MMajor
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Greetings everyone!
Don’t mind me, just your friendly neighborhood Astrophysics Major, currently at UCSC (go slugs!)
Besides astro and science in general, I’m also interested in history, philosophy, Japan, and nerd culture.
よろしくお願いします
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Don’t mind me, just your friendly neighborhood Astrophysics Major, currently at UCSC (go slugs!)
Besides astro and science in general, I’m also interested in history, philosophy, Japan, and nerd culture.
よろしくお願いします
אני שמח לפגוש אתם
The problem with the left and right is that they make 2 critical mistakes:
1. They attempt to quantize the human condition into a set of bipolar axes with no variation between extremes.
2. They assume their subjective definition of evil is a true reflection of objective reality.
1. They attempt to quantize the human condition into a set of bipolar axes with no variation between extremes.
2. They assume their subjective definition of evil is a true reflection of objective reality.
September 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The problem with the left and right is that they make 2 critical mistakes:
1. They attempt to quantize the human condition into a set of bipolar axes with no variation between extremes.
2. They assume their subjective definition of evil is a true reflection of objective reality.
1. They attempt to quantize the human condition into a set of bipolar axes with no variation between extremes.
2. They assume their subjective definition of evil is a true reflection of objective reality.
להיות אדיב לאנשים לא לדבר טוב מילים או לעשות טוב דברים. להיות אדיב להבין אחרים. האם אתה רק לעשות אדיבים דברים להיראות כמו אדיב, אבל לא בעצם רוצה לעשות את זה לעשות, אתה לא אדיב, אתה שחקן חסר כנות או לב.
September 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
להיות אדיב לאנשים לא לדבר טוב מילים או לעשות טוב דברים. להיות אדיב להבין אחרים. האם אתה רק לעשות אדיבים דברים להיראות כמו אדיב, אבל לא בעצם רוצה לעשות את זה לעשות, אתה לא אדיב, אתה שחקן חסר כנות או לב.
人間は命が良くになるが欲しいなら、違う人を見て、聴いて、分からなきゃいけないんです。人間は違う人について、「犯人！」、「反対！」、「悪魔！」と思えば、平和が見つけられないんです。人間戦争は人間平和になれないんです。
多くの人間は世界を嫌いながら、この地球は回り続けるの。
多くの人間は世界を嫌いながら、この地球は回り続けるの。
September 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
人間は命が良くになるが欲しいなら、違う人を見て、聴いて、分からなきゃいけないんです。人間は違う人について、「犯人！」、「反対！」、「悪魔！」と思えば、平和が見つけられないんです。人間戦争は人間平和になれないんです。
多くの人間は世界を嫌いながら、この地球は回り続けるの。
多くの人間は世界を嫌いながら、この地球は回り続けるの。
Writing translyrics is loads of fun, it’s such a neat challenge to convey the right meaning while also getting the right rhythms and rhymes. Just completed Cherry Pop, so the chorus (as expected of a Deco song) was the best part to write!
August 13, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Writing translyrics is loads of fun, it’s such a neat challenge to convey the right meaning while also getting the right rhythms and rhymes. Just completed Cherry Pop, so the chorus (as expected of a Deco song) was the best part to write!
Ok, so I just learned that a fathom is ~6 feet…….why didn’t public health experts tell us all to stay 1 fathom apart from one another, it would have made it so much more fun and way less depressing
April 28, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Ok, so I just learned that a fathom is ~6 feet…….why didn’t public health experts tell us all to stay 1 fathom apart from one another, it would have made it so much more fun and way less depressing
Random thought of the day: When the Sun becomes a white dwarf, will Jupiter absorb enough of its mass to become a star?
Time to do some calculus!
Time to do some calculus!
April 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Random thought of the day: When the Sun becomes a white dwarf, will Jupiter absorb enough of its mass to become a star?
Time to do some calculus!
Time to do some calculus!
Had a great night observing on the Lick last night, despite a few technical issues. Completely wrecked my sleep schedule, but love requires sacrifice. 10/10 would do it again!
April 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Had a great night observing on the Lick last night, despite a few technical issues. Completely wrecked my sleep schedule, but love requires sacrifice. 10/10 would do it again!
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An important statement from the American Bar Association. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
March 3, 2025 at 11:35 PM
An important statement from the American Bar Association. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
People are easier to kill than ideas, but ideas are far more deadly than people.
March 2, 2025 at 9:52 PM
People are easier to kill than ideas, but ideas are far more deadly than people.
It isn’t enough to tell people to “trust the science/scientists”. Those truly committed to empirical truth and technological progress need to recognize that no one should be obligated to simply take the word of self-described experts with fancy titles using fancy language: that’s what church is for.
