Your first part was exactly correct by my understanding, gravity is not a force, it doesn't act on matter, so matter doesn't feel it, because in a over-simplification it essentially doesn't exist as far as matter is concerned.

Matter, the Earth, you and I, we occupy the three spatial dimensions of our universe where gravity does not act; we occupy the space part of spacetime. Space itself doesn't occupy time, but it is intertwined with it, and thus consequence is shared bidirectionally.

In my mind I treat it somewhat like a train, space is the carriage with things inside, and time is the track and locomotive. They are separate, but one can't be without the other (technically however in this analogy yes they can be, so it's not perfect).

Gravity can bend the track, which will result in space going in a different way, because it has to follow the locomotive (time).

Now, relative to inside the carriage (space), things will move, anything that is loose will likely drift around, especially if it's a tight bend; that's why gravity does manifest spatial forces such as weight, inertia, G-force, etc.

Orbits, say our moon orbiting us, are actually straight lines relative to the orbiting body; Earth doesn't "know" to curve around the sun, it has no "lateral" force, it is propagating through space in a straight line with velocity given to it billions of years ago. However, again, Earth is matter, which only occupies space, so while Earth is going along a straight line in space, inside that train carriage, spacetime, the locomotive and track, is bent into an ellipse due to gravity. Because matter travels in a straight line relative to itself that intrinsically resolves to a spacetime geodesic (again, to go back to the aircraft, they follow a straight line relative to themselves).

Again, not an expert, just a young adult with a fascination about space and time. :)

I'm not an expert, but from my understanding it's kind of something like this:

So a geodesic is a line of shortest length between two points on a curved surface, like two points on a ball, the geodesic would be the shortest line that connects the two.

If you look at flight paths compared to a flat representation of Earth, you'll see that aircraft seem to follow a very strange arc, that's because they're actually flying the geodesic of their route, which looks funny when presented flat.

If you imagine Earth as the aircraft and spacetime as the globe, that's essentially what is meant. However do keep in mind that aircraft follow a two-dimensional geodesic, whereas we would follow a three-dimensional one due to spacetime being four-dimensional; due to how reductions work. (3D object casts 2D shadow, 4D object casts 3D shadow).

My knowledge is rather vague past this point, but essentially orbits are geodesics against 4D spacetime, and gravity affects that temporal component.

Paint.

Orange to be precise.

When I was a kid, a friend of mine hosted a birthday party on a paintball range. We played for I don't know how long, large group of us, was really fun.

One thing the instructors told us, keep your mouth shut.

You see, we wore face masks, however for us to breathe of course there's a grill where you mouth goes.

Needless to say, I got shot right on that mouth grill, and naturally due to the shock of it I opened my mouth...

The paintball burst on the grill, and I had the whole volume of paint launched deep into my throat.

It was so... ungodly... salty. For the rest of the day all I could taste was salt (the blow occured around early afternoon). And that's coming from someone who also on another unrelated occassion ended up with a deep mouthful of sea water.

We do actually, just at a very small scale compared to what you may see around black holes.

Satellites in LEO need their clocks adjusted by a few dozen picoseconds I believe. Very cool.

One could say, he trumps a lot.

Harley rider natural sitting position.

I ride a cruiser, and while my arms are no where near that high, they are higher than alot of other motorcycles. I will say it is quite comfortable over extended periods of time as it allows you to kinda relax and "fall" into the seat.

What a muppet.

This came exactly when I needed it, thank you, recently my computer has been too fast for my liking, and I felt like I controlled something I owned (which is just too much responsibility for me right now), and all of that was solved when I replaced my OS with Windows. Glory to Microsoft, forced updates, Copilot, and outdated code!

I hate, with a burning passion, the term "biological sex".

We have frankly, no fucking clue how our genetics and sex are intertwined.

We used to think it was "just chromosomes", but then we discovered "biological men" with double-X, or double-X and a Y, or vice-versa.

Or intersex individuals.

Then, we also got to consider that, say, a "biological woman" can transition to a "transgender man", which renders no change to their genes, just hormone levels, and they see physical development, voice deepening, hair growth, etc, just like a "biological man", or vice-versa.

In conclusion, "biological sex" is just another gross simplification created by people who's minds are so pathetic they can't comprehend reality and so choose to live by mantra founded in disproven pseudo-sciences, religion, and other excuses to avoid critical thinking, and then put themselves in positions of power.

::: spoiler NSFW Reply The dildo I sit on enters the bussy easier and reaches deeper... :::

John Phone is calling.

I’ve got a family member who has a “nice” electric car, upwards of like £70,000.

They swear by it, say it’s the best car they’ve ever driven, so easy, comfortable, etc.

In-person I’ve only ever heard them complain about it, it’s meant to unlock as you approach, that never works, using a charging point takes about 30 minutes to get it to work, they turn off about 5 different sensors and alerts before setting off because they default to on.

Oh, and, “the roads are too narrow”, or “there’s spaces are so small”. No, you drive a 6ft wide car.

The copium is strong with this one.

Honestly? Fair enough.

This does fly directly in the face of Ladybird's mission, yes, but this sort of thing isn't limited to just them, and while this is a rather nuclear response, we must remain mindful and grateful for the thousands of hours of time these people have put into this project; building a web browser and engine from scratch is not an easy task and it's understandable that they don't want to allow low-quality code and security vulnerabilities in.

To me this demonstrates that they truly care not just about getting this project out the door, but to do so in good faith and with high quality.

The codebase remains open-source, and the engine is still true to it's goals to decentralise the web.

One day I do hope FOSS as a community finds an answer to low-quality mass-produced PRs written with poorly prompted AI tools, and I do hope when that happens they may reconsider their position.

Until then, I wish them the best and commend their ongoing work and await a release eagerly!

Tony too innocent for this world. 🥀

Been using Fastmail for a couple years now, previously bouced between Proton and Tuta.

I cannot fault Fastmail, yes, like the name suggests, it is fast (sending is almost instant and new email comes through quickly too), but their features for inbox sorting, rules, and custom domains is incredble.

I have my own domain name that I wildcard in Fastmail, which means I can enter [email protected] and it'll be delivered.

Then I have several rules set-up to autotag depending on the address the email is going to.

Their interface is slick, easy to use, not too cramped and not too spacious, lovely contrast, just pleasant to be in.

All of that, along with a calendar with easy CalDAV support, notes in Markdown, and generous cloud storage which I mainly use for file transfer between my devices make the £5.40 I spend on it monthly an absolute steal.

I appreciate the attention to detail for not putting the degrees symbol on the Kelvin values, that often gets overlooked.

Not surprising, at this stage in capitalism we find ourselves in, companies don't need a good product or service.

What they need is buzzwords, marketing, and flashy designs (which Palantir nails) in order to seduce venture capitalists to pump money into their business.

Then the executives and shareholders can laugh all the way to the bank as they go off and sell their artificially inflated stock.

It is enshittification from the get-go.

Better be a tanker of lube behind it istg.