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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

The article I linked says they're unrelated.

The Pauli effect is not related to the Pauli exclusion principle, which is a bona fide physical phenomenon named after Pauli. However the Pauli effect was humorously tagged as a second Pauli exclusion principle, according to which a functioning device and Wolfgang Pauli may not occupy the same room.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Even if they have the ability to build one, and do so without Russia turning the facility where they're building it into rubble with hypersonic missiles, they would need dozens to have full MAD type protection.

Does Ukraine even have a missile system capable of carrying that kind of payload as far as Moscow?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

"don't worry about it being perfect" and "stop being so self critical"

[–] [email protected] 85 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (5 children)

See also, the Pauli effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_effect

The Pauli effect or Pauli's device corollary is the supposed tendency of technical equipment to encounter critical failure in the presence of certain people. The term was coined after mysterious anecdotal stories involving Austrian theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli, describing numerous instances in which demonstrations involving equipment suffered technical problems only when he was present.

An incident occurred in the physics laboratory at the University of Göttingen. An expensive measuring device, for no apparent reason, suddenly stopped working, although Pauli was in fact absent. James Franck, the director of the institute, reported the incident to his colleague Pauli in Zürich with the humorous remark that at least this time Pauli was innocent. However, it turned out that Pauli had been on a railway journey to Zürich and had switched trains in the Göttingen rail station at about the time of the failure.

R. Peierls describes a case when at one reception this effect was to be parodied by deliberately crashing a chandelier upon Pauli's entrance. The chandelier was suspended on a rope to be released, but it stuck instead, thus becoming a real example of the Pauli effect

[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

This election was crazier than the last election. On the other hand it will be less crazy than the next election.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Eugene Debs ran for president while in federal prison for sedition, so it's not really unprecedented.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

So you didn’t vote for anyone for president?

I'm not American, if I was I would have voted for Stein though.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (10 children)

Not voting for someone who is aiding and abetting genocide is morally correct, it's not complicated.

If genocide isn't a red line for you, what is?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Need more capacity for all the liberal tears?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Meanwhile the CEO is paid nearly $7M a year.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

As a non-american, this seems unsurprising. The Harris campaign seemed to be running the same playbook as the Clinton one did. The main reason anyone gave for voting for her was not being trump, effectively making her the satus quo candidate. If everything is shit for you under the current status quo, that doesn't encourage you to vote for her.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

The way people get so emotionally invested into it.

 

The Conservatives, Greens, Liberal Democrats and Reform UK sent candidates from one of the five Bristol constituencies, but Labour only offered a city councillor, Kelvin Blake.

There was frustration and concern after the event that each of the five representatives had made statements that were not in their parties’ manifestos and were not party policy.

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