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overly woo-woo videos in my feed
Tuesday, April 15 2025
While trying to further implement end-to-end tests at work, I had to do a deep dive into getting most of a web app working locally on my horrible work-issued Windows 11 laptop. Pretty much everything that can go wrong did go wrong as I worked. Part of the problem was that the general disorganization of the code and all the ad hoc changes that had happened to it. But figuring things out on my own is the key to developing the understanding I will need to do the work that I hope to eventually do.
At the end of the day, I returned to Hurley and soon got in an argument with Gretchen about that stupid podcast the Telepathy Tapes that suddenly has her taking possibility of telepathy seriously (not something I would've ever expected her to do). When I'd say things about it that I'd learned today, that, for example, it appears to be similar to the long-discredited phenomenon of facilitated communication, she'd rail against my close-mindedness. I'd say that I was merely demanding extraordinary evidence of extraordinary claims, but that wasn't good enough for her. The problem with arguments with Gretchen is that she always has to win them. Eventually I told her I didn't want to argue with her any more about it, and I went off to the Chamomile Wall and did some further work building out the extension of that wall west of the Stick Trail.
Later, after Gretchen returned from pilates and we'd seen Jeopardy!, she started watching an intriguing animated film entitled Flow, which wordless depicts the relationship of an unlikely group of animals doing their thing in a world seemingly made recently devoid of humans. Had I not been in the middle of watching a series of YouTube videos about the Telepathy Tapes (homework I didn't feel like I should even have to do), I might've joined Gretchen and Diane the Cat on the couch to watch it. Unfortunately, having accidentally watched (or listened to) some overly woo-woo videos about the Telepathy Tapes, my feed was now poisoned with pseudoscientific talking heads, the kind of people who feel the need to stress our "quantum" nature and such.
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