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  1. I used to be a stranger
    Apparent paradoxes are all over the place. Your house's electricity runs on one probably: Alternating Current doesn't have much in the way of "making sense": instead of having electrons flow, they just shake back and forth inside the wire. It wouldn't seem like that would convey power but not only does it, it does so very efficiently.
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    Although most people just think of "plastic" as one kind of material, there are hundreds of varieties of plastics, some of which are recyclable and some which aren't. Plastics are actually more varied than wood.
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    EGGS RICE BEARD
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    Luna looks sad. Is that cute? Debatable. Q/10.
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    Forgiveness and Zap Apple Jam.
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    Haven't been online in over a year. How is everypony?

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      Jonny Music

      I'm doing well, thanks. You?

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      I used to be a stranger

      Excited for christmas :3

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      Jonny Music

      Cool. :)

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    Draw people. You never get around to it, and it's more important to know how than drawing objects. Those come naturally and are easy to pick up again. Challenge yourself.
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    Hugs Little birds singing Quiet grottos of greenery and a little trickle of water, hiding just away from noise and busyness Tasty ribs Hill defense Tea Sweet family moments
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    My analytical brain likes to connect things like wikipedia. Everything links to everything else somehow or other. It's very useful for figuring out how to explain or describe things, especially physical phenomena and machines, or understand how they work. However it adds on a bit of complexity in relationships because I tend to overthink things and try to spot hidden meanings when there aren't any.
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    People who install an interior-facing camera are fine. But in British Columbia, driving while using an electronic device that isn't hands-free is illegal and punishable by stiff fines and penalties against your driving record. This still applies even if you're not in motion, like at stop signs or traffic signals.
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    I tend to have this effect for some reason.
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    While I appreciate the tongue-in-cheek nature of ascribing technological prowess to spirituality, I find it also very aggravating. As a mechanical engineering student, it is literally mind-boggling how common-sensical every complicated thing you've ever seen, actually is when deconstructed and described. When people ascribe technology=magic, unfortunately there are token minorities of idiots who genuinely believe it, impeding common understanding of physical principles. I don't think you fully appreciate the meaning of the word "science". The fact that Twilight Sparkle is able to repeat her teleportation spell means, by definition, that she has scientific knowledge of that magic.
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    I learned a fantastic engineering joke while I was in school. The Space Shuttle's size and mass was partially constrained by how large they could make the big orange strap-on fuel tank, and that thing was constrained by how large they could make the solid fuel boosters which attached to it at the sides. The boosters were built by United Launch Alliance, in Utah. Due to the routing of transporting the completed boosters, they had to be transported by rail from Utah to Cape Canaveral in Florida. No matter how they routed it, the boosters would inevitably have to go through a railroad tunnel. This meant the boosters could be no larger than the North American railroad gauge (width of track) for tunnels. The North American railroad gauge standard is specified by the International Rail Gauge Standard, which is derived from a much older British standard, stemming all the way back to one of the very first railroads, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR). The railroad gauge there was originally designed as an improvement on old horse and cart road. They just laid rails on top of ruts, grooves that had been worn in between the two cities on a main road that had been there ever since those cities were Roman colonies. Horse and cart that traveled those roads initially were only as wide as they needed to be to accommodate two pulling horses. So the size of the space shuttle is derived from the width of a horse's ass.
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    Most major world paradigms that have latest generations and spanned the globe have elements in common which hint at the single greatest desire in the human psyche: to be fully known, and fully loved. As the OP termed it, compassion, empathy [and the unhelpfully vague "altruism"]. The endgame is everyone just being friends. I mean, if everyone was literally friends with everyone else, what else would there be to do, except to enjoy life? There would be no injustice to hunt or prosecute, and no villainy to prevent. A technological singularity would be a pretty disappointing ultimate fate of the human race because we'd just be trading all of the complexity of one way to interact with reality (matter) for another (electromagnetism). It wouldn't do anything to improve our stance in the universe. You must be a scream at parties.
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    No, that would be chocolate rain.
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