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askculinary_train

Is it possible to make a cheese cake as tall as a 4 layer cake? I have been decorating cakes this summer, and I found a design I LOVE for my friend's birthday (late November). It's a cat. This is the design inspiration. But my friend hates birthday cake, and wants cheesecake instead. Is there a way to make a cheese cake as tall as the four layer cake in the photo, so I can decorate it exactly like the image? Or do I *need* to improvise and just decorate the top of it something like this. (Let's be nice about my graphic design skills, of which I have absolutely zero and I know it already. Not my field. Cake decorating is the thing here.) I have searched for "tall" cheesecake methods or recipes and come up with nothing near this height. Stacking layers of birthday cake is difficult in itself; I am trying to imagine a way to stack layers of cheese cake. Is it just gonna collapse? Depending on the advice here, my first thoughts will be to do a test run and stack the layers like any other cake. Thanks in advance!

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dp738x8

There's a lot of white space in that design. You could just make a flatter cat.

A quick google search turns up this article on stacking cheesecakes. Ultimately I'm not sure you can exactly come up with the design in question though--this stacking method (and what most have suggested here) are used for tiered cakes. It wouldn't work very well for a layered cake like you've shown.

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askacademia_train

Does getting a Master's degree online make you seem less legitimate? I'm considering graduate school, but I want to still live in my home state. Will getting an online degree impact how I'm viewed by future employers?

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e4e4a3k

As long as it is a reputable school then it makes no difference. Make sure it is not for-profit and check out rankings. There are specific ones for online programs. One person mentioned a difference in cost, which is usually not the case, unfortunately, unless you are taking into account accommodations, relocating etc. Typically tuition and most fees will be the same as you are getting the same education as on campus students, but you can do it from home. They are not any easier than if done face to face.

It depends quite a lot on the program, IMO. For example, the Johns Hopkins distance-learning Public Health grad programs are very well-respected.

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askculinary_train

Weekly Discussion - Soups and Stews As the weather turns colder for many of us, hearty soups and stews are just the thing we're looking for. But they can be trickier than they seem if you want the best results. What are your favorite soups and stews? Are they traditional or your own innovations? Do you cook on stovetop, in the oven, slow cooker or pressure cooker? Can you convert a recipe between methods? How do you keep from overcooking the vegetables while waiting for the meat to finish? What finishing touches (garnishes, dumplings, etc.) do you use to freshen it up for serving?

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g8r7nax

I made some tortilla soup the other day that was amazing! Honestly soups are pretty much my favorite things to make.

Add some vinegar at the end and taste before you do your final seasoning.

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asksciencefiction_train

[Lord of the rings] is Gandalf the White now supposed to wear only white robes for the rest of his life, What if he wants to wear a black robe and dye his hair brown?

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gf60fbm

Like many other jobs, this one comes with a dress code and expectations for looks...

Then he becomes Gandalf of Many Colours. Kidding aside, the attire denotes his rank, this is like asking what if an army officer decided he didn't like green and decided to dye his uniform neon pink. When you are on duty you wear your uniform, and Gandalf's duty was to guide the people of Middle Earth and work with them to defeat Sauron, so whenever you see him with other characters, he would be on duty. When he came back as the White, people thought he was Saruman, suggesting how important that clothing is. And if we think deeper about it, how do we know his clothes are actually clothing, but not actually part of the form he manifested when he incarnated into Middle Earth?

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askengineers_train

Engineers of reddit, what is it that made you pursue engineering? Basically what the title says!

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g90ghi4

Elon musk

I read Snow Crash and Diamond Age while studying for a completely different field and realized I wanted to make cool future things that helped more people.

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askacademia_train

Is it unusual for a male professor to comment on a female undergrad's clothes and appearance? I’m an undergrad taking this professor’s evening course to fulfill a graduation requirement. A main component for the class is an individual research project, which requires one-on-one meetings with the instructor. So far, we’ve had three of these and each time he has complimented some aspect of my appearance- clothing, hairstyle, etc. On Friday, the color of my toenail polish was the subject of choice. I attend a really small university and professors and students are often quite friendly/informal, but I’ve never really had anything like this come up before. It just strikes me as a little…weird. I can’t imagine this person would be careless enough to flirt with a student, not to mention the fact that he’s old enough to be my father and married with children. At the same time, that sort of attention doesn’t feel very professional or even “fatherly”. The only explanation I can come up with is that he’s in a creative field and, perhaps, is just the sort of person who notices aesthetic things. What would you make of these types of comments? Should I be concerned that he’s possibly being inappropriate or would you guess that it’s no big deal? Obviously he hasn’t said or done anything truly out of line yet, but I’d just like to know if this kind of thing seems odd to anyone else.

