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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

  • swlabr@awful.systems
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    Pretty much any mention of a thought experiment in the wild gets my hackles up. ā€œIsnā€™t it cool that the cat is alive and dead at the same time?ā€ Shut up! Shut up shut up shut up!!! Tho to be honest it might just be schrodingerā€™s cat that comes up. I wish theyā€™d leave the poor cat alone, and stop trying to poison it.

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      I have a whole series of rants about that cat, starting with how it doesnā€™t illuminate anything about quantum theory specifically ā€” as opposed to probabilistic or stochastic theories in general ā€” and culminating in ā€œHey, maybe we should stop naming things after pedo creeps.ā€

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      What really gets me is that we never look past Schrƶdingerā€™s version of the cat. I want us to talk about Bellā€™s Cat, which cannot be alive or dead due to a contradiction in elementary linear algebra and yet reliably is alive or dead once the box opens. (I guess technically it should be ā€œaliveā€, ā€œdeadā€, or ā€œundeadā€, since weā€™re talking spin-1 particles.)