DefinitelyNotAPhone

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not that I'd dispute the car bit, but I'm pretty sure the most dangerous thing about riding a motorcycle is the fact that you're moving 60mph on an object that will do exactly nothing to prevent you from suddenly decelerating via smashing into any of the several miles of concrete and asphalt surrounding you in every direction the second the delicate physics problem that is a two-wheeled vehicle in motion exits the realm of 'ideal conditions'.

They're not called 'donorcycles' for no reason.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I nearly had a heart attack until I read the word "ARM" at the end.

It seems like ARM Arch is doomed for whatever reason.

[โ€“] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago (26 children)

Either Trump is an existential threat that requires the strongest possible response, or he's just another corrupt asshole in a country dominated by others like him.

And before you go "but America doesn't do that sort of thing!", I'd encourage you to look up Fred Hampton.

[โ€“] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Netflix pays crazy rates, but treat their employees as bad if not worse than Amazon. Last I heard the average tenure there is 12-18 months (granted, that's still a fuckload of money).

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

While each party isn't perfect, you should still look at the whole and judge based on that whole

The Democrats are actively aiding and abetting a genocide in Palestine. My judgement based on the whole is that the entire party should be tried and hanged for war crimes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The position itself is necessary (though I'm sure there's plenty of failsons doing it out there) as waters around ports are often tricky and require local knowledge. It also ensures that the port itself has some level of control over the caliber of person captaining ships around it so that you're not getting some half-trained 14-year-old piloting a ship several hundred times larger than the landlocked village he grew up in around your critical infrastructure.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

When you reach a certain age as a nigh-immortal shadow princess, you've got to try new things to spice up your life.

[โ€“] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago

Famously good strategy, trying to drain the infinite ocean of porn about famous cartoon characters.

[โ€“] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I'm legitimately trying to figure out how anyone could willingly pay nearly $60 for a single portion of filet mignon from fucking Outback. I've gone to nice steakhouses for dates that charged less than that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Consciousness is not part of the observer effect (which is itself named in the most infuriating way possible, specifically because it makes people think that the universe is somehow aware of when something sentient is looking at it). "Observing" a particle requires interacting with it in such a way that you meaningfully affect its current state of being, whether that be deflecting it in a different direction than it was going or changing its velocity, and therefore it is impossible at a quantum level to be a passive observer that does not influence the outcome.

In the case of the double slit experiment, if unobserved light will act as a wave with interference and if observed then it acts like a particle. The reason for this is both complicated and simple: light behaves as a wave due to probability. There's no way of observing a photon without influencing it, so therefore the best we can do is say it has a certain probability of being in this collection of spaces, which in the case of photons is a wave (because it can travel in any of a number of directions outwards from the photon emitter in the experiment, but all going away from the emitter and towards the wall the slits are cut into). For the purposes of this probability wave, the start position is the emitter and the end position is the wall behind the slits, so averaging out a large number of photons will recreate the interference pattern on the wall.

However, if you observe the photons at the slits to try and figure out which slits they're going through you have influenced the photons and thus collapsed that probability wave into a particle, and in the process created a new probability wave from that moment onwards which has the same end position as the original wave, but now starts at the individual slit. From its perspective, there is no second slit, so now the wave acts as if it is in the single slit setup because from its perspective it is, hence the loss of interference.

Nothing here has anything to do with consciousness. You can recreate this experiment with no one in the room and it will behave exactly the same, and has a sound (if very confusing conventionally) mathematical cause.

On a side note, string theory is effectively unfalsifiable and therefore completely useless as a scientific theory.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Also, most HYSA require a significant upfront investment ($1k+ all invested at once) in order to open an account in the first place. And as nice as 5% interest is, getting $10/year from it is pretty fucking irrelevant; it's only useful if you have a cool $10k+ to dump into it and forget.

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