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The talibans ban the covid vaccines and will force females to marry their fighters As the Taliban continues their ruthless takeover of Afghanistan, they’ve taken to banning the COVID-19 vaccine in certain regions of the country. Shamshad News, an Afghani news platform, reported on Thursday that...

President Ashraf Ghani leaves Afghanistan Still no transition agreement in place but the talibans has offered some amnesty for people in government in addition to promosing to respect women's rights, we will soon find out if they will even try to keep these promises. The amnesty they are...

The government is close to surrendering Now the democratic government is talking about surrendering to let the talibans take over peacefully (both sides want to avoid fighting): The Taliban are talking about forming an inclusive government, of course once they actually have power that might...

They are now entering Kabul

What does Lithium-carbonate even do? If you look at mainstream sites they will claim "we do not know how lithium works". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_carbonate But websites and individuals critical of psychiatry often have explanations...

A closer look at classical theories of consciousness First let's look at a simple case where there are only 10 possible mental states. Let's generate these at random...

As expected the dysfunctional democratic state is falling and the talibans are taking over more and more land. https://afghanistan.liveuamap.com/ This happened because western countries were dumb enough to give power to the Afghan public instead of putting a proper leadership in place.

Is this the memory PS5 is using? The write performance indicate they were using QLC but here is a TLC memory chip that almost match what is in the PS5 PS5 TH58LJT0T24BA4M https://valkyrie.cdn.ifixit.com/media/2020/11/12195223/PS5_blog_storage_chips.jpg Toshiba TLC TH58LJT0T24BA4C...

Novavax vaccine trial The study found no difference when it comes to serious adverse events but the vaccine did worse when it comes to less serious adverse events https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2107659 All 15,139 participants who had received at least one dose of vaccine or...

Debunked: game developers will be held back by the weakest platform This may have been true to some extent in the past but increasingly game developers are just letting games run terribly on weak platform in other to push forward (or save money by not optimizing). Developers know that technology...

Why you want go get firecuda 530 or SN850 for PS5 While it is true that all current gen4 drives are faster or close to as fast as the build-in PS5 SSD we cannot assume that all games will work just fine on the build-in PS5 SSD. Therefore we cannot assume that a game that doesn't perform properly...

German test confirms: third party drives are faster (PS5) The difference wasn't particularly big when it comes to game loading times (a few seconds at most) but it does illustrate how using a high end gen4 drive will give you give you better performance...

Soul-merging and free will Would the possibility of souls merging mean there cannot be free will? not necessarily, we can just take a look at the XOR operator A B A⊕B 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 A B C A⊕B⊕C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1...

A closer look at the quantum soul theory of consciousness It's unclear what a quantum soul would even be. I did discuss it with a physisist and it does seem like these theories are near unfalsifiable (at least until we make further progress in physics, this makes me less motivated to properly...

As expected an SSD heatsink has no real impact on performance (PS5) He tested samsung 980 pro (one of the more energy efficient drives) and found that it did actually run cooler with a tall heatsink (where you cannot put back the SSD cover).

Why further progress is physics might be needed to figure out consciousness One issue with quantum theories of consciousness is that we do not actually know what the equations for quantum mechanics actually mean, there are many ways to interpret these equation and it's unclear which if any of...

The infinite chain proof of reincarnation You having a conscious experience now in your current body can be causally explained by you having an earlier conscious experience and this being a continuation of that, if there is no earlier conscious experience then you having a conscious experience...

About past-life memories No information can be transferred to a brain outside the future lightcone and memories cannot magically be transferred to a brain within the future lightcone either, you may still be more likely to reincarnate into a brain that already has similar memories as your old...

Reincarnating as a human If any human consciousness is also your consciousness then you will keep experience life as a human as long as humanity itself exist. If instead the continuation requires specific conditions such as a new brain sufficiently similar to the old brain or some continuation...

Is your consciousness universal? Since you wouldn't notice your consciousness having switched location you wouldn't notice if your consciousness was constantly switching location. Therefore it cannot currently be ruled out that there is really only a single consciousness in the entire universe...