Vorticity

joined 2 years ago
[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago (6 children)

Two questions:

  1. Why would we think otherwise considering that everything in the universe seems to rotate from galactic clusters to galaxies to black holes to stars to planets to the brains of physicists trying to reconcile relativity and quantum?
  2. Does the math actually work out? If so, is there a known constant for the angular momentum of the universe that would explain what we're seeing?
[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 34 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I hope we fall a few votes short of veto-proof. Then Trump vetos. Then we get a veto-proof vote. Maybe that's asking for too much, though.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Oh, that person is way too alpha for therapy.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago

I would think that all of the school officials could be brought up on charges of failing to report as mandatory reporters.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I got an MS in a STEM field and wasn't able to buy a house until I was 36, supervising multiple employees, and married to someone who also contributed.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 110 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (24 children)

How the fuck is Kid fucking Rock still relevant in any way? I thought he would have just disappeared into obscurity after the 90s ended. Do some people actually still give this guy their money for some reason?

Edit: How the hell does the "ba with the ba with the bang da bang diggy diggy - diggy said the boogie said up drop the boogie" guy have eleven studio albums? And who the hell are the 5.3M monthly listeners on Spotify? This blows my mind!

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 24 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I hope the lawyers keep quitting and no one replaces them until this administration has been tossed in the trash. I worry that if lawyers with consciences don't come back, though, their positions will be filled by sycophants. I also worry that once the Democrats take back over they will be unwilling to fire the new right-wing sycophants.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (23 children)

What benefits does a shell like this have over bash and how hard is it to transition?

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Even if true, $1B is nothing in the federal budget. The federal goverent spends $1.9T on heath care costs.

The ICE budget is $37.5B. So, if it were true that $1B is being spent on health care for undocumented immigrants, one year of the ice budget could pay for it for nearly 40 years.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It is so frustrating that we don't have high speed rail yet. The promises made to me as a kid were killed somewhere between the and now. I feel like Charlie Brown with a football...

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

They're also holding up shutdown negotiations by not passing anything new that the senate can work with. They're basically saying "do a clean CR or nothing".

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

While it isn't the full motive for the shutdown, part of the motive is likely avoiding release of the Epstine files. Currently, only one more "yes" vote is required in the House of Representatives to pass a resolution calling for the release of the files. There is a new member of the House who was elected in Arizona but she hasn't been sworn in yet. The Speaker of the House has been delaying swearing her in for two months and has essentially shut down the House to avoid the issue. In the mean time, this means that the House is doing literally nothing to end the ongoing government shutdown.

 

I'm a white guy from a fairly non-diverse city. I was at a grocery store today where a cashier opened up their line to serve me and, I thought, the person behind me. As they were serving me, though, they put up their lane closed sign right in front of the black man behind me. The buy was just trying to purchase some tuna, bread, and peanut butter.

The cashier basically decided to serve me, a middle class white man, but refused to serve the black man behind me. I was so shocked that I didn't say anything. It is possible that I misunderstood the situation but it seemed so blatant.

What should I have done in this situation? Should I have spoken up? Would that have just been more embarrassing for the man who was being discriminated against?

Honestly, I'm still just in shock to see someone treated so poorly when they were simply trying to buy food for themselves. I recognize that means that I'm sheltered but I also feel like I should be able to use my unearned privilege to help others who are being discriminated against.

 

 

I keep running into issues where I'm unsure of which account I'm currently using. It would be nice if it were more obvious at all times. Two things that would help me are:

  • always display the current user somewhere, regardless of what content is being viewed.
  • allow setting different color themes for different users.
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