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On 2024-11-01 09:26, Andrews wrote:
> John Hill wrote on Fri, 1 Nov 2024 07:56:58 -0000 (UTC) :
> 
>>> Who cares about the truth?
>>
>> "The Earth is flat".
>> "No, it not for the following reasons�K".
>> "It's obviously flat, because�K".
> 
> Uneducated people readily & strongly believe that gravity is a force.
> Right?
> 
> But wait... Einstein hypothesized that it's not a force.
> And even Newton thought that the action at a distance was preposterous.
> 
>> Doesn't make any difference to its sphericity.
> 
> I live in mountainous boonies above the Silicon Valley & Monterey Bay
> where, since I'm an octogenarian, I seem to fall down a lot lately.
> 
> So I studied why gravity is so immensely powerful given Einstein said it
> wasn't a force at all but the earth expanding outward at 9.8m/s/s and
> curving spacetime rushing inward at 11km/s - perfectly balancing out such
> that the earth *becomes* a sphere (almost symmetric in sphericity).

Einstein never said that what we experience as gravity was caused by the 
Earth expanding outward.

> 
> My point is that the Apple trolls like Jolly Roger, nospam, Lewis, Alan
> Baker, Alan Browne, Joerg Lorenz, Chris, Hemidactylus, et al., are Apple
> trolls *because* they don't have the intelligence or education to know the
> difference between what Apple marketing (cleverly) feeds them - and truth.
> 
> They just don't have the intelligence but that alone isn't what makes these
> Apple trolls the deniers of facts that they are (as they probably all think
> gravity is a force for example - simply because they are ignorant people).
> 
> Just as Alan Baker claims to know bimmers but he doesn't know the basics,
> and just as he claims to teach racing but he knows nothing about curves,
> these uneducated low-IQ Apple trolls all are to the left of the 1st DK
> quartile.
I claim to teach road racing... ...because I do, in fact, teach road racing.

  I started road racing in 2013 and was invited to join the Race Drivers 
Committee of the Sports Car Club of BC after the 2016 season, and I've 
been teaching every year since.

<https://martinsactionphotography.smugmug.com/2024-SCCBC-Driver-Training-June-9-2024/i-Fkd9344/buy>

That's me on the left with my fellow instructor, Paul Bunbury.