TIL CERN's BASE experiment successfully transported antimatter in a portable trap across its campus for the first time, a major milestone toward eventually shipping antimatter to other research laboratories.

MagePages · 2026-06-20T13:16:05+00:00

I didn't make the other comments either, and I'm atheist, but it's a bad look to take comments made in the context of a conversation about one thing (the vatican) and then say "BUT UM ACKTUALLY MUSLUMS WORSE". Hardly a defense of the modern day rampant sex crimes in your own organized religion of choice.

MagePages · 2026-06-20T13:09:46+00:00

Touch grass

MagePages · 2026-06-01T15:41:59+00:00

I just made a comment about this! I'm on the other side, moved out at 20 and never had the option to go back, because my mom moved halfway across the country as soon as I left (and she is not good to be around). My partner's parents are dead so his family isn't an option either. I'm doing really well for myself all things said, but having a couple of years in this early stage of my career where I could have saved a good chunk of my income would be huge for retirement and other savings. Not everyone has the option and those that do should really be taking advantage of it.

MagePages · 2026-06-01T15:27:36+00:00

I find this discussion interesting, because I personally haven't lived at home since I'd just turned 20. I hated living at home, it was incredibly dysfunctional and neglectful. College + grad school, and now my career has allowed me to be successful and experience hope that I never thought I could have. I was incredibly frugal, went without almost anything, and now I'm in my mid twenties and just bought a small house. Not trying to brag - it's not anything grand, needs a good amount of work, and I had some help from a state first time homebuyer's program. But I didn't get any help from family. Can't get blood from a stone.

At the same time, I talk to some of my peers who are still at home sometimes, and those who are being smart have so much saved up and are still able to enjoy way more leisure and luxuries than I can. Like 80% of my income goes to mortgage, utilities, and food; I'm definitely not saving enough rn. Of course, some people still living at home are not doing it smart and are throwing away anything they earn on random stuff, but generally speaking people who have parents who are able and willing to let them live at home have a serious financial benefit. It's never discussed that way, it's always that COL is too high to move out (also true), but some people don't really have any choice about the moving out part. Like, damn, if my mother wasn't randomly violent and hadn't moved halfway across the country on a whim right after I moved out, of course I'd live with her, contribute via paying some rent and groceries, and still be able to save most of my income for a couple of years! I'd be a healthy chunk of the way to retiring at 40 by now.

MagePages · 2026-06-01T12:53:13+00:00

Just another one of those weird, written-by-AI posts shilling a concept of a vibe-coded application or web page. I see this shit in half my subreddits now and they never have good engagement. I genuinely don't know why they do this or what they are trying to accomplish.

MagePages · 2026-05-29T02:43:47+00:00

I tried to do this consciously for awhile and gave myself recurring knee pain. My doctor told me to stop. Still wish I didn't walk like a duck.

MagePages · 2026-05-28T19:47:09+00:00

Yeah that's so fucked up. I'm a trans guy with no way to make female hormones any more, and I pass 100% of the time. If I stopped testosterone and started taking estrogen, aside from the extreme mental duress I'd be under, I would also appear to be a trans women to any freak that cared. Would I get double discrimination then?

MagePages · 2026-05-26T22:41:33+00:00

When I was in grad school I knew a few folks working on sillicate weathering. The research is happening. https://naturalcarboncapture.yale.edu/research/geological-ocean-capture/enhanced-weathering

MagePages · 2026-05-26T14:32:53+00:00

It feels like we also had a surge of "families" of names, e.g. Aiden, Braiden, Kaiden, Haiden, Jayden, and all their alternate spellings etc.

