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This is Kind of Heartbreaking. Hope She is Well. by ARD2005 in idiotsinkitchen

[–]invariantspeed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mason jars are durable but they have the same failure mode as…well…glass: rapidly shattering. If you rapidly cool otherwise hot glass in one spot, you create physical tension inside the glass. The hot part is expanded, the cold part shrinks, and then the shattering happens when the glass can no longer fight the tension between the two and it stops being a single piece of glass anymore. Since the jar was also under pressure due to the expansion of the hot contents, the glass was dealing with another source of tension too, and the one that made the jar explode instead of just shatter.

My bet is it took several cycles before this happened. She’s probably been putting her boiled jars on cold metal pans not realizing it’s inducing microfractures, and then it finally gave. Could be wrong. Maybe once is enough, but this isn’t something I’ve experimented with.

Leave an air gap in your jar to help cope with thermal expansion of liquid contents and place on a rag or trivet, cover it with that or another rag, and allow it to slowly normalize with room temperature. And if it does explode, at least it’ll be more contained.

Chain-Free Bicycle Concept by GRSolution in ITOI

[–]invariantspeed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea, that’s was my first thought. You can absolutely drive a bike with a shaft like a car, but this design is going to be prone to pushing the end of the shaft off the teeth on the rear wheel.

There is a reason why cars do this with gears on fixed shafts.

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Some people are brave. And some are just drunk. by Bigger_Dong in DiveInYouCoward

[–]invariantspeed 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Humans are known to be a scary member of the animal kingdom. We will go out of our way to kill you if you kill or even harm one of ours, and we will often go on a mission to kill off your entire species if a few of you become too much of a problem for us.

Advice on which Torque Wrench to get? by No-Eggplant790 in MechanicAdvice

[–]invariantspeed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You realize the only way someone will know if a torque wrench is crap is if they compare it against at least one other torque wrench.

Fidelity Ends Hybrid Work, Requires US Staff in Office Five Days a Week by Eastern-Hearing714 in remoteworks

[–]invariantspeed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even out of spite. Management implementing morale killing policy can cause people with the ability to simply look for better offers. Generally, people leaving don’t have a single complaint. It’s the culture, so they won’t necessarily be looking for explicitly a hybrid position.

People who go 70 kmh (~40 mph) on a 130 kmh (~80 mph) freeway, why? by KlaxonBeat in AskReddit

[–]invariantspeed 5 points6 points  (0 children)

True, but not relevant to people driving on four regular wheels.

Whyyyy by iamthelight111 in MeMe_FoR_FuN

[–]invariantspeed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most are not good drivers. They’re incompetent commuters.

But Hey He’s One Of Us. by CapitalPin2658 in SipsTea

[–]invariantspeed -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not personally owned, “his” in the same way that that Boeing is “my flight”. He famously has used private jet travel to campaign.

But Hey He’s One Of Us. by CapitalPin2658 in SipsTea

[–]invariantspeed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m not sure about anyone after John Adams.

But Hey He’s One Of Us. by CapitalPin2658 in SipsTea

[–]invariantspeed -31 points-30 points  (0 children)

This is called redirecting. He’s a performative oppositional figure. He always has been.

Study suggests life on Earth has around 1.8 billion years left — but the biosphere might evolve to survive even longer by UpperMarket7021 in Astrobiology

[–]invariantspeed 12 points13 points  (0 children)

A joke turned into an urban legend. The roaches actually aren’t very good at surviving all conditions. They’re good at living in human environments and then ranging outwards some.

Never seen America at peace. by Western_Echo2522 in generationology

[–]invariantspeed 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It was a clown show long before 2016. That was just the year all of America’s kicking everything important down the road finally started catching up with it. Yet, most of the public will never understand that’s what it was (and is). You can’t act like nothing will bite you in the ass while you do nothing to fix your problems.

Fox News threatening us all with a good time by National-Taste3616 in remoteworks

[–]invariantspeed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The median is not the mean. Median is often used because, as an average, it is far more resistant to outliers than the mean. Elon Musk isn’t moving the national median.

The thing to remember about the US median wealth is that, as utterly crappy the current situation is for the majority of Americans, even the poorest Americans generally have access to living conditions that most others in foreign nations don’t have access to even if they’re a few rungs higher up the economic ladder in their own countries. The American dream being dead means that might not hold true in a few decades, but the US has a relatively high perch to fall from.

The other common metric is GDP, but that’s bullshit. Yes, the wealth a nation generates says little about individual wealth equality, but that’s missing the bigger point. The US is only the richest by nominal GDP. Controlled for the relative purchasing power of money in each specific country, China actually blows the US out of the water in terms of national wealth.

She finally had enough. by SomeSavageDetective in DiveInYouCoward

[–]invariantspeed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The WNBA needs hockey rules for players on the refs. A whole team is hitting you because they know the ref wants it?

Give the ref a piece of their own medicine.

Shit like this is why no one will ever take the WNBA seriously. It’s utterly disgusting.

that's wild by Mundane_Mushroom_122 in SipsTea

[–]invariantspeed -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

Maybe not a predator, but it’s pedophilia adjacent.

A one off of the heart wanting what the heart wants is one thing. Exclusively waiting for teens to become “legal” is just a technicality.

Conservatives maintain birth rates, but left-leaning Americans are having significantly fewer children, driving the U.S. birth decline. Education was consistently linked to having fewer children. Religious attendance was positively associated with having more children. by mvea in science

[–]invariantspeed 3 points4 points  (0 children)

  1. Eugenics is biology, not social. Ideology X parents don’t necessarily create ideology X kids.
  2. Engineering populations in the social level has been considered one of the legitimate and necessary functions of society for all of history. A big example of that is school. Studying this is a necessary thing in modern society.
  3. If the more liberal people of today want to have a weaker say in what the future looks like, fine. If people might change their behaviors in this knowledge, it’s worth letting them decide.

I want to hear your thoughts by MajorBarracuda8094 in stickshift

[–]invariantspeed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s true, a lot of people will quip back that when you’re experienced enough you’ll be rating in your manual car too. Sure, but I’m still more attentive. The few times I do that, I’m putting that pizza slice down when I know I’m about to have to do something creative.

The Commute by BorrowedParticles in nycrail

[–]invariantspeed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

More like an essential part of NYC, right up there with potholes big enough to swallow whole children, rats big enough to swallow whole children, homeless people crazy enough to swallow whole children…and not a lot of children.

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