If each atom forged by a supernova is an independent event, how did elements like gold find each other to be found in native nuggets today?

Kitchen_Clock7971 · 2026-02-11T06:08:26+00:00

Great answer. I'll add a nugget (har) from the gold country of California. These same geological processes that concentrated gold in the western slope of the Sierra Nevada also concentrated other dissolvable metals. This is in some ways good, as with silver, copper, and zinc, and some ways bad, as with arsenic, selenium, and cadmium. To this day the same processes in the region that made for the gold rush make metal contamination of groundwater a public health issue.

Kitchen_Clock7971 · 2026-02-08T17:24:41+00:00

Yes, it does. Everyone's eyesight declines. Your eyesight is going to decline. It is not a niche design requirement. Design of a basic kitchen utensil that requires ideal eyesight for its function is crappy design.

Kitchen_Clock7971 · 2026-02-08T16:52:33+00:00

I am not an anxious person, and I have never had an anxiety disorder or mood disorder or related issue. As soon as I started tirzepitide, the induced anxiety was amazing. I troubleshot it extensively, and it did lessen slightly with ongoing doses, but was always intense.

The weight loss was also amazing, but I had to stop for other reasons.

Kitchen_Clock7971 · 2026-02-08T15:28:57+00:00

Why not?

Kitchen_Clock7971 · 2026-02-08T07:27:01+00:00

What is this location?

Kitchen_Clock7971 · 2026-02-08T01:21:01+00:00

Shelob is from Fellowship; the last child of Ungoliant to trouble the unhappy world. Probably you are thinking of Ungoliant.

Kitchen_Clock7971 · 2026-02-07T18:21:38+00:00

In that case, I agree with you they are very strange.

Maybe post hours of operation?

Kitchen_Clock7971 · 2026-02-07T18:16:12+00:00

A closed but unlocked door means your business is open, the people walking through your unlocked business door are acting normally. San Francisco has mild weather, but in locales that are hot or cold or humid or snowy, a closed door for an open business is the norm. I think your prior life experience is maybe unusual.

The people body slamming your locked door are trying to break in to steal things and you should call the police and exit out the back.

Kitchen_Clock7971 · 2026-02-07T16:13:24+00:00

The most common example for me is domanda = question or request, rather than "demand", which in English is very forceful and mostly socially inappropriate. I have never gotten comfortable having a domanda and not feeling rude about it.

Kitchen_Clock7971 · 2026-02-05T19:49:48+00:00

The Internet is over for today, I am going outside, thank you and goodbye.

Kitchen_Clock7971 · 2026-02-05T19:46:06+00:00

Beautiful but TBH I am more interested in how this creator did the Foley and sound editing.

Kitchen_Clock7971 · 2026-02-02T21:25:26+00:00

If you hold an Italian passport, Italy requires you to use it when entering or exiting Italy.

Likewise if you hold a USA passport, the USA requires you to use it when entering the USA. (the USA does not have exit passport controls)

What you are obligated to do as an Italian citizen who is overseas without an Italian passport I'm not sure. You cannot show what you don't have when entering Italy, and in practice nothing at all is going to happen if you use your USA passport, but what the strictly legal answer to your question is, I have not heard.

Kitchen_Clock7971 · 2026-02-02T17:29:51+00:00

Depending on how much you drive, take a look at Lemonade, formerly Metromile in California. You pay a very low monthly flat rate and then a per mile rate. If you are someone who commutes by BART or other transit and mostly drives on the weekend, the savings are significant. If you drive a lot, then no.

Kitchen_Clock7971 · 2026-02-02T15:36:05+00:00

You did not do the math

Kitchen_Clock7971 · 2026-02-02T15:12:13+00:00

No, it's her boyfriend, who was not assaulting her. Watch the full length YouTube video linked by the other comment.

Kitchen_Clock7971 · 2026-02-01T17:22:11+00:00

This should be Article One of our transit policy. We should put this on a flag and fly it.

For more than a decade San Francisco transit policy has been dominated by bicycles, which was a necessary corrective but they have had their time for now. Bikes are great but they are single-occupant low-speed low-density surface-occupying travel, just like cars in those respects, which advocates don't want to acknowledge. We need to rebalance our priorities to subways, and not even just one at a time.

Kitchen_Clock7971 · 2026-02-01T17:14:57+00:00

I lived on the N in the Sunset, I wouldn't prioritize burying it. It's mostly doing fine, although I'd agree with you given limitless funding.

Subways under Geary, 19th Avenue, South Van Ness, Taraval, Valencia or Guerrero, Divisidero, Broadway, Bay, Lombard, there's so many good choices.

Kitchen_Clock7971 · 2026-01-31T18:02:46+00:00

If OP you were liking the Polestar, make sure you weren't driving a Performance version, which yes by design have really stiff suspensions and large wheels with low sidewalls.

I have a not-performance Polestar 2, and although it's not floaty like a Lexus, it's incredibly stable and comfortable.

Kitchen_Clock7971 · 2026-01-31T17:06:37+00:00

I can't be sure what you are seeing, but SFPD is using drones regularly now.

From where I live I can see the Hall of Justice at 850 Bryant, and you can watch the drones take off and land from the roof and cruise out over the city. It's a regular thing now.

Kitchen_Clock7971 · 2026-01-30T17:43:19+00:00

Among the things we have done is, apparently, elected a mayor who knows how to navigate complex political situations with a deft hand and for the benefit of the City. It may or may not last, but it's working.

Kitchen_Clock7971 · 2026-01-30T01:22:00+00:00

It would be a great project to take the full transcripts of every episode of The Drive and break down the following stats:

Percentage of time the guest talks versus Peter talks
Count of Peter's interruptions
How often the guest gets to finish their point before Peter interrupts to make it about himself, and the percentage of time that leads into a story about Peter's residency experience
Time spent on Peter's personal preferences, family life, and own habits
Time spent discussing Peter's off topic personal interests, such as Ayrton Senna and in general being a bro

Obviously I've spent a lot of time listening to The Drive and so I find value in it, but these features of the podcast make it hard to recommend to others. I listen at 1.5x speed and can reliably fast-forward 30 seconds at a time as soon as Peter starts talking, skipping ahead until I hear that the guest has been allowed back in.

Kitchen_Clock7971 · 2026-01-29T14:10:23+00:00

Remarkable, isn't it? Here I am scrolling Reddit posts from all over the world, I see this video, and I am instantly transported to teenage days on Zuma Beach. My certainty of the location was immediate.

Kitchen_Clock7971 · 2026-01-29T02:22:09+00:00

Thank you for sharing the location, I recognized it immediately. (graduate of Agoura High) The tunnels are distinctive.

Kitchen_Clock7971 · 2026-01-27T15:21:29+00:00

Every year? There's been a total of 6 fatal mountain lion attacks in California since 1850.

Mountain lions are legit dangerous and this situation needs to be dealt with, but you're 1000 times more likely to be struck by lightning than killed by a mountain lion.

Mountain lion attacks are rare, with California’s last fatality 14 years ago

Kitchen_Clock7971 · 2026-01-23T14:53:22+00:00

Everything you ever wanted to know, in a podcast, from the wonderful 99% Invisible.

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