On what planet is blue the opposite of yellow? I was taught that blue is opposite of orange and yellow opposite of purple, which is symmetic.
I found the whole article a bit rigid and huffy. The standard color wheel and CMYK are just different ways of reducing color to basics from which other colors can be made. The watercolor set we used in elementary school is another, just less economical.
Several of my appliances are in the 20-25 year range and have started to fail. In the last 3 years I've needed a new water heater, dishwasher, and clothes washer, fingers crossed for all. Maintenance (draining the WH every year or two, cleaning the washer filter every few months) is a must. I replaced a switch and the belt inside the clothes dryer (21) and just replaced the heating element in the oven (23) - hope to keep them going as long as I can.
> If you are already feeling like you need a "just in case," why are you get married to begin with.
Because people change, and sometimes those changes lead to financial troubles. One spouse starts making risky investments, or spends joint money in an inequitable manner. Maybe separation happens and one spouse wants to move out, but if the money is gone, they're stuck.
We have a joint checking for bills and a joint credit card for everything else we're both doing (groceries, plane tix, dining out etc). Everything else is separate; the spouse might be the TOD beneficiary, but we both have relatives that are beneficiaries. My mom always emphasized the importance for a woman to keep her own stuff separate.
I'd be more amused by this if it didn't have the side effect of some dingdong inserting themselves into a serious discussion of birds with "hurr durr birds aren't real".
This was pretty fascinating. I actually still have my 128K Mac, as well as an Apple sweatshirt, that my dad bought for me in 1985. I lugged that sucker around university. Last I looked (about 8 years ago) it had some kind of boot error, not sure if it's the same one as Giogi's. Now I'm tempted to unearth it and revisit.
When the doctor asks you to rate your pain and tells you a 10 is "the worst pain you've ever felt", that's effectively meaningless. An objective scale is needed. I've never broken a bone so I don't know if diverticulitis is more painful or less, but I would imagine that being doused in kerosene and set on fire would be a lot worse.
I can make mine go away temporarily (as in a minute or so) by sticking my fingers in my ears and jiggling them around to make a lot of noise for 10 seconds. I suspect it's just the contrast, but it is really nice to have something resembling real silence.
A few years back I got a bad wax buildup in one ear and stopped hearing anything. After they took the wax out, my ear was hypersensitive for a day or so. I heard every little rustle, shifting in my chair, even fabric moving when I moved my arm.
No, I remember getting a vaccine that way, and it was different from the smallpox vaccine which was a bunch of little needles that left a scar. I got it in elementary school -- I want to say 2nd grade. I don't think the spray thing left a scar.
A hot water tap, yes, everyone's got one. Actual hot water coming out of it immediately, less likely. My bathroom faucet takes a good 25 seconds to get to maximum hot, mostly from distance (WH is in the garage) and partly from being a low flow faucet. A bidet has a very small flow rate, so for my situation, a self-heated reservoir is the only way to get immediate warm water.
It seemed crazy to me. We (California) banned the thin/light grocery bag, then covid happened and all takeout food came in the heavy reusable bags. I didn't do a lot of takeout but still ended up with way too many, and had no use for since I had already shifted to a reusable basket for groceries. And they are as you said so much heavier than the thin type, so we're only creating more plastic waste.
There are plastic film recyclers. An expose last year showed that some US retailers with plastic film recycling bins (IIRC Target was one) were just sending the contents to landfills, but others are legit. Trex, which makes wood-look plastic decking, seems to have set up a recycling program partnering with a number of grocery stores. There's a downloadable list[1] online.
I think answering unknown numbers in real time is situational. I normally don't answer any of them; as you said, if it's important, they'll leave a message. But when I bought a refrigerator I knew delivery people would be calling, so I answered unknown calls until it was done.
The number of (incorrect) assumptions the officer made is pretty astounding. No attempt to identify the source of gunfire -- it must be coming from the handcuffed suspect.
I also find it fascinating how he felt tingling on one side and fell as if he had been shot. It makes me think of the several instances of police who have experienced, to the point of hospitalization, symptoms from fentanyl "exposure," which is not actually a thing.
For many years I had a Black and Decker hand-sized screwdriver (single speed, hex bits only) that I used for almost 20 years. It still runs. About 1.5 years ago I upgraded to a Bosch drill, with variable speed, a real chuck and even a torque dial. With all those features it was still tiny and light compared to my corded DeWalt (the "real" drill). I charged up the 2 batteries. Used the drill for all the little projects and finally, two weeks ago, the first battery ran out. Put in the other, which has held its charge just fine, and back to work.
That's what jumped out at me -- if the hiker was seeking help, they would have made a phone call and presumably answered calls as well. It sounds like a 3rd party got concerned because the hiker was overdue and started the search process. It is still however weird that even knowing they were overdue, they didn't think anyone would take action. I thought it was standard procedure when hiking more difficult trails to tell others where you're going and when you expect to come back.
The rhetoric of the Republican quoted: [the e-filing system was part of the Biden administration's] "goal of inserting the IRS into every aspect of Americans’ lives" is ludicrous. Most people file taxes once a year, and the new e-filing system doesn't change the scope or reach. It's there to make it easier to give the IRS money you're supposed to give them anyway. Republicans want to make government seem bad all the time, that's why they don't like this.
I don't think any of the birds in the header image are actually named after people (loggerhead shrike, Eurasian sparrowhawk, Eurasian tree sparrow, and I'm not good with owls but I think it's a little owl.
I went on and egg noodle and ramen noodle quest last year. I used just all purpose flour and made sodium carbonate from baking soda, and was very happy with the results for the most part. I feel a pasta roller is both more fun and necessary for a good product, as is weighing all ingredients. I also tried to make fresh Chinese egg noodles which, if you've bought them from a factory, have a certain texture and smell. I didn't have a recipe and my experiments got close, but never on the dot. Still ended up with a freezer packed with deliciousness for many months.
I seem to have discovered a "steam garage" and I can't imagine what that might be. That has led to a "steam palace," which seems to have already existed.
The idea that the rats are taking photos of themselves for the (self-aware) pleasure is pretty silly. The rats could have been trained to do anything with this method. Moving from rewarding every time for the desired behavior to occasionally rewarding causes the animal to keep doing the behavior for the reward. And if you stop rewarding entirely, the behavior will continue for a while, and it'll eventually stop. But by then the artist has made their point and doesn't care.
Personally, I had both "asker" and "guesser" qualities as defined in the article so it hasn't made it any clearer about how I am as an employee, or how to deal with other employees.
When I graduated and moved out -- mid 1980s -- I had no desire to share an apartment with anyone, and no need since apartments were still kinda affordable. They were not the majority of your paycheck -- maybe 30, 35%. When we got to the early 2000s rents started to climb and I started hearing a lot more about people needing roommates. Wages have not kept pace with rent, not by a long shot.
When religious people just can't deal with the fact that theirs is just one of many religions out there in the world, when they need their god to be the one true god, that's when they become a real problem. That leads to them calling all others evil and trying to impose their values on everyone else. I know it's blithe of me to say that's got to stop, but really, people really need to acknowledge that it's a big planet, not everyone is like them, and that unlike-ness doesn't make them evil.