niktemadur

joined 2 years ago
[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I'll take the XL Pancit Canton, please.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

What about Nietzsche and Wittgenstein, then?

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Recycling bin

That's the thing, for many of us there's no recycling bin for cardboard, plastic, glass, etc, it all goes into one big mixed public dump, like it was the goddamned 1980s and before.

There is one neighborhood operation that picks up the organic rinds and peels and eggshells for the compost. But they don't want any cardboard in there, napkins they don't mind.

There have been recycling campaigns, but they all seem to have petered out, then Covid put the nails in their coffin.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Boxes are for squares.
Jars, however...!

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Take psychedelics, why not, go for it.
Put lasers near your eyes, absolutely.
But never, EVER, take psychedelics
and ALWAYS put salt in your eyes!

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

'Tis also a disturbing place, m'lord, pregnant with a wordless dread that seems to seep into the very marrow of any and all good, God-fearing vessels such as we.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

"Let your hatred for the Jedi guide you!"

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Lordlandia!

Lordland, the land of the landlords.
Or would that be Landlordlandia?
I dunno, I get confused sometimes.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I have a hard time wrapping my head around the concept of how an observer is inextricably intertwined with the object/particle being observed, as part of the framework for the equations to flow, so to speak.

Then there's the fact that Newton's equations assume an infinite speed of light, until physicists of the 19th century that pinned it down, then Einstein established it as a constant.
If you try and use lightspeed at the atomic level, many values blow up to infinity, the math stops working, the answers become like static noise.

Recently I found out that Schrödinger's famous equation is written in the framework of classical, newtonian physics, not in quantum terms. Like using a star screwdriver to flat screws, yet it seems to do an admirable job up to a point. And you have a whole lot of infinities to sweep under the rug and ignore, what is it called, Normalization or Renormalization? One of the two.

It's all incredibly complex and abstract, the numbers being measured by the guys in the lab were strange to the point of absurd, and if you think it's weird for us now, imagine how they saw it then.

So yeah, the math says that the observer is not passive from afar, the observer is part of the equation itself of what is trying to be measured.
Then the closer you look, the blurrier things get, like a greased pig you can't get it to hold still, not even for an instant, particularly at the smaller scales, things don't behave the way they do at our sensory and mental level. Things behaving as if going backwards through time. Particles and anti-particles popping in and out of existence. Particles transforming into other particles. Particles going through walls. The list goes on and on and on.

Weird stuff has to be conjured up to try and make any sense of this.
Light or electrons as amplitudes of probability waves. Axes of imaginary numbers, eigenvalues in Hilbert spaces, wave-particle duality, etc.

Reality is extraordinary, it will keep on always surpassing our expectations and imaginations. It just keeps on happening this way, wherever we poke at.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

And it's not just about the guns, it's about the types of guns that can be bought and sold openly and freely due to decades of intense NRA lobbying. Assault rifles. No background checks. Etcetera. Add a constant deluge of right-wing rage and outrage content on the internet AND television, us vs them, my side right or wrong, fuck my brother and neighbor.

Their antivaxxx mentality applies to everything they touch, everything in their daily lives. Reality doesn't matter, all that matters is that I must hurt all those who are not just like me, everybody on my facebook/twitter/tiktok/whatever says so! They also tell me the sky is about to collapse and it's all and always the fault of dem libruls!

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

You must not NOSN'T!

 

Wherever there is matter in an ever-thinning universe, there might be an entire cosmologically-sized era dominated by an entirely different chemistry to what we have now.

 

If the answer is YES, a related follow-up question: if each visible color of the spectrum were to measure a centimeter in width, how far would I have to move the sensor from the red to detect the change from infrared to microwave, then to radio?

In the knowledge that Sir William Herschel discovered infrared by repeating Newton's experiment, but with a thermometer to measure the temperature of each component of the spectrum, and after placing the thermometer a bit to the side of the red light, in darkness, noticed quite by accident that the device would still register heat, therefore an invisible yet very real component of light was there, warming the thermometer.

 

Now I'm just being the curious layman here, but a Google/YouTube search proved fruitless.

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