Except you didn’t make a connection. Go ahead and quote where you made the connection, and explain it. There is no practical character limit on these posts, you can link outside sources and supplemental material here. How about you put your money where your mouth is and actually back up what you are saying?

Here, I’ll throw the gauntlet hard, right now. You make that post, quoting the context, explaining what I missed, and I’ll go back and edit every one of my posts in this thread admitting that I lost and this whole conversation was unproductive and I was being an idiot asshole. You don’t even have to wager anything in return, because you won’t do it, because you can’t do it, and when you don’t even try to do it in your next comment, it will be a bold-faced admission that you are wrong, you know you are wrong, and you’re just being difficult for the sake of being difficult.

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I don’t think so, I think you fucked up your understanding of my comment, and rather that admit it, you’ve gone on a 12 post goose chase to try and avoid admitting that you didn’t understand anything I wrote. Just own it dude, it’s okay to be wrong sometimes.

That you’re nitpicking a little bit of creative writing?

Yes, I know how special relativity relates space and time together, and that gravity is a warping of space, but I don’t see how this matters in the context of my comment.

That great. All we need is a ton of removable bollards installed in and around every location where people will congregate on foot. Easy, that’s just every mall, convention hall, farmers market, community festival, school, workplace, sports venue, religious institution, government office, hospital…

Basically, time is your body’s sensation of the inevitable terror that is the heatdeath of the universe.

This doesn’t appear to pertain to gravity wells.

I’m still proposing that we take the richest person in the US every year, and confiscate 50% of their wealth and use it to fund healthcare, housing, education and food (all basic needs that the top 1% has stolen from us). Then we build a statue in their honor somewhere, labeling them as “This Year’s greatest winner and Patriot”.

Free speech doesn’t not mean freedom from consequences.

Example. If you tell someone to kill someone else, and they do it, you will be charged with a crime. Free speech means that you can voice your views, and the government (not private corporations btw) is not allowed to restrict it. That’s why you can still read Luigi’s manifesto, or the Unabomber’s. It’s why you can still publish and read the Articles of the Confederacy, or the Anarchist’s Cookbook.

Grinding all traffic in all directions over multiple lanes to a stop when a school bus stops

This varies by state, but I think I most of them are setup so that you don’t have to stop if the road is divided, or if there are more than 4 lanes (so 2 lanes for each direction, plus a turn lane in the middle, you don’t have to stop). As always, check your local laws, and when in doubt, signal and stop.

Edit: to clarify, the oncoming lanes don’t stop, the lane behind and adjacent to the bus still have to stop.

Driving trucks through crowds is the new 9/11. That’s what they’re saying.

Hijacking an airplane is a lot harder now, but any jackass with a credit card can rent a yank-tank and drive it into a pedestrian rich environment. That’s a much larger attack surface, and we can’t reasonably defend from it without oppressive surveillance and other personal freedom restrictions.

Well, that was not the intended message to convey.

Can you quote the part that gives you that impression? I’d like the chance to fix or clarify it.

Where?

Okay. What did I say about gravity wells?

I think you meant this comment for a different thread.

Are we traveling through time? Or is time simply a universal constant of entropy? Everything you experience is energy flowing from a higher potential to a lower potential, with some “loss” to heat. Without that downward shuffle, a rock balanced on it’s tip is indistinguishable from a time-stopped version of itself.

Basically, time is your body’s sensation of the inevitable terror that is the heatdeath of the universe.

My personal favorite?

Space and time is an infinite number of parallel realities that constantly compress and unravel at every possible random chance. We are 4th (or 3.5th) dimensional beings that experience the most probable result aggregated from an infinite existence. If you time travel back in time, and change the past, it would not affect the your past, but it would affect your future, if you time traveled back to your current time.

Just to clarify, the Maga chuds dying from drinking bleach, od’ing on ivermectin and getting sunburns in their colon would have been a net gain for humanity. Which is why it’s taking all my restraint not to say anything about birdflu and raw milk.

Yumyum is watered down Thousand Island dressing and I will fucking stab anyone who tries to take me off this hill. You like Yumyum? That’s because you don’t know that they used to do a savory mustard sauce that was meant only for gods, but the recipe was stolen and pased on to man, like Promethean fire. Now you just get that plastic encapsulated Kraft dribble instead. Fuck Yumyum sauce.

I do the same thing for a missile alert that I do for a tornado alert…

Film it from my front porch as it gets uncomfortably close, while my wife screams in the background for me to get back in the house.