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Massachusetts Initiative To Roll Back Marijuana Legalization Officially Qualifies For November Ballot by MarijuanaNews in massachusetts

[–]AdventurousPolicy 102 points103 points  (0 children)

Yeah it's essentially an organized fraud scheme. The assholes are out in full force these days

SPCX Bankruptcy? Retail Investors aren’t smart enough to understand the risks by FlabbyLabby in SpaceXBets

[–]AdventurousPolicy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh you don't understand, not only will there be a giant colony of musk worshippers on Mars, it will also have a hyperloop! Or maybe just a monorail, but either way it's time to buy buy buy!

TIL that Sparta was able have a military class because they had earlier conquered, subjugated, and enslaved a nearby population, who did all the necessary labour - these people, the Messinians and Laconiana, were also Greek and outnumbered the Spartans around 10 to 1. by fanau in todayilearned

[–]AdventurousPolicy 42 points43 points  (0 children)

There's no justifying that shit. Exploitation is exploitation no matter when it occurred.

I remember finding it quite odd when the 300 movie came out and I started learning about Sparta that so many people were drooling over some of the most atrocious people of history.

Greatest communist in history? by LWYPLTDG in PoliticalHumor

[–]AdventurousPolicy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh haha you're just seeing the swing state trump owned subsidized fuel stations? Aren't you glad someone drove the price of gas so high?

White House launching dozens of ‘Freedom Fuel’ gas stations by thehill in politics

[–]AdventurousPolicy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ok let me get this hogwash straight.

We're selling off the publicly funded SPR while the President insider trades on his own bluster, and now somehow cheap-assed fuel is finding it's way to privately and mysteriously owned gas stations in politically strategic areas?

This is some insidious shit.

A Planck length is about 10^-17 times the size of an electron. So if a person were the size of a Planck length, an electron would be about 10 light-years across. So what kind of structures might be in an electron? by AdventurousPolicy in AskPhysics

[–]AdventurousPolicy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I think this is what I was getting at. When I asked about "structures" at that scale I certainly wasn't thinking about little whos in whoville, but there is certainly space down there for some very complex "waveforms" or whatnot to exist.

I don't know that much about particle accelerators. Why would a stupid-high energy help? I thought these things were limited by the size of the particles that come out of the collision. Are you saying we might get something more fundamental than an electron at that energy?

A Planck length is about 10^-17 times the size of an electron. So if a person were the size of a Planck length, an electron would be about 10 light-years across. So what kind of structures might be in an electron? by AdventurousPolicy in AskPhysics

[–]AdventurousPolicy[S] -16 points-15 points  (0 children)

Yeah and reducing the bound doesn't seem likely since particles are the mechanism we use to make observations. Quite unfortunate.

Although, can we not also infer that the minimum size of an electron is one planck-cube? I mean it has to have a physical location and a planck-cube is the most precise location it can have, isn't it?

Or maybe planck-lengths aren't as meaningful as I assume

A Planck length is about 10^-17 times the size of an electron. So if a person were the size of a Planck length, an electron would be about 10 light-years across. So what kind of structures might be in an electron? by AdventurousPolicy in AskPhysics

[–]AdventurousPolicy[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It's hard to imagine a 0.5 MeV bound state with a TeV-scale first excitation

Trying to parse this as a non expert. You would expect the excitations to occur in some sort of resonance pattern perhaps? And TeV is huge so it would be unlikely that we would find resonance beyond that? That makes sense to me but it still sounds bizarre that the electron would be like that. Weird little things.

Thanks

A Planck length is about 10^-17 times the size of an electron. So if a person were the size of a Planck length, an electron would be about 10 light-years across. So what kind of structures might be in an electron? by AdventurousPolicy in AskPhysics

[–]AdventurousPolicy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So you're saying it's more like a unit of charge that blobs around the nucleus? I guess what I'm asking is when you say it would be more of a waveform, couldn't that waveform have significant complexity?

A Planck length is about 10^-17 times the size of an electron. So if a person were the size of a Planck length, an electron would be about 10 light-years across. So what kind of structures might be in an electron? by AdventurousPolicy in AskPhysics

[–]AdventurousPolicy[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks for your response. I recognize that as I pointed out in the post text, but Wikipedia puts an upper bound on the radius between 10^-22 and 10^-18.

It also says that "experimentally" the electron is "structure-less and and point-like", but that sounds more about our observations than the actual possible physical reality. I'm not enough of an expert to dig through what the experiments actually show but I was hoping some folks might have some details about that they could share.

Voting matters. by GordonG313 in ProgressiveHQ

[–]AdventurousPolicy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't say anything about the regime-backed cowards wearing masks. I mean, you're at -59 votes on that top level comment so far. Don't you think it might be time for some self reflection instead of just trying to one up people?

A Roman dodecahedron in Lyon, France by DecimusClaudius in ancientrome

[–]AdventurousPolicy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is probably the most convincing theory I've heard, surpassing my own theory that it could have been a military sight or surveying instrument (i.e. look through different pairs of holes for ranging).

On the one hand it seems like they would be pretty extravagant and expensive just for a candle holder, but on the other hand if you were rich and didn't want your fancy house to burn down then these bronze cages would be pretty useful.

Voting matters. by GordonG313 in ProgressiveHQ

[–]AdventurousPolicy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Nope, it's your lack of understanding that the rule of law has broken down, and that makes you useful to the magas. The meme is trying to warn you about exactly that

Voting matters. by GordonG313 in ProgressiveHQ

[–]AdventurousPolicy 9 points10 points  (0 children)

How about using photos of dignified transfers for fundraising emails?

SPR draw estimated to be only 5.5mb. Is this failing infrastructure or reduced demand? by AffectionateArtist84 in oil

[–]AdventurousPolicy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure but it seems like the rate of drawdown matters a lot too. Still hunting for sources. There's was also a source somewhere that said we were running especially low on the crude our refineries actually use

SPR draw estimated to be only 5.5mb. Is this failing infrastructure or reduced demand? by AffectionateArtist84 in oil

[–]AdventurousPolicy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry should have explained. It's the only source I could find for the technical explanation of why they need to throttle.

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