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What is a command you accidentally taught your pet?

Wife taught our dog to crawl.

She was trying to teach the dog to lay down and stay while she backed away with the treat. Our dog figured that if she kept her belly on the floor and crawled over to the treat it should be fine...

So my wife said "Good crawl!", and kept working on it with the dog. Now the dog crawls on command.

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Everything has a bit of overlap

Oh man, one of my biggest pet peeves.

"Observation" should really be called "interaction" when referring to quantum effects. The act of observation is actually an interaction with a quantum object that collapsed the wave to a point. We are affecting the quantum object by making a measurement, not by looking at it. If we don't measure it the wave function doesn't collapse until it interacts with the wall. In this case, the wall is the "observation" that causes the wave function to collapse.

Ok, sorry for the interruption, carry on

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Researchers prove that atomic vibrations can transfer orbital angular momentum directly to electrons in a non-magnetic material

I'll give it a shot. This is what I got from it.

Ok so this study basically discovered that atoms arranged in certain patterns will affect the orbit of electrons when the atoms vibrate. We can detect those vibrations and determine the electron's orbit. We can manipulate materials to cause them to have this effect as well.

So we can basically use this to store and retrieve information much like we do with bits on a computer. We are using the angular momentum of atoms like bits in a computer.

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Alabama preacher F.L. ‘Bubba’ Copeland kills himself after being outed as ‘transgender curvy girl’

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This is what happens when people are forced to repress themselves in order to fit in with what society says is acceptable.

What they want becomes bad but they still fantasize about it. So the fantasy's become twisted and perverse. If this person was allowed to be who they wanted to be they may not have gone down such a dark path. It really just makes me sad to see things like this.

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Nearly half of Americans surveyed don't know what America 250 commemorates

I feel like a lot the reason for this is likely tied to the DOGE cuts that cut funds for local and state authorities. 250th anniversary plans all over the US were cancelled because their funds were cut. So nowhere around town did I see any signs or anything celebrating our 250th anniversary. The local 4th of July fireworks show was very underwhelming this year as well.

Like I knew it was our 250th anniversary, but I never truly realized it until afterwards. I realized that the reason for that was that there was no hype over it, no build up or anything.

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The worst feeling is feeling all of that but not being able to remember what the fuck I should be doing. Like I know I need to be doing something, and I should get off my ass and do it, but I can't even phathom what the fuck that thing is!

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Telepathy Club (OC)

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Oh ok, thanks for the explanation. I did not associate the other random people as being telepathic and in the club.

I would have had all the telepathic people doing something like, have their hand on their chins as if they were thinking. That would be a visual trigger that allows me to link all of the characters together.

Obviously some people got it without an explanation, so perhaps it's just me who has an issue understanding this. 🙂