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He’s using the “exclusive we.”

We must sometimes succumb to our basest instincts.

Under law, this certification [of criminal contempt of Congress] then requires the US attorney to “bring the matter before the grand jury for its action,” but the Justice Department will also makes [sic] its own determinations for prosecuting.

Any individual who is found liable for contempt of Congress is then guilty of a crime that may result in a fine and between one and 12 months imprisonment. But this process is rarely invoked and rarely leads to jail time.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/13/politics/criminal-contempt-of-congress/index.html

Penalties for violations (a misdemeanor) include a fine of up to $100,000 and a jail term of one to 12 months, which requires prosecution by the Department of Justice (DOJ) or the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia. This means a contempt citation may be a purely symbolic gesture if the DOJ or U.S. Attorney decides not to prosecute.

https://www.findlaw.com/litigation/legal-system/contempt-of-congress-process-and-penalties.html

Crude, yes. Fair, no.

Consider a balloon. Uninflated, make a mark on opposite sides, and then make a third mark right next to one of those. When you inflate that balloon, the two points on opposite sides of it become farther apart because of the stretching of the whole balloon, but the two marks right next to each other don't become nearly as far apart, because they are only experiencing "local" expansion.

Time is a property of spacetime, its own dimension. We have no reason to believe that time can exist without being part of spacetime.

So all space is expanding. Locally, that's "just a teeny tiny bit," and the force of gravity is plenty strong enough to keep things up to about the size of galaxies (maybe galaxy clusters) gravitationally bound. Andromeda, for example, is the only galaxy that is heading towards us.

But all of space is quite big. Over the vast distances of space, all of the "teeny tiny" local expansions add up. This means that the galaxies which are furthest away from us are also receding from us most quickly. This is not because those galaxies are moving through space; it's because of all the expanding space in between them and us.

The speed of light (in a vacuum) is the fastest anything can move through space.

“lol no”

Some dumbass at my kid's high school recently wrote on a bathroom wall, "Gonna shoot up the school on [date, three days from now]."

They figured out who it was, he's been charged with four felonies.

Relevant username.

If we are considering "the universe" to mean the spacetime that we exist in, there could be an "outside," but we just don't know, and there's no indication of such an outside, or anything about what it would be like.

By way of infinite spacetime, yes, there is only a part of spacetime that we can observe, because the farthest part is moving away from us faster than the speed of light. I seem to recall there having been some estimations of how large all of spacetime is, observable and unobservable, and that it has a finite size.

That said, there does not appear to be a limit to the size of spacetime. Based on what is currently known, spacetime is expanding, the expansion is accelerating, and there is no limit to the expansion.

Just what I need for my herbal dick.

That's ... really bad.