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This is because in product manufacturing, many companies still use the old names rather than the IUPAC names. Should be "sodium lauryl ether sulfate" which sounds much closer to what the compound actually is. Don't ask me why they insist on using the old system because doing so is very...

When this is at the beginning: I don't know how seriously to take what the people are saying.

You guys would be in heaven on Long Island. Or pretty much anywhere in NY State. Srsly.

At any given point in time I have dozens of different strains of thought going on, sometimes competing ones. Usually there will be some kind of theme to them, sometimes there isn't. Other than that, I don't understand why you'd want to force them all to hold together, or how you possibly...

Also I think Secret Agent Gel is here, I met him once randomly at some thing where either he was spinning or another dissensus person was, can't remember.

"Halland suffers from attention deficit disorder and said he had experimented with cocaine, heroin and LSD in an attempt to stop his brain racing." Ha, well, cocaine and LSD are probably bad drugs to experiment with if you want your thoughts to slow down. Although, come to think of it, if you...

Oh yes. I agree. I tend to think I'm the only decent driver on the road, but I actually drive too fast. (Not that I drive all that much...) It's just that where I live right now there's a strangely disproportionate number of older guys with huge trucks who don't signal their turns or lane...

People who don't signal in general...wtf??? It's usually older men in trucks. King of the Road syndrome.

I do, too! I am one. A protein machine where each protein is ultimately made out of only 20 amino acids. Which are in turn just amine groups with carboxyl group side chains. Which are ultimately just hydrogen and carbon and oxygen bonded in various combinations. This shit is the bomb. There...

AI already exists, it will likely get more streamlined and advanced. So? There are already programs that write programs, so it's not a huge leap to think there will be AI machines that create AI machines. We are AI machines. This is what people don't seem to get. There's not any difference...

From the Pharyngula comments: Exactly. We already have moleculebots dancing around in our bloodstream fighting disease! Ffs. Reinventing the wheel.

That must be why you whipped it out, then, eh?

Um...yes. But it depends on which one you're talking about. Did you read the 15 page interview with Kurzweil in Rolling Stone a few months ago? That's a rhetorical question. You don't actually need to answer it.

Yeah, but we already have AI. That's not what the Singularity is, though. It's when we'll all become computers and have our memories stored in biological harddrives and be able to infinitely upload or download ourselves onto new hardware, so death becomes meaningless. The ridiculous part of...

Zomg, Swears, OT, but did you see the Dinesh D'Souza post on Pharyngula last night? Hilarious comments.

? When people say that things have changed so drastically that this exercise doesn't apply anymore, I wonder what world they're living in. What kind of tenuous thread connects them to reality, as Baboon put it. There's all kinds of data on this stuff. Black people are still discriminated...

No, I know you didn't really mean it and it was a figure of speech. It's just that in the context of the discussion, knowing that people actually have been smacked and shit over this stuff, I'm afraid language like that will always escalate and then you have a bunch of really angry people...

nope I don't think it's pretty at all, I think it's actually rough around the edges in a way that I like. doesn't sound quantized and superproduced. sounds cheap and thrown together. But I love early Prince, I love LOVE p-funk, I love Sun Ra, I love afrofuturism, I like afrobeat, I love R&B...

this album is like musical crack I cannot stop listening to it! someone still knows what funk sounds like! it's amazing.

Can we stop talking about hitting and fucking people because we hate them, anyway?