AFK BRB Chocolate (CA version)

It’s a great quote, and I really resonate with it.

Maybe a little

That’s pretty bizarre.

And I mean about not liking chocolate, not the microwave thing.

You mean I’m not the only one who doesn’t like to be far from chocolate?

I knew a guy years ago who worked security at Vendenberg AFB. He said on cold nights, when they’d do the rounds, they’d linger for a bit in front of the microwave transmission tower dishes to warm up. Always gave me the willies.

My last two have had that, both GE

Ugh, that sucks for both of you. Sorry to hear it.

Yep, stayed on top of the vaccines

I got COVID pretty badly and for a month or two after I just felt like I had no gas in my tank - I’d try to vacuum the house, for example, and I couldn’t get through it in one go. I thought “Oh, this is that fatigue they’ve been talking about.” But then that sort of wore off and I no longer lacked the energy to do stuff like that, except I just couldn’t bring myself to do those things. I’d be sitting there thinking “I really need to vacuum,” but it was like an insurmountable hurdle to go to the closet and get the vacuum out. Once I did, I could do the house without issue.

One of my employees had COVID about the same time as me, and we were talking about it when we were both back. Damned if she didn’t start describing the same sort of psychological fatigue-like thing. I was dumbfounded.

It lasted like another couple months and slowly went away, but man it was a bitch.

I read those as a kid, but that’s too many decades past for me to remember them much. Amazingly similar.

Or it could be magic? I mean, what’s the explanation in the Cars universe for the sentient cars? I’m not sure I’ve seen any of the movies, do they explain it?

Maybe so, but does Thomas have a brain someplace?

Couldn’t we just do Tom?

So with a human, if you could make all the parts and assemble them, it wouldn’t result in the result having all the memories because the brain part doesn’t work that way - it stores memories and experiences that the fresh parts wouldn’t have. We know Thomas is sentient, but as far as we’ve seen, all his parts are just train parts (maybe face notwithstanding); we have never seen that there’s a brain part.

So I’m going to postulate that there’s some essence of Thomas that persists through the part swaps. What’s unclear is whether or not those individual pieces that are swapped out retain the essence of Thomas and would be recreated if they were reassembled.

If they made a spare of each of Thomas’s parts, replaced them one at a time, and then reassembled all his original parts, would there be two Thomases with all his thoughts and memories?

Did trees 30 million years ago produce more sap? Or is that smaller than it looks? Because that’s an amazingly big and clear hunk of amber if that mantis is the size of the ones I normally see.