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  • Here’s a basic example using the statement, “This true statement is not provable.” If it were provable, it would be false, making logic inconsistent. If it’s not provable, then it’s true, but that makes any system trying to prove it incomplete. Either way, pure computation fails.

    Am I the only one seing this as a misnomer? The statement is a composite of two statements: “This is a true statement” and “This is not a provable statement”.

    The “This is a true statement” part asserts truth. And, given nothing else to go of, we can assume the part true. “It’s true that this is true”. There just isn’t any real statement being made. Taking the assumption is oerfectly valid, since we can disprove it at a later point.

    The second statement, “This statement is not provable”, is very much provable, since it also asserts almost nothing, just like the previous one. Its assertion is “I’m not provable”, which is provably false.

    Since the two sentences form a composite, we must compose the results of the previous two. We have a “true” and a “false”. From the composite sentence we can infer the logical operation used to connect them: AND.

    Thus we have a TRUE AND FALSE boolean expression, which has a resounding answer of FALSE.

    I have to say, my system didn’t prove it, but it evaluated it - unlike the authors, which claim to have proven the universe is forever ununderstandable to anyone and thus unable to be simulated.

    That being said, my system seems to be perfectly consistent with itself, and, dare I say, quite grounded in reality.








  • Fascism is a systemic issue. It’s a cancer that takes roots when democracy starts failing.

    Having the concrete and unsystemic problem of there being probable cause Trump did some very, very bad things looked into properly is a much smaller ask.

    However, even that’s an imposibility in today’s world.

    I’d love to have a magic cure for fascism. There is one, although it’s undoubtedly very unmagic: Painstakingly dealing with obvious lies and crimes, one at a time. Respecting the Constitution. Having people be truly equal. Especially in the eyes of the law.

    Without a thourough dose of said cure, fascism will hide away and get ready to rise back up.

    The Epstein shit is one step of a bajillion mile journey. It’s not the first and it’s not the last. But without it, there’s no journey to be had.




  • Playing devil’s advocate here a bit, but

    This is a good way to test the water. If they give a nonsense response, then what use would it be to do the same thing for somethijg there’s an even greater problem?

    The US is sinking into fascism at an alarming rate, and many other “leaders” are taking inspiration - all over the world, including Europe.

    Signing an online petition with your name and ID is a great way of saying “I’m ripe for the disappearing”. Just look at what happened to Charlie Kirk “critics”.