Tomatoes are from the Americas, so it wasn't around in European ancient times. I guess it could have been invented in the Americas, but cheese wasn't really a thing there.
Dad, physics teacher, musician, and sailor. Originally from the subtropics now living in the New England Tropics.
Tomatoes are from the Americas, so it wasn't around in European ancient times. I guess it could have been invented in the Americas, but cheese wasn't really a thing there.
Paying 20% - 40% more for dumbed-down OS that limits what software I can use. I mean literally any one of those alone is a deal breaker. It was never gonna work.
Nobody was being asked for their social media credentials, it's not like you have to give them full access. What happened was that the attorneys looked the jurors up and went through their old posts, all stuff that was publicly available. One of the jurors they dismissed posted a picture of people celebrating Biden's election win, and that was enough to show that they were biased.
This is an easy fix: stop reading CNN. I am of course assuming that you have already realized "watching" the news is like asking your parents to read you a story, and letting them choose every story. That's not news, that's entertainment and it's not very entertaining. Go read what the journalists are writing, and try to read a lot of them.
As a teacher, I treasure all of the heart-felt notes and letters students have left me over the years. If you want to give something that shows them how important they are to you, write them a letter.
Your edit is actually missing the biggest reason--all the energy and water it takes to raise the meat. It's just not sustainable.
For me it's playing music. I had awesome grades in HS and had a full ride, but I was a way better drummer than pretty much anyone I knew. I played in a bunch of bands, and was invited to join one of the more well-known local bands in my pretty big city. I ended up giving up my scholarship to go try and make it with them. We made a record in a nice studio and went on tour and it was a promising start. By the time I was 20 I had seen most of the US. But even though I loved touring, I hated having to play every night, no matter what I was feeling. Playing original music with my friends always used to make me feel better, but having to do it all the time made it stop having that healing affect on me. Instead of making me feel better it was just another obligation that I had to do, no matter how I was feeling.
I was devastated when I realized that I had nothing to help me through the hard days. And I had a lot of hard days. As it turns out, I had untreated PTSD, generalized anxiety disorder, and type 2 bipolarity. Music was very much one of my go to strategies, and without it my symptoms got way worse. So playing music professionally ended up increasing my symptoms and also got rid of my only successful strategy for living with my symptoms.
We ended up having to take an extended break, during which I went back to school and finished my degree. For the first time since I was 8 I didn't have my drums set up in my house. And for the first time since I was 15, I wasn't playing in a single band. Normally I played in multiple bands, because they only practice once a week, and there are 7 nights!! But now I wasn't playing at all. I had no desire to play. I went out on tour with my friend's band just to travel and help, I didn't play. And that was super fun, but I still had no desire to play
I lived like that for two miserable years before I slowly started playing again. But it's no longer my career, or even a dream of a career, like it used to be. It's way too important to me for me to ruin it by trying to get rich and live my rockstar dream. And now that I have actual rockstar friends, people who I played with who are in famous bands, I know what the life is like. And it's really not a fantasy. Those MOFOs work hard, and they're on the road for months and months at a time.
So that's my best skill, but I don't do it for a living. I've been playing in bands consistently my whole life, even as I went back to grad school, and then started my professional career as HS science teacher. But it's been mostly cover bands, which honestly pays way more than I used to make except for our very biggest shows. But it's not worth it and I'm just not willing to do it professionally. The first band I joined when I moved to my current state, we ended up getting a great reputation, and we ended up getting more and more shows. The other guys were doing this for a living, but I was just trying to have fun learning new songs and playing for people. Eventually I got tired and stopped, and swore off playing for money. This had been the ideal set up, playing with a really good friend, and it still got old. So I stopped playing for money. I did continue playing, but I just didn't accept payment, and also felt okay calling in if I just want feeling it that day. I gave up $400 bucks or so on one show when we filled up this one little venue where people paid $20 a head. It was a fundraiser for our little hippie church, so I just donated my portion. But for ten years I wouldn't accept any payment at all.