March 2, 2025 at 9:44 PM
It isn’t enough to tell people to “trust the science/scientists”. Those truly committed to empirical truth and technological progress need to recognize that no one should be obligated to simply take the word of self-described experts with fancy titles using fancy language: that’s what church is for.
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One reason for this is that right-wing philosophy is, at its core, about the "naturalness" of hierarchies. Liberalism is, at its core, about dissolving hierarchies. And if you're an intellectual of the pundit class, the idea that people like you *naturally belong* on top can be awfully appealing.
A lot of the pundit class seems to find the idea of far-right 'intellectualism' to be seductive in an evil way, like the dark side of the force or an attractive vampire lady. They find the idea thrilling and subversive.
Radical liberalism never gets the same treatment.
Radical liberalism never gets the same treatment.
March 2, 2025 at 3:14 AM
One reason for this is that right-wing philosophy is, at its core, about the "naturalness" of hierarchies. Liberalism is, at its core, about dissolving hierarchies. And if you're an intellectual of the pundit class, the idea that people like you *naturally belong* on top can be awfully appealing.
Writing a philosophy essay is so much fun, because you have like a dozen epiphanies about the most random and insignificant things by the time you’re finished.
February 17, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Writing a philosophy essay is so much fun, because you have like a dozen epiphanies about the most random and insignificant things by the time you’re finished.
Reading the OG Wizard of Oz books is as surreal as it is fascinating. It’s the fantasy and lore-building of Tolkien written with the childish simplicity of Doctor Seuss, and I for one am loving it. Highly recommend, especially because the old usage of “queer” leads to some truly hilarious sentences.
February 16, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Reading the OG Wizard of Oz books is as surreal as it is fascinating. It’s the fantasy and lore-building of Tolkien written with the childish simplicity of Doctor Seuss, and I for one am loving it. Highly recommend, especially because the old usage of “queer” leads to some truly hilarious sentences.
Hot take:
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The reason Democrats don’t know how to win elections anymore is because liberals have fully bought into the belief that they are the end of history: they believe that every society will inevitably turn into a secular democratic republic without any effort having to be applied.
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The reason Democrats don’t know how to win elections anymore is because liberals have fully bought into the belief that they are the end of history: they believe that every society will inevitably turn into a secular democratic republic without any effort having to be applied.
February 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Hot take:
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The reason Democrats don’t know how to win elections anymore is because liberals have fully bought into the belief that they are the end of history: they believe that every society will inevitably turn into a secular democratic republic without any effort having to be applied.
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The reason Democrats don’t know how to win elections anymore is because liberals have fully bought into the belief that they are the end of history: they believe that every society will inevitably turn into a secular democratic republic without any effort having to be applied.
I think the root of the problem is that every 4 years, half the people in this country are convinced that the other half are about to destroy them and everything they love.
We are quickly reaching a point where the federal system will either need to ascend to autocracy or descend to confederation.
We are quickly reaching a point where the federal system will either need to ascend to autocracy or descend to confederation.
February 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM
I think the root of the problem is that every 4 years, half the people in this country are convinced that the other half are about to destroy them and everything they love.
We are quickly reaching a point where the federal system will either need to ascend to autocracy or descend to confederation.
We are quickly reaching a point where the federal system will either need to ascend to autocracy or descend to confederation.
The present situation is very reminiscent of the years preceding the Bronze Age Collapse. Resource scarcity, trade restrictions, mass-migrations, crumbling institutions, increased conflict, and we are just decades away from climatological changes rendering our current scale of habitation untenable.
February 5, 2025 at 5:11 AM
The present situation is very reminiscent of the years preceding the Bronze Age Collapse. Resource scarcity, trade restrictions, mass-migrations, crumbling institutions, increased conflict, and we are just decades away from climatological changes rendering our current scale of habitation untenable.
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Here is the version for your cat.
January 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Here is the version for your cat.
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As a fan of literature there’s no worse feeling than finding out a novel has an unreliable narrator and realising you wasted your money
January 25, 2025 at 5:19 AM
As a fan of literature there’s no worse feeling than finding out a novel has an unreliable narrator and realising you wasted your money
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January 25, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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we could sit together and do nothing all day— i'd still be the happiest
January 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
we could sit together and do nothing all day— i'd still be the happiest
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January 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
news.ucsc.edu/2025/01/andr...
I for one am looking forward to the many possibilities having the full PHAST data will entail!
I for one am looking forward to the many possibilities having the full PHAST data will entail!
Hubble Telescope images combined into giant mosaic of neighboring Andromeda Galaxy
Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda Galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant contributi...
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January 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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I for one am looking forward to the many possibilities having the full PHAST data will entail!
I for one am looking forward to the many possibilities having the full PHAST data will entail!