“mutuals can dm for discord” mutuals can tear my flesh open and bury themselves inside my remains to survive the winter
mutuals can sink their canines into me and learn why we named dogs after them
mutuals can entangle their fingers with mine as they watch the life drain from my eyes
mutuals can wrap my hair around their hands until i stop struggling beneath the water
mutuals can make me bleed out and watch me turn the same colour as the snow falling around us
mutuals can steal my coat from my corpse and be unable to decipher if its just to survive the cold or if they wanted something to remind them of someone who is now nothing other than a memory
mutuals can tie me down like a lamb and slit my throat to drink my blood like a fine wine
This is what I tried to explain to US platforms like Patreon when they suspended my account for having a nude statue as the background image: I live in Europe, I can go and see a nude statue within a 5 minutes walk. Children can see them, they’re not in some 18+ container. I will never understand those policies.
“No one wants to see art of ocs” If I dont see art of peoples ocs at least once a day I DIE. Do you want that to happen? Do you want me to DIE? Draw your ocs.
Everyone just keep in mind, this man did this. There was no green screen, there was no padding. and he didn’t even flinch when the wall from the first gif hit his arm as it came down.
guys why the fuck aren’t we talking about what’s happening in the uk right now
nobody outside the uk is talking about this. why is nobody talking about it
prev!!!!!!
again, i know it’s depressing and i’m sorry for putting negative stuff on everyone’s dash but it’s so fucking frustrating that nobody is talking about this because if nobody listens to us then nothing will happen and nothing will change, please please please start speaking up
Don’t you mean classist Typo, as in discriminating against poor people, and not classicist, the type of academic who studies antiquity in southern Europe?
one time a dude came into the pet store I worked at and bought nine dollars worth of dog treats with a 100 dollar bill that had clearly been made from green construction paper. when I hesitated and ran it through all the methods of testing we had (it failed all of them) he asked for my manager. she had been shitty with me all morning, and came to the register in a huff, grabbed it from me, slammed it in the register and told me to “just do my job.” this dude and I are looking at each other, both of us 100% aware that he’s getting 90 dollars from me in exchange for a piece of construction paper that had been cut a little crooked, and he’s just smiling at me and I’m standing there, overworked and tired, getting paid minimum wage, which, it turns out, is not enough to speak up any further, so I just said fuck it. When I got to work the next day there were cops there to inform us we were the fourth or fifth shop on the road to get hit by the same guy. My manager was going HOGWILD. I just looked at her like
People who don’t hyperfixate will never know the slightly horrible, completely impossible-to-replicate feeling of being so intensely invested in something it possesses you, takes over your waking thoughts and rides some weird line between being excited, anxious, and stressed as hell while still being entirely some other beast.
For me the stages of hyperfixation go:
1. Initial interest. I like it, it’s on my mind, but it’s manageable.
2. Sudden obsession. This is the one that features the most strange needless anxiety. It’s new and I’m obsessed with it I wanna chew on it.
3. Dedication. The obsession is just as strong as it was in the previous stage I’m just more used to it. It is a part of my life now. I am actively chewing on it.
4. Casual commitment. Still obsessed, but it doesn’t dominate my every waking thought. Still thinking + talking about it tho.
5. Fading interest (ft. The Dread.) It doesn’t bring me as much joy as it used to, but I haven’t fully moved on.
6. Lost hyperfixation (ft. The Void.) I’ve based way too much of my life and opinions around liking this thing and now there’s that horrible emptiness because my brain took the dopamine hits away.
And occasionally:
7. It returns with a vengeance
8. It leaves quickly and the cycle repeats with a new interest or a returning one
Bisan has called for a global strike this week 1/21-1/28! Offer support in as many ways as you can, but don’t feel bad if you can’t do everything or do it differently than others. We all have a part to play.
last tutorial from september: the comic shots tutorial. when i was a younger more impressionable artist, my favorite comic author said to draw comic panels like frames of a storyboard or a movie. now that i’m older and have my own thoughts, i understand why someone would say something that i feel is frequently so wrong.
originally, i had a big comics tutorial planned, but i’ve decided to break it down into smaller tutorials. comics are all about efficiency because they are so time-consuming. anything that saves the artist time is a relief, so this is simply a reference for quickly determining what kind of basic shot to use and why a basic shot might look “weird” until you give it a simple fix by cropping it differently. in art, rules beg to be broken, so don’t take it as advice you can’t go against. shot choice is very complex, but i’ll save thoughts on that for a later tutorial.
why is there an american flag just chillin on the wall there is that normal
Yes they are in every classroom in America
Is that sarcasm
no.
do…do other countries not put their flags in all their classrooms??
Why would we put up a flag in a classroom? Are people afraid the children would forget which country they are in?
My favorite thing about the multicultural nature of Tumblr is watching people from other countries learn that America is much, much worse than they ever dreamed.
…is this not a thing in other countries?
there isn’t a single british flag in my school are you guys okay
So, ok. Given a light wave (etc.) w(t), you can do a Fourier transform and decompose it into a sum of sine waves with different frequencies and amplitudes. And the fact that light is quantized means that for each wave of frequency 1/λ in the decomposition, its energy must be an integer multiple of hc/λ. And since energy is proportional to amplitude (idk what the constant is, call it x), the amplitude must be an integer multiple of xhc/λ. And this is what you would actually see in the Fourier transform of the wave, if you looked at F(w)(1/λ), its value would be nxhc/λ for some integer n.
And this means, if you want, you can decompose the wave even further by writing each F(w)(1/λ) as the sum of n copies of the wave with frequency λ and amplitude xhc/λ. Uh, n copies of (xhc/λ)sin(t/λ). And each of these guys is called “a photon”.
