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Carrolade

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  • World's first mobile quantum brain scanner being developed to measure blast effects on troops

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  • OP's article (which seems like a press release) says several times that they're trying to make the device portable. I don't know what is so hard to understand about that.

    Regardless of what your article said, I explained to you the quantum aspects. They are being technically accurate in how they describe the device and what they are attempting to do.

    I think you and I arguing is just you being intransigent and mistaken on the original article's claims. For better or for worse, I am also a very stubborn person, so here we are.

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  • Yea I kinda still do.

    Communicating to the public about science advances is about using marketing techniques, not education techniques. It's business stuff, not science stuff. We have journal articles for the real science. It's unfortunate, but it's just the reality with anti-intellectual attitudes running so rampant, where real science makes most people tune out.

    Btw, the quantum refers to how the tiny magnetic field is actually detected. The laser shines into some helium, and the helium is set to all have one specific quantum spin. This allows the strength of the field to be consistently measured based on how much the laser gets deflected. Without the ability to manipulate quantum spin, this technology would be unavailable. (I did some more reading on it yesterday. lol) So it is actually pretty quantum stuff apparently.

  • World's first mobile quantum brain scanner being developed to measure blast effects on troops

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  • Well of course it's an incremental improvement. Nobody but you is claiming anyone invented anything new.

    The wearable headset as it sits is still not portable, making it portable would be an excellent, and incremental, yes, advancement.

    From a different article:

    Although the wearable MEG system is housed inside a magnetically shielded room, it is still essential to cancel out the remnant Earth’s field. To do this, the team constructed a set of bi-planar electromagnetic coils that generate fields equal and opposite to the remnant Earth’s field. The coils – designed on two 1.6 m2 planes, placed either side of the subject – achieved a 15-fold reduction in the remnant field.

    Making this portable if possible would be very useful.

  • World's first mobile quantum brain scanner being developed to measure blast effects on troops

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  • No, OPM-MEG is still done with a large machine, where do you think all the wires coming out of the silly hat go? I don't think you read much at all.

  • World's first mobile quantum brain scanner being developed to measure blast effects on troops

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  • This new generation of MEG lifts limitations that have historically confined scanners to universities, paving the way for mobile systems that can be taken directly to those who will benefit most

    Mobile means smaller, so you can move it around. Did you even read the article? They don't imply they invented something new anywhere, you just made that up.

    Nor did they just add "quantum". The word is featured in the links I provided above about MEG, from the NIH and Yale. Did you even look at those?

  • World's first mobile quantum brain scanner being developed to measure blast effects on troops

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  • This particular research project is working on making the hat smaller, so it's more portable. That's what this small team is working on specifically.

    Regarding the wording they used, well yeah, you may have some interest in science, but that doesn't mean the broader public does. If they make people like us, hanging out in a tech community, raise an eyebrow but also generate some buzz among the broader public, that's probably a smart move on their part. The word "quantum" can do that, the way bigger words like "miniaturization" can't.

  • World's first mobile quantum brain scanner being developed to measure blast effects on troops

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  • Yeah, that's fair. I mean, essentially the whole world is "quantum", given quantum phenomena govern the subatomic particles we're all made from.

    I'll give these guys a pass, though, they just want good PR for their new research project, so they employed some mild clickbait. Which is fair in today's world. They're not technically wrong, lasers are a utilization of quantum physics.

  • These companies want to block the sun to cool the planet | The world’s most controversial climate solution is becoming a private industry.

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  • Uh... doesn't S02 turn into sulfuric acid in the atmosphere...? We, uh, used to have this thing we called "acid rain", it was killing forests and shit so we had to do something about it.

  • New study exposes how conspiracy theories go mainstream across Europe

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  • Conspiracy being a real phenomenon and the manufacture and spread of conspiracy theories to help one particular narrative are two separate concepts.

    MKUltra and Illuminati running the world/flat earth/young earth/great replacement/etc are two different types of things. You have to ask who benefits from spreading the idea around. Flat/young earth is a particularly easy example, certain religious movements benefit from convincing people those are valid ideas.

