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I'm a leftist trans gay fox girl. More than one thing can be true at a time. I believe in agency, subjectivity, and beauty.
In my day job, I'm an apprentice electrician.
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Joined Apr 2017
Today's everyday beauty: against an overcast sky an airliner flew low overhead, spectral veils of low-pressure condensation fleetingly fluttering behind its wings.
can't pass yet
@Soreth it fucking sucks that we have to put up with that kind of thing, but it is a learnable skill. And skirts both suit you and look good on you, imo :)
Today I spotted the wifi SSID "Connecto Patronum".
That made me laugh.
Intpol
@Azure I've got bad news for you about some leftists' opinions of the dprk.
(some. not all that many.)
katt, migrating 🌟 🌈
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levels of scientific discovery:
- everything is magic
- I can control the fire!
- chemistry is complicated, but I understand it and use it for my benefit
- physics are complex, but I can further civilization by approaching it's understanding
- maths are impossible, but they get us closer to discoveried, maybe?
- everything is magic
@Felthry I kinda suspected that would be your response :)
Anyway things aren't made out of things and "matter" is mostly a useful abstraction.
My math never got beyond a couple semesters of college calculus so I have no hope of actually understanding these beyond a metaphorical level.
(whether mathematics is also metaphorical is a whole other ball of frighteningness.)
Quantum Field Theory I can at least pretend to understand the metaphor of after a 15-minute youtube video.
Okay so. String Theory. (Which seems to have fallen out of fashion?)
The bumper sticker version is "all matter is made out of tiny vibrating strings" yeah? But like... wtf does that even mean? What is it a vibration in, and what does vibration mean on a quantum scale? It's not at all an illuminating metaphor. And it IS a metaphor, right? Like, the actual physics is only really expressible mathematically?
@Felthry it's the wireframe cube in the attached image, the one you can mentally flip so either "face" is forwards.
(lol I didn't notice the edit-induced typo of "an janky-ass" but I think I actually like it better that way)
Anyway your experience of the world is an janky-ass active construct of your brain, not any kind of pass-through feed on "reality".
And that's why I have a necker cube tattoo.
The first half of this video addresses what it means in terms of music i.e. "what's the slowest beat you can headbang to?"
"What is the slowest music humanly possible?" [Adam Neely, 15:53] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afhSDK5DJqA
Saccadic Masking is one of my favorite examples of this. @foone@twitter.com did a fun thread a couple of weeks ago about how eye movements make our subjectivity time travel.
Your perception of Right Now is a rolling time window 2-3 seconds wide, which is pretty dang far from instantaneous. That's wild to me.
katt, migrating 🌟 🌈
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job search (RTs appreciated)
Hello!
I am looking for entry level software development or FT/PT office/clerical/data entry positions in the Seattle area!
If anyone has any leads or such, please let me know!
@xenon what's the context on this?
@memnus@octodon.social :applauds:
Pants?
...nah.
- Pronouns
- she/her
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- Seattle
Moving to @starkatt
I'm a leftist trans gay fox girl. More than one thing can be true at a time. I believe in agency, subjectivity, and beauty.
In my day job, I'm an apprentice electrician.
Please introduce yourself when sending a follow request if we haven't recently chatted. Interacting with me is encouraged even if I don't follow back. I'm here to get to know people, not be a fountain of Content.
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Joined Apr 2017
