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International Paper to close 2 Georgia mills, cut 1,100 jobs
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Retired Lt. Col. Ricardo Bosi confirms the existence of vast underground networks beneath Washington DC and global capitals - revealing how deep the rabbit hole truly goes: 🏛️ Tunnels Older Than AmeriRumble
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It's an amazing piece of software, that I personally use for all my design needs, for mockups at my freelance job, for youtube thumbnails, or for quick photo edits.
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If you're more into digital painting, Krita is what you're looking for. It's super flexible, again, with panels you can move around to suit your workflow, it has tons of brushes, and you can further extend that by downloading new ones.
Inkscape
For vector graphics, the go-to open source app is Inkscape. Whether you want to mockup an application or a website, or design an icon, or just draw something, Inkscape can do it all!
Blender
For 3D modelling, your probably already know about Blender. One might argue it's THE best tool for the job, used by animators, VFX artists and modelers all around the world.
Darktable
Darktable lets you edit your photos non destructively, and your original images are preserved.
VLC
For video playback, you can't find something as versatile as VLC. It's not the prettiest, but it will play virtually anything, even badly damaged files, that it can even repair.
Audacity
Another example of an app that doesn't look good at all, but that lets you do a TON of stuff. It's a powerful audio recording and editing station. It can digitize anything, import and export virtually any format, and even combine audio files.
LibreOffice
LibreOffice: if you've ever used OpenOffice, forget all about it, because LibreOffice is where it's at. It's faster, it looks better, it's more stable, and it's extremely customizable to let you work with either a toolbar and menubar, or with a more modern ribbon.
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Another solution is OnlyOffice. Its compatibility is better than LibreOffice, and I've been using it for a year or so, now, trading files back and forth with people using MS Office, without any issues whatsoever.
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Millie Bobby Brown and Jake Bongiovi welcome first child via adoption
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i don't like the idea of restricting or moderating speech, but honestly, if applied to news stations and whatnot, it would honestly would be very helpful, so long as it doesn't infringe on individuals
honestly, i wonder if the countries that have speech regulations lack jewish influence (in exchange for domestic dictators) is because that's kinda what jews fuckin' specialize in
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This really needs to be spread around European circles: A better way to fight back against Trump’s tariffs.
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Special Relativity is a strange beast, because it says that there's no such thing as "stationary" in space, no preferred frame of reference.
And then it also says the speed of light is fixed no matter how fast the emitter of the light is traveling.
So with those two assumptions, it means you CANNOT measure the one-way speed of light, because if you could then you could (by subtraction) determine your speed in space, but if you have a speed, then that means there is a definition of stationary.
one way speed of light is similar to measuring one-way latency in a distributed system without a global time reference.
You can't.
You can only measure ping.
The Michelson–Morley experiment is quite an interesting thing, especially taken in the context of our modern understanding of transverse redshift.
Maybe you can't learn anything about the forward speed of light because everything you learn on the forward direction you unlearn as it comes back.... But if you compare light in the forward-back direction to light in the left-right direction, if you're moving forward then light in the left-right direction will come back slower because it has to make a triangle to bounce off the mirror and back to you.
I know they were looking for aether, but I think the fact that their experiment came up empty-handed actually proves that the one way speed of light is C, and basically velocity doesn't exist except in relation to other objects.
I feel like this is worth a paper. It would be like a little one-pager, but it pretty much puts to rest any idea of one-way speed of light.
If you're moving, light bouncing perpendicular to your direction of motion will have further to go (2nd image).
Is a rig that compares light speed on 2 perpendicular angles will show a difference if you're moving faster in the direction of one angle than the other.
wait a sec
this interferometer is equivalent to two perpendicular photon clocks, right?
When the two photon clocks are not moving in your reference frame, and they have the same length, then they will tick at the same rate, right? You'll see both photons move with velocity c
Now let's say there's an external observer who sees that you and your clocks are moving in a particular direction
That observer will see your transverse clock's photon cover more distance, so it'll tick slower
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Yes on all counts (per my understanding)
This is why I'm saying an inertial frame is spooky, it's like living in your own dimension.
since both of you observe the photon bounce off the mirrors at the same time, that means from the external observer's POV, your time is slower than his.
Now what will your tangent (to the direction of motion) clock look like to the external observer?
