If it hits everyday life, it will be buried deep under a straightforward application layer. Some hobbyists bought “electricity”; most people bought “toasters” and “electric lights”. CCDs revolutionized photography but the vast majority of users had no idea they were using one.

Depending on the mechanism by why which the condensate slows down the photon (for example, if it doesn’t mess with polarization), you might be able to use it to store one half of an entangled pair of photons while you use the other to do whatever.

Putting together these two lines of thinking, a BEC could potentially be used as part of an authentication process to set up a secure channel; generate a pair, send one half of it off to your counterparts, verify their response using the stored one you have.

I think today, the stored photon is kept in a fiber optic loop; the idea would be the same as what you can do in a lab, but maybe much much smaller and cheaper.

Trump literally can not be too racist for his followers. How has a headline editor for a daily newsletter not realized this?

I think in the second half you’re asking whether butches are more likely to be toppy and femmes are more likely to be bottomy.

I think there’s probably some positive correlation there but butchness and toppiness are distinct concepts.

I’ve known her for over 25 years. She got married to my college roommate. For the two of us, this joke is out of bounds.

Patriarchy sure can be funny sometimes…

I have a friend I exchange memes with and I can’t send it to her for risk of it being interpreted romantically. Now that’s an interesting little wrinkle of communication.

I wish she hadn’t pretended we don’t exist during her entire convention though.

I would crawl across barbed wire to vote Harris this year, but I think she’d happily backstab the trans community if she got republican votes in exchange.

Walz seems like an actual mensch.

That would be their top attraction! I would make a side trip to get roasted by parrots.

The impactor was going so fast that even if you were looking directly at it you’d just see the streak suddenly appear; not even “blink and you miss it”, straight up “you ain’t gonna see it”.

Whoosh. What’s the joke?

It would fuck me over.

“I will still vote for him”

Re: internet only available at the public library.

Hell no. That would really fuck over disabled people.

Wow Cubes is due for another round of face-lifts or child bone marrow infusions or whatever these rich assholes do.

Just not politicians

I wonder who paid for that.

It’s insane to me that a trans swimmer is more important than the national debt, the middle east, several states currently fucked by hurricanes, etc.

I think the online thing is about to start dropping. The sites are so full of looky-loos who just want to chat and never actually meet in person they’re hardly worth the time. I expect as the bot infestation continues to grow, they’ll be even less useful.

Hurts to see him holding a cig knowing what did him in.