Yeah, I suspect that the universe may expand and contract, so likely all the matter in the big bang came from it all being compressed from the previous cycle.

I also think all total matter gets distributed the same way each cycle, so I guess I think all matter that exists now is the same matter that has existed always.

I also think each cycle, everything happens the same way deterministically, even though it would be exciting to see if maybe events happen differently each cycle.

It’s because it is the result of the action, like a drawing. We just don’t say a built, or a drawn. I’m not sure why we used the gerand in English, but we do.

I was going to say that yeah, you can actually get even motels and some hotels at hourly rates, usually in high crime areas with rampant prostitution.

They’re inventing a technical reason to require online to make the game functional. This is insane.

I absolutely loved Civilization: Beyond Earth tbh. Nowhere near as bad as people said and I wish it had been successful so there was more content to expand the game than what we got.

Sanctioning a legal body because they call you out is crazy, trying to put pressure and sieze their assets is insane. US is the villains.

Isn’t that more like “you can’t ask an elm tree for pears?”

And even more literally “don’t ask for pears to the elm?”

That’s the only realistic outcome of this whole thing, eventually that territory will either be all of Ukraine, or the strategically important parts.

I usually find that ballpoint pens work poorly if paper has gotten wet, if it dries though you’ll probably be able to keep writing in it, best to throw it out though tbf

I thought of the same. I assumed this anachronism was meant to imply he was incredibly old and around for the initial rollout of the telephone.

Okay, I feel like anyone that thought that they had a chance of winning was drinking the Kool aid anyway, it’s obvious they can’t win, not even a war of attrition.

I’m someone who loves history, and global politics, and although not literally recognized as an expert or anything, it’s super obvious that without the constant flow of aid Ukraine would’ve fallen in less than 8 months.

What we have now is a proxy war where the EU and US are propping up a losing nation, but soon they will either surrender or be conquered unless the US or Europe directly intervene.

I agree actually. It really would signal the end of Western cultural dominance and hail in Russian and Chinese cultural export and soft power.

I heard Sindel from Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 scream in my head, thx.

This is so aggressively American. Can’t even help without making things worse.

There is this strange idea that atheists are just rebellious against God because they don’t want to be responsible for being moral, kinda like disobeying your parents and sneaking out to party.

Also, lots of theists assume atheists used to be religious, they don’t really consider that people are raised without religion sometimes.

It’s not a grey area in the US, just because it’s rarely prosecuted to individuals, it is most certainly illegal.

I always had assumed Starboard being the opposite of port meaning you were navigating away from your home port to the stars.

Same thing happened to me, I even made my own screenshot so your post was meta IRL

I was shot at once, and in the moment, you’re not sure that you haven’t been shot. Sometimes you can be in shock and not know because of adrenaline, it’s a real thing. It’s hard to explain how things happen in the moment.

I was once on a second story and watched the trees jump into the air, only understanding after a few seconds that what happened was the floor collapsed and I fell to the ground. Life doesn’t afford the ability to process things well when they happen quickly.

I think some of y’all have never had a nut or anything drop on top of your car before, but it absolutely can sound alarming enough to, in the context of a high stress situation, be interpreted by your brain as a potential shot in the same way a busted engine can.

To be clear, I think this is far more likely than most people are willing to understand, and this gets lost in the ‘all cops bad’ narrative.