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   Mars Sellus to phoenix   
   Re: O.T. --- Today's Gas Fill Up --- O.T   
   21 Feb 26 08:58:07   
   
   XPost: rec.food.cooking, can.politics   
   From: zed@is.dead   
      
   On Sat, 21 Feb 2026 08:30:04 -0600   
   phoenix  wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
   > >   
   > Birds are reptiles. Birds snatch up snakes and drop them from great   
   > heights. Reptiles use the tool gravity.   
   >   
      
   +1   
      
   And don't forget the British Royal Reptile syndicate.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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