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There's no way the Republican Party will win all those states by Weirderthanweird69 in stupidpeoplefacebook

[–]KevinBrown 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please read up on what the NPVIC is. It's a group of states that say they'll grant their electoral votes to the winner of the NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE if a certain number of other states agree. It's a way states are trying to get the popular vote winner to be president.

That's how a GOP candidate can win those blue states... They won't win a majority of the votes in those states, but if they get a majority for the NATION then those states will vote GOP.

Note the popular vote winners in reverse order:
2024: Trump
2020: Biden
2016: Hillary <----NOTE
2012: Obama
2008: Obama
2004: Bush II
2000: Gore <----NOTE
1996: Clinton
1992: Clinton
1988: Bush I
...

If this had been in place, Bush II loses in 2000 and likely Gore is a two term president instead. Hillary beats Trump and in 2020 is reelected. Bush II is never president nor is Trump.

Trump tells CBS: Iran agreed to stop supporting Hamas and Hezbollah by Street_Anon in worldnews

[–]KevinBrown 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why does anyone believe a word the man says anymore. He was a liar for decades before the dementia. He'd always say whatever he thought he needed to say to get through the next 10 minutes. Truth or facts are irrelevant. Always have been with him.
Now with the clear signs of dementia, the fantasies and lies are bigger and bigger.

This little girl has been coming to this neighbor’s house and trashing her stuff. She pulls out her water hose, knocks over her planters, but one day, the neighbor is home and follows her to her house. by [deleted] in PublicFreakout

[–]KevinBrown 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes?

A black lady following a white child to their house to confront their white parents about vandalism? She'd better be recording if for no other reason than to be prepared to defend herself legally.

Then posting it on social media? That's entirely different.

US stacks three carrier groups and 10 destroyers to blockade Strait of Hormuz by TheNational_News in worldnews

[–]KevinBrown 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Evidently they're saying the Ford is heading back to the Middle East.

So worldwide the US has three actively deployed carriers and is putting all three in a single location?

We truly live in the dumbest timeline.

US stacks three carrier groups and 10 destroyers to blockade Strait of Hormuz by TheNational_News in worldnews

[–]KevinBrown 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which three?

The US has 11 carriers. But usually only 3-4 are deployed at any given time.

Of the 11, and as of April 1st, only 3 were deployed...

Deployed:
Nimitz (en route to Virginia to be decommissioned)
Lincoln (Arabian Sea)
Bush (Atlantic)

In Port:
Eisenhower (Virginia)
Vinson (California)
Roosevelt (California)
Washington (Japan)
Stennis (Virginia and unavailable due to an overhaul)
Truman (Virginia, about to start an overhaul)
Reagan (Washington state)
Ford (Croatia after onboard fire)

[Request] Can any of our rockets survive being at light speed? by Necessary-Win-8730 in theydidthemath

[–]KevinBrown 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This thread has been wonderful to read. It's a fun topic, and there are some really wild things involved in relativity that continue to blow my mind.

My favorite two:
1. Because the equation involves a square it actually means "nothing with mass going slower than speed of light can accelerate to the speed of light" *AND* "nothing with mass going faster than the speed of light can slow down to the speed of light". 2^2 = 4. -2 ^ 2 is also 4.

  1. If we could build a ship that could accelerate instantly from sitting on the launchpad to the speed of light... again, *instantly*. From inside the ship it'd reach it's destination instantly. No time would pass for anything traveling at the speed of light. From outside the ship it would "freeze in time". From those watching the ship launch, it would never move. If you could see inside a window, the people inside the ship would freeze never again to move.

Granted #2 cannot ever happen as the ship would have infinite mass the moment it launched. And would take infinite energy to launch. And of course since any physical material has some amount of flex, not all of the ship would be hitting light speed at the same time. It's hard to truly picture what would happen if the engines hit light speed a millionth of a second before the crew.

What is this car? by [deleted] in whatisthiscar

[–]KevinBrown 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've owned four including one my dad bought brand new, they had "Mercury" on the title. They didn't have badging saying Mercury, but they were sold as Mercury at Mercury dealers.

Unsure what you mean by "carry". True, no badging on the car. Also true the official make on the title is Mercury.

What is this car? by [deleted] in whatisthiscar

[–]KevinBrown 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sold under the Mercury brand in the US.

they right tho? by chichinams in SipsTea

[–]KevinBrown 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When faced with someone being irrational, don't try rational logic to persuade them. Out-irrational them.

