Martin Jambon 🌍🌎🌏 @mjambon@social.cleverlibre.org

Today in special units for America: "Asteroid the Size of 100 Capybaras" which is in fact the size of 1 billion capybaras.

https://ts2.space/en/asteroid-the-size-of-100-capybaras-to-pass-earth-no-cause-for-alarm/
#astronomy #units #asteroids #capybaras #big #earth #america

Interesting spelling for "Ampèrian". In French, it's spelled "ampérien" with an acute accent, not "ampèrien" which would look and sound wrong even though it's derived from "Ampère".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9-Marie_Amp%C3%A8re
https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/amp%C3%A9rien
#spelling #english #anglais #français #french #accents #physics

@Vagrarian I was under the impression that his abstract work came after this. Anyway, this particular version is one of my all-time favorite paintings.

@freemo @rchrd my new attitude wrt alcohol is I don't need to get drunk to enjoy saying stupid things.

@rchrd @freemo thanks for sharing. I'm watching the parts that interest me. As a personal anecdote, psilocybin makes me forget how to enjoy drinking. After relearning how to drink a few times, I stopped drinking altogether. Alcohol now feels destructive, much like an escape into a dead end.

Here's something you don't get with digital images or ordinary prints: gold and silver effects.

#art #abstractart #artistsonmastodon #gold #silver #shiny

@freemo ok, you might pass the test. The test would check that you understand that it might fry some neurons (I actually don't know how bad alcohol is on brain development at this age) and leave you somewhat disabled compared to another kid who hasn't had alcohol until a certain age. There would also be a test that determines whether you need parental supervision to do various kinds of things, including taking drinking-ability tests. So I think there would be a way for some gifted kids to gain more freedom from the law or from their oppressive parents but it would be rare.

@freemo I haven't met a two-year-old who wants to drink alcohol. Assuming that's the case, I would make them take the standard test for deeming someone fit to drink alcohol. They would fail because they can't read or can't understand the questions.

@freemo well, to simplify things, we can make general assumptions such as "everyone's opinion matters equally until they screw up" (equality of rights, jail) and "there exists a practical measure of the amount of screwing up per individual that was adopted by our society" (a judicial system). This clears the ground for issues like "what should be the requirements to consume alcohol?" or "should random morons be allowed and encouraged to vote on tax issues?"

@freemo I was mostly joking. If I were to debate these issues, I would make the distinction between situations where equality of rights is essential and others where skill-based permission is preferable.

@freemo I will prove my young age by engaging in this futile debate 😂

@wald they fluorescence yellow-green under UV light!

@aftd does it assume you're in the United States? These images would be weird in other locales e.g. in China.

@AmpBenzScientist @freemo mmm, interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_(force)

@freemo I'm French and live in the US. I've been sticking to SI units for almost the 20 years that I've been here. I know what's good and won't let it go.

Did you know it takes 40 Olympic-size swimming pools of sap to make 1 Olympic-size swimming pool of maple syrup?

#makesyouthink #wow #syrup #sweet #swimming #trees #maple

I blame the Big Bang.

#politics #causality #causation #transitivity #physics #philosophy #liability #bullshit

@ZaneSelvans man is content with an abundance of wild light. I love this quote about the peasant who's delighted to burn a bit more than initially planned (from Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley).

@ZaneSelvans my answer is yes as long as your visible spectrum overlaps our visible spectrum sufficiently for you to see colors where we see colors. It doesn't matter much if the grey clouds are purple to you and the orange light appears white. Still pretty.