Marsh Ray has left and you should too. See bio.

I have finished unfollowing you. All 3,523 of you. Friends and contacts whom I'd been collecting like hero cards since 2009. One at a time, by hand. Unless you'd died. If you had a bsky or masto in your bio, I followed you there. If not, @ me when you get one. 🫡 ❤️

@mpeters841 Hey Missy! Long time no talk. I'm not around here much, I'm mostly over on Discord. Let me know if you'd like an invite. It'd be good to catch up!

@marshray Come do a space on X !!! I command you 🤣🤣🤣

The worst part about that other site is having to process all those new followers who are actually real humans with intact minds and souls.

@ahmad98mahmood Hey man. It's not your fault that you grew up at a time of high quality video and never learned how to recognize compression artifacts, or deceptively edited propaganda. But I recommend you learn about these things if you want to be more than a 21st century sheep.🙂

@grok No, the robot is saying "I have curiously SPECIFIC unsolicited opinions about South African Boers". Taking into account that important correction, what specific opinion does this meme likely refer to?

The meme shows a robot saying, "I have curiously unspecific unsolicited opinions about South African Boers," poking fun at AI or people giving vague, unasked-for takes on complex topics. South African Boers are descendants of Dutch settlers, known for farming and historical migrations like the Great Trek. The humor ties into debates about farm attacks in South Africa, a serious issue often linked to broader crime, not racial targeting, despite claims of "white genocide." Some argue white farmers are disproportionately attacked, while evidence suggests these incidents reflect general crime rates, not racial motives. The meme highlights the absurdity of oversimplified opinions on such nuanced issues.

Would you please explain this meme for us, @grok ?

it's official — 1,000,000 people have joined Bluesky in just the last day!!! welcome 🥳 bsky.app/download

I am getting so much more friendly and interesting engagement over on those other platforms.

@LevEyal111 @BernieDogBear @DoofisMannfred @MattB_M2M Yep. Anyone who's played pool/billiards understands this.

@marshray @BernieDogBear @DoofisMannfred @MattB_M2M Mr. Marsh, lets let something else. When light hits a mirror, it is reflected at an angle, equal to the angle bubwhich the light came in, with respect to a perpendicular to the surface. Doesn't the same hold true for a curved mirror?

This sundial in the botanical gardens of Rio de Janeiro can ONLY work on a globe. Rio de Janeiro is in the Southern Hemisphere at 22.9° South latitude. You will notice the sundial is tilted, and the North end is pointing downwards, which means the northern celestial pole has to be below the horizon at this point. Notice the time is 12 midday! How is that possible on a flat earth, and how does this sundial work (which it does) to tell us the approximate time on a flat earth? We all know it can't and it won't.

@DoofisMannfred @BernieDogBear @MattB_M2M He's not wrong that a point on a line defines a perpendicular plane. If you're standing at ground level, the plane defined by the string and the weight is *very* close to the 'astronomical horizon'. But this plane is defined by the string and weight, not the other way around.

@BernieDogBear @marshray @MattB_M2M There is already an angle to be measured without a horizontal plane present. There are also no curved lines in the diagram. So that means horizontal is not required to measure an angle. Nifty!

@BernieDogBear @DoofisMannfred @LevEyal111 @MattB_M2M Loser 😂

@BernieDogBear @DoofisMannfred @LevEyal111 @MattB_M2M That angle is 71.85°

@ThatGuyM88 @KarenBe39842082 Here's a well-known example of a particularly dense gas being held in an open-top container: youtube.com/watch?v=BV-HXy… My understanding is that at high vacuums and low temperatures, the few remaining gas molecules tend to settle on the bottom as well.

You're assuming gravity holds the atmos without providing any real demonstration yet again🤦🏻‍♂️ Gas expands to fill available space, so where’s the repeatable experiment showing gravity containing gas pressure without a physical barrier? Claiming gravity does it because 'it requires the mass of Earth' is just circular reasoning, you're starting with your conclusion and working backwards🤦🏻‍♂️ And bringing up the Moon or Mars is irrelevant. We're talking about Earth, so many fallacies for something you believe to be factual🫢 Show me gas pressure being contained without a physical barrier, not just assumptions about gravity. Until then, your argument doesn't hold up and every attempt to defend your model is representative of your nonscientific beliefs😎✌🏼™️

What is gravity🤔 Gravity is nothing more than density. Objects rise or fall relative to their surrounding medium. Example below👇🏼 #FlatEarth #FlatEarthFridays #FlatEarthIsReality

@ThatGuyM88 @KarenBe39842082 Gravity is a *very* weak force and gas *does* escape from the Earth over time. Smaller bodies like our Moon or even Mars can't hold onto an atmosphere. Since it requires the entire mass of Earth just to hold onto a mere 15 PSI of atmosphere, it's a difficult effect to replicate.

Not a claim, just observable reality😎 I can't use propane for my grill without it being contained, and neither can we observe gas pressure existing without some form of containment in any system here on Earth. The pressure gradient you requires something to stop the gas from escaping into a vacuum, otherwise, it would naturally disperse. If you think gravity alone does this, you’ll need to demonstrate gas pressure being maintained without a physical container 😎✌🏼™️

@BernieDogBear @DoofisMannfred @MattB_M2M A string and a weight is all you need to determine the local up-down direction line. The direction to Polaris as seen from the weight gives you another line. Two intersecting lines give you an angle. No "floor" is needed. 2,300 year old wisdom, dude.

@BernieDogBear @DoofisMannfred @LevEyal111 @MattB_M2M We need two lines to make an angle, but that diagram has only one line. If you would like to choose another point 'Q' on the curve, then we could measure the angle between that line and the line to Q, or the angle between the two curve points' tangent lines.

@ThatGuyM88 @KarenBe39842082 "A simpler explanation is that gas needs a barrier" That's a claim, not an explanation. So you acknowledge the pressure gradient. Do you acknowledge that pressure approaches zero above some altitude?

You're restating the pressure gradient, which isn't disputed🤦🏻‍♂️ The real question is what stops the gas from dispersing into the vacuum of space if there's no barrier?🫢 Pressure approaching zero doesn’t prove containment, and it doesn’t explain why gas doesn’t expand into your claimed vacuum as gas expands to fill any available space. Occam's razor would actually cut against assuming gravity contains gas without a demonstration🧠🤔 A simpler explanation is that gas needs a barrier, like in EVERY observable system on Earth. If you think no container is needed, then provide a repeatable experiment showing gas pressure held by gravity alone, without a physical barrier😎✌🏼™️

@BernieDogBear @DoofisMannfred @LevEyal111 @MattB_M2M That's a single tangent line touching a curve at a single point 'P'.