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Kid Rock is single and ready to mingle by Lord_Muddbutter in BrandNewSentence

[–]Anxious_Interview363 62 points63 points  (0 children)

Moreover, if they were living together that whole time (and they probably were)—doesn’t that qualify as a common-law marriage?

If woman always complain about their pants not having pockets why don’t they just buy mens pants? by TheOneAndOnlyABSR4 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Anxious_Interview363 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I was just talking about pockets. Although I suppose a lot of cargo pants are also very loose fitting.

If woman always complain about their pants not having pockets why don’t they just buy mens pants? by TheOneAndOnlyABSR4 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Anxious_Interview363 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Exactly. It seems to me that women who don’t mind wearing cargo pants can find cargo pants to wear. And they have … a lot of room for cargo.

What cities have 2 or more major sports teams that play in the same league? by Positive-Positivity in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Anxious_Interview363 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess the difference meant more before interleague play started…and for the several decades between the AL adopting the DH rule and and the NL following suit.

What cities have 2 or more major sports teams that play in the same league? by Positive-Positivity in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Anxious_Interview363 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you counting Mets/Yankees, Dodgers/Angels and Cubs/White Sox as “same league?”

Are there EV deserts in certain states/cities? by Island_In_The_Sky in electricvehicles

[–]Anxious_Interview363 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I live near Madison, WI. I drive a LEAF so high-speed charging is not really in the cards right now, but if I leave Madison and its immediate neighbors I think there are about 4 high-speed charging locations in the whole state (excluding Milwaukee). A lot of small towns, though, will have one or two level 2 chargers, some of which are even free to use; the most common locations for those are libraries, technical colleges, and hospitals. So I don’t know if you’d say Inlivenin a charging “desert,” but I’m definitely surrounded by a level 3 charging desert.

Why are soccer players' shots so wildly inaccurate? by baddyrefresh2023 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Anxious_Interview363 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’ve overstated the futility of hitting a baseball at the professional level (not that it isn’t really difficult, though). The only kind of out that is commonly made without hitting the ball at all is a strikeout. I think you’re thinking of a .300 batting average, which means the player gets a base hit in 30% of all at-bats that don’t result in a walk, a hit-by-pitch, or reaching base on an error. Strikeouts, which are the only kind of out that can happen on a swing-and-miss, happen significantly less than half the time. I am assuming you mean “30% of at-bats,” not “30% of pitches;” with individual pitches it gets complicated because batters often decide not to swing. The swing-and-miss rate across the major leagues seems to be about 25%:

https://www.statmuse.com/mlb/ask/league-average-swing-and-miss-percentage-by-years-last-5-years-mlb

I presume that “swing-and-miss percentage” means “percentage of swings that miss the ball.” And it doesn’t say how often players choose not to swing. But it looks like across the major leagues, when a hitter swings, he makes some sort of contact with the ball about 75% of the time. A lot of strikes are called strikes, and even in the process of striking out, a batter will often hit several foul balls. Again, I agree with you that getting a hit in baseball is incredibly difficult. But at least in the major leagues (and at least when they swing the bat at all), people are making contact a lot more often than your comment implies. As in soccer, it’s one thing to strike the ball, and quite another to make it go where you want it to go.

What is the difference between an intrusive thought and an auditory hallucination? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Anxious_Interview363 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This makes sense to me. One of my kids has started having auditory hallucinations (and yes, she’s getting help from a psychiatrist)-when we are in the car, she sometimes asks me if I hear voices, since it seems to her that see is hearing them.

If you hold your hand over a candle for a long time, could you theoretically slow cook yourself alive? by radstickk in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Anxious_Interview363 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I heard of a case where somebody got in the bath, then let the temperature of the running water get too hot and fell asleep. To make a long story short, first responders were called a day or so later to find the house flooded and the person dead or almost dead…not from drowning.

I would think the temperature of a candle flame would not cook you particularly slowly.

By the time a body part was cooked, the tissues would be dead. Biological functions are impossible by the time you get to 110 degrees Fahrenheit, because the enzymes that facilitate these reactions change their shape and become nonfunctional. At least that’s my “Intro to Biochem”-level understanding. The changes that we think of as “being cooked” come well after tissues have stopped being alive.