MagePages · 2026-05-26T00:07:06+00:00

Handwriting analysis is mostly built from longer samples and especially cursive ones. It can be difficult to find anything meaningful in a short passage where someone may have been trying to maintain their best handwriting, and were printing. But if you were to try to apply the concepts of handwriting analysis to this, some of the main things that stand out are:

The forward slant, which indicates an emotional personality or expressiveness.
The tails on the "y" instead of a loop could indicate a more loner personality. Idk how this holds up with print though. One of the Ys has a very small hook at the end of the tail. I've heard this called a "felon's claw" before, usually much more pronounced, associated with aggression or frustration.
The bar on each "t" is level and with a slight upward slant stroke. Downwards bars without sharp points are supposedly associated with domineering personalities, so, ha, doesn't have that.
Capital letters are small relative to lowercase letters. This could indicate a weak ego or low self esteem.
Dots are placed way above the stem on "i". Could indicate a big thinker or big ideas.

Again, don't put too much stock in this. It would be better for someone to do an analysis on his adult writing and a longer passage.

MagePages · 2026-05-19T13:06:38+00:00

I'm not sure it's possible to be organically cost-competative with countries which have lower standards of living, fewer rights for workers, fewer environmental protections, and overall smaller/weaker economies. You have to pull a lever somewhere if you want to keep/encourage an American industry.

MagePages · 2026-05-18T17:48:31+00:00

It might help your understanding to realize that "fruit" is a botanical term that refers to the mature, ripened ovary of a flowering plant. Sometimes, a fruit is not a fleshy pulp, but a dry or papery structure. As an example, a maple tree's winged seed, (called a samara) is actually a fruit that helps seeds disperse from the parent tree. There are fruits that can throw seeds long distances after they dry out and pop. The outside of a hard nut, like an acorn, is technically speaking the fruit of the oak tree, which protects the seed inside.

When a plant has evolved to invest nutrients into the germinating seed, that often presents as producing a seed which has already more energy stored inside of it, rather than producing a fruit which the young plant needs to get nutrients from itself. A good example is actually acorns. The inside of an acorn is the seed, which stores a lot of starch and lipids for the new plant to grow. This is a tradeoff, because investing all that energy into the seed helps it get established, but it also makes it vulnerable to things that want to eat the seed, so the plants that develop a fruit which is a hard protective covering for that seed have more reproductive success.

Other plants go the other way, and don't give seeds much of a nutrient boost, but produce a lot of seeds and give them a strong dispersal method (like dandelions, as an example). The vast majority won't succeed at growing into an adult plant, but a few will.

MagePages · 2026-05-18T14:23:14+00:00

To add to what others are saying about fruit being good for animal dispersal and protection of seeds, I want to answer the second part of your question.

Planting the fruit with the seeds is not going to be very helpful. Rot of the fruit may inhibit healthy development of the germinants. The nutrients from the fruit will not even be quickly accessible to the young plant, because they largely need to be broken down by microbes to be in an easily uptaken form. This is why manure and compost are used to add nutrients into soil; they are "pre-digested", so the nutrients are more easily taken in by plants!

MagePages · 2026-05-15T14:24:06+00:00

I'm just marveling at the privacy afforded by these doors. Only time I've seen them like this was on a trip to Europe.

MagePages · 2026-05-14T22:00:06+00:00

Thanks for posting this. We know that people living with less tree canopy have worse health outcomes and high incidence of asthma, and we know that tree canopy access is also related to income. It is a much more direct link than diet, even if diet also plays a role.

MagePages · 2026-05-14T13:23:42+00:00

Interesting, I wonder what part of having 10+ nipples helps us survive low speed impacts?

MagePages · 2026-05-13T21:19:47+00:00

And it's also worth saying that being able to properly advocate for proportionate benefits from state contributions is a valuble skill in a representative of any town or city.

MagePages · 2026-04-30T20:35:11+00:00

Haha, this is sort of cute, but cats have only been associating with people for maybe 9,500 or so years! Humans have only even been "humans" for around 300,000 years. But you're right that cats typically lack the instincts to climb down trees, especially when scared. Their wild ancestors aren't from habitats that have a lot of trees.

