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Lots of medical schools have programs.

In the US, it's actually up to the next of kin, too. When you die, they technically own your corpse. Registering basically just makes a record of your opinion. Even if you aren't registered, I think your family can decide to donate the spare parts

The particle board stuff is the midrange stuff. The cheapest ikea furniture is cardboard lattice

Ikea stuff, at least on the cheap end, is made of cardboard lattice coated in plastic. Maybe if you get more expensive stuff from particle board, or even plywood, you'd be better off, but that cheapest stuff is really cheap. Once the fasteners start to loosen, there's nothing you can really do. With real wood, you could just put in a fastener in a different spot.

If this becomes a common method, there's going to be a lot more police instigated house fires. Tear gas cannisters are basically a smoldering ember

They probably got down voted because it's not correct to say the prisons are privatized. There are private prisons, but 90+% of prisoners are not in private prisons.

That's the noise played on the outside of the car. This is the noise they'd play inside of the car so the driver feels like they are driving a ICE car. Companies have actually done this before for ICE cars that aren't loud enough for the driver.

Tbh, I'm not too upset by it, because it actually is nice to have an audible indication of acceleration. I have a hunch that it could cut down on motion sickness.

This is sound played through the speakers into the car, most likely, not sound played outside of it for the blind

You can also add citric (and malic and tartaric) acid in the right proportions to turn a sweet juice like orange or pineapple into the equivalent of lime or lemon, and then use that juice like you'd use lime or lemon in cocktails or other recipes

he charges his clients anywhere from $5,000 to $20,000 depending on the case.

He's not "helping", he's running a business. Also, only the ultrawealthy have homes like those he has removed people from, and you can tell from his YouTube channel that he's certainly targeting a specific audience.

Or too cold. Seems like some parts of the world at least are getting more of those polar vortex, ultra cold days. And if climate change shuts down the gulf stream, maybe Europe gets a lot for cold days, too

This guy just found a niche job as the bouncer for the 2nd/3rd/nth homes of the ultrawealthy, and he's trying, and apparently news outlets are helping to promote it as a good thing. Most people don't have a problem with squatters because they actually live in the house they own.

I think that's usually the case. Yeah, a squatter could be waiting in the bushes for you to go to work so they can break in and set up shop, but they'd know that would lead to a fight, so they'd aim for unoccupied houses where they'd be left alone

Student loans had to be a top answer. The fact that they even call loans "student aid" is bonkers. There were two events with student loans that really drove that home for me.

First, there was a school I was considering applying to that advertised that they would pay 100% of what the government determined was your family's need. They had 2 admission windows, one "early-decision" with a good chance of getting in, that was before when the govt releases their estimates of your need, and another with abysmal acceptance rates, but after you'd know the cost. For someone without money, you would have to give them a binding agreement to go there if accepted without knowing what you will end up paying, or you likely wouldn't be accepted at all. I ended up not applying, but if I had, I could have attended a good school for around $3,000 per year, including room and board.

Second, one year i was in college, my parents (who weren't paying for any of my education) made less money. This made the government offer me higher loans. Because I could get more "student aid" from the government (loans), my school reduced my scholarships.

Every county in the US ( and some are actually combined jurisdictions) has a county extension office. Their job is basically to provide you with the latest plant growing information from the USDA and whatever your local land grant university is.

Unless you live on a reservation, in which case you might not have an office you can direct questions to, because reservations are sovereign nations and not part of "counties". Some have extension services through another govt program, but not all.

I think there's a lot of fluff for sure. I do think there is some real technique to it, though.

Pouring so that you keep a higher volume of water in the pourover will help to keep the temperature stable, which should help keep extraction up. The two extremes here would be if you dripped water through in like 20 additions, letting the bed settle each time vs. doing it all in one addition. The average temperature throughout would be higher in the latter case.

Bloom should also have an effect for freshly roasted coffee. If you dump a bunch of hot water on really fresh coffee, a decent amount of the grounds will just float on top of bubbles, insulated away from the actual water. It matters less and less as coffee ages/off gasses.

Agitation should also have an effect. Things dissolve better when agitated; that much is obvious. The only additional thing to consider is that no coffee grinder creates perfectly uniform grounds. One thing that any beer brewer can tell you is that the "filter" is not what actually filters a wort from the spent grains; the spent grains themselves form a filter to get rid of any fine particles. Similarly in coffee, a lot of the fines will actually get caught up on the larger particles, provided the larger particles are allowed to settle. If you keep the grounds agitated the whole time, the fines will get sucked into the filter paper itself. Some will probably make it through into the cup, which could affect taste and texture, while much will clog up the filter, slowing the whole brew down.

It ends up depending on how good your grinder is (and if your beans are especially prone to making fines), and what type of filter you use. If you theoretically had a perfect grinder and beans, maybe you'd want to keep the grounds agitated the whole time, but if you have a crappy grinder, maybe you want to have no agitation at all.

Personally, I have an okay grinder, and i always use fresh beans, so I try to bloom my grounds with maybe 20% of the water, and agitate as much as possible. Then I add basically as much water as my pourover will hold at once, and I'll top it off gently as soon as room opens up.

Smaller bits of coffee settle from the suspension more slowly, though, so fines are on top

I mean, that's every farm animal

Yeah, I feel it in the base of my skull and my spine more than my ears

Only if you live in New Jersey