Same here! Though I took a 6-month break in between quitting Reddit and joining Lemmy. I remember hoping it would amount to a feeling of liberation but in reality I just felt out of touch with world events and started scrolling through my Google feed instead, which sucked…

I’ve been saying for the past decade that I think the federal government holds way too much power and needs to dissolve. The country is too big for how centralized the power is and the states cannot effectively satisfy their constituents’ needs when they’re so beholden to federal interests. I love the state and city that I live in and I don’t want to have to move across the world in order to live somewhere with sane politics but I’m sick of progress here being delayed because so many of our resources are going to the federal government and being compromised by the interests of the other 98% of the country.

Objects like an unbreakable stick are still composed of atoms suspended in space and held together by the fundamental forces of nature. When you push on one end, the other end doesn’t immediately move with it but rather the object experiences a wave of compression traveling through it. This wave of compression travels faster than we can perceive but still cannot travel faster than light.

Look up why arrows bend after they’ve been released by a bow, it’s essentially the same mechanic.