You actually can – just long-press the dash.
En-dash: –
Em-dash: —
Dot: •
You can also do proper ellipses by long-pressing the full stop…
And long-press most letters for more options: ă é ï ø û æ œ ç ñ $ £ €
Pretty much everything is in there.
That’s what happens when you put people in leadership positions who earnestly believe that empathy is a ‘fundamental weakness’. Ya know, ignoring that empathy is precisely what’s made us successful as a species in the first place.
A few years feels optimistic. I’d wager on by the end of this year, at the rate everything is getting defunded.
I think people vastly underestimate the effectiveness of annual mitigation efforts by multiple agencies that have either already been cut or on the chopping block.
Many of these agencies go unnoticed because they work well, but will be immediately obvious once they’re gone.
I’ve got some ocean front property in Arizona. From the front porch you can see the sea.
Anything from the Discovery Institute or the stuff aimed at kids by PragerU is usually a good start. Materials by Creation Ministries or any of the christian textbook companies is good, too.
I don’t have specific video links, but like I said, it doesn’t matter much. If you search for ‘christian curriculum’ or ‘christian textbook’ you’ll see many various examples.
e: they can speak for themselves just fine.
Why am I just now noticing Tesla’s logo looks exactly like an IUD?
Maybe even supplement with pedialyte if it’s been excessive.
It’s serious. They’ve been threatening this for years, but were blocked in various ways. They’ve spent years breaking all those guardrails.
e: this will show whether all the guardrails are gone (it kinda looks like they are)
This took longer than I thought it would. It seemed like a priority during trump’s 1st term, then it stalled.
Given some of Putin’s comments lately, he seems increasingly restless. I wonder if this is related to that?
I have an older phone and I’m not up to date. It’s probably a ‘me’ problem. Thanks, though!
A very large faction has been weaponising that indoctrination against others, and it’s been increasingly effective.
I am heartened that it didn’t work on you.
Okay, thanks. It doesn’t want to load properly in whatever built-in mobile browser Voyager is implementing.
I might make a community…
That’s certainly what it was at first, but we’re talking about people who have been indoctrinated from birth for generations.
e: I strongly encourage you to watch some of their educational content. I won’t even try to guide you towards anything specific. Just any of it.
Is this federated? I use Voyager on iOS exclusively, and that link doesn’t resolve to a community for me. I searched for those terms on Lemmy and didn’t find anything.
If this doesn’t exist on Lemmy, I might start a community and dedicate my life to it.
That’s true, but again, not consciously. They think of themselves as morally pure, and they’re only following their god’s word. It’s not their fault that others are wicked, and they’ve tried to save us from hell.
That’s why we can’t reach them. They think they’re the righteous ones, and will think that long past when they’re literally lighting the fires upon which they burn us.
Sorry, I guess I wasn’t clear.
The Heritage Society has thought this through – I meant rank and file republicans haven’t. Thus my original comment about people going Pikachu face when this shit happens when it was all spelt out in Project 2025.
It’s infuriating that most people had no idea what they were voting for, but that’s true. It’s also true that many would still deny it whilst ruffling the ashes of their neighbours from their hair. And they won’t acknowledge it in the future, either.
e: sorry, my fault; rereading, I see I switched between ‘they’ meaning the leadership vs the majority of constituents mid-sentence.
e2: this is exactly why citizens in towns near the Nazi’s death camps were made to walk through and look at what they’d done, by the way. People refuse to reckon with their decisions unless made to look.
To be fair, though, popular myths are what led us here.
Ancient Aliens is the perfect gateway to anti-science, which gave us figures like RFK Jr who now has the power to fuck all the progress we’ve made in the hundreds of years since vaccines.
Creationism is now being taught in public schools, which undermines centuries of science. Public science is being dismantled, all for their rapture fantasies.
They’re not hiding climate science because they disagree, but because they think it’s a sign of the apocalypse and a good thing, so they don’t want people to fight it.
They’ve said this out loud, many times. It’s all on video. Again, Pikachu face.
This may or may not be associated with music stands or equipment. I can’t remember.
I just emptied and re-did my music/video room, and found this bracket in a small box with no labels or anything. I can’t remember what it’s for. I think it’s either audio or video related, but it doesn’t seem to match any of my mic or equipment stands, though it might be. It’s devoid of any branding or part/serial numbers. No markings of any kind.