The observer sees everything you do as happening more slowly (velocity based time dilation), and if you eventually stop and meet him, your watch will be slow to his.
Now the question of whether he will see your clocks register a difference between the forward-back and the left-right is a hell of a question. In principle you could construct some kind of schrodenger's cat type of experiment, is he going to see the cat die when you see it live? What happens to the cat if you stop and meet him?!!
first of all, you will not stop and meet him, since that would require acceleration.
In special relativity, acceleration is Undefined Behaviour.
secondly
secondly, I think your forward-backward clock will change its length to match the rate of the transverse clock... but I tried to calculate it in memory and failed, maybe i need a piece of paper
it was sth like, if a horizontal relativistic ladder slightly longer than your barn enters your barn, you can close the barn door behind the ladder before you open the second barn door in front of the ladder
so the ladder did fit in thebarn
but from ladder's PoV, you opened the outgoing door before you closed the incoming door
btw I think I screwed something up because I calculated the length of the forward-backward mirror clock as seen by an external observer, assuming the width of the perpendicular clock is constant.
And it's exactly 1 over the equation from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length_c…
exactly...
I'll try to read the explanation for why it gets longer and see if makes any sense
side note
this thing here:
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literally says that the assumption that speed of light is the same in both directions is equivalent to "transporting a clock slowly" (whatever that means, it probably has some assumptinos too)
The thing about "transporting a clock slowly" is that when you move a clock, it experiences time dilation so it skews.
I don't really understand this myself because it seems to me that you can compute the amount of skew *compared to the stationary clock* by knowing how fast you transport it, which means you can then measure the one-way speed of light. But the Michelson tell us that it should just give you C.
yup, I literally just inverted a fraction by accident.
So the thing is, when the photon is going forward and the front mirror is running away from it, it takes a fuckton of distance to catch up to the mirror. And even after you consider how much shorter it is to go back to the mirror that's chasing the photon, it's still more additional distance than the sideways clock is getting from pythagoras
because when going forward, the light travelled more distance
so it took more time
so point B moved forward more than 3cm
they're fixed distance apart - so what?
the photon takes more time going forward than it takes going back
so point A moves more when the photon is going forward than it moves when the photon is going back
let's say L is the observed distance between mirrors, the mirrors travel at speed v, and it takes t1 for the light to go forward
it covers distance c*t1
c*t1 = L + v*t1
c*t1 - v*t1 = L
(c-v)*t1 = L
t1 = L / (c-v)
and for backward
c*t2 = L - v*t2
c*t2 + v*t2 = L
(c+v)*t2 = L
t2 = L / (c+v)
now add the two times
t1+t2 = L * ( 1/(c-v) + 1/(c+v) )
= L * ( (c+v) / (c-v)(c+v) - (c-v) / (c-v)(c+v) )
= L * (c+v+c-v) / (c² - v²)
= L * 2c / (c² - v²)
= 2L/c * 1/(1 - (v/c)²)
Oh, now I get it. The light needs to actually move by a distance of L + the amount of the forward motion that took place while the light was traveling, because point A is not where it was before.
So it's all a circuitous way of getting from PointA to PointA', which are different places, therefore it takes more time to get there than it would getting from PointA to PointA.
Now I can easily see why matter would appear squished to an observer - because the Michelson–Morley experiment is basically being done inside of every particle that has an orbit, so every orbit is going to squish with basically no measurable side-effects.
Now whether that squish is "real" in a preferred frame sense, that's a whole other question.
Where is the observer?
If you're orbiting the observer then both clocks should IMO show the same thing (same time dilation error).
if you're orbiting the observer that means there's gravity, which means there's acceleration, so you need general relativity.
I meant travelling in a straight line relative to the observer.
Disregard the word spaceship, it's just the latest fast train of the French.
Okay, so if you were to take a snapshot at the moment when you perceive the middle part of the vehicle being in front of you - the front is red-shifted because it has probably passed you, and the rear is blue-shifted because it is coming toward you.
Red shift means the optical path got longer, so yes, you should be seeing a signal from earlier in the past from the front clock.
But this should also work using an audio signal if the front and back of a truck were to simultaneously emit a sound as the truck is passing you.
Ibdidn't mean different frequency.
I meant different time offset.
Back to the front-back mirror clock.
