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@ReviewsPossum Hidden variables.

Nothing can travel faster than light because it's more accurately thought of as the speed of causality. If it could, then an event could happen before whatever caused it. That's time travel. That said, nothing can travel through space faster than light, but space itself can expand and contract faster than light, which is exactly what happens in a black hole. This is the idea behind the theoretical Alcubierre warp drive. The spaceship is essentially stationary inside a "bubble" of "flat" spacetime while the spacetime in front of it is contracted and the spacetime behind it is expanded. The spaceship doesn't move faster than light. The space around it does. The reason we can't build an Alcubierre drive despite the math working out is it requires a lot of negative energy. While the Casimir effect proves negative energy exists, to produce the amount needed requires exotic matter which doesn't exist, as far as we know. In quantum mechanics, the term "locality" is used to refer to the distance at which any event can influence any other event in a given span of time, limited by the speed of light. In the normal world that we're used to, nothing can influence anything at a distance in less time than it takes light to travel that distance. But in quantum mechanics, there exist phenomena such as entanglement, where two particles with the same origin have the opposite quantum state, but this state is fundamentally undefined (not because we don't know what it is, but because reality itself hasn't "decided" it) for both until one of them interacts with something and its "wave function" is collapses. When this happens, state of its entangled partner also becomes defined, and this happens instantly, no matter the distance, in apparent violation of locality. This would seem to imply that information is traveling between the two particles faster than light, but that's not really what's happening. Because particles have a wave function (wave-particle duality), their positions in space are fundamentally indefinite, and wherever they are in space is a matter of probability. When two particles are entangled, their wave functions overlap, so no matter how far apart they are, they're "touching" each other in some way. It might be easier to think of the two particles as both fully occupying all of the space between them, because they essentially are until their wave functions collapse and their positions become definite (this is called superposition). Even though wave function collapse happens instantly, this cannot be used to transmit information faster than light because there's also fundamental randomness to it. You can't know what state either particle is in until after you observe one and thereby collapse the wave function of the whole system (to "observe" in this context means to interact with it since it's impossible to measure anything in a quantum system without influencing it in some way). There's no way to "tell" a particle to be in one state or another, and thereby tell the other what state to be in.

@SolLunix Would you rather go to a consumption tax? And not tax food and housing expenses and other essentials? That would be a very regressive system. But it could maybe work with caps.

Corporation: "We made $4B but spent $3.9B so we only owe taxes on $100M." Government: "Totally reasonable." You: "I made $60K but spent $58K on survival." Government: "You owe taxes on $60K." You: "That's not—" Government: "File by May 15."

@Pete_Monahan_JD Those people were paying the same rate when they bought new as well for a market house. And your rate will also be capped a reasonable amount. It’s a good system. The inheritance pass down should Go away though.

For all the boomers & politicians pushing to remove property taxes, here's a common example of how screwed prop 13 has made CA: my wealthy single 65yo neighbor inherited her $1 million home. She pays $1,100/y in prop tax. We pay over $12k/y as a family of 6 w/ home worth 10% less

@skumWgmi I think for Gen X this happened with 9-11. Or maybe really Gore losing to Bush. It was a pretty abrupt break.

Something that breaks my heart as a Millennial is how fucking optimistic and fun our teenage years and 20s were. Like we envisioned a TOTALLY different world from the one that we've got and insanely divorced from what Gen-Z are experiencing. Its hard to put in words how fantastic we thought life was gonna be and how it seemed like we were making tangible social progress. We've had all of that ripped away from us.

@brianlivesey21 @sentdefender Nah he’s legit. Very smart and a good man. Definitely not a con artist.

@sentdefender William Joseph Toti is an American Christian minister, author, retired corporate executive, and retired naval officer. Another evangelical con artist

Hung Cao, the Acting U.S. Secretary of the Navy, has announced that William J. Toti, the Former Captain of the Los Angeles-class submarine USS Indianapolis (SSN-697) and Commodore of Submarine Squadron 3, will perform the duties of Undersecretary of the Navy.

@sentdefender Best captain I ever had. Good choice.

@TomSteyer Thats a little hyperbolic as there are no trillionaires in the world. How about taxing their business.

California can't have 12 trillionaires and 40 million people who can't make rent. I brought this message to my Shared Prosperity town halls, and I'll bring it to my California You Can Afford Bus Tour — kicking off today in San Jose.

@FastbreakHoops5 No question Curry. Presenting the numbers in that manner is a joke.

Curry rewrote the position and won 4 rings doing it. CP3 has more All-NBAs and one of the best peaks any PG has had. Who you got?

