If the entire Earth blows up, it’ll be a good disaster recovery solution.

chat j’ai pété

So these books are the reason I am the way I am?

That sounds super interesting! Can’t read it until I get home (am on vacation at Disneyland right now) but in about a week’s time I hope you don’t mind if I reply with my updated understanding, and maybe a question or two.

I made a comment a while back (on my alt account) about how the origin of the universe can be expressed as a simple formula: https://sopuli.xyz/comment/3303086

So, I’m curious if that viewpoint will shift at all with a better understanding of electron positron interactions. It kind of makes sense to me that the universe and the antiverse are stacked on top of each other but with time pointing in opposite directions. But I’m sure I’m oversimplifying Feynman’s theory and I’ll have to read his reasoning to really understand.

Not in the current standard model, for sure. Or is there a reason empirically why they simply can’t be.

For the people downvoting, may I hear a counterpoint as to why this wouldn’t make sense?

This is actually the first time I’m hearing about single electron theory, but I feel validated now that I’m learning about it. I have for a long time believed that the universe is made of a single photon, since photons exist outside of time. Then, if electrons are made of a “pair” of entangled photons, since every photon is the same photon, it would follow that every electron is also the same electron. And one could assert that quarks are just entangled electrons and positrons in various ratios and combinations. Which in my mind leads to the conclusion that all of time and space and matter doesn’t actually exist and we are just imaginary mathematical figments.

Sounds like a challenge.

ArtOrgy

Just ride another trolley on the other track.

Has anyone tried just asking the trolley to stop?

Haven’t touched reddit socially in 8 months, but every now and then I’ll use it to search for opinions or instructions on things. Searched “reddit best domain registrar” recently and landed on a thread where top to bottom, every comment recommending a registrar was from a bot and/or banned account. No real person testimonials, all ads. And as AI implementations improve, that’s going to get harder to spot. In the meantime, I’m formatting searches like “best domain registrar lemmy” because reddit is legit that bad rn.

Most of my code is untyped. First I type it, then I realize it’s all wrong and use backspace to untype it.

Ginger: I love you so much

Mittens: I tolerate you so much

What a stroke of luck we did our testing with chimps and not blue whales.

Did you maybe mean to say Terraform, or am I missing a key aspect of my job role?

Had not considered this. The rate at which I’m offering telephones and then withholding them is actually criminal.

My cat and I play a game where I ask, “Do you want a [word other than treat]?” five or six times before asking if he wants a treat, to teach him that not all questions mean treats are about to be given.

It’s insane the force with which he turns his face away from me, as if to say, “Excuse me but I really need to be in the kitchen right now, treats are about to be given,” when I ask if he wants a telephone. No matter how many times I tell him he has misheard, he simply does not believe me.