Mom told a story about going through labor, and then being put under anesthesia after I was born. That doesn’t sound natural to me.
I wonder if it was housebroken…
They’re too easily bribed with fishiiiiiez.
They are working on the storm sewer system in this city, with all kinds of heavy equipment cutting up the pavement. I walked past a pile of what looked like cut up pieces of the curb (there are plans to reshape the curb on this street and others), and there was a guy sitting in a loader right there waiting for his cue. I could not spot the curb that had been ripped up, so I asked him about it. He said that was stuff dug up from under the pavement (like macadam, I guess), and, most interestingly, that it had been ballast in the holds of ships that came over from China.
There’s nothing new there, and there’s nothing mysterious about the problem. When you include all of the forces (and hence torques) on the system, you get that the sprinkler rotates in reverse. The only way you get it rotating forward is by either omitting or double-counting some of the forces (most typically, by pointing out that there’s a nonzero pressure inside the arms of the sprinkler, while neglecting the fact that there’s also greater pressure outside).
The vortices shown in that video are interesting, but they’re a manifestation of what you get from the pressure differences, not a separate contributing effect.
meanwhile - further south things are not going according to plan:
The Automotive Chamber of Venezuela (Cavenez) reported that 39 vehicles were assembled in Venezuela from January to September of this year [2023], that is, 25% less compared to the same period in 2022, when 52 units were produced.
(word on the street is, that they were strongarmed cheeringly motivated to assemble 14 more cars to be able to report a 2% growth towards a “fairerer” society)
They are also an effect of the chosen design. The video showed an animation of Feynman attempting the experiment using a rather what I consider more standard design, with almost no inner chamber in which the multiple vortices form. How such a design would behave has to be somewhat different from how the experimental sprinkler does. What if the tubes are semicircles (sort of similar to the fan) that feed the flow into an inner chamber in the opposite direction from which they draw? That would behave unlike the experimental model as well.
According to this article, the panic over Orson Welles’ radio play War of the Worlds was greatly exaggerated, partly by newspapers to discredit radio.
If you want to address mail to a soveign city-state, like Singapore, you still need to include a line for the country even though it’s redundant. For example:
Joe Blough
60 Belgrave Circle
Singapore [postal code]
Republic of Singapore
Some years ago my SD was living there, and when we tried to mail something to her and omitted the last line, it came back to us. Apparently if the country is omitted then then USPS’ automated systems try to process it as domestic mail.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, “publicly” is the most commonly misspelled word in the English language.
I would have guessed “judgment”, but yeah, I can see “publicly” slipping by a lot of folks too.
TIL about the Ayam Cemani breed of chicken from Indonesia. They’re totally black: beak, feet, feathers, and all. Even the internal organs are black. Allegedly they sometimes lay black eggs.
“Judgment” has another correct spelling, “judgement,” depending where you are.
Tell that to the judges at my 6th grade spelling bee. I lost because of that word. It should have an “e” after the “g”.
Tell that to my friend Dave’s dad. He and his teenage friends immediately hitchhiked downtown to the Army recruiting office to sign up and get out to New Jersey that day… “Before the Martians spread any farther!”
More importantly, if so, why is it nearly always removed when the entrees arrive? That may well be proper etiquette, but I can’t recall ever seeing it followed.
Just because a very few relatives-of-a-friend reacted that way doesn’t mean it was widespread. And that’s even presuming Dave’s dad isn’t the type to embellish a story for entertainment value (I know a few who would, especially when telling stories to their kid).
At a local Italian restaurant they bring bread with our salads. We don’t touch the bread until our entrees arrive and they never take it. In fact, they know us and bring more while we eat our entrees, which we don’t touch.
With our check they bring a take-out box for our excess bread. We let it sit out and get a bit stale, then use it for French toast. I told our waitress (the owner’s daughter) about this and she’s now doing it also.
Is SD the Straight Dope? Social Democrat? Or something else maybe?
Moderating:
This is being a jerk. If you don’t understand an acronym, you can ask politely. Trying to hijack the thread with your acronym hobbyhorse is not appropriate.