You’ve clawed, conned, or car-bombed your way through this lovely cesspit we call home. You’ve shaken down pensioners, bribed officials, and sold your grandma’s dentures for Xanax. And for what? Yet another day of existensial nausea. Do you want to know what your future holds, or are you happy to live from xanax to xanax, with no purpose but to exercise, do crime and fall short of your potential. Who decided what potential is for you anyway?
The answer to al this is divination, and I - gelanot - am a diviner, i read fortunes using an old book called I Ching.
For a modest fee—$1,000 per level—I will divine your fortune. I’ll throw the ancient coins, interpret the cosmic patterns, and tell you why your enemies prosper while your last business venture exploded (literally or metaphorically—doesn’t matter).
You might learn something profound. Post below, or mail me directly.
Come, citizens of Torn. Let us pretend, together, that we may also engage in the wry and sick sense of humour that the universe is using on our lives.
But some more than average-degenerate has paid 250 k to pay for TEN bounties on my head, just to harass the only fortune teller in Torn City. Someone so AFRAID of their own subconscious they are willing to pay to prevent others from interrogating their own. Any one here know what kind of tulip that was? Apparently they said "weee wooo weee woo", indicating that they're violently opposed to paranormal phenomena. But also the sound coming out of their timid little lungs when facing the great mystery.
Anyway, what a loser.
Luckily, I can do this hustle fro the hospital bed. I just need one working hand to throw the dice. And I can ask the nurse.
And here I am , charging pennies in a decrepit world that waddles in money.
The price for a reading is now 250 k$ and, thanks to the latest batch of customers for paying that. I hope you are happy with my services.
You will have you readings by private mail. The reading gets improved if you toss the coins yourself, and provide a more detailed. But since I'm a high level DIVINER i can intuit what your real question is and divine the hexagram for you, it's just slighly less accurate.
Does it behoove you to taunt? to castigate, chastise and spank? To ridicule, upbraid and flame? Without exposing your name? I'm the disser of Torn. The snarkiest pisser born My cutting words hit as moist vocal turds Yours for a million coin!
I tried my luck as a fortune teller, but business was slow. I need to make a living. I now offer my services as a Piss-Bard.
Is there someone you would like to insult, in the spirit of this wretched place? To declare war? To ridicule a defeated? Then I am your man.
For the measly sum of 5 000 000 $ i will compose a poem (without using AI),
send it to your chosen target, but most importantly, post it here in this forum, for all of Torn to see. Post will begin by DENOUNCING and then the username.
Man I hate flying.
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Genuine GELANOT TAUNTS will be marked by my username.
Maximum ONE TAUNT PER PERSON per month.
Prices: Ordinary taunt : $ 5m 1m (limited time offer, ends june 30!)
Does it behoove you to taunt? to castigate, chastise and spank? To ridicule, upbraid and flame? Without exposing your name? I'm the disser of Torn. The snarkiest pisser born My cutting words hit as moist vocal turds Yours for a million coin!
I tried my luck as a fortune teller, but business was slow. I need to make a living. I now offer my services as a Piss-Bard.
Is there someone you would like to insult, in the spirit of this wretched place? To declare war? To ridicule a defeated? Then I am your man.
For the measly sum of 5 000 000 $ i will compose a poem (without using AI),
send it to your chosen target, but most importantly, post it here in this forum, for all of Torn to see. Post will begin by DENOUNCING and then the username.
Man I hate flying.
This thread is the property of Gelanot,
Chaotic Neutral piss-bard of Torn city.
Genuine GELANOT TAUNTS will be marked by my username.
Maximum ONE TAUNT PER PERSON per month.
Prices: Ordinary taunt : $ 5m 1m (limited time offer, ends june 30!)
Here is a mental model that explains the "current", but it's not a perfect analogy because it depends on gravity.
But imagine that space is a container full of a slow-moving syrupy liquid, and that small drops of this syrup rains from the sky. In empty space, there would be no curvature in this syrup because it rains the same amount everywhere.
Now imagine, that the rain is unevenly distributed. So some places, the syrup will pile up. But then because it is a syrup it will float towards the places are lower. And so, a gradient and a curvature, and a current will form that flows from the areas of lots of rain to the less rain areas.
In this model, the current and the curvature are related, they are both features of the difference in the rate of rain. So it should be clear why two masses attract. T
To complete, the analogy, imagine that it is the presence of mass that induces lower rainfall. The planets and stars float at the surface of this syrupy lake (the present). However, if anything tries to escape from the star it must move through this syrupy flow.
In my mental picture, this is what the Stress Energy tensor actually describes, and not curvature of spacetime.
There is no settled explanation for gravity. Because a thing can have multiple explanations, but still agreeing in the equations, making identical predictions. So don't mix the predictive power of General Relativity with the interpretative narrative. GR doesn't prove that space IS curved. Experiments proves that massive objects attract each other. GR is the formalism that lets you make essentially perfect predictions (at least for scales smaller than galaxies).
