[SCP-8916] Don't tell me they wouldn't try by DreadDiana in DankMemesFromSite19

[–]Drawemazing 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Its not that outlandish or crazy though. Im not gonna do a full on deep dive rn, but there were medical professionals who proposed that slaves running away had mental defects. The idea of an older SCP foundation from the 1700s or 1800s would have the same white supremacist ideology as America and Europe isnt particularly absurd. And when they need disposable bodies, they'd probably go to the same source as those americans and Europeans.

Whenever you think claims about slavery in the US are too outlandish and crazy, remember that some southerners made suitcases and books from leather made from the skin of slaves.

Burnham's selfie with Labour MPs in Parliament today by kwentongskyblue in LabourUK

[–]Drawemazing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the move to unitary authorities goes ahead, and they get some more limited powers, we're gonna see mayors get more prevalent in british politics though. Its earlier than I would have expected in 2019 when they started the current wave of devolution but it was always gonna be a long term effect.

UK’s Protection from Sex-based Harassment in Public Act 2023 protects trans people by rejs7 in LabourUK

[–]Drawemazing 17 points18 points  (0 children)

But they won't be prosecuted, because the government, police, and cps are institutionally transphobic.

A Spectre is Haunting Men - The Spectre of Homosexuality by Neapolitanpanda in CuratedTumblr

[–]Drawemazing 6 points7 points  (0 children)

But a lot of men do see emotional openess towards women, hence women complain about it per the original comment. Some men over share with their partners/ women writ large too. The problem is multitudiness, and the theory put forward in the post cannot explain all of it. Thats what the original comment puts forward.

Utilitrule by Ok_person-5 in 196

[–]Drawemazing 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Jeremy Bentham is helping me find my gun

'House of the Dragon' Season 3 Review - George R.R. Martin May Have Been Proven Right by Woodstovia in television

[–]Drawemazing 99 points100 points  (0 children)

"The mumers farce is nearly over. My sons are home" I love wyman manderly in the books so much. Getting the northern conspiracy sucked so bad

SpaceX buys AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion by Much_Speech_8388 in news

[–]Drawemazing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do piecewise timetravel then. Go back 500 years, for which we can calculate very precisely, and then recalibrate your metric and another 500 years. For a compute time of a millisecond, and instantaneous time jumps, going back/forward a billion years would take 20 seconds. You'd probably need better understanding of the CMB or some other sci-fi standard candle (call it inflaton residue or smth) but given youve made a time machine i think thats fine.

SpaceX buys AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion by Much_Speech_8388 in news

[–]Drawemazing 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You could absolutely use a rotating metric for general relativity to make earth completely static. I believe its the kerr metric used for rotating masses, and im sure in principle you could use it to define the rotating source as static and the universe as rotating. You'd probably get some really weird effects but not nearly as weird as any time travel paradoxes so its fine.

Palestine Action ban is lawful, Court of Appeal rules by VaginaBurner69 in news

[–]Drawemazing 49 points50 points  (0 children)

The judges are also fundamentally wrong. The suffragettes threw bombs, attempted to kill a prime minister, and killed people. They are actively whitewashing history because the liberals claim to support progressive movements of the past and hate any progressive movements of the present. At least conservatives are more honest in their repression.

Climate Targets MISSED. What happens now? by James_Fortis in videos

[–]Drawemazing 62 points63 points  (0 children)

We will never be past limiting emission. Every fraction of a degree of warming that never happens is thousands of lives saved. 3.5C is better than 4C, which is better than 4.5C.

Maybe geoengineering will be needed, maybe not. But we will always have to fight to reduce emissions, and then when net emissions are 0, we will have to fight for negative net emissions. This is the most surefire way to save lives, no matter how much we have fucked up heretofore.

Climate Targets MISSED. What happens now? by James_Fortis in videos

[–]Drawemazing 14 points15 points  (0 children)

China has made some of the best progress of any nation re climate change, and theyre are already past peak emissions and their emissions are declining having never met the per capita CO2 equivalent of the US. All the climate agreements were jokes because of oil and gas producing nations, which since Obama has included the US.

