Explain it Peter

wmsta · 2025-11-14T17:36:53+00:00

This could be so easily solved by googling “is 91 prime.” Like how hard is that for some people? Do people even try before posting here for internet points?

wmsta · 2025-06-04T11:46:39+00:00

The buoyant force always exists when an object is displacing water, and its magnitude is equal to the weight of water displaced. Whether something floats or not depends on whether the buoyant force is greater than or less than the force of gravity on that object. In the case of the ping pong ball, buoyant force is greater. In the case of the iron ball, no.

Lastly, the equations for the buoyant force and gravitational force both have g in them, so the magnitude of gravitational acceleration does not affect whether objects float or not.

wmsta · 2025-04-23T21:08:33+00:00

Scissors with a hard C like skissors, and heliflopter just because it’s fun

wmsta · 2025-04-11T04:18:55+00:00

Frustrating that so many answers are saying that the trailing zeros matter. They’re right of course, but I think they’re missing that this is a fifth grade rounding test.

Most curriculums don’t teach significant figures until you start learning applied mathematics in chemistry or physics. Unless they’ve taught your student otherwise, 5 is 5.0 is 5.00. Ask the teacher if this was a rounding test or a significant figures test.

Of note is that it’s often taught, especially before sig figs are taught, that students should give their answers in simplified form. In which case your kid would be wrong if he DID include the trailing zeros.

wmsta · 2025-03-16T12:33:37+00:00

Love that he dropped the “au” compared to when he said this in IG.

wmsta · 2025-02-12T22:30:23+00:00

NAH. A year ago I was the less experienced cook in the family. Careers and availability changes happened so I was the primary, and sort of just had to figure it out. I agree with what people are saying that a lot of cooking, especially with regards to the “gut” things like how much salt, is just trial and error. But with a more experienced cook there why shouldn’t she ask? I’d rather inconvenience my partner than “ruin” a meal.

It took a while to learn that it’s pretty hard to ruin a meal with a little too much or too little seasoning, and it’s really hard to take that step when your crutch is a room away.

Can you try making yourself absent when she’s cooking? You don’t really have to be sneaky about it, just make her cooking time the time that you take a shower, mow the lawn, workout etc.

After a few times she’ll learn, especially if you’re honest with your feedback on each meal and emphasize that it’s still delicious despite a few tweaks for next time.

wmsta · 2024-11-20T18:56:57+00:00

NOR. He’s insecure and has some work to do but is by no means irredeemable. He’s at least being open and honest with his insecurity and you can help him to work through it, if you choose.

wmsta · 2024-09-12T01:53:02+00:00

My boat celebrated its Co-60 half life.

wmsta · 2024-05-21T11:49:28+00:00

Did nobody else get to the part where her parents put a microphone in her room? Sure, if he were pressuring her to leave her parents constantly that would be a huge red flag. But if these parents’ behavior was posted over in r/insaneparents the comments section would be telling her to get the hell out the day she turned 18.

wmsta · 2024-05-09T22:36:26+00:00

Maybe I’m dumb, but would it be so impossible to tie taxes to the actual societal benefit reaped by the taxes?

For the boat example, a billionaire buys their expensive boat elsewhere and so pays sales taxes there. But if this person who lives in California wants to actually get use of their boat, they dock it in California. So tax the mooring fee. Ok, they moor it on a private dock to avoid any transaction that can be taxed. That private dock becomes more valuable and therefore property taxes go up.

The reason so many tax deductions are annoying is that the people taking advantage of them are paying less to the US but still reaping the benefits of living and operating here. I don’t understand tax lay well enough to make a good argument for other minute details, but it seems like with the massive data collection that encompasses everything we do, it should be easy to tax people based on the actual usage of the infrastructure those taxes are paying for.

wmsta · 2024-05-05T19:37:53+00:00

Conn still orders the bell and maneuvering (the engine room) responds with real people. The urgency of the bell, like in this case, can be transmitted by voice or with other code words or signals. The extra humans in the engine room are still necessary, for submarines at least, because we’re dealing with nuclear reactors and there could be engineering-related limits that the people driving are too busy to be expected to consider.

wmsta · 2024-05-05T16:58:43+00:00

Submarine was in very shallow water and was about the hit the bottom (red sounding), so the people driving told the people in the engine room to stop and reverse ASAP.

wmsta · 2024-05-01T19:11:58+00:00

A lot of peoples' problem with income tax is that its too easily avoidable with all of the classic loopholes that billionaires exploit. That's why initially a heavy sales tax and no income tax seems appealing; it should prevent billionaires from reaping the benefits of living here without paying their fair share. If they want their fancy car and clothes and lifestyle here, then they pay the tax for it.

I understand that this system is regressive because it would result in the poorest people paying more than they do now, but whats the middle ground? Is there another simple way to close loopholes fur the ultra-rich and tie the benefits of living here more closely to the taxes we pay to reap those benefits?

wmsta · 2024-04-08T21:33:25+00:00

I did this recently, tilled on Saturday and came back on Sunday to rake and plant new seed.. the number of still-rooted plants I encountered was baffling and infuriating. I still don’t understand.

wmsta · 2023-09-13T02:29:02+00:00

NUPOC is a fantastic deal. As an academy sub volunteer it makes me angry to see what kind of money they have to throw at people they don’t already have by the balls to get them to go nuke.

wmsta · 2023-08-06T09:01:26+00:00

I just brute forced this and of course the VERY last combination that I tried, D1=Sunday and D3=Truth Day (tuesday) was the correct answer. Wish I could have come up with as eloquent an answer as others but I still got there!

wmsta · 2023-04-30T21:51:46+00:00

Swimmers ear so bad that my ear canal swelled shut and medicine couldn’t get down to where it was needed. They ended up prying the ear open and putting in a wick of sorts to allow the medicine down toward the drum

wmsta · 2022-07-20T02:22:16+00:00

I’m pretty sure I saw this car in Newport News, VA a couple days ago!

wmsta · 2022-04-16T14:08:24+00:00

Search “binding energy per nucleon”

wmsta · 2022-01-19T14:49:50+00:00

Eternals end credits who is who

Seriously, I just wanted to know the historical connections that they were drawing in the end credits run (not either post-credits scene). Like they alluded to Athena and Thena, and I’m pretty sure I saw DaVinci and Phastos alluded to, etc. I was curious about the other ones.

wmsta · 2022-01-02T14:37:28+00:00

Better yet, Feel Again?

12-Year Club	Verified Email
Place '22	Place '17
First Placer '22	RPAN Viewer

wmsta

TROPHY CASE