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Martina at Nerdforge, the patron saint of unhinged bookbinding projects, rebound all 40 Discworld books as one giant 14,000 page book that's a giant fantasy-themed Rolodex you turn with a hand crank. youtube.com/watch?v=oAdnN0TDZ5…

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europesays.com/2161701/ Stațiunea din România, numită „fabrica de sănătate”. Acolo găsești aer curat, e unică în Europa, iar turiștii o adoră #BaileGovora #romania #StatiuneaDinRomania #stiri


europesays.com/2161699/ Bulgaria sets out plans to tender passenger train operating contracts | News #bulgaria #България #новини




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europesays.com/2161697/ Russia plotting crisis in Transnistria to meddle in Moldova elections #Moldova


Iranian Foreign Ministry: Nuclear talks with the United States are meaningless following the Israeli attacks.


europesays.com/2161695/ Ο άντρας που έζησε 29 χρόνια γυμνός σε ένα νησί #greece #Ελλάδα #νεα #νησί


europesays.com/2161693/ TRL Software’s iROADS powers Malta’s new road asset management system roll-out #malta


Early this morning, Israel struck Hamedan in Iran which hosts an important airbase. There are also reports of attacks on a munitions depot in Zanjan



It’s not that every country is bowing down to Israel. It’s the elites in every country that are invested in Israel. It’s not a rogue state, it’s a rogue ideology!

#france #emmanuelmacron #Israel #iran

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europesays.com/2161691/ Reflections on Research in Cyprus • Stimson Center #cyprus


the existence of one punch man suggests the existence of zero punch man

and then there's *minus* one punch man. wins after getting punched once.

also infinite punches man wins after punching forever, and if he and minus infinite punches man fought forever, that would give rise to not a number of punches man.

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in reply to Leonard Ritter

Eh, I don’t get the logic with that. Saying quantum requires complex numbers is kinda the same as saying it requires trigonometry.

Why doesn’t the existence of sound, or electric signals require complex numbers?

in reply to slembcke

wait but electricity does require complex numbers right? Like radio signals get kinda hard to talk about usefully otherwise
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@mcc

The discourse I've heard lately is that quantum wave functions involve complex numbers so it must be "real" in a sense that the universe wouldn't exist without the idea. Though complex numbers are just a convenient abstraction for trig, and nobody ever had a clever revelation that made them decide trig was real.

Also, it's not controversial that *all* math is a model that exists exclusively within our minds. Like the color blue, it's real in a sense, but the universe doesn't require it 😛

@mcc
in reply to mcc

@mcc Specifically to your question, you could put everything in terms of phase and amplitude, or compare a signal to two real valued ones and get the same results. Complex numbers just package that all up in a nice abstraction.

I think it's just that imaginary numbers weird people out, but you can solve other actual problems with those as well. They are just an abstraction!

Like complex numbers coincidentally follow trig rules, dual numbers follow differentiation rules. Are they also "real"?

@mcc
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@slembcke @mcc complex numbers are not a convenient abstraction, they are 2-dim vectors. the extra dimension isn't optional - at least not in QM. it is information that is really there.
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@mcc My point is though that it’s just a value with two degrees of freedom and rules that follow trig. There are multiple ways to express that without imaginary numbers. Same with dual numbers in that they aren’t required to express differentiation, or transforms not requiring matrices. They just make for a convenient model to understand reality, but arguably the universe isn’t “made of math”.
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@slembcke So what I focus on (and maybe I'm about to say something incorrect)

The fact EM fields have two degrees of freedom and rules that follow trig *means something*. It points us to a useful realization (EM is a U(1) gauge field). Admittedly it "points" only to a different spot in the math labyrinth but you can still do something useful with that knowledge.

What does it mean that quantum probabilities have two degrees of freedom and follow trig rules/use a 2-norm?




At night, the Israeli Air Force struck Mehrabad airport, home to Iranian fighter jets. The airport is now permanently closed.


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europesays.com/2161687/ Ukraine’s Sapsan ballistic missile to enter serial production following successful combat testing #Ukraine


- Glamping? Is that some kind of . . . lady thing?
- Kind of. Yeah.


Overnight, Iran again launched missiles towards Israel. The IDF claims that almost all of the missiles fired today by Iran have attempted to target population centers and residential areas in Israel.


europesays.com/2161685/ DIRECT. Israël-Iran : frappes contre frappes… Jérusalem et Tel Aviv touchées #Israel



europesays.com/2161681/ AI-171 to become AI-159 to avoid ‘bad memories’ | Latest News India #AhmedabadAirport #AI #AirIndia #ArtificialIntelligence #Boeing7878Dreamliner #FlightAI159 #FlightAI171







I wanna go to one of those sexy costume parties where people wear masks like in Eyes Wide Shut because I got a badass Luchador mask that I wanna show off.
in reply to Alice McFlurry

JK. I am totally gonna go to the Eyes Wide Shut party wearing a sexy Jason Voorhees hockey mask given that it's Friday the 13th.
in reply to Alice McFlurry

I'm going to wear one of those guy fawkes masks and spout dreary political polemics and get kicked out



💥Overnight, the Novokuybyshevsk Catalysts Plant (LLC) in Russia’s Samara region has been hit in an attack by presumably Ukrainian drones.
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Could have been the Ruzzians having a warm renovation…. Is it oligarch-owned? Dear me, what a silly question! 😐



Russian losses per 14/06/25 reported by the Ukrainian General Staff

+1130 men
+3 tanks
+7 AFVs
+52 artillery systems
+1 MLRS
+1 AD system
+79 UAVs




Newsom is right. Trump is intentionally escalating the situation, taking a wrecking ball to our democracy so that he can establish himself at the head of an authoritarian regime.
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I'm a human rights lawyer. If you're exercising your human right to protest on June 14, here are 13 rules I recommend you follow.

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europesays.com/2161666/ With bibles, tokens and watches, Trump made millions, new disclosures show #Politics


We’ve heard reports of guidance for DHS to “pause” raids on agricultural worksites— and we’re skeptical.

As long as Border Patrol and ICE are sweeping through farm worker communities making chaotic arrests like they did TODAY, they’re still hunting down farm workers.

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Today we had calls before dawn from kids tracking their dads heading toward detention facilities, where they remain.

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