I like dark humor. A lot of the discourse surrounding Kirk has been downright hilarious.

I’m sure some Nazi motherfuckers take offense, but not me

I agree that we should not ever celebrate someone’s death. Violence isn’t the answer. Sometimes it’s required to defend yourself, but it doesn’t solve problems.

With all that being said, if you think that motivation for his killing was that he was a right wing, 2nd amendment type, well, I’ve got some land in Australia I’d like to sell you.

The guy was genuinely horrible to a lot of non conservatives, and thought gun violence was “a small price to pay” for the second amendment.

Others have detailed his horrific viewpoints far better than I could, so I’ll just leave it at that.

As much as I don’t condone violence, I’m not going to get sad about someone I didn’t know, who held beliefs I don’t agree with, has died. I have some measure of sympathy for his kids. His spouse knew who they were marrying, so I have less sympathy for them, but the kids, in my opinion, are the victims in all of this, if anyone. They didn’t ask for this guy to be their father, and they certainly don’t deserve to lose their father in such a public and very visible way. I have zero doubts that they will eventually see the footage that’s floated around the Internet, if they have not seen it already. That’s a tragedy. They’ll have to see, in full color, the last moments of their fathers life.

I can only imagine the kind of trauma that could impart. I truly feel bad for those kids.

It can be. It depends on context and tone.

If they say that shit with a tone of defeat, I’d address it head on. If it’s typical banter like this sucks kind of tone then whatever.

People say a lot of concerning shit if you take everything that they say literally. Fact is that a lot of us use sarcasm and hyperbole as coping mechanisms.

Today, I joked with a buddy at work that the day made me want to hang myself from my shoelaces. I have zero suicidal ideation right now, I’m just unhappy that I have to put up with the people I have to work with right now. He’s much the same, sick of the shit, so he gets me.

It really depends on the tone and context more than anything.

Considering some of his comments over the years, I’m torn whether this is ironic, appropriate, or hilarious.

I just can’t decide.

I had to scroll way too far to see a single fucking comment taking about how fucking shit everything is. You’re the lucky commenter.

Everyone else talking about the merits (or lack thereof) of speeding, missing the whole point.

I’m with you my friend. This shit is fucking tiring.

Everyone in the comments talking about speeding and I’m here like… Yeah, that be my day most days.

We’ve normalized the pain and suffering of modern working life so much that people see this shit and go “oh yeah, speeding is X, y and z” and completely skip over the part where life is a crushing, depressing, and neverending loop of torture.

Yay?

I like you.

These are all good points. Thank you.

Except an alien species wouldn’t know what cesium is… We would need to represent it to them as it’s molecular makeup, which is the only absolute representation of it, and would they know what a proton/neutron/electron are? Would they have a deeper understanding of the physics, and thereby have a different understanding of what we consider to be quantum particles?

We only generalize protons, elections and neutrons because we don’t really know what those things are made up of. Maybe they do, so when we show them our representation of it, would it be too rudimentary for them to comprehend what we mean?

There’s still a lot we don’t know. And these are the kinds of questions that tickle my brain.

I don’t think that was the idea when the second was created.

The solar rotation cycle is naturally divided into 365 rotations of Earth (give or take), each daily rotation was divided into 24 segments called hours, each hour was further divided into 60 units called minutes, and each minute was then further divided into 60 units which we call seconds.

In the modern era, we have refined how we measure a second by a very stable natural phenomenon, the emissions of cesium (which we also refer to as an “atomic” clock). But we got there first by dividing one of Earth’s rotations by 86400. It just so happens that 9 192 631 770 oscillations from cesium also equals 1/86400th of one rotation of Earth.

Additionally, neither a “second” nor even “one rotation of Earth” would have any meaning to someone who has never been to earth before.

See, this is all fascinating for me. I love this stuff.

It’s also a good exercise in recognizing the assumptions we make every day. I’m trying to get to a point where I can articulate my thoughts and I don’t have to struggle through the curse of knowledge.

That could work for velocities, but any measure of distance is based on our notion of time, like “light year” (the distance light can travel in one rotation of the Earth around the sun), which is relative.

Even an AU is the distance from Earth to our sun.

To be fair, we don’t really have another point of reference with which to measure stuff.

