You’re talking to somebody that studies particle physics okay.

Simple answer: no

They don’t, although they do not “rarely” interact with other particles, they move as waves, like all other energy in the universe.

I feel like most horror movies are preying on deep psychological fears of things that don’t or won’t happen, or happen only in the furthest reaches of the psyche.

The concept of just leaving your house to get some turnips and getting shot in the face is like a daily thing for every American, so I’m not sure that makes for good psychological horror.

I wonder how fast this conversation changes when it’s about protecting Americans’ data and privacy…

That’s what this current topic is about you rain-soaked gutter-muppet.

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Since the concept of God is unique to each individual, and totally irrational, and basically non-existent in an objective sense, the answer would be no.

Or I suppose more to your question, if you personally believe that God exists and is a physical being and you believe it’s made of atoms, then it’s made of atoms.

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I wanted to add an edit here. I think it’s very baffling to me that you chose atoms. Atoms are not even fundamental particles; they are made up of smaller particles. And those smaller particles themselves are made up of smaller particles. And we’re not entirely sure where those particles come from, they might be from fields that are even more fundamental.

The point here is that I do not understand why you have chosen an arbitrary scale for matter. Even if we did accept for a moment that God was a physical creature, why would he be made of coalescences or larger particles? I know it seems ridiculous but it’s kind of like pondering if God is made of baseballs.

It must be understood first that religion emerges from magical thinking, and magical thinking is a vital process that occurs within the human experience.

It keeps us sane and functional within a completely irrational, meaningless universe. The human ability to perceive patterns where none exist is vital to our existence.

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Wait until you discover that almost every action taken by a human is irrational, unconscious, and based on their emotional state and feelings. And that humans do not communicate with logic, they communicate by exchanging the way they feel and perceive the world with each other, within a mutual logical/perceptive framework.

I would suggest you do a little bit of research into neurobiology - It’s very humbling to be confronted with the fact that we have approaching-zero control over what we think and feel.

Perhaps your woo detector needs some fine-tuning.

A vaporware public-relations stunt product described as being made from “bio-sourced” items LIKE ORANGE ZEST

“If your username was a username, how username would username username?”

They’re here.

Thanks. Woo woo confirmed. Article is 6 years old and shows a failed design purported to be more enviro-friendly. Articles has exactly the weasel-words you’d expect: “Bio-sourced” lmao

e: Also check this disclosure out from the bottom of the article “Disclosure: Michelin paid for my travel expenses to participate in the Movin’On conference.”

I would love to learn more because I’m smelling a lot of woo woo.

That can’t even be denied at this point. There was a small window before the Reddit API fiasco and everybody showed up here to post the same rat-shit they gobble over there. I had a mini-freakout over a “If your username was a username, what would username username username username?” type question in AskLemmy or something. The moronitude feels inescapable.

It’s been like one of those long running soap operas.

For at least the last 5 years “today’s” front page is nearly indistinguishable from “yesterday’s”.

You can disappear for 6 months and come back and it’s exactly the same. You’ve missed nothing.

Orange man bad, fascism bad, phobia bad, sexism bad, racism bad, bosses suck, inflation sucks, boomers suck, ooh a celebrity! Celebrity dead so sad.

While it is true that they were generally less prone to malware, that was not due to inherent security features/improvements over Windows, and was instead mostly function of the relative obscurity of the platform. Can’t get a virus from a downloaded game, because nobody makes made games for that platform.

In every lab with students, all machines were regularly b0rked and when I say regularly, I mean monthly. Complete re-imaging of 200 machines every weekend ended up becoming the norm because the techs couldn’t deal with the endless destruction.

It was really a matter of the platform having very little saturation in the market, and therefore less malware existed for it. However when in an environment with mostly Macs it was a shit show.

Yeah I don’t know why DuckDuckGo keeps getting recommended as much as it does.

I couldn’t find on Google, the answer to a simple question the other day. All I wanted to know was the precooked weight of a particular fast food restaurant’s patty.

I made it to page 3 of the Google results, wading through page after page of promotional content, news releases, and sponsored “news-style” articles that were thinly veiled ads.

Decided to visit duck duck go, and was greeted with search results that were even worse than Google.

I realize it’s only one example, but to me it was an example of a search so specific, its egregious that the search engines simply refuse to return a page with the answer.

I just had it happen again. That is to say I did a basic search and not a single returned item was what I was looking for. I tried again on DuckDuckGo and got the same useless results.

Search is fucking doooooooooomed and these workarounds aren’t helping all that much.

All I wanted to know was the pre-cooked weight of fast food company X’s basic patty. What I got was 20+ articles with press release, media hype, and stealth ads disguised as articles. Just tell me how many g of beef it is, k.

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… Is also a real person, credit card companies specifically pay people to license their name for stock card shots, so that no one can sue them.