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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • Gather round children; as I tell you the story of Georgie Pie, it offered cheap local (to NZ) fast food, in this case meat and sweet pies.

    Highly successful and well loved, it was a common sight across the country. Unfortunately, the corporate entities from off shore came in, diluting the fast food dollar across many more options. MacDonald’s brought the struggling Georgie Pie; mainly for its locations and to remove a competitor from the market.

    Every few years; to maintain the trade mark, MacDonald’s runs a Georgie Pie promotion where you can get a pie from MacDonald’s. It is like the zombie of local “cuisine” reanimated over and over again to server its master; for the only job it is good for.



  • When playing games with the kids, we start at 0 being the position you are currently in, then count from there.

    e.g. in snakes and ladders, if you are on spot 30 and roll a 5, tap spot 30 and say “zero”, then spot 31 is “one” etc… till you are at spot 35 saying “five”.

    Teaches the kids about zero and avoids miss counts from the younger ones counting their current position as “one”


  • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nztoScience Memes@mander.xyzOxygen
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    10 days ago

    In one of their multitude of inter-nation conflicts; two cities were consumed in nuclear fire. On any sane world; these areas would be abandoned and the area around them a quarantine zone; the humans obviously not being fully sane, rebuilt and flourish.

    This is related to the fact that humans along with most of the inhabitants of Sol3, are highly resilient to damage; of all kinds.

    Humans reproduce slowly; but even though they generally reproduce not far above replacement rate, their resilience means their population still grows at an exponential rate. And on top of that; their advances in medical technology are on the verge of massive life extension. Soon they will have to move out into space; the galaxy better get ready for them.


  • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nztoMemes@lemmy.mlSchrödinger's Immigrant
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    10 days ago

    You are applying too much classical thinking.

    Something in superposition isn’t in some unknowable but definite position before measurement.

    It is all possible states, at the same time.

    Einstein famously did not like the implications of QM, saying “god does not play dice with the universe”, though his work on the photo electric effect helped pave the way for QM.



  • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nztoMemes@lemmy.mlSchrödinger's Immigrant
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    11 days ago

    This is just a misunderstanding of superposition.

    A superposition is being in all possible states before “collapsing” into a defined state, after interacting with something (a measuring device).

    So Schrodinger’s immigrant will be in all possible states; they are obviously lazy welfare bums; whilst simultaneously taking all the jobs; and being so poor that they eat your pets; and having the time to organize groups to go raping; whilst also being trustworthy enough to be a housekeeper or nanny