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Drunemeton

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Just your average urban druid interested in technology and quantum field theory.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Przybylski%27s_Star

“Przybylski's observations indicated unusually low amounts of iron and nickel in the star's spectrum, but higher amounts of unusual elements such as strontium, holmium, niobium, scandium, yttrium, caesium, neodymium, praseodymium, thorium, ytterbium, and uranium. In fact, at first Przybylski doubted that iron was present in the spectrum at all. Modern work shows that the iron group elements are somewhat below normal in abundance, but it is clear that the lanthanides and other exotic elements are highly over-abundant.”

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Black Holes are infinitely fascinating!

They’re ’a thing’ we knew nothing about until Einstein wrote a paper, and even though his own math showed their existence, he doubted that they could be real.

Turns out that they are, and that they form the structure of the entire universe.

That’s my object.

My favorite thing is Quantum Field Theory! You know the field of magnetism, you played with it as a kid when you got your hands on two magnets the first time.

Turns out every particle in the standard model has its own field, and an excitation of that field manifests as that type of particle.

David Tong explains it masterfully: https://youtu.be/zNVQfWC_evg

As does HOTU: https://youtu.be/UYW1lKNVI90

EDIT: Both links above are 1+ hours each, and done in layperson terms. No degree needed, just a desire to learn something fascinating.

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The “force” keeping particles together are other particles! With their own quantum fields even.

Here’s an 8 minute primer on the Standard Model: https://youtu.be/XYcw8nV_GTs

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The reminds me of the line on, “In Living Color” that got the show banned from our house:

I like my friends like I like my coffee: Black & Bitter!”

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Make every 10th page out of flash paper!

You did say, “very”, yeah?

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Does that exactly the same sentence in the first two paragraphs indicate an AI writer?

I stopped reading at that point.

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There’s a place in town that has Belgian Bacon Waffles, and you’re correct they’re divine!

I love getting an order, plain, and a side of warmed maple syrup, then ripping them into dunk-able pieces. I make a mess, but they’re so good that way. Hot, crispy, crunchy, bacon-y, sweet, salty, smoky, delicious.

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I live in CA. Most foodservice places are hiring! In-N-Out is offering $23/hr and still can’t find enough staff.

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Poster link mentioned in the article: https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/downloads/

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Kirk, after Captain James T.

She watched A LOT of TV while carrying me! (I’m named after another TV though…)

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Sadly, no. I’d have been a young adult when Star Wars came out so that would have been very cool!

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Can I Venmo you $5.50 and you grab me a slice? Just mail it back!

Where I live that’s $12.

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They did say, “Cats” (plural). Which begs the question: How many average house cats = 1 average tiger?

What is a quote that captures something you've learnt through living your life?

Edit: while I'm at it, does anyone know what I should do when I'm waiting for a coincidence/adventure to happen, but it never comes? I can't really go outside and arrange for it to happen because I don't know what I'm looking for.

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“The best thing you can do as you grow older is to do it gracefully.”

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Secret Oktober will forever ground me.

The beat, the lyrics, the build. They combine perfectly to ground me.

They just covered their own song for a Halloween album: Secret Oktober 31st but I’m still making my mind up on that one.

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Fourthed

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When you were SIX!? C’mere…

(((HUGS)))

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This?

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The reach of Troll Farms is very broad and very deep: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/16/1035851/facebook-troll-farms-report-us-2020-election/amp/

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I feel like his comment is just setting the stage for overturning Obergefell v. Hodges. We already know that they want it overturned so this is just groundwork for the day when that happens.

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I’m calling dibs on Neptune as my family’s home base in the future!

I know it’s several billion years in the future, but I called it.

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https://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2022/03/31/google-blur-entire-house-on-street-view-after-man-caught-masturbating/

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That 2.5 cups of coffee.

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First: Thanks for the great suggestions!

Second: Shop around folks! A quick search shows that these T’s go for around $5, but Amazon has them for almost double the price.

Third: If you have both minibyte can you confirm that the Bella Canvas has a shorter sleeve length than the Next Level? The pictures seems to show that but then again that depends on the model.

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If you done mind one e question: Which one’s softer? Thank you!

A Colorado town's newspapers were stolen after a story about rape charges at the police chief's house ( apnews.com )

Nearly all the copies of a small-town Colorado newspaper were stolen from newspaper racks on the same day the Ouray County Plaindealer published a story about charges being filed over rapes alleged to have occurred at an underage drinking party at the police chief’s house while the chief was asleep, the owner and publisher...

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Nothing dodgy about that.

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Only time my mom threatened to kill me is when she stepped on one. She was dead serious!

X runs ‘timeline takeover’ ad promoting anti-trans film ( techcrunch.com )

Thursday on X (Twitter), all users saw the same pinned topic under the “What’s happening?” sidebar. As part of a “timeline takeover” — which gives advertisers “priority access to logged-in users’ first impression of the day” — conservative media nonprofit PragerU is promoting the hashtag “#DETRANS” to...

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You are the hero we need! ❤️

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Or the boys at “Arther Andersen,” the accounting firm in the Enron scandal, nowadays known as “Accenture”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Andersen

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