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  • The comments that already exist are pretty good but I’d like to bring up that I dont think it’s all that unique to Europe. Look at imperial Japan, for instance. I haven’t witnessed this myself, but I hear Korea has some cultural resentment towards Japan (particularly from older folk) thats not unlike how some affected cultures feel about their former European colonizers.





  • OboTheHobo@ttrpg.networktoxkcd@lemmy.worldxkcd #3141: Mantle Model
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    8 days ago

    So the thing that gets weird is that the heavier the particle is the more likely it is to interact with the slits themselves on the way through, in which case the wavefunction will collapse and it will seem to go through only one slit. Also, as the other person stated, even a hydrogen atom is really 4 fundamental particles that can interact with eachother. I’m not totally sure if double slit has been demonstrated with atoms but I do know it’s been done many times with electrons.

    Edit: its actually totally possible to do it with much, much larger things. From wikipedia:

    The experiment can be done with entities much larger than electrons and photons, although it becomes more difficult as size increases. The largest entities for which the double-slit experiment has been performed were molecules that each comprised 2000 atoms

    And here’s the study that did it: https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fs41567-019-0663-9


  • OboTheHobo@ttrpg.networktoxkcd@lemmy.worldxkcd #3141: Mantle Model
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    8 days ago

    Ehh, its a bit more than that.

    Its a particle in that we know they are quantized into single photons. As in, it is impossible to observe half of a photon, or any non-integer number of photons, and one photon can only be observed in one place. This makes it like a particle.

    But its a wave in the way it behaves - it can interfere (not just with other photons, with itself), and its movement can only be described through wave functions that can even take seperate paths at the same time, according to how waves propogate.

    And, there are ways in which they act like particles no matter how they are observed, and same for wavelike behavior

    Worth noting: “observation” is just physical measurement. You have to keep in mind that observing something fundamentally requires interacting with it - in order to look at an apple, photons must bounce off of it, which is a physical interaction. On the quantum scale, these interactions cannot be ignored.

    Also also: this isn’t just photons, everything is like this. It may not align with how we observe things on a macroscopic scale, but this is fundamentally how the universe works.













  • OboTheHobo@ttrpg.networktoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlHow can I join the resistance ?
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    27 days ago

    I’m sure the people getting deported to concentration camps and losing their healthcare will understand that you not voting was just to save the children in gaza (oh wait, they’re dying anyway)

    Edit: also are you genuinely claiming that Harris would have done all of those things that I listed? Every single one of them? Be so for real. If that’s actually where your head is at you are so unbelievably out of touch I think you’re beyond saving.


  • I’d say its more complicated than that but yeah absolutely that administration didn’t try to stop it, it clearly wasn’t their goal in the slightest. They did very little (though even that very little was more than the trump administration has ever done or tried to) but I’m not gonna act like Kamala Harris would have been like the fuckin savior of Gaza cause that’s just false.

    However, if Harris had won the election, we would:

    • not have people sent to concentration camps in El Salvador
    • not have a concentration camp in the Everglades
    • not have the mass militarization of ICE
    • not hace the total loss of due process for immigration cases and people being kidnapped by federal officers off the street
    • not have millions of people losing Medicaid
    • not have the national guard marching on the streets of DC
    • not have Texas gerrymandering 5 seats in the middle of the term at the president’s request
    • not have the CDC, HHS, and millions of dollars in funding for research gutted
    • not have environmental programs and research gutted
    • not have a convicted rapist in the oval office
    • not have students deported for protesting
    • there’s like dozens more things that I could list tbh
    • still have a genocide in gaza

    I totally understand why people were really upset about that last point. I was/am too. But I have a few thoughts:

    1. If you thought Trump would have been better for gazans than Harris, you’re a fucking idiot.
    2. If you think those two were equally bad because of that single issue, then you’re a fucking idiot.
    3. If you didn’t vote to make a point about how we need something better than those two options, you contributed far more towards Trump’s victory than you did to making that point, especially since the democratic party is full of imbeciles who will see your missing vote and interpret it as meaning they need to become more “moderate.”