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czzli73

While not the same as the case here, science professors often and routinely comment on student attire, hair etc. There are pretty clear rules about hairstyles, clothing, and shoes that are appropriate for lab work. I often have to reprimand students about things like long fake fingernails and the incompatibility with gloves...

After reading all these comments I am feeling sad that so many men ( maybe people in general) can't be nice and give a compliment without fear of being found creepy. As a female professor I give compliments all the time and am never afraid of being found creepy. I find it distressing that my male counterparts have to be more guarded.

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askculinary_train

Culinary Podcasts We frequently talk about cooking videos on YouTube, but there are also a lot of interesting audio podcasts about food out there. Instead of focusing on recipes, they cover topics in the science, business, history, and social aspects of food and cooking. Which are your favorites? What makes them different and particularly worth listening to? What have you learned from them that you think we ought to know too?

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g0ihmym

There was a period in my life that I would religiously listen to NPR for the splendid table, then click and clack, then wait wait don't tell me So yeah there is something so soothing to the voice of the woman in splendid table

Some of the big podcasts already mentioned, but worth reiterating: * Sporkful \-How food relates to people, current social issues, history * David Chang Show \-Seems more industry focused, latest podcast on executive coach interview was great. Different themes depending on the show: recipes, bad movies, interviews with industry professionals, social topics/current events. This is my personal favorite * Gastropod \--Deep dive into food industry/specific foods * Pastry Arts Podcast \--Interview with pastry professionals. Each interview the host also asks tips for the pastry chef being interviewed to give to listeners

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askbaking_train

What to do with leftover baked goods when you live alone? I live alone and baking is one of my favorite ways to relieve stress. As a particularly heavy academic season is setting in I am baking two or three times a week. The problem is my college is remote right now so I don’t have any friends to share my baked goods with and I live alone. There isn’t anywhere to donate baked goods to near here (they only accept packaged foods for safety reasons.) I can’t eat two dozen cupcakes every week but I also feel very badly throwing away perfectly good food. Anyone have workarounds for this? Thank you in advance!

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hs7jrxm

Get to know your neighbours.

There are tons of ideas in this thread. I want to layer on a piece of advice: with your baked goods, you have the power to become a *favorite* person. If you drop goodies off at the post office, fire department, mechanic, etc, your appearance will spark joy and excitement. They will absolutely appreciate it and enjoy the baked goods. I, too, feel awkward doing it. I always convince myself it’s unwanted or I’m being weird or no one would enjoy it. But when I muster the courage to share, it’s always always met with happiness.

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asksciencefiction_train

[Kim Possible] So, Kim is somewhere in her thirties now. What is she up to these days?

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Kim delivers sushi. Last year my kid and I were behind a lady at a sushi place. She had long red hair and wore a black tee, and green cargo pants. We were like "OMG that's Kim Possible." If she heard us she didn't react. She just pick up the delivery order and left.

r/rule34 by the looks of things

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askengineers_train

How many hours of unpaid overtime do you work per week?

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hm2erpy

Fuckin zero

I own the joint and I distribute 100 % of profits. I get on their ass when I catch anyone working overtime without permission (we pay 1.5 for PERMITTED OT). I beat it into their heads that OT is counterproductive from any direction that you look at it from. They are wasting everyone's profit distribution money when they take time away from their family to work OT. I find that we make more money when we work with diligence LESS than 8 hour days and less than 40 hour weeks. I mean, is the object to work or to make money?

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askculinary_train

I'm looking for a way to create small (tiny, really) batch fig spread that's not sweetened. (More in text.) I have diabetes, and need to limit carbs, so I've recently begun making pizzas using flour tortillas in lieu of dough. One of my favorite flavor combinations is fig jam with goat cheese and prosciutto, but all the varieties of fig jam I've found have a lot of sugar. They're too sweet for my palate, and also too sweet for my blood glucose level. I'd like to find a way to create my own small batches of fig spread that are not sweetened. At this time of year, I'll be working with dried figs, so I'm guessing I'll need to soak them in something to reconstitute them - and maybe puree them - but I've tried just using water and it turned out really bland. Any thoughts on how to create a spread that would work well with goat cheese and prosciutto? Edited to add: I'm not interested in using any kind of artificial sweeteners. I'd like to find something that has a punch of flavor without sweetness.