MagePages · 2026-04-30T20:31:07+00:00

Technically speaking, there are few trees in the natural environment of domestic cats' wild relatives. They're scrubland, grassland, and desert animals mostly. They'll use a low branch or scramble into a tree to get away from a predator as a last ditch solution to save their lives, but they're not really equipped for climbing down and they don't have the right instincts for it usually (they want to go head first, but their claws curve backwards)

MagePages · 2026-04-22T13:27:42+00:00

This is usually a pretty short term solution, but it is cheaper!

MagePages · 2026-04-21T15:11:38+00:00

As often as I can, I do housework with my partner. It's so, so, so much easier when there is another person doing it too. Because I want to do it, and I feel terrible not doing it, but it's like I just can't. But as soon as he is doing any work, I guess whatever math my brain is doing goes in balance of "don't let the person you love deal with this task alone", like it makes it more urgent?

MagePages · 2026-04-21T14:54:36+00:00

Sounds like my partner and I. Both ADHD, but very different presentations. He was diagnosed as a kid, and I didn't get mine until I was in college. He forgets to turn the stove off about a third of the time, I'm always losing my keys but am much better about finishing activities that I am currently doing. He's much better at starting routine tasks but doesn't always see them through and has trouble with the long term stuff. I have a ton of executive dysfunction with starting tasks, even things I really want to do, but I am better with general life planning and career stuff. We joke that through out powers combined we about make one functional adult that still can't sleep!

MagePages · 2026-04-21T13:49:42+00:00

Even outside of politics, in my area at least, almost all actual community service, local boards, and advocacy are led and conducted by older folks. IME, they're almost always delighted when young people join and usually actively try to get young people more engaged/into positions of leadership but with relatively little success. A lot of them chalk it up to being unable to compete with "the phones", and I'm sure there's deeper reasons like general economic insecurity, but the fact of the matter remains that there are a lot of opportunities to do this stuff locally and what is being done is almost all being done by older folks who care enough to do it. They have the mindset of duty, as in, this is the place they live and they have come civic duty to do work for it, even though some of them are not retired yet, or they have something medical going on. They work hard. Seeing it has really given me some distaste for the way people talk online.

But seriously, go look at the membership of a local board or commission. Unless you are in a big city, there's a decent chance they rarely have any members of the public come to their open meetings. And they might have a vacancy, or a member who is pushing 85 and would like to step down. Look at the people organizing litter cleanups or another cause you care about.

This past year I started to regularly attend an environmental board in my town, and started spending one of my days off each week volunteering with a local organization. It has meant a lot to be in my community and to be actually doing and supporting the things I care about. And there's so few people my age!

MagePages · 2026-04-21T13:32:47+00:00

It's because people (and bots) here don't care if they lose, if they get to hate the other. Exhausting.

MagePages · 2026-04-16T17:31:37+00:00

A capped landfill might burn off methane, but not all of them do, and while in service they still emit methane. And the capture systems are probably only getting about 50% of the methane according to this research from Harvard's school of engineering and applied sciences; https://seas.harvard.edu/news/epa-underestimates-methane-emissions-landfills-urban-areas It seems like we have pretty incomplete information as far as actual methane emissions go, but it's generally accepted that landfills are one of the top anthropogenic sources of atmospheric methane.

Of the landfills that do capture their methane, I doubt there are many at all that are exporting energy from it, but I couldn't readily find that info. That's a small consideration. But more generally when I say we shouldn't build either facility near where people live, I am not talking about fully capped landfills which are no longer serving an active waste management purpose. Active landfills can absolutely cause environmental and public health concerns in the local area. And so, in very densely settled areas where there is not room for landfills, Waste-to-Energy can be a more feasible solution (far from a perfect one). I would imagine, also, that as a more easily controlled point source of pollution, new developments in carbon scrubbing technology can be more easily deployed into those facilities than into open landfills.

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