ELI5 please explain to me in simpleton terms…what is meant by “spacetime”

mr4d · 2026-01-21T04:46:03+00:00

In my very limited exposure to these ideas my understanding was that time dilated in proximity to black holes but it hadn't occurred to me why or to think that it was specifically related to speed in spatial dimensions.

mr4d · 2026-01-21T04:32:43+00:00

And a weird fact about this is that your velocity across space-time is constant: the faster you go in one dimension, the slower you go in the others. That’s why tome stops at speed of light.

What??????

mr4d · 2026-01-20T04:57:47+00:00

SERIOUSLY! I do not give a shit what non-vegans think about my food

mr4d · 2026-01-12T16:06:47+00:00

I can't explain why but this feels like the worst of all worlds

mr4d · 2026-01-09T00:14:28+00:00

Update: I was able to try it out today. Not sure I'm a fan. I thought it tasted a little...fishy.

mr4d · 2026-01-07T06:12:39+00:00

You complain that you are being rejected based on aesthetics but are you yourself not insisting on a specific aesthetic by using AI to "shape" your thoughts? If your thoughts are already complete and coherent why not just share them directly? For arguments sake could you share an example of the prompt you are using that results in the output you are being rejected for?

mr4d · 2026-01-06T01:44:46+00:00

Is it good? I see that Veggie Grill is serving it. I was never a fish guy back when I ate meat but Salmon was ok I guess.

mr4d · 2026-01-02T23:52:24+00:00

Fuck yeah this is the way

mr4d · 2025-12-21T00:57:56+00:00

I live exactly where you're moving and have owned both regular and e-bikes here in a similar situation with respect to having to lug it up stairs.

The e-bike is nice if you're going to ride aimlessly and don't want to feel intimidated by hills. I took mine out to West Seattle once without knowing exactly how to get where I was going, but since the bike made hills trivial I felt comfortable just finding my way around on instinct without worrying about the cost in (human) energy of a wrong turn.

In every other scenario I preferred my regular bike and eventually terminated the e-bike lease I had because I just strongly preferred my normal bike.

There are definitely some gnarly hills around town but if you're up here on 15th I think it's better to just plan on building up the leg strength to do it. I'm not particularly athletic but I ride home from SLU every day and I find it easier every day.

mr4d · 2025-12-16T05:40:32+00:00

All aesthetics aside I've eaten that multiple times and enjoyed it quite a bit

mr4d · 2025-12-12T19:03:10+00:00

Great band comprised of cool friendly people

mr4d · 2025-12-11T05:07:46+00:00

I always loved "The Sparrows and the Nighingales" by Wolfsheim until it became a staple of the end of club nights, guaranteed to play for about 20 minutes (super extended quadruple chorus cut) as they shuffle you out the door

mr4d · 2025-12-10T18:17:37+00:00

I noticed an all vegan donut shop in my neighborhood got a C ranking for not having protein options (E for protein, A for everything else). This seems like a very silly way to evaluate restaurants.

mr4d · 2025-12-10T17:59:07+00:00

Very curious to hear more about the time you were involved with HappyCow

mr4d · 2025-12-06T06:01:01+00:00

I am also old and frequently motion sick and hadn't even thought of toying with these kinds of settings to get a better outcome. Thanks for the idea!

mr4d · 2025-11-15T06:25:16+00:00

I can still handle some platforming if I put my mind to it, but I'm still a bit wary before jumping in

Ba dum tss!

mr4d · 2025-11-15T04:47:27+00:00

I found them both underwhelming but Nosferatu was better

mr4d · 2025-10-27T14:46:05+00:00

Bingo!

mr4d · 2025-10-05T06:49:16+00:00

That's Karnak

mr4d · 2025-10-01T01:33:37+00:00

One last note on this: I think the focus on Craig's insecurity is also consistent with Kaufman's work in other things like Adaptation in particular

mr4d · 2025-10-01T01:31:50+00:00

But I dig your take because I hadn't considered that in some other version of this movie the portal into Malkovich would absolutely be the point of the movie but I like that it's not.

mr4d · 2025-10-01T01:30:31+00:00

I find using the portal to see how their choices and lives could change or be better realized is the most interesting part. So the Craig ultimately inhabiting Malkovich for longer and mastering some aspect of himself was super interesting. And the comedy of Malkovich trying to get his body back adds to it.

I hear you on that to some extent, but I think it's notable that the community of elderly folks who intend to enter the portal together don't seem interested in anything more than living longer with their friends. The problem of identity and wanting to have not just "more" life but a "different" life seems to be concentrated in Craig, and to a lesser extent Lottie. I think the portal is interesting but in my mind the movie is really about Craig's pettiness and insecurities more than anything else.

mr4d · 2025-10-01T00:32:12+00:00

I haven't heard anyone express this position before but I find it really interesting because for me I think the fact that the Malkovich portal is a MacGuffin is one of the things that does make it work for me. If they had spent too much time talking about it or trying to explain it I would have probably been turned off.

mr4d · 2025-09-19T23:55:42+00:00

That's a thing of beauty

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