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  • Man, I don’t even know where to get truthful news anymore. I try to keep up with both sides so I know what their narratives are, and stories like this one are fucking impossible to get to the truth of. Either way, it’s fucking horrific that people are being sent to Death Camps without any kind of due process, but the amount of misinformation doesn’t help.

    Is he openly violating the Supreme Court, or did the Supreme Court decide “facilitate” means nothing can be done if El Salvador doesn’t want to release him? Even reading the order directly, it’s not clear. If Trump is NOT absolutely violating a direct Supreme Court order, then isn’t continuing to focus on it a distraction from the bigger issue?

    Is he an innocent father, or was he a twice convicted gang member who was awaiting a trial that he was likely to be found guilty of anyways? Or were those convictions not actually convictions and only claims from a dubious source?

    Is he an El Salvador citizen? If so, why was he rounded up with a bunch of Venezuelans?

    Again, nothing is right about this situation, but I’m also sick of the waters being so muddy that I don’t even know what’s true anymore.





  • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlWhy would'nt this work?
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    5 months ago

    So folks have already explained the stick, but you’re actually somewhat close to one of the ways you can sort of bend the rules of FTL, at least when it comes to a group of photons.

    Instead of a stick, imagine a laser on earth pointed at one edge of the moon. Now suddenly shift the laser to the other side of the moon. What happens to the laser point on the moon’s surface?

    Well, it still takes light speed (1.3 seconds to the moon) for the movement to take effect, but once it starts, the “point” will “travel” to the other side faster than light. It’s not the same photons; and if you could trace the path of the laser, you’d find that the photons space out so much that there are gaps like a dotted line; but if you had a set of sensors on each side of the moon set up to detect the laser, they would find that the time between the first and second sensor detecting the beam would be faster than what light speed would typically allow.

    It’s not exactly practical, and it’s such an edge case that I doubt we can find a good way to use it, but yeah; FTL through arc lengths can kind of be a thing. At least if you tilt your head and squint funny at it.






  • I mean, he’s not. The vast majority of the loans being forgiven are ones that should have been forgiven anyways. Like ones where the people went into the public sector and paid their loans for 20+ years. These loans were supposed to be discharged. That was the arrangement these people signed up for. Bureaucracy essentially held them hostage.

    Sorry, but I don’t give credit for finally agreeing to a broken promise and then treating it like it was done out of the kindness of their hearts. They should have been discharged years ago.