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Which is why I used words like 'tend to be' and 'in general'. The only way I know to qualify my statement more explicitly as a generalization involves the use of big flashing neon signs, but that seems impractical in a text forum. :P

Also <3 Dan's videos, been watching them for years.

Yeah, their stance on abortion, contraceptive, same-sex marriages, etc haven't substantively changed for as long as I've been paying attention, despite this pope nudging things in the right direction. As for marginalized people I know they've done good work, but I'm not sure 'Hey we could convert these poor people and have even more people giving us money' is for the benefit of the poor so much as it is for the benefit of the church. People like Mother Theresa had some pretty abominable attitudes toward suffering, for example, suggesting that it's good for people and shit.

So, the whole thing is a mixed bag from where I sit.

That's close, but the one I saw didn't have post-2008 data (14 years ago was 2011.) The one I saw was definitely pre-2008, and also I think it was a steel coaster not a wooden one, but that was a long time ago.

The housing market almost never goes down year-over-year, so it's reasonable to assume that when it starts to it signals big trouble in the future.

I remember a year or two before the 2008 crash watching a video someone had made where the housing market was modeled as a roller-coaster that you got to ride on, and toward the end it was just going up and up and up until it was miles above where it had been. And the comments were like 'It's gotta come down sometime, right? It can't keep going like this?' Yeah, they were off on their timing, but not about the prediction in general. As soon as we started seeing articles about the high cost of living and the housing crises in cities around the country and even world I started thinking about that roller-coaster again.

I've met Baptists and Methodists and other main-line Protestant denominations who don't, so it's by no means isolated to the fringe.

Yeah, American Protestants have hated Catholics for generations, and it's only made worse by the fact that Catholics tend, in general, to be more left-leaning than Protestants so they're now on opposite sides of the political aisle too. The fireworks when they finally start going at each other full-tilt for a change (instead of going at everyone around them) are going to be sweet indeed.

That's fair. I imagine very few Americans pay much attention to foreign news. Personally I try to regularly check places like BBC, Al Jazeera, etc, but I know I'm an outlier there.

I don't make assumptions like that, I just answer the question.

Ahh, my bad then. Though one day soon I will also be over 60 and be pretty aware of AI.. :P

Which is a big part of why I never got into comics. I didn't read them as a kid, and as an adult it seems like I'd have to sift through too much reality- (or at least immersion-) breaking nonsense.

You can wait or you can learn how to operate google your damned self. :P I see you have chosen wisely.

LOL, nice.

"I got a fever, and the only prescription, is more cowbell!"

Meanwhile I'm still hung up on the idea that there's more than one Flash. I am not a comics person at all, I am a physics person.

That sounds like some time-dilation bullshit that would probably ruin the physics I was talking about.

In the US it's pretty much a full year and it's fucking awful. We start seeing political ads for an election in November in the first couple months of the year, thought hey don't really start pouring it on heavily until late spring/early summer. I really wish we'd just limit that shit to the calendar month of November.

Oh, I misunderstood, sorry. Yeah, that's what I was getting at too.

Yeah and my point is that any monopoly is harmful and should be busted, but the trust-busters seem to only care about the ones that affect their rich patrons.

It might be helpful to include in your title what the headline did not: where the fuck Irpin is and why I should care about it. If I have to google that shit to figure out what the article is even talking about I'm just not gonna read it.

Jumping consists of traveling off of something with enough momentum that it carries you through the air faster than the rate at which gravity pulls you down. I know nothing about the comics but it seems like the Flash is just running crazy fast rather than slowing down time or whatever. This means he would be affected by gravity at the normal rate, so at his speed he should be able to jump considerable distances. I dunno how fast he actually runs, but if it's in the neighborhood of 25,000 mph the curvature of the earth would act like a ramp - it would curve away faster than he was pulled down to it by gravity - allowing him to run himself into space (not orbit, orbit requires circularizing once you're in space near the apogee of your trajectory.)