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minor update. probably last for the year. I think the main family has moved. I did see another chick briefly, but stopped seeing it sooner than I think it could have developed to a fledgling. (Can adults fly their chicks elsewhere?) I saw a couple swallows just now leave, but couldn't tell if they were using the nest or just the shade

@GuyDudeman I'd never heard of Exploding Dog. It's sorta sweet in an absurdist fashion. I like this one: http://explodingdog.com/title/imallgrownupnow.html It's giving Iron Giant vibes.

> it was my touchstone. I identified with that comic so much. Early college years.

I totally get that. Did you move away to college? In my early college years, I was lonely in ways I didn't even realize until years later, but I learned to make a home from what was available (friends, places around campus, and, yes, web comics). Familiar things.

@GuyDudeman oh no! don't decide that 😄

I have read so many. I guess I'd say Gunnerkrigg Court is my favorite. I like following these characters and spending time in their bizarre world of magic and near-magical technology. The art is really good. Not to mention Tom posts *very* regularly: I can't recall a time he's ever missed an upload.

Oh, yeah! Also, if you like comics with robots: do you know "We the Robots"? It's concluded (and I just found out the site is down), but it was a favorite of mine, like, a decade ago. Good if you like humor about the minor indignities of life as a modern middle-class office worker. You can still find a bunch of them on the artist's site: https://www.chrisharding.net/works/wtr

@GuyDudeman I think I just looked at the latest ones back then. From what I can tell looking at the first ones, it's about the same.

What do you like about it?

@GuyDudeman
I take by this that you like Diesel Sweeties: Did you want to share what you like about it or something?

Just needed a place to put this:
On Free Will and QM
14 July 2018
The question of free will in the face of deterministic laws of physics sometimes brings up quantum mechanics and the so-called uncertainty principle as a away to escape the strictures of a mechanistic theory. I think such an appeal is not necessary though. In fact, an effective free will can be achieved through information hiding and the limits of computation. First, to say a system, A, has free will means that, at any point in time, there is no observer which can simulate A faster than A can evolve in real time. Note that A can be a classically deterministic system: if the evolution of A's subset of the universe is as fast as possible or if all the observers must lack sufficient information about A to simulate it faster than A can evolve, then A can still have free will.
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brains is complicated

@ClaireLamman sweet! I recall seeing photos of your pie and jwst sculpture and being floored. very cool to get a peek at your process

Every once in a while, I just remember that we have humans continuously living and working in space and think how effing cool that is.