It’s PRIDE MONTH and wanting to start with this little remembrance from queer people in the past.
From the book: Baby, You Are My Religion by Marie Cartier
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It’s PRIDE MONTH and wanting to start with this little remembrance from queer people in the past.
From the book: Baby, You Are My Religion by Marie Cartier
Here’s a clip from my most recent music release ‘Necessary Repairs’ ✨🛠 You can find the full release, along with all my other music, on streaming services as well as on Bandcamp:
I do all my own pixel art for my releases and will be sharing more previously released work here soon, as well as some new shenanigans! 😊✨
What happens when the world’s knowledge is held in a quasi-public square owned by a private company that could soon go out of business?
Jesus, I hadn’t even thought of this, but of course.
This is something that historians have been warning about for a couple of decades. How much of our history was not just on Twitter, but on MySpace, on blogs and web sites that came down after a few years, on e-mail, on texts. None of that leaves a record. Once the file is deleted, the server shut down and scrapped, the backup disks decay into being unreadable junk, that history is gone.
Does anyone remember when Obama and Clinton each held town hall campaign events on MySpace? Good luck finding anything about those now other than some news articles that say they happened. How many business zoom calls have formal meeting minutes taken? We are not saving histories. We aren’t even writing letters. I’m as guilty as anyone. My art is online and kept in the cloud. I make my Christmas Card every year, but I haven’t printed and mailed one in over a decade. It’s all sent electronically. Meaning that a generation from now no one will remember.
So the problem is bigger than Twitter. We are now a couple of decades into an age that will not leave any detailed historical record.
That is not good.
In pseudo and acadamic circles this has routinely been called the ‘digital dark age’, I even wrote on the subject a few years ago but can’t find that article right now. [There is even a Wikipedia article on the concept] (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_dark_age#:~:text=The%20digital%20dark%20age%20is,technologies%20evolve%20and%20data%20decay).
It’s thought this might just be a black spot of knowledge, there are organizations working to stop this — archival websites primarily, but these are not able to penetrate all these corporate gated gardens, where paywalls, sign up walls, and more block access to. There is an ongoing campaign by megacorps to shutdown as many archival sites as possible.
This coupled with the fallibility of hard drives, CDs (make sure to back them up! They only have a 20-30 year lifetime!), and more and there is a chance that even though there is more information than ever before, more primary and secondary sources than ever, we may become just a strange blank spot in societal and cultural history. Digital decay is a terrifying concept that we are already beginning to live through.
@xkcd-for-that
This is exactly what I’ve been saying. It’s a loss of history. And, given how important it has been for activists of all sorts, it will be a loss for the future as well.
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thinking about this dynamic
cannot stress how badly i needed all of these images together on a post
Hi everyone!
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Whenever someone tries to claim that evolution is a lie, I send them a picture of platybelodon.
1. It’s an excellent example of transitional evolution.
2. It’s a mess who would intentionally do this and why
3. It makes them piss themselves a little.
“Evolution is just a theory-”
Oh good god
I couldn’t help but wonder what this absolute bastard of a skull would look like, and
I was not disappointed. But I was terrified.
oh it totally does, but you can’t hear it because space is a vacuum and sound can’t travel through a vacuum!
and that’s a good thing,
because the roar of the sun would clock in at around 120db heard from earth, about the equivalent to having a train’s horn go off three feet from your face.
constantly. all the time, even at NIGHT. there would be no escape.
this is simply terrifying. how do you erase knowledge please ?
NASA actually recorded the sun, if you want to hear it:
And they recorded the planets too:
so, the sun and the earth sound about how i would’ve expected, and a lot of other planets just make strong wind sounds which is perfectly reasonable but venus sounds like pure dread?!?! WHY IS SATURN SCREAMING?!? pluto isn’t bad and is actually kinda nice but it’s very strange to me too like Why Does It Do That. jupiter is super chill 10/10. pluto and jupiter need to collab i would buy that album
oh, fuck, guys, you know what this means? it means the ancient world was right about the music of the spheres.
