does not compute.

If anything, I'm mostly ambivalent about Musk. So not all of us :)

He's a dude posting on twitter, he has no responsibility for anything.

OTOH, I get the feeling people are being overly judgemental due to text being hard and 280 character text being even harder.

Imagine not being able to finish a netflix movie in 1 sitting.

They manage it because they have to.

Because of how poor I grew up, I slept on the floor for most of my life until I went to college and started doing it again after college. Of course sleeping with someone else means sleeping in beds again, but I can generally sleep on a floor just fine. Most people will end up complaining about aches and pains when they do.

I don't have any evidence for or against it, but I personally generally feel better when sleeping on the floor.

My brain's autocomplete is completely failing here, what is PR? It keeps going to pull request, peer review, and public relations.

I'll take a cold shower occasionally, usually for specific reasons (just came inside from hot, dusty work and want to cool down). It's no more uncomfortable than jumping into a cold creek to swim as a kid, it kind of amazes me that people do it thinking there's a philosophical aspect to it.

I would almost argue that maybe if you think that's uncomfortable in some significant way that you live a very comfortable life.

Not to be _too_ cliche, but are we there yet?

It's just fun to think about.

I choose to call it blind faith and the other poster prefers to call it common sense. If a 3rd person wanted to call it guacamole I'd be onboard.

The other poster insists on arguing about the name rather than discussing the interesting part, which is underlying idea. They want to do this based upon the whole "science vs religion" thing that was boring even back in the 90's when it was raging.

I have no interest in it and so I've stepped out of that conversation. Let someone else take up a stupid, useless, argument.

That's on you, brother.

A simple explanation would be that the aliens are much simpler than we are in makeup because it happened purely by evolution, and that part of our complexity came through planning.

There's just too many possibilities to so confidently claim it's kicking the can down the road.

https://search.brave.com/search?q=definition+of+faith&source...

> Faith

> 1. The assent of the mind to the truth of a proposition or statement for which there is not complete evidence; belief in general.

> 2. Specifically Firm belief based upon confidence in the authority and veracity of another, rather than upon one's own knowledge, reason, or judgment; earnest and trustful confidence: as, to have faith in the testimony of a witness; to have faith in a friend.

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> 5. Intuitive belief.

We have a hypothesis that the penis _evolved_ due to it's ability to scoop out semen. A part of that hypothesis is that this is why longer penises evolved, to place semen in places that cannot be scooped out by other men.

But another explanation for larger penises is that women find them more attractive and pleasurable and therefore it increased your chance of mating.

Another would be that larger penises are statistically more likely to get a woman pregnant in general, with or without a bulbous head.

But here's one for you. The original hypothesis about the penis head came from an experiment in which they found that a single thrust could potentially pull out 90% of a competitors semen. We won't discuss the logistics (they didn't use real people), we'll have _blind faith_ that the experimenters ensured it was realistic.

Men ejaculate in spurts over a time period that is larger than what it takes to thrust a single time. This would imply the penis head also removes it's own sperm quite often.

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The point here is that

1. We don't know, and 2. We can't know without actually documenting the process.

This sub-thread was brought about by someone saying "how do we know this is true", and the answer is, we can't know, therefore we take it on blind faith.

If you're offended by the phrase blind faith, use whatever phrase you like. But while you're doing that, please watch that youtube video. It will help you better understand why it's more useful to discuss the underlying idea than to discuss if we should be using word X or word Y.