Sasha [They/Them]

If you haven’t already done it, Pat (the Bunny) put all his stuff on archive and he’s far from the only one.

I was literally joking about “body horror voltron” with a friend yesterday

It’s always funny to watch people try to fix capitalism by doing more capitalism…

The phrase “we aren’t free until we’re all free” applies to animals as much as humans, and thinking otherwise is straight up bigotry. That so few extend leftist thought to the rest of the living world is a travesty, if you’ve managed to come around to leftist thinking then you’ve absolutely been capable of challenging your pre-conceived biases and this is just another step in that process.

All that said, I’m not one to judge people for not agreeing with this. It took me an exceptionally long time and the right circumstances to finally reassess my reasoning and to realise it was absurdly flawed, hypocritical and informed by propaganda.

Well I’m being a little deceptive for the joke of course, but he just felt like Jesus was sitting in the chair and then talked to the invisible Jesus.

The guy ended up doing a bunch of stuff at my highschool and which really bugged me because he only ever had surface level religious phrases to say (motivational speaker kinda stuff but with more Jesus) that glossed over some really big issues we were all facing at the time.

Ah yeah “all atheists just hate god,” I forgot that was a thing. Could be the case, it was a long time ago

I once met a guy who became a priest because he had a religious experience while talking to a chair.

The weirdest one I ever got was in highschool, someone said “how can you not believe in god, god is love” and I still don’t understand how that’s meant to be an argument.

It would be easier and faster to just train it on the stuff you want it to output. There are hundreds of billions of weights in models like gpt, and no one really knows what any individual one does.

Trans inclusive radical misogyny

Personally I don’t, I can see someone not hating that kind of humour as much as me thinking it’s funny, in which case I guess it would be.

If you steal them, avocados are free… or so I’m told

You know how the universe isn’t broken? Well it’s possible it could break and you can’t predict or stop it.

A slightly higher level explanation is that the universe might be in this state which is like a ball sitting in a little divot on the side of a hill, and if something bumps it out of that divot it could roll to the bottom. If that ball rolls to the bottom then it could cause particles to stop behaving the way we expect them to so things like chemistry and life stop being possible.

It’s embarrassing how often I confuse Austria for Australia when reading these articles…

I’m gonna be honest, I’m not sure about the reliability of this study. The author conflict of interest deceleration leads to some specific commercial interests in furthering a diet based approach to diabetes, specifically personal coaching and a book which rubs me the wrong way.

The sample size of 29 is probably fine for a pilot study (and this is called out in their conclusion) and the paper seems reasonable to someone like me with no experience in the field. My main take away from skimming through it is that they largely attribute the difference to the fat content of the diets, spending a significant portion of the discussion on this fact. There’s also an issue where participants were put on meal plans rather than provided actual meals which may further limit the study.

Ultimately I’d say the study is fine-ish, but the reporting is pretty crap. This is actually a particularly bad case because veg news gives a list of reasons why a plant based diet could be better for diabetes that are not really the main conclusions of the study. It really comes across to me like the plant based aspect is coincidental and they didn’t actually test for it. What the paper really did was compare calorie restriction with a low fat diet, there’s no testing to differentiate the effects of the plant based aspect from the low fat content. To me that feels like deliberately misleading study design.

Don’t get me wrong, I am a vegan and don’t doubt the health benefits of the diet (though it’s still easy to be unhealthy as a vegan), but this article is pretty misleading…

While we’ve selectively bred a bunch of animals in horrific ways, sheep are a particularly fucked up case for me because their survival now depends on them being exploited and abused, they can’t shed their wool anymore.

It honestly makes it so much easier to deal with all the anti-vegan sentiment when I see you taking a stand. I really appreciate it

I tend not to anymore, arguments online fuck with my mental health too much tbh. Regardless, I get enough shit from my family out of the blue whenever we have a meal, I’m over it. I’m sick of people claiming to love animals while dismissing the idea that they should act like it by just saying “nuh.”

I briefly worked in this area of physics, it’s complicated and depends on your definition of a particle and which quantum gravity model you’re talking about.

To simplify things you can just ask the same thing about non-quantum gravity. Why does gravity escape the black hole? The painfully mundane answer is that the black hole is gravity, it’s not escaping itself. Gravitational waves can’t be emitted from inside the black hole but that’s because those are a form of radiation and not the structure of spacetime.

This is specifically important because even quantum gravity (the kind with gravitons) still has this distinction. Particles belong to a field and are excitations of it, the gravitational field itself is not made of those particles. The force associated with that field is mediated by gravitons, but what that really means is complicated and honestly possibly just the result of a cool mathematical trick. It also comes with a bunch of crazy behaviour where you have particles that can break the laws of physics by just kinda doing it so quickly that nature blinks and misses it.

The point is, the quantum gravitational field is enough for the black hole to do its job when objects come by, gravitons don’t actually need to escape, though they are involved in complicated ways.

Fellow Aussie, equally confused.

These are actually so much cooler than I was expecting!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/60201018