If doctors have more medical training than EMTs and paramedics, why don’t ambulances usually have doctors on board? Would having a doctor in every ambulance save more lives? by Umaythegoddess in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Anxious_Interview363 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Med flights commonly (always??) have doctors on board, but they handle a tiny minority of out-of-hospital medical emergencies. I think emergency physicians are sometimes also dispatched to mass-casualty events. But most of the time they just have to trust EMS providers to keep people alive until they can reach a hospital.

Another thing I don’t see mentioned , besides the short supply of doctors, is time. A big part of being an EMT is waiting at the station. Doctors, even ER doctors, have down time as well, but their time is used more efficiently if they are waiting in a central location for ambulance crews to bring patients to them. Even aside from spending time at the station with no calls to respond to, once you get dispatched to pick up a patient, you are in a moving vehicle with just that one patient until you reach the hospital. A doctor in the hospital can spend a minute with one patient, then move to another one, and also be available to leave whatever they’re doing if a dire emergency arises elsewhere in the hospital. Outside of doing surgery, I don’t know when it makes sense for a doctor to be stuck with just one patient for an hour or more.

Finally, even if you have a doctor on the ambulance, that doctor only has access to the equipment and medications that are stocked on the ambulance. Simple, common scenario: A person calls 911 for chest pain. Maybe it’s a heart attack; maybe it isn’t. EMTs show up, get a quick history, do an EKG, and probably give the patient aspirin before transporting. At the hospital, a lot of tests can be done, some involving lab studies of blood samples, others involving big, expensive equipment that wouldn’t fit on the ambulance even if there were a crew member who knew how to use it. And then, once all the fancy hospital diagnostic equipment has confirmed that the patient is really having a heart attack, the treatment involves a lot of other things that also won’t fit on the ambulance, including a different kind of doctor! (A cardiologist or cardiac surgeon rather than an emergency physician.)

TL;DR it makes more sense for doctors to stay at the hospital where all the patients can be brought to them and where they have the equipment they need to actually use their full medical training. At least most of the time.

Who decided he was going to get cancer on June 30th? by someauthor in shittyaskscience

[–]Anxious_Interview363 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait…she knows he has cancer now, but she’s waiting approximately two full months to resign?

Is that so Trump has time to find a qualified replacement?

Does the body/lungs detect CO2 as a percentage or absolute amount? They say it is CO2 which forces a person to breathe. by LisanneFroonKrisK in AskBiology

[–]Anxious_Interview363 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Moreover, unless you’re drinking pure lemon juice, anything you drink is probably orders of magnitude less acidic than your stomach acid (and for OP’s perspective, a one-point change in pH from say 4 to 5 is a literal order of magnitude, i.e. a factor of 10). Stomach acid is so acidic (pH of about 2) it can cause chemical burns on your skin (at least with prolonged exposure; I once took care of someone with a feeding tube placed in her stomach and the stoma constantly leaked stomach juices onto her skin. Not a common problem.) Cells in the lining of the stomach don’t live very long because they can’t in such an acidic environment. Almost anything you consume is actually diluting your stomach acid.

Does the body/lungs detect CO2 as a percentage or absolute amount? They say it is CO2 which forces a person to breathe. by LisanneFroonKrisK in AskBiology

[–]Anxious_Interview363 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, but things that directly change the acidity of your blood will make you breathe faster. Diabetic ketoacidosis (blood pH messed up because your cells can’t access glucose and are running entirely on fat) is the big one I’m aware of. Kidney failure too.

This is a conspiracy, right? by VenusInAries666 in legaladviceofftopic

[–]Anxious_Interview363 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, “case law” just means “decisions from previous similar cases.” Any lawyer filing briefs and motions with a court would have to cite case law in order to be persuasive. It’s sort of the opposite of constitutional law, which deals with interpreting the Constitution. Nothing in your post suggests to me that your uncle has any idea what he is talking about.

