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But from our perspective a photon emitted by a distant star reaches us after a certain amount of time.

If it worked that way than actual light would never get anywhere. Photons do in relativity experience time dilation, from a photons perspective its entire existence is simultaneous.

They aren’t if you are the inertial observer! If you (impossibly) did manage an average 0.1c it would take 10 years as measured by the inertial observer to complete a trip of 1 light year and the Traveller would experience less (do not ask me to solve the equations for how much less, I won’t)

Are you familiar with the Pendragon TTRPG at all?

Time dilation slows time for the fast rather than lengthening time for the not-fast

This post misstates the relativistic impacts of high speed travel (near-c is in fact impossible for energy reasons) a fast object experiences less time than an inertial observer at either end not that the duration of the flight is longer for external observers than Newtonian math would imply

A change I believe we must make: say “much more infrastructure construction” not “much more infrastructure spending.”

We are plenty good at spending on infrastructure; we are bad at building infrastructure. People know this and will react to our acknowledging the difference

Strictly speaking FTL being simply impossible is not itself a hard barrier to interstellar travel. It just limits its usefulness. What’s not likely “forbidden” at all but maybe not practically possible is self-sustaining artificial biosphere.

Goodnight from The Last Number nightclub, its doormen well-versed in the dark arts of keeping more than aled up bastards from crossing its threshold. Goodnight from Cherry Lane in Childford, the trees singing cradle songs to its sleeping Moss Maiden. Goodnight from Hookland.

Modern American SNES controller with concave pastel purple X and Y buttons

Concave pastel purple Smarties candy

Modern PAL SNES controller with convex brightly coloured buttons

Convex brightly coloured Smarties sweets including red, yellow, green and blue

Did you know that both the in the US and in Europe SNES controller buttons look like Smarties

rightly so. they see that raising the garden walls is succeeding a digital/platform product strategy and what better time to tighten the noose around the neck of consumers than now? make meta the standard. why not try making the consumer capitalist panopticon a part of their moat?

My favorite Amazo story is the one in Morrison’s JLA run where they defeat him by temporarily disbanding the JLA

I just remembered that in the lore for Carnivalè magic ends with the detonation at Trinity and that in Twin Peaks the demonic forces enter our world at the same time.

Strings of vowels

Voyager is probably better once Seven comes on in Season 4 I’m not sure what I’d say the best period for SG-1 is but seasons 9 and 10 are mostly kind of dire as much as it pains me to be against Claudia Black

Kill the

[ HAYES CODE ]

in your head

Me: when you think about it rationality is fake, nothing is rational!

Some people: okay let him cook

Me: I mean it! No value that can be expressed as the ratio between integers describes reality!

Some people: whut?

The two greatest and most important writing hires in comic history—Alan Moore to write Swamp Thing and Chris Claremont to write X-Men—were both made by the same guy: Len Wein

We tend to think of Wein as a writer and creator (and he was very good at both), but his real legacy is as an editor.

my friend was at a noisy bar and was talking to someone who asked him about his job, and he said (shouted) that he’s a professor and he chairs his university’s Center for Health Humanities, and his interlocutor looked puzzled and asked (shouted), “center for healthy manatees?”

You cannot tell voters (accurately) this is a fascist regime that is hell bent on destroying us - let alone rely on it (as Dems are) as your GOTV while also voting yourselves to enable the regime.

Gotta say that this is some extremely creepy language. And the argument basically is... that if the prevent people from treating gender dysphoria (adults, in this case), that they'll just... stop having it? That's not at all how any of this works.

a black and white edit that reads "the future includes trans people". around the text is a floral pattern. the image is grainy

the future is for trans people

I always think about how weird it is that in the Hero system Healing is an Adjustment Power meaning that conceptually it’s about adding points to the damaged Characteristic to bring it back to its original level

mentally I’m here
#leonkennedy #pokopia #residentevil9

Seeing if we have a pre-1953 save still available

E495.1
Ghostly marriage party.

Heck yeah!

Anyway here’s…

Leslie and Brianne are at a gas station. Leslie, in rabid-poster mode, exclaims "I'm so angry!! I have so many opinions on other people's opinions of the new Pixar movie!!" Leslie, going to town on some Fresh Gasoline, replies "You need to drink more gasoline. It makes all my thoughts and opinions melt away!" But then she sees the price of gas and freaks out- it's "A Lot!"

this @keithstack.com comic is both 4 years old and topical again which is giving me low-grade anxiety

I’ll remind you that the 4e Psionic Defender was, in fact the Battlemind