Definitely not okay.
My favorite composite from a storm over Saguaro National Park in 2022. I had the rainbow, the saguaros, but the bolt never landed. Adding that in from another lightning shot I got yielded this pretty merged shot. And yes, I have about 60 legit lightning / rainbow shots.
As @whstancil.bsky.social has pointed out, Musk is making a massive intervention in the election, in a way that’s possibly unprecedented in US history
So this is happening talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/elon-...
There's deeply cynical and then there's things which might be illegal. In the first category we have an Elon Musk-funded PAC microtargeting Jewish and Arab communities with diametrically opposed ads…
I should do better. Therefore, short 🧵! Traditional quantum mechanics, a la Bohr/Heisenberg and codified by von Neumann, posits two different kinds of quantum evolution. The system obeys the Schrödinger equation, *except* when it is measured. Two processes: unitary evolution, and measurement. (1/n)
Where and when I was growing up, “secular humanists” were about as despised as any category of people could be. I’ve long since become secular as hell, but I never did become a humanist. It’s safe to say that I never will.
Thing is, some physicists did actually entertain this idea for a while. Almost all of us have long since moved on to better ideas. (From Ross Douthat’s column on new books for God.)
There is a variety of theist that likes nothing more than to notice a temporary puzzlement among scientists, and quickly leap in to declare victory. It’s a good racket, as science will never run out of temporary puzzlements.