So I’ve already bought the Witcher 3 complete edition, will this expansion be included when it comes out?

How? Wouldn’t they have to go through a voter registration process that requires a voter id and ss#, and who casts the vote? The CEO or someone selected from the board?.. and couldn’t some rich asshole just start a whole bunch of corporations to give themselves as many votes as they want? This blatantly goes against the one person one vote principle.

Everyone’s already complaining about things costing too much, but I’m sure it’ll pass anyway…

The choice is between sales tax or property tax. Different counties and states can have different policies regarding that. What it comes down to is who should be paying more in taxes given the overall amount collected stays the same. If you put more emphasis on sales tax, then more of the tax burden is put on people with less wealth who don’t own properties. If you put more emphasis on property tax, then more of the tax burden is on wealthier people who do own properties. So the question is who should have a bigger tax burden, rich or poor?

If the plan is to go back to the moon with a more permanent presence, then maybe they should send some communication satellites…

I thought I remember reading that she wanted some kind of promotion, maybe a cabinet postition or something but was passed over, so she left that group of grifters to start her own.

Sascha Riley. Haven’t read much about it yet to know how credible it is, but he was in the military and got called in to talk to superiors when some other soldier got caught with cp and one of the pictures was Riley when he was a kid.

What are the rules about following orders from someone who seems mentally incapacitated?

I disagree. If not snake oil it would be something else. There are certain personality traits salesman seem to all have. I would describe it as a comfort with being disingenuous. Say or do anything to get money. Its often portrayed as “hustle culture” and praised. We should be condemning those traits not praising them.

… so the US is constantly getting ripped off by trade deals, but somehow is still the richest country the world has ever known… make it make sense…

As someone who also doesn’t fully understand quantum entanglement… is it that when two particles are entangled and far apart, when we observe them they will always be in the same state? Is there any way to manipulate that state? If so, it seems like it would be pretty straight forward to use it for faster than light communications.

I always thought this country valued freedom… nobody “MUST” do anything relating to culture.

I had a thought the other day that I’m not nearly financially literate enough to know how true it is, but with all the talk about stocks going up, couldn’t that be an effect of the dollar going down?

I guess that’s what im getting at. What are the timestamps?

If we see light from really far away, and it has red-shifted, then are we assuming the stretching is consistent for the whole distance or is there more stretching at the beginning or end of the trip? If the expansion is accelerating then more of the red-shift happened recently when it got closer to us since farther away also means older.

My thought was what if most of the red-shift happened when it was still far away from us thus meaning it happened a long time ago.

Like you mentioned some kind of timestamp would tell us, I just don’t know what those timestamps would be. I’m sure there’s something obvious I’m missing, but the only way I can think of to measure the difference in red-shift from the same light source at different points in its journey is to measure it from two vastly distant perspectives.

I guess if you measure red-shift from closer objects and compare it to the farther objects, and its not linear based on distance. Accelerated expansion would mean closer objects have a higher ratio of red-shift to distance than the farther objects?

Yes that is what I’ve always heard which is why I asked this question. I was hoping for bit more detail. My assumption is that we measure expansion through red-shift, and distance doesn’t matter in that measurement? My thought was that red-shift tells you that light waves have been stretched out, but how do you know when or where most of that stretching occurred?