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macarthur_park ,

But it’s kind of hard for Republicans to complain when they reject implementing what they want.

I agree with you in principle, but clearly it’s not that hard since they are actively complaining and polls show voters trust Trump and Republicans over Biden to handle immigration. Somehow, they’re never really constrained by reality.

macarthur_park ,

he approached the teens with his gun out and told them to put their hands in the air, but no one complied

Well yeah, he’s not a cop. He’s a random lunatic with a gun.

macarthur_park ,

This sounds familiar.

Nearly 30 years ago, Graydon Carter, the editor of Vanity Fair magazine, described Trump in Spy magazine as a “short-fingered vulgarian.”

“To this day, I receive the occasional envelope from Trump. There is always a photo of him—generally a tear sheet from a magazine. On all of them he has circled his hand in gold Sharpie in a valiant effort to highlight the length of his fingers,” Carter wrote. “I almost feel sorry for the poor fellow because, to me, the fingers still look abnormally stubby.”

source

Is being thin skinned, petty and spiteful a requirement for MAGA conservatives?

macarthur_park ,

I’ll only be a carnivore on day 1

macarthur_park ,

You’re not alone; matter-antimatter asymmetry is one of the big open questions in physics. Most particle processes treat matter and antimatter identically, but there are a few areas where matter and antimatter have slightly different interactions. These occurrences are violations of Charge Parity symmetry aka CP Violation.

There must have been a certain amount of CP violation during the early phases of the Big Bang to explain our matter-dominated universe. But the known amounts of CP Violation are nowhere near enough to explain the asymmetry in matter and antimatter. There are some proposed mechanisms that would violate CP symmetry in sufficient quantities, but these haven’t been experimentally observed. There are ongoing searches to detect these processes, or related processes that would be possible if these existed. Neutrinoless double beta decay searches are one example of these detection efforts.

In summary, there’s a guaranteed Nobel Prize to whoever can answer your question.

macarthur_park ,

Despite space being “empty” there’s still a surprising amount of stuff streaming through it. There are protons, electrons, carbon nuclei, etc constantly slamming into the Earth’s atmosphere, producing showers of radiation. These cosmic rays are the reason so many sensitive physics experiments ( like dark matter and neutrinoless double beta decay searches) are located deep underground. The earth is a good shield against these cosmic backgrounds.

Even if there was an “isolated” antimatter galaxy, it would get bombarded with matter in the form of cosmic rays. The annihilation photons are a really distinct signal that would be hard to miss. There are a number of gamma ray telescopes in space that map out sources of gammas, and they would have detected an antimatter galaxy if it existed.

If the antimatter galaxies are so far away that they’re beyond the visible universe, then there’s still the big question of why there was a segregation of matter and antimatter early on.

macarthur_park ,

Yeah it’s one of those terms that’s unfortunately been co-opted for another definition. Definitely made some of my google searches in grad school feel icky… The physics terminology came first though!

macarthur_park ,

There absolutely are, but I’m not super familiar with all of the consequences of majorana neutrinos. /u/[email protected] might be able to provide a better answer. My background is experimental nuclear physics, so I’m familiar a lot of experiments searching for beyond the standard model physics, but less so with the theory motivation.

One consequence of neutrinos being their own antiparticles is that it breaks lepton number conservation. This also breaks chiral symmetry, since all neutrinos are right-handed and anti-neutrinos are left-handed. This observation would also imply that neutrinos have mass - which is assumed but would be a really big deal to prove.

macarthur_park ,

The US Department of Energy…

macarthur_park ,

I doubt Biden would use this as an excuse to drop out of the debate. His campaign thinks the debate will help him more than Trump, and they’re probably right. Outside of his diehard supporters and people keeping up with politics, most voters haven’t heard Trump speak at length since the end of his presidency. The debate is an opportunity to remind them how fucking weird he is.

macarthur_park ,

They’re kept anonymous, and also their identifying info like appearance and employer are protected. During the jury selection some prospective jurors were identified based on their work and a general description, which is why the judge added a ban on sharing that information.

macarthur_park ,

Exactly. If he just paid her out of his own pocket, he wouldn’t have any legal issues. This whole thing is a perfect example of penny wise, pound foolish.

macarthur_park ,

Let he whose wife hasn’t flown an insurrectionist flag cast the first stone.

