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Yes, given my username, that’s super duper upsetting. I’ll be crying tears into my pillow tonight. Boo dee hoo dee. Even if I stipulate this nebulous concept of a now, EVEN THEN yours and mine differ. No matter how you slice this, you’re laughably and pathetically wrong. FYI - All you EVER experience is a stitched together narrative of signals and inputs which themselves arrived at least several hundred milliseconds in the past.

In Euclidean geometry, a straight line is the shortest possible distance. Shortest possible time. Any nonstraight path means it’s a longer distance and longer time. In the Newtonian world, everyone just agrees there’s one time. Given our crude measurements of moons and weeks and days, we generally all form a consensus about what is “proper” time. But that doesn’t apply intuitively at larger and vaster scales that humans didn’t evolve requirements to think upon. In spacetime, the longest time elapsed is a straight line. The straight line is slowest because the curved line fits the path better in the pseudo-Euclidean spacetime in which we find ourselves. The time you personally experience is almost like the distance driven along a curve. They’re analogous, but you and I are on different curves so our “times” no longer perfectly (or properly) align. In relativity, everyone experiences their own personal time and that time will depend on the path they take through spacetime itself (the “curve” referenced in previous paragraph). *Paraphrased from Sean Carroll. Any inaccuracies are mine, not his.

You've given us no reason to give a damn what you "believe." In fact, you've given copious reasons for us to disbelieve just about anything you say.

Space is different than time in a conversation about spacetime? Maybe, but certainly not relevant to my comment You keep saying that despite it not being true. Do you lie all the time, or just here on this topic?

So in addition to all of your many other problems, your quote unquote "model" can't even accurately model the very thing it proposes to model? Wow... I'm sold! Where do I sign up! Can you also travel faster than space?!?

Looks like you whiffed a bit on this swing. Would you like to try again, maybe next time using English? It sure looks like the only broken clock here is you, and sadly you're not even correct twice per day. Banana

So you agree your representation is unrepresentative gibberish? Thanks for confirming.

Do you mean subjectively?

Objectively speaking?

You should look to the math instead, then. Very clear. But then it would no longer be accurate.

How do you know? You should just stop. This is getting embarrassing for you.

No, that's not what I am doing. Why would I do this? That's not what I'm saying. ... as already clarified 8 minutes ago ...

neither I'm saying neither of those things.

no It's not

Totally agree. Thank you for acknowledging this. Nope, not even close to correct, and in fact already addressed repeatedly right here in this very thread within the last few hours. There is clearly a comprehension problem afoot, more likely a willful one, but the source is in your mirror, not your audience. So few words, yet so little accuracy. You're super funny, in an annoying "thank goodness you'll be gone soon" kinda way. Again, totally agree.

no

no but in a thread with a total of about 40 posts, damned near 20 of them are from you so… it would be nice if you could maybe let others offer their thoughts, or at the very least stop stymying the conversation in the 50% of the thread where you’re offering your own 🙏

Well placed clip 👍

You’re not the only member here. The comment wasn’t directed to you, but instead any reader. Sell me on the idea of democracy. That’s what I think could lead to the best discussion. If you don’t wish to participate, that’s fine, but then stop responding. This isn’t exactly rocket science. Was it not clear I was referring to individual citizens / voters and not to regimes? If not, then now you know. I was referring to individual citizens / voters, not regimes.

I don’t think this For this to help, you just first assume they care about avoiding revolutions. Is that a universal desire?

If you were sitting at a round table at a conference with attendees from around the globe, and some were from China, others were from Russia, some were from Afghanistan, and may others from Turkey. How would you convince these individuals who have known nothing other than their own systems of governance that "democracy" is better than what they have today back at home? How would you motivate them to become advocates for democracy once the conference is over and they return to their home countries?

This bears repeating, so I've repeated it here. If your vote didn't matter, the powers that be wouldn't be trying so extremely hard to take it from you, to make it harder for you to vote, to marginalize your voice and redraw districts so your voice counts less. If your vote didn't matter, there wouldn't have been so many hundreds or thousands (or hundreds of thousands / millions) of people who came before us fighting so hard or dying so often just to trying to obtain it. The right to vote is fundamental. It is the foundation in which ALL laws and ALL governance is rooted.

We all should hope China keeps its mitts off Taiwan, but should they pretend they’re a bacteriophage ready to envelop other nations then I’m glad Biden has said the US will be there to address such an unwelcome unwarranted encroachment upon the sovereignty of others.

Even the largest of buckets will eventually overflow if we keep adding drops to it one by one.

That’s not how the chemistry of milk works. It’s mostly water. It’s neither encased in nor enveloped by an impermeable lipid layer. The immune system operates in, around, between, through, across, and in large part because of “water molecules” so recognition would be if it’s own surroundings and environment.