True. That’s why communist countries have always allowed gay marriage

Still violates the laws of physics

You and I are in two conventional spaceships traveling at 0.86c relative to each other. In my reference frame, you are traveling through time at half the rate I am. This is due to time dilation, not speed of light delay. After I experience one year on my ship, you will have experienced 6 months on your ship. In your reference frame, the opposite is true. After you experience one year on your ship, I will have experienced 6 months on my ship. This violates no laws of physics, because even though there is no universal “present,” the limited speed of light ensures that causality is maintained.

Both of our ships have away shuttles with Alcubierre drives. These away shuttles can move arbitrarily fast, far in excess of the speed of light, without ever leaving their parent ship’s reference frame.

After 60 years, my ship has a cyclospirosis outbreak because someone didn’t wash their hands. The last pilot not suffering from explosive diarrhea hops in our away ship and instantaneously warps some distance in front of your ship (reminder: in my reference frame, you have only aged 30 years). He sends you a message explaining the situation. This message reaches you after you’ve only aged 30 years.

Swapping to your reference frame now. Causality must be preserved, so since you received that message after 30 years in my reference frame, you must receive that message after 30 years in your own. But in your reference frame, after 30 years of passed, my clock is only at 15 years. You decide to send your own away shuttle to warn us about this future outbreak. Your away shuttle arrives arbitrarily fast, sending us a message about a future cyclospirosis outbreak that arrives 45 years before that outbreak happens.

You can dress your FTL technology in whatever sci-fi snake oil you want. If you can get information to a destination faster than a photon could, you can break causality.

Socrates didn’t have access to modern science. This shit rots your brain.

Me when I realize I am an entire ecosystem

Tbh if you told me there’s a STEM youtuber with worryingly high levels of testosterone, Styropyro would be my first guess

Chuck Norris is the toughest fish at Weenie Hut Jr’s

If you live in Oklahoma it actually doesnt take any work, you can just say “Jesus” and you get a degree

Somewhere in the multiverse, there’s a version of this meme that’s exactly reversed, captioned with a tweet that says “stupid woman thinks she’s smart because she’s a chess grandmaster, but little does she know I graduated middle school”

The idea of the state euthanising a dog because its owner couldn’t afford to pick it up from the pound makes me want to commit arson

Fixed it

I used to have that. Pretty sure our neighbor planted it to try and sabotage us because our yard was a mess. Fuck you Jerry. On the rare occasion that I’d mow, it smelled amazing

parallel dimension

Aren’t dimensions by definition orthogonal?

True. You know, the moment I left that comment, I thought that was pedantic, I shouldn’t have said it, but by that point if I had deleted it it would just sit there saying deleted forever and that would bother me even more

Heat pumps generally come with an electrical resistive backup in case it’s too cold outside, so even at arbitrarily low temperatures a heat pump can only drop to 100%

The 1800’s called, they want their medicine back

1. Coal. Set it on fire, use fire to boil water
2. Geothermal. Go down where the rocks are hot, use hot rocks to boil water.
3. Nuclear. Magic rocks get hot all by themselves. Use them to boil water.
4. Photovoltaics. Shape rocks into solar panels, use solar panels to power stove to boil water.
5. Concentrated solar. Use mirrors to reflect sunlight onto salt (a rock). Boil water with hot salt.
6. Put water in a glass tube. Use mercury (which comes from a rock) to draw a vacuum. Water boils at room temp under a vacuum.
7. Lob a space rock at the planet. Space rock vaporizes everything in a 100 mile radius, including water.

I’m sure we can think of more

The sodium probably gets hot enough to keep glowing overnight

Guess what I’m boiling with the power from that solar panel

It’s so crazy that we’ve found like six different ways to use rocks to boil water. You’d think there’d just be two or three