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  • It's just proof that light behaves as a wave, because it generates an interference pattern like the first picture. The second picture is how it would theoretically behave if it was (only) a particle, which it isn't. The proof that light acts like a particle comes from a second experiment proposed by Einstein dealing with the photoelectric effect.

    This article is meant for kids but it explains things pretty plainly. The duality is unexplained, but the experiment is well understood.

  • that's the spirit

  • unintended consequence is the definition of perverse incentive.

    A perverse incentive is an incentive that has an unintended and undesirable result that is contrary to the intentions of its designers.

  • i dont think anyone is ignoring that. the meme is talking about how it was built, not how it's currently maintained. it definitely didn't start off spending that much. all that spending is a consequence of it's popularity, not the reason for it.

  • so it's essentially a perverse incentive at work.

  • I don't remember exactly when, but I remember them wandering around in a forest for like three episodes looking for some children I think? Just a streak of episodes where absolutely nothing happened. No plot development, no character development, just treading water.

  • You got trans in your username, I think it was probably too late before the shark.

  • Yeah I don’t disagree, cans would be better than bottles. I just wanted to point out that plastic is ubiquitous and shows up in a lot of places you don’t expect. It’s extremely difficult to completely eliminate it. I’m not arguing that progress toward that goal is pointless, just that the goalpost is a lot further away than you might expect.

  • Yeah I made the comment before seeing all those. Which is why I deleted it shortly after posting it. Is it still showing up?

  • It’s doesn’t matter if you’re from Russia. If he thinks they’re sending their best and brightest propagandists to the comment mines on lemmy to argue for a materialist understanding of American geopolitics then he’s either delusionally paranoid or arguing in bad faith.

  • The reality of you propoganda groups from Russia

    If you can’t participate in a conversation in good faith then fuck off

    lmao

  • Attending even a single protest would be more effective than any vote would be, and I’m saying that as someone with very little faith in the effectiveness of non violent protest.

  • their other priorities were arguing back and forth for months watering down a republican-written healthcare reform bill for the supposed benefit of republicans who still didn't vote for it.

  • do you have downvotes hidden somehow? nearly all comments critical of Israel get at least some downvotes. usuallly around five. for example: there's not a comment here that doesn't have at least one downvote

  • Yeah, which is why this shit is still going on. Hamas would be extremely naive to think a temporary ceasefire is anything more than a promise to start bombing again later after they've refreshed their troops and stockpiled more weapons.

  • I don't think it's fair to call any news source unbiased and I would be highly suspect of any who claim it of themselves. No one is completely free from the influences of society, money, and politics. Bias is a spectrum with no neutral position. Whatever you believe to be neutral is just a reflection of your own biases.

    If there's a translation error, then surely it's more likely that the word "bombardments" is just being used as a generic stand in for "attacks with military weapons". I don't think that's a reason to discard the part of the statement that clearly lays out how they are only attempting to count deaths they believe to be the result of "Israeli aggression" and not just counting all deaths and labeling them that after the fact. By limiting what they count they are, in a way, de facto reporting how they were killed; it was something they believed could be reasonably attributed to Israeli aggression. The lack of supporting data doesn't automatically cast doubt, especially in circumstances where the data has been shown to be reasonably accurate in every other occasion. And any doubt that could be cast by such a deficiency isn't some plot by Hamas to mislead people with inaccurate data.

  • Their interests seem pretty aligned on the issue of stopping the genocide. I don't know what other interests you think they have that conflict with the well being of Palestinians but I doubt they're even in the same ballpark as that extremely pressing, immediate issue.

    Have you learned nothing from the "war on terror"? You can't kill a distributed, loosely connected, highly entrenched resistance by bombing it away. If America couldn't manage it in Iraq, what makes you think America Jr. is gonna pull it off? Shoving Palestinians off their land is the goal here, not killing Hamas.

    Also fuck you for calling Egypt enclosing an undeveloped patch of desert with a wall a "refugee camp". Clown.