How do you mean? For both the left and right hand, you extend the fingers, pretty much symmetrically. It's not perfectly straight depending on how the staggering is done, but straight up is worse than all the alternatives.
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Maybe there just arent' many of us who don't mind paying for games as long as we don't have to buy hearts and diamonds and coins and what not.
Marketing: Hey you engineering nerds. We just got this letter from an actual Professor, saying we can save money changing the designs you made us use for the cans! Fix your mistakes or prove why the way you made it is better!
Engineers: Hold my beer.
But yeah - the 'XY problem!' crowd (along with the 'But The Rules!' crowd) has also totally destroyed Stack Overflow.
- How to make it not look like an animal food barrel in your living room, aka WAF, although I do find that term somewhat demeaning as I get older - I used to not care about such things either when I was in my 20's, but nowadays I do, even if it's just because of the realization that people around me care.
- How to make a mechnism to easily fill it, without spilling. This is related to size - you can have a huge one so that you only have to fill it every few days, but then you'll need to shlepp around buckets or watering cans. If it's smaller, you need a separate tank, which you now have to hook up to the rest.
- How to moisten the wick. It's called a 'wick' because it, well, wicks, of course, but you need a relatively large surface contact area to get lots of water into the wick(s); or you need a pump that will keep vertical 'wicks' wet all the time.
- The fans need to be on the top, and large for minimum noise, but the largest Noctuas are only 20cm. But you need air intake from the bottom, somehow, while still maximizing volume efficiency (i.e., you don't want 75% of the volume of the device to be unused because you can only have water in the lower 25% because of the airflow design).
- You need something that can be cleaned and filled without too much (preferably no) disassembly, and you don't want moving parts like floats or fragile things like measuring water level with metal strips because those will break within a year or two; or faster if you don't have a water softening device in you house.
Overall, I think humidification is a job of proper devices that are part of the indoor climate control system along with heating and cooling, but I don't know of residential systems that combine all, and if they do/would exist, it would be much more expensive than the few 100 at most people want to spend on this, and require extensive plumbing to get installed.
Furthermore, if you're arguing that it's illegal because it's done in group, then I don't understand what legal basis you are using for that. I also don't understand why you'd say it's "very different" from doing it on your own. I can't think of anything else off the top of my head that legal to do on your own, but illegal in group (some things are more illegal in a group, but that's not what we're talking about)
Is it? If I have the money to put a short squeeze on someone by myself, with my own money, is that illegal? Isn't that what some people do all the time with smaller numbers?
(honestly asking)
Nowadays when you see articles results of new research of covid19 in the media, those articles often include 'hasn't been peer reviewed yet' or 'reviewed by other scientists' or any such verbiage, either as a disclaimer or as 'now it must be true'. But that's not how it works; it's not because something has been 'peer reviewed' that it's 'The Truth' or 'Real Science'. Peer review, in reality, just weeds out (most) quacks (although in the OP's case it seems it didn't even do that) and checks that the paper is not completely out of touch with what is happening in and known about the field. It's not QA of the work itself.
(I don't care to debate if it should be, and if more money should be spend on replication etc, just providing some real world context on something that is quite opaque to and often misunderstood by those not in academia)
Not judging, to each his own, I just wonder if I'm the outlier or if he is.
I'm not going to go into detail on the power relationship here. If you're going to deny that a university instructor and a student have a power disbalance between them, and that sexual relationships between them are usually illegal but certainly pretty much always inappropriate and against all policies, I'm not sure what to say anymore.
I linked AN ACTUAL POLICE AFFIDAVID that confirms that this woman not only wrote a lengthy document on their affair, but also how she posted that online, wrote the victim's job about it in an attempt to hurt him, and posted the victim's naked pictures online (among other things). I'm not sure what sort of evidence you would consider valid short of you being there watching it happen. And this is just the AFFIDAVID, there is a lot more out there, easily verifyable from various sources. But maybe someone should call the Tallahassee Police Department, ask for Kameron O'Hara, and verify that he actually wrote the affidavid, as you seem to think that someone forged this whole document including forging the name and signature of an actual office of the TPD (which he is, that's easily verified with a single Google search)?
"and the average person who has no legal background eats it up as the wholesale truth."
That's rather rich considering that between you and me, I suspect there is only one person with a law degree, and it's not you.
If all of this is 'hearsay' and 'made up', where did the mugshots in the OP come from? Let me guess, it's all deep fakes set up by the Cabal, as a pre-emptive move to discredit her in case she would go on 2 years later to become a whistle blower for a virus outbreak nobody knew would happen for at least 6 more months? Please.
Just because two people are adults doesn't make a relationship between them not dodgy; think about how bad it is for a doctor to date a patient. The situation here isn't quite as bad (well, if you start stalking a former student after they break up with you, I guess one could also argue that this case is much worse than some other situations where everything unfolds amicably), but still, relationships between people in power and those over whom the power is wielded are not just socially frowned upon, they are recognized as Bad News (if not always strictly illegal) for a long time now.
I'm not sure why you're so insistent on defending if not a sexual predator then at least someone with highly questionable judgement. And again, maybe all of this has little to do with the whistleblower stuff, but there is no question about whether or not it's true that she had an inappropriate extramartial affair with a student, stalked him after he tried to end it and was fired over the whole ordeal.
Is all of this relevant to the whistle blower case? Well, it might not be, but this sort of backstory does call up many questions. How did a person with a history of inappropriate sexual conduct with subordinates get a management position in the first place?
That link has mugshots and parts of the court proceedings, this is not 'slander' from what I can tell.
Now, she might still have been pushed in one direction or another, but she has a documented history of being unstable to the extreme; to say that it seems she has a penchant for attracting drama is to put it mildly.