Anyone know how to get Coinos' attention? No reply to my email, and idk how else to contact them. Inbound zaps work but outbound don't, and I can't log in. Its a pickle. Would be cool to be a zapper again.

Love seeing El Salvador taking action again... This is gonna be fun to watch - retarded gangsters going splat against an actual army. ❤ #Bukele & #ElSalvador

I'm supposed to be studying for a test, so naturally, I'm doing anything but. This morning's project : inventing a version of coffee that has a higher pH. Current thinking (all welcome to use or iterate on this idea) : roasted chicory + matcha + a bit of some kind of plant milk (which I normally hate, but it gives a boost to the pH). This way, you get a complex (hopefully "dark") flavor and caffeine. The acidity of coffee causes oral hygiene problems : softened enamel and bacteria and yeasts like acidity right in coffee's range. Ever had a white tongue? That's most likely yeast, and you're almost certainly a coffee drinker. This is solvable.

What a day. Woke at 3am, studied till chem2 test... I doubt I got an A, but afterwards I saw a lot of very sad faces, and I didn't feel too bad about it (previous class average was 40-something). Then I got lost trying to find the genetics seminar and spent hours walking, and walking still hurts. But I found the place, and tried making friends with the grad students who are actually required to go to those things. Then, I understood the whole presentation, which is an enormous improvement over last week. I'm glad I didn't ask my question though - it made no sense to me that the PI didn't knock out both genes for ephrin ligands, and he only did one knockout. But I get it now. Anyways. Got a new friend - a professor who studies nutritional effects on epigenetics. Then walked for hours more to get home. And now I have to figure out how to go to sleep. GN.

2nd genetics seminar down. I understood the whole thing this time. Still too shy to ask my questions, but in some AI prompting after, I found the answers.

Does base 8, 12, or 16 make the most sense? 🤔☕ View quoted note →

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🤔 interesting that God is represented as a Trinity... Because you're a Trinity also. When debating someone, you probably don't know if they're actually committed to the argument they make. At a minimum, a person has 3 states, and usually chooses one of the 3, though its quite possible to be all 3 at once. You could be indifferent, in favor, or in contrast to the assertion, whatever it may be. Often times, we take the opposing side of some assertion just to hear the arguments. But mapping that formulation of Self to Trinity exposes a problem, an imbalance. The Trinity is overwhelmingly male. "Maleness" equates to emanation, and "femaleness" equates to receiving or passivity. The godhead is neutral and equates to the monad, the totality in union, perfection, which is in balance. But the religious Trinity has no female part, unless the Spirit is considered female. In Christianity, that concept was violently suppressed - extraordinarily few people remember now that Mary is another name for Sophia, and although many people report encounters with the Spirit as "feeling" female, church authorities are always quick to denounce that as heresy. And yet, some kind of instinctual elevation of Mary to a divine equivalence is evident in Catholicism. Its like there's an archetype and large populations unknowingly express the archetype. I think there's good reason to return Sophia to Christianity - I think that would heal something.

My nerd take : 🤔 Cicero was such an awesome character in Skyrim View quoted note →

🤔 light a candle or curse the darkness... 🤔🤔🤔 View quoted note →

I just learned that there's a "dozenal society" - it advocates transitioning to a base 12 number system. I love it.

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