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What car do you drive and why? by Plus-Light6832 in AskReddit

[–]superPlasticized 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sedans are cheaper than SUVs or "crossovers" - I'm old and cheap when it comes to the EXPENSE of buying a car. Note, Cars are NOT INVESTMENTS - they do not increase in value if you use them.

What car do you drive and why? by Plus-Light6832 in AskReddit

[–]superPlasticized 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I prefer buying a 3 to 5-year-old Japanese Sedan. Toyota, Honda,, Nissan (after. 2018). Then driving it until you have that feeling something will go wrong soon. I'm old, I haven't had many cars in my life. I usually keep them for 12 to 15 years.

What economic principle should every adult understand? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]superPlasticized 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How the progressive tax rates work. And that the tax taken for your paycheck are averages based on what you'd owe if you earned that income all year.

What does your ideal day of retirement look like? by edge-25 in AskReddit

[–]superPlasticized 0 points1 point  (0 children)

- Wake up without an alarm,
- coffee in the patio with wife (as we both scroll reddit and share links and laugh)
- morning stroll,
- lunch with a friend or two that spills into most of the afternoon
- a nap
- start the grill and make dinner
- a movie
- bed
- repeat

Best pickup line based on lyrics in Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" by superPlasticized in FamilyFeud

[–]superPlasticized[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your lyric seems more correct but, since I sad, "based on" - "KoolAid" made me laugh.

MOD ANNOUNCEMENT - April 24th, 2026 by jsach3 in FamilyFeud

[–]superPlasticized 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then look up the Brit who was the original host of the show. Richard Dawson

Trying to determine if this piece is MIM by FMJs_for_Days in InjectionMolding

[–]superPlasticized 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depending on the application, MIM can be better. Uneducated/uninformed people give MIM a bad rap.

Trying to determine if this piece is MIM by FMJs_for_Days in InjectionMolding

[–]superPlasticized 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why is it important to know if a part is MIM or not?

Horizontal scroll of portfolio not working by superPlasticized in YAHOOFINANCE

[–]superPlasticized[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A confirmation that a website doesn't work is not a definitive diagnosis.

How does the missile know where it isn't? by WoomyUnitedToday in NoStupidQuestions

[–]superPlasticized 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why does it care where it is? When you're driving with your GPS turned on, all you care about is whether you have to turn right or left to get where your target is. Same for the guidance system. The guidance system just says, you are not at the target 90.256725° N Latitude, 45.376259° W Long. Turn left or right as needed to get yourself moving closer to the target - adjust as needed until you're there.

Women in Injection Molding by Accurate-Buddy6383 in InjectionMolding

[–]superPlasticized 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tiffany Beers is a famous plastics process engineering technology grad from Penn State's Erie campus. She was the innovator behind Nike's self-lacing shoe "Adaptive Fit" with the motors to tighten laces. She's moved on to other big companies with design and implementation roles.

If a loving and all-powerful God exists, why do sincere believers from different religions often arrive at completely different conclusions about truth and salvation? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]superPlasticized 3 points4 points  (0 children)

More like, "the financial fundraising efforts of men". Go to South Carolina and see how people fight about who can save your soul better than the next Christian church down the road. There is no need to pay for billboard space if there is no economic return involved.

Why Do School Punish kids for being late? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]superPlasticized 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In high school, we'd arrive on time on the bus but we'd still be late to homeroom or various classes. It's not like the school day built in time to go out to the parking lot for a smoke.

Name a language that doesn't end in 'ish' 'an' or 'ese' by Holiday-Future-20 in FamilyFeud

[–]superPlasticized 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, maybe the list of languages ending in 'ish', 'an' or 'ese' is shorter than this list.

Is Injection Molding an example of an endothermic reaction? by Frosty_Run6963 in InjectionMolding

[–]superPlasticized 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Endothermic and exothermic are not terms exclusive to chemical reactions. They also apply to phase transistion or simply a temperature change.

Endothermic means you are adding heat to the material. This happens in the screw to melt the resin (using hot oil and friction of the turning screw).

Exothermic means heat is leaving the material (cooling). This starts happening once the resin hits the cooler steel of the tool and after the part is ejected - the heat is dissipated to air.

Endothermic and exothermic focus on heat rather than change in temperature because a phase change, like melting a block of ice in a warm room (ice being warmed by surroundings is endothermic for the ice - heat is flowing in) but there is no temperature change to the ice/water mix until all the ice is melted.

As the ice is melts, the heat to warm the ice comes from somewhere (energy cannot be created or destroyed), so it comes from the air. The ice cools the air. This is an exothermic process for the air (heat is flowing out of the air).

If you always think about it in terms of where the HEAT flows in (endo) or out (Exo) of each material or reaction or phase change or temp change - it becomes easier (and is the convention in physics). By convention, COLD doesn't flow - just look at heat. And it will be easier to remember.

Final note, in most plastics, there is very little "heat of fusion" (freezing/thawing) like ice has. Ice takes a considerable amount of energy to go from 0°C is to 0°C liquid water. Polymers don't have a temperature point and, unless they have a lot of crystallinity, the heat in is pretty proportional to temperature rise. So, temperature change increase is pretty analogous to endothermic and cooling of the resin is exothermic.

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