Geez. Did Walt just want families to die in the heat? What was his other alternate site? King Ranch?

Pretty simple to keep honest. You assign me to buy a lottery ticket with numbers 1,2,3,4. I buy the ticket. You check the winning numbers.

This is why it works for lottery tickets but not other forms of gambling. The results are published

I’ve eaten some absolutely disgusting stuff in my life. My mother literally lacks a normal sense of taste. She cannot tell if something is spicy or sweet. She makes meatloaf by mixing oats and ground beef and then baking it for 5 hours at 400 degrees(that isn’t an exaggeration). There is no seasoning and it is the driest and nastiest thing you’ve ever tried to eat(she believes if you cook something longer it tastes better).

Dominos pizza isn’t the best pizza, but after some of the disgusting things I’ve eaten in my life, it is an absolute joy. It’s bread with cheese and tomato sauce on it. It isn’t stale bread. It isn’t moldy bread. It’s just cheap bread. Calm down

They no longer diagnose ADD and ADhD separately. From what people can tell, some kids just display more hyperactive behavior with ADD. But the brains work the same in all cases, so this just seems to be a symptom

Smallpox isn’t that long. I think it is 5-10 years.

Mutation matters, but some rapidly mutating viruses like rabies are easy to immunize for long periods while some slowly mutating viruses are hard.

I have friends who keep asking why we don’t just make all vaccines last for a really long time. I always point out that if you could actually figure out how to do that, you’d win the Nobel prize tomorrow. Also worth noting that there was serious discussion of quarterly vaccines for flu prior to COVID(primarily for at-risk)

Or just build slightly bigger switchgear and use nitrogen

"leading to more customers".
Where are you living that you get to pick your utility service provider?

Quick explainer: They use sulfur hexafluoride because it prevents arcing.

In electrical equipment, you are always worried about an arc forming at switches. You mitigate this by putting space between the two points. This is true for all electrical equipment, even the light switch in your house. The distance an arc can occur is based on the conductivity of the medium. Air is the medium typically used. But with really high-voltage equipment, you need very large gaps. Alternatively, you can use something different than air. That is where hexafluoride comes into use. It allows us to make much smaller equipment for high voltage, because it is less conductive and therefore needs far less spacing.

The alternative to using hexafluoride are:

• bigger equipment
• alternative gases, which are more expensive and more hazardous

Both of those things cost money, so the utility industry hasn't been in a big hurry to fix it. But there is no reason we couldn't use an alternative if it was mandated.

Not really. There are alternatives. SF6 is preferred because it is cheap and works well, but there is no reason you couldn't electrify the grid without it.

Orion's belt is one of the easiest patterns to pick out of the sky. Three stars that are relatively bright and look almost like a straight line.

From what I've seen, nearly every group that could SEE Orion's belt had some kind of constellation attached to it.

The Victorians actually became huge proponents of what we would consider hiking today.

They were big on walking for health

Yeah, now Kenmore enters the chat. It is basically a zombie brand. What does that mean? It means that it is a former defunct company's name that they can use to maybe push some products. I dont know about Kenmore in Europe, but I would guess it is being applied to cheaper appliances.

See, when Electrolux goes to launch a new line, they don't just want to make up a name no one has ever heard of. So, they pay a couple thousand dollars and buy a brand name from a dead company. Then they slap that on their new line and people are a little more comfortable buying it.

The most egregious example of this in the USA was the brand "GE". GE was an industrial juggernaut in the US. They made everything from nuclear reactors to trains. However, they didn't sell very much in the consumer space. So, several companies bought the license to use their name on products like TVs.

Well, take Electrolux as an example of why this happens.
Electrolux is a well-respected brand in Europe, but they sell under all of these brand names in Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolux#Brands

They use it as a way to differentiate their lines(using old names). So instead of needing to sell "Electrolux crappy" and "Electrolux fancy", they just sell it under the alternative brand names. That way, dumb people won't get mad at the entire brand just because their cheap unit failed on them.

Prior to this practice, one company might dominate the "cheap" sector, while another company dominated the "high end" sector for a given product. By using these sub-brands, one company can make both and maintain their reputation.

Yes. Sears basically came up with the idea of "re-badging". Basically, generic store brands for appliances, tools, etc.

Kenmore isn't exclusively Whirlpool. It depended on the product. They also had a lot of Electrolux too(the sister company of Husqvarna, so it makes sense)

Nowadays, the practice is more common. Even a lot of popular brands have their own rebadged brands, particularly in tools

This was just Sears MO. They rebadged everything. Their Kenmore appliances were whirlpool. Their garden equipment was Husqvarna. Etc

I don't think that going "out to eat" is the problem. It is the fact that you go from an 8000 calorie lifestyle to a 2000 calorie lifestyle in a week

My brother and I were both linemen, he wound up playing D1. Just in HS, I remember once eating the following lunch: quart of milk, a loaf of French bread, and an 18 oz sirloin. A few hours later, I had a 44 oz malt milk shake, which I drank while lifting weights.

Yeah. And that massiveness also correlates to a much higher caloric need while they are athletes. So while an elite RB might need 4000 calories to maintain, a 320 lb lineman might need 5-6000 calories(out of my butt numbers for illustration purposes)

When those linemen end their careers, it is harder for them to adjust to a normal diet and many of them wind up being fat as hell. And unlike the RB who can just take up jogging after his career ends, their aren't many normal exercises that approximate 3 hours shoving around other 300lb men.

So, just from knowing former college and NFL linemen, they are typically obese very shortly after their careers end(or they may already be obese)

Oh, you're a troll. That explains a lot

What page on the stone tablet?

Did you see the picture of the big rock?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census_of_Quirinius#/media/File%3AIscrizione_funeraria_di_Quinto_Emilio_Secondo%2C_seconda_met%C3%A0_del_I_sec._d.C..JPG

I didn't cite an encyclopedia chief. I linked to the encyclopedia because it literally has the tombstone of a soldier who served under Quirinius during the census

And we know of Pilate through numerous Jewish historians. They hated him. Apparently he was a real tool

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census_of_Quirinius#%3A%7E%3Atext%3DThe_Census_of_Quirinius_was%2Cwho_died_in_4_BCE%29.?wprov=sfla1

We literally have his tombstone which records the census chief