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asksciencefiction_train

[XMEN] With an adamantium skeleton shouldn't Wolverine be able to take people out with his bare fists? During a fight he usually goes 0-100 and whips out the claws but wouldn't bludgeoning goons with his adamantium knuckles be just about as effective? It would save him the pain of the claws tearing through his skin every single time.

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g7z2reg

He did in the first movie when he met Rogue. He was cage fighting some guy in a bar (why are mutants always cage fighting?) and when the guy tried to punch him, Logan punched the guy’s fist with his own fist and shattered the other guy’s hand.

Wolverine's snikted his claws so often, I doubt he considers the pain much of an expense for gaining weapons in a fight, especially since his healing factor makes the pain go away super quick.

ohu9qz

explainlikeimfive_train

Explain like I'm five years old: Why do refrigerator doors suddenly need hulk strength to open at random times?

h4rag1j

h4ra9of

When you open it, it fills with warm air. Once you close it, that warm air rapidly cools and therefore contracts, causing a vacuum pressure inside.

Pressure, volume, and temperature all are inter-related. As temperature rises - the volume of space remains constant - and the pressure changes - all rapidly. And leading to a momentary suction.

zpdp79

askvet_train

Am I wrong for disagreeing about my girlfriend wanting to feed our Dalmatian vegan food? Recently my girlfriend has turned vegan and has been trying to make more eco friendly decisions. We have a Dalmatian 1 and a half year old and she has been considering converting his diet to vegan dog food (this brand specifically: https://www.zooplus.ie/shop/dogs/dry_dog_food/yarrah/682341?variantid=682341.2&gbraid=0AAAAAD9Xn6X5nAF7Pw5XDXbGTwljTzk0R&gclid=CjwKCAiAkfucBhBBEiwAFjbkrwqD5vrRdyxwUSQRD64OjstPjEc4M8VYO1G04KgieHR5f_7KJOMjhhoCBhUQAvD_BwE ) I disagreed tremendously as I feel like he won’t be full or drastically lose weight which he doesn’t need. Am I uneducated? I can’t find any information regarding it for Dalmatians specially. Input appreciated thank you

j0scye4

j0sha1c

This diet could definitely be very problematic if fed long term. At a bare minimum, any diet fed should adhere to AAFCO guidelines. Additionally, dalmatians are extremely prone to developing bladder stones and the mineral balance of their food needs to be closely regulated to prevent them. If she wants to investigate a plant based diet that will meet all of his nutritional needs, she should book a consult with a boarded veterinary nutritionist.

The other poster hit on some important points. Another one is that grain free diets, especially those high in legumes, have been associated with higher instances of DCM (heart disease). There are many studies but this is the FDA advisory about it. It’s best to feed your dog a balanced diet that fits AAFCO standards, which this diet likely doesn’t. The brands I generally recommend are hill’s, ProPlan, and Royal Canin but that’s because I know these diets are well formulated. That doesn’t mean there aren’t many other great diets out there, I just honestly don’t have time to look into every diet on the market.

soyzcn

askbaking_train

"Gourmet" bakery cookies Amateur baker here. How do upscale grocers and bakeries get their cookies to be as big, fluffy, and moist as they are? I suspect they use a hybrid cake batter recipe to make large cookies, but I haven't been able to find any knowledgeable sources.

hwcu8tn

hwddyky

I’ve worked in a few bake shops and haven’t used special ingredients. We always chill the dough before baking large cookies and bake the cookies fresh twice a day. A scoop is used to portion many of the varieties, then the scoop is flattened slightly to help with even baking. Using the right time and temperature are key, and I find that many home cooks slightly over bake their cookies. When we want to add a new variety, it can take a lot of testing to get the exact flavor and texture desired.

Look at Levain copycat recipes. Cake flour + cornstarch

s5c2z9

askvet_train

Is it a thing for vets to send a sympathy card after a person euthanasia? Our cat was euthanized a few months back and we just received a very sweet, personal, and somewhat long sympathy card from our vet. I imagine this is more of a customer relation thing and there is nothing wrong with that, again, it's nice, it just seemed a tad over the top. I feel sorry for the lady if she has to sit there and handwrite dozens of sympathy cards to all her patients' families. Also, is there some sort of etiquette that says I should reply somehow? Thanks!

hsxagi4

hsx1yc3

We do. No we don’t expect a reply.

When I took my elderly cat in to the vet last year it was to a vet he’d never been to before. The vet and staff there were so kind and caring. They gave me all the time I needed to say goodbye and sent me a beautiful card a week later. It was such a nice gesture. I think I still have the card somewhere though I don’t think I could bear to read it again.

ha3bd6

askengineers_train

Mechanical engineer thinking about going back and majoring in comp sci. Does anyone have this combo and have a career using both? Hello, I have work as a mechanical engineer, but I've always had the thought of pursuing a double major in compsci. I settled on mechanical engineering because I was further along in classes and convinced myself it is pointless because I would end up getting a job doing one or the other anyways. But I enjoy coding and enjoy making programs work almost more than mech e right now. And I just want to say, looking at the other posts in this subreddit, I apologize if this comes off as entitled. I feel extremely grateful to not have been furloughed or laid off and I feel for anyone who was put in that situation.

fv0wz9t

fv0lhkl

How many years of experience do you have? What industry? Just start coding. Automate parts of your job. Get a few public GitHub repos and start applying for software engineering jobs. Preferably adjacent to your industry. Someone will pay you to learn. Software engineering is in such high demand right now and graduating software engineers don't know how to do anything but code, so teaching the ME is long and expensive and may be fruitless. You on the other hand will already know ME and will have shown a willingness to learn. Software engineering is also one of the only Industries where your education doesn't mean much. If you can produce code you will get a job even if you don't have a high school diploma.

This would be a killer combo!

4lkm9n

changemyview_train

CMV: There should absolutely be a cap on how much money one can make. Some people work harder than others. Some people are more intelligent. I believe you should be fairly compensated for your work. The average American makes 40k a year. If you are educated and have a masters degree, you might make 100k a year! If you are a scientist and find a cure for world problems like clean water or a crippling disease, you might earn 10 million dollars! But what about people that earn 50 million a year? 100 million? How about people that make 500 million - a billion a year? Like I said earlier, if you work hard and contribute to society, you should be rewarded appropriately. But if there was a cap on income at say, 50 million, that person would be indulgently set for life and there would be a lot more money to help problems in the world.

d3o2qnr

d3o2lm1

Your solution to the fact that some people earn more than others is to come, with guns, and take it from them? You're solving something that you perceive to be unfair with force and coercion. And besides who decides what is and isn't valuable. Will my favorite artists make hundreds of thousands? Why not? I want them to.

You could mean that in two different ways. You could be saying that people shouldn't make more than a certain amount of money because they do not deserve it in a moral sense. Or you could be saying that they shouldn't make more than a certain amount because people would be happier in general if such a policy were adopted. If you mean they don't deserve it, then I'd agree. But you'd then have to justify why you think it's okay that someone can earn even ten times as much as anyone else. When you strip away things people have no control over (like their parents' social class, their education, their level of intelligence), can you still point to something about a doctor that makes him morally deserve ten times as much money as a cashier or whatever ? If you mean people would be happier in general if there was a cap on wealth, then I'd agree with you as well. I'm not sure anyone thinks, Ayn Rand style, that it's good for society that rich people are getting so much richer, it's just that they're so rich they basically hold the system hostage to get away with something that's clearly immoral.

6x8t0d

explainlikeimfive_train

Explain like I'm five years old: If humans need such a balanced diet to stay healthy, how is it that most animals seem to get away with having a very narrow diet? Maybe I am naive in the diet of animals but it seems to me that when you think of, say an owl, we all know that owls eat mice. If humans were to eat just one food like that it seems to me that we would not get enough nutrients to live. How do animals get all their nutrition?

dme5mui

dme50ok

Very few animals have extremely narrow diets, and animals tend to eat things that we don't. For example, carnivores will eat organs and entrails, while most of the time humans throw these out. Those organs often are packed with nutrients which are almost impossible to find in muscle tissue, which is most of what we think of as "meat". Plant eaters usually eat a lot more by volume and often have lots of helpful microbes in their gut to help digest their food. It is possible to stay alive on a very limited diet. It's healthier to eat more whole foods and get a broader range of nutrients. Also, eating "just one food" is a little misleading. If that one food is whole cooked potatoes, you can probably survive indefinitely. If that one food is white bread, you'll suffer from metabolic issues due to a lack of essential nutrients (white flour is made by removing the most nutritious parts of the grain, so it's missing a lot of good stuff)

There is a difference between healthy and *healthy*. Humans could (and have) easily live on just one or two foods. We don't actually *need* that varied a diet. But if you want to be as healthy as possible, and thrive instead of just survive; if you want to live to 120 and be active for decades, not get any major illnesses and look good, then you need a balanced diet

q6nwng

askengineers_train

Why aren't you using a 3D mouse for CAD? I find use of a 3D mouse for my CAD work increases my productivity because it facilitates seamless subconscious manipulation of the 3D model. It's really an invaluable tool. In CATIA manipulating a model requires clicking and holding the middle mouse button while simultaneously clicking and holding or releasing the left mouse button. Manipulation of the model needs to stop to select a feature or menu item. With a 3D mouse, a slight application of pressure from your non-mouse hand is all that's needed. Locking/unlocking rotation is a toggle with your thumb. With the fancier 3D mice, all sorts of functions or macros can be assigned to buttons. Even though I've recommended use of one to all my engineering colleagues (and they are readily available), none are using a 3D mouse. Those of you who have decided not to use a 3D mouse, why the heck aren't you?

hgdamgt

hgdnsef

I don't use 3D CADD.

I can orbit the model seamlessly with a normal mouse, and I need my other hand free to type in keyboard shortcuts. If I had a 3D mouse in one hand and mouse in the other I would constantly have to reach for the keyboard which would be far slower.

pv1qqr

askengineers_train

Engineers how long did it take you to pay off your student loans? I’m not in college yet, though I’ve been thinking about college lately. I’ve been wondering how long it would take to pay off student loans, specifically for 2 years community college, then 2 years state college. I’m also conflicted between mechanical and civil engineering, and at that what subset in either one of the two. It would be 14,800.00 for the tuition of the state school without the meals/books (using the calculator), and 8,500 for the community college. Totaling about $46,600. I know engineers make a pretty good amount of money, so if you guys are comfortable answering… how long did it take you to pay off this amount of money?

he7xyue

he820xv

24k in 3 years. Paid a couple hundred extra each month and half of my yearly bonus each year. I was also not at all living frugally (eating out at least 10x a week, bars, nice car, etc).

121k in 3 years+3 months. Beans and rice, freedom requires sacrifice.

vkrf5a

askculinary_train

Do professional chefs use timers when cooking, or do they rely on their judgement? Just wondering.

idr1iun

idraalc

I use multiple timers because when I multitask I can easily forget or overlook things

I can't speak for all chocolatiers, but we seriously use timers. Sure, I just "know" when baked goods are done, and find myself walking toward the oven just before the timer goes off. But mostly because we get interrupted constantly and and don't want to forget something when I'm three tasks deep.

74owxj

explainlikeimfive_train

Explain like I'm five years old: Why does everyone say to drink lots of fluid when you have a cold? I have a cold and everyone says drink lots of fluid. What does this actually do if I drink lots of fluid as opposed to not drinking fluid while having a cold?

dnzywxs

do0vxpd

Because you can lose a lot of fluids when sick. It can also be easy to forget to drink when sick, especially if your throat hurts badly.

