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This pissed me off so much when I was a trucker.

Businesses don't have to let you park in their lots. Cities can put up no truck parking signs. States can restrict parking on entrance ramps.

Stop giving them excuses to do so! You're just making things worse for drivers out of sheer laziness. Truck stops let you throw away your trash in dumpsters.

Everything not gravitationally bound is moving away from everything else. Every single point in space is growing larger. That means that things farther away from you are moving away from you faster then things closer to you. That's true no matter where in the universe you are.

There's not really an "away" from the big bang. That's something science communicators fail to explain - the big bang happened everywhere. Space may have been infinite in size (we don't know) and it still happened everywhere.

I'd recommend looking up the YouTube channel for FermiLab. They've got some excellent videos on the subject.

Funny how "lingua franca" doesn't mean French anymore. English is weird.

Few people know what Aramaic sounds like. It might be good for books (the Laundry Files uses Enochian, and nobody knows what that sounds like), but for a media with sound Latin checks all the boxes.

You are very much in the minority as someone who has studied Latin. Very few non-Catholic high schools even offer it, much less make it mandatory.

And sure, Catholic mass was held in Latin back in the day. Personally, I suspect that's a reason it's associated with rituals and magic. What is a priest doing, if not invoking mystical powers beyond the understanding of man? What language would someone use to invoke the powers of Satan?

Outside the anglosphere, I have no idea.

If English had been a dead language for fifteen hundred years and was only used by people who talk about things only a tiny subset of the population understands?

Yeah, it would seem pretty mystical.

Depends if it turned her finger green or not.

I'm not talking about vulgar Latin or the romance languages.

For about a millenia and a half, everything that could be considered scholarship was written in Latin. Newton's Principia Mathematica? Latin. Copernicus' De revolutionibus orbium coelestium? Latin. Kepler's Astronomia nova? Latin.

Almost every educated person in the western world learned Latin. That's how they communicated with their colleagues in other countries - letters written in Latin. That's why it was a lingua franca.

I'm sure there's an optimal amount of air to balance space and protection.

But I was responding to the "no one ever complained about broken chips," which is patently false. I've complained.

That the banana is proof of creationism because it's perfect for the human hand.

Problem with that argument is that bananas aren't natural. They've been bred and cloned to get to the shape they have. The original fruit wasn't very friendly.

An entire bag? Never. A bag with more than half the chips broken into pieces too small for dipping? More often than I'd like.

OK, first off - gatekeep corn chips? You need to get off the internet more often.

Second, you enjoy nachos made of tortilla crumbs?