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I like gentoo :D
  • Still extremely customizable, and peerless rolling release features.

    You can mix and match stable and bleeding edge packages very easily and switch at any time.

    When packages make breaking changes, Gentoo will warn you and guide you through the migration before you update and only if you have the affected package installed.

  • Couples Who Skip This Daily Ritual Are More Likely to Fall Apart
  • Precisely why I say 'unlikely'. For every couple who's happy without physical intimacy, there are probably ten others that are falling apart. Saying that kisslessness signals disfunction is not the same thing as saying that hypersexuality signals health.

    At the end of the day, everyone is different and it's not possible to infer anything about an individual couple by looking at averages and correlation. It's still interesting to look at trends and why they might be the way they are.

  • Couples Who Skip This Daily Ritual Are More Likely to Fall Apart
  • Five seconds or less is a huge smallest bucket for kiss duration! At the five-second threshold you're already entering make-out territory.

    Plus, people whose kisses average one second are having a very different experience than those who average around four seconds.

    Seems like a poorly-designed statistic to me. I wonder if they felt they needed such coarse granularity because the data is collected by survey and people struggle to bucket themselves well.

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  • I'm not really talking about belief so much as the fact that people need nourishment in unmeasurable ways: love, wonder, etc. I don't think it makes sense to exclude that from spirituality. I have found that 'spirituality = supernatural' is unnecessarily reductive.

    But, at the end of the day it's just individual perspective as to what constitutes the spiritual.

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  • You assume I mean spirits that physically exist separately from people. I do not. You have missed my point entirely.

    Even the simple question of what the experience of color is like is totally beyond empiricism.

    Not everything has a scientific answer, and that's ok.

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  • Correlating brain activity to thoughts is not the same as being able to distill love or emotional experience down to objective understanding. The difference is spiritual experience.

    Oxytocin is a part of how people experience love, but it will never be possible to objectively assess whether someone is experiencing love by measuring it or any other physical quantity.

    We can measure the wavelength of light and track how it stimulates cone cells and the brain, but we will never be able to measure the spiritual experience of color.

    It is science that will always be chasing the 'gaps' in measuring spiritual experience. No matter how closely we can measure ourselves physically, the actual spiritual experience will always transcend it.

    Trying even to describe spirituality at all is difficult because it's an inherently nebulous thing. It can only be known, never proven.

  • Less vs More, what's your poison?
  • I like that more behaves like cat when there's less than a page of output rather than requiring you to press q to get back to the prompt even when it would just fit.

    There's probably a way to make less do that too, but more already does it without configuration. Overall I use less most of the time but I like having the option.

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  • Spirituality itself, as with anything spiritual, is a know-it-when-you-see-it kind of thing. But that's an unsatisfying answer.

    I do think 'the opposite of empirical' is a decent shorthand. The less a truth can be objectively defined, and the less consistent the nature of a truth is across different people, the more spiritual it is.

    Enjoyment of music and wonder in the face of nature / the cosmos are two more spiritual truths I think most people know.

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