Regarding B… Yeah, I’ve tried and tried to find an intuitive explanation for this, and I’ve never yet found one. Basically the answer boils down to “Because the math says so” and every attempt to explain that in practical terms always comes down to drawing a light cone diagram and showing the causality paradox in geometric terms. I find this intensely dissatisfying because it’s really just visualizing the math without actually framing it in any way that’s truly comprehensible beyond “Trust me bro.”

This video, while a little over padded with fluff, does contain the best and most comprehensible version of this explanation that I’ve seen, but I’d love for someone to be able to put it in terms that actually make sense without just drawing lines on a graph and gesturing at them. Maybe that just isn’t possible. Perhaps the whole point is that FTL breaks the laws of the universe and our understanding of reality is necessarily constrained by those same laws.

Edit: OK, this video is a much better version of the explanation I described. I still find that explanation unsatisfying, but it is at least highly comprehensible.

So did the dems use presidential decree to get the funding in 2023?

Biden was inaugurated in '21. Why did it take multiple years for that funding to be budgeted?

Agreed, floatheadphysics is doing an amazing job of explaining these concepts in a comprehensible way.

I’m not following how this explanation is supposed to help with their question. Like, what are you trying to get at here?

It’s the now classic answer to “Why is this happening now?” Trump fucked it up, Biden tried to fix it without any sense of urgency because he just assumed he’d get eight years, and then Trump came back and fucked it up again.

Same bud. There’s so, soooooo much great music being made right now. Some of it’s on the radio, some of it is obscure as fuck. Doesn’t matter. You just gotta fucking open your ears and listen.

As a fan of both Gurren Lagann and Uzumaki I am deeply torn on this.

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This is why the cinnamon challenge is so difficult.

Just a little off the top.