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gz12vw2

It might be easier to dive the dried figs and sprinkle them on. If you spread the goat cheese out really thinly you should be able to have it cover the whole thing. Dried fruits are more concentrated both in flavor and sugars so just be aware of that(I’m sure you already are tho XD) I suggest a few sprinkles of balsamic, you can also get a gif balsamic if you want, and some fresh arugula. The flavors mix really nicely. The addition of the acidic balsamic is a good contrast to the creamy richness of the goat cheese and the sweetness of the figs. The arugula provides a light freshness as well. If your not an arugula person you can leave that off tho. Not sure how much I helped but hopefully it did a bit!!

I’ve made fig chutney a fair amount. I think you need something acidic. A squeeze of lemon and/or another tart fruit like quince would be nice.

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askengineers_train

How do I address a bad gpa when employers ask for transcripts? (Chemical) I'm graduating in May. I started applying to jobs yesterday, and I've gotten one response. I guess that's good, but they are asking for my transcripts. I was in community college for a majority of my college career, and had a 3.0 there. I transferred to a very tough program, and fell straight on my face the first semester and had to play major catch-up. Last semester was a bust too, I haven't done well with being at home. My GPA is just above 2.0 at my University. So do I just send transcripts and not address it? Do I send transcripts from both schools and try to address it? Ach. Thank you for reading!

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glvrnpw

I've yet to find a company where the engineers care about gpa. Some jobs may have a gpa minimum that HR/hiring will verify but beyond that gpa is a poor indicator of engineering ability.

*If they ask* I would say something along the lines of "I was in community college for a majority of my college career, and had a 3.0 there. I transferred to a very tough program, and fell straight on my face the first semester and had to play major catch-up. Last semester was a bust too, I haven't done well with being at home."

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legaladvice_train

(FL) I sponsor in Alcoholics Anonymous and heard a fifth-step inventory today where a woman told me that she sent her ex-boyfriend to prison by lying and saying that he molested her child. I clearly asked her if she was going to rectify this situation as part of her recovery and she basically said No, that he deserved it; that she was including this so that she didn't have to feel guilty about it. She didn't feel guilty, she was quite smug. I played along and asked her a few questions about the situation. Poor bastard. Later this evening we were both outside of a meeting and talking with a mutual friend. I started to complain about my ex-boyfriend, saying what a jerk he was. Then I teasingly said that she had gotten back at her ex so good that she sent him to prison over some bullshit lie, and she laughed and agreed! So basically I tricked her into admitting it in front of a second witness. What do I do now with this information? I'm assuming that I'm not obligated to keep this confidential. This might ostracize me from the fellowship, but I don't care; I was so utterly horrified by this. I don't know what this man's name is. It happened about a year ago apparently. I have really specific information- she used his phone to take pictures of the kid unbeknownst to him. He already had a criminal record but it wasn't for anything awful like this. What do I do? Also, I'm not quite sure if it happened in Florida or if this was before she moved here.

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AA will likely no longer allow you to sponsor after this, they take the confidentiality part pretty seriously. That said, AA has no legal protection of actual confidentiality like client-attorney privilege. You think this is bad? The Innocence Project had a case where murders occurred and the police thought there were multiple murderers. In fact, there was only one. The murderer made a plea deal to get life in prison instead of the death penalty in exchange for testifying against the innocent one. The innocent one was subsequently convicted. The murderer had bragged about doing this to his lawyer, and only his lawyer. Because of client-attorney privilege there was nothing the lawyer could do. Luckily, his client died after a decade, and notified the Innocence Project. The innocent was released after 13 years on death row. You have no legal requirement to go down this path. Don't let the eventual AA rejection get to you, this is the righteous course of action to get that evidence. There may enough evidence he is still convicted or not enough to even overturn the verdict. There is nothing you can do about that.

Yes, write it down, date, times, names. Our former FBI director makes a good case on the importance of keeping notes. It does carry weight.

