Puzzling thing about Speed of Light/Speed of Causality

[Whateverist]

Okay, I see. I wasn't thinking of it in terms of the compression wave traveling all the way down and back. I think I understand it now.

My intuition was the same as yours: that the stick, being a rigid object, would transfer the motion instantaneously.  Did not think about compression waves at all.  What I did think about was how difficult it might be to actually push that stick at all.  Could I even do it? Not mention the difficulty of lining up the push given that we're standing on a fast moving planet as well as one that is rotating.