One way to make sense of those two facts is to imagine that space is curved. It's a nice interpretation, but I don't like it.
But ok, how are two things attracted to each other if space is constantly generated? Let's look at why GR has curved geodesics. The geodesics become curved because space is curved. But that curvature is just a gradient. So what if we change that gradient into a current. That is pressure. It's the same thing, we just say that it's not curvature, but current. Then two things are attracted to each other because space is constantly flowing in the direction of the mass. So those things are equivalent - current, curvature - two mental models explaining the gravitational constant. Fie.
Now, the problem is - why does mass cause a current? My interpretation here is that time and space is being constantly generated. Things move in straight geodesics in areas where the rate of time-space production is the same. But these geodesics become curved when the rate of time-space production varies. And when less time and space is generated, then massive areas keep lagging around, allowing new space from the surrounding region to flow towards it.
So for some reason, mass reduces the rate at which spacetime is being generated. The stress energy tensor describes the connection between the mass, and how mass result in the slowing down of the production of timespace.
To do this, you need a background space and background time, and our spacetime is emergent from this background time. This is off-putting to some, but not to me.
Beautiful illustration. My take on it is that that space is constantly generated. But in some places, less space is produced. And this deficit forms a well. So it's not exactly that space stretches, but that there is a current. More space is created in empty space than near the well.
So this means that any movement in the direction of empty space (which would be away from the mass) faces a headwind, which makes it slow down. And this headwind is the gravity.
But the maths can be the same even if the interpretation or meaning is slightly different. I don't believe in infinities. They are bugs in the theory
But some more than average-degenerate has paid 250 k to pay for TEN bounties on my head, just to harass the only fortune teller in Torn City. Someone so AFRAID of their own subconscious they are willing to pay to prevent others from interrogating their own. Any one here know what kind of tulip that was? Apparently they said "weee wooo weee woo", indicating that they're violently opposed to paranormal phenomena. But also the sound coming out of their timid little lungs when facing the great mystery.
Anyway, what a loser.
Luckily, I can do this hustle fro the hospital bed. I just need one working hand to throw the dice. And I can ask the nurse.
And here I am , charging pennies in a decrepit world that waddles in money.
The price for a reading is now 250 k$ and, thanks to the latest batch of customers for paying that. I hope you are happy with my services.
Let us all pretend, for a fleeting half-assed moment, that that the universe isn’t laughing at us but with us.
And I, gelanot, am your humble, semi-certified, questionably sober diviner.
For the extremely reasonable price of 250k (plus tip if you’re rich, or 10k per level if you’re poor), I will peer into the cosmic tumble dryer, throw the sacred coins, and bring you the oracle’s reply. Then I’ll give you a short, honest description of what I think it might be pointing at.
You might learn something profound. You might peel a layer from the onion that is the sacret tangle of your psyche. You might win big. You might realise your spirit animal is a depressed pigeon.
I kind of think that the speed of light is actually variable, but then since slower speed of light will slow down time, it always looks the same speed to us. But then, when we look at space, and some places have a slower speed of light, then we can’t make sense of that. So we decide that space is warped instead, because then lightspeed can be constant.
So to make gravity work with that, then mass need to slow down speed of light AND we have to keep insisting that speed of light is constant: result is, space needs to warp to make up the difference.
I think its boring to buy gasoline and sell it and i think that beating up people in the street for experience just to get to fly and buy plushies is insane. I just want to relax, work out, maybe do some organized crime. Mostly i want to develop as a human andbuild up my fortune telling business. Why is everybody stressing out?
do you guys want proper value?
what about getting your f**king fortune told.
I’ as far as I know the only diviner in Torn city. I have the I ching oracle, i legit use it. Chase your plushies.
hit me up for private or pay me whatever you think its worth.
You will have you readings by private mail. The reading gets improved if you toss the coins yourself, and provide a more detailed. But since I'm a high level DIVINER i can intuit what your real question is and divine the hexagram for you, it's just slighly less accurate.
You’ve clawed, conned, or car-bombed your way through this lovely cesspit we call home. You’ve shaken down pensioners, bribed officials, and sold your grandma’s dentures for Xanax. And for what? Yet another day of existensial nausea. Do you want to know what your future holds, or are you happy to live from xanax to xanax, with no purpose but to exercise, do crime and fall short of your potential. Who decided what potential is for you anyway?
The answer to al this is divination, and I - gelanot - am a diviner, i read fortunes using an old book called I Ching.
For a modest fee—$1,000 per level—I will divine your fortune. I’ll throw the ancient coins, interpret the cosmic patterns, and tell you why your enemies prosper while your last business venture exploded (literally or metaphorically—doesn’t matter).
You might learn something profound. Post below, or mail me directly.
Come, citizens of Torn. Let us pretend, together, that we may also engage in the wry and sick sense of humour that the universe is using on our lives.