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Dad, Texan, humanist, skeptic, PhD in biophysics “I write because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention” -Orwell
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And because this 👇
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Indeed. It is a perfectly insular way of self-justifying thinking that no external fact could possibly alter
All criticism is “anti Trump” and thus not credible. Also, if the critic’s allegation is proved true, it was good that Trump did that
The Orange Lord works in mysterious ways
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~100k of ~11mln caught. ?Only 55 more years?
Most excellent.
The low-hanging fruit will soon be exhausted.
Then, The Surveillance State.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...
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He’s a madman
He said “protestors” who come out against his military birthday parade will be met by “force”
We were warned by his on Secretary of Defense, a veteran and lifelong Republican 👇
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Much efficient, very genius
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Remarkable
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“Hingeley said arrests by officers who don’t identify themselves pose a threat to the people being taken into custody, as well as to bystanders. “If you operate as if you’re a street gang,” he said, “you create a danger to yourself and the public.”
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“We came to the United States for protection because of what we encountered in Russia,” he said. “It seems that we are encountering here what we fled.”
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“Photographs in court filings show Zaitsev with bruises and scabs on his face. Zaitsev was charged for biting an officer, but a federal judge dismissed the assault case, citing government misconduct. Zaitsev said it was self-defense.”
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“Maksim Zaitsev, a 36-year-old Russian citizen with a pending asylum case, said he was beaten by ICE agents after calling for his wife when the agents arrested him during an immigration check-in at an ICE office. “It was like I was in a washing machine,” Zaitsev said”
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“ICE officials eliminated a Biden-era policy that blocked officers from arresting people without proof of legal residency who happened to be in the vicinity of targeted suspects.
Raids at schools, churches and hospitals are now allowed.”
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“In Irvine, Calif., ICE agents drove a phalanx of military vehicles in the Orange County suburb to arrest a person, though not for illegal immigration. They were seeking a resident’s son who had allegedly posted fliers alerting neighbors to the presence of ICE agents”
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“In Coral Springs, Fla., at least eight agents in tactical gear, shields and rifles surrounded a home with guns raised to arrest a father with no criminal history.”
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“And across the U.S., people suspected of being in the country illegally are disappearing into the federal detention system without notice to families or lawyers”
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“Federal agents make warrantless arrests.
Masked agents take people into custody without identifying themselves.
Plainclothes agents in at least a dozen cities have arrested migrants who showed up to their court hearings.”
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“The administration’s immigration enforcement is a sharp break with past government practices, according to attorneys, immigration advocates and officials from previous administrations.”
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“Miller bet that he and a handful of agents could go out on the streets of Washington, D.C., and arrest 30 people right away.”
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“Agents didn’t need to develop target lists of immigrants suspected of being in the U.S. illegally, a longstanding practice, Miller said.
Instead, he directed them to target Home Depot, where day laborers typically gather for hire, or 7-Eleven convenience stores”
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“Gang members and violent criminals, what Trump called the “worst of the worst,” weren’t the sole target of deportations.”
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“in late May, Stephen Miller, a top White House aide and the architect of the president’s immigration agenda, addressed a meeting … The message was clear: The president, who promised to deport millions of immigrants living in the country illegally, wasn’t pleased. The agency had better step it up.”
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“It is nationwide conspiracy of liberals against not only Trump but against American people in general,” Aleksandr Dugin, a prominent nationalist in Russia, wrote on X on Sunday
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“The Kremlin and its supporters have long accused Mr. Soros or the United States government of covertly sponsoring “color revolutions” to overthrow governments — from the Arab Spring countries swept up by mass street protests in 2011 to Ukraine”
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“Many posts created the false impression that the entire city was engulfed in violence, when the clashes were limited to only a small part”
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“James Woods, the actor who has become known for spreading conspiracy theories … reposted a fabricated quote, attributed to former President Barack Obama, discussing a secret plot to impose socialism on the country, as well as a video of burning police cars that was from 2020”
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www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/t...
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Play around with this simulation yourself!
www.myphysicslab.com/engine2D/bil...
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The resolution to the paradox is to recognize an assumed global symmetry does not entail *local* symmetry everywhere
And if time “went backward” globally then our memories would be deleted too - so we would experience time just the same
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A common misconception - even among physicists - is that if something interesting emerges in physics, it had to “be there” from the start
It had to be “assumed”
If time asymmetry wasn’t assumed, yet it emerges, this is viewed as a paradox
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It is meaningful to talk about “up” and “down” in the vicinity of Earth, and that’s how we experience it, even though we really mean “outward” from its center of mass
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We see a similar concept when it comes to spatial directions
There is no “up” or “down” in outer space, no globally preferred direction
But in the vicinity of a large fluctuation in space - such as a planet - distinct spatial directions emerge
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In this way, it’s possible to start to conceive of a universe where the underlying mechanics have no special direction in time by assumption
And yet, special directions in time emerge
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Such life could only ‘experience’ time as the accumulation of memories in one time direction - the time direction ‘away from’ the racked state
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If intelligent life could exist within some analogous - but much larger - billiard ball universe
I think it would only have a chance to arise during the ‘big bang’ ‘un racking’ of the special ‘racked’ state, but before it reached equilibrium, in either time direction ‘outwards’
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I then ran THAT simulation FORWARD in time, and that’s what you see in the OP
The visual result is striking: billiards in a seemingly arbitrary configuration “conspire”, as if by magic, to ‘re rack’ themselves
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Then, I wrote down all the positions and velocities of the billiard balls
Then I started a new simulation, starting with those positions and velocities, but all their velocities spatially reversed
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But I didn’t cheat (not in that way, anyhow!)
I did run the simulation for a few seconds starting from a ‘racked’ state
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Instead, I could have ‘cheated’: just stop the simulation after a few seconds, then show the video in the reverse time direction, starting from end to finish
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How did I make the video in the OP?
I could have simulated billiard balls ‘racked’ and then given them an impulse, and then waited for them to ‘rerack’
But the waiting would have taken many times the age of the universe
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So where is the special direction in time in this system?
It’s not forward, or backward
The special direction in time is “outward”, either forward or backward, starting from an extremely rare state - the ‘racked’ state
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Hah! 😂