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askscience_train

AskScience AMA Series: Hi Reddit! We are scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. We recently designed a carbon capture method that's 19% cheaper and less energy-intensive than commercial methods. Ask us anything about carbon capture! Hi Reddit! We're Yuan Jiang, Dave Heldebrant, and Casie Davidson from the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and we're here to talk about carbon capture. Under DOE's Carbon Capture Program, researchers are working to both advance today's carbon capture technologies and uncover ways to reduce cost and energy requirements. We're happy to discuss capture goals, challenges, and concepts. Technologies range from aqueous amines - the water-rich solvents that run through modern, commercially available capture units - to energy-efficient membranes that filter CO2 from flue gas emitted by power plants. Our newest solvent, EEMPA, can accomplish the task for as little as $47.10 per metric ton - bringing post-combustion capture within reach of 45Q tax incentives. We'll be on at 11am pacific (2 PM ET, 16 UT), ask us anything! Username: /u/PNNL

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gsayp1n

I work in the climate space. My concern with carbon capture is it seems to be an argument for prolonging the use fuel extraction and point-source polluters (i.e. coal and gas plants) when we know a nearly 100% renewable energy system is needed ASAP. So putting dollars into maintaining oil and gas industries instead of cleaner sources. What's the actual use case of carbon capture compared to clean energy? I hear he baseload reliability argument a lot, but carbon capture tests I have read about were way too expensive. Why should we be excited about this technology when we know clean energy, storage and demand side management is also available and doesn't require fossil fuel extraction and then shooting carbon back into the ground?

Once your team's solvent extracts carbon from flue gases, what is done with the resulting product? How is it sequestered and stored on long timescales? For example, I know some workers propose mineral carbonation (e.g., injecting into basalts) would be one way to sequester carbon effectively on geologic timescales. But if carbon capture is mostly done at point sources like industrial emitters, I imagine the economics of that are difficult. Thanks for doing the AMA!

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changemyview_train

I believe college degrees are no longer an indication of cognitive ability and GPAs are routinely inflated. CMV I feel that college degrees have been eroded with the influx of students earning them that years ago would not have gotten a degree. Professors are pressured to pass kids that have flunked, because most subjects are "curved". Also if you need extra hours or tutors or " special accommodation" that is fine, but if your grade says "C with special accommodation" the prof would be disciplined. If you need special accommodations what's wrong with that being reflected on your degree. Anyway I know that is unpopular but I just feel that everyone seems to be pushed toward college and not everyone should be in college, and once they are in it behooves the institution to keep them there with Herculean efforts. I will say, that professional degrees seem to still have a modicum of prestige to them. If you take the LSAT or MCAT your best score is not the only one reflected, the school sees all results and it used to be they were averaged and not just best score or super set . Additionally you have to take exams for licensing and you are limited in the number of tries-- although you may have to change states to get more than 3 tries. You can't stay in law school or med school for an unlimited time but you can work on a masters or PhD for decades.

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ce6e4bg

> If you need special accommodations what's wrong with that being reflected on your degree. Why? Assume for a moment that, regardless of how quickly you understood the material, you eventually understood it. Does that mean your understanding is inferior because it took longer? If people are illegitimately passing their course requirements, that's a different story, but you haven't given any compelling evidence to suggest that's true. There are easy majors and hard majors, of course. But people fail out of college all the time. It's not even close to true that getting in is a guarantee of graduation and degree. >You can't stay in law school or med school for an unlimited time but you can work on a masters or PhD for decades. That is not true. It varies from institution to institution, but if you're prepared to pay for it, they'll let you stay in Law School forever. As for Master and PhD's - they will kick your ass out. It is NOT true that you can dick around with a these for decades *in general*. There are exceptions, but for the most part, it's not true. More to the point, your degree, except in certain specific circumstances, doesn't really mean anything anyway. All it demonstrates is that you have completed a course of work successfully. When you get a job, they just want to know that you have enough wherewithal to do stuff on time with a minimum standard of quality. College degrees certified that you completed college, not that you aren't stupid - just like drivers' licenses certify that you passed the driving test, and not that you aren't a shitty driver.

> Professors are pressured to pass kids that have flunked, because most subjects are "curved". Are you saying that subjects being curved is indicative that professors are pressured to pass kids that have flunked? Do you know why things are curved, or how they're curved?

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askengineers_train

If you could pick your job title, what would you go for? Hey, I'm currently finishing up my PhD in ChemEng, and I've been lucky enough to collaborate with a startup company who have said there's a job waiting for me as soon as I'm done. I'll be the first engineer in the company, currently it's a few business admin types (CEO, COO), chemists, and an academic as the CTO. I'll be line managed by the CTO, but will end up hiring a few engineers/technicians and a product manager to work under me. I get to pick my job title (within reason...). They've proposed Lead Engineer or something along those lines. Just curious what the hive mind would go for in a similar position? My thoughts are that the title itself doesn't matter much, but I'd be interested to hear other opinions.