But it's hard to say no. The thing is I'm honestly really good. I can play really well in any style, and I'm fucking great with rock and especially fast/heavy rock. So anyone that physically hears me play, if they have a band or even know of someone who has a band, I get asked. I literally went 5 years without playing anywhere at all except for on the band room at the high school where I teach. But then I ended up getting pulled into giving drum lessons by the owner of the music shop where I would buy gear, because he wanted a drum teacher for his own son. And the world needs rock and roll. So I let myself be talked into giving lessons, but only how and when I wanted to. So I took a few students on, and we ended up becoming friends. But then of course one day he needed a drummer to fill in for his regular guy. And shove I give lessons at his place, he knows I have chops. I came to a couple rehearsals, learned their whole set list, and we played a few shows where all I have to do is show up with my throne, my sticks, and my book. I get there and everything is set up for me. I'm a total fucking prima Don, but they want me and I'm just not willing to sacrifice anything at all. It was fun, and they asked me if I'd book some more with them and I said sure, but before I knew it we we're doing 2-3 shows a week during the summers, which is NOT what I wanted to do with my summers off as a teacher! So I told them they could have me for one show and one rehearsal a month, and that's it. I'm still violating my rules, but playing once a month gives it enough time between playing the songs so that they don't hurt my brain anymore. Playing Stevie Wonder 3 times a week sucks. But playing it once a month is tolerable. And I like it when pretty women try to get me to notice them. I'm a single dad and I don't date, but I do like it when pretty women give me those intense stares while they're dancing. I swear watching a dude okay the drums while he makes you grind is definitely a lot of womens' thing. So it's sustainable, and technically I'm still doing it professionally, but really it's more of a hobby that I can get paid to perform and teach. (Teaching pays way more than performing, but I physically can't teach more than three lessons a day so there's no hope in it for me!)
Meanwhile I finally have my own band again, where we're writing our own songs. I know that the other players want to eventually play these songs, and I know people are going to like it because they always like it, and we're doing something that no one else around here is doing. So we're eventually going to have to play out. But I still have young kids, and I'm just not that into building a name. I'll eventually tour with my old band again, and I'll probably try to take this group on the road and play some big shows here if we ever build up a following with our recorded music (which we're definitely going to release.) But I don't want to play music for a living, and I don't think anyone should do professionally the one thing they really need and they they love more than anything else. If you can deal with it not doing what it used to do, then that's no problem. But if you depend on it for your happiness then you should probably not try to make it your whole life. I know there are people who can do that, but those people mostly either don't have a choice because it's the ONLY thing they can do, or else they have money enough to where they don't have to make money doing it and can still devote as much time as they want to it.
Yes, killing someone for hanging a pride flag is a political act.
Heck yeah! Super Shout-out to Ruud and the team he has assembled! The man is a partner and a parent and has a full-time job, and still makes time to organize the maintaining and trouble shooting of this instance!! And then he sits down and writes lengthy posts explaining exactly what went wrong, what the team tried, and what was finally able to work. That transparency is so wonderful! I sure hope you all are throwing a few bucks per month their way!
Most people are skipping the important point here, though I did see it at least once: the money you pay now is worth more than the money you'll pay next year, or the year after that. That's true not only because of inflation, but also because of your own earning power. Are you making the same amount of money today that you were making 3 years ago? Probably not--I'd guess that you're making a little more. That means that each dollar you spend was a little easier to get, and is thus is worth a little less. The 12.5 K that you would pay now is probably worth more to you than it would be if it was spread out. So spread it out. The more dollars you pay later, the less those dollars are worth. This is a no brainer on a no interest loan, but it can still be true even if you're paying interest, though the calculation gets a little complicated. If you have a relatively low interest loan, it might make more sense for you to keep making payments than to try to squeeze it in all at the beginning, especially if it's a house mortgage (which are usually long-term). Those monthly payments, in 20 years, will be worth a lot less than they are now. It might seem crazy, but it doesn't always make sense to maximize payments at the beginning of a loan just to reduce interest because 2023 dollars are not the same as 2043 dollars.
