Me responding to Ron’s thoughts on information theory, i.e. matter can be created of destroyed only transformed:

Yeah, but the you that is you is a certain specific mix of energy and matter in X state. Transforming it to something else destroys you. That you that is YOU, the Ron of right now, how was he made? Through a life time of experiences. Are those experiences matter and energy? Did they transform 5 year Ron to 6 year old Ron and so on and so on? Imagine someone that is your same build, same size, weight, shape etc. They’d have roughly the same number of atoms, right, doing the same thing, eating, breathing, walking etc. Yet you’re both different. What’s the difference between that atomic level and human reality that makes us all different, while still being the same carbon based form of life. Yet your memories are different. What is the atomic structure of memories? How does that structure vary from one memory to another? If it can’t be destroyed or transformed, how can one transform matter and energy back into that memory after you are gone? Do we need YOU, the unique Ron and all lifetime of his experiences that created that memory, as some sort of key to unlock the door that allows the building of that memory? Or can it be captured like a fish in a net?

You’ve probably heard about the insane inflation in Zimbabwe. $million dollar bills, a loaf of bread for $million, stuff like that. It sounds abstract and crazy and there’s probably a a part of you wondering “is that story even real,” because it id does sound so crazy.

Behold, ladies and gentlemen, a Zimbabwe dinner receipt.

Adam Zaretsky is a bioartist, whatever the hell that means. Still, what he’s doing is so “WTF?! COOL!”. Imagine taking a class where you ” create transgenic phaesant and quail embryos” in order to investigate the ethics of creating or shapping life and then having to chose the way they’re killed, as such embryos are not allowed to remain alive.

File this one under "too messed up to believe":


 
 
A 16-year-old girl counted down her suicide attempt through text messages to a female classmate who had rebuffed her sexual advances before crashing her vehicle into an oncoming car, killing a mother of three and injuring the victim’s 6-year-old daughter, prosecutors said.

and sometimes I don’t, espeically when there are stories of “penises (peni?? disappearing”. It’s a bit much to risk when going on vacation.