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I made you a trophy for the most dogwhistles in a single comment today.

When the race starts at the Salt & Pepper 500, they blast "What's New Pussycat" and leave it on repeat until a winner is crowned.

Tale as old as time...

That jar reminds me of the end result of the sand ceremony that some people do at weddings. Several years ago I photographed a wedding for a middle aged couple who each already had kids, so with their Brady Bunch situation I think they had even more colors than this.

So uh, are any of you lovely gay Lemmings planning on getting hitched with your partner any time soon? I know the perfect container for a sand ceremony that you would display in your home for decades to celebrate your love AND your sense of humor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avogadro_constant

I think this is my favorite number. Everybody knows that atoms are super small, but it's easy to forget the ridiculous number of them in small everyday objects.

I think you are stating that backwards.

You can definitely say that everything with mass has energy. And yeah the two are kind of interchangeable.

But that does not mean that a photon HAS mass. It just means that we can calculate how much mass its energy is equivalent to.

For what it's worth, there's a damn good reason that Einstein's name is associated with being super smart.

Oh it gets even weirder than that.

One observer can see two events happen simultaneously while another sees them happen at different times.

And EVEN WORSE than that, thanks to length contraction at relativistic speeds, you could have one observer think that a train is contained entirely within a tunnel, but another observer sees the train sticking out both ends of the tunnel at the same time without ever fitting entirely within it.

and/or: One observer objectively masures that object A is longer than object B, while another observer objectively measures that object B is longer than object A.

The two observers are not just hanging out together, of course. They are moving ridiculously fast relative to one another.

The speed of causality is a hell of a drug.

I think they do move, but it's slower than you might think. The voltage / EMF / potential travels super fast on the same order of magnitude as the speed of light, but the net motion of the electrons in a DC current flow slower than WE can move.

I think the word "relatively" in the previous comment is doing some heavy lifting.

If you are going to spend a few hours of your limited free time to plant the shrubs, even if the materials and transportation are free to you, compare that with the relative cost of a small environmental fine to a trillion dollar company building a billion dollar data center.

The people at the top might not even realize anything happened, if anything even does happen.

That is wild.

Well there's another sensor to add to my wish list!

Although, we have a lot of HVAC flow into the bedroom so maybe the difference wouldn't be huge.

One foot in each world here!

I still have my tech job (embedded systems) and in the next few days I am literally going to be building a chicken coop and finishing a filter upgrade on my pond.

I've referred to this meme several times in the past few months to describe myself, lol.