Sun
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto
h oLy sh IT??? I was Not prepared for Pluto
[insert Benny Hill music]
in reference to that last post I re-blogged...what the hell are they talking about?? that me btw
so basically im cursed to remain fat forever? jesus christ i did not need to hear that today.
There is no permanent and safe way to intentionally lose weight. This is true.
And that means that if you want to truly live a fulfilling and meaningful life, you will need to let go of the fantasy of being thin. You will need to do the difficult self-work needed to unlearn your internalized fat phobia. You may also need to learn how to eat normally without restriction and shame. All of this is difficult. But a lifetime of self-hate, restriction, repeated cycles of weight gains and weight losses, and declining health from the damage caused by under-nourishing your body is far far worse.
And I know you are in pain right now, so I am being gentle with you, but I need you to think about what you said in your ask, and think about who you said it to. I am fat and my life is not a cursed existence. It is never okay to say such hateful things about fat people, including yourself. Don’t do it anymore.
this is a bunch of shenanigans and tom foolery.
there is absolutely a “permanent and safe way to intentionally lose weight”. It’s called exercise and counting calories.
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Weird things I do instead of studying: wonder how much energy fictional wizards would need to cast a spell and if it would physically possible to do it. As in: “Okay, once we assume I wield a power that allows me to act on the environment around me without physically touching it, how much energy do I need to, idk, stop my friend from falling to their death? How many spells can I cast before I run out of energy? Should fictional wizards be always chubby/fat so that they always have a lot of stored energy in case of a fight?”
I mean… physics wise it depends on what you’re trying to do. Are you getting the energy from your own body? Are you getting the energy from your surroundings? Are you getting the energy from some mystical source that isn’t on this plane of existence? And how do you judge how much energy you need? Do you need to calculate the speed of your friend so you can send a precise amount of energy to stop their fall, because if you get that wrong they’re still going at best terminal velocity and you won’t be able to save them, or can you handwave it and the magic does the maths for you? If you send you much energy as a force opposing their fall, they will decelerate too quickly, which will be just as bad as hitting the earth… if you send too little they won’t slow down enough before hitting the ground. This also doesn’t take into account how long the spell takes to cast, the time it requires for it to take effect, other potential factors such as how close your friend is to the ground and if there is anything impeding your magical efforts to break their fall…
I’m a mathematician I could go on about this for hours…
Okay, I’ve got some free time, I’m going to science the shit out of this!
So…
How many cheeseburgers do I need to cast Feather Fall?
(Disclaimer: I am a mathematician, not a physicist. If I use a formula wrong somewhere, feel free to let me know and we can politely debate science)
Assumptions:
We have a friend, let’s call him Mike (sorry anyone reading this who is named Mike) who is falling at terminal velocity. We’re assuming gravity is the same as on earth (because we’re lazy) and we’re rounding it to 10 m/s² (because we’re lazy- it’s actually 9.807 m/s² but that would mean i need to go get out a calculator so 10 it is!).
So.
To get the force that Mike is experiencing, we need to multiply his acceleration (10 m/s²) by his mass (which we’re assuming is about 70 kg, the average mass of a person). So the force he’s experiencing is 10*70 = 700 Newtons of force on Mike. We need to counter this force if we want Mike to stop falling towards the ground. We also ideally want to slow him down enough so that he is not falling at terminal velocity when he hits the ground, because that would kill him. Terminal velocity on earth is about 54 m/s; with a parachute this goes down to about 7-8 m/s, which is what we’re aiming for. If we decelerate at 10 m/s² we can achieve this in about 5 seconds. A human can withstand acceleration of about 49 m/s²; bear in mind that we’ve got to take existing gravity into account. We could decelerate at 39 m/s², which slows us down in a couple of seconds, but that is going to push the limits of what Mike can withstand. It depends how close he is to the ground as to how fast we want to decelerate- if he’s too close, we might not have the time to slow him down fast enough without killing him anyway.
We’re going to assume he’s about 500 metres up in the air; he’s high up enough that we’ve got time to slow him down, but he’s going to hit the ground in about 10 seconds if we don’t do something about it. Time for some maths!
How much energy does it take to stop gravity?
