All good! I still appreciated it, but I felt like I was missing some level of implied depth.

While Webb, by contrast, presumably talks more often out of his ass? Or was there some other organ which you were implying was from whence the subtitles should be flowing?

Yeah, I thought it was “Shoulder of Pork and Ham”

I came here to say almost precisely this. Thank you

You know shit’s fucked when The King In Yellow, the very manifestation of the idea that knowledge can kill, is having to defend the value of education.

Every day we stray further from god toward lost Carcosa

Is there a particular reason why the artist decided not to include the one thing which would conclusively define the skyline of Alexandria at that time? You know, the part that was one of the tallest structures in the world, and which was known as one of the great wonders of the world? You know, the thing that literally stood out on an island, in order to make sure that everyone in a hundred miles knew that that was where Alexandria was?

Like, yeah, this is aimed toward the moon gate, and you can see the Serapeum, but it seems like they purposefully picked a vantage point not to include the Pharos.

If you didn’t have plate tectonics, you’d have a lot of problems with the atmosphere, and there’s a decent chance that life wouldn’t evolve, as the energy differentials generated by tectonic activity are those which life hangs onto, from nutrients, to oxidation, to geothermal heat.

Given Europe’s own demonstrated islamophobia and treatment of asylum seekers, and the various genocides going on in east Asia at the moment, I hardly think that we Americans are alone in that regard. The primary difference being that the American Mythos props up America as this place where everyone should be ready to take up arms to protect their rights and the rights of others, and we’re getting to see precisely how hollow such fantasies truly are.

It reads a lot like timecube.

“I have a rich inner life!” responds the Chinese Room.

I do rather appreciate when idiots out themselves. Gives me another user to tag.

No, indeed! He was four right wings, all arranged around a 4-fold rotational symmetry axis.

Again, I think you’re replying to the wrong person. I never disagreed with any of this. I literally learned all of this years ago. I appreciate your attempt to educate, but I’m unclear on its purpose. The dude claimed that the speed of light is defined based on the meter, and that that makes it a tautology. That is simply, provably false. Then the dude tried to move the goalposts. Never did I say that our measurements are anything less than relative. Never did I suggest that our derived units are not based on fundamental constants the nature of which can be only guessed at. Now, you’ve said that the statement I made didn’t tell the dude “how to make use of” dimensionless units, which is a complete non sequitur. If you feel that that lecture is an important one when a dude demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of what c even is, that’s your own affair, and I invite you to give this lecture a few comment levels up to the guy who thinks that c is defined based on the meter.

I was unaware that the person to whom I was replying, who claimed to be intimately familiar with the complete works of Feynman, needed instruction in how to “make use of” a fundamental constant of nature. If that is something you think is necessary, perhaps you should see to their instruction in such matters, as you are so confident in your faculties of condescending instruction.

Furthermore, I am acutely aware of the existence and nature of dimensionless constants, thank you very much.

That may be, and I’ve been meaning to dig into my copy of the Lectures, but that’s moving the goalposts. You said that it was a tautology because it was defined by the meter, and the meter was defined on it. That statement is demonstrably false.

c is a measurable constant, not some unit that is arbitrarily defined. Like Boltzmann’s Constant, or the ground state hyperfine transition frequency of the Cesium-133 atom… it just… Is.

Therefore, it is a useful tool to define units. You claim it is a tautology because we write it in units of meters per second, while the meter is defined based on c. This is easily disproven, as you can represent the speed of light in any unit of velocity. It is a fundamental constant, derivable through experiment without any units a priori.

The fuck do you mean “they both died because of it”? Are you suggesting the horse-drawn cart that crushed his skull in the street was involved in some conspiracy by Big Uranium? Or perhaps you are suggesting that the horse was suffering radioactivity-induced delirium?

Excellent catch. You can also see that both major ticks say 6’

So, yes, specifically targeting Muslims, but catching strays with Yarmulkes as well.

Sounds like you would enjoy either “The Hungry Gods” or “Children of Strife” by Adrian Tchaikovsky. If you choose to read Children of strife, you really need to read the first three Children of Time books first, though.