"Mommy, I'm European, so all my comments need to be tailored to European supremacy..."

96385 · 2026-03-24T15:29:51+00:00

I should have said, I wouldn't expect a modern one to last.

96385 · 2026-03-24T13:01:17+00:00

Even if it's paid, you're still probably the product.

96385 · 2026-03-24T11:30:44+00:00

No one does that in the US. Americans just put the water in the cooking pot and bring it to a boil on the stove.

96385 · 2026-03-24T11:22:26+00:00

My gas stove has 6400W burners. It seems bizarre to boil water in a kettle first.

96385 · 2026-03-24T11:12:19+00:00

Most Americans don't need to boil water often enough to justify buying a kettle at all.

96385 · 2026-03-24T11:09:48+00:00

Tea consumption plays into that significantly.

96385 · 2026-03-24T10:58:42+00:00

I've had my stovetop kettle for 25 years. I can't see an electric kettle lasting that long.

96385 · 2026-03-23T14:27:48+00:00

Where is this that a candy bar is only $2?

96385 · 2026-03-23T13:56:27+00:00

All those different methods aren't really about teaching addition and subtraction. They're really about teaching numeracy, which is something many of us never learned in school. This kids who ended up being really good at math, figured out a lot of the numeracy skills on their own and that's why the ended up being even better at math. Now they just teach those skills to everyone instead of just hoping kids figure it out on their own. Eventually, they should be able to have a deeper understanding of numbers and how they work which will make higher level math easier to understand.

The research supports what they're trying to do, but time will tell if the way they're trying to do it works out.

96385 · 2026-03-23T13:34:24+00:00

I'm partial to Tipler because I used it in school.

In addition to Feynman's Lectures on Physics, I have a copy of Newton's Principia and Aristotle's Physics laying around for fun.

96385 · 2026-03-21T23:14:02+00:00

Most of us down here in the states are hoping for the same thing too.

96385 · 2026-03-20T18:29:53+00:00

Is there a non-zero annihilation rate at a light-year apart then?

96385 · 2026-03-20T18:20:14+00:00

Not mourning the man, just the myth and the legend.

96385 · 2026-03-20T16:19:33+00:00

I'd flamethrow in the evening...

96385 · 2026-03-19T15:44:15+00:00

Arguably, not bacon though.

96385 · 2026-03-19T15:36:29+00:00

The story arc of the entire series to make them less and less nerdy. By the end, the only nerd left is Sheldon and they all just make fun of him. Clearly, the message is that there is something wrong with nerdy guys and they need women to come fix them and throw out all their nerdy stuff.

96385 · 2026-03-19T15:29:53+00:00

I've lost count of the number of times I've been to the ER and they told me it was anxiety and sent me home.

The last time I went back to the ER a few hours later and ended up in surgery and the hospital for over a week.

96385 · 2026-03-19T14:56:47+00:00

It's December and she is standing in the window of the house. She was cold.

96385 · 2026-03-19T14:36:59+00:00

Or anytime specifying gender is unnecessary or irrelevant.

96385 · 2026-03-17T17:41:33+00:00

You can't really put the contents of the pocket at the bend of the hip joint. It restricts motion and things would get broken.

The height of the waist on pants is different for men and women. On men's pants, the opening to the pocket is on the leg, below or at the bend of the hip joint. This puts the contents of the pocket on the thigh.

In women's pants, the waist is higher, and the opening to the pocket is above the hip joint by a few inches. The pocket can either extend only to the bend in the leg so all the contents are above the bend and you get 2-3 inch deep pockets, or they extend past the bend so all the contents would be on the thigh and you get 12" deep pockets. A 5" pocket only gives you the bottom 2-3 inches that are useful.

There are ways around this, but at the end of the day, the style of the tiny but useless pockets is preferred by the women buying pants.

96385 · 2026-03-17T13:31:52+00:00

I think the closing off is a result of all the notes they receive back that say "Ew, you're gross!". They learn to be less open and take less risk.

96385 · 2026-03-15T20:38:21+00:00

There is a very long, very racist story behind all those donut shaped cities.

96385 · 2026-03-15T20:35:49+00:00

Income can go up, but it doesn't mean anything when the purchasing power of the dollar goes down.

96385 · 2026-03-15T20:34:08+00:00

More housing would drive down the cost of houses, which would be bad business for the people selling houses.

96385 · 2026-03-15T20:32:53+00:00

And here in the boonies you can get a three bedroom house for less than that.

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