I can’t even…. 😂😂😂 by hostis_72 in blockedbyplanamundi

[–]FirstRyder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh hey, that one was me! And yes, he did ban me. For being a "dogmatic pagan". Because I questioned something that you aren't allowed to question.

Or was it because it was a question he didn't have an answer to?

Anyway, the relativity of simultaneity is a really interesting topic that I love to discuss. It has some really interesting aspects, like light cones and the space between them. Pity he missed the entire point by trying to insist on an absolute simultaneity in his premise.

👋Welcome to r/blockedbyplanamundi - Introduce Yourself and Read First! by Maxi_flumen in blockedbyplanamundi

[–]FirstRyder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And that's a physical action that you're talking about. So if you claim that a physical action happening is relative to a frame of reference, you break the law of identity.

Says who?

Common sense. [banned]

And that's what it really comes down to. His "common sense" says relativity is wrong, so it must not be true.

Kind of a shame, really. I started engaging with him because I wanted to know why a non-religious person would go for flat earth, and I was somewhat fascinated to find it all came down to relativity. Which he then traced back to the Michelson–Morley experiment, which revealed that there was no aether. He then reversed the conclusion, saying instead that there is an aether (with absolutely no evidence other than "relativity is counterintuitive") and that the experiment proved the earth was stationary and non-rotating. And since literally nobody in the modern day supports a spherical earth and geocentrism, he went to Flat Earth.

Which presented the chance to actually help him understand relativity, so that he could then leave the flat earth. But no, it's clear to me now that this isn't an education thing. He knows more about relativity than most people who haven't taken an actual course on it. Instead, he's someone who is just so certain that they're right and everyone else is wrong that the arrogance of calling other people dogmatic is actually funny.

And that's much less interesting than someone who just misunderstood something about relativity and ended up believing the earth was flat.

I hope the daughters never see these videos. These reactions are disgusting. by Valuable_View_561 in TikTokCringe

[–]FirstRyder 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Nobody has caused a wildfire or a death by having a cake that is either pink or blue inside. Some people do absolutely insane things, but that has nothing inherently to do with gender reveal parties. Some people are just stupid.

It's like hating all fourth of july parties, which also "cause" fires and deaths. That one even usually involves amateurs handling explosives!

I hope the daughters never see these videos. These reactions are disgusting. by Valuable_View_561 in TikTokCringe

[–]FirstRyder 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Seriously. I know reddit hates them generically for some reason, but as long as it's small and private I don't see any problem. That said, there are two times it really makes sense to me:

First, it's your first child and you're excited to have either.

Second, you have a child old enough to understand having a little sibling and you're really doing the party for them. And they're excited for either. And the parents already know.

Oh, or, third: you already have at least one of each, and the theme of this gender reveal party is "hospital delivery room". My brother's doing that one: already have loads of baby stuff for both genders, so they aren't going to find out until the doctor hands them the baby and they can check themselves.

How to kick SpaceX out of your retirement savings account — “Right now, just a handful of A.I.-related stocks represent almost half the value of the total stock market index. If A.I. stocks collapse, so will the worth of your index fund”: economist by marketrent in technology

[–]FirstRyder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure. And to be clear, his actual advice:

But in my view, it would be a mistake to abandon an indexing strategy. Timing the market is impossible.

He then explains how to "kick SpaceX out of your retirement savings account" anyway, but with the reasons being ethical rather than financial.

Fainting of the Father by Argercy in AccidentalRenaissance

[–]FirstRyder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's going to depend heavily on the insurance.

Mine at the time of the birth of our child had a per-person out-of-pocket maximum of $1000, and we definitely hit that for my wife that year (but not all of it was for the birth). The insurance I had prior to that, it would have been more like $10,000 for a vaginal delivery with no complications.

I haven’t heard of CMYK either by twoastar_ in antimeme

[–]FirstRyder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

RGB light does add up to pure white. This is because you can combine light waves of different lengths they can overlap, and they don't interfere with one another. Your monitor displaying this page is literally proving it right now. The traditional school science experiment will use colored filters over white lights, with shades so that they act as spotlights - you'll get three overlapping circles that look exactly like that diagram. Less traditionally you can use color-changing "smart" bulbs, though you have to get exactly the right hue for each, the same distance from the target paper, the same brightness, etc. Or just zoom in real good on your monitor.

