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   Mars Sellus to Doc Hammerslack   
   Re: O.T. --- Today's Gas Fill Up --- O.T   
   21 Feb 26 08:55:39   
   
   XPost: rec.food.cooking, can.politics   
   From: zed@is.dead   
      
   On Sat, 21 Feb 2026 11:08:09 +0000   
   "Doc Hammerslack"  wrote:   
      
   > At Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:41:45 -0700, Mars Sellus  wrote:   
   >   
   > > On Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:24:45 +0000   
   > > "Doc Hammerslack"  wrote:   
   > >   
   > > > At Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:15:52 -0700, Mars Sellus    
   > > > wrote:   
   > > > > On Fri, 20 Feb 2026 03:39:19 +0000   
   > > > > snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) wrote:   
   > > > >   
   > > > > > Doc Hammerslack  wrote:   
   > > > > > [...]   
   > > > > > > > the only issue with simulation theory is zeroes. 0 X 2 =   
   > > > > > > > 0 ^ 2. In the form 2a, why does 2 * 1 = 1 ^ 2? Certainly,   
   > > > > > > > 2*2 = 2^2 = 4. Very much so. 1 is an infinite number   
   > > > > > >   
   > > > > > > 2 * 1 != 1 ^2.  Your original equation was constructed   
   > > > > > > using 0, which is a notorious sucker of mathematical sense.   
   > > > > > >   
   > > > > >   
   > > > > > Zero can be extraordinarily beautiful, consider e.g. Euler's   
   > > > > > Identity, the sexiest formulation of zero that ever there was.   
   > > > > >   
   > > > >   
   > > > > Yet we remain trapped in a misdirected matrix.   
   > > >   
   > > > Euler's Identity shows that things are deeply intertwingled.   
   > > >   
   > > > But I think our world is natural.[*]   
   > > >   
   > > > [*] for varying values of "natural".[**]   
   > > >   
   > > > [**] The so-called "divine order", the Logos[***], seems to be   
   > > > part of it.   
   > > >   
   > > > [***] Not the Christian one, the one from 500 years before   
   > > > the fourth gospel was written.   
   > > >   
   > > This DNA lab also cycles through dominant species from time to time.   
   > >   
   > > Reptiles of course had no religion to speak of.   
   >   
   > I wonder if any of them were sentient enough to make tools.   
   >   
   Many remain among us, hybridized, so over multiple DNA splices and   
   reincarnative cycles on, yes.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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