knightly
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- Comment on this is why nothing feels right 12 hours ago:
And the fascist state has never been so pitiful and corrupt.
- Comment on The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss 16 hours ago:
If businesses wanted stability they wouldn’t make the working conditions so bad.
- Comment on The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss 16 hours ago:
You must live in a civilized country.
America is not a civilized country.
- Comment on What is something you like to tell people? 1 day ago:
They did that on purpose. “Cashless” just means giving a middleman the opportunity to take a cut.
- Comment on What is something you like to tell people? 1 day ago:
Buy local, use cash.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
You’re an indie, stop worrying about piracy costing you sales and start worrying about the people who’ve never heard of you but would buy your game if they did.
If anything, you should be encouraging piracy as a marketing strategy to help get your name out there. Anonymity is a bigger cause of lost sales than piracy ever could be.
- Comment on As my southern inlaws used to say, "cut that light on". 1 week ago:
- Comment on Cold Callers phoning during work hours and then not accepting your at work and can't spend 30 mins listening to their script. 1 week ago:
The vindictive American in me always feigns interest to try and waste as much of their time as possible. When they inevitably hang up, I call them back and ask to be connected to Fatima (there is always a Fatima).
- Comment on can you say “what it means?” as proper english? 1 week ago:
Likewise!
Are you familiar with the best kep secret in English, Adjective Ordering?
- Comment on When will all the folks complaining about loss of Snap and health insurance realize the GOP wants us to die and has ZERO empathy for fellow Americans? 2 weeks ago:
And we wouldn’t have it any other way~
- Comment on 🎶cowboys are frequently, secretly fond of each other🎵 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think I fit their demographic. XD
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 4 weeks ago:
Microsoft Recall
- Comment on unable to chud 5 weeks ago:
You probably meant “dissonance”, but I love the phrase “Cognitive Dissidence” and I’m going to use it all the time now.
- Comment on Anon missed /pol/ 5 weeks ago:
Asking for evidence of illegal activity is totally not what a spook would do, right?
- Comment on Anon missed /pol/ 5 weeks ago:
Spotted the bootlicker.
- Comment on Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media 1 month ago:
I did, I do, and I’m calling this article bullshit for not pointing out that while the protocol might be open-source, they have yet to share the server software that’s required to operate it.
BlueSky “lets” people host their own profile data because it reduces how much data they have to host. It does not allow them to login and browse the network without going through their centralized servers to do so.
So, it’s not really decentralized, not really open source, and remains under corporate control until such time as they decide to let anyone compete with them on their own network.
- Comment on Trump told Republican senators he’s open to raising taxes on highest earners 1 month ago:
The poor guy’s brain must have the consistency of pudding by now.
- Comment on How wil people react if Trump is right about Tariffs? 1 month ago:
Tariffs are normal, they encourage a strong local economy that doesn’t get screwed over by a dominant economy that decides to use the trade relationship against the local economy
But America was that dominant economy, right up until the tarrifs were imposed. Now it’s more like we’re brexiting ourselves.
- Comment on PUT. HIM. BACK. 1 month ago:
One hundred and thirteen times a second, nothing answers and it reaches out.
- Comment on What are people from Moscow and Versailles called? 1 month ago:
Muscovites and Versaillians.
- Comment on trapped in the middle with u 1 month ago:
So you do have a minor misconception there in that first paragraph, time dilation is relative. The slowdown of something falling into a black hole is seen from the perspective of a distant observer, the thing falling in sees the outside universe running in fast-forward during the fall toward the horizon. Neither is losing energy, the extreme curvature of spacetime stretches out the light moving outward and compresses it in the other direction.
As to whether any particles can catch up to each other beneath the event horizon, our best theories suggest it is indeed possible. The steeply curved spacetime beneath the event horizon should still include valid paths where particles thrown in at an angle will intersect with each other as they spiral in. Velocity is relevant too, something that dives in at 99% the speed of light should be able to catch up to something that was dropped from a relative standstill just above the horizon.
- Comment on trapped in the middle with u 1 month ago:
It helps a bit if you think of time inside a black hole like an onion. The outer skin is the event horizon where information about the moment the black hole was created is “stored”. Going deeper leaves that past behind you and surrounds you with more recent light, and each new layer is smaller than the last because there’s less past to pass through between the moment the black hole was created and the moment you fell in. The singularity is the point at the center where there’s no more past left to see but future light can reach you from all directions.
- Comment on trapped in the middle with u 1 month ago:
That depends on one’s position on the path from the event horizon to the singularity. At the event horizon you’ll pass all the outward-pointing photons that were emitted the instant the event horizon formed, making all of “down” impossibly bright. Deeper, the only light that reaches you from “down” is light that entered the black hole at an angle and looped around the singularity before you caught up to it, creating a ring of light around an circle of absolute dark. That ring grows thinner and the black circle expands as you get closer to the singularity.
Photons from above have the opposite appearance, with an expanding ring of blackness around a contracting circle of incoming light paths.
- Comment on trapped in the middle with u 1 month ago:
As far as we can figure it, basically, yeah. Wrapping your brain around the concept
So gravity gets stronger the closer you are to a black hole, but at the event horizon things get weird. The extreme curvature of spacetime forces space itself to flow toward the singularity at its center faster than the speed of light, so on the inside there’s no “other” direction to point to, even photons emitted straight “out” can’t reach the event horizon and end up moving in the same direction as everything else. So space becomes timelike, proceeding inexorably from point A to B.
Time is more complicated, because it’s really hard to visualize. If you fall into a black hole, you’ll pass through all the outward-pointing light that’s been failing to escape since the event horizon formed, which puts all the past history of the black hole below you. Meanwhile, anything that falls into the black hole in the future can be seen above as its downward-pointing photons catch up. The entire timeline of the interior evolution of the black hole is laid out in the light coming toward you from either direction, making it spacelike.
- Comment on trapped in the middle with u 2 months ago:
Okay!
Entanglement is what we call any sort of quantum interaction that causes some property of two particles to become linked, like photon gun that always spits out two photons of the same polarization, or bouncing a couple of molecules together so that they spin in opposite directions. So long as nothing comes along to disrupt that state, we could measure one particle and we’d know the state of the other particle no matter where it is without having to measure it.
The “inexplicable connection” there is just information about a quantum pair, but it’s spooky because that information literally doesn’t exist until it is measured, at which point the connection is broken. A couple of intergalactic hydrogen atoms could exchange a photon across light years and become entangled for the rest of time, casually sharing some quantum secret as they coast to infinity.
Bonus answer, I think time is real but isn’t like what we imagine it to be.
- Comment on trapped in the middle with u 2 months ago:
Heck, I love explaining quantum physics.
Ask me questions! I can dumb it down enough that even a child can understand!
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 2 months ago:
0, and I’ve done 4 of these in the last year.
- Comment on Imagine 2 months ago:
Good for them.
What’s the issue?
- Comment on Keep it going. 2 months ago:
Him in a kigu trying to get involved in the furry community was peak cringe.
You know you’re a piece of shit when even the worst furries in California won’t have anything to do with you.
- Comment on 3's grip looks the most comfy 2 months ago:
None of these are fountain pens, the obviously superior choice over ball-points.
