jschubart

jschubart t1_j3xffn6 wrote

If you traveled at the speed of light, you would need to not have any mass. If you were to travel near the speed of light (e.g. 99.9% the speed of light), to you about 4.5 years would have passed. To everyone else, 100 years would have passed.

Here is a nice calculator:

https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/time-dilation

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jschubart t1_j3tp4vt wrote

It is pretty common for large cities to do that information. The idea behind it is not bad: the person they are sending knows someone in the destination city that can help them out. The problem comes with follow up. If there is no follow up (which is rare), then there is no confirmation that the person actually got help. There is little incentive for the original city to check in because that costs money and they technically did their part by reducing homelessness in the city.

And when I say it is common in large cities, it does not really matter whether they lean left or right. LA, SF, and NYC sends out quite a few homeless on one way tickets as do places like SLC and Florida.

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jschubart t1_j39rojl wrote

>where an adminstrator’s gun was reportedly left in a bathroom and found by a student.

Looks like this falls into that 90%. Time to rescind this 'responsible' gun owners right to concealed carry.

But who am I kidding? This is Texas. They will just say more gun education is needed (without forcing any) and then suggest more guns in schools to fix everything.

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jschubart t1_j2ctgia wrote

They have had fraudulent elections for the past two decades. Let's not be naive and think fraudulent elections are something we care much about, especially not Trump.

Also, Guaido made himself president. There was no election for the presidency. Guaido was elected president of parliament by the national assembly and then declared Maduro's election illegitimate and assumed the position of acting president. Not exactly democracy there either and was little more than a coup. The dude offered amnesty to all military personnel that helped him unseat Maduro. We immediately recognized Guaido as president despite that being far from clear. We very likely were helping fund some of his efforts.

It is basically a stalemate and there is essentially a truce for the last couple years.

No, the real reason we have bad relations with them is because they have been hostile to oil companies and have cozied up to governments hostile to ours.

The Venezuelan government is garbage and has been since Chávez. But let's not kid ourselves and try to portray our sanctions are coherent considering some of our relations with other shit regimes.

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