This could be better than existing pressure balance based mixing systems, assuming it allows you to adjust the hot vs cold pulse width

It’s the difference between “We must be on God’s side” and “God is on our side”.

When the Iraq war kicked off, there was a priest at my parents’ church that spoke out against it (as he explained it, “love your enemy” is one of the most challenging things Jesus asked of his followers. It doesn’t mean “forgive someone that cuts you off in traffic” it means literally whoever your enemy is, you must love, care for, and protect them, even if it means self sacrifice or dying to do so). Attendance at his sermons dropped by 60 or 70% for years. Eventually I think people started to come around, but he died before there was widespread sentiment against the war. I’m no longer religious, but I miss that priest.

Whoever made this picture doesn’t know about Fishing Mexico, and I’m disappointed by that.

When you account for inflation, oil prices today are in line with oil prices in the early 2000s. The price is too low, and the risk is too high for massive infrastructure spending that would extract more oil from Venezuela to be worth it.

Possibly, green energy technologies are now on a trajectory to overtake fossil fuels altogether - and they are already a factor in driving the price of fossil fuels (and therefore the profitability of many wells and mines) down substantially. If that happens, the long term value of Venezuela’s oil reserves, without suitable infrastructure already built for extraction, could be close to zero.

In line with small government ideals, the best thing to do is let companies decide whether and how much to invest, but that won’t be a headline worth showing off. So Trump is trying to make $100B happen, and believes that that (alone) will restore the Venezuelan economy to the way it was.

Easy, when two guys have the same first name, just enjoy them both the same amount. Give good/bad advice to make up the delta.

The language of the post says something that cannot be (meaningfully) derived without a control group of people that didn’t experience a counterpoint: “… the situation of being a young woman alone at night in a subway station being enough to generate the sense of fear.”

As I understand it, everyone in the study experienced all of that in combination, so any subset of those things may have been enough to generate a sense of fear: being alone, being at night, being a young woman, or being on a subway station.

The common objection I see is that everyone feels fear alone on a subway station at night, so the statement is misleading. That matches my personal experience, so I also see that statement as misleading, regardless of any work done by the study.

What do you have against 3.14159?

Also, if you put the same wine in different bottles, they pretty reliably prefer (and describe the rich complexities of) the more expensive bottles.

I knew an audiophile that believed the government had top secret technology for additional audio channels in surround sound setups, like 17.7 or something. I tried very hard to explain how you can buy an off the shelf 128 channel recorder/playback device, and have as many channels as you can feasibly buy and set up, and the reason a lot of media was recorded in 5.1 was because a 5.1 setup was considered at the upper end of what people would be willing to pay for. He moved his target in response, to now the government has top secret 1000 channel audio equipment.

I don’t know what the equivalent of the wine world is, but I hope never to meet it.

That’s the Medditerain’t, right there.

I’m sorry for being so much more money for other projects since February.

I was raised religious, and fell for the whole “porn makes you unable to form real, properly attached bonds with another human” thing. Then I started reading the scientific background of that stuff, and - while you definitely can damage your ability to form strong relationships with porn (or just about anything else) - that made me far more porn positive.

Maybe this is just me, but I actually watched/looked at far more porn when I felt deeply ashamed of doing so. Now that I’m OK with it, and it just feels normal, it’s comparable to a tool I have access to.

We need to ban fully automatic transmissions.

They throw a pretty great tea party. Everything else is as described.

1. Not everything is going to evolve into crabs.

2. I’ve read a wikipedia page about the Dunning Kruger effect, so I understand it as well as an expert.

3. Name brand Band-aid self adhesive sterile bandages really are that much better. If you grew up using anything else, your parents didn’t love you, or you were extremely poor (or both).

4. Tryptophan is not the thing that makes you tired after overeating on Thanksgiving. It’s mostly carbs, and the fact that so many people uncritically repeat this easily disproven lie is a sign of how little concern for the truth almost everyone has, almost all the time.

You’re really going to put that up against “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” by Mariah Carey?

As an integer larger than 10, this post is extremely offensive. Please don’t lump me in with complex, irrational, and imaginary numbers. We integers have our own finite groups closed under multiplication, sequences, and properties, not all of which are shared by other, less important, less useful numbers.

The hard part is finding someone else that also wants to discuss ferns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veganism

Under “Term coined by”

“Sporange” does. If you’re especially bad at pronouncing words, many other things also rhyme with orange, like flange, range, and monkey.

The moon is about 1.25 light seconds away from Earth. There are retroreflectors placed on the surface of the moon by NASA, some of which are still functioning.

Given the number of people that stare up at the moon, it seems likely that someone has blinked twice with correct timing to be at the same time as their reflection.

On the other hand, I have blinked with my face only a few cm away from a mirror, so my reflection blinked 0.00000000007 seconds after me, so maybe “at the same time” is doing the heavy lifting here in the sense that there is some minimal period of time between most events we would consider simultaneous.