Getting a second FIFA Peace Prize? Distract everyone from Epstein? (certainly not this one)

There was an actual scientific study that found there is a correlation between having an easily triggered ‘disgust’ reaction (in general) and being right-wing.

EDIT: seems the are multiple such studies. Here’s one.

Exactly. And journaling on paper is essentially useless. Ctr+F is the main reason to journal for me.

Thank you! Hadn’t seen it before!

I’m out of the loop on this one… What video is this?

“If I say they behave like particles I give the wrong impression; also if I say they behave like waves. They behave in their own inimitable way, which technically could be called a quantum mechanical way. They behave in a way that is like nothing that you have seen before. Your experience with things that you have seen before is incomplete. The behavior of things on a very tiny scale is simply different. An atom does not behave like a weight hanging on a spring and oscillating. Nor does it behave like a miniature representation of the solar system with little planets going around in orbits. Nor does it appear to be somewhat like a cloud or fog of some sort surrounding the nucleus. It behaves like nothing you have seen before.”

Also Richard P Feynman.

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Apparently it’s due to the wave nature of light, and proves that photons are not “just” particles. You have three polarizers there: two in your hand and one in the screen.

This link explains it: https://alienryderflex.com/polarizer/

In brief, light oscillates transversally to its motion and a polarizer lets through the component of the oscillation that projects onto the polarizer’s allowed direction. If you have two filters at 90° you get 0% transmission, but if you have an intermediate step, 90° to 45° is 70% transmission, and 45° to 0° is now 50% final transmission. Because light is sometimes analog.

He’s running the US like a business… A racketeering business. And he would like you to cheer and clap.

It was also used as splinter padding by the Japanese navy, in the form of rolled-up hammocks, shown here at the battle of Tsushima:

They continued using hammocks this way well into WW2, although I don’t understand how the increased risk of fire wasn’t a problem.

I’m gonna need that expressed in eighteenths of football fields, pardner. 🇱🇷🦅

Whatever book you remember reading first, read it again at the end.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_machine

That looks indeed awesome. I didn’t know Elite was developed for the BBC Micro… 22 kB for a 3D open-world fighting/trading/mining flight simulator using only 8-bit integer addition operations. I had no idea…

Ah, no, just giving a glimpse of my own very subjective perspective, based on a relationship where the language of gratitude was decidedly a one-sided affair: neither appreciated nor reciprocated by the other.

I obviously don’t know your situation, knew even less before you mentioned ten years, and know less still about the situation of other people reading this conversation, so this was a general comment. We can sometimes miss the fact that other people have completely different interpretations of things that seem almost axiomatic to us.

Unless they have a matching personality, showing a lot of gratitude can easily turn unattractive to most people, because it often comes from a position of insecurity… Have a sense of measure even for gratitude is what I’m saying (but this is very much like a patient advising the doctor, because I’m very gratitude-heavy myself).

I think they’ve got low to medium tier jokes, but with excellent pacing and timing and without any fear of going into fantasy space. They kinda keep you hoping for a much funnier one, but yeah, they’re not knee-slappers.

This one is decent and pretty typical: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/09/09/home-city-usa

The man is in Super Extra Platinum Nobel tier at this point, a lot of people are saying it.

Oh okay… Never mind then :)

It’s a testament to the quality of the programming and testing that they show Mario on the screen only if he’s still alive. It would be easier to just show him without conditions.