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Cake day: October 10th, 2023

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  • 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.


  • 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.


  • You misunderstand. Cops in the US have no legal obligation to protect OR serve anyone. Check out the NY subway guy that was attacked with a knife while cops watched from 10 feet away behind bulletproof glass. They literally hid in the conductor booth and watched this guy get stabbed in the fucking face repeatedly.

    Not only did the guy survive, he actually overpowered and subdued the attacker. Guy brought a suit against the NYPD for failing to protect him when their motto at the time was literally “Protect and serve”. Long story short, the end result is that he got a real live judge to say out loud that police have no actual duty to protect you when it could endanger themselves. Coupled with your observation on the obesity of American cops, it could be argued that walking down the street to issue a ticket could be lethal for the cop in question and therefore they have no obligation to do it, they simply choose to do it out of spite.



  • I never understood this take. Like, did you not actually listen to the shit he said when you “liked” his shows? Did you not see the skit where he went on a morning interview and told his female interviewer that he was going to jerk off to her later and there was nothing she could do about it? If so, how was it actually surprising to hear he jerked off infront of a female coworker after he told her he was going to do it? You can separate the art from the artist all you want, but at some point you have to realize that all that art came from somewhere.