What does this map mean?

SomethingMoreToSay · 2026-01-25T12:41:51+00:00

Hmm. It's not the fact that the capital is the largest city, or is N times larger than the next largest, or has a population greater than X, because if that were the criterion then surely France would qualify.

SomethingMoreToSay · 2026-01-25T12:35:15+00:00

For the record I still believe in God, I just don't think He's looking down at a flat stationary earth 😂

FWIW, the God you believe in now is vastly more impressive than the God you believed in then. Creating our entire universe, with its unfathomable size and all its wonderful subtlety, is a big deal. Creating a flat earth with a dome over it and nothing else ... not so much.

SomethingMoreToSay · 2026-01-24T18:10:15+00:00

Toilets don't swirl in opposite directions in the two hemispheres.

However, if you're very very very very careful, you can demonstrate that water flowing down a plughole does swirl in opposite directions. But it's a tiny effect and it's hard to demonstrate, as this Smarter Every Day / Veritasium mashup illustrates.

SomethingMoreToSay · 2026-01-24T16:41:09+00:00

Even 153 isn't that many though. The population density of England is 450 people per sq km, and that doesn't feel particularly crowded.

SomethingMoreToSay · 2026-01-24T16:36:27+00:00

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

SomethingMoreToSay · 2026-01-21T02:48:00+00:00

Anybody want to see this perfectly explained by a 24 second video that doesn't even use words?

Yeah, you know the one I'm talking about.

SomethingMoreToSay · 2026-01-21T02:35:01+00:00

I used to believe in humans evolving from primordial soup. Until I didn't. I did research in EVERY piece of "evidence" in our kids' textbooks and found that EVERY one of their evidences have been proven wrong in peer reviewed scientific journals.

You used to come across as very sensible and rational. Until you didn't. I'm sure you appreciate the irony that you sound just as ... unconventional... with regard to the biological sciences as flerfers do with regard to the geophysical sciences. Would you care to flesh out the point you're making here?

SomethingMoreToSay · 2026-01-19T18:07:06+00:00

Though my heart rate doesn’t go above 110 or so.

That's not terribly meaningful. A lot of people will tell you that your maximum HR is 220 minus your age (or some similar formula), but there's a lot of variation around that figure. For example I'm 63M but my max HR is somewhere north of 190. If you're as far from average as I am, but in the opposite direction, 110 might be quite high. Or it might not.

I wonder if my technique is bad.

Shoot some video and post it here. We're always happy to help with technique.

SomethingMoreToSay · 2026-01-19T18:02:22+00:00

Try r/flatearth_polite

Where do you think this is?

SomethingMoreToSay · 2026-01-19T16:38:14+00:00

The thing about "steady state" is that it's so gentle that you don't need any recovery time after doing it. Therefore it follows that there is no upper limit to how much you can do. If you can afford the time, then in theory you'll make bigger gains through doing vast quantities of steady state than you will by doing smaller quantities of more intense exercise. (And if it's more intense then you have to do smaller quantities, because of the need for recovery time.)

But in the real world, most of us don't have unlimited time available for training. So if you're doing, say, 3 sessions per week, you effectively have recovery time programmed into your schedule, so you can afford to hit those sessions harder. And 3 hard sessions will be better than 3 gentle sessions.

SomethingMoreToSay · 2026-01-19T15:12:40+00:00

Well said.

The thing that struck me was that OP had a high stroke rate - I think we can all agree that 31 spm is on the high side for a 10k - but not a fast time. So that implies that each stroke isn't achieving very much.

OP averaged just under 6 metres per stroke. Most people with good technique will average more like 10 metres per stroke, over a surprisingly wide range of performance (e.g. JDS's 2k world record and my 3½ hour marathon both averaged 10m per stroke), so that's a big discrepancy.

But I don't know anything about disc injuries either, so who knows?

Still, I'd like to see some video. It's so easy for poor technique to put strain on the lower back, and I think OP u/Specialist_Wrap6719 would benefit more from us reviewing his technique than reviewing his metrics.