Now, we want to know the potential energy related to Mike’s current fall, because this will tell us how much energy we need to counteract this. He’s currently got 700 Newtons of force pulling him down; this means that for every metre he falls, it releases 700 Joules of potential energy. This means that, to stop the force of gravity from making him accelerate any faster, we need to send 700 Joules of energy to push him in the other direction- and this is the amount we need to send every second while he’s up there, because gravity does not have an off switch.
So, 700 Joules per second to start with. Air resistance is going to deal with this until we start slowing his fall, but once we start slowing him down we are going to need to keep up the 700 Joules per second until he hits the ground, otherwise he will start to accelerate again. That’s already going to be quite a lot of energy; we certainly don’t want to leave Mike suspended in midair for a long time.
How much energy do we need to slow his fall?
So, the 700 Joules per second means that Mike is no longer moving any faster towards the earth. We still need to deal with getting our speed of 54 m/s down to 7 m/s so that Mike won’t die when he hits the ground.
If we decelerate at 10 m/s² for 5 seconds (bringing us down to 4 m/s because a. slower is better and b. I’m too lazy to fetch the exact number of seconds we need) (ignoring what we’ve already done to take out the effects of gravity), we will use 3500 Newtons of force. In that time we will fall (54^2 - 4^2)/2*10 = (with the help of a calculator)
145 metres. Then we can calculate the work done, which is force * distance = 3500 * 145 = 507500 Joules.
Putting it all together
So, we have an initial output of energy to slow down Mike, for 507500 Joules, and we need a good 145 metres of space before he hits the ground to do this. Then while we’re doing that we need to expend 700 Joules per second to counteract the effects of gravity, which will be happening for at least 5 seconds while he’s decelerating, possibly longer once he’s slowed down and not at the ground yet.
Because Mike is our friend and we’re very conscious about the fact that we don’t want to accidentally wait too long before we slow the fella down, we’re going to start slowing Mike down now. We have an initial output of 507500 Joules to slow him down, plus another 700 * 5 = 3500 Joules for counteracting gravity while he decelerates. that’s 510100 Joules so far for anyone keeping score at home.
So Mike is now floating down at a leisurely 4 metres per second. He’s still 500-145 = 355 metres up in the air, so he will be travelling down for another 89 or so seconds. That’s another 62,300 Joules of energy to stop gravity while he’s decelerating, making our grand total to be 572400 Joules to get Mike safely to the ground.
Where are we getting this energy?
We’ve been working in Joules, but most foods are defined in KiloJoules, so let’s convert: we have to find 572.4 kJ to stop Mike from hitting the ground. For context: a cheeseburger has about 3000 kJ, so we can reliably save 5 Mikes on a happy meal (assuming we eat something as well- your body needs fuel too!) (this also says something about how insanely weak the force of gravity is).
Of course, this essay doesn’t take into account what energy requirements you need to project energy, or send energy that far, but here’s a comforting thought; Mike is going to live, thanks to you!
Fin.
BONUS: Accio Parachute!
Okay, what about if we instead conjure up a parachute for Mike to use? That means we don’t need to concentrate on slowing him down for a minute and a half, we can just let the parachute do the heavy lifting, right?
(This of course assumes that Mike knows how to operate the parachute you summon for him, and that he has enough time to put it on/use it before he hits the ground)
We can create mass out of energy, using Einstein’s famous equation:
E=mc²
Where E is our energy, m is our mass, and c is the speed of light. Ignoring the fact that this mass needs to be in a functional parachute shape: we need to create about 11 kg of mass for a beginner’s parachute (which should give Mike the best chance depending on his skill level). The speed of light is about 3 * 108 m/s, squared is 9 * 1016 ,which means we need 99* 1016 Joules or 99 * 1013 Kilo-joules to summon a parachute. So you would need 33 * 1010 cheeseburgers to summon a parachute for Mike… better just stick to feather-fall.
This heart-warming Disneyland Paris spot features a sweet CG duck who simply adores Donald Duck. It’s the perfect cure for post-Christmas blues!!!
Dear lord, this is so fucking cute. How dare you!
what good is a piano full of Actual For Real Bees if they don’t even know how to play
You’re my favorite force of chaos.