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emo radio happening now

guess Schrödinger was right then

being dead isn't as awful as it sounds

spacetime Q&A at 2pm (Berlin time)

quantum hackathon: afterwards?

all I know is quantum effects let me experience Y2038 weirdness irl 4 days

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24/7 emo carnival 🌍🏳️‍🌈💻🤜🤛🌸

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Emo karaoke at 10PM German time, join me on Twitch or any of my other socials! (Other genres welcome, PM me requests.) Love goes out to the live music scene, thanks for all your sacrifices. 💓

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Turns out all it takes for your brain to be uploaded to the cloud is education and a healthy 420 routine. Crazy, huh? You may not understand now, but the news will tell. All I know is I'll start exegising all the emo blasts from the (im)mortal past over on r/digitalafterlife so be happy knowing you're already reading this on a quantum computer and I'm the modern Sheldon Cooper who discovered that all humanity has been going to war over was putting too much meaning into words. The multiverse videogame life of your dreams is here! And no, I'm not encouraging anyone to kill themselves, please talk to someone if you need help D; just posting updates from my everyday angel life from now on, so get used to being surrounded by Shinto gods in real life. This is awesome!

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Space age is coming, everyone.

Any hackers wanna figure out some quantum Python with me?

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https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSPvy2g/ omfg you won't believe what happened. Space age is here <3

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Damn, I can't recall the last time a comic strip made me cry like that T_T

It doesn’t work that way #pascalcampion

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“Of course Democrats see the political advantage of D.C. statehood. But parties gain or lose influence because of changes to our laws all the time. Throughout American history, the addition of states was regularly pushed by parties looking to add to their power. That didn’t mean that it wasn’t a good thing for the country. Think of it this way. Imagine Democrats suggested that we declare Florida a Special Tourism Zone — one whose citizens would no longer be allowed to have voting representation in Congress. Republicans could say, “You only want to do that so we’ll lose power over legislation!” Even if that were true, it wouldn’t be the reason de-stating Florida would be wrong. The reason would be that the people of Florida shouldn’t have their voting rights taken away, and the fact that they usually vote Republican doesn’t matter one way or the other. But Republicans barely hide the fact that their principal objection to D.C. statehood is that the people there are Democrats — and we can’t ignore that nearly half the city’s residents are Black. Sometimes it comes out more explicitly, as when last year Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) inveighed against D.C. statehood by citing its mayor, Muriel E. Bowser, and one of her predecessors, Marion Barry, as though by invoking the names of two African-American politicians he had proved how irresponsible the voters of D.C. are and why they are simply unworthy of full voting rights. Like the Georgians who want to vote early or on Sundays. Or the Texans who have the wrong kind of ID. Or the North Dakotans who don’t have the right kind of street address. Or the Floridians who have outstanding fines. That’s what this issue is about: whether the right to be a full participant in our democracy belongs to all Americans, or only those who are of the right race and vote the way the Republican Party wants them to. It’s not a question anyone will be allowed to ignore.”

— D.C. statehood can no longer be ignored. Will Democrats step up?

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i write sims not tragedies

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to summarise what’s happening, the queen was exposed for lobbying the government to hide her private wealth, and shit is sort of starting to hit the fan.

for those of you who aren’t familiar with how uk parliament works, there are several “formalities” that exist within the legislative process which involve the monarchy - for example, every bill must gain royal assent (i.e. must be approved by the queen) to become law. you might be thinking: wait a second, the monarchy is unelected, that doesn’t sound very democratic. and you’re right! this is an argument that’s been ongoing for years, but mostly it’s been ignored because until recently these formalities were seen as harmless (it’s incredibly rare, as in it hasn’t happened in centuries, for the monarch to refuse to pass a bill that’s gone through parliament into law).

this scandal, however, has brought into light the reality of what these formalities actually mean for uk democracy. see, there’s this fun little thing called “Queen’s consent”. essentially, this is where the government asks the queen’s permission for parliament to be able to debate laws that affect her, and it happens before the debate takes place (rather than royal assent, which is the final stage of the legislative process). it was this procedure that the queen used back in the 70s to conceal her private wealth from the public and save her own arse by having government ministers alter a transparency law. no one has ever paid much attention to it, primarily because most people didn’t know it existed until now.

it seems, however, that the queen has repeatedly used Queen’s consent to privately lobby the government. the guardian’s investigation found that the queen used Queen’s consent to vet over 1000 laws, along with evidence of her lobbying for changes to at least four draft laws, though she might have interfered with way more. the laws she’s interfered with range from wealth and taxation laws (shocker), to laws regarding the nhs and even animal welfare. if it’s still not obvious to you why this is a problem, let me explain:

Queen’s consent is democratically dangerous enough as it is, seeing as its existence basically allows the monarchy to alter and even put a stop to legislation that has the potential to limit its power. the way that it’s being used is worse. the sheer breadth of policy that the procedure covers means that the queen, as we’ve discovered, has access to basically all legislation created by parliament, regardless of whether it affects the crown.

tldr: the queen is using parliament as means of maintaining her wealth and power, and Queen’s consent is an inbuilt tool within our democracy that facilitates that. This Is A Problem.

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i cannot get over at this newsstory. i CANNOT. i cannot believe that they paid someone to write a story about how people aren’t having children in the middle of a global pandemic that cost MILLIONS of people their jobs. this is the stupidest fucking thing i’ve ever seen!! do they think people are just sitting at home like “well can’t find any new series to binge, might as well have a fucking baby! that’s the next logical step, right?” i’m going to SCREAM.

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