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niktemadur

@ niktemadur @lemmy.world

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  • TIL that Toys R Us wasn't killed by competition, but by private equity companies

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  • Like in Goodfellas, cannibalizing their own community. Embezzle and steal everything you can, then torch the place for the insurance.

    But in Goodfellas, the owner of the restaurant approaches the mafia and asks Paulie to "be a partner", so he can get Tommy to stop terrorizing the place AND running up tabs he has no intention of paying.

    Imagine some short mafia type with a Napoleon complex walking around the Toys R Us aisles, knocking merchandise off the shelves while harassing kids and their mothers.

    I betcha the equity firms approach with a silk tongue and Wall St technobabble jabberwocky. I know those CEO business types, the read their CEO magazines chock full of pseudoscience articles like, for example, determining a personality type via their handwriting style, the hooks and curves of their calligraphy. Corporate astrology, just as gullible to fancy jargon as the proverbial Man Down The Street.

  • Come in and find out.

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  • Betcha the delivery guy delivers for one or more from many takeout food spots that are probably located inside the building itself.

  • OAuth

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  • I'll take the XL Pancit Canton, please.

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  • Take psychedelics, why not, go for it.Put lasers near your eyes, absolutely.But never, EVER, take psychedelicsand ALWAYS put salt in your eyes!

  • Let’s try somewhere else.

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  • 'Tis also a disturbing place, m'lord, pregnant with a wordless dread that seems to seep into the very marrow of any and all good, God-fearing vessels such as we.

  • [TheyCantTalk] Leadership

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  • "Let your hatred for the Jedi guide you!"

  • Cope peasant

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  • Lordlandia!

    Lordland, the land of the landlords.Or would that be Landlordlandia?I dunno, I get confused sometimes.

  • xkcd #3141: Mantle Model

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  • I have a hard time wrapping my head around the concept of how an observer is inextricably intertwined with the object/particle being observed, as part of the framework for the equations to flow, so to speak.

    Then there's the fact that Newton's equations assume an infinite speed of light, until physicists of the 19th century that pinned it down, then Einstein established it as a constant.If you try and use lightspeed at the atomic level, many values blow up to infinity, the math stops working, the answers become like static noise.

    Recently I found out that Schrödinger's famous equation is written in the framework of classical, newtonian physics, not in quantum terms. Like using a star screwdriver to flat screws, yet it seems to do an admirable job up to a point. And you have a whole lot of infinities to sweep under the rug and ignore, what is it called, Normalization or Renormalization? One of the two.

    It's all incredibly complex and abstract, the numbers being measured by the guys in the lab were strange to the point of absurd, and if you think it's weird for us now, imagine how they saw it then.

    So yeah, the math says that the observer is not passive from afar, the observer is part of the equation itself of what is trying to be measured.Then the closer you look, the blurrier things get, like a greased pig you can't get it to hold still, not even for an instant, particularly at the smaller scales, things don't behave the way they do at our sensory and mental level. Things behaving as if going backwards through time. Particles and anti-particles popping in and out of existence. Particles transforming into other particles. Particles going through walls. The list goes on and on and on.

    Weird stuff has to be conjured up to try and make any sense of this.Light or electrons as amplitudes of probability waves. Axes of imaginary numbers, eigenvalues in Hilbert spaces, wave-particle duality, etc.

    Reality is extraordinary, it will keep on always surpassing our expectations and imaginations. It just keeps on happening this way, wherever we poke at.

  • What are your fav forms of meditation?

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  • I wake up, feed the cats, take my supplements including a concentrated CBD paste, then stretch and meditate in my darkened room with a sleep mask, sitting in a relaxed but yoga-like position, with knees bent and the soles touching, hands nested on my belly, my back straight but with support.Then I stay there, watching my breath, getting distracted, returning to my breath, getting distracted again, etc., for around seventy minutes!

    When I come back out, I make my morning coffee.I have been meditating every day for the past seven years. I used to do forty minutes, but right now I'm really enjoying the really long sessions, so I go with it.

    It gets to a point that if I move my arms, even with eyes closed and a sleep mask on, I can perceive the movements like the ghostly shadow of the change, as if the body is also "seen" by another movement-based sense, and it manages to imprint itself a bit into the optical system. I don't know quite how to put it into words, and it happens every single time, it's happened hundreds of times.

    Meditation is like a low-key, healthy and daily psychedelic experience. It's beautiful, one of the best things I've ever done in my life.

  • Just hop around until you stub the other one

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  • The beast that shouted LOVE at the heart of the world!

  • I knew it

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  • And who did the cat ask to relay the message? Vigner's friend.

  • Meow delicioso

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  • It's a GATO Truck!

  • Devastating

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  • You could have ended up on the one with the 84-hour workweek (12 hours a day, no day off) and with child labor... you know... the "good ole days" republicans want to take you back to by hook and by crook, and which the people of all ages have enabled, the old by batshit mental illness, the young by electoral defensive indifference. Soon enough you won't have time to navel gaze about how bad 40 is.

  • Think about it

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  • Yes it do, think about it!

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  • I'll take the giant fungi forests.

  • Metal

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  • Betcha this guy's a hit at all the parties and with all the ladies.

  • Apple

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  • Last time I went to my cellphone carrier offices to upgrade my hardware, they were already pushing the iPhone 15 or 16, but I went in there and asked for the iPhone 10, managed to get the very last one they had in stock. It cost a fraction of what the latest ones did, does everything I need it to do, and a couple of years later it's still purring like a kitten.

  • Breaking out the ps3

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  • Shredding "Scarborough Fair" to bits!Parsley sage, rosemary and thyme...

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  • But then there's the guy who added all the mass and energy of the observable universe, calculated its' Schwarzschild Radius, and came up with 13.8 billion light years.

    There's also how our observable universe's Hubble Horizon acts like a black hole event horizon, the way in which even the speed of light is insufficient to escape beyond.

    A lot of the math inside a black hole is eerily similar to the math of our own horizon, as traced by the age of the universe plus the speed of light.