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President of the United States

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askbaking_train

How do y’all keep track of recipes and/or log your bakes? I love to experiment with recipes but I’m really disorganized and I would love to get better at keeping track so I can replicate things down the line! What do you do to stay organized?

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hopc13n

I use an app called Recipe Box, you can download recipes from websites and then add your own notes.

I save the recipes I like in Google drive. I love that's it's quick and easy to search on my phone or computer!

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askculinary_train

Is there a secret to peeling the first papery layer of an onion? I feel like an idiot asking this question with as many years cooking as I have. I chop the bottom off my onion and trim the top (I leave the stem section in tact but remove the hairy stuff so it doesn't get in my food). I then chop the onion in half. Then I peel the skin off. Some onions are nice, they have hearty skin that peels right off. Other onions are the demon spawn and have paper thin layers that are fastened together with super glue. I pick and peel and get that skin under my fingernails where it cuts me. I get so sick of it I just peel the entire next layer of onion off and pretend it was all one layer. This is the way? So say we all? Or is there some trick to that infernal thin fused together layer?

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hgvg45n

The entire outer layer isn't worth much, I just jam my thumb in there and peel it all off. Not worth fucking about with the papery layer.

First, don't cut the bottom of your onion off your onion until the end.. it holds the entire onion together while you're cutting it. The order of operations should be: Cut in half, trim the tops, peel the onion, rinse, cut radially, cut perpendicular to that, cut the bottom off the onion.

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askculinary_train

Seasoning suggestions for altered seafood chowder Every once in a while I make a big cauldron of chowder and since I just pulled a lot of parsnips from the garden I decided to replace a bit more than half of the potatoes with parsnips. I also changed the wine I put in it from white wine to shaoxing, but otherwise kept the seasoning the same. I thought it made a nice change from my usual extremely conservative chowder but I was wondering if anyone had any ideas for a different seasoning to use that would compliment the parsnips and make it more different. Here is my recipe; sorry I can only give exact measurements for things that are sold in exact amounts and I use the whole thing, because otherwise I eyeball everything. 1 lb hickory bacon, chopped up small and fried til it's very crispy and all fat is rendered. Then add about a quart and a half diced onions and cook in the fat til they're browned but not caramelized. Then put in some diced carrots and sliced celery and cook for a bit. Then add the parsnips (grated), then the potatoes (grated), probably about 4 lbs altogether, but I'm not entirely sure. Add cayenne pepper and smoked paprika at this point, and cook for a few minutes, stirring now and then. Some salt too. Add the fish stock (I make this beforehand from a bag of fish heads from the Asian market, it's pretty thick, but not so thick that it's solid at room temperature) and some shaoxing wine, bring it up to a simmer and cook until it thickens up and it gets hard to find the individual grated pieces of potato. Put in 2lbs of white fish (I use whatever frozen fillets are cheap) cut up into inch and half inch pieces, and 2lbs frozen clams, then wait til it starts to simmer again. Add 1lb bay scallops, cook until it just comes back to a simmer, then add more salt if needed and 1 quart heavy cream, eat. With a dash more smoked paprika on top of the soup. This was actually really good and I liked the sweet parsnippy flavor with the Chinese wine, but how could I change the seasoning to further distinguish this soup from regular seafood chowder and make it more of its own thing?

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d97js5z

I like the Old Bay suggestion, that's a classic. I was thinking maybe chervil? It's subtle, but you don't want too strong of an herbal taste (which is why i wouldn't go for the dill like another poster suggested), complements fish beautifully, and would definitely give a hint of something different. You could also float a bit of spicy oil on the top when you serve it - basically the same sort you'd use for pizza.

Since you're already using shaoxing, why not go down the anise road? Anise is a classic pairing with seafood, and might be especially nice with the cream. So you could use some chinese five-spice, or a bit of anise itself. Or my personal favorite this time of year, fennel bulb. Dice it and sweat it with your carrots and celery (or even replace the celery with it). Note that on cooking, for a while, the anise flavor really mellows out. Fennel pairs really well with parsnips, since they also carry some of the compound responsible for anise flavor. The other thing I notice is a lack of fresh herbs. Adding a chiffonade of basil or chopped cilantro at service might add a really complementary note to the parsnips.

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askengineers_train

What are some good engineering news sources? I was wondering what is the best way to keep up with the news from the engineering world. What websites or youtube channels do this the best? Would you recommend just reading journals like IEEE spectrum?

