I mean, it’s actually much worse than that, because in this case losing your lunch means losing your best chance to defend yourself and opening yourself to future attacks, maybe on breakfast and dinner.

That doesn’t make a lick of sense. To use an analogy, that would be like eating lunch with me and I say “I’m going to take your apple,” so you’re response is to give me your whole lunch, including the apple.

I can’t help but wonder if your son is shy about his relationship or maybe he has some fear about talking about it with you. It sounds like things are more serious between them than he’s telling you. It’s not impossible to make new friends as a high school junior, but the way it is described it sounds more likely they are romantically involved, and in that case, expensive gifts aren’t very strange for someone in an upper middle class family.

Yeah, I’ve been curious if you could explicitly block a page in robots.txt, hide an invisible link to the same page in your footer, then kinda have it act like an immediate IP block when someone requests it.

You should be fine to not have a phone PIN, unless you’re planning on a life of crime.

I’m not even sure what a purity test is anymore… I’ve only seen it in defense of transphobia. I have no power over Colbert’s choice of jokes. I can only criticize bigotry where I see it.

I’ve had tough conversations about transphobia with other trans people, supportive family members, friends… literal, personal, allies and I’m sill critical of them sometimes. Why the fuck should I give Colbert, with a huge megaphone and audience, a free pass?

That’s awesome, and I totally agree. Everyone already intuitively knows that waves carry energy. We’ve all heard of tsunamis and earthquakes. The only difference on the quantum scale is that the amount of energy transferred is discretized.

Light is generally better modeled by a wave, so I would say the wave doesn’t experience time. Photons are the smallest unit of energy that can be transferred between a light wave and a different particle. They have momentum and direction, but they don’t really travel exactly. They just mediate the force between light waves and matter.

Worded differently, a fermion (massive particle) within an electromagnetic (light) wave with a frequency of f may absorb some multiple of h x f joules of energy, where h is a very small constant. There is no way for the wave to transfer less than hf joules to the particle at a time. There is no need to think of photons as anything other than the smallest possible quantization of the electromagnetic wave rather than a particle of light. There’s no need to think of it existing for any amount of time or space.

It’s a reference to cocaine use: https://www.addictioncenter.com/drugs/drug-alcohol-slang/

No, they see us as criminals and will deny every right they can, marriage, public service, equal treatment under the law, medical insurance/medication, freedom of association, speech, and even our right to exist. The point is to criminalize and erase our existence from public life.

Let’s be clear here: this was not a ‘customer’, this was a drug addict who died due to their drug addiction. If that sentence makes you feel any less sympathy for them or their family, you can go fuck yourself.