These comments about how dehydration and low blood pressure will kill you and everything are right, but for a normal healthy person that's not the concern. I recommend drinking lots of water for respiratory sickness because it can help you get healthy faster and with less complications. When you're sick you have mucous and nasty gunk pouring out of your nose and draining all day long. When this mucous is thick it will sit in your nose and slowly drain into your throat or lungs. Thick mucous is harder to cough up, which causes more irritation and stress to your lungs. The longer your lungs have this mucous in them, the more likely an infection in the lungs will occur, which is more serious and will cause you to be sick for much longer. Staying really hydrated caused the mucous that is secreted to be more watery and thinner. Thinner mucous is easier to cough up and you're more likely to get better without further complications or infections. But it also makes you pee every half hour so it's totally up to you.

gf70rx

askphysics_train

Non-conspiracy questions regarding microwaves For starters: I‘m not a conspiracy theorist or any of that kind I‘m just interested in the physics behind this. Some questions: -Why do people only say that ionising radiation is dangerous/bad if being heated by microwaves is also „bad“ (I know that it‘s safe to stay next to a microwave (the machine) but if you were directly targeted by microwaves (the EM radiation) it would heat you up right?) -Is there only one special frequency of EM radiation that heats up water and happens to be in the Microwave spectrum or could you do it with every frequency? -> And does every Molecule/Atom has its special frequency that brings it to vibrate? /Could you bring other molecules to vibrate too? -What makes the inside of a microwave much stronger than the CMB Radiation? As they both are in the same frequency/wavelength right? -Are there other known influences of EM Radiation on the human other than ionising and heating it up? Thanks

fprvk69

fprvol3

\-> You're right, it would definitely be bad for you to stick your head inside a microwave that is running. Maybe people mostly talk about ionising radiation because of the fact that it causes cancer etc. \-> Yes. Microwave ovens operate at a specific frequency. I didn't know this, but apparently this is not the resonance frequency of water molecules. If it were, the waves wouldn't penetrate very deep and it would still be difficult to heat something up. \-> Yes, every molecule has its own resonance frequency. However, the more complicated the molecule, the more difficult it is to find this frequency. You can even say that each molecular bond has a resonance frequency. And, of course, this frequency in general differs for different molecules. \-> The cosmic microwave background peaks at 160 GHz. A microwave oven has a frequency of 2.45 GHz. However, the intensity (number of photons) of microwave ovens in a microwave is much higher than that of the CMB. Asking why the one has a much higher intensity is a bit like comparing two different things. The CMB is a leftover from the inflation period of the big bang, whereas the waves in an oven are generated through applying a time-varying potential. \-> Not that I am aware of, but I am by no means an expert, so maybe someone else has some input on this.

These are some great questions. The other responses, while good, seem to leave a few things out. This happens to be the frequency range (1-100GHz) in which I regularly work in, so hopefully I can offer some insight. >Why do people only say that ionising radiation is dangerous/bad if being heated by microwaves is also „bad“ (I know that it‘s safe to stay next to a microwave (the machine) but if you were directly targeted by microwaves (the EM radiation) it would heat you up right?) I think it's because we understand why ionizing radiation is harmful. It breaks bonds in your DNA, which can lead to deleterious mutations if repaired incorrectly. On the flip side, there's not a clear mechanism for non-ionizing radiation to be harmful (unless it's in such huge powers that it significantly heats you up), and visible light clearly isn't harmful, so how could light that's even less energetic be bad for us? That last bit, unfortunately, is an oversimplification that isn't firmly grounded in scientific fact. Here's a recent review of the grand total of just under 100 papers published about the biological effects of microwave radiation on various organisms: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/18/3406/pdf It's a very easy read, and shows that many of the experiments resulted in some sort of change even if the microwave radiation wasn't powerful enough to cause any heating effects. While none of the studies show anything that means we should be worried about things like 5G, there's not actually enough evidence right now to preclude that possibility. >Is there only one special frequency of EM radiation that heats up water and happens to be in the Microwave spectrum or could you do it with every frequency? Not at all. You could do it with any frequency. The reason water heats up due to EM radiation is that it's a polar molecule, so it oscillates with the light's electric field. Much higher frequencies than the 2.45GHz used by microwaves wouldn't penetrate as well, so only the outside layer of the food would heat up. Much lower frequencies have weaker absorption and would require much more power for the same heating. 2.45GHz isn't even optimal, but was just a frequency that didn't interfere with ones that were already designated for other uses. >And does every Molecule/Atom has its special frequency that brings it to vibrate? /Could you bring other molecules to vibrate too? Absolutely. Each molecule and atom has resonant frequencies which they absorb especially well, but it's worth reiterating that this isn't how microwaves operate. >What makes the inside of a microwave much stronger than the CMB Radiation? As they both are in the same frequency/wavelength right? The microwave is specifically designed to produce light through a magnetron (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavity_magnetron), just like how a light bulb is designed to produce light at visible frequencies (although through a completely different method). The fact they're in the same frequency range as the CMB isn't really relevant as one is a piece of electronics actively designed to produce that radiation and can make as much/little of it as we want. >Are there other known influences of EM Radiation on the human other than ionising and heating it up? If you look back through the paper I linked (https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/18/3406/pdf), you'll see that in the microwaves, the effects on humans are basically unknown, but we do sometimes see non-thermal effects on other organisms that don't involve heating. At the moment, there's insufficient evidence to say if any such effects exist for humans, (if they do exist) whether they're even harmful, and (if they are) whether 5G towers/devices produce enough radiation to reach those levels.

pxv8lt

legaladvice_train

I spent months paying off an iPhone 12 while on my parents' plan. 6 months later, they got mad and claimed the phone as their own and took it from me i'm 18, overly annoyed, and really upset over this. I got into a petty argument with my parents about equality and things of that nature. My mom decided to get mad and told me to give her my phone. I was confused obviously. She came up last night, took it, and got mad that I wiped the information before she got to it. (not sure why she wanted to go through my stuff...) I spent months paying it off and they claimed it as their own. I live away from them on my own and have for months. I'm ready to cry. Not because I lost my phone but because that was the first thing I ever paid for by myself as an adult. Is there ANYTHING I can do to get my money or phone back? I don't even have my new work number or banking information anywhere. It was all on my phone and I never got a chance to write it down. side note, living in Pennsylvania if that helps

heqmi11

heqa1ny

I am not a lawyer, but there likely are no options that will not result in ruining your relationship with your mother/parents. If she took it from you against your will, talk to the police and treat it as theft of your property that you paid for. You could also go to small claims court and force her to appear and either give you the phone or monetary equivalent (this process can be done yourself, pop in to your local courthouse and ask about how filing a case in small claims court works). Either way, your parents aren't going to be happy. Since you're dealing with stolen property, there isn't a non-legal route to take if you want that phone back before they decide to give it up. Considering that you are 18, afaik the law doesn't care who steals from you, but if you do decide to go to the police, go in person. This does not sound like a case of annoyed teen had their phone taken as punishment, this sounds like an adult having their phone stolen by someone that happens to be their parent. In any case, proceed carefully, and as others have said, pick your battles. And if you're really unsure and want to talk to an expert, look into doing a quick consultation with a local personal property lawyer. I'm sure they'd be able to tell you real quick if you have anything valid, and what the expected fallout could be. Consultations are typically free or very cheap, and are usually 15-30 minutes tops.

Did you give it to her or did she take it by force?

omtzv0

askbaking_train

Softer Cinnamon Rolls Let’s say we’re baking regular Pillsbury cinnamon rolls and I prefer the center, softer*rolls the most. I’m wondering how good of an idea it would be to smush 2 packages into one 8x8 pan so there’s more center pieces. Would there be a “best way” to adjust the time/temp combo to achieve this? Maybe cover it with foil or something?

h5peclo

h5nhpdd

The best way to get super soft cinnamon rolls is to cover them while they bake and also have a pan of water in the stove that way they steam cook and retain all the moisture and become light soft and fluffy!

I'm not sure crowding 2 packages into one pan would be ideal. I would think since they would be over-crowded, the oven spring would be impeded and you might get rolls that are dense and pasty inside. But, you know, prove me wrong... I like the foil idea better, but I might wait until they've been in the oven for 10 minutes before you put foil on the outer rolls, so that they have a chance to plump up. Are we talking about Pillsbury's regular cinnamon rolls, or their "Grands"? Because in my experience the "Grands" come out much softer than the smaller cinnamon rolls they sell. Another idea I saw online, which may or may not make for a softer outcome, is to make one huge roll out of your dough and cook it on a cookie sheet: https://www.pillsbury.com/recipes/giant-cinnamon-roll/019f57d5-5f7e-4371-a8d9-60f232559eb2 Then I guess you cut it like you would a pizza? Have you ever tried making your own cinnamon rolls? It's really not hard, they just need to rise overnight and if you like soft and ooey-gooey, they are the softest and as gooey as you want. I make a cream cheese frosting for mine. Those, fresh from the oven are several magnitudes better than Pillsbury. My family behave like sharks on a feeding frenzy around those things :) Anyway, whatever you choose to do--Good luck!

knsljp

legaladvice_train

Can I (a minor) use the embassy to get home? (USA) Hello I'm 16 and from California, I came to Ghana on January 9th with my mom, she left about a week in and left me here telling me I'm gonna be staying here for a short time. It's been almost a year and still my parents wont tell me when nor allow me to come home. I'm staying with ""family friends"" here in Ghana, People I never knew until 12 months ago. My best buddy who's been getting me through these hard times and his parents told me that I could just go to the US Embassy and they will help me get home, now my friends parents are offering to pay for my ticket home. Could this work? I don't have my visa or passport on me, I believe they would be in the hands of the embassy I'm not sure. Either way, would I need that or could I just buy the ticket and the Embassy will do the rest? any help?

ghmlatk

ghmuni3

As a US citizen minor, without a legal guardian in-country; I feel confidant that the embassy would take steps to assist you. While too often people think an embassy will provide a free plane ticket back home (more typically, it's limited to coordinating your relatives to buy a ticket, or at best, offering to loan the money which must be repaid to the US Government); in this case I feel like the embassy would certainly take a more active role. But I am interested to hear /u/s-dubya take on the situation.

I am a U.S. diplomat and have served in West Africa. While there is nothing that is necessarily illegal about your situation, there are some steps you can take from Ghana to help protect you. 1. As a 16-year-old, you should be able to get a replacement passport without a parent present. You may qualify for financial assistance if you cannot afford to pay the fees. However, the Embassy is likely to reach out to your immediate family, so if you want this to be a secret you'll probably need to be able to pay the fees on your own or take your friend's family up on their offer to help. There's a further complication that routine passport issues aren't being prioritized right now, so if you're not in immediate danger you may have to wait for a while. 2. Enroll in STEP (https://step.state.gov/) so that the U.S. Embassy knows you're in the country. 3. Are you currently being educated? If not, there may be educational neglect issues that need to be addressed. 4. Do you feel you're in danger of being married off against your will? If so, that's something that the Embassy will take much more seriously than simply being left with family friends. 5. I personally wouldn't use the Embassy emergency line unless you're in dire straights. That line will take you to the duty officer who is more likely than not going to pass you off to the American Services team when the Embassy reopens. I would use the email listed on the webpage: [ACSAccra@state.gov](mailto:ACSAccra@state.gov)

2pfstx

explainlikeimfive_train

Explain like I'm five years old: Why does it take so long to repopulate endangered species? I'm 31 and and have learned since 2nd grade that certain animals are endagered. 25 years later, they still are. Why does it take so long to breed them or any other endagered animal for that matter? Why can't we just clone them?

cmwcgun

cmwcgwj

Math and genetic diversity. Consider a completely controlled population of 8 males and 8 females in a mate-for-life species. No matter the number of offspring, the second generation will only have 8 different genetic possibilities. With a large number of offspring, you can get up to 56 different permutations of parentage, but each one of those will be at least 25% identical to approximately 25% of the rest of their generation. Based on your limiting factor (the smaller gender of original parents), a controller would need to make the decision WHERE in the genetic tree an identical ancestor would be allowed to exist - in the above scenario, that will have to be in the 4th generation, since the great-grandchildren of the original parents will never be less than 1/8 identical - unless earlier inbreeding has occurred, or generation 3 breeds with generation 4. Even considering these outliers, there will be a common ancestor within the next couple of generations. With earlier inbreeding, you risk major defects that prevent the offspring from growing to adulthood or becoming fertile. With a species that is NOT mate for life and provides a lot of offspring, you get greater genetic diversity early on in exchange for accelerating the "must inbreed" clock up a generation. It's better for growing a population, but if you don't start with a large enough set of each gender, the gene pool will not be diverse enough to avoid those defects. And this is in a CONTROLLED environment. In an uncontrolled environment, like a nature reserve, you can't make such decisions, or provide foresight (or force breeding :\), so you just have to hope for the best. The second part - the math - primarily depends on length of generational cycle, but it is reasonable to expect growth of the population to be exponential in nature. Assuming identical (or even greater) generational growth, a smaller species will grow significantly slower than a larger one: 16 * 1.5 = 24 ( +8) 160 * 1.1 = 176 (+16) **TL;DR and the Explain like I'm five years old part: Imagine you are one of the three primary colors. How many other colors can you make by combining with other primary colors? What about combining THOSE colors? How long until all the combinations become brown?** I'm not a scientist. Or a mathematician. Or a colorologist. So take what I say with a grain of salt.

