Sasha [They/Them]

Yes, that Sasha 🍉

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They/them

Anarchist/your local idiot with a guitar

If you’re occupying land in so-called “Australia”

If you eat food

And if you live on Earth

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Cake day: December 12th, 2023

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  • 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.








  • 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.



  • 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…





  • 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.