I took an entire graduate course in QM and a quantized Universe does, in fact, seem pixelated. That's exactly how I explain it to people. There's simply a finite level to how closely you can zoom in. Space, time, and energy are all quantized, and maybe even gravity though we haven't figured that one out yet.
Are we seeing the same chart? 2/3rds of the carbon emission from the EV comes from the ridiculous way that many communities are still generating electricity. But that's totally fixable!! We are generating more and more electricity thru renewables every day, and eventually nobody will have the audacity to claim that wind turbines are bad for the environment. Or at least no one will believe them.
I'm not seeing the most basic bit of advice in my brief perusal, but even so it needs repeating: find a camping buddy. That is by far the easiest way to get into camping. And honestly you shouldn't be going out on your own as a novice anyway.
Ask the people you know, or the people THEY know. If that doesn't work then try local camping groups near you. Lots of people are looking for others to go camping with, so you're a commodity! Get together with them before your first trip to go over packing lists and menus, and maybe even go grocery shopping together before hand. I really didn't recommend going out there in your own, buying everything you need, etc etc. Start with someone else, see if you're into it, and next steps will be obvious. You were born to live out there, it comes pretty naturally no matter how many thousands of years your people have been in the city--you were out there much much longer!
Flying the flag upside is a distress signal. People who use it as a political statement are misusing the flag, and that is the actual disrespect here.
I don't even give a shit about the future of reddit or going back anymore.
I'm with you there. For me, the important thing is that you can have great communities online if you keep the noise down. If he wants to take his game home let him, we can play somewhere else. I just hope all the scientists make it, especially Andromeda. So many great discussions, I hope it can continue as we continue to navigate our way out of the mess that is the 2020s.
I cringed when one creator mentioned giving up on her degree to focus on youtube. I mean, sure she's making bank right now. But who knows how long that'll last.
Unlike their YT career, that degree course will probably be there in five years. It'll be more expensive, but it's not gone forever or anything like that. For some opportunities you really have to strike while the iron is hot. For the record, I'm a HS teacher and I've had the "so you want to be a YouTuber for a living" conversation with countless students over the years, including with my own child. But for someone who's starting to get some traction, and wants to take time off of school to see where it leads them, I think it's an understandable move.
Most people are decent drivers, but there are a lot of drivers out there. 1% of a big number is still a pretty big number. If there are 500,000 drivers in your area, and only 0.1% of them are lethally incompetent, that's still 500 dangerously fucked up drivers on the road almost every day. That's still a lot of really bad drivers!!
The Moral Majority was the real start. Friggin Reagan invited the loonies in and the right has literally never recovered. We're all paying the price.
In the disability advocacy community, we like to say that accessibility is for everyone!
Pepperoni and pineapple pizza. The sweet and tangy go sooooo well together!
The why is not really known. But we simply cannot. There is not line where one particle ends and another particle begins. The best you can do is give a probability distribution, but some of the particles will be in places where they're not really supposed to be. This is actually what drives the fusion processes in stars. The nuclei don't actually have enough kinetic energy to fuse--but she is the protons in one hydrogen nucleus just magically appear in the nucleus of a neighboring hydrogen atom.
You literally can't have distances that are smaller than these probability distributions.
I first used Linux in the late 90s, and it was just something that worked better on an older box. I installed Red Hat on an old 286 and the fun part was honestly getting it to work and learning about computers. Then one day I realized that I was spending all my free time working inside on this thing, but I was living on the water, in the Florida Keys, with access to boats and jet skis and pretty much anything. That had been my dream my whole life and all of a sudden I was living it. And I didn't even have to be at work, right next door, until 10am. I was on a break from school then, and that's actually what caused me to change my major from CS. I didn't think it would be helpful to spend my whole life indoors!
Now I'm a physics teacher and I sometimes teach my 9th graders how to use Python for simple things like graphing. I love my life and I'm really thankful I keot computers as a hobby rather than as my profession.
