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Subject: Re: FAA To Finally Ditch Floppy Disks & Win-95
Date: 25 Jun 2025 02:02:34 GMT
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On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 22:25:45 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 10:19:55 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> 
>>> The universe laughs as humans invent arbitrary systems to explain it,
>>> and then pride themselves on how consistent their inventions are.
>>
>> Indeed it does.
> 
> That’s a very ... um ... anthropomorphic mentality ...

It's the Zen catch-22. The chatter invented by humans is inadequate for 
expressing reality so you do the best you can.