A good way to portray distance could be a blip the length of time it would take light to travel that far. Like an RF signal that lasts as long as it would take for light up travel from one edge of an object to the other edge of the object.

… It’s a difficult problem to try to solve even as a mental exercise.

All units of measure are abstract.

I like metric because it’s structured around an abstract amount. Even something like Celsius is pretty abstract, because the freezing and boiling point of water changes depending on the atmospheric pressure. The measure of a second? Why is a second, 1 second long? Why is it 1/60th of 1/60th of 1/24th of a day? There’s other stuff based on seconds too, like Hertz, which is literally “cycles per second”

I like to think about how abstract these things are, because if we were to ever try to communicate with a truly alien race, we couldn’t really use numbers, because their base numbering system would be different than ours, their symbols for numbers would be different, their entire understanding of math and how to calculate stuff could be wildly different, possibly because they understand things we do not. We couldn’t even say to them to communicate on a specific frequency of EM, because that frequency is based on Hertz, which is based on seconds, which is based on ??? IDFK (neither would they). We base everything we know on the world around us, and that’s entirely unique to earth. We make so many assumptions about how things are because we’ve only ever experienced life on this planet.

The only thing that kind of makes sense is how many days of the year there are, because it’s based on solid science about our solar system. It’s still unique to earth, but at least it makes sense on a larger scale. Everything else? Who the hell knows. Why is a meter as long as it is? Who defined this? Why? What abstract Earth-based thing was this based on that other societies of individuals would have no point of reference to relate to?

It’s wild we’ve made it this far, to be honest.

Anyways, I kind of got sidetracked… I guess all I’m really trying to say is that metric makes more sense than whatever the USA is doing. Even if it’s just as abstract in its conception.

For some, there’s little difference.

I know there’s some opinions on this, but I would consider this to be the case. Many people don’t have so much pride in their origins to consider using a term like expat, then there’s Americans, who’s entire identity is based on where they were born.

So it makes sense that someone from America living in another country would identify as an American expat, while everyone else is just, immigrated to where they are. Not enough focus on what country they came from to bother with an expat definition.

Makes me think that American expats are looking backwards, while other immigrants are looking forwards.

🖕 peace among worlds!

Username is definitely relevant. :)

I would consider your comment to be far more truthful and accurate than what is pictured in the OP.

Have a good day.

Oh. Can I see the abstractly list?

Sounds fun

To be fair, it’s a pretty large home. I’m living with my SO, my brother and his wife and there’s a couple of offspring that needed space too. Our house has ~5 ish bedrooms. Considering the number of people who live here, it can feel small. If it was just me and my SO, this would be humungous.

But that also means that we have four fully grown adults helping with the mortgage. So my share of the mortgage is around $1100 ish, per month, and we split most of the household bills, so I usually throw in about $400 more to help with that. I personally pay about $1500/mo.

My SO does the same, and we’ve encouraged my brother and his wife to also do the same. If everyone pays $1500 towards the house every month, we have more than enough to cover all the bills (electric/gas/water), as well as shared things like the Internet. Also that’s enough to cover the house insurance.

I’m glad I don’t live in America then.

I went from an apartment that cost ~$1250/mo. To a mortgage that costs ~$4300/mo. Just got the “privilege” of owning a home (and paying for all repairs myself).

I can only afford this because of the people I’m sharing that cost with. We’re all on the deed, and we all have a stake, and claim to, the house. Four of us.

My payment didn’t really change.

The only way we could get to the point of a down payment is that one of the four of us has been saving for something like this since they were in highschool. Because of their effort, we had enough for a down payment.

And I’m lucky to be in this position.

What a fucking crock of shit.

Despite all of this, I’m hoping the market takes a dive so the rest of you can do the same at a much more affordable rate. I’ve already spent the money and I’ll be spending years paying it off. I didn’t buy a house up objectively save money, I bought a house for stability. I never want to move ever again. There are good reasons for that which I won’t get into. I promise that I will have ZERO issues if you all get a better deal than I did. I hope you do, and I hope the housing market, specifically the rental/flipping/“income property” markets crash, hard.

In the same way, I’ve paid off my school debt, I’m in favor of school debt forgiveness. I also enjoy pretty good health, I’m in favor of universal healthcare. I’ve never caused, not been the victim of a fire, I’m in favor of fire departments.

I could go on.

Good luck everyone.