https://nypost.com/2025/05/02/world-news/nigel-farages-reform-uk-party-wins-mayoral-and-parliamentary-post-in-surge-of-support/

+ Bonus
BAD NEWS (for Democrats…):

“April Jobs Unexpectedly Jump By 177,000, Higher Than All Estimates”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/april-jobs-unexpectedly-jump-177000-higher-all-estimates

“What’s happened in elections so far and what’s still to come?”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1k410w11r3o.amp

Good results for Farage.
Meanwhile the pathological ideologue whose goal is to “tear down [this country]” is going to have to double down…

In a text-only medium, it’s easy to miss jocularity, especially if one has a preconceived expectation of what is meant.

I thought it was funny you said that something in cosmology sounded like general relativity, considering it’s been their fundamental theoretical basis for nearly a century now. I thought you were being funny suggesting it. Maybe I got that wrong. In a text-based medium, it’s easy to miss cues. Perhaps you and I could try to be more charitable with one another. I can certainly try harder, and probably should; it’s not a quid-pro-quo, it’s about doing what I need to do.

AppleBetty:

You’re my kinda fan!

Here’s a wonderful mashup of “Gilligan’s Island” and “Stairway to Heaven” which totally works (unless NC says it doesn’t):

–Little Roger & The Goosebumps, “Stairway to Gilligan’s Island”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-Ka2Ok1xtE

Count yourself sophisticated. I still have this:

Sit right back and you’ll hear a tale,
a tale of a fateful trip,
that started from this tropic port,
aboard this tiny ship.

The mate was a mighty sailin’ man,
the skipper brave and sure.
Five passengers set sail that day for a three hour tour,
a three hour tour.

The weather started getting rough,
the tiny ship was tossed.
If not for the courage of the fearless crew,
the Minnow would be lost, the Minnow would be lost.

The ship set ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle,
with Gilligan, the Skipper too, a millionaire and his wife,
a movie star, the professor and Mary Ann.
Here on Gilligan’s Isle, here on Gilligan’s Isle.

So join us here each week my friends.
You’re sure to get a smile.
From seven stranded castaways,
here on Gilligan’s Isle.

(Typed, without hesitation, from memory.)

I’ve never had a friendly interaction with you. Thanks for the reminder.

Getting up earlier helps too.

Dang! I thought I had had an original thought.

I’ll just have to try harder.

I asked around and cosmologists seem to have all heard of that one and it’s been incorporated into current theories for some time now. The nuances do not make their way into science journalism necessarily. I didn’t get better than a B- in it…

If the universe isn’t expanding at a consistent rate everywhere, then it raises a deeply troubling possibility:

And that could mean: everything we thought we knew about the universe’s beginning needs to be rethought.
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Sounds like Einstein’s “General Theory of Relativity.”

In GR, time and space aren’t fixed — they depend on where and how you’re observing.
If expansion isn’t uniform, then even “cosmic time” may not be universal.