In addition to all of the above, there's also a sort of minimum limit on population size in order to establish or re-establish a healthy, sustainable population. Genetics plays into this: if there are too few members of a population that begin breeding, eventually the progeny will suffer from inbreeding - inheriting and accumulating unfit traits. Similarly, the lack of genetic diversity can hinder adaptation to changing environments. So even if you have a few healthy, happily breeding animals roaming free in a good preserve, the population may still ultimately collapse. You can extrapolate this concept to other organisms/systems as well: -monoculture of plants for food: at the moment there's really only ONE banana cultivar produced around the world, and guess what, a fungal pathogen is decimating the crop, and breeders can't engineer a mode of resistance fast enough. Bye-bye bananas. -rare diseases such as small pox. We say it's eradicated, but surely there's a few virions floating around out there; just not enough (hopefully!) to enact an epidemic. -zombie apocalypse. Try as they might, Glen and Maggie are not going to repopulate the earth. (I think there has been done an actual calculation of how many humans are needed to survive a holocaust scenario!) Tl;dr size matters. A population needs to break a number threshold, and have a diverse gene pool, in order to re-establish and sustain itself.

vsyakh

changemyview_train

CMV: 80% of jobs can be learn in 2-6 month of tutoring I think A LOT of jobs can be learnt very quickly (6 month, but mostly 2-3 month for most jobs) with "on the job" training, considering you have highschool education. I am not talking about higly skilled and specific jobs, like doctors, surgeon, scientists, methematiciant, or pilot, this kind of things obviously need long and intensive training, but i think i am very generous if I say they represent 10% of all current jobs available. For the 90% left : 50% of those i think can be learnt in 2 or 3 weeks, like cashier, waiter, barman, taxi driver (given you have a driver licence), shopkeeper, retail or warehouse worker, kitchen staff in fastfood restaurant, delivery driver(given you have a driver licence), security guard, secretary (mother was one, confirmed it), "low-level" administrative worker... The remaining 50% (of the 90% jobs that arent highly skilled) can, i think, with proper tutoring be learnt on the job within 2 to 6 months, not including the physical preparation for jobs requiring it like firefighter or soldier. For the "technicals" jobs like plumber, electrician, mecanics, bus and truck drivers, farmer, tatoo artists (not including the "creative" side)... If you have someone very dedicated to teaching you it can be very fast since you'll have a lot of practice. Next we have all of these jobs i think can be regrouped under the (sorry for that) term of "bullshit jobs" : I have many friends who went to business school, when they describe their job to me, the tasks seems so repetitive and so... easy, they mostly do powerpoints and give presentation... Yes they master certain subject but it is almost never needed in their day to day job. I have friend who work in human ressources, same thing, mostly interviewing candidates and redacting reports about them, almost no use of what she studied in university... Some account manager at a bank, mostly calling client who overspend or trying to sell product to other client, or entering numbers in a software to see if the client qualify for a mortgage. Considering teacher, if you have highschool education and spend an additionnal 3-6 month with a teacher studying the matter and teaching you to teach (lol) I think you are good to go teach middle and highschooler (I myself gave some math and french class to highschooler in my first year of university) Considering IT, i myself am a software developer, I dont think i can teach you everything I know in 6 month, but the job, and only the job, my day to day task, I can, in 3-4 months. It maybe become more complicated with engineers level jobs because there often is a notion of responsability, if you f\*ck up it can have consequences, so it actually depend on the field, I have a friend who work as an energy engineer who litteraly said to me he can teach me is job in a few month because he mainly do management. On the contrary another friend of mine work at a nuclear plant, he could never teach me in even a year, because you need to know absolutely everything) To be safe I'd say 10% more of all total jobs are enginneer level jobs or bear a level of responsability that make it impossible to learn in 6 months. So, by suppressing from the list the 10% jobs that are highly skilled and knowledgeable (surgeon, doctors, scientist...) and the 10% that bear too much responsability (nuclear plant engineer, lead of cybersecurity, building engineer...) It give us 80% of the jobs that I think can be learnt in 6 months max given PROPER and EFFECTIVE TUTORING.

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if4bdjn

>Considering teacher, if you have highschool education and spend an additionnal 3-6 month with a teacher studying the matter and teaching you to teach (lol) I think you are good to go teach middle and highschooler (I myself gave some math and french class to highschooler in my first year of university) To teach effectively you need 1) mastery of the content you're teaching, and 2) effective teaching skills. Most of a teacher's education is related to #2, and these skills are developed over time. I think most people who have been teaching for a while would tell you that they woudln't have been effective teachers with only 3-6 months of on-the-job training. Most teachers would probably tell you they weren't very good teachers their first few years of teaching *even after* completing their education. And when it comes to mastery of the content, I don't think someone 3-6 months out of high school has such high mastery of content that they'd be an effective high school teacher for a lot of courses. I took all the honors/AP classes I could and graduated in the top 10% of my class, and I sure as hell couldn't have gone back to teach calculus, or literary analysis, or chemistry, or a lot of other subjects I aced.

I can teach you to fly a plane in 2 months. I won't put my family on a plane if that is all the training a pilot has. What matters is the mastery of the subject so that you make good choices when shit hits the fan. I can teach you to do market research in 2 months. I can't teach you to have a deep enough understanding of the market to ask the right questions, have conversations with major customers, remove noise from real data, or to know how to parse data in a meaningful manner without you having extensive background knowledge that you probably don't think contributes to your "day to day". There is a difference between knowing what you consider "day to day" and being able to actually contribute in an evolving and meaningful way.

qcpklf

asksciencefiction_train

[MCU] if what the Asgardians call the Nine Realms are just planets, why are there only nine? Recently started studying Norse mythology in a mythology class and it got me thinking. In the MCU, there’s clearly way more than 9 planets that harbor life. If the Bifrost can be used to travel anywhere in the universe, and the Asgardians thru Heimdall have awareness of the entire universe, why are they only familiar/have relations with eight other planets? Obviously they’re aware of other planets outside of the nine realms since Thor visits the Collector at the end of The Dark World. So from a wider cosmic perspective, what does a planet need to be classified as a “realm” in the eyes of Asgard?

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hhh9wfq

Bifrost connects directly to nine planets, so those are the realms. The asgardians have ways to travel to other worlds, yes, but they can simply step to those nine, and thus consider them theirs.

The Nine Realms are the nine planets Odin and Hela conquered together before Odin had a change of heart and had Hela banished.

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askengineers_train

Failure Friday (18 Mar 2022): Break something at the office this week? We want to hear about it! # Intro Today's thread is for all the recent explosions, broken parts, vendor headaches, and safety violations at your workplace. If nothing exciting happened at your workplace this week, we also take stories about terrible management and office pranks on the interns. > [Archive of past threads] # Good stories from past threads Liked a story from an old thread? **Message us** and we'll add it here. 1. The one that started it: *"That day when your boss almost dies"* 1. /u/DoctorWhoToYou talks about his time as the Maintenance Manager at a Tier 1 automotive supplier in the mid-90s 1. /u/Hiddencamper talks about that one time when the Emergency Trip System didn't work right at a BWR nuclear power plant # Guidelines * **Please share without revealing your identity or workplace, or violating your security clearance!** We assume no responsibility for anything that you make public on the internet. * Photos are welcome, but must include a story to go with it.

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i161pck

I sprayed (a tiny amount of) dfl in a room where we occasionally bond (nothing structural just test items)

Hello Robot EOAT, meet our friend, the weldment: https://i.imgur.com/04gDvVC.jpg They got along smashingly! This was Wednesday afternoon, while just doing a final, informal runoff and getting some video for the website, approximately 25 minutes after quitting time, the day before it shipped. A potential customer in another industry was coming in to see it the next day before we put it on a truck. There was a colossal smashing sound, partially from the robot impacting the weldment and partially from my heart hitting the floor. We had what we thought was supreme confidence in the system, this being cell #4 of the same design, with only a few minor improvements, and having run it in all kinds of configurations...one of the last-minute changes meant it turns out that when you ran from the secondary home position, with part number 4 but not 1, 2, 3, or 5, the spider of robot code branches to a different subroutine that hadn't been updated and which assumes it was starting from the primary home and went at full speed to the target. Total damage was one piece of polycarbonate, one carbon fiber leaf spring, one loose wedge anchor in the concrete, and one laser cut bracket that had to be bent back into shape. And one cosmetic dent in an aluminum mounting plate, which we're leaving as-is to commemorate the event. Obviously, as the robot programmer, my mistake is the proximate cause. At the next level, last-minute updates are still a bad idea and still happen all the time because deadlines. The stupid teach pendant with no "search" function is easy to blame, but the deeper cause was the lack of validating starting assumptions throughout these subroutines. We updated the robot subroutines to add a "are you where this subroutine thinks you are" check at the start of each, not because the robot needs that but because programmers are engineers who are fallible, and we made a checklist matrix of all the robot programs, all the part numbers, and all valid starting conditions to be run at low speed before signing off on it. At my last shop, those parts would literally have come out of my paycheck, there would have been screaming and yelling from the man whose name is on the building. That place was just toxic. Here, I think I blamed myself more than literally anyone else: project management and the front office all told me not to worry about it, that everybody makes mistakes, it's a learning opportunity and an opportunity to make our machine more fault tolerant for the customer...I love working here. And today it's on a truck to the customer!

