If gravity could ever overcome expansion, then there would be some period where expansion was happening, but the rate of expansion was decreasing, eventually followed by expansion stopping, then contraction happening and the rate of contraction increasing. There would not be any period in which the rate of expansion was increasing.

(When you throw a ball up, after you release it, there’s a period of time when the ball is moving up, but it’s speed is decreasing, then it reaches the apex, and it start falling down and it’s speed increases until you catch it. There is no period where it upward speed increases.)

Current observations show not just that expansion continues, but that the rate of expansion is increasing.

(Not only has the big bang thrown the ball, but the ball’s upward speed is increasing.)

If expansion were caused by “explosive forces from the big Bang”, it’s rate would be decreasing, not increasing.

Since current observations are inconsistent with that, we have to have a different (or at least additional) cause for expansion.

As the universe expands, distances grow, but mass does not. This causes the overall force of gravity to decrease. This means gravity is “losing” and will never catch up. (Gravity is weakening and expansion is growing). But, if it the rate of expansion were decreasing, that would mean gravity was “winning”, and might continue “winning” until it could reverse expansion.

I think current measurements show expansion itself increasing, which means gravity is already too weak to decrease expansion and will continue getting weaker. There’s definitely open questions, but most current observations and models do not point toward the universe ever collapsing back to a single point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum#Existential_threat maybe

Next time, try it without the “Appeal to Nature” / Naturalistic Fallacy.

You might try loops instead of TikTok.

You can use non-free softwares and still be a FOSS advocate. You just can’t impose non-free software on others, including “soft” impositions like only publishing your content in proprietary formats or only accepting messages via proprietary protocols.

You don’t get to blame me for your reactions, only my (in)actions.

When no words accomplishes the task just as well, it’s not selfish to avoid small talk. The fact that you find it rude or impolite is your problem, not mine.

That is the disconnect Im referring to…the fact that people are taking jobs thinking that they get to dictate what the job entails, even after being told what the job entails, even after signing documentation saying they agree to what the job entails. Where does that come from?

I don’t know, but I saw something similar in my father (RIP). He would agree to something, then get some benefits, then later attempt to “renegotiate”. That sort of behavior isn’t something “GenZ”. Some people just want to squeeze water our of rocks, even if it is deleterious to their relationships.

Similarly, I’ve certainly had employers that, despite my job duties clearly not covering the task would ask and expect me to perform other tasks “for the good of the company”. It’s fairly common these days for job offers to include “and other duties as assigned” because employers want to have all the power, and I’m fine with workers (of any generation) just refusing to comply.

It does sound like the employee was being unreasonable and maybe should be dismissed, but that doesn’t get the task done either, so maybe the “do it, you have no say” approach isn’t any better. And, I have no idea how I’d handle it. I kinda don’t like delegating stuff anyway, so if I thought the task was important I’d do it myself unless someone happily volunteered. But, I know that might not “scale” the way it needs to make the business work.

Laziness is my choice and a virtue in my profession and my preferred operational method.

you’re being paid a wage in exchange for your labor and we need your labor on this specific task. “So I don’t get a say in it?” Well, NO, you don’t…what on earth would make you think you think that?

Yes, they do. They can just go home, or walk around the block, or work on something else. No matter what your employer tells them, they aren’t a slave at any point in time.

Will there be consequences? Absolutely. They might get fired. They might get sued. If the task is sufficiently important the State might consider them not doing the task criminal negligence.

This isn’t entitlement, it’s choice and freedom, and perhaps having different priorities than the person assigning tasks. Everyone, including GenZ: Do you, and if you can try to spread joy and reduce suffering.

Do remember tho, someone has to keep the infrastructure working, and it’s often not clear where in joy in that lies.

why words wen none good

(I’m GenX, [1980] but I’ve always thought a lot of “polite” “social” habits are dumb.)

I just bail on any site that requires age verification. It sucks, but there are still some that work. I do hear that using a VPN can often help.

Yu-Gi-Oh: “You see, ‘Pot of Greed’ lets me draw two cards.”

BK employee: “But, what does ‘Pot of Greed’ do?”

Altercation begins.

The first step is admitting the country has is a problem.

I know I don’t do enough. It’s not enough to vote for the “right” people about once a year and just keep your head down, with maybe some “digital activism”.

Yes, you can get the 100% juice label by taking (e.g.) cranberry concentrate and the reconstituting using (e.g.) apple juice instead of water, adding calories and sweetness without adding a (non-juice) sweetener.

On top of that, most of the juice aisle does not even qualify for the “100% juice” label.

Gotta read the fine print on the label AND the government labeling regulations AND have some level of trust in the government to get what you want from a mass-market product. Local products and producers are not a panacea either.

But, I’m going to overdose on ACE-K given the amount of Zero Sugar Mtn. Dew I think, so I’m not going to shame anyone for their favorite juice, whether it is “100% juice” or not, from concentrate or not, or whatever.

The shirt: https://store.dftba.com/products/hank-green-we-never-left-the-water-shirt ?

Two airlines are pursuing lower-contrail-generation routes, currently. The fuel cost is much lower than you claim. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoOVqQ5sa08

So far, everything I’ve wanted is freeleech, so that hasn’t been an issue. I continue to seed, but the ratios are much worse for the same amount of time seeding.

I hate that a ratios on the private tracker I joined are so bad. I feel dishonest.

My public torrents routinely have 10-25 times the ratio.

A SmartPipe^tm subscriber in the wild?