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modular cute!! 

A sleepy quilpix me, as drawn by @catterfly@mastodon.social​ / @catterfly ! Too adorable <3 Meaning to color this sometime but I keep not getting around to it and I want people to seeee. awoo.space/media/vAdfFkwAXjmec

The comments on youtube videos about quantum physics are full of a mix of people arguing whether god exists or not, people wildly misunderstanding the implications of quantum phenomena, people putting forth theories that have been long since shown to be flawed as if they were the obvious truth, people putting forth theories that they just made up as if they were the obvious truth, and the one person who seems to think quantum physics is all some sort of alien conspiracy or something.

Or is it wrong that photon amplitude is non-quantized? If it is quantized, what's the amplitude quantum?

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Something I've never quite understood: Photon frequency is quantized, but amplitude is not. So what distinguishes two coherent photons from one photon with twice the amplitude? In both cases, the waveform would be identical, but the two coherent photons have twice the energy of the single double-amplitude photon, since energy depends only on frequency.

Ponderance-that-i-am-too-lazy-to-google of the day: I wonder if anything still uses LORAN.

why is φ_f not showing up in any of the fourier series that Mathematica gives me... Might have to look into what exactly the force exp-to-trig function does

I guess I wasn't really expecting it to work but it was worth a try

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I'm kind of sad that such an excellent pun of a name for a video game was taken by such a terrible, terrible game as Ninjabread Man.

Incidentally, the book this is from, Warbreaker, is available for free from the author as an ebook. It's an excellent book and I highly recommend reading it. brandonsanderson.com/warbreake

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Had this quote on my mind today. It's one of my favorite quotes:

"Princess, you say every man thinks he’s on the right side, that every man who opposed you was deluding himself.” He met her eyes. “Didn’t you ever once stop to think that maybe you were the one on the wrong side?”

Brandon Sanderson, _Warbreaker_

If--and only if--you feel up to it, take a moment to think, are you on the right side? I'm not passing any judgment. I just think it's important for people to think about these things.

the Hearth :ms_agender_flag: boosted

“The alt-right are people who are just like us, so...”

WRONG: “...we should sympathize with them and try to understand their viewpoints.”

RIGHT: “...we should see their transformation into hateful monsters as all the more horrifying, and guard against that transformation in ourselves.”

much-delayed, the remaining three quarters of that beep.

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I just... feel like I can't do anything to fix things that need to be fixed, and I have good friends who are in unpleasant situations and I don't know how to help them and I don't even know what the situations are because i don't know if it's appropriate to ask or if I can handle knowing in the first place or if it'd just accomplish nothing but worsening my mood because I can't help and ugh

how do I do things

I feel useless and kind of like i'm being an annoyance today x.x

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