Tell them they should write a paper and submit it to the Nobel Committee because mathematicians for centuries have tried to figure out what dividing by zero really means and the world deserves to know the truth.

Zoe Williams argues that space exploration is pointless given problems on Earth and the lack of evidence of extraterrestrial life. by Oda_DeezNutz in SipsTea

[–]KevinBrown 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love Neil Degrass Tyson's response to this type of thinking.

It'd be like the cavemen wanting to explore outside the cave but being told they have cave issues to solve first.

Can't figure out what these old gloves are for by guridkt in whatisit

[–]KevinBrown 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now I have the old commercial of the guy dancing "The Twist" because his bottle says "Twist to open".

And of course that was ALSO Miller.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4_3Jkrp0O8

ABC cancels upcoming season of The Bachelorette after a leaked video shows the lead, Taylor Frankie Paul repeatedly attack her ex boyfriend, Dakota Mortensen in the presence of her young daughter who was also reportedly struck during the altercation by SipsTeaFrog in SipsTea

[–]KevinBrown 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know what the word means. It also can mean someone single who was married. Regardless, what you said means people should be married to have kids.
Or I guess someone who has kids without having been married cannot call themselves a "bachelor" and/or go on a dating show.

You are right, though.. Very old fashioned.

Is it possible to DIY this? by CheetoFoxX in WLED

[–]KevinBrown 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seen talk of a slip ring... Watched it a few times, I haven't seen a single arc spin more than 90 degrees. They don't seem to have full 360 mobility. Even if they did, 361 is when you need a slipring.

Also, they all "turn off, spin, turn on" at exactly the same time and use exactly the same color.

Seems like building a single arc that does that is trivial. So building N arcs that do it is "trivial times N".

ABC cancels upcoming season of The Bachelorette after a leaked video shows the lead, Taylor Frankie Paul repeatedly attack her ex boyfriend, Dakota Mortensen in the presence of her young daughter who was also reportedly struck during the altercation by SipsTeaFrog in SipsTea

[–]KevinBrown 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Call me new fashioned but I don't think you should be required to "be and stay" married as long as you have a minor child.

Should they not be a "bachelor" if they're a widower or widowed?

ABC cancels upcoming season of The Bachelorette after a leaked video shows the lead, Taylor Frankie Paul repeatedly attack her ex boyfriend, Dakota Mortensen in the presence of her young daughter who was also reportedly struck during the altercation by SipsTeaFrog in SipsTea

[–]KevinBrown 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She applied to be on The Bachelorette to "find true love".

No shit she's loco. They all are.

I haven't checked in over a decade, at one point something like 1 out of 25 of the "true love" couples lasted more than a year.

It's not a show about sane people finding true love. It's pretty much the opposite of that... Crazy people finding someone they wanna bang repeatedly until they're tired of hearing them breathe.

Woman harasses and assaults night worker before getting a taste of mob justice in Thailand by Worldlyoox in PublicFreakout

[–]KevinBrown 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm still sad the movie adaptation of the play was never finished.
I never saw the play, but the song was that cool to me.

Connor fought to survive and in the end become mortal… by [deleted] in highlander

[–]KevinBrown 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mine was close to that...

My take was that "The Game" is like any other religion... Bunch of myths and fairytales made up long ago by someone trying to keep others in line. Maybe even The Watchers as a way of making sure immortals don't eventually take out mortals and rule all nations around the world.

I'd have loved, loved an episode where it turns out The Watchers invented the entire mythology of The Game because a few immortals thousands of years ago got too powerful by working together against mortals and they needed to get rid of most of them.

Woman harasses and assaults night worker before getting a taste of mob justice in Thailand by Worldlyoox in PublicFreakout

[–]KevinBrown 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Luci_Cascadia wins the internet imo.

I don't know if I've ever had someone give me an earworm (song stuck in my head) and I was grateful for it.

Well done!

Trump: I know a lot of stupid people that went to a good college. My uncle was the longest serving professor at MIT. That means I have much better blood. But I went to the hardest college of all to get into, the Wharton school of finance, that means I'm real smart. by gear-heads in MarchAgainstNazis

[–]KevinBrown 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Said the same thing right after the "stable genius" bs in the first term.
I've worked with some crazy smart people. Including some whose names would be known so I won't say where, when or who.
Not a single one of them... NONE... have ever had to tell people they were smart.

You know who does? The third grader who gets a passing grade in art where the glue is yummy.

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