🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

I'm a bit high, and have been drinking for about an hour or so at this point. I would like to wax poetic about my cat. Because I love her.

My cat is a fantastic cat. She is just the best. I come home after a shit day and there she is to greet me at the door.

She does this every day, but after a day like today? An infuriating, frustrating, fucking annoying as fuck day- today, it was just what I needed.

I pick her up, and she purrs. It's so loud. She's just so happy to see me. Every time it happens it's the best feeling. This emotion and knowledge of knowing that this thing loves me.

This semi-sentient animal is sentient enough to actually fucking love me. IT blows me away- I'm someone who's got a fuckton of issues with Bipolar being probably the largest and best known to my fedi-friends.

But there are a lot of others. Intimacy issues, anxiety, self-esteem issues- the list can go on for a while. I'm a fucking wreck of a human being in a lot of ways.

Birdy doesn't give a single fuck about any of that. Not one.

I rescued her, and she spent at least 6 months on the street as a feral cat. She's still got her own issues related to that. She's a bit bitey sometimes, she's very destructive at times- she's got her own issues. She's a little broken, just like me.

And we love each other. She's right here beside me after what is objectively a pretty shitty day and purring. Just because I'm here with her.

I've never felt this kind of love before- only the last year and a half of my life, basically.

Sometimes she's stupid. Sometimes she's smart. Sometimes she's fucking infuriating- but she's MY stupid-smart-infuriating cat, and I love her so much that some days my HIGHEST desire is just to get home so that I can meet her at the door, pick her up, and hug her.

She'll purr, and I'll just whisper into her ear about how much I love her and miss her and that moment for me is fucking everything I need.

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Holy moly 😅 or Someone used fork

Thinking to start running your fork instead of pleroma 😀

Again Kyle?

@globcoco And a new Forum Introduction page, also produced today.

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@stux Because mass is never converted to energy, not even in nuclear reactions.. E=mc2 tells you that energy **has** mass, and mass has energy. Basically mass can be manifested as matter or energy..

You can convert matter to energy but it makes no sense to say you convert mass to energy.

It talks about hydrogen explosions as converting mass to energy for example, that is flat out wrong.

Hydrogen bonds and oxygen bonds have a certain energy contained in them, that energy has some mass (which is in addition to any mass contributed by the matter itself). When an explosion happens those bonds break and form new H2O bonds which have less energy to them. The difference in energy has been released in the form of heat and light. So it has converted bond-energy into heat/light energy. The total amount of energy in the whole system (including the heat/light released) is exactly the same, the total amount of matter in the system is exactly the same, and therefore the total amount of mass of the system is exactly the same.

What happens however is that energy you released as heat and light doesnt stay on the water molecules you just created, they spread out onto other molecules and as light waves. So whatever mass that energy has is now sent flying out into the world.

So the water that you have as a result from the reaction will be infentesimally lower in mass than the hydrogen oxygen you started with. But at no point did a mass to energy "conversion" take place, that statement makes no sense in any context.

Even in a nuclear explosion you wont get a conversion of mass to energy, the total mass of the system will remain exactly the same. You will, however, get a conversion of matter into energy, which is what makes nuclear reactions unique.