It folds like this:
More pics:
There’s a sliding mount screw on the bottom:
Thanks!
(Sorry for poor lighting, MacBook Pro 15” for scale)
Captain archer was linked with his own future, and he was almost religiously against transporter tech straight out of the gate, to a degree that seems weird if he didn’t have a reason to be.
I understand the narrative reasons for this, but looking at him as a person, he seems overly Luddite with respect to this specific tech, in a way he isn’t with most others we can see. He’s actually pretty progressive with respect to his society in many facets.
That’s a bit weird, unless we consider his life includes time travel as a core concept, so he knew Scotty would lose Porthos, and though he couldn’t do anything about that, he had an almost innate distrust of transporters.
Does that make sense?
(I mostly mean the events of ENT and some TNG, VOY, all new movies since 2009, etc in that timeline, but perhaps the other, too)
We all know WD-40 works for making things move when they’re seized, but it also works better than anything for getting rid of all traces of adhesive left behind after peeling off stubborn stickers from things you buy.
It works on nearly all surfaces* – even coated paper! (just be sure not to leave it to soak into the paper.)
Instead of peeling slowly for ages with your fingernail or doing that peel-stick-peel-stick thing for half an hour, soak a paper towel in WD-40 and dab it on the offending sticker remains, wait a few minutes, then wipe off. (*if on coated paper, don’t let it soak, just gently rub it.) Clean the item afterwards to remove the oil left behind.
*it’s best to test a small area first if the object is painted or porous, and be careful with items meant to be food safe, because WD-40 is obviously not food safe.
This is something I wish more people knew, because soooo many manufacturers and retailers put stickers in the worst places and with near-permanent adhesive. I hope this helps you!
There has been a rise in the threat of deportations by abusers, said Esther Limb, Immigration Practice Director at Her Justice in New York City.
Excerpts:
> The Facebook message that popped into her account started as a flirtation: "Hey, how are you?"
> She had newly arrived from Bangladesh to study for her master's in information technology on a student visa in 2022 and wasn't interested in a relationship.
> She liked the message. Then he texted again a few days later, "Hey, I have tickets to a Broadway show."
> She had never been to a Broadway show before, so she went — and their whirlwind first date quickly turned to love for her and then marriage. […]
> Her new husband filed for a green card for his wife. A temporary one was granted, and she moved to his family's house in Brooklyn.
> The future seemed bright. […]
> Now, just a little more than a year later, the 31-year-old woman, who asked CBS News not to use her name due to safety fears, has separated from her husband after alleging abuse — and is now worried about being deported.
> […]
> Crystal Justice, chief external affairs officer at the National Domestic Violence Hotline, told CBS News in a statement that they have seen abusive partners "threatening to deport a partner or their family or withholding legal documents to limit a person's ability to travel."
This post in /r/AskHistorians apparently caused a mod conflict and confused sub users.
A couple of highlights:
> Hello everyone wondering where the answer is […] We are not asking anyone to completely re-write something to suit our tastes, but to contextualize what is written within the reality of the times. As this question hit /r/all, it’s very clear that there is a large audience reading it, with various degrees of knowledge about the period and the novel/film.
They did, though, and people called them out, to be met by some confusion, followed by another mod response:
> In sum, you had the poor timing of posting right at the point when the mod team ‘turns over’ several times - US slips off to Bed and then Europe wakes up. It meant that you were dealing with, essentially, a string of mods in different time zones and different “shifts” which created something of a Moderator game of telephone about what we had been expecting out of an answer in the thread.
General confusion ensued.
There were several conflicting mod DMs that weren’t captured publicly, too, but were responded to in the OP. Asked to include all races, then asked to narrow it down, asked to include a disclaimer (I did, at the bottom), then asked to move it to the top, asked to remove things, then to include those same things. It was maddening.
E: re-reading, I don’t think I’ve ever used race words so often in my life, jesus.
e: I only included this photo because I couldn’t seem to submit this post without a photo for some reason. It’s only tangentially related to the Reddit post, but this is an example of my education on the subject.
Compare my first link to this: https://www.reveddit.com/v/AskHistorians/comments/69670k/did_southern_girls_around_the_civil_war_really/
Thank you for that link, @NotAnotherLemmyUser!
Physicists demonstrate a time mirror for the first time, reversing electromagnetic waves in a laboratory led by Dr. Hussein Moussa.
