[-] Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 2 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@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 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@lemmy.blahaj.zone 55 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

We do! In my area there are quite a few of us and we operate a number of collectives providing things like:

  • Free meals
  • Free groceries
  • Bike repair workshops
  • Theory reading groups
  • Clothing
  • Social activities

Of course there's also a lot of direct action going on for various causes.

[-] Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 55 points 3 months ago

Why did I even pretend I could get away without saying it -3-

[-] Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 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@lemmy.blahaj.zone 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@lemmy.blahaj.zone 57 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I'm a vegan, and fuck those people.

I've got a medical condition that meant I had to take it fairly slowly just it be sure my body wasn't going to literally fall apart when I went vegan, luckily I'm doing well (in a few ways I'm actually much better off now, though I'm still scared of falling apart). Medical conditions are valid as hell for not going vegan, I wasn't aware of how an eating disorder could prevent it but I've read a fair bit online now, so thankyou for sharing.

One of the scariest moments of my life was when my friends and I were publically assaulted by a pair of very large vegan men who didn't like that we weren't vegan. I was vego at the time but sure as hell wasn't going to tell them, people who act like that are an absolute disgrace and make me ashamed to be vegan. Veganism to me comes from a deep sense of empathy, if you can't feel empathy for other people then you're not a vegan as far as I'm concerned.

[-] Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 48 points 10 months ago

Or your protection broke, it happens...

[-] Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 52 points 10 months ago

That was one of Louis Theroux's phenomenal docos.

He was super confused at the end when he was met with "but we want to hurt them" it was a bit funny how jarring it was, but also really sad.

[-] Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 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@lemmy.blahaj.zone 48 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Merry Christmas!

More Konsi is exactly what I needed

[-] Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 56 points 11 months ago

Gos pis girl

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