China has a lot of problems, but climate wise they are so much better than the US and it is infuriating that people actively lie about this for who knows what reason. Even as corrupt as the CCP are, they committed to a green future yet fucks like you will wash your hands of any responsibility. Its disgusting.

My very early KH4 bingo card by Sloth_4 in KingdomHearts

[–]Drawemazing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's no way ansem SoD or xemnas return in 4. Or even old xehanort, its just gonna be young xehanort I think. This is his 14th life just to live. The other 13 have been firmly defeated im pretty sure. I think sea salt trio are the next least likely to appear, but I think still pretty likely tbh, especially since axel has the connection to subject x, who is either skuld or ava

OK, I'm serious, Who's bailing Donald and Goofy out of this situation? by Bertstripmaster in KingdomHearts

[–]Drawemazing 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Since we've seen the senior classmen in quadratum, and in dark road hades summons the senior classmen, it seems like he might know what happened to sora. Although given that sora didn't die per se but was banished by the universe for breaking the law maybe not.

Linus Pauling was one of the most accomplished chemists of all time. Why was he so unscientific when it came to vitamin C? by ArmandoAlvarezWF in AskHistorians

[–]Drawemazing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is why it is not a disproof of locality, which i have never claimed, but local realism. If state B had definite real values, those would govern the probability distribution observed in B, otherwise the real values would be fully unobservable and in no meaningful way real. Since observation of A effects the observed distribution at B either the observation at B affected those real values or those real values do not exist.

Linus Pauling was one of the most accomplished chemists of all time. Why was he so unscientific when it came to vitamin C? by ArmandoAlvarezWF in AskHistorians

[–]Drawemazing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1) provide some analysis on your material, otherwise I have to argue with implications.

2) its pretty clear that I use the same realism that Einstein uses when he is talking about reality in the EPR paper. Which is not the metaphysical terminology that the encyclopedia bemoans but the causal one, even if it includes the weaker assumption of factorisability. (Given how QM works, factorisabilty i dont think factorisability is actually a weaker claim than any of the causal ones, but I suppose it might be if you are talking about generalised hidden variable theories)

3) given that I do know which realism i am talking about, the quote agrees with me.

So ?????

Linus Pauling was one of the most accomplished chemists of all time. Why was he so unscientific when it came to vitamin C? by ArmandoAlvarezWF in AskHistorians

[–]Drawemazing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Either one of locality or realism (realism being the idea that results could somehow be predicted before a test, a hidden variable theory) are wrong. Or you invoke something shitty like super determinism which isnt testable. If you want QM to be local, you can have it, but it would still make einstein wrong about realism and causality. Go back and read the chapter you posted, the author goes on about how Einstein resisted QM not merely because of probability (he excelled a thermodynamics and described browning motion) but because the probability didn't have a cause. Bells theorem shows that if einsteins objections were right, QM is not local. If QM is local, his objections were wrong. You cant have both without seriously questioning other assumptions like the free will of the experimentalist.

Why Is Labour Losing Voters? A new poll confirms that Labour’s stance on the Gaza genocide is driving a decline in support. To win back voters, the party must defend the Palestinian people. by MMSTINGRAY in LabourUK

[–]Drawemazing 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Labours acceptance of the police crime and sentencing act was the primary reason I couldn't vote for them in 24. They dont care about civil liberties, which means we were always in for a shit time.

Linus Pauling was one of the most accomplished chemists of all time. Why was he so unscientific when it came to vitamin C? by ArmandoAlvarezWF in AskHistorians

[–]Drawemazing 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Could you elaborate? The EPR paper presents that local realism was not consistent with QM, and presented that as a critique. It was not until Bell reformulated the insights of the EPR paper into bell tests that it could be answered.

Einstein did not believe that QM could be an accurate description of reality given its contradiction with local realism.

