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Pretty sure that a major issue is precisely how little we can do about it. I think some have talked about engineered plastic eating microbes and such, but haven't heard of any new developments on that front in a while. Also who knows what side effects a scheme like that could cause...

Why would they wish to stabilize the current de facto US ally #1?

Funnily enough, my experience with Tumblr is purely second hand through screenshots like this :D

Does it though? The other user implies that the OOP is a clown who is narcissistic and likes themselves.

Capitalism has a tendency to eat everything it can. This includes the political system. The US is just ahead of the curve in this.

Or if the first side is objectively right, an infinite percentage more misinformation.

It's not that the triangle doesn't exist, but that the brain has multiple options for forming said triangle, only one of which results in the real image. Threw the following together to illustrate:

I was looking at a grid lattice wall paneling just this week which had the same effect. If the pattern is perfectly uniform, the eyes can't distinguish between different features in it. The whole situation is a bit comparable to a stereoscope. Shifting the eyes out of plane with the pattern causes the false images to split vertically while the one true image remains. This isn't an issue most of the time, but it does demonstrate how some situations invalid for stareopsis can be tackled with a simple head tilt.

Rangefinders aren't usually looking at patterns in walls for example. Aircraft or ships don't create uniform enough patterns. Yes it's still an edge case, but I just wanted to explain my point that tilting the head does offer the brain more to work with, which in some confusing situations can be critical to correctly perceiving the situation.

For singular dots in space your argument would be valid, but real objects are often more complicated. If the eyes can't reliably lock onto the same spot along the X-axis due to a repeating pattern or a complete lack of detail along said axis, tilting the head shifts the whole situation and allows the eyes to zero in on a fixed point to perceive depth. An extreme example: If you look at two horizontal featureless lines (offering no details along their length to lock onto, brushed metal railings for example) positioned one behind the other, running perpendicular to the field of view in the direction of the X-axis. The only way for depth perception to work here is to tilt the head to introduce a difference along the Y-axis. Repeating patterns with the right spacing (e.g. grids, lattices) in that same plane can also confuse depth perception, in which case the head tilt often helps.

Another (marginal) benefit of head tilting is the fact that as the head rotates, the eyes physically move, possibly revealing additional detail that may have been obstructed from the previous vantage points. All this for a much lower energy expenditure than the whole animal moving itself.

Oh and one thing that popped into mind from personal experience as I am writing this: In darkness tilting the head helps discern between shapes that are just lingering on your retinas after looking at a brighter thing earlier (rotates along with the eyes) vs. dim things that might actually be there right now (stays in the same orientation relative to the surroundings).

Not only does it help with hearing, but with sight as well. Two eyes looking horizontally at an object produce a dataset for the brain to process, but the depth perception is constrained to working in the horizontal plane. Tilting the head expands this into the third dimension, providing a lot more for the brain to work with.

Beautiful.

Identity is just something our brains invent to better make sense of the world. It doesn't exist as anything other than a thought. You are the universe and the universe is me. The only thing that goes away when anything "dies", is the illusory and self-imposed border between the "individual" and the rest of it all.

The Trump regieme officially endorses Palestinian transwomen, as long as they have abundant facial hair.

"What is an ocean, but a multitude of drops?"

• Cloud Atlas

Definitely one of my favourite quotes.