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  • So the fifth person to arrive moves to the centre of the tetrahedron and shifts roughly 1.299m into the past or future.

    I have a few questions.

    1. How do you attain time offset?
    2. Doesn’t that make conversation difficult?
    3. What even is the fifth dimension?
    4. How do you convert a distance in metres into a distance in time? You would surely then have a universal m/s? Oh, wait, there is a universal speed, it’s the speed of light, which means 1.299m is equivalent to about 4.3 billionths of a second, which is considerably less impressive for question 1 and just not at all problematic for question 2.
    5. If you’re using very fast motion for your time offset, doesn’t that make conversation even more difficult? How fast would you need to be going to dilate time for a few billionths of a second? Doesn’t Heisenberg uncertainty start to have an impact here? How can you be sure you got it right?


  • Exactly this.

    First they came for the immigrants, but I did not speak out, because I was not an immigrant.
    Then they came for the students who protested Israel, but I did not speak out, because I was not a student, and I did not protest.
    Then they came for the Hispanics, but I did not speak out, because I was not Hispanic.
    Then they came for the trans people, but I did not speak out, because I was not trans.
    Then they came for the gay people, but I did not speak out, because I was not gay.
    Then they came for the Muslims, but I did not speak out, because I was not Muslim.
    Then they came for the people claiming benefits, but I did not speak out, because I did not claim benefits.

    Before all of this, they came for the black people who smoked a little weed, or shouted at cops who were shouting at them, and they locked them up and made them work for nothing or a nearly nothing wage, in prisons that profit from people who suffer for skin that’s not pink and parents who were poor.

    And when I asked my neighbour to not let his dog poop on my lawn, and he informed the authorities that I was disloyal to the president, they came for me, and my wife, and my children, and there was no one to speak out for me, and no one to defend me and no one to care because we had all run out of care, tired of turning our eyes from the despotic travesty of everything America was supposed to not be.





  • Conservatism is, as always, a complete failure of empathy, a lack of ability to recognise that if you don’t care about other people and you choose to put people who also don’t care about other people in charge, the people in charge simply and absolutely don’t care about you or your friends or your family.

    Conservatives don’t understand that “them” and “us” are actually all just us.