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I bought a variety pack of scouring pads and brushes that I can attach to my cordless drill. Super handy for cleaning stuff that would otherwise take some major elbow grease. Probably bad for my drill, but it's worth it to me.

Belgian fries (and any good fries in America) are fried once in low heat for a little while to cook the potato through. Then they are allowed to cool, and they can be frozen to use later, or you can fry them again at higher temp to crisp them up.

Can confirm, I have the same set, and I do probably use them every day. It's one of those tools that you don't realize how often you need it until you start using it.

I once accidentally worked myself into trying to solve the traveling salesman problem. I was doing some work on a very specific problem, and I got to a point where I couldn't figure out a way to efficiently link up a bunch of points. The funny thing is that I knew about the TSP, but I just didn't realize that the problem I was trying to solve was a case of the TSP. After a couple of days trying to figure it out, I realized what it was, and that it was futile.

It was a good lesson to always try to find the most abstracted version of the problem you are trying to solve cause someone smarter has either tried and failed or tried and succeeded.

This seems like it's flipped around backwards. The picture says you have to pump more than 4 gallons if you are getting E15, but the explanation seems to explain why someone pumping E10 would want to pump more than 4 gallons.

I bet the real reason is that someone could pump a couple of gallons of cheaper E15, knowing they'd actually receive E10, leaving the next person to actually get that gas.

Read "a mathematicians lament", by Paul Lockhart. It was originally a short essay (25 pages you can find free online), but expanded into a book that I haven't read yet.

In a similar vein is Shape, by Jordan Ellenberg.

There are excessively clear instructions for tails on how to do exactly what they are asking. You can't help people like that.

There was an app called Buycott that lets you join "campaigns" of things you are either for or against, and when you scan something, it tells you which positive and which negative campaigns apply to that product and the company as a whole. Koch was on there. Seems like it may have been abandoned years ago, though.

Maybe, but it wouldn't be a fast process or guaranteed, so I didn't risk it.

There's a few levels down from each of those that you can get the broad strokes of fairly easily.

For igneous, you can broadly break it down into extrusive vs intrusive. Basically, did the magma slowly solidify underground, resulting in large grains like in granite, or did it come out in the form of lava that cools rapidly into fine grained or even glassy structures like obsidian. Then there's the other axis of "how much silica is in there?" Really high silica content rocks are called "felsic" rocks. Granite is an example of a felsic intrusive rock, ryolite is an extrusive felsic rock; Basically the same minerals, but way smaller crystals. On the other end of the silica spectrum, there's "mafic" and ultramafic rocks that have less silica and more iron and magnesium. The main example of a mafic rock you might know of is basalt. You can find charts like this one that break things down that way.

We've largely done this to ourselves. The cheapest price is king in air travel. Unless you're traveling for work, everyone goes for the cheapest option, so airlines are incentivized to get the base price as low as possible. Like if the option was to pay $100 more and get 2 checked bags, a meal, and more legroom, I'm still not going to do it.

The price of air travel has come down astronomically over the past few decades.

This is an area of law governed at the state level. Some states are much better than others. Personally, I have not lived in a state that has a 3rd party hold the money (and I'm not sure if any do that). I did rent in a state where any charges that the landlord claims that they shouldn't is met with triple damages. So if they keep $200 instead of the $100 of actual cost to repair something you broke, they owe you $300. It really incentivizes landlords to only charge accurately (e.g., not for standard wear and tear), and generally deposits were much lower there than in other states I've rented.

Lots of states also charge interest on any deposit money not immediately given back to the renter.

They gave me an itemized receipt where carpet cleaning was the only item on the receipt when I moved out of a place with wood floors. I actually recorded the whole final walk through with the person from the company walking through saying that it was perfectly clean and that I should get my whole deposit back.

When I complained, they said that it wasn't carpet cleaning, it was just regular cleaning billed as carpet cleaning. I said I would take it to small claims court, but I never told them about the recording.

They decided to refund me just enough that the money they kept was equal to the cost of filing a small claims suit.

I've seen that happen, too, and sure enough, on my LibreTube app, which pulls from piped, I can't see any comments right now. For whatever reason, videos aren't actually playing, either, but there might just be something weird going on with the app.

There are channels that have good, constructive comments

Cloud seeding is a form of solar geoengineering, but it's not the only type of solar geoengineering. The type that seems most likely, and most likely targeted by this legislation, does not involve clouds.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_injection

Something is fishy, if you look up the bills that supposedly did this, they don't say anything about this topic.

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 39; Title 42; Title 43; Title 44; Title 55; Title 58; Title 59; Title 60; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 69, relative to environmental protection. Environmental Preservation - As introduced, decreases, from 180 days to 150 days, the time that the air pollution control board can have more than one vacancy after an appointing authority of the board receives sufficient information to fill the appropriate vacancy before the board is required to report to the government operations committees. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 39; Title 42; Title 43; Title 44; Title 55; Title 58; Title 59; Title 60; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 69.

Edit: looks like I missed the amendment in the mobile version of the site. What's funny is by the wording of the amendment, it's perfectly legal to use airplanes to disperse mind control chemicals, lol. They are only banning efforts to combat climate change.

AMENDMENT #1 rewrites the bill to prohibit the intentional injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of chemicals, chemical compounds, substances, or apparatus within the borders of this state into the atmosphere with the express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight.

If you read the article, it's not really about cloud seeding, it's about solar geo-engineering, which us also a real thing

I guess this is less of a regulation and more of an individual teacher. I had a math test that was multiple choice, with space in-between each question to do the work. I did everything correctly for a particular problem, including writing down the exact correct answer, but I circled the wrong multiple choice answer. There was a minus sign instead of a plus sign for one of the terms, and I just missed it.

When we got the tests back, and it was marked wrong, I asked the teacher if I could still get points for it because I clearly actually did the math right. The teacher said that only the multiple choice answer I circled mattered, so I still got points off.

The next test was 5 pages with 5-ish questions on each page. The front of the last page only had 1 question, so I wrongfully assumed that was the last problem on the test, but there were 3 problems on the back. I only noticed this when I went to turn it in, and with the teacher watching, I just circled 3 answers at random. It turns out, I somehow circled the correct answers, but the teacher marked them wrong because I didn't actually do the work; I just got lucky.

I complained, and to their credit, the teacher relented and gave me the points.

It's essentially a measure of income and race. San Francisco has high incomes, and high Asian population. Obviously richer people live longer, and Asians have lower rates of obesity and longer lives in average.

Brownsville is much poorer, and pretty much entirely Hispanic. Obesity and poverty rates probably much higher.

It seems like it was intentional by the authors not to control for it, which I think is fair depending on what you are trying to show, but it's irresponsible not to mention it.