it’s the old saying “remain silent and be thought a fool or speak and forever remove all doubt.” self-awareness is a skill and calling someone out for lacking it isn’t gatekeeping to begin with. like if the topic were related to Bonercelli’s lived experience, this would be gatekeeping - but it’s not. he’s pontificating about a genocide thousands of miles away from where he lives.

memoryholing the Snowden leaks

they get used to it. don’t listen to their whining.

lmao

yeah, I was lucky to have already taken Classical Mechanics prior to Quantum Mechanics (it wasn’t a prereq so most of my classmates jumped straight into QM), so the math was all perfectly sensible. but the second any prof started trying to use English to interpret the math, I started having these moments where I’d have to sit back and think about the words coming out of their mouths, and sitting with how it was all actually gibberish. Feynman’s “shut up and calculate” started to feel incredibly valid really fast, whereas prior to QM, I was under the impression that physics was natural philosophy. it’s not and QM was the breaking point, at least for me, personally.

they don’t actually spin but they’re little bar magnets as if they do. if you charge a sphere and spin it, you’ll generate exactly the same kind of bar magnet, but they don’t actually spin. and just like bar magnets, like repels like. but they’re neither bar magnets nor spinning. why don’t they spin? because they’re point masses, which don’t have any extent. but actually, you can’t really observe them as point masses because they’re waves.

^^ this was the exact point at which I said quantum mechanics wasn’t for me and I’m done with physics, after completing most of a degree. it sort of all makes sense but at the same time it completely doesn’t. it all makes sense as pure math but the second you try to make sense of the math, sense goes out the window.

is it really prediction if it’s just the same cycle over and over again? it’s like predicting “water will be wet tomorrow”.

iirc, the question that ignited a war was “are outdoor cats vegan?” – meaning “can vegans own outdoor cats?” it devolved quickly into “should outdoor cats be killed?” with radical environmentalists on one side and felinitarians on the other, while the rest of us

2016 was 8 years ago

extradition to red states, not other countries. they want to do genocide.

for citizens, they can’t deport them without a Supreme Court ruling they don’t have yet. what they can do is jail or kill.

hmm, picking a fight with hexbears. bold move, cotton.

can’t do much about the rest of it but the normal organizing that’s already ongoing.

edit: oh, I should clarify. they want to extradite people running/posting on sites that “promote queer ideology”. I’m referring to the dragnet.

people have been working on this for a long time, but by organizing locally, not online. join any leftist org in your city, even Food not Bombs, or hell, DSA, and you’ll meet them eventually.

the one concerning aspect about it is that they can use it’s framework to come after sites like this one and queer discords – discord/reddit/twitter will probably ban queer content. I think the main thing to do is make sure they can’t actually target the site.

but like… it’s framework is so similar to the fugitive slave act that I just take it as one more indicator that a civil war is coming. real test for liberals is whether their party’s attorneys general cave to demands to extradite queer people. if they don’t grow a spine at that point, a lot of people are going to get hurt.

unexpectedly bountiful harvest in the posting mines

our posting cannot be contained by a single mega

that seems… exploitable… hahaha. how long did it take before people were using it to send banned words around?

ohh interesting. that makes more sense than WoW where even a keyboard doesn’t have enough buttons.

isn’t that an MMO? trying to imagine playing WoW on a steam deck and losing my mind lmao