From: punditster@gmail.com   
      
   On 1/31/2026 11:01 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   > On Sat, 31 Jan 2026 10:23:48 -0800, Dude  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 1/31/2026 10:11 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   >>> On Sat, 31 Jan 2026 09:49:48 -0800, Dude  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On 1/31/2026 9:46 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   >>>>> On Sat, 31 Jan 2026 09:26:45 -0800, Dude  wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> On 1/30/2026 8:09 PM, vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:   
   >>>>>>> One thing that really scared me like fifteen years ago was Google   
   promising   
   >>>>>>> they could delete any pirated works on your computer without asking.    
   I'm not   
   >>>>>>> in favor of pirating, but who decides? Lkie Facebook censors?   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>> "Tis strange, but true; for Truth is always strange; stranger than   
   >>>>>> fiction." - Byron   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Actually not, mr byron.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>> You can't make this stuff up. Life is sometimes stranger than fiction.   
   >>>   
   >>> Sometimes.  It depends.  But the strangeness of life is limited by   
   >>> physical possibility.  Fiction is not.   
   >>>   
   >> There are no physical limits in the dream state.   
   >>   
   >> There is nothing in life that can't also be dreamed. In the waking state   
   >> you see a chair. In the dream state you also can see a chair.   
   >>   
   >> The question is, which one is real?   
   >>   
   >> How do we know that the waking state is not all just a dream, not real,   
   >> yet also not unreal.   
   >   
   > One test of sanity that psychs use is the ability to tell dream from   
   > reality.  Another is the ability to tell right from wrong.  The second   
   > one is the one I see violated often here.   
    >   
   Apparently, you don't know which is real, right or wrong, so you're   
   judgemental.   
      
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