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[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 86 points 5 months ago
[-] midnight_puker@sh.itjust.works 31 points 5 months ago

I'd rather hang out with the crystal people.

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 66 points 5 months ago

Idk some of them are this bad.

[-] abfarid@startrek.website 38 points 5 months ago

> Alpha male
> no insecurities
Hmm.

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago

How is someone into Reiki this big of an asshole? I'm not saying I am into Reiki, but it sure doesn't jive with the rest of him.

[-] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 26 points 5 months ago

Not narcissistic

I mean it's hard to be more narcissistic than this

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

"Alpha Male", "empath" and "no insecurities" in the same fucking sentence is some TRUMP level lying 😄

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago
[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 9 points 5 months ago

Funny, because he looks like a basic bitch

[-] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 5 months ago

Nature lover

No EV

Guess he wants a cyclist girl?

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[-] peto@lemm.ee 9 points 5 months ago

I've at least seen a crystal. Some of them even actually do things.

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[-] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 55 points 5 months ago

Oxygen is measurable. We can detect even tiny amounts of it, we know its makeup, we have well characterized its behavior, and we can make it work for us.

We have no evidence for the existence of any gods. Seems like we can exist without them just fine.

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Bro, you can literally look at pictures of Vissarion. God lives in Siberia. 🙄

[-] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

You almost had me, but his Wikipedia lists his profession as "spiritual teacher," not "God."

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[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 50 points 5 months ago

So you're saying we just need to freeze god to see him?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 39 points 5 months ago

It's worth a try. We need to get some revenge and revenge is a dish best served cold.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I used to think that saying meant that revenge was ice cream when I was a kid. Mmm... Ice cream... 🤤

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

I guess you hadn't seen Star Trek II...

And where's God? Up in the sky. In space.

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[-] WereCat@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Yes, it's the cold truth

[-] kelargo@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

God is just on the other side of absolute zero kelvin, right over there.

[-] RoyaltyInTraining@lemmy.world 46 points 5 months ago
[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

And make him into the most artisinal smoothie in all of Portland!

[-] gearheart@lemm.ee 44 points 5 months ago

Ask and you shall receive - Toast

[-] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 13 points 5 months ago

This looks like someone who has used a soldering iron to draw Jesus on a piece of toast and then countersunk it into a second larger piece of toast.

Which I doubt was easy.

[-] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

The "image" is on a piece of cheese.

[-] tektite@slrpnk.net 6 points 5 months ago

Cheesus Crust

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[-] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 months ago
[-] KrankyKong@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Holy mother Mary and Joseph! Do my eyes deceive me or is that the son of God etched into my sandwich!? Could it have been divine intervention that compelled me to put the cheese on the outside?! Literally no other explanation exists for why I might've done that!

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[-] PapaStevesy@midwest.social 34 points 5 months ago

God is like oxygen—highly volatile.

[-] GladiusB@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

How does oxygen change on it's own?

[-] PapaStevesy@midwest.social 7 points 5 months ago

Well, we call it chemistry, but the forces at play existed long before we even knew to name them.

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[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 26 points 5 months ago

Can't say I've ever seen liquid oxygen.

[-] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 months ago

It's amazing. Especially when you're trying to chill and prime a pump, and there's gallons of it flowing across it's own vapor in puddles.

Just try not and think about what happens if it flows across that oil spill and you step in it.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago

I realize I'm posting a complaint in my own thread so it's my own fault, but I keep getting "Love is Like Oxygen" by Sweet stuck in my head since I've posted this.

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Liquid oxygen is way too pretty for how dangerous it is

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[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

You don't even need oxygen to be in a liquid or solid state to see it: oxygen is the reason the sky is blue. When you look through a large enough volume of gaseous oxygen, as you do when you step outside in the day time, you can see it just fine.

[-] uriel238 6 points 5 months ago

Oxygen is absolutely measurable, and your own body will quickly tell you something is very, very wrong if your 02 intake is too low, or even weird (which is why SCUBA mixes are a topic of their own.)

