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exactly as many as the quantity of numbers you can count between 0 and 1

I specified countable to keep them in the same class of infinity. :) not about to make that mistake when bringing pedantry to a silly fight. .

Since it's implied that they have names, I'm going to use that as my argument for there being a countably infinite number. If you want to argue that only certain special angels have names, like Michael or π, then I'd say they're uncountable.
If you wanted to argue that omnipotence means a deity could defy logical restrictions and allow contradictory truths to coexist, then I'd say I'm far too sleepy for that discussion but I love where you're heads at. :P

Precisely as many angels as there are whole numbers, or exactly as many as the quantity of numbers you can count between 0 and 1 (0.5, 0.2341, etc).

The original context of the question was more about if angels and the afterlife were physically manifest or intangible, and early thinking about how infintesimals work.

I know it's not actually a unit change, but in my head there's a resistance to changing the scale.

If one sign says 5km, I expect the next sign to say 0.5km, not 500m.

That's interesting. I never really noticed it but I'm not a fan of changing units. Whatever the "base unit" is for something is what I'll use, even if it crosses the order of magnitude threshold.
Metric always gets decimal though, and sae units get fractions.

I've gotten myself switched to metric for kitchen weights and volume, and for small distances in projects I'm working on.
I'll buy a 1/2 pound of meat, and then measure out 200 grams, with 100 ml of stock and 0.5 grams of something-small-i-cant-think-of-for-an-example-recipie.
Saying 500 milligrams feels wrong. So does asking for 1000 ml of pop though, since that's the "wrong unit".

I think there's something baked into the American brain that says unit conversion is a source of error and should be avoided. Converting from 1 mile to 2640 feet is obviously gonna cause issues.

As for the fractions, I think that's because sae units developed in a context where division by whole numbers was helpful, and metric was designed so that division by 10 was consistent and predictable.
Nothing intrinsically wrong with fractional units, other than 1/3 meter being a less reasonable number of centimeters than the inches in 1/3 yard.

That's super frustrating. The hospital should have easily been able to get someone who had at least a basic grasp of a common language to help ensure they understood the forms and got them filled out correctly.

The fault is 100% with the hospital.

Something being wet is a material surrounded by water

So if I set my hand in water it's not wet because it's not immersed? What if it's not water?
Can other liquids be wet? If I dump water into a bucket of gasoline, is my gasoline wet?
If I mix a soluble powder into water, like sugar, do I have wet sugar or sugared water? Do they have to be in contact? Is a phone in a bag in water wet because it's surrounded by water, or dry because there's air between it and the water?
What about those hydrophobic materials that can be dunked in water and come out dry? What about non-liquid phases of water? Is steam wet? If I dump water on ice is there a difference in how wet it is?

The common colloquial definition of "wet" is "to be touched by a liquid". The scientific is for a liquid to displace a gas to maintain contact with a surface via intramolecular forces. Water becomes a better wetter if we add soap because it no longer tries to bind to itself instead of what it's wetting.

Neither of these has the water itself being wet, but you can have "wet ice".

Let's not pretend that a more scientific sounding colloquial definition is actually more scientific.

They know where the package came from, but the shirts are required to have a label for the consumer to know.

They are invariably being held to the strictest scrutiny because they offended the inspectors, but country of origin labeling isn't so customs knows where it came from, but so consumers do.

https://www.cbp.gov/trade/rulings/informed-compliance-publications/marking-country-origin-us-imports

They obviously know where the shipment came from

Could also store our bools as floats.

00111111100000000000000000000000 is true and 10111111100000000000000000000000 is negative true.

Has the fun twist that true & false is true and true | false is false .

But only if you really mean it. If not, it's a syntax error and the compiler will know.

Sounds like a compiler problem to me. :p

I set all 8 bits to 1 because I want it to be really true.

Okay. You're still doing tech support either way. I have no way of knowing how much free tech support you're willing to give, hence my caveat of how much you're willing to support them.

Netflix would disagree. People feel like they're supposed to be getting access to a service, and if they're not getting it they'll complain to the nearest party to what isn't working. In this case that's you or Netflix being asked questions about why the router isn't working.
That it's wrong or irrational has nothing to do with who's getting asked the question, and who's the first line of troubleshooting when the service doesn't work.

If people didn't ask the wrong people questions, Netflix wouldn't need support articles on how to reset your router.

Honestly, you're supporting a chunk of her network by being a media provider in the first place. "It won't play" doesn't usually come with an assurance that it's not a device or network issue.

Neither plex nor jellyfin seem remotely worth the effort to provide to others in my opinion, I just felt like sharing that there are ways to afford network protection to locked down devices.

I've got no real care for jellyfin one way or another, just sharing that there's ways to make the network obey.

I think giving people access to my media server is asking for too much trouble personally. Now you're dealing with forgotten passwords, people using your bandwidth at weird hours, and you basically become the media fairy, responsible for finding whatever it is people want, and then dealing with their issues when their device can't codec at it for whatever janky reason.

I'm good at setting boundaries with family so it's not stressful, just more annoying than I want to deal with.

Depending on their router and how much IT labor you care to do for these people you can actually configure a site to site VPN tunnel. All traffic for a particular address range will get routed through the VPN automatically.

It used to be a high end feature but it's made it's way into general routers since it doesn't really require many resources and it lets you label it as having more home office features.

Particularly with Irish people it's more common. Theirs a few genetic pathways to the light skin common in more northern European areas. One of them showed up early in human migrations, and is pretty directly connected to production of the darker skin pigments. Adaptation done, no need for further tweaking to get vitamin D synthesis advantage.
These people tend to have irregular patches of darker melanin regions, hair containing only the lighter variety of melanin, and skin that burns easily because the mutation provides less gradient of melanin production, and more of a "yes or no".
As a result, the path for that gene to be deactivated is also shorter and it's more likely for people to have kids who don't get it nor have many of the genes for the other ways for skin to be lighter.

There aren't a huge number of genes that act like switches like that, so it's very startling for people.

The soft power will take the longest to repair, but 40-50 years is a bit long. That's on par with how long it took for us to build most of it in the first place.

Rebuilding could take 10 to 20 years. If he's shit enough it could take two to six.

If he does Herbert Hoover levels of damage there's likely to be broad motivation to take heavy handed action to fix it. Re-nationalizing land, nullifying contracts, and disregarding the impact it has on those who invested money or otherwise relied on the changes. Some of the programs being torn apart today are direct responses to trying to fix the problems Hoover caused.

It's not a lot, but it's worth remembering that Hoover had a lot of similar stances to Trump. He made things so bad that America elected the closest thing we've ever had to democratic socialism, and people liked it so much that they elected him four times and Congress changed the Constitution out of spite.

If just pasting it's more arguable, but still likely permitted. If the copywriten characters are the central focus it's more likely to be infringement.

Adding tracing makes it more transformative, and less dubious. Because of that and the "create a more homogenized image" part it's closer to a new character inspired by the fusion of others. You're not using anyone else's assets, you're transforming them via cutout, and transforming and adding your own creative work by blending them.