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So, this has yet to be peer reviewed, and I am far from a theoretical physicist ... I certainly can't say its correct or incorrect.

It does seem ... too convenient. As in, how could it possibly have taken so many physicists so long to not just try this decades ago?

Basically, they throw the Planck Length and Planck energy (from Quantum Physics) into the Einstein Field Equation (from General Relativity) ...

... and are then able to mathematically derive basically the rest of the laws of physics, which seem to be quite close to or totally in line with the Standard Model (of Quantum Physics).

Unfortunately I do not see any direct comparisons if their predicted values for MeV's of fundamental particles with experimental data...

Anyway, the paper notes 2 interesting, direct implications:

1. Dark Matter is not real, there's no need for it in this model. Galaxy rotation speeds work out to what we see without need for additional, unseen, mass.

2. Either A, our universe is mirrored by and entangled with an antiuniverse of antiparticles which all travel backward through time (antitime?), or B, our universe is part of an evolution of ... prior(?) universe(s?) which generate black holes, which do not form singularities but instead create entangled white holes as other universes, expanding spacetimes.

Bonus conclusion:

The Fine Structure Constant may not actually be constant.

I believe nuclear war was censored because the song came out in 2003.

FCC had temporarily banned a whole bunch of songs from live radio broadcast after 9/11 (Learning to Fly by Tom Petty, literally everything from RATM, many more) and in 2003 a while lot of Americans were terrified that Saddam would nuke us, or Israel, or terrorists would get a suitcase nuke or assemble a dirty bomb and blow up Chicago or something, as basically every journalism outfit in America was credulously reporting everything Bush admin officials were claiming about threats (which they knew were of dubious legitimacy), while the Bush admin itself was basically fabricating a claim to invade Iraq.

The uncensored version released in their album, but the music video and radio versions was censored likely so it could reach a larger audience on MTV and be allowed to be broadcast by the FCC.

looks at expire license to kill

James 'Bail' Bond?

Huh.

Obligatory reminder that Dick Cheney literally does not have a heart or a pulse, as his heart was replaced by a continuous flow pump.

So... ghoul indeed.

No, the point is that the driver could just drive away with the truck and its contents and attempt to sell the truck, strip it for parts or whole, fucking over whatever entity is paying his wage.

I mean yes, initially it is risky, but perhaps a contract was signed, or perhaps the oyster owner owns so many that he sells to local restaurants or market vendors that he figures worst that happens is i lose 2% of my regular oyster haul, best that happens i make a bit more money off of that 2%.

If I am not mistaken the actual episode(s?) where Arya does the oyster selling show a relationship between her and whoever she's getting the oysters from.

As far as real world examples: anyone who has ever been hired to drive a cart or wagon or car could just attempt to make off with the vehicle and/or its belongings...

I mean, there is an extremely rare condition where basically all of your internal organs are mirrored or flipped from their normal orientation... (situs inversus, roughly 1 in 10,000 people are estimated to have it)

But...

If that were the case here, it'd be immediately obvious to any one with basic anatomical knowledge.

Hope this dumbass goes to jail.

Except even more practical and simple to produce/distribute in that ... its a coastal town with a good deal of fishing and aquaculture and whatnot going on.

Arya would just have to go to the docks, find somebody with a huge bag of oysters and say hey, gimme a cart, i'll go roam around and sell these before they spoil, you keep 80 or 90% of the money when i come back with the empty cart.

In that sense its basically a farmers market: extremely local goods.

Modern hot dogs have to be manufactured in a factory and then sold to a hot dog stand operator, shipped halfway across the country or world.

This has been obvious, and written about, for years:

The Atlantic, 2018:

The Cruelty Is The Point

archive link to avoid paywall

They are truly massive, but what's are missed or often falsely contradicted are a few important points:

They were quarried about half a mile away.

We know that because there are even larger blocks that cracked and were abandoned from being fully excavated, in said quarry, dated to the same time period.

Also, the quarry was uphill of the Temple site, meaning they had to move them downhill, not uphill as Ancient Aliens claims.

Yes, it would have been a serious accomplishment in engineering, but not impossible given the Roman's understanding of construction technology.

The trilithon stones supposedly far too heavy to lift, and also apparently part of just a giant landing/launching pad for spaceships, were placed at Baalbek during its renovation and expansion into a massive temple complex by the Romans.

Baalbek had been inhabited as a minor settlement since prehistoric times, being under the control of Phoenician, Babylonian, Assyrian, Persian and Greek civilizations as history progressed.

At some point during Greek control of the area, a Greek style temple was built there, of different architectural style and smaller than the Roman temple complex that came later.

Eventually the Romans conquered the area and decided to significantly renovate and expand this Greek temple to build their temples to Jupiter and Bacchus, with construction nearing completion around 60 CE/AD, basically eminent domaining the existing settlement's population into the surrounding area.

The trilithon, and most of the remains that can be easily seen today, were put there by Romans.

Ancient Aliens does spend much more time attributing sites built by civilizations or peoples that are not today viewed as direct antecedents to white/western civilization, but Baalbek is a notable exception, one that, at least in the earlier days of Ancient Aliens, was quite a big deal to them.

Also Stonehenge is attributed to Ancient Aliens.

That was one of the foundational myths of Erik von Daniken, who basically (along with Zecharia Sitchin) is the granddad of Ancient Aliens and is featured in many of its episodes.

I mean, this story is obviously bullshit and has been debunked over the years.

Not to mention even on its face, the headline is just wrong.

Elon states he had an apartment, but also implies he lived in his office, coding 24/7.

So... he had an apartment and is exaggerating about how often he stayed late.

How much did that apartment cost?

???

Did he just walk to work?

Was he working but not earning a wage?

This is a total bullshit article even by its own text.

Maybe his food budget was about a dollar a day for a while. Sure, ok, that's maybe possible.

This is like those stories that were going around a while ago with various corporations just displaying absolutely absurd budgets for how a person could afford to live on their full time minimum low income job...

By assuming rent is 40% lower than it is, that they don't have to pay for car insurance, never have health problems, never need new clothes, barely eat and don't have a phone or internet plan.