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@dangillmor News agencies should not have endorsements for any candidate, that is contrary to what journalistic integrity stands for.

The owner made the right choice.

@Pjcoyle

Almosy everyone i ever met in person would fall under all of these categorie

The biggest lie the democrats (and republicans) convinced the world of is that you should vote for them, even if they are evil, because they might win.

Interesting fact of the day: Most bee larvae, including honey bees, don't and can't poop until right before they spin their cocoon. Basically the upper and lower part of their intestine are seperate and there is no where for the poop to go. Right before they form their cocoon their intestinal tract connected, they poop their first and only poop as a larvae then spin their cocoon.

The reason for this is because all the food the larvae will eat is in the cell with them. As such if they were to poop it would contaminate the food. So by only pooping once, after the food is all eaten, it keeps the food safe and clean.

@MisterRelativity

> However:
> There also is (we can also define and measure) "radar acceleration", arxiv.org/abs/0708.0170 for instance, i.e. _of one specific participant_, _at some particular event_, _in reference to some other participant_.

When we say that something is not relative in the context of relativity we just mean there is some [privileged value. You can always measure something in a relative way even if it does have some absolute value with meaning.

> ... (cue drumroll) ...
>
> motion!, i.e. having a choice of different reference systems; with members of distinct ref. systems generally not remaining pairwise in coincidence wrt. each other, nor (pairwise) at rest wrt. each other.

The point is that if you have some object with a magnetic field that magnetic field can look like an electric field due to relativity effects. This is unrelated to the fact that a moving field will give off the other field. Also to be clear it isnt all motion, only acceleration causes this not velocity.

> Please discuss this statement for the case of
> - a regulation size <a href="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American">American football field</a> (presumably strictly 120 yards long, with two goals standing at rest wrt. each other this exact distance apart on the two endlines)

Since we dont operate at near-light speeds, or in extreme gravitational gradients the effects of relativity are small enough that they can be ignored for us in every day life. But the point is if i were going fast enough the effect can become significant and a football field may be a wildly different length depending on the conditions it is expierncing (speed, gravity, etc).

> Please discuss this statement for the case of muons (which -- pretty much always, so far -- were found to have <a href="pdglive.lbl.gov/Particle.actio">mean life duration \(\overline{\tau_{\mu }}\)</a> of about 2.2 micro seconds ...

Muons, like anything with a half-life at the quantum level, including radioactive material, does not have a fixed half-life like you suggest. The half-life described is only when the observer is in the same frame of reference as the muon. If the observer or muon are moving relative to eachother the half life changes and is no longer a constant.

@freemo Doc Freemo wrote (Oct 18, 2024, 07:04 PM):
> [...] However there is absolute acceleration (which is key to Gen. #Relativity).

Yes, there is (we can define and measure) (the magnitude of) _acceleration_ _of a specific participant_, _at some particular event_, as the <a href="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumci">radius of cuvature</a> of _the_ time-like worldline traced by that participant; by means of a Cayley-Menger determinant as expression of <a href="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heron%27">Heron's fomula term</a>; cmp. mathstodon.xyz/@MisterRelativi

However:
There also is (we can also define and measure) "radar acceleration", arxiv.org/abs/0708.0170 for instance, i.e. _of one specific participant_, _at some particular event_, _in reference to some other participant_.

> [...] A magnetic field arrises from an electric field [...] and vice versa [...] due to

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motion!, i.e. having a choice of different reference systems; with members of distinct ref. systems generally not remaining pairwise in coincidence wrt. each other, nor (pairwise) at rest wrt. each other.

p.s.
> * There is no absolute distance

Please discuss this statement for the case of

- a regulation size <a href="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American">American football field</a> (presumably strictly 120 yards long, with two goals standing at rest wrt. each other this exact distance apart on the two endlines)

- and a row of cars, driving along a sideline at constant speed \(\beta ~ c\) ...

> * There is no absolute time

Please discuss this statement for the case of muons (which -- pretty much always, so far -- were found to have <a href="pdglive.lbl.gov/Particle.actio">mean life duration \(\overline{\tau_{\mu }}\)</a> of about 2.2 micro seconds ...

@hydropsyche

That isnt what I said.. I said everyone **has been** a fetus and thus is open to an opinion. Thankfully we **can** think now and thus have an opinion as someone who could have been effected by such a decision.

@Strandjunker

@lowqualityfacts

I met god once, he is living in a back ally in India. You're good.

@wojslaw

I think they should get as much of a vote as anyone on the issue, since everyone has been a fetus, so everyone could have been effected.

That said we want to give women as much choice as morally right, and my mind that ends when the consciousness of the baby begins. The point at what that is is debatable as well.

@Strandjunker

@Strandjunker

So 100% of the people who oppose abortion are the people who would have been effected by it (were fetuses at one point in their life)... Sounds like exactly the people who should have an opinion honestly.

inb4: I actually support abortions (with restrictions). My point is only that it is an ethical issue that we all would have been effected by therefore we all have a right to a voice.

@KimPerales

Jesus christ they arent even trying to hide the racism anymore... At leas tin my day people had the good sense to be ashamed of their racism.

I can not beleive it is not butter! Now contraction free.

We are officially announcing it. As of August 24, 2024 me and Noi are engaged.

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