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Just saying that that word ‘simulation’ doesn’t mean what (vast populations) appear to think it means. A simulation is a model made by humans to represent some aspects of a situation they have distinguished in language and concepts.

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Apparently many drivers are deeply confused about who decides whether or not it is safe to walk in front of a car that is slowing or stopped at a crosswalk. Dear drivers: it’s not you.

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When someone offers me their two cents I generally decline. Pennies are dirty, and two of them ain’t nothing worth exchanging.

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Santa is real. Not in the ways we pretend. In ways that would obliterate all of our ‘traditional’ pretenses. The representation is the skeleton of the reality. But this is a mystery, and is far beyond the understandings of the adults. And by the time the...