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  • They're "brakes" and it's "braking". Yes, I know the previous commenter got it wrong as well.

    The usual problem with slamming on the brakes is that it causes the wheels to lock up and slide instead of slowing the vehicle down.

  • The way politicians and the political system nakedly serves the needs and interests of corporations and the wealthy, and not the average individual.

    The way that the price you're quoted invariably gets bumped up by various taxes.

    The insane system that is tipping, including the fact that a lot of workers are so underpaid that they rely on tips to get by.

    The incessant adverts on TV for medical products, particularly prescription drugs.

  • I can't find any reference that says it's moving away from us at twice the speed of light, which would violate Relativity. The fact that it is further away from us in light years than the age of the universe in years, is due to the fact that the space itself is expanding.

  • It doesn't take much research to find out she was against wearing masks during COVID, she's pro-Brexit, and she's a climate change denialist.

    In short she's a reactionary fuckwit, who should be ignored.

  • I was thinking of the Equivalence Principle:

    the equivalence of gravitational and inertial mass, and Albert Einstein's observation that the gravitational "force" as experienced locally while standing on a massive body (such as the Earth) is the same as the pseudo-force experienced by an observer in a non-inertial (accelerated) frame of reference.

  • I think General Relativity is based on the idea that a frame of reference that's in freefall is equivalent to one that in a gravity free region of space (at least that was one of Einstein's Gedankenexperiments that led him to his theory of GR).

    Having said that, in reality a sufficiently strong gravitational field will cause a tidal effect, which will crush you along one axis and pull you apart along another.