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becoming big

Also most people have no sense of scale. 
10^(3, 6, 9, 12) USD is the right scale. 

The folks in the 4s going to 7s are just distracted

time

I thought of an old friend from childhood, who used to tell me of their run club outings in the 2010s. They were the sort of person who doesn't verbally signal very well, when they want to be possessed, or when they want to be left alone. After a lot of silly guesswork, I took it as a lesson not to bother myself so much with less-verbal people. One cannot always attend to everyone's disabilities. Sweat lost in rain. Deep thrusts and almost coming together. I love my friend regardless. Time. 

how to understand qualia

Qualia

The concept of qualia is not a scientific concept in a constructed sense. It's just the semantic pointer to any entity's self-reported data type atomics ... which are completely dependent on the entity's ability to verbalise their own smallest analysable experience. 

For example say the smell of strawberries. John says I can't analyse it farther than that it is what it is, and that's all I know. Peter says it's exactly a combination of two other smells, tomatoes and lemons in a 3:2 ratio. Dirk says it's a one dimensional signal that might as well be a sound in my nose. 

These are all qualia, to the maximum practical definition of the term.