There are two ways of looking at it.

1. The time machine is using itself as a point of reference to comply with general relativity. The only way to time travel is to move forward in time. The way to move through time would be to move a lot faster than the Earth, so that every minute for you inside the time machine would equal to many years for earthlings. And if you’re moving that fast you’ll fly away from Earth.
2. The time machine somehow has a knowledge of the whole universe, this way a Newtonian model applies and an absolute point of reference exists. That allows unrestricted travel both forwards and backwards in time, but that also means that the Earth will inevitably move from under the machine to follow its path across the universe.

No matter how you twist it you’ll end up all alone in space. You need a machine which can move through both time and space at the same time.

And then you install wordpress, lol.

Yet most botnets are Linux based.

That’s how you end up without software.

What you’re describing is a machine which moves both in time and space. A machine which only moves in time would result in this meme no matter how you twist it.

Wut?

I guess most of his supporters are far left genocidal maniacs and alt Nazis, so no wonder.

Well, if you consider only Africa and the Middle East to be “global South”, then maybe. But I’d say South Asia is also a part, has most of human population there and pretty much is aligned with Russia and China.

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It doesn’t really function as its own state since it has no separate courts (it owns and partially runs the Old Bailey, but that’s for all of England, not just the City), no defense or foreign-policy capacity, and none of the other functions of a state. It’s a Liberty (an area with enhanced or different rights) rather than a state.

It’s the same for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Or for 50 states inside the US.

You need a company for legal protection. There are too many idiots in this world who will try their best to sue you for no reason. The bigger you grow, the higher the risk. That’s why we have the Mozilla Corp and Linux Foundation: a company will pay a fine in the worst case scenario, but a private person behind the project is looking at a jail time.

That’s rich coming out of you!

You should learn a thing or two about the City Of London.

The City of London (which is not London) is probably the most relevant example here, it’s enjoying its own representation in the government, its own laws, its own police force, and functions almost as a separate state in the Kingdom. Only corporations registered in the city can vote for its government, private residents cannot.

Then there are loads of towns and villages owned by the aristocracy, places like Clovelly, Heydon, Aldbury, etc. Or Poundbury, which was built by King Charles III (the work started while he was still a prince in 1999) because he just wanted to experiment with architecture.

The City of London (which is not London) is probably the most relevant example here, it’s enjoying its own representation in the government, its own laws, its own police force, and functions almost as a separate state in the Kingdom.

It’s funny how Americans here are so against the idea, yet there are plenty of private towns and villages here in the UK and it’s just normal.

No way!

Was it done poorly though? I mean the end result is that the US has become a vassal state of Russia without a nuclear fallout. Seems like an epic win to me.

That’s some insane mental gymnastics you have there…