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r/AskEngineers

https://aiaa.bulletinmedia.com/briefing?d=2020-04-16&doctypecode=aiaa

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askculinary_train

Is it safe to leave your oven on overnight at a low temperature like 200-250F? I'm thinking of popping a brisket I cured into the oven before I go to bed and and having it ready by lunch tomorrow.

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ffovpog

Yes. I’ve finished a few briskets this way when I got started late and didn’t want to stay up forever to get it finished.

We dry beef jerky on 175f. Wake up to delicious.

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askphysics_train

What’s the greatest mystery that keeps physicists up at night?

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ilz4o7s

When will GRRM finish winds of winter

Where is my factor of 2 pi??? :(

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changemyview_train

CMV: China is bad and I dislike the country for its government I am a gamer, I truly don't care a whole lot about politics. I do keep up with some breatuberish people because I like watching their content, but my general position is that the U.S. government sucks and it isn't my job to fix it because I want to do other things. Recently, there have been some incidents where gaming/entertainment people have been fired/disciplined for going against the political interest of china. Here are some examples: 1. https://www.npr.org/2019/10/08/768245386/blizzard-entertainment-bans-esports-player-after-pro-hong-kong-comments 2. https://kotaku.com/fired-dota-2-commentator-on-why-valve-let-him-go-1761711816 (this one is from a while back when Valve was hosting a Dota 2 tournament in china and the caster made a joke about being unable to watch porn in china. It is fresh in my mind because there was just another TI in china with some drama. That said, this relates more to the government than the more recent incident with Kuku) 3. https://deadspin.com/internal-memo-espn-forbids-discussion-of-chinese-polit-1838881032 Yeah so I dislike china and its government. No qualms with the people. I feel that they are limit free speech in their own country and combine their political stances with their economy(through propaganda or whatever) to force their view on the rest of the world. At the very least, I prefer governments that can be HEAVILY criticized constantly. Take America! All the europeans I've ever met have strong opinions on all the things we are doing wrong and I would be happy to have them come to America and give a speech about it. It is fine. America does a lot wrong but we are fairly good at politics(ignoring the horrible high profile cases) I honestly think that one human trying to make money and work in a field he/she likes should not have to "watch their mouth" about china, they suck and are bad. Money be damned. Gaming companies have been known to censor something in worldwide releases of their game so China can play it and also have been known to moderate Twitch chat and the like so that Tiannanmen Square is auto-moderated. Absolutely RIDICULOUS All this leads to me thinking China is bad. CMV!

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f320miu

I agree with your dislike of the Chinese government, and share your anger over people being disciplined/fired for criticizing them. However, I would point out that this kind of thing happens in America all the time. There are countless examples of people being fired for criticizing their employer in their private life, or publicly advocating for positons counter to their employers interests. Most of the time, it gets little or no attention. The difference in this case is because of China's centralized power, they functionally act as if they themselves are the company. And because of their recent embrace of Capitalism, they can now exert their financial power on non-Chinese businesses. It seems different because its a country, but this dynamic has existed for ages. It is, in fact, a feature of Capitalism, which intrinsicly protects the power of capital over individuals. So, does that bother you too?

