@karlboll First, there is no such thing as a non-pathetic racist but when was the last time someone tweeted something inherently racist about a black person? I'm sure it happens but when it does the tweet gets removed and they get banned. It certainly doesn't end up a meme. Second, this isn't a stereotype. A stereotype is something that can reasonably said to be a trait of a specific large group while also not generally exhibited by other groups. I doubt there is any statistical data that would or even could show white people walk in the rain more than black people. Truthfully, given climate and population density this would be more likely for asians. Thirdly, do you ask black people if they get as offended by this as they do when they're the target of racism? No, you don't. And it doesn't even matter do you know why? Because the truthful answer is going to be no.

"I think therefore I am" huh? Interesting that we can still come back to that phrase all these millennia later. One of my favorite scifi book series is Troy Rising. In the series the mc is talking with an AI where the AI explains how knowledge works. It's something along the lines of "there are things we know, things we know we don't know and things we don't know we don't know." Now they added another one for the AI "things we know but can't know" meaning the AIs know they know something but aren't allowed to access that information. Anytime I get going on a thought exercise I'm always reminded of the first bit with the things we don't know we don't know. You can drive yourself mad trying to ponder that one, and yet isn't it such fun?

it already exists in all the coordinates it will ever exist in. This means if we're "traveling" in a perceived direction and we shine light behind us it can't ever be reflected back or vice versa if we do see a reflection is should have been perceivable in front of us before it was reflected. Just the mere fact that light's speed can't actually be measured one way disproves this. Of course this also means that because light's speed can be measured by it's reflection also disproves this. Is an interesting concept though. In fact it's been used in scifi before too. DS9 used it for the wormhole aliens. They perceived time not as linear but as a whole and decisions were made based on the outcomes achieved before the act was ever done.

The time thing is interesting but it fails the non-perception test. It's similar in concept to those that exclaim reality is purely what we perceive and not on it's own a fact. The easiest way I've come to describe it is with death. Specifically those that die from things that happen too quickly to for them to realize they are going to die. In those cases they don't perceive anything and they still die or turn into goo or dust. The same is similar with the all at once theory. If time and space are related so that a coordinate in time is the same as a space then there should be several things happening at once. Instead of actually moving in the form of waives or particles everything should be lines. This is close-ish to string theory but not really. Second would be that if you ever did actually travel to another coordinate since time and space are the same whatever existed there would always exist there without beginning or end. Thirdly light or a moving object can't actually move since

I love the fact that alternate universes are just as likely to not exist. This could very well be the only universe. There is literally no way to test the multiverse hypothesis, at least for now and maybe forever, so we can't actually say. Unlike Schrodinger's cat we have have no way to open the box. But I do like a good thought exercise and we've got some really nifty stories out of this one.

I'd guess you'd know.

The best part is they did this whole giant reveal thing at a castle where they had "superfans" watch the trailer. These "superfans" then did a question and answer bit where they couldn't seem to spot the simplest of things and could barely talk about LOTR. They even pulled some of them from Youtube after the backlash but other people put them back up.

They have recreated characters from LOTR arbitrarily to fit their story. The fact that they are completely wrong most of the time is because they want money. "We have the rights solely to The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King, the appendices, and The Hobbit. And that is it. We do not have the rights to The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, The History of Middle-earth, or any of those other books.” So they couldn't really use the real characters back stories or much of anything. So instead they created their own story added some LOTR characters to sell it to LOTR fans. https://boundingintocomics.com/2022/02/16/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-showrunners-admit-they-dont-have-the-rights-to-the-silmarillion-or-unfinished-tales/