Right, all these people with mnemonics and whatnot to remember port and starboard; I just remember that port is on the port side when you dock.

Perhaps for Americans it’s harder, seeing as they park on the wrong side of the road.

If the British had never come, I expect the situation would be very different. But I thought we were talking about partition.

How do you tell how big it is? There’s no size reference at all.

Counterpoint: doors also lead away from people.

This is rather naive. Do you think the fighting wouldn’t have happened if they were kept as one big country?

One of?

Do you know, I think it might. If the ball is weighted on the bottom, it will still sit at a slight angle, if the surface it sits on is at an angle. And being spherical, it can then detect slopes in any direction.

TIL baseballs are flat.

I think you have to blow it up stronger than that. There’s some movies about it.

What is that abomination and how does it work

That would be flat aeroplane, not flat earth. Aeroplanes are made of metal. Earth is made of earth.

I don’t think they really had that chance. It’s there in the docs about it: they implemented receiver accountability deliberately so European governments might be willing to accept it.

Your laser is no longer pure, straight light; it is organic and natural, and a shoot is butting out of the side, and will eventually grow into a laser tree.

It’s a crisis for who will support you in your old age. Capitalism or no capitalism, if you want to keep eating after you stop working, either you store enough literal food in your barn, or somebody else works so you eat.

Traditionally, that’s family: your children. Capital/investments/savings, or socialised care, spreads that around the State a bit more (or round the local or global community). But when there are few children and many adults, later there are few working people and many retirees wanting to enjoy life - and you’re one of the retirees.

It’s a “problem for capitalism” because so many people have invested in capitalism for their retirement, and that could be upended. And because actually-small investments were made, on the basis that constant economic growth means lots will be returned when the time comes.

But it’s a “problem for humanity” - all the people who don’t have children to care for them and rely on money and financial investments - which both just represent a stake in someone else’s work - for the future.

I’ve written myself into a corner a bit here. Few working adults to many retirees is always going to be difficult, no matter your economic/political system. But logically from my, simplified, argument, the last two paragraphs beckon a third. To recap,

1. Retirement funds: a stake in “Capitalism”, to provide for your retirement based on broad economic growth

2. Money: a stake in the total economy, to provide from people’s work. Then:

3. A stake in the community, based on being a member of the community. E.g. a citizen - then this is socialism. If there are enough working adults - or bread in the barn - to provide for all the elderly, then all the elderly (you included) are provided for, regardless of whether they have children or saved money or made investments.

But still, if there isn’t enough for everyone, everyone suffers. And it’s rare to find a community that really wants to care for its elders well, putting in the effort for them rather than people spending on themselves, without outsourcing to ‘capitalism’ and economic growth.

Oh no! My number of superpowers has reduced from 0 to 0!

Thing is, most money is already digitised and tracked. Taler has the genius of giving (hopefully) enough accountability on the receiving end to satisfy tax and counter-fraud, whilst at the same time giving privacy and anonymity to the spender.

But you get no superpowers.

Poor Will.

Who is Will, and why did he die?
This, of all, I wonder why.
When he left I felt the surge
Of pain flow though my heart and I
Thought back to all the Wills I’ve known
But none of them would cause such groan
To splinter in my heart like this;
I’d barely find a little moan.
So why at last, when chance is here
Should I cry, “Will should live!” with fear?
I only met him once but now
For all he is I shed a tear.
And so I wait with baited breath
At graveside—but with terror rings
The note of balance, weighing kings
And paupers on the scale; sings
That this one’s life, return’d on wings,
In recompense a great doom brings:
The rest of us will meet our death.

Perhaps the speed-up is such that they still experience a normal lifespan. As time tends to infinity, the experience speed tends to infinity.

Most of eternity, to everyone else’s view, OP is an inanimate but immortal being whose reflexes are infinitely slow and can’t respond to anything.