silent_water
@silent_water@hexbear.net
- Comment on Electrons are easy 3 months ago:
yeah, I was lucky to have already taken Classical Mechanics prior to Quantum Mechanics (it wasn’t a prereq so most of my classmates jumped straight into QM), so the math was all perfectly sensible. but the second any prof started trying to use English to interpret the math, I started having these moments where I’d have to sit back and think about the words coming out of their mouths, and sitting with how it was all actually gibberish. Feynman’s “shut up and calculate” started to feel incredibly valid really fast, whereas prior to QM, I was under the impression that physics was natural philosophy. it’s not and QM was the breaking point, at least for me, personally.
- Comment on Electrons are easy 3 months ago:
they don’t actually spin but they’re little bar magnets as if they do. if you charge a sphere and spin it, you’ll generate exactly the same kind of bar magnet, but they don’t actually spin. and just like bar magnets, like repels like. but they’re neither bar magnets nor spinning. why don’t they spin? because they’re point masses, which don’t have any extent. but actually, you can’t really observe them as point masses because they’re waves.
^^ this was the exact point at which I said quantum mechanics wasn’t for me and I’m done with physics, after completing most of a degree. it sort of all makes sense but at the same time it completely doesn’t. it all makes sense as pure math but the second you try to make sense of the math, sense goes out the window.
- Comment on hexbear visible again? 3 months ago:
yup, you got it. comms are communities, which is why it’s /c/comm_name on lemmy. an unfederated/local-only comm is only visible through the instance that hosts it. you can access it without logging in but only via the hosting instance.
e.g. people from other instances don’t need access to the instance feedback comm and shouldn’t be able to participate in internal discussions about instance policies.
- Comment on hexbear visible again? 3 months ago:
local-only comms landed in Lemmy so our comms for marginalized folks don’t have to deal with the influx of people randomly driving by with soft bigotry. we also got controls for whether DMs are federated or not, which also helps.
- Comment on topology 6 months ago:
there are exactly 4 division algebras (over the field of real numbers): the real numbers, the complex numbers, the quaternions, and the octonians. you can’t add any more complex parts because you lost associativity with the octonians. I’m not entirely sure how the first domino leads to the last, though.
- Comment on Can we defederate from rdq2.net? 1 year ago:
that’s hard to do without exposing victims of CSA to it. better I think to recommend people go there if they need a place to talk about it.
- Comment on Can we defederate from rdq2.net? 1 year ago:
fuck you, being forced to deal with people who would kill me given half the chance is not something I will ever do. I will oppose them by any means necessary, regardless of what the broader society thinks of such.
- Comment on Can we defederate from rdq2.net? 1 year ago:
People using words other people don’t like that aren’t necessarily used in a hateful way, some people don’t want to see that some don’t care.
Was on a gmod server before that had a total free speech rule where people would say horrendous shit to be edgy but one day they banned one slur for one group of people specifically which felt kinda weird
nah, slurs 100℅ deserve a ban. miss me with this shit. Im also shocked, shocked that you defend the use of slurs. I wonder why you’d use a website like that thonk
Furries, lot of people don’t like them but also don’t think they should be globally silenced unless they are actual zoophiles
lmao it’s definitely impossible to make the case that a group of largely queer people deserve protection - I’ve definitely never made this case at length and vigorously on this website because it’s impossible to do without uhhh checks notes freeze-peach.
hexbears
lmao, I and most other hexbears don’t give the smallest shit if liberals defed us because we’re rude. we carved out a place for ourselves and made a happy and comfortable home for 3 years without federation - we recruit offline, into orgs, not online. lemmy is a place for us to decompress and commiserate, not a means or an end.
- Comment on Can we defederate from rdq2.net? 1 year ago:
getting banned is silencing them, fool. it prevents them from recruiting more people. they can talk to themselves day in and day out but without fresh meat they can’t grow. the lesson of the last decade is that deplatforming 100% works. your free speech bullshit is exactly how nazis cover for themselves. liberals clutching pearls about muh freeze-peach just provides them a defense.
free speech for who, for what purpose, and at what cost? do you ever stop and think about the people harmed by the presence of the people you’re JAQing off for?
everyone has a line past which they won’t tolerate “free speech” – if they were advocating for the murder of the people you love 0% chance you’d be pulling this shit. the problem is you feel safe and comfortable in the knowledge that they don’t threaten you. you’re comfortable with the bigotry, shielded by the bottomless chasm of your ignorance. wake up call: if they seize power, they will hurt you and everyone you love, just as much as the rest of us. you’re not fucking safe.
- Comment on Can we defederate from rdq2.net? 1 year ago:
“free speech except these people” viewpoint requires some objective point of reference for what’s acceptable
it extremely doesn’t. communities have standards – they get to decide.
It’s fairly obvious to 99% of people when it’s things like Nazis and pedos but it’s not always as clearcut with more controversial topics
I’d extremely like to know what more controversial topics you have in mind blob-no-thoughts
- Comment on Dethroning lemmy.ml, lemm.ee rises as the second most active instance 1 year ago:
it’s just active user metrics, otherwise hexbear is top of the charts
- Comment on Dethroning lemmy.ml, lemm.ee rises as the second most active instance 1 year ago:
hexbear has ~1k users per month. we top the charts in comment volume but not users.
- Comment on My thoughts on Hexbear. Posting as the megathread was locked. 1 year ago:
saying we should take a nazi seriously on their point that the asiastics are devilish is nazi apologia - Zenz isn’t merely an apologist, he’s straight up a christofascist.
- Comment on My thoughts on Hexbear. Posting as the megathread was locked. 1 year ago:
this is deeply funny because they’re an anarchist user who’s normally criticizing China. you’re just so far to the right that they have the intellectual honesty to criticize your position.
- Comment on My thoughts on Hexbear. Posting as the megathread was locked. 1 year ago:
nazi sympathizers don’t get good faith because they’re excusing people who want to wipe many of us from the face of the earth. I don’t care about how right their opinions are - they’re my enemies.
- Comment on Andrew Tate prosecution files reveal graphic claims of coercion ahead of trial 1 year ago:
idk about this. there’s a new wave of transphobia that’s spread as far as progressive dem circles (cf the Young Turks) and the right has gotten so rabid about it that they’re conducting a genocide across much of the country. I’m not using that term lightly - the goal of this slate of legislation is to remove trans people’s ability to exist in public spaces and to kill us by outlawing access to lifesaving medical care.
- Comment on HW Security Keys - 2023 - State of Tech? 1 year ago:
nitrokey – they’re open source and mostly support the new FIDO standards at this point.
- Comment on Police drag autistic girl out of house ‘because she said officer looked like her lesbian grandmother’ 1 year ago:
if the word hate were written on every nano-angstrom of every atom in my body, it would not equal one tenth of my hatred for cops
