Brewchin

I asked this question many years ago on a Usenet group, and the answer was along the lines of what we’re seeing is many millions of years after those orbits began, and that they all eventually flatten out due to the gravity of the other objects in orbit.

So you could have 2 objects at roughly the same orbital distance but perpendicular to one another (eg. one orbiting the star’s poles and the other around it’s equator), and over time the small amount of gravitational force they exert on one another will bring them roughly into the same plane.

Hopefully someone better versed in the topic can come along to explain it better than I can.

Nearing? I’m already there and I’m the young 'un in my group of gaming buddies. The eldest is in his 60s and we’re all playing most evenings.

Searched replies and was not disappointed. 😄

Also: phone, earphones and mask these days.

Linux users: People have problems with web(p|m)? Huh, TIL.

An important question, usually conspicuous by their absence with confirmation bias-related posts. But in this case, the source is provided. You can check for yourself and let us know, if you have a Xitter account to see the replies.

Unless Elmo’s added yet another layer of enshittification. It’s hard to keep up.

Same with me on the water. I grew up Australia.

Since moving to the UK, I’m still trying to get used to medieval bollocks. Gimme analogies, because Stones used to be 1 Stone of wheat was a different weight to 1 Stone of, say, actual stones. Mental.

“…I’ll give it time to work and will come back and see you.”

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To be fair: if anyone’s going to intuitively know the weight of 800 hamburgers, Americans are it. :)

Also, I’m not entirely opposed to using “every day” analogies for stuff like this.

When I’m outside my home network, I rely on Tracker Control (installed via F-Droid) for most traffic. And the usual uBlock Origin and such for my mobile Firefox browser.

I think this really is the best solution to news sites.

I self-host FreshRSS, make good use of its filters, and I can chew through headlines and articles in no time using the web view on a PC or mobile web.

Think of the problem being solved. The Fediverse solves multiple problems, but most notably ensuring that our contributions won’t be paywalled by some corporate grifter. The post and comment data itself is free and open, subject only to TOS and regional legislation.

If you consider your conversations valuable, stick with something like secure messaging application groups. And then hope nobody in that group does what you imagine in your second point.