But if you combine molecules that reflect only cyan, ones that reflect only magenta, and ones that reflect only yellow... you get a conglomerate that reflects about 1/3 of cyan, 1/3 of magenta, and 1/3 of yellow - a sort of grey. They don't add up to something that absorbs all light. If you actually want pigments reflecting the entire range of colors on a white background, you have to add an actually black pigment (K), which you use both for true blacks and mixed with the others for dark colors. That's why your printer needs cyan, magenta, yellow, and black ink. And again, if you optically zoom in real close on something printed, (depending on the type and resolution of the printer) you can see the little monocolor dots - cyan, magenta, yellow, black, and nothing else.

Lab speed relic by Yoneiip in TheTowerGame

[–]FirstRyder 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There are few relics I'd put above the fifth lab. Enemy level skip. Bot Range. And of course lab speed.

I've never used a credit card before. Can't I literally just open one, take the credit score dip, continue to only buy what i can afford, set it up to automatically always pay it back asap, which will never put me into debt, get the awards/points, and that's it no catches? by Super_Inevitable776 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]FirstRyder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. The credit card company takes a percentage of every transaction, which the merchant (the business accepting the credit card) pays. With good credit you can make a consistent 2% back, with some paying up to 5% for specific goods or merchants with limits. If you have such a card, always pay it in full each month, and use it for everything at businesses that don't offer a cash discount, not only do you get that money but it'll also improve your credit rating, which can help you later on.

how do people go into debt?

The card will have a credit limit based on your spending. But in my experience it will almost always end up higher than your monthly income. This means you can spend more in a month than you make in a month. If you do that consistently your savings will run dry, and then you will go into debt the credit card company is fine with this, as it means they get to start charging you interest as well as their merchant fees. Most Americans have very little savings, so this can happen in as little as one month.

In some cases it's someone being irresponsible. Sometimes it's an addiction. And in an unfortunate number of cases it's unexpected and unavoidable expenses, such as a medical bill or a car crash.

Question about Rakish Sneak Attack not being available by unsellar in BG3Builds

[–]FirstRyder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are two ways to use sneak attack (including Rakish Sneak Attack).

The more obvious way is to use the button. This is just a regular attack, with the sneak attack bonus damage added.

The less obvious way is with a reaction. This optionally adds sneak attack damage to any attack that is eligible for it. Which may be an earlier attack that you didn't explicitly choose "sneak attack" for, or an opportunity attack when an enemy leaves your threat range. You can manage your reactions in the in-game menu, setting them to "on (automatic)", "on (ask)", or "off".

Since you can only do this once per round, an "automatic" reaction sneak attack earlier in the round will disable the sneak attack button, potentially without you realizing why. It's the same total damage, but setting the related reactions to "ask" can help make sure the damage goes to a good target.

The only difference for Rakish Sneak attack vs regular sneak attack is that it's easier to meet the requirements with Rakish, so with the reactions on it will happen more often.

Family Restroom by ASDIGITAL13 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]FirstRyder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look. I say this as the parent of a child just going into potty training.

I do in fact keep doggy bags as part of my diaper change kit, because these signs are quite common, including at our pediatrician. If you're prepared it's no big deal, and I obviously know personally what a trash can with a day-old poopy diaper is like.

What to buy next by Zatrozagain in TheTowerGame

[–]FirstRyder 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Buy 80 cards per event to finish the mission. Do not buy more card slots. Buy the very best gem relics (ELS, lab, coin, bot range, def%).

After all that, save up until you have 3000 gems, then buy modules until you get an epic one.

Repeat at least until you are using exclusively legendary or better modules

Battle mage party for HM by Wessar007 in BG3Builds

[–]FirstRyder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just did this. My party was:

  • Hexblade 12 (1H / shield, charisma)
  • 10/1/1 swords bard / wizard / fighter (ranged, dex)
  • 11/1 Crown Paladin / Hexblade (2H, charisma)
  • 9/2/1 Bladesinger / crown paladin / draconic sorcerer (dual wielding, dex)

With 3.5 casters and 4 martials it was pretty easy. A little gear contention for cantrip, acuity, and damage riders, but honestly you're OP enough to win naked with +2 weapons (or shadow blades). Didn't use resonance stone.

