MikeLinPA

MikeLinPA t1_jecw9mo wrote

Your child is better off being from a broken home than being in a broken home.

You can't make it better by yourself. You cannot make her happy if she refuses to be happy.

Do what you have to do. Get therapy for yourself even if she won't go. Contact a lawyer. Document everything.

Good luck.

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MikeLinPA t1_jdknbkf wrote

It's antiparticle only moves forward. There is only one particle in the entire universe, racing forward and back, reversing polarity when reaching either end, and returning. Everything in the universe is made of this one particle, taking its place for the briefest of instances, before flying off to be part of something else in the past or future. The one particle is quadrillions of quadrillions of times older than time itself, because it is everything, and everything is composed of it, one particle/instance at a time.

And boy, is that particle tired!

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MikeLinPA t1_j9kl5ba wrote

The only people that think they are connected to the universe are using hallucinogenics. The universe is under no obligation to cater to us in any way.

We are all machines. We are biological machines, made of meat and chemicals. If an AI made of silicon and wires thinks it is experiencing emotions, that is as valid as an meat based object thinking it is experiencing emotions.

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MikeLinPA t1_j9i9p6p wrote

We have people that start fist fights in the supermarket parking lot, kill others because they think someone looked at them wrong, and leaders of nations that execute generals and commit genocide against it's own citizens. How much more irrational or illogical could an AI be? Humanity ain't setting very high standards here!

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MikeLinPA t1_j2c2fdx wrote

Much easier! No one is fighting for the water, and it doesn't have to be lifted up from a planet. Why fight a war for the privilege of lifting all that mass out of a gravity well when you can hoover it up and fly away?

Also, when I said the nebula were more massive than the entire solar system, I couldn't remember if it was hundreds of times more, or thousands, or millions. I just remembered it being astronomically more than the amount of water on earth.

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MikeLinPA t1_j2by4vk wrote

Wow, great thought! Lots to think about.

I believe there are nebula made of water vapor, (or ice crystals?) that are more massive than our solar system, so we wouldn't even have to isolate the hydrogen and oxygen, but a controlled burn of H and 2O would be a source of heat energy. (Also a risk of explosion!)

Hauling around enough to make a difference for a planet, (either water or the gasses,) would be another challenge. Even if we had spaceships the size of a football stadium, that would be insignificant compared to one of the great lakes, much less an ocean. If we could haul around volumes comparable to large asteroids or small moons, then we're making progress.

Without doing any math, I am picturing spheres of water the size of Texas. It would take a steady supply of them to fill the world's oceans. Thousands? IDK

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MikeLinPA t1_j0f2kr4 wrote

The people in power are only part of the equation. Consumers mostly don't care where their food comes from. They care that it is affordable.

My family owned a butcher shop. 50 years ago nearly everyone knew exactly how their food was raised and accepted it. Now most people do not know where their food comes from because they don't want to know. Greedy people in power are there by giving consumers what they want. The company that does it your way goes out of business. Nobody is going to buy the scrawny chickens at higher cost than the meaty ones. It ain't gonna happen.

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MikeLinPA t1_j0eu8i4 wrote

They would taste okay, but they would be scrawny and not worth the resources put into raising them. Do you want to buy the big meaty chicken at market price, or the scrawny chicken at twice that price because someone wasted resources raising them? They are going to be side by side in the case at the supermarket, which will you buy? I'm buying the meaty chicken for less.

Do you see the issue now? Nobody is going to buy the expensive scrawny chicken at a higher price when they can buy a meaty chicken for less. We, as a society, have industries dedicated to breeding animals for specific uses. Meat chickens are for meat, and both genders are good for meat. Layers are for laying eggs and only the females are useful. Male layers will not be adequate for meat and will be a waste of feed, space, time, and money. It's a sad reality.

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MikeLinPA t1_j0e1h67 wrote

If people go vegan, this stops being an issue. Until then, we shouldn't over-regulate the industry because it will only create new problems.

No, I am not vegan, but I understand fully where my food comes from. We can try to be less cruel, but the meat industry is harsh by its very nature.

Have a good night.

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MikeLinPA t1_j0c1t6x wrote

It would be a bad use of resources. We shouldn't legislate to force agriculture to waste resources and raise poor quality meat chickens to sell expensively to consumers. It would be bad for everyone.

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MikeLinPA t1_j0bzlg1 wrote

You wouldn't like it. Chickens bread for laying eggs are not good for eating. Even if they raised them long enough for pet food, it wouldn't be profitable or resource economical.

I thought the same thing when I first heard about this issue, so I looked into it a little bit. In the old days, chickens were chickens. Not so anymore. They have been bread for specific uses. Agriculture isn't for the faint of heart.

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MikeLinPA t1_iy6e6k6 wrote

When I was a kid in the 60s,i wanted a robot more than anything! There was a robot on Lost in Space, and Gigantor, and AstroBoy, and nothing else could be cooler!

Now I'm an adult, and there is a huge in-the-way pos robot roaming the aisles of Giant Supermarket, and I am surprised at how much I despise that damned thing! I want to knock it over every time it sneaks up on me or gets in my way! (It patrols the store looking for spills. It doesn't even clean them up, it calls for a cleanup in aisle #. That's its whole job. What a waste.)

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