There is the matter that oxygen does affect light, which allows us to tell if an exoplanet has oxygen in the atmosphere, which means it's not invisible, just very transparent. But when we look at other worlds we detect oxygen by analyzing the light that comes from them, so we see oxygen.

In the meantime, the human species as we know it (homo-sapiens) has been around for 250,000 years. The monotheistic version has been around for about 4,000 years (and even Adonai had others in His pantheon. The temple priests of Adonai murdered Asherah, His consort, by massacring all the Asheran desciples and burning Her temples down). For most of that time, ancestors, elemental spirits and animal spirits were central to our religious faith, not high-concept deities. For the vast majority of human existence, God did not exist as He is commonly regarded in popular religions.

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 months ago

AFAIK, we do not, in fact, have any biological system that detects oxygen in the air. What we use instead is detection of the things that are typically present when oxygen is not. Like CO2 concentration. This is what makes a room "feel stuffy", CO2.

I don't think this invalidates your point at all, of course you have a valid argument despite the biological misunderstanding here.

The only reason I know this is when looking into the whole, capital punishment by nitrogen hypoxia thing, I kinda stumbled into a lot of information. We don't generally detect nitrogen nor oxygen in any way, shape, or form, since it's quite plentiful in the atmosphere of the earth (78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen), there's not much reason to. We've never needed a biological trigger to say "there's oxygen here" because there's never been situations where that hasn't really been true until very very recently (eg. Closed systems like submarines, aeroplanes, vessels that go into high orbit/space, etc).

Looking at the evolution of it, any such space will accrue toxic/deadly levels of atmospheric gases, long before the oxygen is consumed. So we have biological processes to detect atmospheric toxin levels, with one example being CO2. According to some data I've read, CO2 freely is absorbed and expelled by the body through the blood via the alveoli (lungs), which makes the amount of CO2 in your blood a function of atmospheric CO2 levels, which may slightly waiver due to your physical workload. As you produce CO2 within your body from metabolic activity, either from regular metabolic tasks or through physical exertion, the rise in blood CO2 levels is expelled by the blood through equilibrium with the surrounding atmosphere. Simply, if you have higher CO2 concentration in your blood than there is in the atmosphere, it will diffuse towards the atmosphere (I'll reiterate that the process works in reverse too).

High CO2 concentration in your blood affects your blood pH and can create an acidic environment, which the body can easily detect.

As far as I'm aware, there's no similar biological process to detect oxygen levels, either directly or indirectly.

This is the danger of nitrogen hypoxia. If you're in a low CO2 environment which is devoid of oxygen (or has very little atmospheric oxygen, not enough to sustain human life), with most of the o2 concentration being replaced by nitrogen instead, your body can still expel CO2, but cannot obtain the o2 required to survive. Since there's no mechanism to detect this, your blood o2 levels drop to levels which are incompatible with living while you remain unaware that a problem exists.

Thus, you can easily perish when your o2 saturation drops to nil, with no indication that you're at risk of dying.

Sorry for the dissertation, this is just something I find incredibly fascinating about biology. I hope I didn't bore anyone too much.

Disclaimer: I'm not a biologist or scientist, I'm just some guy with ADHD, and I've hyperfocused on this subject a couple of times. If anything I've said is incorrect, I invite corrections. If possible, please link additional resources for further reading and my ADHD brain will thank you very kindly for the effort.

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[-] hellofriend@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

How cold do we gotta get God in order to see him?

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[-] 96VXb9ktTjFnRi@feddit.nl 6 points 5 months ago

God is a gas because he's not cool enough

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago
[-] doingthestuff@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Here's my attempt at a theoretical response, please don't kill me

"Oxygen's state is modified by temperature. God's is modified by time. If you can't see him, you're in the wrong time."

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

The only right time to see God: 23rd of February 893 CE, noon-ish

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