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reddit.comI've been playing the same game of Civ II for 10 years. Though long outdated, I grew fascinated with this particular game because by the time Civ III was released, I was already well into the distant future. I then thought that it might be interesting to see just how far into the future I could get and see what the ramifications would be.
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What movie could you turn around and say the good guy was really the bad guy?
reddit.comSmith said that Humans rebelled at the ‘perfect’ matrix originally made for them. It turns out that the ‘perfect’ world is in fact the matrix that we’ve seen in the first three movies. It was never disassembled. The Zion level was created entirely for those minds that couldn’t handle the main level of the matrix. People like Neo and Morpheus who could see the glitches inherent in any large virtual world. The Zion level simply gave their mind an excuse to brush off any other inconsistencies they might notice.
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Doctors/nurses/redditors, what has been your most gory, disgusting or worst medical experience?
reddit.comIn all operating rooms, everywhere in the world, regardless of socialized or privatized, secular or religious, big or small, there is one thing the same: Somewhere, there is a bottle of peppermint concentrate. Everyone in the department knows where it is, everyone knows what it is for, and everyone prays to their gods they never have to use it. In times like this, we rub it on the inside of our masks to keep the outside smells at bay long enough to finish the procedure and shower off.
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reddit.comThat's why nothing in our universe can go faster than light. Because the phrase "faster than light," in our universe, is exactly equivalent to the phrase "straighter than straight," or "more horizontal than horizontal." It doesn't mean anything.
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If you put a tiny chip in your brain which is 1000 times more powerful cognitively than your biological brain, will "you" still still be "you"?
reddit.comYou replace a single neuron in your brain with one that functions thousands of times faster than its biological counterpart. Are you still you?
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Prufrock451 comments on Could I destroy the entire Roman Empire during the reign of Augustus if I traveled back in time with a modern U.S. Marine infantry battalion or MEU?
reddit.comNelson's men soon report a complete loss of all communications, including GPS and satellite radio. Nelson now believes something more terrible has occurred - a nuclear war and EMP which has left his unit completely isolated. Only a few men have realized that the rest of Bagram has vanished, but that will soon become apparent as the transport helos begin circling the 35th's location.
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Christopher Nolan's goodbye letter to The Batman Trilogy.
reddit.comI never thought we’d do a third—are there any great second sequels? But I kept wondering about the end of Bruce’s journey, and once David and I discovered it, I had to see it for myself. We had come back to what we had barely dared whisper about in those first days in my garage. We had been making a trilogy.
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reddit.comIt's easy to trick ourselves into thinking that "being smart" is what determines our performance. In so many ways, it's the easiest possible explanation because it demands so little of us and immediately explains away our failings.
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reddit.comHe picks a message you already agree with (war is bad, advertising sucks) and just flat out puts it in front of you in the laziest way possible. That's why every twenty something likes Banksy. It requires absolutley no thinking but still makes you feel like you're admiring some edgy social critique.
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reddit.com(Although I'm kind of fond of the meta-theory that explains Star Trek as being propaganda intended for external consumption by the Federation, which is actually the Soviet Union in Space in the 24th century.)
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