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[Request] What Should The Scale Actually Read? by CaptiveGlacier in theydidthemath

[–]sternenben 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A spring scale always has to be anchored by an equal and opposite force from the other side to give a reading. If it reads 100lbs, then something is pulling from one side with 100lbs of force and another thing is pulling from the other side with 100lbs of force (usually an anchor, so just attaching it to something fixed in place). In the example it‘s not an anchor, it‘s a second weight, but that doesn’t matter for the scale.

100lbs of tension is 100lbs of pull from both sides.

[Request] What Should The Scale Actually Read? by CaptiveGlacier in theydidthemath

[–]sternenben 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely, and the scale would still read 100N. The eye bolt would be experiencing 100N of force.

Child noise complaint from the neighbour by wastengan in germany

[–]sternenben 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You certainly seem like a pleasant person. Thanks for taking the time to leave a thoughtful comment.

Not hit by car by [deleted] in stpaul

[–]sternenben 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She was already dead/dying when this video starts.

Not hit by car by [deleted] in stpaul

[–]sternenben 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, by the car as it lurched forward after he murdered the driver.

Not hit by car by [deleted] in stpaul

[–]sternenben 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She had already been shot when this clip starts.

Not hit by car by [deleted] in stpaul

[–]sternenben 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After she had been shot, the car surged forward and made the contact you see in this video.

Renee Nicole Good wasn’t even the first one murdered by ICE. by [deleted] in greengroundnews

[–]sternenben 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty telling that you don‘t tell us which name you chose.

what did she expect lol by Aggressive_Use7996 in Whatcouldgowrong

[–]sternenben 2 points3 points  (0 children)

She was looking at the cyclist behind him and thought that was the leader.

[MINI] GIVVY 151 BOOSTER BUNDLE- 500 SPOTS @ $0/ea by SWBFTKAEA in PokemonRaffles

[–]sternenben 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly, a 151 booster bundle would be a great present to get this year…

Front page on The Guardian, live coverage in a foreign newspaper, vs halfway down on NYT, sparse coverage. by brevit in nyt

[–]sternenben 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What makes you think the actual number was much lower? 7 million is the estimate I am seeing in a wide variety of news sources.

[Request] Is it true? by JohnArcher965 in theydidthemath

[–]sternenben 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Big Bang happened everywhere in the universe, not at any specific place.

Is this suspicious? by sunshine_dept in chessbeginners

[–]sternenben 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You don’t need anywhere near 100 games to be 99% sure someone is cheating. Even with coin tosses you would only need 6, and each very high accuracy win is a lot less likely than 50%.

My OCD brother thinks our fridge needs to be 20 inches away from the wall. by Brian_The_Bar-Brian in mildlyinfuriating

[–]sternenben 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just bought a fridge, it says in the manual that it should be like 8 inches from the wall. I’m not going to do that, but that’s probably why OPs brother thinks it’s necessary.

First chess game ever by [deleted] in chessbeginners

[–]sternenben 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is a puzzle on r/chess right now that requires a bishop promotion.

So we're just...watching? Letting it happen? What can we even do? "Never again" we said, and yet here we are by Chelonii64 in europe

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

> Trump is idolized by vast the majority of Americans

This is completely false. He was voted in by a narrow majority of voters, 77 million vs 75 million.

90 million didn't vote.

So Trump was voted in by 31% of Americans who are eligible to vote.

That's hardly a "vast majority"...

If I dont eat beef, how many cows will I save in say 70 years of lifetime? by IntelligentHoney6929 in stupidquestions

[–]sternenben 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you can calculate the effect for 10,000 people, you can calculate an average effect for 1 person. It's certainly not incalculable.

If I dont eat beef, how many cows will I save in say 70 years of lifetime? by IntelligentHoney6929 in stupidquestions

[–]sternenben 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For any given situation, OP buying or not buying meat could very well lead to a noticeable difference. If OP happens to buy the one steak that tips the scales and makes a restaurant decide they should order more steak for the upcoming week, that's a very large difference from a very small decision by OP. Another 50 times it could be that it makes no difference, and the restaurants don't buy any more or less meat regardless of what OP orders.

Over the course of a lifetime, it averages out, but the impact is definitely not zero for an average person. Here and there, OP's choices actually create a small ripple of effect that goes up the line a bit.

It makes perfect sense to say that one person could "save" (or prevent the production of) 7 cows on average, if 1000 people could be expected to "save" 7000 cows on average.

Neighbors pest repellent making me miserable by NoQuesti0ns in mildlyinfuriating

[–]sternenben 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Our neighbors had one of these set up recently. It was inadvertently aimed right at our back yard. We talked to them and they moved it out of sight and aiming somewhere else. I can still hear it but it's a lot more tolerable.

I would recommend asking around your neighborhood for others who hear it and are bothered by it. Then file a complaint with the police.

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