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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We were deep into the second bottle of scotch now, and boozy frustration was rising in our gorges along with the MRE entrées. It’s all well and good to talk about what can be done to end famine in general. But what can be done about famine specifically? About this famine in particular? About a place as screwed-up as Somalia? What the fucking goddamn hell do you do?
There’s one ugly thought that has occurred to almost everyone who’s been to Somalia. I heard a marine private in the Baidoa convoy put it succinctly. He said, “Somalis—give them better arms and training and seal the borders.”
P.J. O'Rourke for Rolling Stone
This was deleted by me in error. It's from Doug
""It is impossible to imagine Republicans ever again acting in good faith about anything."
And because of that, it is now impossible for the rest of the world to imagine the United States ever again acting in good faith about anything.
-Doug in Sugar Pine"
And from what I can tell of that list of illegalities and inhumanity and simple lawlessness from a person with power that is feeling superior to al the unworthy rodents.
It is the shot list.......!
Not only must I science the shit out of it. Stand in defense of righteousness and the American way (that once was_.
Applying military Military training putting into use skills of survive and operate is a reality.
From what I can tell, Trump with his GOP have moved America into the Putin oligarch government model.
Before you point and criticize for being to far out there.
Remember , when Trump arraigned for a bunch of GOP senators to go to a Putin seminar in Moscow on of all days the 4th of July to send a message most people ignored.
He has defiled any smidgeon of actual justice to mob style business dealings and displays of grandiose egotistical superiority He favors unethical behavior, rewards criminal activity over earnest legalities. Surrounds himself with only succulent localists. Which makes him feel that he is not the deviate evil doer.
But hey, I am not saying anything you do not already know.
There is so much that would need done if Dems take only the house. That would be to defund SCOTIS security funding. Do opt pass an funding to allow Trump to operate his Putin-esque Heritage Foundation agenda. Cut funding for His Secret Service. Cut right down to the White House budget bone. Let his oligarchs use their tax cuts and government funding of their business's (like Elon's Space X that receives a whopping 40 percent of its operating budget from tax payers). Let them pour their socialism on Trump out of their own pockets.
If he and his MAGA can come for Colbert, Kimmel. They can come after the Professional left. If they can fabricate their falsehood and formally charge James Comey ) And I have no real allegiance with Comey). They proved they can shoot Renee Good and Alex Pretti in broad daylight on main street and get away with it because the zealot ideologues on SCOTUS say so.
They haven't the authority to Assume the role of the Saudi Kings Emirate princes who rule over the kings subjects in granted areas to alleviate the work load on the King.
This is like surfing. Ride the rant.
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