J.C.MacSwell

But if it's capable of 90 degrees...it's capable of "waiting" for you...with an imperceptible redshift in your accelerating frame if the BH is big enough. My point wrt 90 degrees was your claim light at (or inside) the EH could only go straight to...(Hello to the singularity?) 😀

At the EH light can still go 90 degrees to the radial. Up to that point it can do a little better., but light can essentially "orbit" at the EH. You can still "catch up" to light emitted from your feet, even if it is already past the EH. Big enough BH and it's barely redshifted for you as you speed toward the ultimate demise of whatever your atomic particles that made you up well after your normal lifetime, oblivious to the fact you entered a BH.

They have multiple directions, just none of them can include a vector in the opposite direction of the future singularity. I don't think that GR conflicts with my take on this. The larger the BH the more normal things would seem as you cross the EH. Large enough and you can't observe any difference from what we observe right now, in which case neither of us would likely ever stand corrected. Nothing could substantially change in our lifetime.

Assuming the black hole is big enough, It's not necessary. You see your feet consistently the whole time, simply by catching up. When your feet enter the black hole you don't see that version of the feet until you get there. We could be inside the event horizon of a large enough black hole right now, so large there is nothing to tip us off. So large the gradient is insignificant to our lives, and the Universe as we know it.

Why would it not? I can understand some aspects of setting a Federal minimum, which would be well below any median or average state need. Why instead set one considerably higher?

It is getting a little bit, but whether for Covid, minimum wage, or other issues I think there are aspects best left to different levels of government, in whole or in part. It still requires good decision making. Quebec is not a good example of leadership, or populace, making exceptionally good ones consistently and overall, but I'm not sure having Ottawa make decisions for them would have made for better outcomes...and in similar respect I don't think D.C. deciding the minimum wage for Alabama, by in fact more than doubling it, is a healthy way to go.

By scale, DeSantis should be more accountable to those municipalities than Biden would be. Our Province here in Nova Scotia mandated masks for indoor public places generally, but divided the province into zones for what they considered appropriate levels of restrictions for the different zones at different times depending on outbreak levels. So far we have done relatively well, though much of it is due to geographical isolation and "isolationability". Not perfect, but I don't think it would have worked as well if the restrictions were controlled by the Federal Government, whether by a one size fits all approach or controlling a similar system from Ottawa.

Possibly. It may be appropriate for some areas or municipalities to set their own. States though, can mandate different levels for different areas within their state if they choose to do so... somewhat centralized but an intermediate approach.

No. But I have a somewhat informed opinion that the Federal minimum wage should be raised above $7,25 an hour but no where near $15 under present circumstances, and that a cautious approach would leave states with more abilIty to adjust for their own....whereas a bold approach can add significant economic risks to some areas while really having no effect on others. California's minimum wage is currently $14/hr. All lesser paying jobs are already underground. Big whoop for them if they get mandated $15. They'll probably have $15 soon anyway and enjoy the right to make it so. Whether they get it exactly right or not, at least they'll be able to adjust it taking their own state circumstances into account. A raise to $15 Federal minimum would seem less "crammed down from above" for them.

Right. Something centralized government proponents don't worry about. They know what's best for everyone.

Using this argument works for the current minimum wage...or raising it to $10...or $15 or more...but the bolded part significantly diminishes the higher the floor is raised. A "made for median" America policy leaves much of America with a higher than optimum floor locally, and removes the economic tool to adjust it.

You seem quite willing to mandate a $15 minimum for Alabama. If they can do that why not $30 for California? Or have you researched Alabama?

Does that chart just indicate to you that Federal minimum wages now fall comparatively short of 1968 levels? (I think we can agree on that) Does it not also show the need for letting states set their own minimums? Also the black indicator doesn't represent the current situation except in states with minimum wages set at the current Federal minimum. How does using the local median rent level represent affordable housing for minimum wage earners? To the degree it's useful does it correlate the same today as 50 years ago? In any case, does the chart not make a strong case overall for setting minimum wages locally and not nationally? For example, It seems that one could live comfortably right now in Pittsburgh making Federal minimum, working just 30 hours to make median rent affordable. Why mess with that? Are they all really going to be able to work just 15 hours to still have median rent affordable after mandating a 15/hr minimum? Or will many be out of jobs? Would you advocate a $30 State minimum wage for California? Why not?

He had a lot of Gaulle saying that in Canada...

All Republicans and Trump voters though...amirite? 😃

Let's not ask the Americans here to overcompensate more than they already have... 😷

Canada still uses both. Celsius generally for weather and fahrenheit generally for body temperature. Old habits die hard. I use both for weather and almost always Fahrenheit for body temperature. I do use Celsius more for physics unless it's thermodynamics....then I use Kelvin...same damn thing except I use what I find easier to think through...similar in some respects to picking reference frames except they are all on the same "frame" temperature wise. I use kilometres much more than miles, but 90% of the time use inches, or feet and inches, when building something. Half my tape measures are in feet/ inches, the other half in feet/inches on one side and metric on the other. This can be a pain at times...I can't remember ever having an all metric tape measure, despite half our drawings being metric (mm). I probably could get one special order but I lose them, and they aren't readily available. "Side" refers to different sides on the same face, not the underside.

So...you can explain it without Her? I'm certainly not going to do that, though I'm prone to make the same type of mistake.

Well I guess Ted for President 2024 then?

What's wrong with a fat tired beach Cruzer?

If only Ted had the political sense to have been wearing a pair on arriving back in Texas...

One thing I learned in the coldest weather I've ever been out in (at night in January in Northern Alberta) was that spit does not freeze before hitting the ground at -50, as per Jack London's story "Building a Fire". Not even close at -58 F/-50 C. I had believed it up to that point. It didn't even freeze instantly upon hitting the ground. It took more than a few seconds.

...and that's still +5o F in Texas, at the current exchange rate...

Had to get away from that Texas weather!

Especially with the high bar given?