  • World's first mobile quantum brain scanner being developed to measure blast effects on troops

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  • How important is chemistry/attraction? Can it develop over time?

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  • Yes, attraction can grow over time. I've never been in a situation where it was completely absent from day 1, though, so I'm not entirely sure if that's different or not.

    The relationship is still young, so I would give it a little more time while you continue to explore your feelings. After another short while, though, I would recommend an honest conversation with your partner about this. I wouldn't frame it as an issue of attraction, you don't want to make her feel unattractive or anything like that. I would talk more about how she feels about the two of you lacking "chemistry" and "that spark", stuff like that. If you're missing it, then it's likely she's also noticing the same thing. It's very much a two-way thing, after all. It could be grounds to amicably go your own ways, you may decide to just keep more casual company with each other, or you may decide that stability and compatibility beats passion, who knows. Lots of options. I'd just be open and honest about it though. But first I'd give it a little more time before you even bring it up. There's no rush to figure it out right now.

  • Why civilians don't crowdfund bribe money for politicians?

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  • This is basically what various nonprofit orgs that people can join amount to.

    Like, if you join the NRA your subscription cost is going to lobbying politicians on gun issues, among other stuff like keeping the org running and paying for nice things for the head of the org.

  • We're a creative bunch 💪

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  • The PNW for sure, but also all over. Milwaukee, Tallahassee, Tucson and Connecticut are all Native American in origin.

  • We're a creative bunch 💪

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  • We also use a whole ton of Native American names for places, though badly mangled in pronunciation I'm sure.

    I suppose that still makes us fairly uncreative with place names.

  • Superman

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  • Personal preference is fine too. For many people, though, they will require a personal benefit. They won't just enjoy it. Especially if they see other people who aren't good and are doing better than them.

  • Superman

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  • This is a real problem we're facing.

    It's part of the overarching authoritarian worldview, that fear of consequences from someone above you on the food chain is the primary motivation for anyone to be "good".

    The problem comes from it being extremely time consuming to explain how "being good" benefits you personally, even if all possibility of consequences are removed. Essentially you have to explain the entire concept of the word "honor" to them. What are the benefits of being honorable, and how do these benefits (for you personally) outweigh the benefits of being dishonorable?

    But if someone wasn't raised that way, then it really does need to be explained to them. Otherwise it's unrealistic to expect them to just somehow figure it out for themselves.

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    edit2: To elaborate a little bit, the benefit of honor boils down to efficiency and the advantages of cooperation. People can perceive patterns, and when someone is dishonorable, even if people won't come attack them somehow, they'll still be reluctant to ever cooperate with that person. An honorable person thus has far more resources from their community that they can draw on in the pursuit of their own personal goals. In addition, it simplifies their lives. Instead of having to, say, track the lies you've told so you don't mess up and create inconsistencies, if you live honorably you free up all that energy to devote to your goals in other ways.

    Note, my summary argument is not overly compelling just on its own. I had to boil it down too much to make it a reasonable length. You need many examples, or preferably actual life experience on how it works, for the argument to actually become somewhat convincing.

  • Should I try to reconnect with a friend who's chosen to self isolate?

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  • I think you can reach out via txt, just format your message to subtly acknowledge that a response is unnecessary. So, instead of wording your message normally as something that would begin a back-and-forth, word it more like an old fashioned letter, or something else where a response isn't expected. Can talk about whatever, updates on you, your thoughts about this or that, hopes she/her family are doing better, etc etc. Then just end with an old sounding "hope this finds you well" type of thing. Just avoid non-rhetorical questions or anything that pressures her to return contact. When she's ready, she can write you back.

  • Whatever happened to pickup artists? Did they evolve into alpha males or ascend to a higher plane?

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  • Good lord, that's it in a nutshell, isn't it... Ugh.

  • It's OK to just like lemon water.

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  • I think it was Angela Collier that did a pretty basic test with a common store bought alkaline water, a lemon and some test strips. The water doesn't start very alkaline at all.

    edit: Yep, here we go. https://youtu.be/rBQhdO2UxaQ

    It's an amusing video.