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  • Unless the lorry was driving over the exact geographic north or south pole.

    Side note: the tallest lorry where the top doesn’t move faster than the speed of light at the equator is 3.8 light hours tall, which is weird to think about because the top doesn’t start moving until well after the bottom has reached it’s destination.


  • This is actually an issue caused by the hotel staff not allocating their rooms efficiently. When the first wave of infinite guests showed up, they should have assigned them to odd numbered rooms. Then theres still an infinite number of vacant even numbered rooms.

    Even if several more waves of infinite guests show up, you can assign them to rooms numbered 4n+2, 8n+4, 16n+8…

    That way, the hotel will always have rooms left over.










  • If they are incorrect, lying, and don’t realize it, but still arguing in good faith, then their arguments will fall short when challenged. If they are arguing in bad faith, then it’s a different story.

    I’ll admit the claims they made are perhaps overly broad and difficult to challenge, but it is entirely within the realm of possibility that they can back it up with examples / evidence.

    Jumping straight to calling them out is pretty disingenuous. Even if their points are more disingenuous and misleading, you shouldn’t be fighting fallacy with another fallacy.


  • Then engage with the discussion??? It’s very frustrating reading your comments actively shutting down discourse.

    Here I’ll do it for you: I disagree with @opinionhaver because I think that filling stadiums in red and swing states is a tangible metric that is at least correlated with general election support. I think that Trump is even more polarizing than AOC, and so her polarization isn’t as much of an issue as they make it out to be.

    There. Now we find out how substantial their position is when they defend it, instead of just crying about talking points


  • It may be worth it to decide how we define ‘unstoppable force’ and ‘immovable object’.

    An Immovable Object has 0 velocity:

    v = 0

    Acceleration is the time derivative of velocity:

    a = d/dt(v(t))

    a = d/dt(0)

    a = 0

    And we know that

    a = Fnet / m

    An object with infinite mass would satisfy this equation, but an object with no net force would too. We could add a correction force that will satisfy the constraint of 0 net force.

    |Fnet| = 0

    ∑Fi = 0

    Fcorrection + … = 0

    To satisfy Newton’s 3rd law, we would need a reaction force to our correction force somewhere, but let’s not worry about that for now.

    A physics definition of ‘Unstoppable Force’ is:

    |Funstoppable| =/= 0

    In this case the gravitational force fits this description, given a few constraints

    Fg = Gm∑ Mi / xi2

    As long as the gravitational constant G is not 0, our object has mass, and

    ∑ Mi / xi2 =/= 0, then

    |Fg| > 0

    But this does feel kinda like cheating because it’s not really what people mean by ‘unstoppable force’. the other way to define it is just immovable object in a different reference frame.

    a = 0, |v| > 0

    I’m gonna stop here because this is annoying to type out on mobile