nomi @nomi@qoto.org

3: don't you dare disrespect Don Quixote in my presence

Ah yes. How can anyone but admire the use of a parenthetical when you're already 3 commas deep. We are left with only two conclusions:

1: your life will be worse off for having subjected yourself to Cervantes
2: maybe it is funny in Spanish?

You think I'm joking??? This nonsense is 3 sentences long. You need a map and compass to find out what's happening in each of them... separately!

Usually a version is abridged to hit the highlights. Cervantes is abridged so you can rightfully look down on anyone wading a hip deep slog through that turgid prose

Anyone in the mood for trash talking Cervantes? Cause, my brother in Christ, I ain't got 2 pages to read to the end of your sentence

Quoth the bard: mo money* mo problems**

* books
** agony and ecstasy

The reason "essential" workers get treated like so much crap is because everyone else was already downsized.

@monotrox99 right! Like if it looks like pain, walks like pain, and you can't tell if it's not, then act like it is

@hplisiecki hmm... I don't think it matters whether it is a possibility or not, only whether the tool has been built, calibrated, used, and understood. I'm tossing those extra words on after "built" because I think at the bottom, the nature of the difference is incredibly more important than the existence of a difference

Tackling life with ease
Every task ticked effortless
Skies burn bright at dusk

#haiku #poetry

@lolgop don't have to worry about someone in a swing district gaining much seniority

@rlamacraft I hear you, and don't necessarily disagree. I would suggest that if there is no correct answer, then neither result is the wrong answer. So both stances are valid

@pokerface@sfba.social haha. If it feels this good, how can it be wrong?

@1dalm it's very distinguishable, because I care about things i can tell the difference between. Like different people, or different social issues, etc

@antares to your question of "ever or yet", I think the answer is that it only matters if you can differentiate it right now (whatever the relevant timeframe for taking action is).

At its core, it's a question of unknown unknowns. Suppose you are in 1450 and you're curious how the water in two cups is different. Could you even fathom microbes? Even if you could, it wouldn't be meaningful because it's fiction to you at that time.

@hplisiecki if a tool exists to differentiate the indifferentiable, for example a microscope, I would treat the situations differently.

#vss365 Very Short Story

The choice between tears or a tantrum was never hard for Tesia. So when her tears began to form, she reached for a hate hard like diamond. She wore it tight around her neck because it hurt, because it stopped the tremble in her throat. "You don't belong here you skaggy little bitch, and you never will."

The words were someone else's that came tumbling out of her mouth. Mirroring a time when she was younger and positions were reversed. The new girl turned sobing and the necklace loosened with a new link forged in the chain.

I hold the philosophical position that if two things are indistinguishable, their difference is irrelevant.

"What if we live in a simulation?" -- irrelevant
"What if you couldn't tell the difference between taking to a computer and a real person?" -- irrelevant

But more precisely, it's begging the question to say "imagine something was indistinguishable, now how would you treat it differently???"

Sky greys over town
Orange flowers leave the roads
Wintertime arrives

#haiku #poetry #goodmorning

@skanman good point. and I suppose I've been desensationalized to it all