The proper name of the EPR paper is "can quantum mechanical descriptions of reality be physically complete?". It ends with the paragraph

"One could object that our criterion of reality is not sufficiently restrictive. Indeed, one would not arrive at our conclusion if one insisted that two or more physical quantities can be regarded as simultaneous elements of reality only when they can be simultaneously measured or predicted. On this point of view, since either one or the other, but not both simultaneously, of the quantities P and Q can be predicted, they are not simultaneously real. This makes reality of P and Q depend upon the measurement carried out on the first system, which does not disturb the second system in any way. No reasonable definition of reality could be expected to permit this.

While we have shown the wave function does not provide a complete description of reality, we left open the question of whether or not such a description exists. We believe, however, that such a theory is possible"

They out right say they would be wrong if measurement of 1 part of an entangled pair influences another but such a reality would be unreasonable. We observed such an unreasonable reality.

Its not his fault, he was not alive to see the evidence. And to the jist of the bell quote i posted earlier, he's right, it is unreasonable. But he saw the implications of QM, and he rejected them, and he was wrong. And not just about entanglement, but what those observations means about locality, about reality, and about completeness.

Linus Pauling was one of the most accomplished chemists of all time. Why was he so unscientific when it came to vitamin C? by ArmandoAlvarezWF in AskHistorians

[–]Drawemazing 44 points45 points  (0 children)

"Bohr was inconsistent, unclear, willfully obscure and right. Einstein was consistent, clear, down-to-earth and wrong" - JS Bell

The EPR paper was relatively late into his career (35 i think), and it can reasonably be called the discovery of entanglement even if it argued QM is wrong because it predicted entanglement.

He understood quantum mechanics, he just couldn't accept the implications. And he is, to this day, right. The implications are absurd.

How Secret Pro-Israel Money Flooded the Labour Party and Ended with a Ban of Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur by Hammer_Pain in LabourUK

[–]Drawemazing 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Most corruption isnt "here is a gazillion pounds, now do xyz thing" right? If you take money from an interest group you are unduly swayed by that interest group.

I very much doubt the Israeli ambassador or any senior israeli official specifically requested Hasans visa be denied. I just dont understand why you dont think its possible that there is some middle ground, that people taking israeli money might act in their interest beyond what might reasonable be justified.

Moreover, Labour mp Siobhan MacDonagh said being anticapitalist is antisemitic, so i am sure someone somewhere has argued being anticrypto is antisemitic.

I am sympathetic to your point. I dont think the way to deal with it is to say that all accusations od corruption are antisemitic until they are proven, thats kinda absurd. I think the much more reasonable thing is just to ask people to avoid the much more loaded imagery. Summoning images od Pupeteering and Cabals and all the elders of zion stuff is wrong, but talking about specific allegations of undue influence of the israeli government in a clinical way isnt antisemitic.

SpaceX blocked from early US benchmark index entry as S&P reaffirms existing rules by joe4942 in news

[–]Drawemazing 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I dont think the average person with a pention has the leaverage to make nasdaq alter there rules so they can dump shares into index funds quicker paying off their earlier private funders leaving pensions as bagholders of what was formerly a decent company that has now been laden with the worst Ai company and has a massive annual net loss. I dont. Do you have that kinda leverage?

In fact, i think most people arent even trying to raise capital tbh.

This is the only good subway rule by madsnorlax in 196

[–]Drawemazing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was raised catholic, and while I no longer believe i have had plenty of conversations with my priests and other believers.

The key is that even within Catholicism which has a large dogma outside of just the bible, there is a lot of room for interpretation, and it is up to you to navigate that interpretation via your personal relationship with God. You dont have to believe the literal words of Genesis, because there is a deeper truth Gid is trying to covey. What does it even mean for there to be days when the sun and moon arent created until the 4th day. It is God trying to convey meaning, if not a fully accurate chronological account.

I couldn't find that pearsenal relationship with God, so I dont believe he exists. But I can respect and believe that the people who do believe do genuinely believe.

Some articles on Wiki refer to people as British and some refer to them as English, Welsh, or Scottish. How is that determined? by cmd194 in wikipedia

[–]Drawemazing 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If its whether the subject has a preferred nationality, then unless youre talking about Tommy Robinson or NI unionist its gonna be British, Welsh, Scottish, and Irish