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  • Robust Mirror@aussie.zonetoMemes@sopuli.xyz•wat
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    11 days ago

    That is not analogous to this. The fact you can measure the same effect using light as using dark should immediately tell you that you aren’t measuring dark at all.

    The reality is all you are measuring is discreet points and calling it movement. It’s not movement even in a loose sense. Calling this movement is like calling an animated character running across the screen movement. Just like that is hundreds of individual images that your brain perceives as movement, the light or shadow is thousands of points of light (or, in the reverse, absence of light) that your brain perceives as movement.

    If there was a ring around the earth and you shine a laser pointer at it and rotate 360 degrees you could measure insane “speeds” of the dot moving along the ring. By the same logic his video uses you can claim to have invented teleportation and essentially infinite speed by turning the light off, moving it, and having the light or shadow be in another location when you turn it back on. Hopefully that really illustrates how much these are individual “things”, not things “moving”.

    The photons making the light, or with the shadow, the photons being blocked, are not the same photons that were making the initial point. They are new ones in a new location.

  • Robust Mirror@aussie.zonetoMemes@sopuli.xyz•wat
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    12 days ago

    And the edge of a ball of light created by a powerful spotlight could do exactly the same thing. That video is nothing but sleight of hand style tricks dressed up as the speed of dark. You can recreate every scenario using light to argue light is faster than the speed of light. What you’re doing isn’t movement at all, period.

    Imagine earth has a ring around it the distance of the moon. You have a powerful laser pointer and rotate 360 degrees while pointing at it. The dot of light “travels” around it at insane speeds. This is what the video argues “dark” or the shadow is doing. But if you think about it for a moment you realise each “dot”, whether it’s the shadow or the laser pointer, is actually a unique thing, and nothing is actually “moving” at all. Shadows don’t move. Ever. They aren’t even something. They are just light being blocked.

  • Robust Mirror@aussie.zonetoMemes@sopuli.xyz•wat
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    12 days ago

    Yeah that’s correct. If things couldn’t move apart from each other faster than the speed of light from a 3rd party observers perspective, light itself would make no sense. Either all light would actually be travelling at half the speed of light, or half the light would be frozen.

  • Robust Mirror@aussie.zonetomemes@lemmy.world•A quick Chinese lesson
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    12 days ago

    Not entirely, because if I never corrected them they would be a stranger on the internet to SOMEONE talking that way eventually.

    Ultimately the ability to understand something doesn’t make it correct and I get tired of the “language evolves” and “you understood it, right?” arguments because even if true we can also understand “me want job” and “John hungry” but it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t both attempt to speak correctly and continue to learn.

    I’m learning a second language and I would prefer to be corrected and speak naturally in it as much as possible rather than the bar simply being understood.

  • Robust Mirror@aussie.zonetoMemes@sopuli.xyz•wat
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    12 days ago

    No they can’t, because they aren’t moving at all. That vsauce video pisses me off so much and I’ve debunked it more than once over the years, but suffice to say, you could claim light moves faster than light using the same logic he uses for shadows/darkness.

  • Robust Mirror@aussie.zonetoGames@lemmy.world•PlayStation Plus price increase announced for new customersEnglish
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    19 days ago

    No you pay the ISP for internet access in general, that is justified by the cost of infrastructure, which you ALSO have to pay when accessing it on playstation on top of ps+. It’s really not the same thing at all.

    Btw I personally pay for ps+ because as someone that jumped into the ps5 after the last console I had be the ps2, I’ve found I’m never without something to play from all the back catalogue alone. Even just the 20 game pack they gave on release was worth it to me at the time. I just put away $3 a week and buy it on black Friday sales with change.

    Spiderman 2 that they gave access to this year basically covered the price alone, and I don’t have to justify each game I buy, it’s just another annual bill like Netflix. Will I lose the whole thing if I stop paying or Sony changes things? Yeah. But I already knowingly factored that in. It’s a Netflix for games and I’m okay with that.

    A few years ago I looked at what I spent on ps+ 2020-2025 vs steam 2015-2020, and ps+ was less. That’s enough for me to be happy.

  • Robust Mirror@aussie.zonetoTechnology@lemmy.world•Judge rules DOGE used ChatGPT in a way that was both dumb and illegal / The ruling restores federal grants that were shut down for ‘DEI’ prejudice.English
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    29 days ago

    God this is beyond ridiculous.

    They used ChatGPT to sort over 1,400 National Endowment for the Humanities grants into spreadsheets. Their exact prompt to the AI was “Does the following relate at all to DEI? Respond factually in less than 120 characters. Begin with ‘Yes.’ or ‘No.’ followed by a brief explanation.”

    They didn’t define what they meant by DEI. They just asked ChatGPT to figure it out. And then cancelled grants based on whatever it said. Probably didn’t even read past the yes or no.

    The government’s defence was essentially ChatGPT did it, not us. When asked if he regretted people losing income, he said he didn’t, because reducing the deficit was more important. When asked if they actually reduced the deficit, he admitted they did not.

    They caused real harm, achieved nothing they claimed to be pursuing, and expressed zero regret about it.

    Just really horrible all around.