Nah fam you should probably wait until Trump dies, which won’t be much longer.

My point was only that a lot of the news is a little hyperbolic, you should check other sources to see exactly what people in your situation are facing, I ain’t passing out financial or travel advice, just providing perspective.

This is why corporate America wants our population uneducated and tuned out and hooked on AI slop and distractions.

A couple points that media routinely skips right past because the current drama is great for clicks and views.

1. The current “escalation” of immigration hostility is only slightly more aggressive than it’s always been. Not counting the performative stunts ICE is doing in cities and neighborhoods, those are also just isolated cases that most people will never see in person, even ones who live in areas that have news reports showing fires and riots and standoffs… these kinds of things are happening in areas like, one square block at the most. Not downplaying it, but I do want people to have an accurate perspective.

2. And that percentage of bad cases and horror stories against tourists is very, very small to begin with. At least compared to the HUGE number of people flowing in and out of the country every hour. This is why the whole spectacle being played out by this administration is so ludicrous and pointless. More people were still deported under Biden. More people still stay in the country illegally just by overstaying their permits or travel visas. Most will never be caught or prosecuted.

Regular walks are the absolute best thing you can do for your dog and yourself.

Across suburban humanity, there are countless millions of dogs who get to stare at the same walls every day, all day, and they are creatures designed for roaming and running down prey. For that matter, so are you.

Dogs get depressed and anxious, people get depressed and anxious. Walking helps with that.

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I wish everyone who reads it would have as positive of an interpretation/association.

Like, imagine if we decided that books older than five or ten years were suddenly not worth reading

I can’t even get anyone I know to try reading Hail Mary before watching the inevitably less satisfying movie, and these are educated people who like science fiction, and the book was written exactly for today’s readers with shorter chapters.

Rates are falling, the book may go the way of the radio. Not gone, just not shaping society like it used to.

https://www.arts.gov/stories/blog/2024/federal-data-reading-pleasure-all-signs-show-slump

Welcome to getting old in the new millenium, where the things you loved are still kept fresh and can be still seen all over the internet, yet they are still… inextricably, old. I do not know what the next generation’s idea will be of intellectual development, but if it follows the patterns of history, likely we will hate it. With a deep, burning fire in our aching bones.

Office Space came out in 1999. There are people already planning their mid life crisis right now who haven’t seen it.

No but they will have an entirely squirrel themed Magic deck.

Compare this percentage with how many are MAGA and you start to see a distinct pattern.

Too late, already been lured away by the seductive embrace of Inland Empire and Electro Chemistry together.

If you pack and unpack something enough, the wrinkles kind of distribute more evenly instead of those sharp “square” patterns. Looking at the other hints in the picture like the fence in the background and the concrete slab, it seems this was set up hastily in some lot or alley.

Look at that “yard.” Weird old cheap red-stained lumber behind a “rustic” fence that doesn’t even reach the bare, dirt ground, a bare concrete slab, folding chairs just unwrapped with factory wrinkles, cables laying on the ground like a stagehand set it up, and absolutely no personal touches other than the smoker and barbecue.

This was obviously staged in some lot or ally behind the Meta Factory or wherever the fuck Zuck incubates and “smokes meat.”

If you can separate out the politics, America really is a beautiful country. So is China, I’ve been to both. Everyone should see both at least once.

People are far more scared of inconvenience than death.

Most people would rather put their pet down than have to care for them in some new way that requires money and attention, and this is what people who don’t understand autism think it is, like they will have to strap their dogs into a special chair and spoon-feed them.

Same with people. Most ignorant anti-vaxxers are far more terrified of being locked into caring for a disabled child than having a child die from a “natural” disease. And while they don’t consciously think this way, some layer of their brain has indeed weighed this out and formed their opinions.

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Let’s eat grandma

Let’s eat, grandma.

There is a real need for punctuation.

There is a whole area of cosmology that looks at large-scale event horizons, they can exist in many forms, and yes the “drop off” point over large scales is somewhat similar but those far away galaxies actually appear more like what we would see if a galaxy was falling into a black hole, IE: they turn red and seem to fade away… this is because we stop receiving new information from them because the expansion of space is faster than new photons can reach us… this doesn’t cut off sharply, it’s just the last photons stretch out so wide that the waves may as well be flat.

The difference between rates increases as the observer’s spacetime gets more and more distorted, so the closer you get to the black hole the faster times moves outside the event horizon.

To the extent that from the singularity itself, the outside universe is equally stretched out to forever since all reference frames are equal, so outside a literal infinity passes… and no we don’t have any understanding what this means, only that it seems to exist like this and this is one of many problems we still have with our understanding of black holes.

It really helps to understand that a black hole isn’t a point in space, it’s a point in time. After you cross an event horizon, you will see the universe outside accelerate as you fall closer to the singularity, in fact if you didn’t get stretched out into particles you would see the whole universe disperse and grow cold suddenly.

If you’re across the event horizon of a supermassive black hole you have more space and time to play with and can exist for a very long time before you get pulled to spaghetti, but that singularity is always in your future. It doesn’t matter which direction you fly or whatever tools you use, the center is always in your future.