I live in China for many years so I'll bite. First of, what a lot of people don't take into account when they think about China is that it's just not another country, **it's another civilisation**. This means that there is very little cultural basis of understanding between us westerners and the Chinese, we have essentially no common roots. For instance you might think that Arabic countries are extremely different from us: they're infinitely less different than China since they have an Abrahamic religion (Islam) that forms the root of their culture, same as ours. Everything that defines our values and culture (what we inherited from old prophets, ancient Greece, the Roman empire, the enlightenment, etc.) doesn't register in China. China has a culture that evolved essentially closed-off from the rest of the world for 5'000 years! Their roots are people like Confucius, Laozi, Qin Shi Huang, Huangdi, etc. People whose names mean close to nothing to us Westerners, like our historical figures (Abraham, Plato, Socrates, Moses, etc.) mean close to nothing to the Chinese. All of this means that it's easy to find their thinking and actions laughable: it's extremely foreign to us, it's incomprehensible, we have no idea where they're coming from. To truly understand what it's about you'd need to be raised in China. But since you weren't, the only thing you can do is try to take a very big step back and have a very open mind. You simply cannot judge China from a Western standpoint. For instance, freedom of speech. There is a long tradition of debating ideas and contradictory debate in the West, for thousands of years. Heck the bible - including the old testament - is all about guys changing the world with revolutionary new ideas and those guys are our models. That is simply not the case in China. Chinese culture abhors chaos above all else, everything is about tending towards harmony. This isn't the CCP's doing, it's been the case long before: ideas aren't introduced through public debates but rather via schools of thought that gain more or less power in the government apparatus. Equally the Chinese value deeds much more than talk, talk is cheap in China: for instance never in a Chinese family do people say "I love you" to each others, that's considered hypocritical. Instead they act in ways that demonstrate their feelings: work hard for each others, give each others money, etc. Last thing: power of the central government. Throughout Chinese history, whenever people started openly criticizing the central government it could only mean one thing: that the government was weak and that some sort of coup was brewing. In the West criticizing the government is as natural as breathing air, the government is actually stronger for it as it pushes it to reform itself and it's generally healthy to let people vent. It's the contrary in China: it's a loss of face, a sign of weakness and troubles to come. I'm not speaking here about what the government thinks: this is how the common man views the world here. Second thing: imposing their views on the rest of the world. If there is one thing the Chinese do not do, that is it. China has, on the contrary, a natural tendency to close itself off from us "barbarians" (the official way we were called until the late 19th century). If they listened to their instincts, they would just leave us alone and happily live among each others. Two anecdotes to illustrate this. 1) read this letter by the emperor Qianlong to King George III, it is a perfect illustration of the Chinese view of the outside world, at least historically. King George III had sent envoys to China, bearing many gifts, to ask the emperor to extend trade with Britain and ask for the establishment of a British embassy in Beijing. The emperor replied that China "possesses all things in prolific abundance and lacks no product within its borders. There is therefore no need to import the manufactures of outside barbarians." He also refused the establishment of an embassy because, essentially, barbarians were too different from the Chinese and he could therefore not allow them to live in their midst. 2) Second anecdote. In the Fujian province of China there is a group of people called the "Hakka" or "Kejia" in Chinese. Kejia literally means "guest families": they're Han Chinese from northern China who migrated south more than 1'000 years ago. Yet 1'000 years after and despite being Han Chinese (the same ethnie as the locals) they're still considered "guests" in the south, they're still a distinct group with distinct villages, customs, etc. This is extraordinarily illustrative of the Chinese mentality: strangers will remain so forever, generation after generation, there is absolutely no integration nor assimilation possible. And if they can't integrate, change or otherwise assimilate people from the same ethnie and cultural background as themselves, do you think they believe there is any hope to impose their ideas onto complete strangers like us? Not in a million years. The Chinese culture doesn't allow for assimilation: a foreigner can never become Chinese (in fact I think that's basically never happened in mainland China) and once a Chinese acquires foreign nationality they lose their Chinese nationality forever. They simply do not want to even try to convert foreigners to being Chinese, it's a totally closed-off society. I'm not trying to make you agree with what the Chinese are doing, just trying to make you understand, however slightly, where they're coming from. When you look at the recent events with that in mind, things might make a tiny bit more sense. For instance when they're "banning" the Houston Rockets it's not that they're trying to impose their views onto us: they couldn't care less about that. It's because NBA is very popular in China (especially the Rockets since it was Yao Ming's team) and it's simply unthinkable to allow such a public slap in the central government's face from such a popular institution. Everyone in China would take it as a signal that it's now open field for criticism. Lastly, it's easy with Western eyes to be extremely critical (to speak mildly) of the Chinese government. But the fact is that for the past 30 years the government is extremely popular here. It's not propaganda: people are genuinely happy with the direction the country is taking. Why wouldn't they be? During the past 30 years, China has seen the largest explosion of wealth in the history of mankind. Hundreds of millions of people were lifted out of poverty and the Chinese middle-class is now larger than the US's and Europe's combined. Again in China talk is cheap, deeds are everything. If you tell a random Chinese "But you can't criticize the government" they'll reply to you "Why would I?", they culturally have no notion of the importance of upholding enlightenment principles. As a very last point it's easy in the West to think that because of the absence of freedom of speech the Chinese are muzzled and have no means to express dissatisfaction with the authorities. If you live here for a little while you'd realize how wrong this view is: despite the absence of freedom of speech the Chinese are educated to see the government has a benevolent father figure and they'll not hesitate a second to express their dissatisfaction to authority figures. They are absolutely not afraid of the government like you're probably not afraid of your father: you strongly believe he has your better interest in mind. Go to any police station in China to see this for yourself: you'll undoubtedly find a random grandma shout her heart out to the officers in charge, just like a daughter would shout to her father if she was distressed. They're the most straightforward people anywhere in the world (sometimes very rudely so) and are absolutely not afraid to express their feelings. Just not in an open forum that would make the government lose face. That was a long one and I'm not sure I changed your view but I hope I at least managed to make you better understand this very misunderstood country.