Nice job OP! Not only is this not a stupid question, this is in fact a fantastic question! Kudos to you!
My phone goes in my left pocket, and I usually hold it with my left hand since I use a swipe keyboard to type, and I'm right handed. My front right is for my money clip, which also contains a few important plastic cards. This was a huge change for me. Keeping cash and cards and nothing else. Absolutely liberating to not have a wallet taking up pocket space.
My keys dangle at my right hip.
Context: I'm a man, and only wear shorts or pants with pockets. I also only buy phones that fit easily into my pockets, so never the extra mega ones.
I'm glad to see how many of us there are that have a system!
Banger isn't really short for headbanger, though they may have been related at one point. A song doesn't have to be loud and/or aggressive to be a banger.
The 14 is the amount of words in a certain ridiculous and oh so ignorant slogan, and 8 refers to the 8th letter of the alphabet, which is H. So there's two of them, H H. Hi Honey? I don't know, something dumb.
I had a really cold can of hop water and it was so so good! Lagunitas makes some, but there are other brands that probably taste similar. It was so good and so refreshing!
There are definitely white Latinos in the US, it's a race vs. ethnicity thing. But definitely no Latinos from Europe!! 🤣
"Fatherless households" is just racist code for black families.
I don't find it oppressive at all, as long as it's not a government doing the restricting. I find it more oppressive to have to SEE/HEAR hate speech in random unexpected places, in the name of freedom of expression. Go express that shit somewhere else, this community is about marble racing, or whatever.
Dude no stop
Are you okay?
The thing about the Pythagorean Theorem and having to cut your tongue out to join the cult that teaches you, so that you can't just blab it all over town. I teach physics and I love to play it up!
I make 6 figures for 174 days of work every year. I've always had awesome admin until this year, but on the whole I have more fun watching them bloviate with that deer in the headlights look.
Most parents are awesome as long as you're respectful and give them the final say. Ultimately, it's their kid, so if we don't agree on something even after they understand my reasoning, I'll do what they ask. I'm sure there's SOMETHING I wouldn't cave on, but in 15 years as a science teacher it's never reached that point. But I think if you make it clear from the beginning that they have the final say, it's easier for them to trust you. So many of us think we know their kids better than they do, or that we know what's best for their kid. With that kind of attitude parents are going to push back. 🤷♂️🤷♂️ Who can blame them?
Lots of people complain about teaching, and in most districts the job sucks. But there are still places where we're valued as professionals. And even in the bad districts, like where I began my career in South Florida, when you close the door it's just you and the kids. If that's your jam then it's fun as hell. I teach physics, intro and AP, and I have an insane amount of fun even though most of my students start out absolutely hating introductory physics (which all 9th graders have to take).
I teach kids how to do physics, and how to write about doing physics.
The second part of your question is the easiest. It shows up all the time because you haven't blocked it yet!
Pi is irrational because it represents an imperfect ratio. Curves are different than straight lines, so when you try to relate them to one another, some things don't match up. It happens any time straight lines and curved lines interact, I think. Pi and e both show up in the weirdest friggin places.
There is no such thing as an "illegal immigrant" in this country. It is not illegal to be in the US without papers, no matter if you entered legally or not. And "entering legally" means going through a checkpoint. You have to do that regardless of whether you're a citizen or not. Plenty of undocumented immigrants enter legally and then overstay their visa, which is not a crime in the US. It's literally not part of the criminal code.
Interfering like devising a wild scheme with fake electors because you're convinced you should have won, and then encouraging your people to go fight against the peaceful transition when it becomes clear your harebrained plan isn't working? Interfering like that?
You can view sidebar on mobile. I think it's in the three dots, but it's somewhere!
EDIT: On Jerboa it's under Community Info, under the three dots. On the mobile web app for L.W. there's a sidebar button.
This is a very important part of the solution here. The algorithm adapts to new videos very quickly, so watching some things you know she's into will definitely change the recommended videos pretty quickly!