/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11307421
>How do you deal with the fear of the eternal void after death?
Get shit on by life so hard you eventually long for the peace of the void.

>>11301888
>cont...
>>use red dwarf or black hole as an energy source
Considering there are none in our solar system, you seem to be claiming we have to leave our solar system before we can leave our solar system.
I'll skip the next few lines as too absurd to respond to...

>>discover space is the fucking same everywhere, there is no purpose to any of it,
[citation REALLY needed]
How broken inside do you have to be to put this shit into words? "There's just no escape! I could make a billion copies of myself (hand-waves away obvious issues), but no mater what' Ill never know the satisfaction of being a real boy".

>KYS

kys, indeed, my ill-fated friend. kys indeed,

>>11180843
>Nobody who actually does real work has any idea how to price things of how many of them to make.
Here's a true story:

In high school my friend Brian and I bought a pound of weed and broke it up into "dime" (1/4 oz, 7 gram) and "nickel" (1/8 oz, 3.5 gram) bags.
Since it was shitty weed, we decided to under-price the competition by selling it for a dollar a gram.
So the dime bags, traditionally priced at $10, we sold for $7, while the nickel bags, traditionally $5, went for $3.50.
A few days later, I found out he was charging his customers $3, not $3.50 for the smaller bags, because "I'm not taking or returning coins, paper money only, coins are un-cool".
And not only was the absurdity of this lost on him, nobody he sold to clicked on the idea that two 3.5 gram bags were a dollar cheaper than a 7 gram bag.

...and they wonder why i day-drink at work.

>>11149703
>You are always a puppet to something else.
>>11149628
>Which is really pointless anyway because you are just an observer on this ride btw, not even God has free will
>>11149608
>what you consider to be "your will" vs your role in the matrix.
Sure is dark in here.
Are you guys _sure_ you aren't emotionally driven to your conclusions?

>>9847432
>dozens of exhalations
dozens of *explanations
Auto-correct and bourbon make poor partners.

>>9783581
>The rat race is for people trying to break out of the middle class.
Why does ig have to be like this bros?

>>9779147
Damn!! sTILL WORNG PIC.

>>9777131
>How does the consciousness cope with the idea of nothingness?
With alcohol.
Alternatively, you could get married to an abusive whore, then suffer her abuse until you welcome the dark void.
I'm currently trying both.

>>9777449
>It just does, until one day it doesn't
Ain't that the truth.

>>9701867
>as the thought that maybe there is no after life is the scariest thing I have ever experienced.
Fucking Plebe.

To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause—there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th'unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovere'd country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,

tl;dr: We're afraid to die because the next life might be even worse than this shithole.

>>9701867
>as the thought that maybe there is no after life is the scariest thing I have ever experienced.
Fucking Plebe.

To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause—there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th'unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovere'd country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,

tl;dr: We're afraid to because the next life might be even worse than this shithole.

>>9480243
>What did Tesla mean by this?
Daily reminder that Tesla was a famous, but largely failed engineer, and his fanbois have no place in /sci/.

Hey, to sum up the backstory, I used to do really well in school but lately I've lost motivation to do well. My grades have suffered immensely, and I waste away almost every day in my room watching anime or browsing the internet. I feel completely worthless, however recently I have discovered a huge interest in pharmacology and general chem/bio. How do I cultivate this into something actually meaningful? What steps can I take to develop my interests into something that can last my lifetime? Any help would be appreciated :)

>>8145488
Well, /sci/, I'm bored.
I've had all the "no free will", "flat earth", "race doesn't real", "Apollo was faked", "jet fuel vs steel beams" etc. troll threads.

Can't we do something new?
Young-Earth creationism?
Lysenkoism?
Flat Mars, maybe?

>>8095563
>You have an impressive capacity for selective reading.
Yes, yes, yes...
Despite the fact that they meet the size requirement, they're still dwarfs compared to nearby Jupiter and Neptune.
This is somehow relevant because their orbits are affected by these giant planets.
But never mind that the IAU definition says "has "cleared the neighborhood" around its orbit.", and doesn't mention orbital domination.

But somehow *I* moved the goalposts.
Sure.

>>8008377
>calling me a useless faggot.
Well, thanks for the spoiler, useless faggot.

>>7978938
>blue collar jobs DO still pay what they did back in the late 70's and 80's
[citation needed]
Maybe my time frame is off, but my parents both come from families of 6 where ONE parent provided income without a college degree.
They weren't rich, but they certainly weren't poor.

>>7979291
>Trade jobs still pay a fuck load.
Nope, that's just wrong.

>>7979291
>Once I got my boiler license I made 35 an hour with even more benefits.
I make considerably more than that as a code monkey without a degree.

>>7979291
>you're told since you're five that you have to go to college and that's your only choice
This is what I was getting at.
Perception is more important than reality in shaping people's choices, but reality is still pretty grim.

>>7677067
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>>7677081
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>a gf


Lol, I have a wife, and christ what bullshit.
She wants a new iPad, a $500 coat, and (ideally) a new motorcycle.
I want a new xbox, but she "doesn't buy video games", so I'm probably getting about $50 worth of stupid gag gifts like last year (when I spent over $1k on her).
So fuck the xbox, I want a gf too.

>>7650627
>How do I deal

>>7600967
>This retard thinks pesticides and roundup is not poisonous when they are literally poison
You miss my point entirely.
NON-GMO foods have to be sprayed with poisons, which wash into the groundwater.
Nice to know you think *I'm* a retard though.

>>7600967
>People have been farming and feeding just fine before GMOs were around
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famines
Almost all of these are pre-GMO.

>It's clear people who support natural food is not against the use of technology,
Yes, they obviously are.

>>7600967
>but it's negative effects.
In the case of GMO-hysteria, they "feel oogy"
about corporate-designed food because they don't like the idea, not because of any actual ill-effects.
Then they go looking for problems to justify their wholly emotional superstitions regarding GMOs.