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@kranfahrer just realized it myself so thought I'd share.

@cwebber this spelling stressed is stressing me out!

FYI I know its not easy to keep track of other cultures holidays. So just a remind in 2 days Ramadan is coming up. So if you have any Islamic friends dont forget to wish them a wonderful Ramadan (this is a rather important holiday for them) on Tuesday.

If I recall correctly Ramadan is one of the holidays they fast on, so it might be especially appreciated if offer them a nice home baked snack or meal in the day leading up to it as a nice gesture (I dont think this is a typical "gift" for the holiday I dont really know, but just seems like a thoughtful way to go).

If any Muslim friends would like to help steer me to good ideas on this one feel free to leave your thoughts int he comments.

@mur2501 I personally wouldn't use that language, not saying it is wrong, obviously Hindu has strong roots in India. But I try to separate out secular traditions and religious traditions when i talk about traditions as I feel that is a very important distinction. There are christian and Muslim Indians too and unless they are immigrants they would in all likelihood have just as valid a Indian culture in their home as a Hindu would.

@mur2501 Oh ramadan is coming up!

@mur2501 well thats why i said "or religious".. as i recall you live in india so i figured it was either an indian tradition thing, or some religious thing not related to indian tradition.

@mur2501 Some indian tradition or religious thing I take it?

@cwebber Ahhh sounds very cool indeed, thanks for sharing that. I will be looking into that in more detail!

Rock on!

This would actually make a great story idea... basically the self-fulfilling prophecy time travel trope combined with the no matter what you do you cant change history time travel trope.

Hitler in the story would start out as a "good guy", kind, compassionate, loves people of all races, just wants to pain. But time and time again time travelers keep going back trying to kill him, always targeting him before he has body guards or power. Hitler doesn't know their time travelers of course. But every murder attempt inevitably fails (because it cant change history) and slowly changes Hitler into an evil person who hates humanity as an emotional response to each attempt on his life. So that the very act of time travelers trying to kill him is eventually what creates the monster Hitler turned out to be after all.

I fear though it might piss off way too many people, especially if it paints Hitler as a good guy in his youth as any representation of him as anything other than evil might be seen as being a pro-Hitler thing (even though I wouldn't see it that way since the novel would still portray him as evil int he end).

@cwebber While thats a great accomplishment regardless of the answer to this question:

I assume you are using libraries for most of the heavy lifting like encryption which is keeping the LoC so low?

I'm kinda surprised my biggest payoff this month has been XRP in terms of percentages... I only have 5% of my crypto invested in it yet its increased by 50% and thus out of all miy gains got me more gains (in dollars) than ethereum . By comparison i have 28% of my crypto in ethereum (not counting tokens) and it raised by only 1.7% in that same time

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@khird so seems the second graph doesnt imply. i read the study and it is testing plasma made from air, not air. the first one is more accurate.

@MountainJay

safe margins would be determined by if the death rate or complications of the vaccine are greater than that of the virus.

As for them saying they didnt know it was bad information... oh well your still liable if you assert it as fact.

@anon00110 @bandrew@noagendasocial.com

@khird the fact the second image has a current at 0v is strange... here is the source:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-I-V-characteristics-for-air-plasma-is-completely-different-than-that-of-nitrogen_fig8_224154747

@khird No the voltages are too low to show breakdown in those diagrams. breakdown is ~10kV per cm

@khird I think the part you are missing here is that air is a non-linear resistor (in technical terms we would say it has "Negative Differential Resistance"... in other words, its resistance changes as a function of the voltage/current across and through it.

Youa re corrent that normal dry air is a very close to perfect insulator. However its conductivity is directly proportional to the ions present in the air. So when you provide a high voltage across air very few electrons flow at first, but they cause ionization, the resistance drops, more ions flow, and it drops some more and it becomes increasingly conductive. At a certain point you get a runaway reaction and a spark gap forms.

Attached you will see an example of the I-V relationship in air across a very small gap. Notice the curve of is not a straight line as would be expected with a normal linear resistor. Notice how the current escapes exponentially as the voltage increases.

For this reason at low voltages the air is close enough to a perfect insulator. But at 20kV as is used int he experiment it is quite a bit more conductive than that.