Literally everyone grabs rocks

macarthur_park ,

Economists hate this one weird trick!

House panel advances Garland contempt after White House blocks access to Biden special counsel tape (apnews.com)

The House Judiciary Committee voted to move forward with an effort to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress hours after the White House blocked access to an audio recording of President Joe Biden’s interview with the special counsel who oversaw an investigation into his handling of classified documents....

macarthur_park ,

Also worth noting they already have the transcripts too. So there’s literally no information being withheld. They transparently just want the audio to make soundbites.

macarthur_park ,

I hadn’t heard about this either but apparently it’s true

macarthur_park ,

This is ridiculous! Now how are babies supposed to get their recommended daily value of lead and cadmium?

macarthur_park ,

By dragging it out this long, she made it impossible for Trump’s other cases in Georgia and DC to be scheduled.

macarthur_park ,

Maybe he could if he didn’t blow all his money on avocado toast paying hush money to porn stars. Oh and the defamation civil suits with the woman he raped…

macarthur_park ,

Source is Department of Mind-Blowing Theories by Tom Gauld. I skimmed through some other comics from the book and it’s a goldmine of content for this community. It’s also absolutely something my SO and I would enjoy, so I ordered a copy.

Thanks for sharing!

macarthur_park ,

Carol never wore her safety goggles

macarthur_park ,

I am not reading your comment, I am simply traveling through it with my eyeballs. Also your comment doesn’t have gold fringe and therefore lacks jurisdiction.

macarthur_park ,

but women (who are human beings)

Is that actually the church’s stance? Like, has the pope ever said this?

macarthur_park ,

If he wanted to do that he’d have pushed his AG to deschedule it entirely

The attorney general doesn’t set the drug classification level, that’s the DEA. This is power was established by a law passed by congress, so if Biden had his AG try to overrule that some states would sue and the Supreme Court would clearly side with them. He could have his AG refuse to prosecute any cannabis crimes, but that would immediately be undone the next time a conservative AG takes over and prosecutes everyone who got a pass now. Also, they’ve already been ignoring any cannabis prosecutions where it’s someone following state law.

Apart from congress passing a law legalizing cannabis (which is not possible with the republican house, not to mention most of the senate) having the DEA reschedule it is the only “permanent” path forward. And it has to be done to the letter of the law because you know some republican states will challenge this move.

Politicians and dog experts vilify South Dakota governor after she writes about killing her dog (apnews.com)

Politicians and dog experts are criticizing South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem after she wrote in a new book about killing a rambunctious puppy. The story — and the vilification she received on social media — has some wondering whether she’s still a viable potential running mate for presumptive Republican presidential candidate...

macarthur_park ,

Well, she was a bad dog owner…

macarthur_park ,

What about one that pisses beer?

macarthur_park ,

That’s wild. I’ve always sent people copies when they reach out. It’s especially easy to do so with ResearchGate, but that does require the requester make an account there.

Another option is to ask a librarian to find that specific article, rather than getting them to subscribe to the journal. I had to do this once in grad school for an article in a discontinued journal from the 70s. The librarian found another library that had it and they faxed a copy.

macarthur_park ,

Nah, just make it voice controlled.

“Faster. Faster. Slower. Slower. Slower! Stop! STOP! STO-“

macarthur_park ,

They just don’t want to accept any authority, period. When the Bundy militia took over a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon, they claimed that sheriffs superseded the federal government. So when a local sheriff met with them and told them to leave, they of course agreed to disagree and just ignored him.

macarthur_park ,

We never really left. The bigots just got quieter for a little while, or were louder about other targets (like trans folks). Remember that gathering storm ad scaremongering about fay marriage? Those beliefs don’t just disappear.

macarthur_park ,

Ha, so I did! Darn typing on mobile.

macarthur_park ,

Is that the Cyclone? If so it’s still there. I can confirm it’s super fun with just the right amount of “is this safe?”.

macarthur_park ,

As annoying as it is to lug a bag around and find room for it, I much prefer this to checking it. There’s the small but nonzero chance your bag doesn’t make it to your destination, plus the added time waiting at baggage return.

macarthur_park ,

God forbid they elect Mark Robinson as governor, then you have state level oppression again.

