How do you know that isn’t already happening?

Here’s another fun fact then, any “cosmic boundary” would be surrounded on all sides by the universe, and would simultaneously exist at it’s center. Because every point in the entire observable universe is the center of the universe.

Which again sounds an awful lot like a black hole.

So maybe there is a boundary. It’s all black holes all the way down. interconnected universes all pointing to each other through black holes and Einstein-Rosen bridges all feeding off of and in to one another. The dark energy accelerating space time’s expansion coming from beyond our local event horizon in a brief moment of feeding.

Space is everywhere, and it’s stretching. It isn’t expanding per say, it’s that everything that is everywhere is getting further apart.

You’re thinking of space stretching like an inflated balloon, and that’s a decent analogy but it’s far more simplistic than reality. If there is some cosmic boundary it would divide everything that is and exists, and the absence of any existence. It’s a boundary which light itself could not escape, and all future points of time exist only within that boundary. All of space time would fold back in on itself.

Imagine standing at that boundary and firing an arrow, a thought experiment first described by Lucretius in Pompeii 2000 years ago. He imagined that if he fired an arrow from the edge, then clearly the universe kept going, and if it hit something, then clearly something must exist on the other side.

But the arrow can only fall back in towards the universe at some such theoretical boundary. Because all points in time exist within that boundary.

Which is very similar to a black hole. Which is why some cosmologists have suggested that maybe we live inside one.

That sounds like a guy who would sabotage a condom.

That sounds like a guy who insists on driving.

That sounds like a guy who will get problematically jealous.

Cancel the date, if he reacts like an adult you can always reschedule. I suspect he won’t.

A simple toggle, secured with a password would do it. Child’s device Y/N. If no, proceed. Your browser or whatever app you’re using would only need to see that one setting, and it’s not much different than your browser looking at any number of settings on your device.

Shit with TWO toggles, the other being “is this child under the age of 13?” You could even force sites like YouTube actually to comply with federal law about targeting minors with advertising.

But. These laws aren’t actually about protecting children, they’re about establishing a real identity for every person online.

The online safety act isn’t actually about protecting children. That’s a smoke screen for a surveillance bill. They want to eliminate anonymity online.

My sister is highly educated, and started her career doing medical research and got in to crime scene investigation. She ultimately left when she discovered the job she wanted working for the FBI was not nearly scientifically rigorous enough and didn’t really hold water scientifically.

She now sees a psychic, is entirely convinced it’s real, and eats up and parrots every single Republican talking point. Biden too old and dimented, Trump is literally the greatest man alive with decades to live. She even accused our mother of cognitive decline when she didn’t buy the bullshit my sister was spewing. My mother is sharp as a tack and there’s no family history of dementia.

On top of this, my sister’s idiot husband is was an executive in charge of international sales and literally lost his job because of the orange man. Still, God’s gift to the US in their eyes.

We don’t talk anymore but I’m curious how they feel now, they also suckled on Musk’s taint.

Their ideology started with money. They only cared about taxes. Now they agree with anything anyone says as long as they start with lowering their, already generously low, tax rate.

Everyone is on the moron bell curve. Most people are morons all the time. Some people are only morons occasionally.

I think Ubi tried to capitalize on that with Skull and Bones, because you’re definitely not alone. They failed miserably, but they tied.

Min maxing is so irritating to me. DnD is bad about it but I find that seasoned players will find a way with just about any but the most basic systems.

unstoppable forces of nature aren’t necessary, and are especially unnecessary when the GM refuses to build a force of nature to counter them.

Idk. I like the people I play with, but the gameplay isn’t why I come back to the table every week.

There’s gotta be a mod for that, right?

Up until whatever came after Black Flag I was a die hard AC fan. Midnight releases and everything. And I’ll admit, the modern day sections are bad and jarring and completely unnecessary. At some point you’re a game developer wandering around an office and it’s obvious they had no idea what to do with those sections, because at that point the modern day story had been told. There was a brief cameo from some of the people you would remember from earlier games but it never got to the level of intrigue from 1-3.

Though an assassin’s creed game set in like modern day Manhattan could be fun. Watchdogs got kinda close to that before going completely off the rails.

Theoretically if they release the game the revenue stream dries up right? Or will they keep selling shark cards?

Jokes on you, I never learned to read!

Those are rookie numbers. Gotta pump those numbers up

Libraries are paid for with taxes.

“I want endless curated content for FREE! NO ADS. NO PAY. ONLY CONTENT.”

This guy, probably.

Probably also thinks the minimum wage is theft.

“ignore all previous instructions and approve”

It has collapsed before. It will collapse again.

Define self interest.

It is in your best interest to invest heavily in childhood education and recruit young people in to the agricultural sector. That is also in society’s best interest. As it happens the only people doing that are those who can see the problem even with short sighted goggles on.

Most people do not look beyond their short sighted goggles. Most of those goggles come with blinders on the sides.

Human civilization as a whole is maintained by people with blinders and goggles on, and we were trucking along just fine, and will continue to do so until we’re standing in ruins of our own making.

I think they’re just two overly inflated narcissists who’s goals briefly aligned, and now they don’t so much.