JayDee

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[–] JayDee 1 points 28 seconds ago

Best I could guess is that because Proton is based in Switzerland as a nonprofit so it's both (supposedly) not profit-motivated and not subject to the 5 eyes, 9 eyes, or 14 eyes survaillence.

NordVPN is based out of Panama, and its parent company is based out of the Netherlands, which are subject to the 5 eyes and 9 eyes, respectively. It's also not a non-profit.

These are pretty obviously superficial differences, and are irrelevant to whether either group is actually data-secure.

[–] JayDee 1 points 17 minutes ago

My pawns in rimworld when they don't get a table to eat on within the first 2 days.

[–] JayDee 0 points 21 minutes ago

This is not about Canada's sovereignty, it's about a shitty list the US keeps about which places it'll accept as a new state. It's a worthless piece of paper. Canada would already have to consent to becoming a state for it to be even relevant, and that's not happening without a war.

So this article is fluff. Neither Washington nor Puerto Rico were ever going to be a state under trump, Canada won't either without a war, so this list getting rearranged doesn't mean Jack squat about current politics. It's another stupid stunt meant to distract you from actually important issues.

[–] JayDee 2 points 1 hour ago

I'll do you one better: lottery. You set it up where it's random whether it's upvoted, downvoted, or neither. You don't know till you post.

[–] JayDee 9 points 1 hour ago

Those enclaves are seperate cultures from mainland China's and over time each culture will likely diverge from one another.

Cultures are physically manifested through direct interactions between individuals. Because of that, cultures constantly shift and evolve over small increments, and physical space has a large impact on how those shifts occur. Even if concerted effort is put into making the local enclave's culture the same as mainland China's, that enclave has surrounding influences from the American culture it's inserted into, and it will thus shift differently from the mainland somewhat. The lived experience of each culture is also going to be different in various ways.

Because of this, I think it's reasonable to state that a person born and raised in New York Chinatown is going to be culturally distinct from a person born and raised in LA Chinatown, and they both would be distinct from a person born and raised in mainland China.

[–] JayDee -4 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

I could not care less about this kind of drama. It's a worthless distraction.

Keep your eyes on Gaza. Stay aware of US protests and activist actions in your state. Don't stop tracking the deportations. These are what actually matter.

[–] JayDee 17 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

This is the problem with heritage BS. If you are not from said region, you are not that region's ethnicity, because you are not apart of that region's culture. It's that fuckin simple.

If you're from Scottish ancestry, but born and raised in New York, you're a fucking New-Yorker. At best, you are a Scottish-American New-Yorker. Your kids will just be New Yorkers, though.

[–] JayDee 1 points 2 hours ago

They need excuses to throw people in prison for slave labor. Drugs are something most people enjoy, so the state illegalizes as many as it can for max efficacy.

[–] JayDee 21 points 2 hours ago

Yes, and that essentially means that if you're too poor to afford a lawyer, you essentially have no rights, since the state won't protect them.

[–] JayDee 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Even at random, 25% chance are the only options that are wrong, and they account for 50% of the choices and 30% of the true options. Otherwise, the question has no correct answer due to the two 25%s.

One caviat of course is that in reality, 2/3 is 66.6% and not 60%, but ya kno.

[–] JayDee 11 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

If C is the correct choice, then that is only one answer out of four that is correct, meaning you only had a 25% chance to answer correctly. You've created a logical paradox.

25% occurs twice, so in reality there are only 3 outcomes from your pick. Since you know 25% is incorrect from this, that is 30% of the total answers, but also 50% of total options. Via this, you can conclude that both b and c are valid answers, depending on whether you view it in relation to outcomes or in relation to options. If you view the 3 outcomes, then you have a 60% chance of being right, but if you view the 4 options, you have a 50% chance of being right. Both 50% and 60% being accepted as anwswers solves the paradoxical nature of the question.

[–] JayDee 1 points 4 hours ago

Bruh, I don't even Bruce Lee himself would believe something like that.

 

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by JayDee to c/science@lemmy.world
 

This is a question regarding atomic and quantum physics, and any academic input would be appreciated. I am wanting some input on what level of trust I should put into this "Quicycle" group. It's a think tank comprised of supposed Doctors from CERN and research groups, and states their names. alot of their stuff raises red flags for me, though.

To preface, I was working on understanding how exactly, in 3d space, electron orbitals affect the magnetic field of their atoms. I'm wanting to better understand why atoms like Iron are more magnetic than others. I am not heavily plugged into the physics community, though - I'm mostly just learning out of personal curiosity.

I stumbled upon this group's periodic table of atomic orbitals, and it seems accurate on its face to a layman like myself. However, I start trying to research some of the terms and they're proposing things I've never heard of like pd-hybridization (where the p and d electron orbitals merge(?) to produce a hybrid orbital(?)).

I decided to look over their site with more rigor and I'm seeing things like Vivian Robinson: The Common Sense Universe (talking about 'common sense' when talking about quantum and "sub-quantum" mechanics seems really screwy) and M.A.R.T. (yet another theory of everything attempt) and I get a sinking feeling that nothing in this website is trustworthy for learning more in-depth physics.

Does any of this stuff look right to any Lemmy physicists?

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