Good Morning Digital Neighbors & Friends! Happy Thursday, or as Phetasy Fame Fred likes to say, Happy Third Tuesday! Perhaps in your world it 643rd Tuesday, your counting may vary depending on when you retired and how you keep the count, either way, Happy This Day!🌞 Off to the words!
Vigintillion - A very, very large number; ten to the 63rd power I used to think billions were the biggest practical number we would have effecting life, of course now we are in the trillions. So you might ask, what does a vigintillion look like written out for us curious souls?
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
In long scale there are 57 more zeros added to that number. 👀 HOLY 💩
In the long scale, 1063 is called decilliard, which is commonly used in France and Germany. I just hope to be dead by the time the US national debt is this high. 😜
Immiseration - To make miserable, espy on a large scale; impoverishment
If we ever get to vigintillion budgets and debts, I suspect we have so much imaginary money and pseudo-wealth that most of the remaining member of humanity will experience profound immiseration. As Tim Pool likes to quote some sociologist "We will own nothing and be happy." I guess we will have to become embryonic adult like those in the Matrix. We generate power for the machine and we are given a simulation acceptable to our imagination and understanding. You are one happy battery with the inability to discern simulation from reality, some might say we are already in this situation for the advocates of simulation theory.
Theoretical physicist David Bohm once posed this tortuous notion: “Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends on what we look for. What we look for depends on what we think. What we think depends on what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. What we take to be true is our reality.” MY HEAD HURTS😭 back to coffee - - ☕
More here for you seekers and curious souls: https://builtin.com/hardware/simulation-theory
Simulation or not here is a beautiful cabin in Maine.
Today marks the three hundred and thirtieth birthday of the Frenchman François-Marie Arouet, better known by his nom de plume, Voltaire (1694-1778).
Born into a bourgeois family during the reign of Louis XIV, the “Sun King” (r. 1643-1715), Voltaire suffered tragedy at a young age when his mother died. Never close with his father or brother, Voltaire exhibited a rebellious attitude toward authority from his youth. His brilliant mind was fostered in the care of the Society of Jesus, who introduced him to the joys of literature and theater. Despite his later criticisms against the Church, Voltaire, throughout his life, fondly recalled his dedicated Jesuit teachers.
Although he spent time as a civil servant in the French embassy to the Hague, Voltaire’s main love was writing—an endeavor where he excelled in various genres, including poetry, which led to his appointment as the royal court poet for King Louis XV. Widely recognized as one of the greatest French writers, and even hyperbolically referred to by ...
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