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askvet_train

META] It’s kitten season! You found a litter of kittens - now what?! During kitten season, which occurs largely in the spring and summer, it is not uncommon to stumble upon a nest of kittens. Your first instinct is to help them, which is awesome, but first you need to read this thread! Not all kittens you will stumble upon are orphaned. First I want to make a point very clear: **kittens have the greatest chance of survival if their mother is in the picture**. As much as rescues and foster homes try, we cannot ever do as good of a job taking care of them as their real mom does! Kittens require frequent nursing (typically a couple of times an hour), help eliminating (mother stimulates them with her tongue to pee and poop), and a lot of warmth and attention. Trust me - waking up four times a night to feed bottle babies is not fun! ## Before Jumping To The Rescue **A single kitten wandering alone** is often abandoned (either by a human or the mother), and should be rescued quickly - wait and watch from afar for 20-30 minutes to see if the mom is just in the middle of transporting it. If no mother has come in that time, rescue it. **A litter of kittens** (2+ kittens): * Before attempting your daring rescue mission to save the abandoned kittens, you need to **wait from afar and watch**. The kittens may not actually be abandoned! Mother cats do not stay at the nest 24/7 - they hunt, take breaks from their babies, and patrol near the nest to look for danger. The queen could also be in the middle of moving the nest, which she does one at a time. Watch from a good distance away, because if you are too close the queen will likely not approach - this is a defense strategy to make sure predators don’t locate the nest by following her. Sometimes watching from far away is still too close, and you will need to go away for a few hours. * If you see the queen, you know the kittens are being taken care of and you do not need to intervene (except to call a rescue, and possibly provide food/shelter for the mother). * Clean kittens who are sleeping soundly are probably not abandoned. Dirty and crying kittens are probably hungry and MAY have been abandoned and need rescue. Although remember that as soon as kittens wake, they start crying and want to eat! Neonates spend all their time either eating or sleeping. If you mess with them and they start to cry/crawl around, it does not mean they are starving - that’s just what they do when they are awake. * Contact a local rescue. If they have the resources, they will trap the mother and kittens (if the mother is in the picture), and take care of them. They can bottle feed truly abandoned kittens, as well. **Please contact the rescue before removing the kittens** \- only remove the kittens under their direction if you can help it. * If you need to leave before you’ve seen the queen, assess the situation: * Are there any dangers nearby? Neighborhood dogs, humans who might harm them, etc? If the kittens are not in immediate grave danger, they will be fine for a while as you wait for mom. * What is the temperature? If it is very cold or the kittens are very wet, it is okay to put them in a sideways cardboard box (possibly with a clean T shirt, dry straw, or a heated water bottle) - however, try to limit the amount of human-scented things near them. * If you find the queen, and she is friendly towards humans, she and the kittens should be rescued together. * If you’ve waited a while and have not seen the queen in several hours (the warmer the weather, the longer the kittens can be left alone) or the kittens are in immediate grave danger, and you have not been able to reach a rescue, you can attempt to rescue the kittens. ## Rescuing Kittens * **Kittens need warmth** \- they can suffer from hypothermia really easily. Place the kittens in a cardboard box or cat carrier lined with T-shirts (towels can catch on their nails) and covered with a blanket, with a warm water bottle for them. The ideal warmth source is a SnuggleSafe. (See more info in the bottle feeding attachment.) * The human body temperature is at 98.6F, but the internal temperature of a kitten needs to be 99.5-102.5F - therefore, your body warmth alone is not enough to keep them warm! * Call all of the rescues nearby to look for someone to take them. Foster homes and rescues are highly trained to deal with bottle babies, and can deal with all of the obstacles associated with it. * Call your vet and schedule an appointment. The kittens may be dehydrated, sick, etc - kittens die really easily and fast, so a physical exam and medical care is very important. They may be sick without you realizing it. ## I Already Rescued Them! * First follow the steps in “Rescuing Kittens”. * If you are going to be caring for the kittens, be prepared for a lot of work and possibly the death of some or all of the kittens. The information I will provide is for emergency care of kittens (no more than a day or two) until you can get the kittens to an appropriate rescue or the vet. * You must bottle feed the kittens every 2-3 hours. [Here is my quick guide to bottle feeding**.** **PLEASE read this before attempting to bottle feed!** * You need to make sure they are eating enough, so follow this chart, and use a kitchen food scale to weigh them directly before and after feeding. * KMR is the best formula - do not use the “homemade” recipes unless it is an emergency! Never use cow/goat/soy/almond/etc milk. Why you shouldn't use goat/cow milk. * Here are three resources to figure out their approximate age: Kitten Age Progression, Determining a Kitten’s Age, and Determining by Weight. * Keep a log for each individual kitten of: the time you fed it, how much they consumed, their weight before feeding, their weight after feeding, what they eliminated (urine and/or feces), and any medical concerns. Here is a great log for that \- I suggest printing one for each kitten. * If kittens will not latch to the bottle, you can try to use a clean eye dropper or needle-less syringe to SLOWLY drop KMR into the kitten’s mouth. * If you see anything bubbling out of the kitten's nose as you are feeding it, **milk likely got into the lungs and aspiration pneumonia can quickly develop**. If this happens take it to a vet immediately. * **Signs of an emergency that NEEDS to be seen by a vet immediately:** * The kitten is lethargic and not responding * The kitten has trouble breathing * The kitten or cat is vomiting blood * Uncontrollable bleeding * Bloody, liquid diarrhea in a lethargic animal * Fractured limb (part of the limb is usually flaccid and painful to the touch) * Pale, blue or white gums if accompanied by lethargy * Kitten with a body temperature below 97 degrees especially if accompanied by lethargy, pale gums or inappetence * Kitten with a temperature of 106 degrees or above ## Here are some additional resources: * What to do when you find "orphaned" kittens * What to Do (and NOT Do) If You Find a Newborn Kitten * Bottle Feeding by the Kitten Lady * What to do if you find a bunny/rabbit nest

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eq8vchb

I've got a momma cat and 4 kittens living in my backyard. The kittens look to be 6 or 7 weeks old--they're running around on their own, climbing, playing and they seem healthy and happy. I've been leaving water and wet food out for mom and babies and the kittens are eating the regular food. The only thing is that the queen hisses at me if I get near the kittens, and I don't want to take them away from her anyway as they're too young. Is the best thing to just continue providing the kittens with food/water/shelter until they're old enough to be on their own, or is there something else I could be doing? Will the queen stop being so protective over the kittens so I can get near them? And does she just leave them at a certain point?

Just stumbling upon this and I’d like to proudly add that I’ve recently bottle raised a kitten from a week old until now and he’s a very happy, cuddly, chubby, and healthy 6 week old. I love my little boy so much and I’m so glad I was able to do this for him

86wqs0

changemyview_train

CMV: There is NO excuse for not learning the language if you move to a new country or permanently. I am currently living in my 3rd country and in all 3 countries I have encountered numerous people (who had made those countries their new homes) who couldn’t hold a conversation in the official, or at least one of the official, languages. Some even after living there for over 20 years. I find this to be disrespectful and a slap in the face to country who has opened its borders to let you in and the citizens of that country. I found the language requirements of the last immigration process to be very strict;yet on arrival, so many people who immigrated with the same status as myself can’t function in any of the official languages. The same goes for bringing over parents and other relatives permanently. Why should they be exempted from language proficiency? Some countries who openly welcome refugies have FREE language classes available to them and to new permanent residents (at least where I am loving now). In short: CMV If you move to a new country permanently, you should be able to communicate in their language efficiently and not expect them to accommodate you. _____ > *This is a footnote from the CMV moderators. We'd like to remind you of a couple of things. Firstly, please* ***read through our rules***. *If you see a comment that has broken one, it is more effective to report it than downvote it. Speaking of which,* ***downvotes don't change views****! Any questions or concerns? Feel free to* ***message us***. *Happy CMVing!*

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dw8f1te

If someone can live in a country for twenty years without learning the 'local' language then clearly the language they do know is good enough for that area. If learning a new language doesn't solve a problem (like not being able to do something in a country) then why would someone put all the time into learning it

What happens if you're moving to a country where you will know the language of the area you are moving to, but not the official language? Let's say an english speaker moves to dublin, do they need to learn irish? What about a russian speaker moving to a russian speaking part of Latvia? In this sort of scenario you may never even really have the opportunity to the learn the 'official' language, and the locals you actually work/live with aren't going to get anything from you learning this other language.

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legaladvice_train

[CO] My retired piano teacher who sexually abused me has started teaching children again. I fear that she intends to abuse other children and I want to stop it. I have proof of her abuse against me. How do I go about this? Between the ages of 9-11, I took piano lessons with a teacher who sexually abused me. If memory serves, I believe that she did it almost every week for the 2 years that I took lessons with her. The only reason I stopped going to her was because she retired. My teacher used to take photos of the abuse (polaroids), and would give them to me, under the guise that it was "our special secret". I won't get into specifics, but I have possession of several photographs of the abuse where both me and my teacher are clearly identifiable. I never told my parents or anyone else about the abuse or the photos due to immense shame and guilt. Recently, I found out that this woman has decided to start teaching again, but specifically becoming a children's instructor. I am absolutely certain that she intends to hurt more children just like me, and I want to stop it before it's too late. So my question is: legally, what can I do and what should my course of action be? I don't want money, I just want her stopped. I have the photographs, but I am worried of the legal repercussions of having them in my possession, as they are technically child pornography. Please walk me through this, because I genuinely don't know what to do, and I'm scared she's going to hurt someone else and it will be all my fault because I didn't stop it sooner. For reference, I am 19 years old and I live in Colorado

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eaidpsf

The first step in this situation, if you want to go forward, would be to take all evidence you have, to go to a police station and file a police report. Also please take care of yourself, as this will also bring up a lot of emotions for yourself. There are resources available, such as RAINN that can help you through this. Good luck.

To start things off, I am actually responsible for doing many of the investigations of suspected child abuse/neglect by professionals in my jurisdiction here in CO (I work in a large county along the Front Range), so I know how complicated this system can be but please keep with it! I would definitely encourage you to file a report with the police AND your local human services center (in Colorado, these are divided up by county). If you know what county this teacher is now working/living, I would encourage you to file a report with that county. In terms of contacting your LOCAL police department, you can certainly do this however I have seen these reports often get misplaced or sent to the wrong jurisdiction. Please file a report with the police department where the abuse happened. This will ensure it gets to the right jurisdiction.

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askbaking_train

Brownies with beetroot. I need to sub out flour and sugar Yo. I care for a bloke in a wheelchair so I do his cooking as part of my role. He's anti-sugar and anti-flour but does like dark chocolate. And I have a roasted beetroot in the fridge... I've made these before and they're banging- so moist and velvety. IMO they are already healthy, but I know he won't try them if they have sugar and flour.(Also I know there is some sugar in dark chocolate but he's just funny in what he will and won't eat. This post isn't about his dietary contradictions I will save that rant for another time). Anyway- we've got buckwheat flour and honey. Will the finished product resemble a chocolate brownie if I sub these in? Do I need to alter the amounts? We also have dates... But it doesn't feel very brownieish. Butter and eggs are cool with him. Any help much appreciated

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gmmmdu1

Vegan chickpea blondies come to mind. Maple syrup or liquid stevia for sugar, almond flour for flour. Throw the beets with some flax instead of eggs to bind and proceed to add copious amounts of chocolate. Should work. No money back guarantee tho

Are you set on including the beetroot? Either way you could try looking up paleo recipes! Sounds like exactly what you’re after, no flours or sugars!

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askengineers_train

Engineers who feel happy with their job and aren’t bored, what do you do? For context, I’m an engineer at a major defense contractor who finds it nearly impossible to achieve 40 hours each week. Communicating with management hasn’t been helping much and all I get is smaller tasks. I’ve held multiple positions within the company and this seems to be a recurring theme for me somehow. My background is in mechanical/systems and I’m starting to consider other avenues at this point. Thank you in advance for any input or advice!

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hf1tulo

Civil engineer working in land development. I design and assemble high level construction plans for residential roadways, storm water management, underground utilities such as storm drains, water, and sewer. My projects are all in my community (practically my backyard it feels) and so I get to help the housing crisis here in California. It’s tough work but I’m contributing tremendously to make a difference in building communities.

Field service engineer for a multinational laboratory diagnostic instrument manufacturer. That was a long sentence for 4am. Install, service and repair complex pathology analyzers. Perks for me is not stuck behind a desk often. Troubleshooting and problem solving breakdowns. Involves everything from hydraulics to robotics, software and networking as well as the clinical side of things. I come from from aeronautical engineer background.