A traveller sitting in the vehicle sees the photon cover the same distance whether it's going forward or back. So he assumes the photon takes the same time to go in each direction, let's call it T. Ping is 2T.
OTOH a stationary observer will see the photon take more time travelling forward than back.
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If the rear clock is set such that t=0 when the photon first leaves the rear mirror, the traveller will set his front clock such that it shows T when the photon bonces off the front mirror.
But from an external observer's POV, the photon bounces off the front mirror at a time t1 > T. So the front clock is late.
or to be precise:
From external observer's PoV, by the time the photon reaches the front mirror, the rear clock is showing time greater than T.
It won't be the same t1 from my earlier calculation, because I'd have to account for time dilation between the vehicle and the observer.
The point is that the front mirror bounce is not halway between rear mirror bounces.
Dark matter is pretty much statistically impossible - because it's not just "the galaxy is heavier than we think" - for it to work it needs to be dispersed in such a way as to have absolutely no impact on any of the stars in the inside portion of the galaxy, but have exactly the right impact the stars at the outside portion.
If the whole galaxy just spun 1/3 too fast, you could easily enough imagine there's a "hidden blackhole" that is imposing additional gravity on it, but it's not that. The inside (say) 75% of the galaxy is adhering to exactly the physics we would expect, but the outer 25% is doing something else. Trying to imagine invisible matter which explains that is so tortured that you might as well say "The galaxy stays together because God cast it in epoxy".
@jeff
On one hand, you can interpret it as "if we add this fake mass-like term to our equation, everything checks out. This is silly and we're oorbably missing something but for now let's keep doing this until we have sth better."
OTOH there were cases where the maths was like "the only day this would make sense is if there's another planet there" and lo and behold there was a planet there
> if we add this fake mass-like term to our equation, everything checks out
That's totally fair, but at this point dark matter is starting to have aether vibes. It's actually kind of worse than aether because at least aether is just uniformly spread across the universe like air, this stuff has to exist in these tortured shapes which manage to affect the gravity of outlying solar systems without having any net impact on the inner ones. And it has to maintain that shape despite being pulled on by the gravity it is exerting.
> the only day this would make sense is if there's another planet there
If there was ONE thing which could explain this then I could get on board. For example if every galaxy was too light by 1/2 then I could imagine that there is "shadow matter" in proportion to the amount of physical matter. But in the case of dark matter, there is no one thing, because every galaxy only resolves with it's own unique amount of it.
Maybe the answer is QI, maybe it's something else, but I think it's fairly obvious that it isn't this.
QI is really fun, because McCulloch solves this problem so beautifully. We already accept the existence of a Rindler horizon when we're accelerating, and we know how far away it is, McCulloch just points out that when it goes past the Hubble-scale horizon is exactly the moment when the math stops working for stars orbiting a galaxy.
So if we assume that inertia, i.e. the physical resistance to acceleration, is caused by the "stuff" that the Rindler horizon blocks, then galaxy rotation suddenly makes sense.
But furthermore, because it's accepted physics that a Rindler horizon is the same as a blackhole event horizon, QI forces us to accept the equivalence of inertial force and gravitational force.
This presents a problem for QI because gravitational force directly dilates time, while inertial force does not - but at least we're exchanging a massive problem for a comparatively tiny one.
It's definitely all a mindfuck, but at this point I strongly suspect we actually just don't have enough data to make solid statements about a lot of cosmology stuff. Dark matter, inflation, etc. are all predicated on data collected from a *very* limited vantage point in the universe. It wouldn't take much to overturn those theories—except it's just incredibly difficult to *get* that data.
So I don't worry too much about the Real Big Picture any more. 😛
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is this the vibe im giving off?? automobile theft? mid day? at the donation drive thru drop off?
Bacterial pneumonia, which usually recurs each summer in the US’s largest city, has sickened more than 100 people and killed five in a growing outbreak.
Climate change is both helping to make the disease more plentiful in the places where it already exists and creating the potential for it to move to new places where the population may not be accustomed to it.
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Hollow Knight Silksong finally has a launch date, but the much-hyped Metroidvania likely won't get reviews until after everyone's playing.Reid McCarter (PCGamesN)
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Despite the Israeli army’s announcements that it plans to occupy Gaza City in October, the first stage of the invasion has already begun. It is starting with the flattening of the Zaytoun neighborhood, including the Old City of Gaza.
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