I would say all injuries affect one's quality of life. It's a matter of how much.
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How's that possible? Any tricks you can share?
It's a sign of a well informed person. Keep it up!
Yes, I'm familiar with the multiverse idea, and I think I was first introduced to it in The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.
I think the idea is plausible because if we have multitudes of planets, and multitudes of stars and galaxies, it might be reasonable to expect multiple universes as well.
Another idea which I've read about, and I think still in the God Delusion (but it might have been a Carl Sagan book, I don't quite remember), is that perhaps there aren't multiple universes currently existing. That is, there is no multiverse, but the universe, following the Big Bang, expands up to a point and then eventually collapses in a Big Crunch, and then explodes again in yet another Big Bang with different variations in its laws of physics.
In some of these new iterations of the universe, life as we know it cannot emerge; but in certain configurations, just as we have in this current universe, life has the necessary physical constants and environment to emerge and eventually be able to contemplate the universe that gave rise to it.
The strong Anthropic Principle is an interesting concept, but it's unfortunate that we have insufficient or even no evidence for any of these postulations.
I don't know if you were already familiar with the idea of an infinite series of Big Bangs and Big Crunches instead of the existence of parallel universes (a.k.a. multiverse), but if you weren't, it's the reason you sometimes see the Big Bang defined as something as -
"the cosmic explosion that marked the beginning of the universe or its current iteration."
The "current iteration" stated in those definitions refer to the idea just expounded.
Thanks again for sharing, I love reading about the universe, even though I'm not a physicist.
In the early universe, those planetary bodies must have been moving in different ways and colliding into one another, and the rate of collisions must have been very high.
Ultimately, the constant collisions led to eventual clearing off of bodies that did not move in circular motion, and that's what we see today. A natural selection of objects of the cosmos.
I might be misremembering Carl Sagan's description. But I'm almost certain I read this in Pale Blue Dot. I keep meaning to re-read that book.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_disenfranchisement_in_t...
Two powerful quotes found in the book
1. A heavy and cruel hand has been laid upon us. As a people, we feel ourselves to be not only deeply injured, but grossly misunderstood. Our white country-men do not know us. They are strangers to our character, ignorant of our capacity, oblivious to our history and progress, and are misinformed as to the principles and ideas that control and guide us as a people. The great mass of American citizens estimates us as being a characterless and purposeless people; and hence we hold up our heads, if at all, against the withering influence of a nation's scorn and contempt.
Frederick Douglass, in a statement on behalf of delegates to the National Colored Convention held in Rochester, New York, in July 1853
2. "This is the crime of which I accuse my country and my countrymen, and for which neither I nor time nor history will ever forgive them, that they have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives and do not know it and do not want to know it. [...] It is their innocence which constitutes the crime. [...] This innocent country set you down in a ghetto in which, in fact, it intended that you should perish. The limits of your ambition were, thus, expected to be set forever. You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as possible, that you were a worthless human being. You were not expected to aspire to excellence: you were expected to make peace with mediocrity. [...] You have, and many of us have, defeated this intention; terrible law, a terrible paradox, those innocents who believed that your imprisonment made them safe are losing their grasp on reality. But these men are your brothers—your lost, younger brothers. And if the word integration means anything, this is what it means: that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it. For this is your home, my friend, do not be driven from it; great men have done great things here, and will again, and we can make America what it must become. It will be hard, but you come from sturdy peasant stock, men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads, and, in the teeth of the most terrifying odds, achieved an unassailable and monumental dignity. You come from a long line of great poets since Homer. One of them said, 'The very time I thought I was lost, my dungeon shook and my chains fell off.' We cannot be free until they are free. God bless you, and Godspeed."
- James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time.
Also, you submitted this same question hours before
Ask HN: What's your career plan for the next few years?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424762
AI atrophies the brain. If you don't use a muscle, it atrophies.
You know the solution.
I wrote about this on my blog - How Artificial Intelligence (AI) Is Making Us Dumber
https://www.rxjourney.net/how-artificial-intelligence-ai-is-...
https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-samsung-rvo1...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/a...
It's not that I'm looking for a business that doesn't need the internet, but I'm interested in if I can have a successful business without actively promoting the business on social media. I hate that in the modern age, it seems impossible or very difficult to promote your business without Meta platforms or running digital ads on social media (both Meta and non-Meta owned platforms).
So my question isn't really what business I could start without the internet, but rather if it's possible to run a successful business without running ads and creating promotional content on social media.
It makes me want to tear my skin that I need to do all this stuff on platforms that I hate. But, as one of my friends said, you can delegate the social media promotion of your business to other people, and if you don't use social media to promote your business you'll be left behind by your competitors who do.
Not an answer to your question, I know. Just sharing my frustration in what it seems you need to do to succeed... if I ever start a business.