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coalie ([personal profile] coalcube) wrote in [community profile] coaltide2023-12-25 08:12 am
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Morbane's coal

In quantum wankchanics, Morbane's coal is a thought experiment, sometimes described as a paradox, of quantum wankerposition. In the thought experiment, a hypothetical gift may be considered simultaneously both the fic of your dreams (TFOYD) and coal, while it is unread state, as a result of its fate being linked to a random subatomic event that may or may not occur.

The Coaltide interpretation implies that, after a while, the gift is simultaneously TFOYD and coal. Yet, when a coalie clicks on their gift, the coalie sees the gift either TFOYD or coal, not both TFOYD and coal. This poses the question of when exactly quantum wankerposition ends and reality resolves into one possibility or the other.

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(Anonymous) 2023-12-26 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
/flatmemeing coalie

????? I live in California, and yes, lobster rolls are a thing here.

(Anonymous) 2023-12-26 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
Also DC is almost never snowy at Christmas? It's damp and brown at best. We've had snow on the ground Christmas day maybe three times in the past 40 years and even then it was usually week-old yellow slush. I don't know where they were before California, but not here.

(Anonymous) 2023-12-26 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
+100.

(Anonymous) 2023-12-26 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
Original coalie who lived in D.C. here and sorry to disappoint everyone who thinks I'm a liar, but I was there for three years. This would have been back from 2002-2005 when I was going to CUA for grad school (double masters). So in the interest of fact checking what I thought was just a happy nostalgic memory, albeit one that I had from two decades ago so the details are probably conflated, I will state two points:
1. I have been around since the beginning for Yuletide, which means I've been doing it for two decades. That does make me an old person in the grand scheme of fandom.
2. When I lived there, there were a number of storms (including Hurricane Isabel) that led to what I have now learned were unusual precipitation patterns. This did include snow during times when typically DC does not get snow. At one point, I was snowed into Gibbons Hall and they canceled classes on my campus, I believe, for an entire week. So I will allow that while I did not have the typical DC winter experience, it did happen.

I hope that has sufficiently cleared up any issues I may have caused with my random statement designed I threw in to derail some trolling.

(Also seriously, yeah, I know lobster rolls exist in California, but I used to be able to just take the subway out to this one market and get them pretty cheap, so it's not the same here - public transit is fairly terrible compared to back East.)

(Anonymous) 2023-12-26 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah the winter of 2002-2003 was one of the snowiest on record. In general, snow used to be much more common. Hat tip to climate change and all.

In this the year 2023 you can get almost any food almost anywhere...but California "doesn't really do" lots of foods, lobster rolls among them, despite the cope Californians will post if you point this out.

/another Marylander who's a few years older, cheers.

(Anonymous) 2023-12-26 07:04 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you for this and the other comment coalie. I laughed when I read the first one.
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