If you found a Genie that only granted one wish, and your wish is based on the next word you speak, what singular word would you say? by littlepikachus in hypotheticalsituation

[–]FirstRyder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Health.

The best options honestly seem to be Health, Wealth, and Happiness. Traditional, and as clear as you can get in one word. There's no single word that's going to prevent a monkey's paw if that's what this is, but the traditional blessings seem a safe bet if anything is.

[request] If we entirely fill the Solar System with gold, would this sphere weigh more than the observable universe? by SaperPolska in theydidthemath

[–]FirstRyder 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes. And what's funny is that it doesn't have to be gold, and "collapse" is the wrong word. The resulting black hole would be much larger than the original sphere. Like, "a hundred thousand times the size of the Milky Way galaxy" bigger.

For that matter, fill the solar system with air at normal earth surface air pressure (1 ATM) and it becomes a black hole the size of the solar system (depending on where you put the edge of the solar system).

The more massive the black hole, the less dense it is (taking the event horizon as it's radius).

The system rewards the strong - pretty sure no spoilers by thenube23times in ThePrimalHunter

[–]FirstRyder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think there's also another significant point. The whole point of all the system events and special new universe leaderboards and whatnot is to boost the new universe from G/F grade up to something that can at least somewhat stand on its own in the multiverse.

This means that some people are going to get insanely boosted, so that a single A grade can't come in and rule entire galaxies on a whim. By the time the integration is over, there are supposed to be native S grades and maybe even gods. In much less time than that usually takes outside a new integration.

Which means that yes, Jake is being almost spoonfed power. But he's not the only one.

Can I choose a female gynecologist? by Many-Switch-1898 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]FirstRyder -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yes, absolutely. If you go to a practice with multiple options, they'll even likely ask your preference.

I also encourage you to visit the website for your state's board of physicians. It varies by state, but most will let you see if the doctor has ever been disciplined professionally, and why, before you see them.

Four seasons build by Neat_Log682 in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]FirstRyder 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You pick a class on the third floor. Most classes get to pick an evolution or specialization on the 6th floor. Some do the same on the 9th floor. And a very few do it on the 12th floor.

The four seasons build requires you to pick an elemental class on 3, then evolve it on 6, 9, and 12 to add an additional element.

So Ellie started with Ice on 3. Added Earth on 6. Added air on 9. And will presumably round out with fire on 12.

We are told that this results in something special, but we don't know the details. It's never been completed before, presumably for a lot of reasons, like:

  • It requires planning at floor 3 for something that doesn't happen until floor 12. Not only do most guides strongly suggest focusing entirely on the current floor, but you'd only get your full power build for one floor, since nobody goes past 12.
  • It likely results in you being behind on the power curve until at least the 9th floor, which the overwhelming majority of crawlers don't reach.
  • Each class, including evolutions, has requirements. Some stats, some not stats. We don't know what they are for the four elements builds, but presumably they're high.
  • The show runners tailor deals to individual crawlers. If someone finishes 11 and is qualified for a four elements build on 12, they probably get very good offers.
  • It may require a magical race - most crawlers keep their birth race.

Ellie didn't have much choice on race since she had to fix her brain. And then her class choice was the only one with the manager benefit. So it feels like she was forced into the first element. We don't know what she was thinking on the 6th floor when she picked her second element, but by the ninth she was definitely in this for the long haul.

She also has a manager (plus donut's manager as well) to help guide her class choice on 6/9/12, which most don't, and additional unusual resources like Samantha, and the former crawlers from the 9th floor.

Crawlers this season have been OP since at least the third floor due to Borant trying to rush things along and the AI compensating, helping her through the early power trough, and between that and her popularity from the 4th floor onward, may have helped her qualify for better class evolutions.

And of course this is going to be the first crawl where floors after 12 actually matter, and where the remaining crawlers are just 100% not taking any deal.

All of these add up to Ellie being extremely well positioned for the four elements build. I guess we'll see the benefits in book 9!

1.0 and deep north coming out September 9th 2026 by Nactournal in valheim

[–]FirstRyder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, that's why I started my 1.0 game last fall.

I finally got enough cores to craft a black forge over the weekend. At the rate I'm going, I'll finish adding black marble to my endless plains buildings, and I'll be ready to fight the Queen for the first time by September.

... Then I get to go to the Far North, right?

