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Holy moly 😅 or Someone used fork

Thinking to start running your fork instead of pleroma 😀

Only 2 more accounts left to go on the discourse forum before QOTO is out of bootstrap mode.

That means the next two accounts will be the last accounts eligible to automatically upgrade one trust level. Everyone after that will have to earn it.

So get your account now while supplies last!

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Here is a lovely picture from my trip to Yellowstone. This Elk was about 15 feet in front of me and didnt really care much about me it seemed.

WOOT! My mom is coming to visit me and brining a shit ton of Elk meat my dad hunted. Going to make sooooo much Elk jerky!

I wanted to show a foreigner a picture of what blackface looked like. I wanted a modern day picture in color so it was easier for them to recognize.

Problem is when I look on google images the only results that come up are that of a Christmas Elf called Zwarte Pete from Holland.

I had guessed that this may be intentional censorship so as not to give this particular form of hate speech a voice by eliminating it from search results.

To me this is a perfect example of why such censorship is counterproductive. The end result was I was unable to educate someone about this form of hate speech effectively.

In days of old, with hearts so bold;
when courage finds its way.

A man comes forth who finds his worth,
in love and righteous action.

With strength of heart he fulfills his part,
and confronts the popular passion.

Fighting long and strong in a world gone wrong;
the masses fight and plunder.

Finding worth in one, then hope did come,
the masses pushed asunder.

Keeping an American credit score up is such a PITA.. the formula is annoying.

The discourse forum is only 5 users away from being out of boot strap mode.. That means the next 5 users who signup get an automatic (free) promotion to the next user level. After that new users will have to earn it.

So sign up now before its too late!

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BRB need to move bottles of 98% sulfuric acid... i always get a little nervous when working with strong acids...

@stux Because mass is never converted to energy, not even in nuclear reactions.. E=mc2 tells you that energy **has** mass, and mass has energy. Basically mass can be manifested as matter or energy..

You can convert matter to energy but it makes no sense to say you convert mass to energy.

It talks about hydrogen explosions as converting mass to energy for example, that is flat out wrong.

Hydrogen bonds and oxygen bonds have a certain energy contained in them, that energy has some mass (which is in addition to any mass contributed by the matter itself). When an explosion happens those bonds break and form new H2O bonds which have less energy to them. The difference in energy has been released in the form of heat and light. So it has converted bond-energy into heat/light energy. The total amount of energy in the whole system (including the heat/light released) is exactly the same, the total amount of matter in the system is exactly the same, and therefore the total amount of mass of the system is exactly the same.

What happens however is that energy you released as heat and light doesnt stay on the water molecules you just created, they spread out onto other molecules and as light waves. So whatever mass that energy has is now sent flying out into the world.

So the water that you have as a result from the reaction will be infentesimally lower in mass than the hydrogen oxygen you started with. But at no point did a mass to energy "conversion" take place, that statement makes no sense in any context.

Even in a nuclear explosion you wont get a conversion of mass to energy, the total mass of the system will remain exactly the same. You will, however, get a conversion of matter into energy, which is what makes nuclear reactions unique.

@stux By the way this video you shared about how chemical reactions convert mass to energy... its really bad and you need to forget it.. care for me to explain?

youtu.be/t-O-Qdh7VvQ

Buddhist Monk: "We must cast off all earthly desires"

Me: "What about boobs though?"

Monk:

ya know, i have to wonder why its so hard to see surface waves through rock even when its significant and you can feel it... When a train passes there has to be a few millimeters of displacement at least by the feel of it but youd never see it.

@freemo Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light. - Rape of Lucrece, William Shakespeare

My favorite Shakespeare quote (spoken by Polonius, in scene 2 of Hamlet):

This above all — to thine own self be true;
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man

@freemo @curt @gioypi

FYI

"Aguas frescas (Spanish for "cool waters", or literally "fresh waters") are light non-alcoholic beverages made from one or more fruits, cereals, flowers, or seeds blended with sugar and water. They are popular in Mexico, Central America and the United States. Some of the more common flavors include tamarind, hibiscus, and horchata."

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aguas_

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