VoterFrog

You guys have to weigh your flour? We just grab a cup and scoop it and then dump it in the bowl. You're busting out the scale? You're not exactly selling me on metric here.

Well then you've lost the whole advantage of base 10. You're buying 2L or 4L containers and dividing them up into 250ml increments, having to do divisions of 8 or 16 like some common imperial peasant, only you're doing it with numbers that have no real relationship with your daily life. I mean, ultimately it's all arbitrary anyway. But when someone says use 2 cups, that's 2 scoops, which seems better to me than having to know that 500ml is 2 scoops.

A useful size to package and sell ingredients in, such that the person following a recipe can halve or double the recipe as needed and still use the entire package with no waste.

Would it help if I told you that it was defined as the volume contained in a cube whose length is the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/166219513th of a second? I imagine it wouldn't. Obviously the litre is superior, it's a much less arbitrary cube defined by the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/2997924580 seconds.

If it makes you feel any better, in the dev diaries they've talked about learned lessons from Vic 3, Imperator Rome, and EU4. But yeah, waiting is always the wise move.

The observable universe is constantly expanding as the passage of time allows light to reach us from more and more distant parts of the universe. So it's less "we don't know what's outside" and more like (to a certain extent) "we have to wait and see." And there's nothing we've seen to indicate that these external regions that are being revealed are anything but more of the same kinds of things in our inner region of the observable universe.

The important thing in the balloon analogy isn't what the balloon is expanding into, it's just that every point on the balloon is drifting away from every other point.

One thing to consider, though, is that space may not even be a real physical thing. Maybe location is just a property of things, like mass or electrical charge. It could just be an inherent value that adjusts and influences other things according to the laws of physics. Maybe it's less that "space is expanding" and just that "the location property of everything is constantly diverging." There's no need to worry about what anything is expanding into because our conception of space may just be a mental construct.

I would think you'd have to instantaneously accelerate because incremental acceleration doesn't work the way we typically think it does at high speeds.

If you're moving at 99.999% the speed of light relative to Earth, anything close to your speed is going to be moving quite slowly relative to you. When you accelerate some more, the change in speed relative to those close things is much larger than the change in speed you experience relative to Earth (it gets smaller and smaller as you approach light speed). But as far as I understand, there's no such thing as moving at light speed relative to Earth but not relative to other sub-light speed things. You'd have to instantaneously move at light speed relative to everything (every sub-light speed thing).

It's still an unsettled question if we even do

Ooh, great one. Here are my picks for each panel:

1. "The Weave"
2. Sharpiegate
3. Vaccine/Covid Denialism
4. Ukraine Blackmail
5. Election Denialism
6. January 6th

Well, famously, they're waves and particles. The double slit which way experiment will only set off the detector in one slit, as if it was a particle. Yet, without a detector it will interfere with itself as if it were a wave that passed through both slits.