Can’t believe I’m recommending this, but Veritaseum just put out a rather good video the other day about the history of the PFAS problem and how pervasive it is, info about the dangers. Long story short, I guess we all get to look forward to some thyroid cancer.

died of woke

good news for Lt. Cl. Rugburn: there will be isntraeli techno where he’s going

i’d say this constitutes probably a bit of a walk back from francis’ commitments to palestine, but let’s hope not. francis was calling a priest in occupied palestine like daily i want to say. a good way for leo to show that he intends to keep a similar tempo would be visibly following through on francis’ wish to convert the popemobile in palestine into a mobile health clinic

aha, greece requires that a unilateral divorce either be with fault or at the conclusion of a two-year separation period. therefore, if she’d like divorce from her husband immediately, she must either get him to agree (clear from the article that that wasn’t happening), or find fault. i’m not saying i know that counts or anything, just that i’d prefer to offer an alternative explanation for this behavior than one person’s superstitions.

by any chance, do the greeks lack no-fault divorce?

this is the kind of thing that it would be sort of weird for patreon to let people choose.

still less than one gram of gold

the 29 picograms they made is such a small mass that it’s almost a misnomer to describe it in these terms even. it’s an amount that all balled up together would still be only about 1 micrometer across.

that’s pretty cool. this is one of those things where it’s not the actual point of the study, but it’s the “in” that gets the public to read an article about a complicated and nuanced scientific experiment. the value in doing this is less “we made gold” and more “we can do a sophisticated enough analysis to observe this interesting high mass nuclear reaction with our detector/experiment.”

from what i’ve seen? radlib pope. he has a twitter and a blog i think if you want to see his thoughts as he writes them.

amerikkkan pope is a recession indicator

my mother just retired and i’ve taught her a new maxim: go read one piece.

And on that note, I condemn in the harshest terms the response from communities like /r/linux on the subject. The vile harassment and hate directed at the FDO officer in question is obscene and completely unjustifiable. I don’t care what window manager or desktop environment you use – this kind of behavior is completely uncalled for. I expect better.

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ok, attempting to disengage somewhat with Yemen after aggressively bombing them while doing nothing to try to get them to stop bombing israel is actually pretty funny. mostly because i’m sure those isntraelis are pissed.

this has poisoned my brain so much that i don’t even find the axiom of choice very convincing. zorn’s lemma is, of course, inscrutable. (i am familiar with this joke, it’s a classic)

this is exactly why the axiom of choice strikes me as utter nonsense. once you become struck by what it means to say that there must be a well-ordering on the reals that you can’t construct, you will revile the reals and find them loathsome. before anyone @s me, you don’t need choice for most of the mathematics you care about and also idc, i’m with kronecker, fuck these fake big numbers that play God. also Cantor was a jesus freak and that’s genuinely why he wanted the continuum.

there is a 1 km x 1 km x 1 km neutrino telescope that is buried starting about 1.5 km below the ice at the south pole that uses the ice itself as a medium to see neutrino interactions.

in a very similar vein, i doubt most people are aware that there isn’t a fundamental theory of physics that accounts for neutrino mass. in the standard model, they’re just massless. there are theories that accurately describe neutrino mass eigenstates, to be clear, but it’s still unknown why their mass and flavor eigenstates differ.

i don’t have student loans because the academic system decided that i seemed like i’d be a particularly committed pawn of the capitalist system of education and production. joke’s on them, grad school destroyed my brain, i’m extremely unemployable and also don’t have debts. sometimes i feel better about not contributing income because they wasted all this time training me to be a person that could help develop novel war crimes, and i’m just not doing it.