The atmosphere is mostly non-combustible nitrogen which makes it so the air doesn't explode or chain react like that

I read a sci-fi series by Peter F. Hamilton that had a hyper advanced race of aliens called the Silfen that basically treated reality and physics as their play thing. I remember at the end a character asks one where consciousness comes from and the Silfen replied “beats me”. It’s one of those weird things where the physical smashes into the metaphysical. We can poke around with the brain and see how it affects consciousness but I’m not sure if we’ll ever know how a bunch of electric meat can make a feeling like love or a raw quaila such as the color blue.

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Global capitalism. Asia and the West are buying all their natural resources in an unbalanced trade relationship where the African countries have no bargaining power and the powerful countries can threaten to withhold food from the poor.

A hilarious bit but a prime example of why you shouldn't take your opinions from a comedian. It's hyperbole that plays on people's misconceptions.

The song he refers raised money to send charity to Sudan and Ethiopia primarily, two of the highest farming land using countries in the world at 12 and 20 currently.

The problem with food isn't the amount of it it's distribution. We can provide all the food you want but without the infrastructure to distribute it it's pretty useless. Also over consumption in rich countries creates a higher demand and drives up prices pushing poorer countries out of the market

Is it understandable to not be friends with someone anymore because it happened?

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yep. constantly.

if i did it out loud i'd be super annoying to be around.

Yes. From their "strapped in seat" the passenger will see the ball fall directly to the cabin floor, just with a lot more force than in level flight. From the passenger's perspective the ball will not move sideways.

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Could be because all their kings and queens are in America?

So you’re telling me you just talk to yourself in your head LOL

nope, literally never, personally.

i know people do though. it's not like you're weird for doing it.

i don't even rehearse when i have to do a presentation. i am very much a "wing it" type of person and whatever happens as a result of that is just how it's going to go/how it went.

It is the cruel trick the universe has bestowed on us so we can plan and envisage things that do not exist and be aware of our own mortality.

It “probably” only arose in mammals which is one of the last known branches of evolution. Again “probably” requiring a certain threshold of complexity born from repeated rapid evolutionary cycles, due to global extinction events.

Predators don’t seem to have much of it, and herbivores seem to have less. We’re omnivores and have evolved to take advantage of different environments and food sources. Evolution has pushed us (our ancestors) to be rewarded from living on our wits and this is helped by better ng able to plan and invent.

Did you know the unconscious mind doesn’t use language? Dreams are the way your unconscious mind talks to your conscious mind, sending flashes of the days download to your long term memory and your conscious mind inventing stories from the frames of data.

The more perplexing question is how does chemistry lead to consciousness, since that is all we are, the repeated exchange of electrons in non-uniform systems.

Oh! And google quantum consciousness, but it is a bit hokey.

No that’s not what I mean.. I’m saying whispering thoughts basically. Like rehearsing pass convos, thoughts, arguments but in a whispering voice.. Don’t you do this?

i thought we were talking about under-your-breath talking to yourself, like as people do things and they talk to themselves; 'this goes here, this goes here, ok now i gotta get this going ...'.

yea i've dropped something and swore. or stubbed my toe and swore. but i don't whisper that swear. 😂

They're training muscle memory and habits.

Train something a 1000 times and you will be better than if you only trained twice.

Yeah, it does and there are a lot of reasons. There's also the fact a lot of Africa is mostly small communities in sparsely populated but vast regions. Just "giving everyone all the food and water they need" from foreign aid really isn't a feasible strategy at least currently. Ideally, we'd help communities themselves get more self-sufficient than just send things constantly.

I described the conversion of celsius to fahrenheit but accidentally flipped the F and C in the formula. It's corrected now, and I added the opposite conversion for good measure.

Other's gave the more relativistic/geometric explanation, but an easier ELI5 analogy I think is: imagine firing a bullet into the air. It'll fall back to the earth, unless you can shoot it so fast it can get past the gravitational pull back to earth. Imagine doing the same on a larger planet: you'll have to fire that bullet even faster to pass the gravitational pull. Now imagine a light gun, on a "planet" with so much gravity that even that light gun firing a bullet at the speed of light, it still doesn't have enough speed to escape the gravitational pull. Gravity bends the path of light, and while it moves at the same speed throughout, you don't have to slow something down to make it fall back in if you bend it enough.

So you never dropped something and said “oh shit”… this was all in your head?

Give a man a fish...

Aid addresses the symptoms but not the underlying cause which is weak ineffectual authoritarian governments. Economic development occurs when governments are beholden to their citizens productivity and prosperity for tax revenue. Many African nations have exploitable natural resources that create vast wealth with relatively few workers required. This environment is ripe for abuse. Basically, the dictator doesn't care if 90% of his population starves as long as the military and people exploiting the resource wealth on his behalf are kept fed at a subsistence level.

Like someone else said, legal doesn't mean moral. On top that of, people will judge other people even if they don't know all the facts. We as human will rarely do an exhaustive research on everything before forming our opinion. The vast majority of time we base on opinion on incomplete or false information. And finally, people can still think you have bad intention even if what you did what ''right''.

"This is sand!"