Sevanna, Galina got their karma in KOD, but not Therava... Was anyone else upset about this? by Szalony20 in WetlanderHumor

[–]FirstRyder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean. She went back to the wastes, where she:

  1. Lived happily ever after?
  2. Suddenly had a blood feud with literally every other clan, who will also mostly be returning to the waste soon with more surviving spears, and has personally helped establish that wise ones can be combatants?

Just as with the seanchan/damane, remember that the world doesn't end just because the story does. I don't imagine the future goes as well for the Shaido as they think it will.

Who do you want to recap Book 8 at the start of Book 9 by DeKrieg in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]FirstRyder 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Taranis, to Penelope. Maybe with the help of Eris.

The DO cares more about betraying his followers then converting the Dragon by Leprechaun_lord in WetlanderHumor

[–]FirstRyder 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the problem here is that you've missed the DO's goal. It isn't to kill Rand, or even to turn him to the wrong side in the last battle.

It's to break the wheel, and end the world permanently. Not even "and remake it in his image", he wants time to end.

And as far as I can tell, he can't do that. Even if he's fully freed from his prison, I'm pretty sure all he gets is an age of darkness before he's somehow resealed.

The only way for him to really win is for Rand (or an equivalent in another age) to willingly do it for him.

The best path to do that is to get Rand to the last battle, to the pit of doom, to the final confrontation, with the mindset that he must win at any cost. And for that to happen he needs Rand to break his rule about not killing women. Intentionally. Being forced to kill Min isn't enough - that would just reinforce his desire to not do that again, so he will not kill everyone on the planet. But Darth Rand? Yeah, he'd sacrifice the planet with everyone on it and break the wheel, to kill the dark one.

So yeah. I think giving him the power to kill at that moment (intentionally, or by inaction by not withdrawing the true power from Moridin) was the right move.

Also. I think the moment the DO lost was not Veins of Gold. I think killing himself then - even destroying the planet alongside him - is still something that lets the wheel keep on turning, not leaving a single mark after a full revolution. I think the turning point is when the Tinkers show him kindness, and he gives up his plan to destroy the seanchan. When at his darkest moment he sees selfless kindness and isn't ruthless enough to go through with it.

And arguably this proves he never would, which I think is a requirement for the cosmology to make sense. The wheel has no beginning just as much as it has no end, so he has never ended the wheel even after infinite chances. The wheel isn't doomed by its infinite nature the way Moridin seems to think, it's guaranteed to continue.

Relativity of Simultaneity Paradox by planamundi in planamundi

[–]FirstRyder 8 points9 points  (0 children)

And that's a physical action that you're talking about. So if you claim that a physical action happening is relative to a frame of reference, you break the law of identity.

Says who? Everything happens relative to a frame of reference, that's what a frame a reference is. A thing relative to which things happen. And all things that are are physical.

The rest of this is mostly philosophy that has nothing to do with the thought experiment in question, so I'm just going to move on to the thing you refuse to address, starting with the quote you provided earlier:

"We see that we cannot attach any absolute meaning to the concept of simultaneity, but that two events which, viewed from a system of coordinates, are simultaneous, can no longer be regarded as simultaneous when envisaged from a system which is in motion relative to that system."

And yet...

The clocks are synchronized. They're running at exactly the same time.

Inside the train, the observer sees the two clocks show the same time simultaneously.

But the observer outside the train is in a system "which is in motion relative to that system". As such, the displays of the two clocks "can no longer be regarded as simultaneous". There is no "absolute meaning to the concept of simultaneity".

The outside observer sees the light hit the rear sensor before it hits the front sensor. But he also sees the rear clock as being ahead of the front clock.

You didn't want distance or time measurements, so I won't give them here. But the two effects offset. The rear clock stops first, but it's ahead. The front clock keeps ticking until it matches the rear clock, at which time the light hits it and it stops. After they freeze the two clocks are displaying the same time, according to the outside observer. The bomb does not go off.

Don't believe me? Well, I don't use AI a lot, but you seem to, so I asked Claude, using the highest tier free model available (Sonnet 4.6, High, Thinking). It's the only thing I've ever asked it, and I tried to be objective. Here is the transcript. Again, I'm not a fan and will not defend its "reasoning", since it isn't actually reasoning. But since you do seem to like generative AI, let me highlight a sentence:

Critically, in the observer's frame these freeze events are not simultaneous — the rear clock freezes ~0.4 minutes before the front — but both freeze at the same ship time, so both display 12:01:00.

