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Yeah, check the oil levels every time I get gas.

Similar experience for my first time having they/them pronouns used IRL... I was mountain biking in full body armor, full face helmet, and goggles. Someone said to their kid, "let them go ahead, they'll be really fast," or something. I proceeded to hit 48km/h on singletrack, a speed I haven't replicated since. So I guess I was given a speed boost by the comment?

A WRX will always love you... if you give it the love they deserve. (If you don't your gearbox will explode and your head gaskets will disintegrate).

Of course. It's a Subaru Impreza WRX. Heck, looks to be a bugeye if my eyes don't deceive me. I probably did that when I got my first WRX...

Agreed. In many ways the idea of ideology is a reductive concept. All ideologies hold some amount of merit and problems. If you try hard enough, there is even a decent argument to be made for kings (no, I'm not arguing for kings, I am simply using it as a talking point). I really don't subscribe to any one ideology, and I don't think most people here do either. I like aspects of anarchism, socialism, communism and georgism, all have merits, all have problems. I suspect most people here are the same, we all come to different conclusions from different life stories. We recognize the problem, but our plan for the future by no means has to look the same. Honestly, the "leftist infighting" is our greatest strength, not a weakness.

I don't watch YouTube on my phone anymore other than FireFox with uBlock. For me, it's all a YT feed aggregated by RSS and played by MPV on Linux.

What the fuck?! That application process is insane!

Thanks, that does help some. Eq 22 is what I was reading, and yeah, it's a weird and confusing derivation. In reading Eq 22 closer, it's helpful, but not as helpful as I would have liked. What's funny in reading it is that it's also in correlation to q, which I would have expected to be calculated in terms of v. sigh maybe it would be better if I went through and derived the equations myself, would probably be more useful that way anyway.

The posts about escape velocity (or speed if you prefer) are correct. To that I want to add the following: Gravitational effects technically never end with distance, only become weaker. It's also important to note that every object has a gravitational field, it's just that it needs to be ridiculously big for the force to have any real effect. Gravitational force can be described by the following equation:
where r is the distance between the two objects, and the rest does not matter for us today.

This is the same as the inverse square law of light (this is a pretty good visual):

This means if you double the distance between yourself and a star, the strength of its light reaching you will quarter. This is also very similar to the math used to describe electric and magnetic field interactions, but I won't go into that today.

This is why scientists are able to measure gravitational waves from collapsing stars and quasars and stuff at the LIGO Gravitational Wave Observatory, just like how we can observe the light coming from distant stars. However, there is a point where the force of gravity becomes so weak as to be inconsequential, just like how at the edge of the solar system, the sun merely looks like a bright star. That is described as the gravitational sphere of influence, the rough approximation of the distance from a celestial body where it exerts the most gravitational force on a given object.

Escape speed is the speed at which an object must travel, given a distance from said body, to escape its sphere of influence. The Earth+moon have a sphere of influence of about 9.29E5 km.

Nah, I saw salsa at first too.

I am in this picture... I don't know if I like it or not, but I am in it.

If your anything like me, that imaginary world is a horrifying character of the cyberpunk distopia we find ourselves in as a means of overt social commentary... So I'll take some laptop memory if you will.