Although it ticks down a tiny amount at, say, the peak of Everest, 32.2 ft/s² is the average acceleration due to gravity here on planet Earth. All the time, everywhere.
But how do I know this is true right now? How can I be sure? Did I personally test it today?
No.
Did I test it yesterday?
No.
Will I test it tomorrow?
No. Don't be a pedant. There is no need to measure it because gravity is a function of how mass warps spacetime, and so far as we are concerned, it is effectively constant.
Which is why the acceleration due to gravity on Earth is the same today as it was yesterday, and as it was in 1881 and in 1510 and 10 million years and a billion years ago.
And,as a metaphor, this is why I personally do not react with shock every time Trump and his minions wipe their asses with the Constitution. Or when Republicans in Congress abase themselves at his every whim. Or when Republican voters, knowing who and what he was, nominated him three times and elected him twice and cheered on his every depraved excess. Or that the legacy media rolled over for all of it. Or that "respectable" institutions" sold us out and bent the knee. Or that a substantial percentage of those minions and voters have begun looking for a lifeboat because "[Fill in the whatever] isn't what I voted for" and "He fooled me!"
Because it all begins with the voters.
And because rage...
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...racism...
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...violence...
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...corruption...
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...stupidity...
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...paranoia...
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...white nationalism...
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...a contempt for facts and reason...
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...a bone-deep horror at the thought of ever being held responsible for any of the evil that they do...
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...and a double scoop of authoritarianism...
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...are the components that Republican leaders and Conservative media have been breeding into the party base for decades.
I know this because, like you, for my entire adult life I have watched with growing alarm (and written about it on this blog for 21 years) as Republican leadership, Conservative media and the legacy media all pitched in to assemble this doomsday machine.
Their depravity is not a fluke or a fever. It has become a political constant. And their trajectory is ever-downward. Something we now have to factor in to every strategy and decision. It is impossible to imagine Republicans ever again acting in good faith about anything. Ever rising above their barbarity. Ever giving a good goddamn about this country or its future, or ever backing even slightly off of the raving language of bile, resentment and leering sadism that has become their Mother Tongue.
And so all our plans devolve into disaster mitigation. Trying to predict what grievous wounds they will inevitably inflict on civilization next and how we can best prepare ourselves for their acts of grunting, bitching, Bible-wrapped savagery.
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