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askbaking_train

Are there any major drawbacks to using silicon bakeware? I love baking and am looking to expand my bakeware collection. However, I’m on autism spectrum and very sensitive to loud noises. The sound of metal pans clanging drives me crazy and sometimes I don’t bake just to avoid the noise. I was thinking a good solution would be to get silicon stuff but I’m curious if that will negatively effect my baking. What’s the difference between metal and silicon bakeware?

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g9sh4y3

I’ve found that they are much harder to clean no matter what I do, there are often smells left on it from previous bakes and it is basically impossible from getting rid of the greasy feel to it when you bake something with oil in it

Maybe a silicon mat on a pan?

idn74x

asksciencefiction_train

[Marvel] if someone were to cut up Deadpool evenly into very small pieces, which piece would he grow back from?

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g2a7a6m

In some versions, cutting him evenly into pieces won't kill him, but it'll impede his regeneration until the pieces are in close enough proximity that they can knit themselves back together. At one point there was an "Evil Deadpool" running around composed entirely of pieces of Wade that were torn off at various points and remained alive long enough to amalgamate into a singular humanoid form, which lends the most credence to this idea.

Souls exist in the Marvel Universe, so I would assume it would just be whatever piece his soul happened to remain attached to. Stuff like this isn't always consistent though, so there's probably multiple answers to this in the comics.

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askculinary_train

How do I get fresh thyme to be less of a pain in the butt? Fresh thyme is such a lovely addition to recipes, but it's such a pain to de-stem. The top always breaks off so I end up only using the bottom 2/3 of the stem. Any tips on making it easier to take off?

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i6ftidp

AYE! I just saw this tip and it changed my life. The good content starts at 0:44 but just pull the stems through a metal sifter.

Couple ways if you only want leaves, I grip the bottom of the stem and then pull the stem through my figures, if Im doing a batch push the stem through a hole in a sieve and pull it through leaving the leaves in the sieve

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askacademia_train

[Wrong Answers Only] What personal website to link to your department profile? My department gives us the option to add a personal website to our profile pages. Someone used to put a link to her online store there, and I thought it was both hilarious and awesome! I mean, the university has been exploiting our cheap labor, we might as well take advantage of their free advertising platform while we can! ;) Obviously I'm just indulging in some crazy fantasies here, but what else could we link to our department profiles? Instagram? A YouTube channel? A GoFundMe page for a "feed a poor grad student" fundraiser? Only Fans? ... I can't stop laughing at the idea of this last one hahaha

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glvk9gt

Daily check

I figured nobody actually checks those so for the longest time my profile linked to an article about how my university was super racist and ableist. The only person to ever check it that I know of was a student who came to office hours and said it was great.

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askengineers_train

Girls in Mechanical Engineering? im a rising senior in high school, interested in majoring in mechanical engineering but my dad says the job market is bad and its really hard for a girl to get a job in mechanical engineering... he told me "you're going to work really hard for a four year bachelor's, and then you're not even going to get a good pay." instead he suggested me to go to electrical engineering but i think mechanical engineering is 1000x cooler personally. i thought there were lots of mechanical engineering job opportunities near me because i live in long island which is near nyc. what can i say to convince him?

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h7sn9dk

Mech does NOT have a tough job market than EE. Mech is flat out the broadest field. Your old man is simply wrong on this. Mech has plenty of jobs, good pay, and a wider variety than any other degree that I'm aware of. You can find mechanical engineers under any rock you kick over. As for being a woman in engineering, you'll probably have your awkward moments where weird dudes won't know how to treat you, or they will get into some sort of weird pissing contest and try to "put you in your place". But those will be the exception, not the norm, and those guys generally will just be assholes with an inferiority complex. And there are assholes and weird dudes everywhere. Hell, probably more EEs are weird than MEs. Your pa is wrong.

Your dad is projecting his experience on you. Do what you love and if you only make $125k instead of $150k it will be fine. EE’s do tend to make more, but Mechs aren’t starving either.

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legaladvice_train

Neighbor tresspassed on my property and posted online my custom carved wood in my yard as free for taking. It was taken by someone mistakenly thinking it was hers to give away. How can I proceed legall? Long story short, I live in NY. My bfs hobby is to take re-claimed wood custom cut it and make table tops or shelves out of them, selling some tables for $400 or more. I had 3 of these 7ft long oak wood sitting on the side of my house for a month, out to dry in the sun, on planks. Those pieces can be sold for $1,200 or more when finished. This lady that lives in the area assumed they were for the trash and publicized the wood online as "next to a dumpster and going to a landfill" (my recycling bin was next to this wood, on the back end of my house.) I came home to my wood missing and I found her post online, giving it away for free with my exact home address for all to see. Someone unknowingly thinking it was hers to give away snagged them. I contacted the guy, and got it back. I then wrote her a message showing her a screenshot of the NY State Government Property Lines website of my properties boarder which she clearly crossed over to take the photo of the wood on my property. I told her to never do that again and mind her own business. Her response was "I am quite too busy to read all this, either way it was a mistake. Good luck out there in this shitty world, it sure is a bear." After that passive aggressive bullshit I went to the police. I filed for tresspassing. The cop said I could get her for possible larceny. Idk how that wouldnwork if she didnt take it herself. I'm just wondering... how far can I push this? I am now completely uncomfortable with doing future projects in my own yard and the entire town I live in now knows my exact address attached to my name because of this lady. The cops said they would go to her home and ask her side of the story... I have pictures of her post, pictures of my property line and screenshots of many people I didnt know very well, asking me if her post was in fact the wood on my property that I had posted on my own FB that I was in search for, linking my exact name to that exact address. I work as a bartender in town, where I have many strange men I dont want knowing where I live. She posted it to my towns Facebook page. Maybe if she was more kind I would have let bygons be bygons but now, I'm thinking "the world sure can be a bear"

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eivzafa

I would not worry about the trespass but pursue the larceny. Question is whether the police/DA think they can prove she made the post.

From a practical legal perspective, the police are very unlikely to pursue this beyond a conversation with her, and the DA is very, very unlikely to prosecute. A lot of bad stuff goes on in the world, does varying amounts of damage, and is motivated by varying amounts of malice. Here you have a temporary loss of property that was returned, and a neighbor who is an officious jerk who needs to be told to keep out of your property and affairs. You have now told her that, and while her note is typical annoying passive aggressive stuff, she does say she made a mistake. Save the note, if she repeats her behavior then consider legal options. But for now, this case is very far short of the threshold for prosecutorial discretion to bring criminal charges, and you would be crazy to bring a civil suit over this, as you have no substantial damages with the wood returned. EDIT: good grief. This post has as a top upvoted comment someone advising to sue for the value of property that was already returned, and people seem to believe criminal charges are an actual possibility here. I expect this is because the non lawyers here are treating this as a popcorn sub and want to get their morning dose of “rah rah punish the bad guy”.

lopnif

askbaking_train

Can you taste the coffee in chocolate cake recipes? I’m trying to make cupcakes and the recipe I wanna follow says to use coffee and I’m scared that you’ll be able to taste it.

go7abcc

go8th07

Add another vote for coffee. I too dislike coffee and actually originally used water instead of coffee for fear of the flavor. Then I got brave and used coffee per the recipe. Sure enough, no coffee taste, but the chocolate taste was greatly enhanced. Since I don’t drink coffee I just keep a jar of instant for baking.

I find that using coffee enhances and deepens the chocolate flavor while espresso powder adds too much coffee flavor. I legitimately dislike coffee so it’s important to me that my chocolate baked goods don’t taste like mocha.

9vzn6b

askculinary_train

Why do tomatoes taste better with mayo?

e9gpdal

e9gexwf

Someone mentioned the fat+acid combo, but also some of the tomato's flavour compounds are fat soluble.

The Saltiness of mayo? It’s well known that salt and tomatoes go well together so it could well be that. (Would also explain the why mayo is good with French fries comment from another user!)

pvyql2

askacademia_train

Best movies about Academia and Academic Life What are some of the best movies about Academia and Academic life in general? Movies about people who excel in academia, struggle, etc. Movies except for A Beautiful Mind, The Theory of Everything, Good Will Hunting, etc.

hefbu0t

hefwp9c

What we do in the shadows, minus the vampirism or Succession, minus the money

With Honors (1994) reflects the undergraduate experience quite well. Chain Reaction (1996) has Keanu Reeves as a research student in Morgan Freeman's lab. Rachel Weisz is a postdoc.

w9hqja

legaladvice_train

Customer left me $10,000 tip on their receipt for a ~$30 meal. Can I actually run their card for $10k? [GA] State is Georgia. I'm a server in restaurant that primarily has a big breakfast rush. Today I served an elderly couple (never seen them before) and their breakfast was around $30 total. They paid with a credit card and wrote $10,000.00 as the tip. At first I thought maybe it was $100, but they included the decimal point and the comma, saying $10,000.00. They were already gone by the time I collected the signed receipt. I don't know if I'm being pranked or what. Can I even charge this to someone's card? This tip is just under what I make in a year in tips anyway. We don't have a tip pool or anything at work, so even tho this would be taxed the full tip should go to me. I haven't asked my manager about it yet but wasn't sure if this was actually real, like if I run their card and it clears do I actually get the $10k tip (minus taxes) automatically? Also I dunno what flair is appropriate so I just chose 'Employment'

ihw1gjt

ihvwg68

As a merchant you can call visa authorization to manually get it authorized- there is a specific no for this- and if you tell them the story, they will contact the card holder and verify if it is indeed correct.

Make sure that your boss does not try to sidetrack that tip to the restaurant's account. It has happened before, and went to court. Get a photo of the receipt.

tb0elk

askengineers_train

How do you describe classified work experience when switching jobs? Curious as to what works best. I was told people with security clearances tend to keep the details very general, but I'm failing to see how very general details can catch the eye of a recruiter/manager. Sure, I could say something like "Implemented data-driven control algorithms in C++", but that seems a bit lackluster in my opinion if I want to get someone's attention.

i05sdg1

i05gx88

Shouldn't be difficult at all (I've done it and I'm sure plenty of others here have), sounds like you might be overthinking this a bit. The actual skills are (typically) not classified, but the projects/programs/customers are. ​ For example: my expertise is digital signal processing for RF systems. My resume is full of verbiage that supports that, and I can discuss it at length, all without ever telling anyone a single project I've worked on. ​ Also keep in mind that there are varying levels of security classification, program acknowledgement, etc. For some programs, it's entirely reasonable to list that you were a software engineer on program X for 10 years, and you did all their C++ implementation. Where you'd get into some hot water is discussing exactly the specifics of what was going into that C++ code. Obviously, individual experiences may vary when it comes here. It all comes down to the relevant security classification guide and similar such things. When in doubt, ask someone in the relevant position to guide you on such things.

Everyone deals with this (the things you work on for any company generally are protected information of some type). You need to think about what you are trying to communicate with your resume bullets. I'm slightly biased having gone to a full-time MBA program, but I personally find MBA resume bullet style to be very impactful because it highlights your actions, what you were working on, and the results (ACR format - action, context, results). Tuck has a good resume guide.

m4j63w

askbaking_train

Uh oh. Speed cooling a cheesecake — is it possible? Hey y’all, It’s 6:10pm. My cheesecake will be out of the oven at 6:30pm. I need this thing ready by 8:30, ha, but I’m wondering if that’s a tall order or an impossible order. What should I do? Should I pop it in the freezer for those two hours, or leave it to cool at room temp for one and then fridge for the other, or what options do I have? Is it possible for it to set and cool? Thanks, bakers

gquz8lv

gqumppb

While this comment is probably too late for your needs, I've thrown warm cheesecake in the freezer before. Even semi hot cheesecakes right into the freezer. In my book, I'd say you're fine to do so. My cheesecakes turned out fine. While I don't recommend it because you are warming the freezer by doing so, in a pinch it can be done.

