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You must not NOSN'T!
Yeah, they start "Isn't it utterly heeelarious that..." and proceed to spell out something grim and morbid.
Fuck the fascists for making us feel schadenfreude.
Now that you mention it, there was an old shoe repairman in my town, among other knickknacks he had a piggy bank on a shelf, but it was like a bust of JFK, and the coin slot was right where Oswald supposedly "acted alone".
But le charlee kercke is like scraping the bottom of the barrel on that political and cultural scale.
TWO MAN LUGE!
TWO MAN LUGE!
Two men enter, two men leave...
the Two Man Luge closet
So what does one do with such items? Is there a collector's market for merch sold on the grounds upon whence le charley kirke died like he despicably preached for others not himself?
"It's the tee-shirts and caps from where there was a shooting! Somewhere in 'Murica!"
Because somebody had to wipe that smug retrograde smirk off his face, that's why.
Holy shit, that kid on the lower right corner looks like Harrison Ford!
One quarter Jewish... not too shabby!
I wake up, feed the cats, take my supplements including a concentrated CBD paste, then stretch and meditate in my darkened room with a sleep mask, sitting in a relaxed but yoga-like position, with knees bent and the soles touching, hands nested on my belly, my back straight but with support.
Then I stay there, watching my breath, getting distracted, returning to my breath, getting distracted again, etc., for around seventy minutes!
When I come back out, I make my morning coffee.
I have been meditating every day for the past seven years.
I used to do forty minutes, but right now I'm really enjoying the really long sessions, so I go with it.
It gets to a point that if I move my arms, even with eyes closed and a sleep mask on, I can perceive the movements like the ghostly shadow of the change, as if the body is also "seen" by another movement-based sense, and it manages to imprint itself a bit into the optical system. I don't know quite how to put it into words, and it happens every single time, it's happened hundreds of times.
Meditation is like a low-key, healthy and daily psychedelic experience. It's beautiful, one of the best things I've ever done in my life.
Hippie Speedball makes a cameo!
Make that 5pm over here, closer to the eastern edge of the time zone.
I have a hard time wrapping my head around the concept of how an observer is inextricably intertwined with the object/particle being observed, as part of the framework for the equations to flow, so to speak.
Then there's the fact that Newton's equations assume an infinite speed of light, until physicists of the 19th century that pinned it down, then Einstein established it as a constant.
If you try and use lightspeed at the atomic level, many values blow up to infinity, the math stops working, the answers become like static noise.
Recently I found out that Schrödinger's famous equation is written in the framework of classical, newtonian physics, not in quantum terms. Like using a star screwdriver to flat screws, yet it seems to do an admirable job up to a point. And you have a whole lot of infinities to sweep under the rug and ignore, what is it called, Normalization or Renormalization? One of the two.
It's all incredibly complex and abstract, the numbers being measured by the guys in the lab were strange to the point of absurd, and if you think it's weird for us now, imagine how they saw it then.
So yeah, the math says that the observer is not passive from afar, the observer is part of the equation itself of what is trying to be measured.
Then the closer you look, the blurrier things get, like a greased pig you can't get it to hold still, not even for an instant, particularly at the smaller scales, things don't behave the way they do at our sensory and mental level. Things behaving as if going backwards through time. Particles and anti-particles popping in and out of existence. Particles transforming into other particles. Particles going through walls. The list goes on and on and on.
Weird stuff has to be conjured up to try and make any sense of this.
Light or electrons as amplitudes of probability waves. Axes of imaginary numbers, eigenvalues in Hilbert spaces, wave-particle duality, etc.
Reality is extraordinary, it will keep on always surpassing our expectations and imaginations. It just keeps on happening this way, wherever we poke at.