I think this is the wrong take. If we want Lemmy to be truly community-controlled, we need many small servers, as opposed to the current situation of one server controlling half the userbase. Also, which server is Facebook-controlled? Lemmy.world is in the minority by federating with Threads.

What does lemmy.world being the biggest have to do with any of this?

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At the same time, the power of the EU is, however indirectly, based on the votes of the people, and if enough people disagree they might just change their minds a little. I guess the best thing you could do, therefore, is to spread the word.

I like to compare the EU to an overprotective parent – on the one hand, they want to protect us from all external threats, but at the same time, they want to know all about us and control us.

If you have the time, you could write to the member of the European Parliament who is responsible (Romana Jerković). Otherwise, the best you can do is probably to spread the word and remember to vote next year.

Yes, you’re right, we can’t do a lot. But we can write to the member of the European Parliament who is responsible (Romana Jerković), and we can vote in our national elections and the European one coming up next year, so that’s something.

This article is not about the virus, though. It is about how the pandemic affected people regardless if they got COVID or not.

If you’re not an EU citizen, not much. But if you are a cybersecurity expert, researcher or represent an NGO, you can sign the open letter at https://eidas-open-letter.org.

Well, kind of. The time dimension is a bit tricky, though – in Minkowsky space, a common way to think about spacetime, it is hyperbolic in relation to the other dimensions. In a nutshell, this means that distance is not the square root of the sum of the squares of the distances in specific dimensions, but rather of the difference. This makes it especially tricky to visualise. (I do recommend you check out this series by minutephysics, he does a great job at making it intuitive)

My analogy, therefore, doesn’t translate directly to spacetime, but it does provide a very simple 2d explanation for why straight things can act curved (even in 4d).

I don’t fully understand your comment, but just to be clear, it’s a joke.

It is straight in reference to the distorted spacetime.

Conventionally, a straight line is defined as the shortest path between two points, but if you take a plane that is not flat, say the surface of a ball, the shortest path between two points will be curved. But from the perspective of the two-dimensional man who lives in surface, the line is straight because it moves perfectly along his world.

Well if it weren’t for those “tankie devs” you couldn’t be here. I’d say show some gratitude for their hard work.

It was a joke – it behaves as a wave until you observe it; then it collapses into a particle.

I had to search for a bit but I finally found this !science_memes@mander.xyz post: https://mander.xyz/post/3197041

Well that’s just a theory, albeit good, and there’s a good chunk of modern science that refuses to marry it, so let’s not be too sure about it, shall we?

Edit: Wikipedia summarises it nicely:

Although general relativity is highly regarded for its elegance and accuracy it is not without limitations: the gravitational singularities inside of black holes, the ad hoc postulation of dark matter, as well as dark energy and its relation to the cosmological constant are among the current unsolved mysteries regarding gravity; all of which signal the collapse of the general theory of relativity at different scales and highlight the need for a gravitational theory that goes into the quantum realm.

Edit: Also highly recommend this read: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/quantum-gravity/

Massless light is still affected by gravity, though…

100°C is an acceptable sauna temperature. You won’t last much longer naked in 0°C!

Edit: To make my point more clear, I know some crazy people who go directly from a close to 100 degree sauna to a close to 0 degree ice bath. I think that could be described quite well as going from 100 to 0 % within the human temperature tolerance.

Also, that’s not my initial point. My initial point was that “percent hot outside” means nothing in Fahrenheit or Celsius.

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Best I can do is this. Found it on Mastodon.