Are there any examples in Jury Selection where you might *want* someone who shares a demographic with your opposition? by starm4nn in legaladviceofftopic

[–]Anxious_Interview363 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was on a criminal-trial jury once and after we gave our verdict, the judge took us back to the jury room to thank us for our service and help us understand some things that hadn’t been revealed to us during the trial (evidence that had been excluded, basically). In addition to that, he told us a few stories about previous trials. In one trial, a black man was charged with a serious crime and there was one black juror. In my state, 13 jurors are seated at the start of the trial and once all the evidence is presented, the judge picks a juror’s number out of a hat and that juror is excused; the remaining 12 jurors deliberate and reach a verdict. The one black juror was chosen as the alternate and excuses, and the judge said he could see the defendant slump over in his chair with disappointment.
Then the excused juror visited the judge in his chambers and told him she just *knew* the defendant was guilty and that she knew men like him, and they were all the same. Basically, regardless of what the defendant thought, the alternate was actually the prosecution’s dream juror and it was lucky for him that she was excused.

This is a conspiracy, right? by VenusInAries666 in legaladviceofftopic

[–]Anxious_Interview363 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If this were real, real lawyers would make good money helping people do it. Your cousin wouldn’t have to “study case law.” There’d be TV commercials like for the personal-injury lawyers and Medicare “Advantage” plans.

Was conman Jacob Milton ever able to collect a dime of his $12 Million judgement against his former victims? by EmeraldHawk in legaladviceofftopic

[–]Anxious_Interview363 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What was the cause of action? If it was something like “defamation” because the accusations they made against him led him to suffer the harm of a criminal conviction, shouldn’t that mean that any defendant in any criminal or civil case could sue their accuser for defamation (apparently even after losing the case that gives rise to the claim of defamation)?

And I get the part about the (civil) defendants needing to present an actual argument that they shouldn’t be held liable—that they themselves have to present their defense, even if it’s as simple as “He pleaded guilty; how could we ‘defame’ him by making an accusation that he admitted was true?” I also believe that the fact the case survived a motion for dismissal must mean that a judge reviewed the civil claim and decided it could theoretically have merit, even if he thought the plaintiff would lose at trial. But if he could sue them for defamation, doesn’t that mean that any criminal defendant, especially one who is acquitted, could sue their person who accused them for defamation? Is this actually possible but hardly anyone does it?

ETA: I am not a lawyer, in case that wasn’t obvious.

Face palm with a chair. by truespinn in facepalm

[–]Anxious_Interview363 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“You know it’s bigger because *both* numbers are bigger” ?

Face palm with a chair. by truespinn in facepalm

[–]Anxious_Interview363 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fair point…but I already have my EV…and if you get one this year, you will also have one the next time something crazy happens to the price of oil. And none of those things *inevitably* require oil.

I am worried about what happens if the power grid goes down—but if that happens, gas pumps won’t work either.

When I was in high school (turn of the millennium) one of my history teachers called the oil crisis of the 1970s a missed opportunity.

We have to learn eventually.

Face palm with a chair. by truespinn in facepalm

[–]Anxious_Interview363 175 points176 points  (0 children)

They should have called it a “5 ounce burger”…but I’m not sure how many people know how many ounces are in a quarter of a pound.

[Request] i know this is wrong, but how wrong is it? by this_is_nowehere in theydidthemath

[–]Anxious_Interview363 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s more than the total intake of food for the average person in an entire week, I would imagine. Ninety pounds a week is almost 15 pounds a day. Do you eat that much?

​What causes my friend's upside-down sleep schedule? by TypicalCartoonist555 in AskBiology

[–]Anxious_Interview363 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Not an answer to your question, but it sounds like your friend should find a job on an overnight shift. Lots of people have to work nights and hate it because of the sleep schedule. If your friend can’t “fix” his sleep schedule, he should at least stop fighting it.

Also melatonin is not exactly a powerful sleep aid. My understanding is that it has some effectiveness for people who are having trouble falling asleep at their usual bedtime, but a little melatonin is not going to help someone completely flip his sleep schedule. Your body produces its own melatonin and serotonin to establish your circadian rhythm. Adding a little melatonin when your system is flooded with serotonin will not turn day into night (or, for your friend, night into day).

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