Or how a president can pardon people convicted of rioting and public disorder. Doing so for the assault on the Capitol must surely admit complicity. Just heard today he has now pardoned some anti-abortionists. These people were not jailed for their views, but for violent disorder. Absolutely disgusting.

Me too. I have absolutely zero interest in celebrities and I don't think I could even name 10 so-called A-listers.

people are broken

In my experience, the more money a person has, the greedier they become. Have you noticed how it is always the people who can easily afford to pay their taxes without it even making a dent in their bank account are the ones who go out of their way to avoid paying anything?

See the documentary, Idiocracy! /s

Also money (greed).

Yeah, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

No form of currency has any actual value. Something is only worth what someone else will trade for it.

There is no conclusive answer, scientifically, about whether time existed before the Big Bang, but some theories suggest that it did.

Daylight savings time response: you're are totally missing the analogy. A much better example: In certain times of the year the blanket will be too far forward on the bed and cover your head. In the other half of the year, the blanket will slide towards the end of the bed and thus leave your shoulders uncovered. The only thing you can do is move the cut end of the blanket to one end or the other (depending on the time of the year) to make sure you are always best covered.

It is a way for crimimals to launder money.

Analog rulez!!!!!!!! Long Live Vinyl!!

As the late great Terry Pratchett wrote: "It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works"

It's often an addiction

We do this everyday. I bet there is even at least one positive good influencer.

A fair analogy is water from a hose or pipe. The water is under pressure, either from a pump or gravity. Turn on a faucet or valve and the pressure pushes the water out. This releases energy. The higher the pressure the harder the water sprays out, and bigger faucets release the water faster - consider the differences between a garden hose and a fire-hydrant (both have the same pressure) and a fire-truck and pressure washer, which have pumps that increase the water's pressure. A light switch or power button releases a stream of electrons, and releases energy. The higher the voltage, the stronger the pressure. Thicker wires allow more electrons to flow, if the electrical device needs it - compare a roomlight to an electric stove.

Your team is your de facto tribe, supporting your tribe is pretty basic human behaviour.

and no matter how small we go, we are finding their are particles even smaller.

When the slit is wide enough, Schrödinger's cat will go thru it and scratch an interference pattern on the screen. The scientist will scream "oh nooo!", that is called the 'observer effect'. 🐈

Dreaming while awake is even weirder

Computer and software design is the result of combining many, many discoveries, experiments, and ideas over decades of effort. The individual steps made along the way are honestly pretty simple, but human cleverness is the most important factor. A four year degree in engineering barely scratches the suface of all the technology involved.

Money

Try taking an already solved rubik's cube and scramble it, but write down each step as you scrambled it. Now do the same steps in reverse order. The 'pattern' is the list of steps. It turns out, there sub-patterns you can learn to solve any scrambled rubik's cube.

Remember how they created the original recordings: they attached a big cone to a tiny needle and placed the needle on a rotating cylinder of hard wax, then people yelled into the cone. This made the needle gouge out a track in the wax. The track had little wiggles in it, matching the vibrations in their voice. Playing the track back made the track wiggle the needle, and the needle made the cone vibrate and it was loud enough to hear.

Believing (hoping) in god is a deliberate choice, because it brings comfort. However, there are different kinds of comfort. Some hope for an afterlife of bliss. Some want to belong to their community of believers. Some pretend to believe because of peer/family pressure, which is another kind of comfort. Some use religion as an excuse to antagonize people they don't like (yet another kind of comfort), even if they all supposedly believe in the same god, and even though their god says all people are god's creation.

This. Getting a crush on someone else is aways a fiction. You're crushing on someone without "seeing" them in their daily life. That cute someone at work isn't going to be all smiles and flirts all the time like they are in your fantasies, and they probably have WAY more annoying habits than your partner (if you're like most of us, just remember the nutjobs you encountered in your dating history befor finding your partner). But even if your crush really is wonderful through-and-through, and your fantasy view is accurate, have the guts to leave your partner and start fresh. Don't be a wuss - pick one, don't double up. Otherwise, you're most likely throwing away a committed relationship for a fantasy lie.

You don't sail against the wind. You tack back and forth partially perpendicular to it and set your sail at and angle to catch to push you back and forth offset to the wind.

If you have ever stuck your hand out of the window of a moving car then you know the air can push your hand up or down. An airplane's wing is like your hand, though the shape of the wing makes it easier for the moving air to push it up. Bird wings work the same way, except they have to flap their wings to move forward, somewhat like an oar in water.

You don't delete anything. You just tell your device to forget it's there. Until the space it was occupying is written over it's still there.