ConspiracyTheories: We’re in a “simulation” like the movie the Matrix?

Monday, September 30, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13894491/living-simulation-world-scientist-proof-BIBLE.html

Are we living in a simulation? Scientist claims we’re simply characters in an advanced AI world – and says the proof is hidden in the BIBLE

  •     Passages from the Bible support the simulation hypothesis, physicist claims
  •     READ MORE: These everyday clues seem to suggest we’re living in a simulation 

By Jonathan Chadwick For Mailonline
Published: 02:30 EDT, 30 September 2024 | Updated: 03:26 EDT, 30 September 2024 

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If you feel like you’re living in a convincing virtual reality akin to The Matrix, a scientist thinks you may well be right.

Melvin Vopson, an associate professor in physics at the University of Portsmouth, claims our entire universe may be an advanced computer simulation. 

And the proof that this so-called simulation hypothesis is correct may be hiding in plain sight in the Bible.

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Well, we could also be a creation of the Pastatarian’s Flying Spaghetti Monster.  (I always admired their willingness to have their DMV photos taken with a pasta strainer on their heads!)

I’d need some more and solid “evidence” other than the Bible says it.

Maybe some testimony from a modern day Neo or an Oracle.

Til then, I regard this as possible as the Scientologists or the Amish having “the Truth”.

Checking the Conspiracy Theorist “thermometer”  — my personal gauge  — 

Conspiracy Theory Taxonomy and Ruler (Type and Veracity)

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8. Generally Accepted As False

But I’d be happy to test again should some new evidence warrant it.

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ECONOMICS: A new form of shrinkflation

Monday, September 30, 2024

Target reduced the number of baby wipes in a case from 12 to 8.  That’s a ⅓ reduction.  At a “new lower price”!  Which, of course, is more than ⅔ of the old price.  I guess they think we are stupid or math challenged! Argh!

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ENGINEERING: “Lifetime” is not forever!

Monday, September 30, 2024

https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2024/09/25/how-long-is-a-lifetime-2/

How Long is a “Lifetime”?
By Eric – September 25, 2024

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One of the great scams perpetrated on car buyers is selling them on the idea of “lifetime” fluids – such as transmission fluid, for instance. And coolant. Also oil changes that don’t require doing but once every 7,500 (or even more) miles.

It’s sold this way to sell them on “low maintenance costs” – and that’s true. You just pay for it later, in the form of expensive repair costs caused or hastened by those “low maintenance costs.”

The trick works like this:

Advertise “lifetime” fluids – which leads the mark to believe that means forever. As in the fluid never needs to be changed. What it actually means is for the lifetime . . . of the warranty coverage. And that’s probably true. Those numbers – ten years, 100,000 miles as an example – are not picked out of a hat. They are arrived at after extensive durability studies that accurately foretell how long a component such as a transmission will probably last before it fails if it isn’t serviced during its “lifetime.”

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It’s not so much that the fluids – such as the hydraulic fluid in an automatic transmission (or the gear oil in a manual transmission or engine oil) go bad. It is that they get contaminated with the byproducts of mechanical components meshing and unmeshing in an environment of high heat and pressure. Inevitably, the contaminants build up, inevitable reducing the anti-friction properties of the fluid. Fine particles accrue, like plaque inside our arteries, with the same inevitable result. A filter will filter out a lot of these small bits but what happens when the filter can no longer filter – because it’s full of those small bits and pieces?

It stops filtering.

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