For decades, theoretical physicists tossed around the idea that time reflection, also known as “time mirrors,” might one day be demonstrated in a real-world experiment. This idea seemed too big and wild, yet it kept popping up in serious discussions of quantum mechanics where equations hinted at surprising behavior.
A team led by Hady Moussa from the Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center (CUNY ASRC) in New York City has now confirmed that these mysterious events actually exist. They pulled off a successful test by changing the properties of a device in a quick, uniform way so that signals reversed direction in time.
\\ Understanding time mirrors\\
This sort of time flip has been described as looking into a mirror and spotting your back instead of your face. It sounds like science fiction, but it has a basis in real physics.
Researchers had predicted for more than 50 years that sudden shifts in a wave’s environment could trigger such reversals.
Time reflections differ from everyday mirror views in one crucial way. Instead of light or sound bouncing back in space, the wave is forced to reverse its flow in time.
That shift causes the frequency of the wave to change, sparking a chain reaction of interesting phenomena in the system.
In normal reflections, you see an immediate image or hear an echo. A time reflection, on the other hand, makes part of the signal run backward.
There is no need for any speculation about time travel, though, since these effects involve a swift flip in the medium’s physical traits.
\\ Time mirrors and metamaterials\\
To achieve this, the group used an engineered metamaterial designed to control electromagnetic wave behavior in unusual ways. Metamaterials allow scientists to manipulate waves far beyond ordinary mirrors or lenses.
By carefully adjusting electronic components on a strip of metal, they introduced a sudden jump that reversed the direction of incoming signals. They filled the strip with electronic switches hooked to capacitor banks.
That arrangement supplied the necessary burst of energy to force the wave to flip direction in time, an effect that used to be considered nearly impossible with accessible power.
The outcome was a time-reversed copy of the original wave, appearing just as predicted but never before seen with clarity.
Adjusting the system’s impedance at the right instant was key. Impedance is a measure of how much a structure resists electric current, and doubling it turned out to be the trick for flipping the wave in time.
By pulling this off in a lab setting, they proved that the energy hurdle can be overcome when conditions are precisely controlled.
Past attempts had failed because uniform shifts across the entire device were tough to generate, but the new approach surmounted that barrier.
\\ Why does any of this matter?\\
This achievement signals a leap for people studying wave manipulation. Time reflections are no longer just hypothetical constructs but events that can be triggered and measured with specialized hardware.
Some enthusiasts see this as a step toward advanced control of signals for communications and computing.
A wave that can jump to a new frequency and then rewind might open new possibilities for data transmission at different ranges of the spectrum. It could also reshape how certain sensors and imaging systems are designed.
The results also hint at potential ways to explore time boundaries in photonic devices. Future designs could pair multiple time interfaces together, creating “cavities” in time that bounce signals back and forth for unusual interference patterns.
Such concepts might spark fresh ideas about how to engineer wave behaviors that were once locked in theory.
Others consider these findings a reason to revisit older theories in physics that talk about reversing processes in time.
Even though we are not dealing with a flux capacitor, the underlying math could illuminate unanswered questions about the flow of energy in complex materials.
\\ Next steps for time mirrors\\
Physicists worldwide are eager to probe the limits of these time mirrors and see whether larger-scale applications might emerge.
They would like to push the frequencies higher or adapt the technique to different wave types, such as acoustic or even spin waves.
More experiments are bound to follow, especially since new versions of tunable structures keep appearing.
Early projects focused on controlling electromagnetic properties in narrow bands, but broader setups might let signals take on an even wider range of frequencies.
Some labs are eyeing ways to refine the switching process itself, ensuring the transformation is as uniform and abrupt as possible.
One question involves harnessing time reversal effects to handle wave interference in a creative manner. Combining two or more interfaces in the right sequence might lead to wave signatures that display patterns never seen before in standard reflection setups.
A few researchers also wonder how these techniques might tie into advanced memory or logic systems. If a wave can trace itself back, that might open a path to novel data storage elements, though making it practical remains a challenging task.
The study is published in Nature Physics.
Took me a while and an AskLemmy post to figure this out, since I initially thought Lemmy was auto-modding commenters (which kinda made me panic), but this is what I see:
I am the only mod in this community, and others aren’t seeing this flag everywhere, so commenters aren’t actually modded.