Cooling it too fast will likely cause it to crack. If you must I would use the fridge not the freezer but not straight out of the oven. Let it at least cool down so you can hold it without pit holders before you chill in anyway.

ydzndy

explainlikeimfive_train

Explain like I'm five years old Why do we , and nearly all animals and birds have two nostrils ?

ituzba7

itvbk7u

One nostril can get congested and prevent you from breathing. Two can get congested but that's not as likely as one getting congested. Example: You lay down on your side. One nostril gets plugged but you can still breathe from the other one. If you had one nostriland it gets plugged this way you wouldn't be able to breathe unless there was a way your body can unplug it.

I'm a fish biologist, so I'm going to start with fish nostrils. Jawless fish (lampreys and hagfish) have only one central nostril. In lampreys, this dead-ends into a sac. In hagfish, there's a duct connecting to the mouth/throat. It's not clear to me if these nostrils are the same "sort" of thing, and either way they are quite different from nostrils in other fish. Most fish have _four_ nostrils. Actually they have two nostrils, but the nostrils are U shaped, with two openings at the top of the U. The reason they have this shape is so that water can flow _through_ the nostril...it flows in the front and out the back. This is good because it brings scents into the nostril past the cells that pick up smells. These nostrils are entirely used for smelling (more on that later) Finally we get to land animals...birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, etc. These are known as "tetrapods", and they are all very much the same sort of animal. At some point during the transition from fish to land animals, it seems that one of those two nostril openings of each fish nostril migrated down the side of the head and around the lip and into the roof of the mouth. So instead of being a U shape, our nostrils lead from snoot to the mouth. This is very useful because it lets us take in air from nostrils and bring them to the lungs while the mouth is closed. This may not seem like a big deal to you, but it's great if you are a semi-aquatic critter that likes to hang out near the surface of the water with just the tip of your nose out to breathe. So once we have the basic tetrapod "two nostril" pattern, it's going to stick around. It's useful for various reasons like redundancy and smelling (more on that in a sec), but more importantly, it's just hard to have a mutation that drastically changes nostrils...most mutations that would do that just screw up development enough that the animal wouldn't survive at all. So tetrapods, from birds to frogs to you, have two nostrils. **Smelling: the actual reason** Now that I've covered all of the above history, I want to get to the actual reason...smelling. Why have two nostrils instead of just one in the middle? Because it lets an animal know which direction a scent is coming from. If you are a fish swimming around looking for food, you can compare the amount of smell in your left and right nostril and turn toward the side with the greater scent. That's the great advantage that two nostrils provide over a single nostril. But having extra nostrils beyond that don't really provide much individual information, because you already have basic directionality. I guess you could argue for "high" and "low" nostrils but even most species of fish are searching across a surface (the bottom of the lake or ocean, or the water near the surface) rather than in pure 3d space of open midwater. And many land animals continue to make use of nostrils in the same way.

vzlpoo

askengineers_train

Any engineers here who didn’t “tinker” as a kid? (or were more artsy and less math loving?) I’m just wondering how true these stereotypes are, or if it isn’t the majority after all?

ig9ark0

ig91agx

As a kid I never really tinkered. I watched a lot of mythbusters. When I tried to pursue any kind of art my parents told me not to because that was my brothers thing; I was good in school and he wasn't. So I was told to be good in school and so I was. I was told to take the hardest classes and so I did. Today I finished my masters in robotics this year and work designing prosthetic feet. My brother is an artist, a musician, and a cook. About a year ago the two of us were having a deep conversation late at night and we found out that both of us are jealous of the others abilities. Me of his creativity and the fact that people get to interact with what he creates and so he gets a lot more attention from our family. Him of the fact that he deems being an engineer as more important than being a creative; which I don't think is true. I don't really know why I told that story, but oh well. Yeah I didn't really tinker much as a kid.

I've never liked hands on stuff. Or any sort of mechanical stuff. But I love math , i love running simulations and making 3D models. I went for Electrical precisely because it is said to be the most math intensive of all engineering . And the hands on part wasn't too difficult in college .

txwxi2

askacademia_train

How to tell a professor I don't want/need them on my committee? I'm working on forming my research topic for my MS studies before I write the proposal. Time is of the essence, and I know I'll be able to do it, but the problem is that there's a professor who agreed to be on my committee who I don't think I'll need the help of. She agreed to help with the last part of my analysis, but I've decided to drop that part for something else that will help me tell a more consistent story with my research. I haven't signed any forms yet, but I'm just a bit antsy about telling her about my change of plans. What sort of approach should I take? I can provide more details if necessary.

i3pgqnv

i3qimtf

I am on the other end. A student dropped a data collection part which was not possible due to COVID. I actually nominated myself to be dropped but for some reason everyone kind of low-key freaked out. And now I am on it as a reader, which I found myself mildly underutilized, but am trying to get the best out of it.

Dear XX, Thank you for agreeing to be a part of my committee for the analysis work. However, after a restructuring of my proposal, I realised that I would not be able to include that analysis in my project. Thus, I would not require your help with that particular part. Hopefully, we could have a fruitful future collaboration! Again, thank you for agreeingto help in the first place. Best regards, danifreedude

yibvm6

legaladvice_train

[NYC] buying a house with renters who has not paid rent since the pandemic in illegal basement Hi all, so I found a house I really like in a great location (5 min drive from my job, close to restaurants, supermarkets and the mall) at an attractive price that fits my budget. However, the seller has informed us that the renter living in the basement refused to move out and has not paid rent since the pandemic. They’re currently in the process of taking him to courts. Buying this house means it will be my problem to deal with this renter. I was wondering if I buy this house, will the court case be automatically transferred to me? If it comes to the point where I have to take him to court, will I have a case since I was not the person who placed him in the illegal basement and I have no intention to rent out the basement in the future? What are my options? Thank you all for your help in advance!

iuiu1n5

iujc1jw

I landlord & this is what I would do. I would consult a lawyer to draw a contract of cash for keys to the illegal tenet, the contract would indemnify you from any penalties, rent owed back from the landlord due to the apartment being illegal, & any other NYC rental laws. After you close on the property you would make a one time payment of $$ to the tenet in the illegal basement apartment once they have moved out. I would also make this cash payment come out of the previous owners settlement, something like at the closing the seller will pay the buyer a one time cash payout of x $$$$. The sale of the property would be contingent upon the above.

Make the sale contingent on the house being vacant and final condition inspection by you. BUT in reality- Do Not Buy this house- a squatter has nothing to lose and you are in for a world of legal bills with no end in sight.

heqdn7

askbaking_train

Can I be Baker even tho I'm not that good at baking? I'm a senior next year and I'm planning to go to culinary school but it seems that I'm not that good at cooking especially baking. I'm trying to learn this quarantine tho. I love cooking but it seems that it doesn't love me back

fvt90sh

fvtjujw

practice and confidence. i think that's all you need. get your grit on and hopefully everything will pay off! my aunt who is a single parent, travelled abroad to study in a culinary school and she's already in her 30s. she left her son to us, a 6 yr old, to pursue her dream. mind you, she wasn't a cook in our family, my mom's actually a far better cook. but she trudged on and she's currently studying there! she's working hard and will soon bring my cousin there with her as well. anyway, it's just an example of many things that happen throughout anyone's life. and if you think you're hitting some rock-bottom, don't forget that from there, there's no way but up! if you love it, and you're determined to it, i believe you can pull it off.

Don’t just go to tasty. Go to sites that will explain why the recipe works as well as have great recipes. My go to for free recipes are serious eats and King Arthur I also have learned a ton from cooks illustrated but it’s a paid site. You can probably find their magazine or cook books at your library. As well as so many other amazing cookbooks.

sgz77q

legaladvice_train

My kids' dad is in jail & soon to be prison for a *long* time. His parents are threatening to get grandparents rights. I'm in Texas, they're in another state. My ex has several charges, all sexual assault related, with the worst being aggravated sexual assault of a child. Our 10 year old being his victim. Originally I had no issue with his family being in the kids' lives, but they have done some very suspicious things. For example, their son asked his parents to take his laptop so they could "pay his bills." They did take the laptop back to their home state after a visit to Texas despite being made aware the police were going to be seizing his computers. When I questioned them on taking it, they gaslit me claiming I didn't know what I was talking about, but eventually confessed to taking it. Due to this, I decided it was in my kids' best interest to cut off contact with them. I explained my reasoning to them yesterday. I received a text back stating "if necessary, they would get Texas grandparents rights." They have seen these kids once a year. In fact, they had to ask me how old they are last month when I spoke to them. Do they have any chance of getting rights to them?

huzej1b

huzekr2

No. I would highly suggest you get sole and legal custody of your children even if your ex is in prison. I would completely cut his family off at this point. Feel for you guys.

TX does list the parent being incarcerated as one of the circumstances that can trigger court-ordered visitation. It's no sure thing, but it won't be thrown out on it's face.

bdjt2d

askphilosophy_train

/r/askphilosophy Open Discussion Thread | April 15, 2019 Welcome to this week's Open Discussion Thread. This thread is a place for posts/comments which are related to philosophy but wouldn't necessarily meet our posting rules. For example, these threads are great places for: * Personal opinion questions, e.g. "who is your favourite philosopher?" * "Test My Theory" discussions and argument/paper editing * Discussion not necessarily related to any particular question, e.g. about what you're currently reading * Questions about the profession This thread is **not** a completely open discussion! Any posts not relating to philosophy will be removed. Please keep comments related to philosophy, and expect low-effort comments to be removed. All of our normal commenting rules are still in place for these threads. Previous Open Discussion Threads can be found here or at the Wiki archive here.

ekz5ltp

el08l5j

How do people that are not in academia test their understanding and theories? I am a doing a PhD in an engineering related field, but philosophy has increasingly become one of my biggest passions. At some point I tried to see if I could do an undergrad in philosophy, but things didn't really work out because of money issues and some other obligations, but I really want to pursue this in a more "formal" manner (not necessarily academic, but perhaps with more guidance and feedback). Do you have any advice or recommendations?

Looks like I'm going into Applied Mathematics (Waterloo), no philosophy acceptances (I say 'looks like' but I already accepted). Kind of looking forward to it, but it still feels like a loss.

lopnif

askbaking_train

Can you taste the coffee in chocolate cake recipes? I’m trying to make cupcakes and the recipe I wanna follow says to use coffee and I’m scared that you’ll be able to taste it.

go83mjq

go76dg5

As long as you don't add too much the coffee taste just tastes more like a rich chocolate flavour.

As a person who doesn't like coffee or chocolate, but recently baked a cupcake recipe that included both, I can confirm you can't taste the coffee. Some recipes include it to enhance the chocolate flavor.

zwi3w0

askculinary_train

What can I do with heavy whipping cream that froze? We keep heavy whipping cream in the house for coffee and the occasional cream sauce. Due to a fridge malfunction, I had 3 quarts of it freeze solid and now that it's defrosted, the texture is not right. It's thick and not so much for coffee or cream sauce anymore. It doesn't taste bad, seems a waste to throw it out. What can I do with it?

j1vo5rn

j1vj8g4

Finish making it into butter, then make a few kinds of compound butter and freeze those. It's great to be able to have compound butter on hand for cooking.

Rice pudding or nice quiche. So many baking ideas.

ph9iy6

askbaking_train

Which is better- freezing cookie dough or freezing baked cookies? I made a batch of chocolate chip walnut cookie dough and it's currently sitting in my fridge. I know my family of two adults and one toddler won't eat all of them so I would like to freeze some. But which is better? Freeze the dough in dough balls or bake cookies, cool, then freeze?

hbhfasl

hbjevwq

I always have frozen dough in my freezer and make 1 fresh cookie a day. I wrap the dough in long sausage type shapes in parchment paper and seal in a freezer zip lock so it's easy to break off what I need that night.

