Autonomous driving on a closed course like this doesn't mean anything.

If time stopped altogether, the neurons in your brain wouldn't fire and you wouldn't be able to think, or even notice it stopped.

That's the spot where I took the community's banner photo.
The morning of Dec 31st 2020.

Blazing Saddles
The Lego Movie

See I think you have that flipped.
What I describe is that everything stops. By everything I mean everything. Electrons orbiting their nuclei would be frozen in place. As a result the time stop is completely booring. Literally nothing happens. Nobody can even tell time stopped. When it starts again nobody noticed it happened. While I'm typing this response time could have stopped completely, and restarted, dozens of times.

Even if your conciseness somehow continued, you couldn't see anything because light itself would stop traveling to your eyes.

What you're talking about is more like what you see in media. Where time doesn't literally stop. But someone, something, or someplace, gets frozen in time; But time keeps going outside of what's frozen. But yah that's not stopping time. That's freezing select things as time continues around them.

Imagine falling from the Empire State building and landing on the ground safely because you had no velocity?

If you had no velocity you'd just stop falling. You wouldn't reach the ground. You'd hover in whatever spot you were when velocity stopped.

That's assuming you maintained velocity you had with the Earth. Really if literally all your velocity absolutely stopped, you'd appear to instantly gain amazing velocity relative to the ground. Because the earth is moving incredibly fast itself. Traveling around the sun, that's traveling around the galaxy, that's traveling in the cosmos. The direction you move relative to the Earth would depend on exactly when it happened.

Time is what allows the next thing to happen.

Think of a row of falling dominos. If time stops, they stop falling. Literally everything else would be effected the same way. Even light itself would stop.

It's a kind of nostalgic survivorship bias.
You remember the dozen or so old ones that were good, and forget the hundreds that were not.

Haven't been to a meeting in years.
I know, they're "mandatory". But it's not like anyone takes a head count. And nobody's even noticed I wasn't going anymore.

Becides, they're always the same bullshit. Anything actually important will be in the newsletter. It's fine.

Who are you?
How do we know each other?

For anyone curious, Manhattan is just under 23 square miles (59 square kilometers)

That article is trash.
It offers no details about what the bill actually says or does, just what the senators say it does. It's only reporting the horse race aspects of it's passage, which is the least important part.

Anything that verifies the claims the senators are making.
If you're a reporter trying to inform people about a bill that passed, you should have people read it and find out what it actually does, instead of just quoting the people who probably passed without reading it themselves.

My reading of the bill is useless, because I'm not a lawer, or trained in reading these sorts of legal documents. I can't tell what's important or not. And I don't have a week/month to understand it.

The reflecting pool is part of the Lincoln Memorial.
Yes, that Lincoln. The one who freed the slaves.

That's called Shifting the Goalpost.

"I don't like it for this reason!"

Shown that reason doesn't apply.

"Doesn't matter, I'm still right because I have a whole other reason!"

I'm sure that's also not the reason you don't like it. But it doesn't matter because, whatever anyone says you'll have another excuse reason right behind that. Not worth playing that game.

I think that slavers don’t deserve monuments [...]
Lincoln himself did not personally own slaves, but [yada, yada, yada]

You're just making a different shift here.
Shifting the definition of slaver, from one commonly understood usage, to your own personal version.

But that doesn't even matter, as you admit that's not the reason you don't like it.
The reason you don't like it, isn't any rational practical reason. It's an ideological dogmatism. A decree. Because you don't like it, other's shouldn't be allowed to. Which is kind of funny coming from "an outspoken anarchist".

I just want people to understand what the thing they're liking actually represents,

It doesn't actually represent anything. It's a public pool.
You just imagine it represents something. Something specific to you.
Just as anyone else could imagine it represents anything else.

And what you really want, is to convince others your imagining is real. Because you believe it is. And since you can't choose what you believe or don't, all you can do is try to convince others to believe what you do.

I don't have a problem with you.
As I said, you're doing the only thing you can. I can't fault you for that. Nothing I wrote was in anger, or meant to be combative. I expect that offline you're a perfectly kind and decent person. I wish you all the best. Truly.

You are right. There is no debating the meaning behind things built by people who are long dead. Because as I said, what they mean to us today is whatever we want. It perfectly represents one thing to you, and another entirely different thing to me, and something neither of us imagined to someone else. There is no debate there.

I firmly believe Speed Racer is the best movie that ever flopped.

That 100mph fine seems worth it
I can go 4x the speed for only 2.5x the fine
That's a deal

But seriously. We'll do anything to not build slower streets.

What's that have to do with trans rights?