With the mic unmuted.

I always know I’m on Lemmy past my bedtime when I start seeing Dutch posts in the All feed.

How long until Hollywood starts releasing AI-generated rotoscoped versions of classic movies? I bet enough people would watch it to make it worth the relatively small production cost.

How so? Masked men grabbed Rumeysa Ozturk off the street, caught on camera and even questioned by passers by. I haven’t seen their identites released, and I don’t see how it will happen unless the federal government wants it to happen.

At this point I have to admit that I am out of my depth. We need a real physics major to chime in.

Cool video. Doing the double-slit experiment in my freshman physics class is a favorite memory from college. Seeing it in person blew everyone’s minds, even the kids who had learned about the experiment before.

If you google “is energy conserved in the double-slit experiment” you’ll find some physics forums with decent answers. Basically, the total energy emitted by the light source does not change. Energy is conserved. Don’t think of the laser light as a discrete beam that is being split off onto a second path. Instead, imagine that the laser light is constantly shining all over that foil and card. The dark regions appear dark because the light waves there are canceled out by interference from adjacent light waves. Similarly, the red areas are illuminated because in those areas the adjacent waves did not cancel each other out. The bright spots visible on the polarized foil occur because the polarizer blocks thin regions of the light, preventing them from canceling out adjacent light that wasn’t blocked. So light wasn’t redirected there, but was always there and was simply made visible to us by the effect of the polarizer.

Light, quantum mechanics, and the probabilistic nature of the universe are all real head trips. I still struggle to wrap my mind around them. As such, there’s a good chance my simplistic paragraph above is incorrect or misleading, so take my answer with a grain of salt.

Don’t give them ideas.

I bet she has a ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ decal on her chariot, too.

I was thinking of central heat and air conditioning accessible to the masses for home use. But you are right that the history of HVAC goes back much farther than that.

Oh, and salmon sushi was invented in the 1980’s by the Norwegian fishing industry. Before that, no salmon in sushi.

https://www.npr.org/2015/09/18/441530790/how-the-desperate-norwegian-salmon-industry-created-a-sushi-staple

You know how you can push some buttons on your wall and your house magically warms up or cools down? I know people who were alive before that existed.

The ending was fire. 🔥

Relevant quote from St. Basil:

"Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough. Who is the defrauder? One who takes away what belongs to everyone. And are not you covetous, are you not a defrauder, when you keep for private use what you were given for distribution? When some one strips a man of his clothes we call him a thief. And one who might clothe the naked and does not—should not he be given the same name?

The bread in your hoard belongs to the hungry; the cloak in your wardrobe belongs to the naked; the shoes you let rot belong to the barefoot; the money in your vaults belongs to the destitute. All you might help and do not—to all these you are doing wrong"

it’s the first I’ve heard of maybe a US citizen being deported.

It’s been happening for years. From the Washington Post:

The U.S. government does not release data on how often ICE wrongfully detains or deports U.S. citizens. But investigations by media outlets, research institutes and oversight agencies have revealed that ICE has arrested, detained, deported and issued detainers — requests to local jails to hold a person in custody — for thousands of citizens since the agency was created in 2003. One 2011 study estimated that roughly 1 to 1.5 percent of deportees are U.S. citizens.

https://archive.is/20250411190043/https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/04/05/us-citizens-deported-immigration/

Rebel Without a Cause

Requiem for a Dream

Revenge of the Nerds

It can be a very interesting conversation starter. I love hearing about the places people grew up, and how they ended up in the place they currently live. It’s a much better topic than the small talk about work or TV shows or whatever else people discuss the first time they meet.

No no no. “Un” means “one.” They are building the first in a series of forts. Canada is constructing its own version of the Maginot Line, but unlike the French they are extending it all the way to the sea (on both ends).

A full, refreshing night of sleep every night.

In America, you first become a legal permanent resident (we would say you have a “green card”). Once you have lived here for five years then you can apply for citizenship. The whole process is slow and can be somewhat arbitrary.

Another option is to enlist in the US military. After serving for several years you can get preferred status for citizenship.

As others said, this is a difficult time to be an immigrant in America. The current government is arresting and deporting legal residents based on flimsy accusations. You should consider waiting for Trump to be gone, or look at other countries.