We freeze the dough because the cookies taste fresher when they are baked to order rather than drying out in the freezer after being baked.

rsjiok

askengineers_train

Do you guys think that mechanical engineering will have a big job market in the future so basically i love cars and designing things and i hope to work with cars in the future especially engines, but im worried that when cars become fully electric i wouldn't have many jobs to do maybe im just like focusing on the car aspect of it but im not really sure if there will be much use for what i want to study.

hqnwaoy

hqnfsbw

It might become non important when we all finally transcend to glowing balls of pure energy, but before that happens, MEs are damn useful in literally every industry on the planet. If your want to do something specific, you'll have to for with the world. If automotive powertrain is your calling, then you might want to start loving EV. I'll give you a bit of advice. Think less about the "I want to work for" and "I want to do only X." You're thinking from the wrong end. This about what actual tasks you want to do, the day to day activities. This is what you're going to do for the next 30+ years. It's those tasks, the type and scope of work that creates your experience. Working for company X doesn't mean much unless you know exactly how the company works and where you'll fit in it. More than likely, the world you will find will be nothing like you expectation. The same goes for the career focus. You will have some control over things like materials, technology, software, etc. that you might work with, but that still doesn't define the specific work you will actually do within that realm. It's best to think long about what you like doing, task wise, and then position yourself into a company and role that is actually capable of providing that work content to you. I know. No one talks this way. No one thinks about what actual thing they're going to do at work. People like to think big players and big picture, not the micro stuff. But you live in the micro stuff. You can say "I'm going too work for GM. Great! You'll be one of 20,000 engineers there and 1 of 4000 working on the powertrain. So...what little piece will you own? What specialization will you focus on? What piece of the whole will be your world for 30 years? What projects will you get? What part of the product scope will you do? Will it be 30 years behind a desk simulating and optimizing valvetrain? Do you think you'll ever have the chance to turn a wrench? To actually personally test your design? Will the scope transcend past design and theory? How about machining or costing analytics? Or is that too outside of your scope and handed off to someone else? What do you actually get to do? What activities do you want to do? What areas do you want to learn and grow? Do you like focused work and narrow work scope? Or do you like varied work and a broad scope? Prefer highly organized structure or something more loose and chaotic? There's also culture and hierarchy. Do you want a lot of peers or a few peers? Do you like to be solo on projects or prefer collaboration? How about management oversight, management layers, and where you fit into that scope? Who will you work with? How are you viewed by the company? A cog in the machine or a valued employee? What's the work:life balance? How do they handle vacation? Can you just take a day off whenever or is it a big ordeal? All this stuff matters, and it's experienced entirely on the micro level. On the macro level, it's what you mean to the company, to society, to human progress. This macro can have its own worth. For example, maybe the worth of working for SpaceX helping get humanity to Mars and keeping them alive and thriving. You might not care about the micro for the meaning and worth of the macro. But you'll still live that micro always. And if you truly want to be happy, you'll want to have the right mix of micro to actually enjoy those 30 years. As for me, I work for a company most have never heard of, doing work I never thought I'd be doing, and I just go to work and play all day. I haven't actually worked in a decade. I just have fun, and for some reason they keep paying me. The actual activities, daily tasks are everything i ever wanted. My work:life balance is great. I'm not a cog and am highly respected. Long term it even suits longer life goals, including a relatively moderate possibility of becoming CEO in about a decade. Most of what I've done is evaluate from the bottom up and place myself where I can do what I want, have the mix I want, and have a long term path that I want. For what you want, you'll need an employer that can provide that fitment for you and your goals in life. It may take you a while to figure that out for yourself. You might have to work for a few different companies just to realize what's available and get the right fit.

The entry level market and getting an internship sucks to the point that getting a degree in some areas might not be worth it. Make sure you got a connection to get in

t6wlvq

askhr_train

[IA] How do I make it clear I’m not okay with working more than 40 hours a weeks in an interview professionally? I’ve already held a few professional positions in my relatively short career and with my education do a good job securing interviews and communicating clearly. The only worry I have is the expectations for work. I do not believe in work weeks that go past 40 hours. I very much put emphasis on the life part of the work life balance. My wife and I are very active and take small trips a lot and I’m a member of my nation’s skydiving admin. That part of my life is non negotiable, work comes secondary as a means to provide for that. To be fair if people are honest 99% of people work to provide for their outside life but still you get the point. Now in an interview I don’t put it that bluntly. I typically ask about work load and hourly expectations, then state that while I’m okay with an occasional hour or two over the normal work week and of course the rare audit crunch time etc, if the norm is set at 50 or even 45 I’m not the guy for the job. So far many places seem fine with this, others act like I slapped their mother (not stereotyping but usually of an older generation) however that’s a bullet dodged for me. My issue is that I have the skill set for many good paying jobs but so many expect ridiculous hours, I want to avoid those, I would honestly prefer hourly to account for time dedicated to the job in a more genuine way. However at my tier of position it mostly salary. I’m not lazy, I will work my tail off for my employer and work well with any kind of team, however at the end of the day I leave work at the door and don’t think of it once when I’m home. Any tips for communicating this in a meaningful and professional way?

hzewtl2

hze9lii

You should apply for hourly non-exempt positions. That’s not realistic for most exempt roles.

Definitely ask about work life balance and culture! That will help you gauge the hours.

n0tgdu

askculinary_train

I just got eggs from a farmers market next to my shopping center, should I refrigerate? The dude there told me that they chickens are fed fruit and nothing is injected. And he had them hanging outside in california sun, even tho he dod have them that way, should I refrigerate them? Or is it fine leaving them out? The yolks are more orange and have a softer flavor

gw97uqb

gw92p0x

> should I refrigerate them? Yes. Refrigerating won't hurt anything if they were washed, but not refrigerating them might be a problem. Next time you can ask the farmer if they're washed, but refrigerating is a zero-risk option.

I live in a place where eggs aren’t refrigerated and I always put them in the fridge as soon as I bring them home. Mostly they’re fine, but this is the only place where I’ve cracked an egg and it’s been totally black inside. Revolting.

rwdr7b

askculinary_train

Bought some pickled herring - can I eat em straight out of the jar? My girlfriend says they have spines that need to be removed first. The little delicious chopped up fellas. I live in Canada. Thoughts? Thanks! ​ Also, as a bonus - any tips on fun ways to eat these bad boys?

hrbyf1b

hrbra12

the big bones should be removed, usually pickeled herring are 1/2d and the spine is out (just from experience in Germany).

You can eat the bones.

89cn2j

legaladvice_train

Mom's neighbor is intentionally being a nuisance to keep her house from selling (so he can buy it cheaper) IA My listed her home for sale two months ago. At that time one of her neighbors offered to buy it for $20k (her asking is 75). He says he plans to tear down the house itself to give him a large yard. When she said no for a month he upped his offer to 25 and then 30k. She is not interested in selling it so low (it was appraised for 82). They got into an argument with him declaring that she's an idiot if she thinks her house will ever sell, she's lucky he's offering her as much as he is, etc. However now he is being an intentional nuisance to keep it from selling. The problem is, as far as I can see most of what he is doing is legal, like intentionally being extremely loud when he sees the realtor show up to show the house (but not breaking noise ordinance for that time of day, so legal). But now he is being intentionally creepy and lying. He has been making a point to go over and introduce himself as soon as he sees the realtor showing the house, and the realtor reports he is blatantly hitting on women and men in disgusting ways, offering them the number for his security company because they'll definitely want something set up since there have been 4 break-ins on this block in the last month (police outright said that's not true to their knowledge). He asked one lady if he could borrow money and very obviously hinted it was for drugs. Mom has spoken with the police who say he's a crappy guy but not technically doing anything illegal and they don't believe she's a candidate for a restraining order. I'm wondering if anyone here has any thoughts - if there's an option other than a restraining order or ANYTHING we can do. Thank you.

dwqheo9

dwqepxl

isnt the realtor suppose to deal with it extremely easily? Hell jus saying - "*and here comes the neighbor who offered $20k for the house and is bit disappointing about being turned so he is trying to be nuisance*" right in front of him as he arrives and not letting him speak and get inside the house... I mean these guys are payed by commission no? So shouldnt they be pretty motivated to reduce his interference preventing them from getting the pay day?

Is she willing to rent it out for a while instead? Some short term pain but it would get your neighbor off her back and make a little bit of short term income too.

tyd3e2

askbaking_train

Can i use full cocoa powder to bake cookies as a flour substitute? Hi! I am just started learning how to bake and really want to make flourless dark chocolate cookie. I’m wondering if its okay for me to completely swap the flour with cocoa powder or am I asking the stupid question? Thanks a lot everyone!!!

i3ril7d

i3s9i6l

No, cocoa powder doesn’t have the same structure as AP flour. You cannot substitute the cocoa powder for AP flour BUT you can make flourless cookies with just cocoa powder if you are following a recipe specifically for them (I.e chocolate brownie cookies made with egg whites)

If you just swap it out, besides the texture problems, your cookie will be rendered inedible by bitterness

hxwi0h

changemyview_train

CMV: people under the the age of 18 should not be allowed to use social media I’ve seen a recent trend of people doxxing young people on social media. Evidence: https://www.quora.com/What-celebrity-do-you-despise-the-most/answer/Ethan-James-22?ch=10&share=bc9128d4&srid=iuh1 On one hand I think that racism is unacceptable but on the other hand most of these people getting targeted seem to be young teens and tweens. I think it’s crazy that young people are living with the potential to have their addresses exposed to the world. That kind of pressure along with the general bullying on social media is just not good for children That’s why I think that young children should not be allowed to use social media because they are likely to make mistakes due to the fact that they haven’t matured and also be exposed to behaviour that can adversely affect their mental health.

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fz9jck2

As someone under 18, I disagree. Not because I love social media (which I don't), and I think it is the best (which I don't), and I love to be on it all the time (which I don't), but because of how it has changed me to become a more self-aware human being. Without social media, I would not have the constant reminders of the fact that people disagree with me. In real life, it can be a little bit easier to avoid confrontation. As soon as you post something on social media, someone is going to disagree with you. It is basically certain. I have been reality checked many times. Also, the other side of the situation is that I have found sympathizers with the way I feel, and honestly, that has helped with my mental health enormously. I have somewhat not-average views about life, philosophy, and politics, and there aren't many people I interact with in real life (other than my friends) who share those beliefs. If you feel alone in your beliefs, then you feel alone in the world. Now, about Skai Jackson, I think she is one of the worst people in the world and to be quite honest with you I equate her stupidity and close-mindedness to that of Josef Stalin. Also, the fact that those kids were doxxed was not their fault, but the fault of Twitter and Skai Jackson's enablers. (Also Skai Jackson's dad's inability to sense when to pull out and save us from her bullshittery).

Social media doesn't inheritly modifies behavior; if anything, the same exposure that creates unwelcoming situations can also be used as learning experiences towards what is and what is not acceptable. Back in the 80s bullying was likely worse than it is and social media wasn't around. On a parallel aspect, turning 18 does not magically make you mature. For many aspects it is simply easier to set a basic rule for everyone instead of running maturity tests everywhere, but blocking social media would change nothing; the medium is not the problem, the people creating the message are.

mumcwl

askacademia_train

New career/degree after PhD? Has anyone here completely changed fields after finishing a PhD? I have less than 1 year left of my molecular biology PhD and i am starting to realize that my future in academia is limited, i enjoy my day to day life, but i dont think i have the passion to continue doing this forever. I simply value my free time too much, and research has not been everything i wanted it to be. The industry jobs within my field just dont appeal to me at all anymore. Therefore, i am now thinking about studying engineering after i am done with my PhD in order to relocate to a different job market. Does anyone else here have experience with changing careers after their PhD? How did it work out?

