Maybe it’s obvious, but I’m realising now that libs are just tankies who love the west and capitalism, hence the stupid takes on NATO we constantly see…

Thanks for this, that’s a fantastic way to phrase it.

Best video you’ll ever see on the topic imo (and very short)

https://youtu.be/tmNXKqeUtJM?si=1KrwzaG-b3hW-GkW

Except it actually is reality?

Anarchist collectives in Spain are the biggest example of anarcho-syndicalism existing and thriving in history, hell the CNT even exists today. I’d recommend reading the anarchist collectives by Sam Dolgoff if it’s something you’re curious about, it’s a fantastic read.

More general anarchism exists today in the Zapatistas, and probably other groups I’m not aware of. If you extend that to just anarchist collectives then I can rattle off a list of them just in one suburb of my city.

It’s important political theory, and it works. Just because you don’t like it doesn’t change that fact.

The huge caveat here is assuming gravity is quantised in the same way as the other forces, gravitons don’t need to exist for gravity to exist. This is just the beauty argument of string theory with a new name, it’s cool and I love this type of stuff because it’s amazingly satisfying, but that’s not enough to make it reality.

Don’t get me wrong, this is still useful work but I kinda hate the way quanta reports on a lot of physics…

Why does this kinda look like Doug Walker?

Okay but loser mode sounds pretty good ngl

If Fender uses bone, they’re probably a whole lot more selective about it. My nut only splintered because it was a dodgy part, I don’t think it’s the norm. Sigma makes relatively cheap guitars, so I wouldn’t hold Fender to the same standard.

https://www.colemansmusic.com.au/products/sigma-000mc-15e-mahogany-auditorium

Under the features section here they’re listed as bone. I hadn’t actually looked it up as I own one and bone is pretty different from plastic, especially when it splinters like mine did.

Considering all the failures we see with water distributors just faking tests, I fully expect that this would just lead to someone dumping a bunch of live virus in the water supply lol

Guitar maker sigma uses bone for it’s nuts and probably bridges too. I’m not sure about Epiphone, they used a plastic nut on my LP but for all I know the inlays are some sort of shellfish.

It’s also highly highly likely that a lot of guitars use shellac which is produce by an insect, especially likely for accoustic and classical guitars.

Left pocket: Mask Grocery bag Earplugs Lip balm Stickers Keys

Right: Phone

It has changed an enormous amount, this article discusses it

OH YARN I don’t have my glasses and I couldn’t work out how someone was knitting with a yam

No idea if I can reply to a deleted comment but I read the root comment totally wrong and just restated everything they said. My bad.

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If that was the case, we would already have a quantum theory of gravity. The fact that “gravitons” (here I mean the particles of a second quantisation of GR) can interact with themselves makes the theory almost completely useless.

It’s technically possible to write down such a theory, but the only way to get results out of it is to first perform an infinite number of experiments.

Almost none of this applies in the case of something like loop quantum gravity, which I understand very little of but I don’t believe it’s possible to discuss it using the language of QFT like I have above.

I briefly worked in this area of physics, it’s complicated and depends on your definition of a particle and which quantum gravity model you’re talking about.

To simplify things you can just ask the same thing about non-quantum gravity. Why does gravity escape the black hole? The painfully mundane answer is that the black hole is gravity, it’s not escaping itself. Gravitational waves can’t be emitted from inside the black hole but that’s because those are a form of radiation and not the structure of spacetime.

This is specifically important because even quantum gravity (the kind with gravitons) still has this distinction. Particles belong to a field and are excitations of it, the gravitational field itself is not made of those particles. The force associated with that field is mediated by gravitons, but what that really means is complicated and honestly possibly just the result of a cool mathematical trick. It also comes with a bunch of crazy behaviour where you have particles that can break the laws of physics by just kinda doing it so quickly that nature blinks and misses it.

The point is, the quantum gravitational field is enough for the black hole to do its job when objects come by, gravitons don’t actually need to escape, though they are involved in complicated ways.

Ah right fair enough, I’m just talking about the situation in Australia