crapwittyname

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[–] crapwittyname@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago

They are talking about mathematical proofs here. Once the mathematical proof is complete, we can look at the application, i.e. using it to make predictions and seeing how well they do.

[–] crapwittyname@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The one you're too lazy to search?

[–] crapwittyname@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

You're saying that social media is not the real cause of the youth mental health crisis? Do you propose a different cause? Because I know of a good few, very well-qualified people (of varying ages) that might explicitly disagree with you...

[–] crapwittyname@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

Yes, the material the streams are made of is magnetic, and there is a strong and unusual magnetic field around the sun. So those streams are trapped by magnetism.

[–] crapwittyname@lemm.ee 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Even cooler: solar flares and mass ejections come about when one of the lines snaps like a whip and hurls billions of tonnes of plasma into space. Search: solar magnetic reconnection.

[–] crapwittyname@lemm.ee 86 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Plasma is electrically charged, so it interacts with magnetic lines.
The sun has magnetic field lines just as the earth does. It also rotates. But- since it's not solid, it doesn't have to rotate all at the same speed. The plasma in fast-rotating regions drags the field lines further than the plasma in slow rotating areas, creating weird loops, breaks and reconnections in the field lines. I'm almost certain that what we're seeing in this lovely bit of photography is a cloud of plasma travelling across, or trapped by one of those rogue field lines which has been pushed upwards from the surface by differential rotation.

[–] crapwittyname@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago

I hear you, and I agree the climate crisis is the number one issue facing us right now, but that doesn't mean we can't study other areas. What can a cosmologist do to protect the climate except for swap their cosmology textbooks for climate science?

[–] crapwittyname@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

The sins of the father

[–] crapwittyname@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I think it's 50-50, because the Chinese l sound is pronounced with the tongue in the position somewhere between the Latin r and l sounds. So it's just as likely to be heard as a "wrong" L or a "wrong" R.
The fun part is that the tropes stick to our own way of pronouncing the letter (r becomes l or vice versa) instead of attempting to pronounce the Chinese sound correctly...

[–] crapwittyname@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago

"Being really well dressed and using style to win people over is in the fascist playbook as well. Therefore drag queens are fascist."
That's you. That's you right now.

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