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gv6vlk9

I did a PhD in a humanities subject. I became disillusioned with the life style, especially how isolated it could be. So needing money I took any old job, which was as a support worker in a care home for autistic men and I loved it. I was making a tangible difference to another's life, mainly by baking cakes and going around a park on a scooter. And this led me to where I currently am, working as a mental health nurse. The PhD was an incredible useful experience, both in terms of personal growth and in providing me with a transferable theoretical underpinning. Also having the title of Dr does allow me to push around medical doctors, psychiatrists, social workers, etc.

I got my PhD in a blend of chemistry topics, went to industry then took a job doing lab automation, which basically means my job is now to talk to lab people and explain what they need to programmers and sometimes work on the products themselves if it’s not too far over my head. You don’t necessarily need more school.

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askculinary_train

Cooking risotto for 16 people on NYE need some advice. So im cooking a lobster risotto for the main course on NYE. Ive cooked lots of risotto before but never cooked it for 16, so im curious if theres anything i need to change when cooking it for this many? Also would it work to do it in a pot instead of a pan, or would that ruin the risotto? Thanks in advance

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ebz7g93

You might be best to do it in batches. Good for you; I've never cooked for a number that high.

As someone who routinely cooks for 50 at her house, I would say do it in two or three batches. I feel risotto can be a bit finicky and wouldn't want to change too much from my standard recipe without experimenting first.

lwdswl

askacademia_train

Universities from developing countries are renown abroad? Hey, People in my (developing) country highly praise the University of Buenos Aires, stating it is really important internationally, that we've won some Nobel prizes, as well as most of Argentinian presidents being former students from this institution. Also, it is said that when you are moving abroad it actually makes the difference to hold this name on your CV. I wanted to know if you have heard about the Universidad de Buenos Aires before, or any other in such countries (UNAM in Mexico, USP in Brazil, etc.) Thanks.

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gphrvh7

From Canada, unfortunately I haven’t heard of UdBA before, but I have heard of UNAM once or twice.

There’s a prof in my department (USA) who did undergrad and PhD there.

jqzecg

askengineers_train

What made you realize engineering wasn't for you? I have been working for almost 1.5 years and have been absolutely miserable in my current role. The thought of me sitting at a desk for 40 years straight, staring mindlessly into a computer screen causes me major depression. I see what other engineers at my company do and it all looks horrible. I always loved working with my hands and building things but engineering is just not that mostly just pencil pushing and emails.

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gbr9nzz

I go to work in carharts and steel toes. Find yourself a different job.

OMG, I'm you but 20 years older. The main character of the movie "Office Space" was really relatable to me. ​ 1. I graduated with a BS/CS from a good school, got a good job right away. The first few years I was just happy because I had never made decent money and being single, no kids, it was a fun time. 2. The daily slog started to get to me after 2-4 years. The daily commute, same lunches, same bosses, same projects. It was like groundhogs day. I started to get the, "Is this it" feeling and the depression/anxiety that comes with OMG I hate the job I spent 5 years and 100k to obtain. 3. Years 4-8 I did a lot of job-hopping trying to find something I liked. I was a sales engineer and did a lot of travel, I did some different development in different languages with different hardware, different industries. Some were better than others but I still hated going to work almost every day. 4. Around 28 I started thinking about going to law school because I thought I wanted more involvement with people. I planned to become a patent attorney so I could use my law degree with my undergraduate. (You need a hard science or engineering degree to do patent law). 5. Spent 5 years taking the LSAT, getting into and attending law school, etc. I found out that patent law really isn't much different from being an engineer it's just higher stress. You're still basically just sitting in front of a PC all day, you just get paid a lot more. 6. Instead of practicing law right away, I started my own company because I thought maybe that would make me happy.... it definitely did for awhile. Doing engineering work on my own business was a lot more fulfilling than working on projects I didn't care about. Eventually, my business plateaued in growth and it became a daily slog again coding in front of a PC for days on end. I sold the company and decided to start practicing law. 7. Took 6 months off to prepare for the bar exam (I had been out of law school 5 years at this point). Passed the bar and opened my own law firm. This was actually really fun and challenging but at the same time insanely stressful. A whole new level of stress that doesn't even compare to anything in the engineering world. The level of stress basically ruins the job for me, however, I have been practicing law for almost the same time I was an engineer at this point. 8. When I was in my 30's I bought a vacation rental home and this sort of changed the entire trajectory of my "career." I ended up getting really into construction work and learning the different construction trades. Coming from an engineering background a lot of this stuff is really easy. I don't mean that to discredit any plumbers or electricians, but once you've engineered large multi-million dollar systems, home construction really isn't that complex. 9. My exposure to construction work was really the first job that I didn't hate. Now it's still "work" but I'm outside, I'm doing different stuff, I'm doing stuff with my hands but I'm also doing a lot of CAD, financial, marketing type work that requires some intellectual thought. 10. A few years later I built my own house and did the vast majority of it myself. I had help with the framing, sheetrock, and things that obviously require more than 1 person. However, I did all the heating, plumbing, most of the electrical, all flooring, all finish, etc. 11. Right now I'm looking at a large piece of land and I plan to divide and build multiple houses. I would never have been able to do this if I hadn't gone through every aspect of my education and work experience. So why did I write all this? To show you how much things change in short amounts of time! You're really at the very beginning of your career. Every job you have is a stepping stone and it's "ok" if you ultimately have no idea where you are going. Your jobs and experience over time will open doors for you that you probably can't even see right now. Working sucks for 95% of us, some of us hate it more than others. The key is that you identified that you are not happy and you're taking steps to change it. The 20-year-old me would never imagine in my wildest dreams that I would be doing construction by choice at age 40. You need to identify the things about working that you enjoy and those that you don't. Try to figure out what you can do that will provide you with the quality of life that you want. It really is an "engineering" problem.

gknti4

askbaking_train

Should I add back the moisture that is lost after I brown my butter? Basically the title. I've been brown butter-ifying a few recipes, and I was wondering if it was common practice to add back a bit of moisture in the form of water and milk to the batter/dough, since some of it evaporates off while browning the butter. Is this a valid concern? Because I am very obsessive over things like numbers and time and measurements so I can get carried away sometimes.

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fqs9hje

Put an ice cube in the browned butter! You're both adding back the evaporated water and accelerating the cooling process.

Do you have an example of a recipe you’ve done this to? I would recommend comparing your modified version to a few other recipes that specifically use brown butter to see what the wet:dry ingredient ratio is in that case. It will also help you see if other moisture has been added, what they used. You could even do some testing to figure out what you like best.

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asksciencefiction_train

[DC Comics] Why are criminals afraid of Batman even though he does not kill anyone?

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i6an899

How do you know? Plenty of unsolved murders happen all the time in Gotham. Besides he's already pretty brutal...

I'll quote an old "Looney Tunes" skit with Daffy Duck: "You'd be surprised what you can live through."

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asksciencefiction_train

[Star Wars] Why do the rebels fly towards the AT-AT's in the Battle of Hoth? Why not flank them? Most of them were shot down by flying right towards the barrage of laser fire in the assault.

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d2wlebt

No battle in Star Wars uses any reasonable tactics. From the gungans and droids marching in formation in the open at one another, to attempting to defend Luke by flying behind him and getting shot. The people writing it knew nothing of combat and simply made up something they could film.

Note: Important to realize the Air Speeders have to either stay within range of the Rebel Planetary Shield as well as within range of the AT-AT's to engage. I'd imagine it doesn't leave a whole lot of room for aerial maneuvers, and something as simple as changing engagement direction while having to deal with atmospheric conditions might have had a play in why and how they had to choose their positions. All of the strategies of the Ground, Air and Space forces of the Rebel Alliance were focused on one thing, "Get as many transports with vital material, personnel and equipment off planet and through the blockade as quickly as possible." Vital personnel are intelligence, specialists in guerilla warfare, and their logistical complement to keep a small force running while on the run. Tactically on the ground, the Imperials troops were focused on taking out the Planetary Shield Generators for the primary purpose of allowing their Space Forces to either bombard the location of all Rebel space forces currently locked on the ground, or to eliminate any and all surface opposition from Echo base. Key points and somewhat key order of the engagement on the field: 1. Imperial troops landed on the planet out of range of the base's Anti-Space/Air batteries (and outside of the perimeter of the Planetary Shield. 2. Rebel ground forces were there to hold off the troop contingents which were landed and approaching Echo base from the Imperial groundhold. 3. AT-AT (Heavy Armor) and AT-ST (Light Armor) walkers were spotted and identified by Rebel forces. 4. Ground forces set their first (Near the shield perimeter), secondary (in front of the shield generators) and evacuation lines (near the base itself, possible escape tunnels to hidden hangers, or location of all the remaining space craft) in preparation for the Imperial Ground Assault. 5. Once the location of the Heavy Armor forces were identified, Air Speeders were sent to harass and tie up their progress for as long as possible, assist ground forces from total annihilation by medium blaster batteries on the AT-AT's, and draw the armor's attention away from the Transports and Escorts leaving the planet. 6. AT-AT's and Snow Speeder forces engage. The Snow Speeders are somewhat hindered at "Flanking Maneuvers due to the formation of the AT-AT walkers (What is known as a Delta formation, looks like an Arrowhead, one Walker on point, the other two behind and to the sides of the lead). The initial formation allows the two side walkers to shoot along the sides of the lead (usually a prime target). Once the speeders engaged, the formation changed to a "Line" formation (protection for the lead walker from the flanks by the bodies of the other two walkers so it may complete its primary objective of destroying the Shield Generator while damage is focused on the two flank walkers), and then re-engages to a delta formation as they near the Shield Generators to provide more effective side fire engagement. 7. Rogue squadron identifies the center walker as the "Lead" walker, and focuses on it once the tow cable maneuver proves effective on one of the flank-side walkers. By this point the Walkers are nearing Shield Generator engagement range resulting in the Air Speeders having to focus more on drawing as much fire as possible to minimize casualties for the retreating Rebel line. A high possibly would be the presence of additional walkers in the rear providing "up-column fire" between the formation of the three walkers in front of them (or other ground forces with anti-air capability which deterred Rebel engagement from the rear at this point). Once a Walker is taken down, one of the rear AT-AT's moves up to fill the hole in the flank (reinitializing a Line formation until movement forward is initiated again to a Delta Formation). 8. By the time exactly TWO AT-AT's have been disabled or destroyed, virtually all of the Air Speeders have been either destroyed or shot down. All ground forces now focus on evacuation back to base or toward their pre-determined evacuation assignments in preparation for the impending Shield Generator Destruction. 9. The jobs of the Air Speeders have been done. Most of the Rebel forces have managed to flee and break engagement distance of the AT-AT walkers, and so all remaining forces either focus on holding siege within the remains of Echo base, or to their evacuation ships. Everyone knew they'd never be able to defeat the Imperial ground forces in conventional warfare, but heavy armor could decimate the Rebel lines. For every second spent on the Air Speeders, numerous ground troops were spared the instant death of the Medium blaster and heavy laser batteries from the fearsome AT-AT's. It was a suicide mission for most of the troops, and they knew it, but the pilots tried to draw attention to themselves as much as possible in as short of a time as possible knowing the ground forces would focus on them instead of the shield generators. ("Easy targets", and they're coming straight at you...who wouldn't?) Edit: it is also important to note, the snow speeders had deflector shields which could withstand quite a few direct hits if shields had power all forward, and up to this point in history, the pilots have a high success rate against unshielded TIE fighters in head to head engagement.