At an event in Greenville, Robinson said people who “are confused” about their gender should “find a corner outside somewhere to go” to the bathroom.

I lived in Chapel Hill during the 2016 election. The one silver lining to that Election Day was voting Pat McCrory out of office after his own bathroom bill nonsense.

macarthur_park ,

I imagine it’s more of a canopy than a sleeping tent. Something like an EZ up tent that provides more shade than just an umbrella.

I’ve used them and they’re pretty nice, especially if you’re going to be at the beach all day and don’t wanna get sun burned. That being said, it’s still a big purchase for just one day trip. I’d only invest in one if you were using it regularly, or had like a week-long trip planned.

macarthur_park ,

Yeah, it would make much more sense to rent one for a day trip. Even a week vacation honestly.

macarthur_park ,

It still is a blurry orange ball, where the orange is the location of radio wave emission. The team did a new image where they measured the polarization of the light, which is the result of strong magnetic fields where the light was emitted. The lines are drawn over the image to depict the polarization orientation of the light as a function of location.

I want to be clear that this is an incredible feat, both the fact that they can produce an image of a black hole from the center of our galaxy AND determine the polarization of the light. But they don’t have a super crisp image of matter swirling into a black hole.

macarthur_park ,

Luckily the bridge was closed to traffic in both directions at the time, for construction. Unfortunately, the missing people are the construction crew.

macarthur_park ,

They closed it after the ship’s Mayday call.

Officials said in a news conference that a mayday had been issued before the collision, which allowed officials to stop traffic onto the bridge. Officials did not clarify how many vehicles were on the bridge at the time of the collapse. Infrared video showed that vehicles did enter the water, but it’s not clear if those vehicles had occupants. Multiple vehicles remained in the river as of mid-morning.

So far they’re only saying that members of the construction crew are missing.

Six people remain unaccounted for, Maryland Department of Transportation Secretary Paul Wiedefeld said in a mid-morning news conference. All six were part of a construction crew that was filling potholes on the bridge at the time, Wiedefeld said. Two other workers were rescued from the water.

macarthur_park ,

There are free options for federal taxes: turbotaxsucksass.org (yes that is the real URL, the site was initially created by John Oliver for a Last Week Tonight episode).

What state are you in? Many also offer free options for state taxes.

macarthur_park ,

These are strange times for the Berry Club. Strange times…

America’s Magical Thinking About Housing: The city of Austin built a lot of homes. Now rent is falling, and some people seem to think that’s a bad thing (www.theatlantic.com)

If you want to understand America’s strange relationship with housing in the 21st century, look at Austin, where no matter what happens to prices, someone’s always claiming that the sky is falling....

macarthur_park ,

As the article notes this actually does surprise a large number of people. Researchers did a study with thousands of Americans where they found that people generally understood supply and demand for goods like cars or produce.

Then the economists asked the participants about housing. They said: If a new law makes it easier to build dwellings near train stops, what happens to housing prices? Well, all of a sudden, the laws of supply and demand no longer applied. More than a third of participants said that “a large, exogenous increase in their region’s housing stock” would cause rents and home prices to rise.

macarthur_park ,

I’m guessing they signed up for HP Instant Ink, a monthly subscription service that monitors the ink levels in the printer and automatically mails you refills.

If you buy an HP printer, they HEAVILY promote this and offer discounts/free trials. I declined, because fuck that, but I could see someone agreeing and forgetting about it.

macarthur_park ,

I will run this thing until it dies.

Good luck with that. My 2011 MacBook Pro still works. I’m pretty sure it’ll outlive me.

macarthur_park OP ,

A new kiln design and the first attempts at forging - Primitive Technology is making progress towards achieving the Iron Age from scratch!

As always, turn on closed captions for the complete experience. This video in particular had a lot of info in the captions.

macarthur_park ,

It’s wild that Republicans simultaneously believe that:

  1. teachers cannot be trusted to teach about race, gender, and certain parts of history (aka mentioning these things at all) and need to have all books in their classrooms reviewed by an external party for inappropriate content, and
  2. teachers can totally be trusted with guns in the classroom.
macarthur_park ,

Even more recently, there’s Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman

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