I don’t think a screwdriver would illuminate much at all. You are a bit crazy.

It looks uncomfortable. You should not phoony that much.

Ah, the innocence of youth.

The same nonsense is invading all of my feeds as well. These things need to be required to label their AI usage so they can be filtered out.

Poor thing was just a wood owl until you spotted it.

Is Man… cala. Mancala, but where all the pieces are replaced with bits of TNT.

Aged like Francium-223

If the entire Earth blows up, it’ll be a good disaster recovery solution.

Probably they find net zero (minus cost of hiring musicians) preferred over paying out a moderate income to actual artists. Capitalism at its finest.

Heavily featured in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwMwzGIt5ek

So these books are the reason I am the way I am?

Does it count if I give a proof reducing the entire universe down to a 2-dimensional construct?

I’m the bus.

This one:

https://lemmy.ml/post/16995334

That sounds super interesting! Can’t read it until I get home (am on vacation at Disneyland right now) but in about a week’s time I hope you don’t mind if I reply with my updated understanding, and maybe a question or two.

I made a comment a while back (on my alt account) about how the origin of the universe can be expressed as a simple formula: https://sopuli.xyz/comment/3303086

So, I’m curious if that viewpoint will shift at all with a better understanding of electron positron interactions. It kind of makes sense to me that the universe and the antiverse are stacked on top of each other but with time pointing in opposite directions. But I’m sure I’m oversimplifying Feynman’s theory and I’ll have to read his reasoning to really understand.

Not in the current standard model, for sure. Or is there a reason empirically why they simply can’t be.

~240,000 micro & nanoplastic pieces in one liter of plastic-bottled water.

Mfw I read this while drinking a liter of plastic-bottled water: 😮‍💨

For the people downvoting, may I hear a counterpoint as to why this wouldn’t make sense?

This is actually the first time I’m hearing about single electron theory, but I feel validated now that I’m learning about it. I have for a long time believed that the universe is made of a single photon, since photons exist outside of time. Then, if electrons are made of a “pair” of entangled photons, since every photon is the same photon, it would follow that every electron is also the same electron. And one could assert that quarks are just entangled electrons and positrons in various ratios and combinations. Which in my mind leads to the conclusion that all of time and space and matter doesn’t actually exist and we are just imaginary mathematical figments.

Agreed, it is super creepy to have the government know where you are at all times, even if the government weren’t corrupt. Most of us are tracked anyway because our phones are not private, but this is just another step down that slippery slope.

Another aspect of this is how inherently racist AI surveillance systems are. Facial recognition is trained on mostly white photos, so it’s great at telling white people apart. But due to a combination of lacking training data and difficulty picking up contrast with darker skin tones, it is far more likely for people of color to be falsely identified by AI software.

I used to work for a company that did facial recognition for various clients including the government. My friends and I all quit in protest when our employer started work on something they called a “deconfliction queue”. The idea was that faces from crime scenes which could not be identified would enter a queue where they would be saved for future comparison. Then, if the same face shows up as part of another crime scene, they would be matched and raised in priority. This is all well and good if it actually is the same person committing these crimes. In practice, we suspected that having a queue like this would lead to false positives where people (particularly of color) would be accused of committing multiple crimes just because they look similar to someone else. Or in the worst case scenario, an innocent person could register for a photo ID and suddenly get a no-knock warrant in the middle of the night because the deconfliction queue thinks their driver’s license looks a lot like a serial criminal.

Real Minority Report stuff we’re heading into, this shit’s probably going to get a lot more fucked before it gets better.