Is this a bug with Voyager or with my instance?
Is this a Lemmy thing? Something with lemmy.ca? Something about Voyager?
I tried looking it up but found nothing that might explain this. I have a community that’s super niche and I don’t post there much, but I do on occasion. I don’t care that it’s not that active – it’s enough for me.
Over the past couple of days, I’ve had a tiny amount of interaction, and everyone who posts seems to be automatically flagged as a mod. What’s happening?
e: this is what I see:
This relativistic, time-travel spacetime is everywhere metrically flat, excepting a conical singularity. Observers following timelike geodesics can eventually encounter their past selves, aging in the opposite time sense. The spacetime is not time orientable.
“A conical singularity is unlike more familiar curvature singularities,” said Norton. “No matter how close you come to the singularity in this spacetime, the spacetime geometry remains flat and regular with no indication locally of something pathological.”
A spaceship, traveling in a well-behaved region of spacetime, might then encounter this singularity and find its timelike geodesic to be deflected into its past. It would then return to the earlier, well-behaved region of spacetime and the spaceship occupants would encounter their past selves aging in the opposite time sense.
The author anticipates this model being a useful tool for teaching technical aspects of relativity theory.
“The full geometry of this spacetime model can be recovered using rather simple methods,” said Norton. “In addition to seeing the nature of the conical singularity, the analysis requires that students treat spacetime coordinates with extreme care, since they do not have their usual default physical meanings.”
Source: “A simple Minkowskian time-travel spacetime,” by John D. Norton, American Journal of Physics (2025). The article can be accessed here.
I’ve officially looked at the word ‘valuing’ enough times in trying to spell it that it doesn’t look like a word anymore.
Just look at it Valuing Valueing? Valuing VALUING
This word has broken my brain today, how are you?
It looks like they’re actually tier 1 (they seem to be standing on a white platform), but what, if any, weight is each layer above them? I can see narrow platforms, but are they all taking most of the weight?
I’m not sure whether this was meant as an athletic or purely aesthetic display – since they’re billed as ‘acrobats’, I assumed skill was involved, so what would be the best and worst case scenario those 8-10 in the narrowest tier would be supporting?
e: was there any kind of structural support in this? I’m not finding much about it.
Here’s a Snopes article about this event at the 1980s Olympics in Moscow.
A simple spacetime model containing a conical singularity provides an example of a universe that allows time travel.
Excerpts:
> The acceptance of Einstein’s general theory of relativity made time travel physically respectable, because it allows spacetimes in which the timelike curves of observers can form a closed loop. While some theories suggest exotic physics that open wormholes, author John D. Norton has proposed a simpler model in which observers, tracing out timelike curves, might meet their past selves.
> An interesting difference between author Norton’s model and that of others is that the model presented here is not time-orientable, which means that it does not have a uniform, forward definition of time. Furthermore, it is matter-free and flat everywhere except for a two-dimensional singularity analogous to the singular point of a paper cone.
> “A conical singularity is unlike more familiar curvature singularities,” said Norton. “No matter how close you come to the singularity in this spacetime, the spacetime geometry remains flat and regular with no indication locally of something pathological.”
> A spaceship, traveling in a well-behaved region of spacetime, might then encounter this singularity and find its timelike geodesic to be deflected into its past. It would then return to the earlier, well-behaved region of spacetime and the spaceship occupants would encounter their past selves aging in the opposite time sense.
The source paper on AAPT from 1 Mar 2025: A simple Minkowskian time-travel spacetime
Guys, I fucked up. I have what was a beautiful two-tone colander that looked nice and retro, with a shiny red finish. After some use, there was a very tiny amount of rust showing in places around the rim, and my dumbass self decided to soak it in CLR like I do with anything metal that gets signs of rust. It didn’t occur to me that it would remove the gloss finish from the powder-coated enamel.
Now it looks and feels awful, like it has a dull, pink, rubbery coating instead of the beautiful glossy bright red finish of yore.
Is there a product I can use to polish it back to beauty? It wasn’t cheap and has been discontinued, so I’d like to restore it if possible.
I’ve searched online but my Google-fu isn’t worthy, apparently. Thanks in advance!
Animals live in an entirely different reality FYI
This video compares the perception of sound and reality ‘refresh rates’ between animals like dogs, cats, Guinea pigs, ducks, small birds, elephants, insects, etc.
