[-] Sasha 42 points 3 weeks ago

Innuendo Studios has a good video on this in their alt right playbook series. Republicans will gladly appeal to the far right, Democrats want to distance themselves from the left as much as possible and are instead focused on also appealing to the right...

Ultimately, while a lot of the parties policies are different on the surface, Democrats still win when Republicans are in power because they're part of the same class, hoarding wealth works for both sides. Democrats seemingly only exist to make the system vageuly stomachable (is that even a word?) to the rest of America.

[-] Sasha 42 points 1 month ago

Protip: Don't get the scrub daddy, the O-Cedar Scrunge is the highest rated sponge by virtually every chef and test kitchen for a reason, it's non-scratching but has one of the best scourers ever and will clean stuff up like magic compared to some inferior brands.

If you're an Australian like me, you can get the Vileda Pur Active which is seemingly identical (I wouldn't be surprised if it's the same company).

[-] Sasha 41 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I briefly worked in this area of physics, it's complicated and depends on your definition of a particle and which quantum gravity model you're talking about.

To simplify things you can just ask the same thing about non-quantum gravity. Why does gravity escape the black hole? The painfully mundane answer is that the black hole is gravity, it's not escaping itself. Gravitational waves can't be emitted from inside the black hole but that's because those are a form of radiation and not the structure of spacetime.

This is specifically important because even quantum gravity (the kind with gravitons) still has this distinction. Particles belong to a field and are excitations of it, the gravitational field itself is not made of those particles. The force associated with that field is mediated by gravitons, but what that really means is complicated and honestly possibly just the result of a cool mathematical trick. It also comes with a bunch of crazy behaviour where you have particles that can break the laws of physics by just kinda doing it so quickly that nature blinks and misses it.

The point is, the quantum gravitational field is enough for the black hole to do its job when objects come by, gravitons don't actually need to escape, though they are involved in complicated ways.

[-] Sasha 44 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Here's the anarchist cookbook from the group I'm in, it's an actual cookbook because we're about food not bombs, published 2015.

I love the section for cooking for large groups, it's a great resource.

[-] Sasha 49 points 4 months ago

There's basically no way to answer these questions using real physics I'm afraid.

It definitely can't close it's mouth faster than the speed of light. Yes it would have a strong gravitational pull, almost definitely so strong that it would just collapse into a black hole and not be able to exist. If it weren't that dense, then it would basically just be a big diffuse gas cloud that couldn't do much anyway, it would basically have to be a proto galaxy to not collapse into one.

If it's using magic to exist, then anything is on the table.

[-] Sasha 39 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I am trans and I can say I've never felt like I was in the wrong body, I think most of the time that's just a relatively flawed way to describe an experience that can't truely be understood unless you've experienced it.

Of course, no one has the same experience with these things and it's entirely valid if everyone else does feel that way. For me it's mostly just been that something felt like it was missing, and I fixed that when I began to transition. The main thing was how much happier the internal changes made me, estrogen changes how you experience emotions and being out to my family had a similar effect.

When it comes to "signs" the biggest was just being envious of people who had the freedom to express differently than me. I can confirm that it's a gradual realisation, though honestly most of that was overcoming shame and internalised transphobia.

[-] Sasha 49 points 9 months ago

It's important for the left to recognise that boomers as a whole also represent a group of people who face significant systemic challenges, and that the real enemy is capitalism and the power structures that maintain it as the status quo.

[-] Sasha 43 points 9 months ago

Wait. Does he think this is a popular idea? Is there a majority of people out there who want worse working conditions???

I don't understand

[-] Sasha 41 points 10 months ago

Effective altruism is just capitalism camoflauge, it's also just really bad at being camoflauge

[-] Sasha 46 points 10 months ago

If they've been subsidised so much, the company should just be made a public entity rather than just stopping the funding.

[-] Sasha 49 points 10 months ago

I'm more concerned about the fact that shitty companies will use this sort of thing to put graphic designers out of a job.

This isn't good progress. Even soulless corporate bullshit puts food on the table for someone, soon it'll just make another company a bit richer.

[-] Sasha 45 points 11 months ago

I had a fossil before I bought my Samsung, and it was a god awful mess. Barely functional, slow and honestly kind of ugly.

Still, a shame to lose more competitors.

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