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Cake day: June 7th, 2025

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  • Edit: I’m sorry, I didn’t see the terminal window because I’m just now having coffee. The joke is better than my morning confusion. My regret is as full as the security line at the airport.

    It was based on a true story of statelessness. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehran_Karimi_Nasseri

    The real story is much less clear cut and filled with mental health issues.

    Guy is in an airport when his country goes through a coup and changes names. So his passport is no longer recognized. Can’t leave thr airport, cant call the embassy for help because everyone there was part of the old government. Stuck in a way no one had ever thought of before.

    IRL guy was expelled from Iran and his papers that let him live in Europe were “stolen.”



  • You’re onto the right answer. At some point:

    1. the middle of the lory would be the center of gravity of the lory, and no longer have any grip on the road. Making it a space lory with the lower parts dragging in the atmosphere.

    2. the top of the lory would be so tall that if it was driving, the change in angle of a fraction of a degree would make the top of the lory travel faster than light to keep up. This might happen sooner than running into other stars. If the lorry is 1 light year tall and goes over bump that changes its angle by only 1 degree, the top of the lory would move 1.6 x 1011km within a few seconds. So the lory might sheer apart, or would sway like a skyscraper in wind with each molecule moving at the speed of light all over the place as the truck bumps around on a road where even minute variations would make the top move wildly.