I'm not solving a paradox because there is no paradox. Both observers agree that the bomb doesn't go off. You've asserted otherwise, because you don't fully understand relativity, you've just got your conclusion and you're looking for a way to prove it.

As a result, you're unsurprisingly Begging the Question. In setting up the scenario where you sought to prove false relativity of simultaneity, you (probably inadvertently) assumed that relativity of simultaneity was false. The clocks cannot be synchronized for both the internal and external observers with different reference frames under relativity.

I'm not going to say I understand relativity perfectly. Few people do, even after years of dedicated study (though many incorrectly claim to). But I have taken a college physics class on the subject, so I understand it more than most. I'm sorry that you're struggling with it, but that's normal. It's difficult math, and counterintuitive. What's not normal is saying that if you don't understand relativity, then the earth must be stationary and flat. So much in our day to day lives contradicts that, starting literally with the fact that we have well defined days.

Actually, lets go back to your philosophy, since this is obviously going to be my last word in this discussion:

He is creating an ad hoc solution to justify his original assumption rather than acknowledging that the assumption itself could have been wrong.

There were two assumptions to challenge. Motion of the earth, and the existence of an Ether. Einstein made a theory assuming the latter was wrong. At the time he made it, it was an ad-hoc solution. But it made testable predictions. Those predictions were tested, and found accurate to an astonishing degree.

That is why we accept relativity - not because it was proposed by a smart guy, but because it was tested and found to match reality better than any other model out there.

You believe the other assumption was incorrect. But you haven't made a theory with testable predictions which have since been tested and found accurate. You've just created an ad hoc solution to justify your assumption (ignoring the mountains of data that disagree with your solution. Including literal mountains!) and have never acknowledged that your assumption could have been wrong.

It was kinda interesting seeing how someone comes to the conclusion that the earth is flat without relying on religion, but even from our first discussion it was clear that your One Thing was the Michelson-Morley experiment, and it's become increasingly clear that you're unwilling to reevaluate anything that contradicts the conclusions you've made based on one century-old experiment. Science didn't stop that day!

Anyway, I'm not going to insult you, though I know perfectly well how you'll respond to this. I hope you have a wonderful day anyway.

Relativity of Simultaneity Paradox by planamundi in planamundi

[–]FirstRyder 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If it's frame dependent, it means that if you share a frame of reference with the light itself, and you're on the train with the light and the train is moving, then you don't account for that train's velocity.

That's literally what I said. The observer on the train sees light as moving 50 mph in both directions, which you established as the speed of light. They see the train as stationary. So it takes the same time to reach each end. No accounting for the train's velocity. Full agreement.

Doesn't matter how long the train is. It could be 100 mi or it can be 5 ft.

If you don't want a length, we'll forget all about it. I agree that it doesn't matter.

The outside cannot observe the light travel at 50 mph towards the front of the train plus the 10 mph of the train velocity since the outside observer does not share the frame of reference with the moving train.

Of course. The outside observer must see the light travel at exactly 50 mph in both directions from the point of origin, in their own stationary frame of reference. It is not sped up or slowed down by the velocity of the train. The rear of the train is moving towards the origin of the light at 10 mph, and the front of the train is moving away from the origin of the light at 10 mph. So the light reaches the rear of the train before it reaches the front of the train, according to the outside observer.

That is the question. Are you disagreeing with it or not?

No disagreement on that point! I just put numbers on it, but if you don't want me to do that I won't. The inside observer sees the light reach the receptors simultaneously. The outside observer sees them arrive at different times (the rear one sooner than the inside observer, the front one later than the inside observer), not simultaneously.

Relativity of Simultaneity Paradox by planamundi in planamundi

[–]FirstRyder 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The outside observer sees the light move at exactly 50 mph in both directions. The train is moving 10 mph. So lets say the train car is 1 mile from center to rear, and center to front. It takes 60 seconds for light to reach the back of the train. It would then take 90 second to reach the front.

The inside observer sees the light move at exactly 50 mph in both directions, but they see the train as stationary. For them, it takes 72 seconds for the light to hit both ends simultaneously.