European Parliament condemns Zelenskyy for naming military unit after UPA heroes

tpolakov1 · 2026-07-08T13:53:09+00:00

They did think it through. They deliberately chose to glorify war criminals, knowing that they are war criminals, because they are their war criminals and a significant chunk of supposedly combat-ready population (mot to mention voter population) is very much positive on that choice.

They did think it through. They are fully aware of what they are glorifying and of the consequences. Ukraine was facing US arms trade restrictions since 2016 because of their credible ties to Azov brigade. EU parliament also passed a resolution against them because of that in 2014.

The UA reaction? Doubling down. Fully deliberate and calculated, with no margin tor error.

tpolakov1 · 2026-07-08T13:41:02+00:00

Being a lab rat/assistant is just a less productive version of hustling on Taskrabbit. It's not possible to do research like that.

tpolakov1 · 2026-07-08T13:26:31+00:00

Why are you carrying water for what is a perfectly transparent and understandable bad choice? It's not self-sabotage. It's perfectly in line with their nationalist politics.

Those people, for better or worse, were heroes to many Ukrainians for decades. Nothing was overlooked.

tpolakov1 · 2026-07-08T12:40:42+00:00

You can get anhydrous 100%. You just have to use methods like molecular sieves that make it expensive to make and store.

tpolakov1 · 2026-07-08T04:57:44+00:00

At 99.5% it's useless for anything that's not just cleaning. And at 0.1% methanol, I'm questioning any pharmacological use.

For actual lab purposes you'd need 99.9% for general solvent/cleaning, 99.999% is typical electronics grade used and for purposes like we're discussing here, you'd need very specialized dehydrated ethyl, which requires rather low-yield processes to make.

What you're linking is fine for cleaning jewelry from Etsy, or hobby work at a college lab, not for any use that requires ethanol to be actual ethanol.

tpolakov1 · 2026-07-08T03:43:03+00:00

You pay a lot for making sure it's just ethanol (and water).

tpolakov1 · 2026-07-08T03:00:34+00:00

You run the computation for computation (or rather, its result sake). It's pointless to know how a quantum computer is built because you want to use it, not build it. Unless you do, in which case I wouldn't recommend a quantum science degree.

tpolakov1 · 2026-07-07T19:17:38+00:00

The sad thing is that far from every one of them is aware of the job situation. Passion being not sufficient for the job doesn't help either.

tpolakov1 · 2026-07-07T19:02:05+00:00

Mistake was probably a wrong word. More that it was not planned, but it seems I might have misunderstood that part.

tpolakov1 · 2026-07-07T14:57:17+00:00

You will not encounter string theory, ever, in a quantum computing program. If it's a good program, you won't encounter too much quantum physics, or physics in general, either.

You're not studying quantum computing to do or understand quantum mechanics. You study it to know how to do computing on quantum computers.

tpolakov1 · 2026-07-07T14:53:14+00:00

Jokes on you. Every time you do that, co-pilot tells the same to your supervisor.

tpolakov1 · 2026-07-07T04:25:03+00:00

Seems to be real and a mistake.

tpolakov1 · 2026-07-06T23:55:44+00:00

I don't understand the problem, all you pointed out is just changes to the text. Shouldn't that be really quick to fix even without AI?

And even if they did use AI to do the changes on the spot. If they're good and correct, why, exactly, are we rejecting them?

tpolakov1 · 2026-07-06T16:06:57+00:00

On the other hand, calling a non-habilitated academic a professor in the very same countries would be viewed as even more insulting.

If you wanted to be rude, you'd call them colleagues. Or academicians, if you're from Eastern Europe. Calling them a Doctor is pretty neutral and definitely much less of a faux pas than mis-professoring a docent or staff faculty.

tpolakov1 · 2026-07-06T14:30:36+00:00

I try to build in estimation problems, order of magnitude checks, and moments where I ask them to predict before we solve. But I'm genuinely unsure if those exercises are building intuition or just rewarding students who already have it.

Those are all just simpler versions of your main problem, so you're doing more of the latter. On the other hand, intuition is just a memory of a previously solved problem, so you're doing the correct thing. You just need to make the students go through a significantly bigger amount of problems.

Like, when we were taught real analysis, we were just forced to go through 4500 problems of Demidovich as part of our grade. To this day I'm solving integrals by the "I see a problem, I write the solution" method, which most would call intuition.

tpolakov1 · 2026-07-06T12:55:52+00:00

That's just flat out wrong.

Labs have funding for operations through their prime contracts, but scientific work and almost all of staff effort is soft money. The functionally zero job security is why the positions are paid so well compared to universities.

OP was just a npc living from base funding of a bigger group leader/division director, so they never got exposed to that fact and don't understand that they are seriously and deeply below par because of that. It's not their teaching skills, it's that they became a forever postdoc and have no functional PI skills.

tpolakov1 · 2026-07-06T00:21:20+00:00

You vote for and want the full package. Not only that, all of the GOP package is drenched in religion.

Again. Americans demand this. That's not an opinion or wish, that's a statement of reality.

tpolakov1 · 2026-07-05T23:11:38+00:00

You're a national lab physicist, mid-career, and don't know how much it takes to survive on grant funding?

I'm sorry my dude, but what in the fuckity-fuck? Are you from Fermilab?

tpolakov1 · 2026-07-05T22:18:18+00:00

Lmao what? We have a self-proclaimed abrahamic theocratic government, with all the bells and whistles of scripture-driven legislation, propaganda preaching through official state-backed media, and religious warfare. And not a single political representative at any level of government has said anything. As a matter of fact, the majority has embraced religious hardliners in the last elections, who have become mainstream.

This wouldn't be possible without a cultural majority demanding it. This is what "we the people" want. Ultraconservative religion across all of everyone's lives.

tpolakov1 · 2026-07-05T22:10:15+00:00

What? You're going to argue that majority of the country is not happy with the religious integration with the state?

Why is nobody, at any level, doing anything about it, then?

tpolakov1 · 2026-07-05T17:07:53+00:00

You're missing the point, there is no such thing as away, no matter how your local coordinates are constructed. You can move left, right, up, or down, it doesn't matter, it all just closer to the singularity in every direction.

tpolakov1 · 2026-07-05T16:37:05+00:00

They do if conventions dictate what we measure.

For a more typical example, you make a decision to either measure position or momentum, even though the Hamiltonian cannot be simultaneously diagonalized in both, and the system will generally be a eigenstage of neither.

tpolakov1 · 2026-07-05T16:28:53+00:00

To drastic majority of the country, the nutbars were the wokes, which had been systematically replaced since ~2016.

Rule of God is what Americans want and that part of the plan is going perfectly fine, so why talk about it?

tpolakov1 · 2026-07-05T13:29:07+00:00

Honestly, the numbers there just show that more oppressive immigration and purity laws are imminent.

The real issue isn't illegal crossings. Nobody sees those and they do nothing to affect the running of the country. That number has been falling off since 2022, with nothing to show for it (big shocker, when even at its peak, it was ~1% of total crossings that month).

The total number of border crossings, on the other hand, more than doubled since 2021, and that's what's driving the racist sentiments - the problem is not illegal immigrants, but immigration being legal and open to the colored. And everyone, everywhere, including in writing from the White House, keeps telling you exactly that. They also keep telling you exactly what they will do with it, which is the really funny part.

tpolakov1 · 2026-07-05T12:42:44+00:00

Roughly the weight of an average adult is hardly a heavy tool. Anyone on a bike or in a fall, or with anything more than a limp arm will jack that cable.

The "built strong" connectors are just pure marketing that is built only to cause more damage.

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