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  • I’d probably start designing and building a rolling ball clock/ sculpture, then hit some sort of obstacle and switch to making a self recirculating eddy current tube, get frustrated and try to design and build an electronically commutated counter rotating propeller driver, get frustrated and try to build a garage sized 3d printer, get frustrated and try to build a delayed action door closer get frustrated and try to build a co-planar compound cycloidal reducer, get frustrated and then forget my wife’s anniversary until 4pm the day before.












  • I’m not the person you were replying to but thought I’d weigh in.

    Canada attempted/committed (results varied) genocide of its first nations not by killing children (though they did do that) but by making continuation of indigenous ways of living/ culture untenable.

    China is attempting genocide of its Uigher population in a similar way.

    Russia’s denial of Ukrainian identity and treatment of orphaned Ukrainian children is also genocidal.

    Genocide is the attempt to destroy a nation/ ethnicity. It doesn’t have to be murder factories to be genocide.

    Do you agree?


  • Canadaland focuses on Canada, so Jesse tries to ask questions that are relevant to Canadians

    journalism is supposed to be about distributing factual information

    I have a friend in Canada that I know is trying to figure out if he should send his daughter to public school (eventually, she is still quite young) where she could face anti-Semitic treatment from peers/teachers, or Jewish day school where she could be murdered by extremists. (I think he was already more inclined towards public schools)

    His concern is because of the increase in attacks on centers of Jewish community (eg schools & synagogues) in Canada. The increase in those attacks is because of Israel’s disproportionate response to the Oct 7th attacks.

    The question of Israel’s accountability is probably quite relevant to him.



  • I agree it’s strange and possibly inappropriate that the fact check was a text document, not a podcast.

    But I really don’t think he was acting as a mouthpiece the way you’re accusing him. He repeatedly asked about the head of the Israeli military characterizing events as Jewish terrorism.

    I think it’s important to ask what responsibility Israel has for the safety of Jewish Canadians when hatecrimes rise as a result of Israeli military operations.





  • m0darn@lemmy.catoScience Memes@mander.xyzBehold, a square
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    28 days ago

    I look at your diagram and see:

    ϴ= L/(L+R)
    

    And

    2π-ϴ = L/R
    

    I solved those (using substitution, then the quadratic formula) and got

    L= π-1 ± √(1+π²) ~= 5.44 or -1.16
    

    Whether or not a negative length is meaningful in this context is an exercise left to the reader

    Giving (for L=5.44):

    ϴ~= 0.845 ~~48.4° 
    

    I’m surprised that it solved to a single number, maybe I made a mistake.