@KlayForTrey There are 4 all stars and an MVP on that team.

How did this team win 73 games bro 💀

@RandyWKirk1 An alternative would be to restore the taxes on the underlying business. It’s already taxed when converted to personal assets. Unrealized assets are essentially nothing. Once you own something it is yours. Personal property is widely different than concept than using land.

Contrarian position on Billionaires tax. I'm not in favor of CA taking one more dollar in taxes, but I'm also not sure why this tax is seen as unfair. We have property taxes on both homes and cars. There used to be an inventory tax on goods held by businesses each year. So, why would stocks, jewelry, paintings, etc. be any different. The argument that these individuals would have to liquidate assets to pay the tax is no different at all than my needing to liquidate assets to pay property taxes. What am I missing?

@PopBase Ok but this tax is kind of nonsensical. If you want to tax do it on business’s pulling in the billions of actual money. I have no love for billionaires. I’ll never be one. But outright theft of unrealized gains is not really the answer. It wont pass lawsuits.

A petition for the California billionaire tax, which would implement a one-time 5% tax on the state's 200 billionaires to fund healthcare programs, has received 1.5 million signatures — which could help it qualify for the November ballot. Gavin Newsom shared that he was fighting against this amendment in a previous interview with The New York Times.

@unexplainables8 Pretty legit. I’m not 100 💯 about Napa though. It’s kinda borderline but definetly more what I call wine country. Different vibes.

when i say “bay area” this is what i mean. this is not up for debate.

@jalessahj Actually no it’s not. My good friend recently got it at 49. And no does not engage in what your implying.

You’ve got to work real hard to act like you don’t know why this is happening…

@peterrhague The rational choice in a moral world is nobody dies. Blue. Red is the choice of selfish people who would kill millions for their own benefit. It’s letting go and realizing your own life is not the most important thing.

Amazing how lots of self appointed game theory experts confidently asserting that blue is the stupid choice. But every time this poll is run blue wins. Not only is the “game theory” answer predicting the wrong outcome, its explanatory power is based on it being able to predict the right answer. So it’s doubly wrong.

@Osinttechnical Ressurecting the Johnny 5 program.

Ukrainian “Gnome” ground combat robot in service with the 65th MRB, seen here firing one of its RPGs.

@Jason Maybe the best way would to make the coast uninhabitable. Or find the fuel depots and they cant operate for long. The sea caves would be harder to find. Irans geographical weakness would be the gulf coast. Cut off supply from mountains. Its doable. But a big operation.

@Jason My understanding is they are well protected in sea caves. And yes military vessels could handle them. But then they are in harms way from drones and anti ship/air missiles. They for sure got some. But they have thousands.

Someone educate me as to why the US Navy can't eliminate Iran's “mosquito fleet.” I get these are small, fast speedboats, but can't they be quickly eliminated by helicopters and jets, as well as ship-mounted guns? How many of these do they even have?!

@TrumpWarRoom @SecScottBessent Ever since 2017 I cant even claim 0 anymore without having to pay at the end of the year. Need raise them withholding tables back up instead of trying to trick people into thinking they are making more like this guy.

🚨 @SecScottBessent with a direct message to American taxpayers: "I want to encourage everyone out there watching today to change their withholding ... you will get an automatic real wage increase on a weekly or a monthly basis."

@WallStreetApes Ya it’s not hard. But I beleive it’s primarily like Facebook running in the backround. Could be others. 100 percent had my pocket at a a work safety training class. Came out on break and opened facebook and there were ads for concrete dust abatement services.The class I just took

CBS News says your phone is “Not listening to you” According to CBS, if you’re talking about something and an ad pops up on your phone for it, it’s a “creepy coincidence” They say processing audio from billions of phones in real time to pick out keywords and serve ads would be technically impossible at scale According to them, a scientific study of thousands of Android apps found no evidence of surreptitious audio recording being sent to advertisers I don’t believe this, not even a little bit

@MasterMaxmillon @Rightanglenews It’s a provisional that it only goes into effect when enough states ratify to equal 270 electoral votes. Getting closer.

@Rightanglenews Colorado did this also. I don't know how this can be constitutional. Also, Donald Trump won the popular vote and NONE of the states that signed on to this awarded their electoral votes to him. Their excuse was they would only do it if the other states did.

BREAKING - Outrage is erupting across Virginia after Abigail Spanberger signed HB965 into law, effectively rendering Virginians’ presidential votes null and void, with the measure handing the states electoral votes to the national popular vote winner regardless of states results.