
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ITT: Actually scientific social science books

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Fuck social science syllabi. I hate the books the university has prescribed for Economics undergraduate. All the books are dumbed down for laypeople, avoid math, and have all sorts of colours and graphics meant to attract zoomers with zero attention span. Half the time I have to go look up the original source of all the topics on Jstor, to find the actual theories. This is where I envy Physics and Math books: it's b&w; precise and straight to the point, no beating around bush, and constantly repeating themselves for zoomers; everything is rigorously defined; etc. All these books are less scientific and more like those I fucking love basedience Kurzgesagt channels.

So far I have found Mas Colell and Foundation of Economic analysis for Micro; Gandolfo(s) for pure theory of trade, and dynamics; for Macro, while Mankiw is exactly the sort of book I am complaining about---paradoxically, I like the book, mostly because Macro does require a lot of dumbing down for undergrads---the math is easy to look up elsewhere.

My main problem is when they suddenly introduced topics relying on finance and accounting mid syllabus, expecting us to somehow already be familiar with accounting and finance. I am looking for good books on all the nominal, financial parts of economics, including accounting, which provides clear definitions, as well as motivation if not history behind all the institutions. I really don't find any motivation behind all the complicated structures. I have found Gandolfo's book on international finance highly mathematical and precise, but it seems to be very intermediate, made for someone who already knows a bit of finance and accounting.
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Immortality, what do we need? making continuously recovering cells would make us immortal? I want to know what do we have to have to reach the immortality and is it possible to acquire that. G?VE ME ALL YOUR KNOWLEDGE.
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Is quantum physics the horror genre of science?

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I was trying to figure out how mirrors work and fell down a rabbit hole of quantum physics videos. Is probability a real thing in quantum physics? For example, if you have two opposite events with the same probability, say two opposing paths of a photon, does the universe actually calculate the probability and then makes the photon go another way? Doesn't that imply there's some kind of a universal processing unit that calculates probabilities? I'm scared, please tell me that's not how it works

For reference, this is the video I got stuck on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYLzxcU6ROM

The bit I'm talking about starts at 7:26
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What are the chances we're living in a simulation? What would the consequences of that be?
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even though correlation does not equal causation, can two correlated but unrelated statistics nonetheless be used to to predict each other?
for example, if we found an inverse correlation between drinking coffee and dying in aviation disasters, could we therefore say that a pilot who drinks coffee is less likely to die in the air?
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Gravity Manipulation

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I just revolutionized mass (and low mass) production in my mind. I just need to wait for gravity manipulation technology to be invented. Where are we in that regards?
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Can depression kill you?

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What is your opinion on psychoanalysis? Its science??
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