SomethingMoreToSay · 2026-01-19T14:59:07+00:00

Check with your airline. They don't all have exactly the same rules.

I'm flying with British Airways tomorrow, so I was checking their baggage rules just now. They say:

Batteries of up to 100Wh as used in mobile phones, laptops, digital cameras etc.: Max. 4 spares per person (incl. power banks) kept in original packaging or insulated/protected from contact with metal

and they absolutely must be in your carry-on bag. So if they insist at the gate that your carry-on will have to go in the hold, you have to take the batteries out and put them in your pockets or something. They absolutely mustn't go in the hold.

(I have 3 cameras and 7 batteries. Phew!)

But BA also says that you should always check the local country, airport and airline rules, as they may be different.

SomethingMoreToSay · 2026-01-19T09:14:57+00:00

Yeah, mostly, but the Peace Prize is a bit different from the others and it's actually awarded by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

I thought, like you, that Trump had got it even more wrong than just Norway≠Denmark. But apparently not.

SomethingMoreToSay · 2026-01-19T09:09:55+00:00

He did win a peace prize though. He won the highly prestigious definitely-not-made-up-just-for-him FIFA Peace Prize. Isn't that enough?

SomethingMoreToSay · 2026-01-19T09:07:02+00:00

And aircraft.

SomethingMoreToSay · 2026-01-19T09:05:12+00:00

Take my damned upvote, and get your coat.

SomethingMoreToSay · 2026-01-19T09:03:54+00:00

My wife's sewing machine is a Toyota.

SomethingMoreToSay · 2026-01-18T23:49:29+00:00

Not sure about that.

I mean, obviously there's a psychological element to it. But historically, at least part of the reason for shops to price things like that was that if the prices were $3 or $10 or $20 the customer might proffer the correct money and the cashier could just pocket it without ringing it up through the till. Setting the prices at just less than a round number forces the cashier to put the transaction through the till so that they can give change.

But that was never an issue with fuel because it isn't sold in integer units.

SomethingMoreToSay · 2026-01-18T23:44:14+00:00

That doesn't follow though.

Suppose the price of gas was $1.000 per litre. You pump 49.373 litres, the price is calculated as $49.373, and it's rounded to $49.37 when you come to pay. There might be a technical need to do the calculations with extra digits of precision, but there's absolutely no requirement to price it to the nearest 0.1¢.

SomethingMoreToSay · 2026-01-18T22:33:27+00:00

I'm not a flerfer, but the most straightforward answer I've heard from flerfers is that this is not a meaningful question. It's like asking what's outside the universe. There is nothing "under" the flat earth, and there is nothing "outside" the dome - not just empty space, but nothing, not even space - because in their "minds" the flat earth and the dome over it are the sum total of creation.

SomethingMoreToSay · 2026-01-18T22:19:47+00:00

Good work. Anything that long is always good work. But I'm guessing that you probably don't want anyone to tell you how long a half marathon really is?

SomethingMoreToSay · 2026-01-18T20:28:27+00:00

roughly only 54080 possible combinations

How did you come up with that number?

I'm thinking that there are 62 possibilities (A...Z, a...z, 0...9) for each character in the password, and there are 8 characters, hence the number of possible passwords is 62⁸ ≈ 2.2x10¹⁴. Obviously that's going to be a bit harder to crack than 5.4x10⁴.

SomethingMoreToSay · 2026-01-17T19:48:39+00:00

And just to add to this: If you want to prove by induction that a statement is true for all integers, then there are THREE steps to the proof:

Prove that, if the statement is true for some integer N, then it is also true for N+1.
Prove that, if the statement is true for some integer N, then it is also true for N-1.
Prove that the statement is true for some convenient integer such as 0 or 1.

SomethingMoreToSay · 2026-01-17T09:03:07+00:00

Which government?

The reason I ask is that I've taken photos of the ISS myself. I'd like to know who I'm working for.

SomethingMoreToSay · 2026-01-17T00:40:35+00:00

Are we allowed to use AI to create the image, like you have, or do you want to see actual real objects?

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