Oops. This is Picard about to say "Engage!", not "Make it so (sew)!", isn't it? Oh well.
Image: Captain Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation in the captain's seat on the bridge of the Enterprise with his right hand raised and index finger extended, about to point forward as he says his catchphrase.
Top text: "My wardrobe: *Gives me dysphoria*"
Bottom text: "Me: *Finds a machine at home labeled 'Singer'*"
Template: Evil Kermit (Kermit the Frog on the left faces a Kermit lookalike on the right. The lookalike has his eyes covered by a black cowl, giving him a mysterious, Sith-like appearance.)
Text above Kermit: "Me: *Supposed to be shopping for warm-weather clothes*"
Text below the lookalike: "Me to me: 'I could always use another hoodie…'"
Got it. The federation was lagging, so I hadn't seen that reply yet. Best of luck!
Oh, yep, you're right. As I stop gap, if you'd like, I can crosspost for you, so at least you can watch for answers at [email protected] in a browser. Just let me know if I should do that.
Ah, it's because nobody on your instance is currently involved in that community, so it hasn't been federated to Beehaw yet. To fix that, go to the search tool, make sure that you have "All" selected for all four filters, and enter "https://lemmy.world/c/ece". If you get a community result, you can click on it and subscribe to the community and then crossposting should work. If you get too many results, try switching the scope from "All" to "Local". If you get no results, it means that federation is pending but delayed. Give it a minute or two and try the search again; eventually the community should show up.
I'll lead with an apology: I got ambitious. You said you wanted to know about particles; I wanted to say a lot about them, so I guess I wrote a book.
Also a disclaimer: I only had physics through undergrad. My source is Sections 1 through 3.1 in Baez, J., & Huerta, J. (2010). The Algebra of Grand Unified Theories. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 47(3), 483–552. if you want to consult something more reliable.
If you look inside a bakery, you will find lots of different ingredients—flour, sugar, butter, milk, eggs, and so on. By combining these ingredients in different ways, the baker can make all kinds of different breads and desserts. To make the kind of food they want, the baker has to understand their ingredients, how much of each kind to use, and how to combine them.
In the same way, we know that everything in the world can be made out of different kinds of very tiny ingredients called elementary particles. By combining these particles in different ways, we can create all kinds of stuff. But to make the stuff we want, we have to understand the elementary particles and how they affect each other, just like the baker has to understand their ingredients and how they go together.
There are over one hundred different kinds of elementary particles that we know about and maybe more that we don't. We could just memorize them all, but scientists think it's better to look for patterns. Think about when you were learning addition: its easier to learn that zero plus anything is always the same thing than it is to memorize 0 + 0 = 0, 0 + 1 = 1, 0 + 2 = 2, 0 + 3 = 3, and so on. Scientists do the same thing; they find patterns. Eventually they wrote down all of the elementary particles that they had discovered and all of the patterns they were really sure about. They called this knowledge "The Standard Model".
Hey, I reviewed your user history and found nothing so far that raised questions or worries. Welcome to the team! Hopefully the load will be as light as it is currently.
Unless you have a reason not to, would you be able to add your pronouns to your account bio to help model the recommendation below the rules on the community sidebar? Thanks!
And, I'm sure that you know this, but let's strive to be transparent and consistent in our moderation, seeking community input where appropriate and consulting with each other on any nonobvious decisions. I'm looking forward to working with you!
I have also added Rule #12:
If a post is tagged with a specific gender identity, keep the conversation centered on that identity.
This used to be a bot post in r/egg_irl. Hopefully it's not controversial, but let me know if you have feedback on it.
Okay, everyone, I made an update based on your comments. Please check over the sidebar and see if it looks okay.
I've made some preliminary edits to the community description based on the comments so far. These are not necessarily final or set in stone; further discussion is welcome!
Image description: A four-panel meme. In the first row, the left panel shows an illustration of a nonbinary person frowning with their head turned away and their hand held up in refusal, while the right panel, that they are refusing, has text reading "Voice training to sound more like your actual gender and less like your AGAB." In the second row, the left panel shows the same person smiling and pointing at the final panel in recommendation, while that final panel shows an illustration of Blåhaj with its fins raised in excitement in front of blazing fire and the text "Voice training to pronounce 'Blåhaj' with a proper Swedish accent!"
Template courtesy of @[email protected], available at https://stgiga.github.io/gigaware/5box.png.
Blåhaj image is the instance icon from lemmy.blahaj.zone.
Image description: A four-panel meme. In the first row, the left panel shows an illustration of a nonbinary person frowning with their head turned away and their hand held up in refusal, while the right panel, that they are refusing, has text reading "Choosing a Lemmy instance based on interests, language, and region." In the second row, the left panel shows the same person smiling and pointing at the final panel in recommendation, while that final panel shows the icon for lemmy.blahaj.zone, an illustration of Blåhaj with its fins raised in excitement in front of blazing fire and the text "Choosing a Lemmy instance based on how excited their Blåhaj is!"
Template courtesy of @[email protected], available at https://stgiga.github.io/gigaware/5box.png.
Blåhaj image is the instance icon from lemmy.blahaj.zone.
I think most of the general LGBTQ+ activity is at [email protected], if you're not already subscribed there.
For transgender-related content specifically, I know these communities:
I'm not as informed about communities for other parts of the rainbow, so maybe someone else can chime in.