Obviously there’s some other shit, like wave functions are complex valued or whatever it is, but is this the basic idea? Do I get it?
Pretty much, though with the caveat that what you’re describing is a “theorist’s photon”. Real, physical photons aren’t infinite plane waves, they’re confined to some volume. That is, their wavefunction will look like a sinusoid multiplied by some “envelope function”. Of course, you can take the Fourier transform of that thing too, and you’ll find that it’s still peaked around the fundamental frequency, but not as sharply. The peak will be broadened. This envelope function can take basically arbitrary shapes, which makes the question of “what is a photon, really” a little fuzzy. I believe this is what led my analysis professor in undergrad to rant at me one time about how “you physicists talk about particles all the time, but what is a particle? You can’t define it! Particles don’t exist!”
(Also, in addition to the wavefunction being complex, there’s the fact that you described the situation in 1d when of course it should be 3d, and that photons have polarization because the EM-field is vector-valued, and there’s some slight subtleties when you go from non-relativistic QM to QFT. But I agree with you that none of that really changes the situation in an essential way.)
Two questions:
if light has a polarization, doesn’t that make the 3d situation basically the 1d situation embedded in 3-space, with the embedding determined by the polarization?
what is the value of the constant x, and what is it called?
hmm it looks like the technical issue has been fixed. there is no more unidentified anime man intruding on my quiz. if you see him please alert the authorities
“When the Sun, anguished by her loneliness in the dark, silent space, started crying, her tears fell into the continent and they created life. Each tear left a mark, filling the land with magic, and the desire to protect it. This desire was so powerful that it would transform into its own entity, one whom would protect the lands and phenomena it was attached to. They got many names through the centuries to come, but most called them Spirits.
The Sun quickly fell in love with them and mortals (or borrowers of stardust). Plants, animals or elves, she didn’t care. They all captivated her. Each creature taking a bit of her stardust to exist. But what is a second faced against eternity? What means a lifetime to the Sun?
Driven by the desire to walk among them, the sun poured most of her power into the continent, and from it, Eki was born. Daughter of the Sun, sister of Life. Eki was a curious being, full of wonder and all the desires of her mother. She loved all creatures, but she was most captivated by mortals and their doings”
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Some lore about the beginnings of my story and how the Sun and her infinite loneliness, was the main factor in the creation of the continent that everyone knows nowadays.
She also created Life and Eki! The Sun Siblings, as I like to call them. One by accident, one filled with pure love. Their story is not more than a fairytale in the continent. Mortals are prone to forget and what one day was real soon became legend.
“average person dates 3 trans men a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person dates 0 trans men per year. Trans Men Georg, who lives in cave & dates over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
Wow there’s some fucking bullshit going on in the replies here. Moderate your fucking spaces on the internet, kick racists and other bad actors to the kerb or you risk losing everyone else. This guy has the right of it (scroll up to top).
Quit thinking you need to be fair to unfair voices
For anyone who can’t/won’t read that twitter thread, it’s by Michael B. Tager (@IamRageSparkle) and it says:
I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, “no. get out.”
And the dude next to me says, “hey i’m not doing anything, i’m a paying customer.” and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, “out. now.” and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed
Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, “you didn’t see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them.” And i was like, ohok and he continues.
“you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it’s always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don’t want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.
And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it’s too late because they’re entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.
And i was like, ‘oh damn.’ and he said “yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people.” And then he went back to ignoring me. But I haven’t forgotten that at all.
[ID: Screenshot of a tweet from @/AmazonChique that reads ‘Pathfinder FB fan group banned all racist members. The next week, they saw a drop in harassing & threatening posts of ALL kinds. From the mod: “I encourage every community to quit thinking you need to be fair to unfair voices. Get the rot out and you’ll have a healthier community” End ID]
Honestly, a not-insignificant contributing factor to my mid-20s gender crisis is that I used to think I was viscerally repulsed by playing as male characters in video games, but eventually I realised it was literally just playing as smarmy brown-haired thirtysomething dudes with an emotional range running the gamut from dull surprise to generic rage that put me off, and basically every other sort of male player character was fine. It’s just that this happened to be when the Uncharted series was really taking off, so a solid 50% of all male video game protagonist fit that mould! Nathan Drake sucks so much that he made me question my gender, is what I mean to say.
yesterday i was ringing up an old man at work and he asked if i wanted to see his pride and joy, pulled out his wallet, and in the place where you’d keep a picture of like your family he had this
[ID: drawing of the lemons in the first photo. In the first photo, the lemons are on a glass table and it is possible to see chair legs through it. In this drawing, the lemons have black legs where the chair legs used to be. They have their backs on each other and have goofy eyes. End.ID]
Chromeboks are the safety scissors of laptops. Like they look the part and you give them to kids, but they serve absolutely no real function if you need them for anything more than distracting a kindergartener.
Also the way they’re being put into schools seems anticompetitive
Not to mention planned obsolescence with their operating system only being maintained for certain models up to a couple years. Not to mention needing google admin workspace to properly manage them as a fleet… not to mention needing enterprise licensing to do things like run state testing software… not to mention that most companies sell a windows version of their netbooks/chromebook lines like dell with 3120 models… as a sysadmin it’s been the biggest pain in my ass bc the school I contract for has some legacy chromebooks that run outdated chrome and people are constantly expecting me to get shit to work on them that never will happen. No you can’t run this test software on it, the chromeOS version is out of date and I don’t own the company that makes the test software. Fuck chromebooks, netbooks are cool and I really like long battery life with a lightweight linux distro. chromeboxtech can help you open the bootloader so you can install things like galliumOS for that experience if you have old chromebooks laying around.
