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Cake day: August 15th, 2025

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  • Yes, but imagine a solemn minute for each named individual that lasts 5 weeks non-stop.
    Not counting mutilated, orphaned, and (basically all of them, so 700k-ish) homeless. And with zero prospect of it ever getting better until they are alive.

    I went with this figure, but same diff:

    In August 2025, UNICEF estimated that more than 50,000 children had been killed or injured in Gaza.

    wiki/Effect_of_the_Gaza_war_on_children_in_the_Gaza_Strip
    bbc.com/c4gmk2yj5e9o

    The reason for the high number of children deaths even assuming indiscriminate killing (ie not targeting specifically children, which at least proven for snipers, isn’t the case): Gaza/Palestinians are being severely oppressed for decades (since 48, or 67 more directly), they have artificially limited water access, electricity, medicine, etc so they die young & in Gaza like 40% of the population are children.

    Gaza Strip has a ×2.6 higher density of population than New York City (5,967.5/km2 vs 2,309.2/km2), but less than a quarter of population.
    Bcs oppression.

    General wiki info:

    The Gaza Strip is 41 kilometres (25 miles) long, from 6 to 12 km (3.7 to 7.5 mi) wide, and has a total area of 365 km2 (141 sq mi). As of 2010, the Strip’s population mostly comprised Palestinians and refugees. It has a high proportion of youth, with 43.5% being children 14 or younger and 50% under age of 18. Sunni Islam is almost ubiquitous, with a Palestinian Christian minority. Gaza has an annual population growth rate of 1.99% (2023 est.), the 39th-highest in the world. Gaza’s unemployment rate is among the highest in the world, with an overall unemployment rate of 46% and a youth unemployment rate of 70%. Despite this, the area’s 97% literacy rate is higher than that of nearby Egypt, while youth literacy is 88%. Gaza has throughout the years been seen as a source of Palestinian nationalism and resistance.

    Til - despite all the hardship they have higher literacy than USA with 86% (normal countries are ofc 98+).



  • Huh, I thought ‘that’s brilliant, why shouldn’t/ofc changes in imaginary time affect measurable things’ … a second later, nah, that’s silly talk, how tf do you measure that??

    Something related Measuring the imaginary time dynamics of quantum materials:

    Theoretical analysis typically involves imaginary-time correlation functions. Inferring real-time dynamical response functions from this information is notoriously difficult. However, as we articulate here, it is straightforward to compute imaginary-time correlators from the measured frequency dependence of (real-time) response functions. In addition to facilitating comparison between theory and experiment, the proposed approach can be useful in extracting certain aspects of the (long-time relaxational) dynamics from a complex data set. We illustrate this with an analysis of the nematic response inferred from Raman scattering spectroscopy on the iron-based superconductor B⁢a⁢(F⁢e1−x⁢C⁢ox)2⁢A⁢s2, which includes a new method for identifying a putative quantum-critical contribution to that response.





  • I mean, obviously, but this still made me literally lol - like why was this even an expectation?
    (I should know more about these ECRs.)

    If we don’t do it for “”“global”“” school mass shutting events (due to the frequency it would be very impractical), this “school shooting” shouldn’t be the case either.

    Also influencers like this pos actually affect the practical liberties of freedom of speech by “shouting the loudest” from their professionally raised platforms to comparably silence minorities & their talking points.

    Also, doesn’t usually Kenny get killed?





  • Isn’t it open source?

    Oh, you think that they show you the actual door? They don’t - ever.

    In open source projects they indeed do show the backdoor. That’s is one of the key points of open source (along with free-ish terms of use). Closed source projects just say “there aren’t any” without showing anything.

    I’ve said many times I’m critical of Signal & ready to switch, but backdoor seems unconfirmed. Even if probable on some level.







  • Afaik you don’t need a phone number for Signal (a “username” can substitute it, a few years back they added it). edit: you still do

    (Also the phone number & IP was the security risk, not the messages, afaik.)

    This however was a debate about a supposed backdoor (I otherwise agree about Signal & its USA basedness, I just remain glad it exists despite it manyfew blemishes).