I did say acid trip, and I wasn’t being facetious. It’s the Ron Hubbard signature

I’m surprised nobody has mentioned Battlefield Earth (2000).

What started as a scientology passion project for John Travolta turned into the best comedy since blazing saddles imo. I feel like it’s a timey wimey sequel to Idiocracy in spirit. The Travolta cyclo trying to bribe man animals with their favorite food (raw rat), thousand year old military equipment working flawlessly with no maintainence, thinking standard gold ingots and gold ore are basically the same, it’s a whole acid trip condensed into whatever the runtime happens to be. It’s a fuckin riot as long as you go into the experience expecting a comedy.

You want the Outer Wilds. NOT Outer Worlds. That’s Bethesda trash.

Always

Six months at home vacation and then six months curfew. For trying to kill a man.

Hang the cop, crucify his lawyer, and set the judge on fire.

Im suggesting that police will find the evidence that best fits the narrative they’re trying to portray. If the phone helps their case, sure. If it doesn’t, or contains evidence to the contrary, there’s a decent chance it’ll get “accidentally” misplaced if it’s even collected at all. They’re out to prove your guilt, not suggest your innocence.

Does the defense attorney go out to the scene, conduct interviews, photograph items of interest, or secure custody of any evidence gathered?

It’s the police that decide what is “evidence” and attorneys argue over what they found later. A good attorney might go out and look for some of those things after the fact, but the vast majority will not. You either gather your own evidence or roll the dice with the police actually doing their jobs.

Well no, because all those phone records show is that someone was using your phone at your house during x times to watch videos. There is no verification that it’s actually you. Now, if we actually had face tracking technology to see whether or not you’re actually watching ads, that could change. But as for right now, no.

The fuck he didn’t. Look up Biden back in 2001 and 2002 on the senate floor screaming about how Iraq had nukes totally frfr pinky sware on me mum. That fucking clown couldn’t gobble dick cheney’s balls fast enough.

Is Dana white fuckin dudes now?

Art deco.

Use LotR to tell the difference. If it looks like it was made by the elves, it’s art nouveau. It if looks like the dwarves cranked it out, it’s art deco.

Squares are a dead give away for dwarves. Knife ears don’t like square corners.

There is no “international authority”. It’s all big stick politics out there. It’s like trying to go after a corporation in the US. The “punishments” when they break the law are fines, if that, and any admonishment not to fuck over the same person in the same way again.

Think about your boss shorting you $100. The “legal” process involves YEARS of waiting for a court date, a labor code interpreted heavily in favor of the employer, and at the end of the day, they get fines and maybe have to pay back what you rightfully earned in the first place.

Now think about what happens when you steal $100 from work. Immediate police involvement, possible arrest, absolute legal consequences even if you’re cleared years later, the presumption of guilt from everyone in society.

It’s even worse on a political stage. Nobody has the moral fortitude to step forward and fix shit because it’s broken. Everyone just waits around until the collective consciousness supports some sort of social consequence on the offender in question. That’s not even tying race or religion into the mix, which Israel loves to twist up into their particular brand of nationalism.

The civil world is simply too polite to call them out for all their shit. It’s a whole world full of chickenshit and I am tired of the stink.

No, as a native American, i can confirm you all suck and should leave.

Edit for clarification: I mean all settlers and their descendants. If you aren’t first nation, you’re in the wrong nation.

Funnily enough, ignorance is a valid excuse here. You can’t be expected to investigate the companies behind every single product you buy or use in the day to day, but that’s not what were talking about here.

We’re talking about Brandon Sanderson, specifically, and how his tithes to the Mormon church significantly contribute to the open oppression and abuse of LGBTQIA+ communities. You, buying your mistborn and stormlight archive books, are DIRECTLY supporting that behavior.

Every time he tithes to that house of abuse and oppression, he IS actively doing something bad. Is that not enough for you?

Because there’s nothing wrong with enjoying the franchise as long as you aren’t supporting it.

Books are available secondhand. Games and movies can be pirated. It doesn’t cost anything to talk about a shared interest with friends.

Just don’t give them money. Don’t go to their theme parks. Don’t buy the merchandise.

You can like a thing and still make a conscious effort not to support the creator. You just have to be clear about the why if anyone asks you about it.

I made the same decision with Brandon Sanderson and his fuckin fanclub takes it extremely personally when I point out how problematic he is as an author.

Yes, his writing is good. Yes, his writing is remarkably inclusive with regards to sexual orientation, disability, and mental illness.

However, Brandon is a Mormon first and foremost, and actively tithes to his church. That means a significant percentage of ALL Dragonsteel profits go directly towards the suppression and disenfranchisement of LGBTQ+ programs, sex education, and effective mental health services.

He might write a good story, but his IRL politics are repugnant.

Outer Wilds is much more user friendly imo. Also the fact that some planets/comets are so small you can basically run and jump at orbital speeds really helps you to conceptualize the interaction of forces.

I spent a whole cycle jumping from north pole to south pole with just my jetpack on this neat binary planet system. The gravity on them is so low you can jump off one planet, boost straight up, and fall all the way to the other planet without your ship. It’s really fun.

No, all space is expanding. The space up in space just happens to look like it’s expanding faster because there’s more of it.

Nothing “overcomes” expansion. Not even the speed of light. There is a hard limit on how far telescopes can see into the cosmos because after a certain distance, the light emitted by stars will never reach the earth. This happens because the space between that star and our telescopes is expanding faster than the speed of light.

Now when you go to the other extreme, like subatomic particles, the same thing is happening, just much more slowly. You’ll need something like ten billion trillion years to actually see any hard effects from that expansion, but it’s still there. After long enough, even the space between atoms will expand faster than the speed of light. Fun fact: gravity also works at the speed of light. That’s the heat death of the universe.

Expansion effects space, and since everything exists in space, expansion effects everything. The problem i think you’re running into is a mistake of scale. The expansion were talking about is TINY. As good as humanity can find to fit the definition of “infintesimal”. However, the universe is very, very big, and all that space adds up to compounding expansion the space in between.

In fact, once you get far enough away, all that expansion adds up to more than the speed of light. That’s why we can only ever see so far into the universe, and why that limit is always growing smaller. The light emitted from stars far enough away from us will never actually make it to earth because the space in-between that star and us is expanding, right now, faster than the light can travel.

Now take all this infinitely expanding space and multiply it by a bazillion years and eventually you will expand subatomic particles so far from each other that the strong and weak nuclear forces no longer interact. Space beats energy thanks to inverse square law, so eventually space wins the universe. Everything freezes and goes dark. That’s how the universe ends.