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Am I wrong for referring to The United States as ‘America’ ?

Posted by Aggressive-Equal7223@reddit | AskAnAmerican | View on Reddit | 255 comments

If someone does a cool ocean's 11 style heist, they shouldn't serve any prison time.

Posted by atomicshark@reddit | CrazyIdeas | View on Reddit | 17 comments

They need to invent a new Tennis surface

Posted by Flabby-Nonsense@reddit | CrazyIdeas | View on Reddit | 411 comments

Instead of using “weaponized incompetence” to get out of doing things, use “weaponized incontinence”

Posted by Laserlight_jazz@reddit | CrazyIdeas | View on Reddit | 23 comments

What lyrics do you refuse to sing properly? What’s the story behind it?

Posted by ScienceMomCO@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 1179 comments

Use accelerate to mean only an increase in speed and decelerate to mean a decrease in speed. For a change in speed that could be an increase, a decrease, or zero, use the word "recelerate".

Posted by butwhydoesreddit@reddit | CrazyIdeas | View on Reddit | 2 comments

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Imagine you are in a spaceship somewhere in intergalactic space. Due to the expansion of the universe, all galaxies are receding away from you in every direction. If you fire your thrusters in a given direction, the galaxy in that direction will slow its escape before beginning to pick up speed in your direction. Meanwhile, galaxies in all directions at least 90° removed from your thrust vector will immediately begin picking up speed away from you even faster than before. Did you accelerate away from all other galaxies or decelerate your escape from the galaxy in front of you? If you used reaction control thrusters to turn your ship around 180° before you ever fired the main thrusters, what then? "Decelerate" as a concept assumes some fixed point of reference, but in empty space a fixed point of reference is not something that exists.