Parallel Of Latitude Puns

Lines of latitude are parallel because they intersect the same line of longitude at the same angle, yet they never meet.

Lines of longitude are parallel because they intersect the same line of latitude at the same angle, but they meet twice.

Non-euclidian geometry inverts the fifth premise of euclidian geometry by stating that parallel lines on a sphere will intersect.

Are lines of latitude not truly parallel in non-euclidian geometry? If so, how does NE geometry define "parallel lines"? Or does this premise better phrased as "parallel lines on a sphere may meet" rather than "must meet'?

Places near Cape Farewell in Greenland are fully glaciated while northern Canadian mainland is not, e.g. places like Fort Smith at around 60°N. Same goes on for places at 70°N, Cape Brewster in Greenland is glaciated while locations in Canada like Victoria Island aren't? Same goes for places in Siberia of same latitude. Why?

Can someone shine some light? Why do they need latitude and longitude? If the nearest server location is all they need, city name would be more than enough I guess.

https://i.imgur.com/UQyWlpv.png

Edit - Contacted the support and they promised a senior rep would get back to me within 1 or 2 days. Lets see!

Update (April 23) - Received an Email from the Nord team.

I'm contacting you on behalf of recent chat session you've had with one of our agents.

We do not track or store any personally identifiable information. Upon connecting to a VPN server, our applications send a call to our API, which has access to a geo IP database for determining an approximate user location. This is done so that the app could identify the best server for the user and connect to it. The location data is then stored locally, on the user's device. We do not save this information anywhere else.

Without storing that information, the app would be unable to determine the best server in cases when the user is already connected to a VPN server. If the user clicked 'Quick connect' while connected to a remote server, the app would choose where to connect from the server's standing point, not from the customer's perspective.

The folder that contains the location data can only be accessed with root privileges. We could use ping to determine the best server as well, which we did in the past. However, pinging more than 5000 servers would take a lot of time and device resources. The method we're using right now doesn't compromise users' privacy and is a lot more efficient.

If you have any additional questions, don't hesitate to ask.

My takeaway- Meanwhile, I dug into the permissions of that file yesterday. User can only view the file if he opens but the latitudes/longitudes are hidden with a different encoding. This file is set to immutable so that even a root user can't change the permissions to it unless you change the attribute and take the ownership. I guess it's safe to assume they're right. What freaked me out initially is, the location data was so close to my home. I guess it's just coincidence hopefully from their geo IP database(Other Nord users can confirm if it's the same). If you're still paranoid or don't believe them, there's always a possibility to use Open VPN client instead of their default client.

Gravity pulls it down toward the center of the earth, I know. And gravity is counteracted by an upward force from the ground, so it neither rises into the air nor sinks into the ground.

But it has some eastward velocity, and east curves to the left in the northern hemisphere (right in the southern).

If a counteraction of gravity is the only force coming up from the ground, how could it follow a horizontally curved line of latitude and keep going east indefinitely? All circumferences intersect the equator, and every movement along a non-equatorial circumferences changes one's yaw (relative to north).

Satellites never maintain a constant non-zero latitude like objects on earth. What forces aren't being applied to satellites but are being applied to resting objects that maintain non-zero latitude? How can they keep going east?

Pitch, roll, and yaw of the rock (relative to an initial reference frame) all change throughout the day. An object simply rotating in inertial space could not do that (and satellites don't).

Is there a name for these forces?

I really hope at least a few people read all the way through this haha because I spent several hours on this and would love to discuss.

In a Dusty Wheel video, Matt Hatch briefly mentions that Jordan was inspired for Nakomi by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem "The Song of Hiawatha" and he said "go read it" so I did :).

Ya'll, this poem is LONG. I searched and only saw a brief mention of it ever on the sub, so I read the whole thing and took notes and WOW, there are some very intriguing similarities and parallels to WoT. I tried to break it into sections but a lot of it is connected:

• Gitche Manito (Manitou is the spiritual life force among a certain Native American theology. Some have translated "Gitche Manitou" as akin to "God"), he is connected to the wind, he smokes a pipe and declares to humanity "I will send a Prophet to you, a Deliverer of the nations." (Who shares the same initials and also declared the coming of a Messiah? Gitara Moroso. More on this below.)

• "The Great Serpent, the Creator..." (obvious WoT parallel)

HIAWATHA / RAND:

1. "In the days that are forgotten, in the unremembered Ages, from the full moon fell Nokomis, fell the beautiful Nokomis, She a wife, but not a mother." (Nokomis has a daughter who gets impregnated by the West Wind, gives birth to Hiawatha, dies, and Nokomis raises him.)

2. "Two good friends had Hiawatha, singled out from all the others, bound to him in closest union..." (sounds like the ta'veren)

3. "He it was who brought the morning." (sounds like He Who Came With the Dawn)

4. Hiawatha falls in love with Minnehaha (first three letters are Min)

5. Nokomis warns Hiawatha not to fall in love with a stranger but to "wed a maiden of your people."

6. "And the heron, the Shuh-shuh-gah, Far off on the reedy margin, Heralded the hero's coming." (A heron signaling the hero, just like Rand)

7. "Lo! How all things fade and perish! Great men die and are forgotten, wise men speak, their words of wisdom perish in the ears that hear them..." (sounds like Rand's speech on top Dragonmount)

8. Hiawatha sees "all the secrets of the future" in a vision, including people arriving from the West and a dark vision of "the remnants of our people sweeping westward" and "our nation scattered, all forgetful of my counsels, weakened, warring with each other". **(This clearly reminds me of the Seanchan arriving from the west, causing strife

I'm looking for a cheap sub $150 laptop to take on tour that I can use to maybe run early current gen titles on low settings as well as do some Ps2/gc emulation. Is this a good deal?

The lyrics from the snippet just hit me every fucking time I am listening to it, it sounds so pure