That may be relativists (they would actually measure anything in units of mass, with everything else defined through G = c = 1). Astrophysicists commonly measure mass in solar masses, long distances in parsec (or kiloparsec, megaparsec), short distances in solar radii or AU, and time in whatever is relevant to their problem (could be seconds or gigayears)

Yep, you got it right. The accretion disk is actually really flat. Those images are produced in simulations that take into account the curved (and very complex) paths light takes in the vicinity of a black hole. These images really depend on the angle between the line of sight and the disk.

It's a way for the vehicle owner to broadcast to the world that they have a small dick.

The premise here is completely wrong.

Egyptian hieroglyphs used to be painted, what we see now is usually (but not always) completely faded.

A first grader writes more coherent English than that.

The really weird thing is that I actually got it.

High Magistrate

Joplin as well, syching my 3 devices with the WebDAV option. I checked a few other options about a year ago and Joplin seemed the best.

Not for everyone, but self-hosting isn't so bad.

Matrix was introduced a few months before Discord was launched in 2015, so better say that Discord is the proprietary and centralized alternative to Matrix 😜

I've been using nothing but Linux at home and work for 20 years and it's news to me that these words are not equal synonyms.