idcdjo

changemyview_train

CMV: Both parties would make more progress towards their goals if a greater emphasis was placed on both states rights and states responsibilities instead of trying to accomplish everything at the federal level We currently have an issue in our political system in which the "winner takes all" and both parties are always trying to take control at the federal level in order to advance their goals. I feel we would see a lot more progress towards the goal of both sides and more compromise if there was a greater emphasis on states rights and responsibilities. Instead of waiting on the federal government to implement, for example, universal healthcare, we could allow states to implement this at the state level if this is something their voter base desires. There could even be a network of states that work together to provide and fund universal healthcare, while the states that do not wish to participate can continue operating under the current insurance based model. California has already begun moving towards this model (not necessarily universal healthcare, just implementing a statewide service that is provided at the federal level in other countries) with their paid family leave. There are efforts in Washington and California to implement a single payer healthcare system in the state. I feel giving greater focus to the states having the power to implement these changes without the federal government or the whole country moving with them is an ideal way to allow the more liberal leaning states to begin working towards their goals while the more conservative states that do not wish to have so many government funded social programs, can opt out. It is much easier for a US citizen to move to a different state than it is to immigrate to a different country, so if a citizen was unhappy with the direction their state was headed in, they could more easily move to a state that better served their needs and interests. Part of this change would be a mental shift in voters to place more emphasis on local elections and local legislation and taking advantage of the existing infrastructure that allows states to provide, for example, paid family leave if they so choose. Another part of this would be scaling down the federal government and reallocating more tax dollars to local and state level governments instead of the federal government. Not sure about other states, but my state taxes are currently significantly less than my federal taxes. I think the reason everyone wants the federal government to back their goals is that they feel their states don't have the necessary budget to accomplish their big goals. If we scaled down the federal government and propped up state governments, I think more people would be happy that they could see the changes they want to see at the state level.

g289czd

g2875cm

>It is much easier for a US citizen to move to a different state than it is to immigrate to a different country Isn't this also one of the weaknesses of this strategy? Like universal healthcare works for the people who need extra expensive medical treatment because the people who don't are paying more than they're getting out of it. If healthy people can leave the state easily and unhealthy people can move to the state easily, the system ends up costing more and generating less revenue.

How does that deal with people for which diminishing the power of the states is itself a goal? A big part of the appeal of the republican party is opposition to the federal government, and strong support for state and local government, while combating that is a big part of the appeal of the democratic party. Surely one party abandoning a goal and allowing the other party to achieve their mutually exclusive goal couldn't be said to be both parties making progress towards their goals.

jz2fbc

askengineers_train

Engineer at work, not at home (with wife), how to handle different modes of operation? The (unspoken) rule of engineering is that all engineers should be eager to answer questions for those that are trying to get up to speed on something, but less and less eagerness/willingness is provided with subsequent requests from the same person as they should become more and more self-sufficient. Problem is that I act the same way with my wife and she says, "You don't treat me like an equal," when I get frustrated about her asking basically stupid questions, not putting forth effort into learning about projects we are working on and other things in life. # I know I have issues and that I should not treat my wife like this. Considering that engineers tend to be difficult, though, I imagine this is not uncommon. How do you manage to be more charitable with your non-engineer spouses?

gdb2vv5

gdbb6e8

Be happy man. If your wife was an engineer, you'd probably complain that you guys get into so many fights over technicalities.

First up: your life with your partner is not an engineering job. At work, we can usually make assumptions that nothing is going to hit too deep into someone's emotions or sense of self-worth, that blame is not personal, and that people can go home and leave work behind and get a break from it. **None of those assumptions work in your relationship with your partner.** At work, you want to be efficient and effective. In your personal life, you want to be compassionate and considerate. Wellbeing is your top priority, not getting a task done. It's more important to be kind and loving than it is to be right. When your partner is asking you questions, ask yourself **why** they are asking those questions. At work you just assume it's relevant to getting the task done. At home, that's not a safe assumption to make. Your partner may be asking about a task because: * They're curious about what you're doing and want to share in the experience. * They are concerned about your task's impact on something else. * They are concerned that the task or the way you are doing indicates something negative about your health or wellbeing. * They want you to feel cared for by having someone show an interest in your work. If they already asked about that topic, consider that we need to repeat and use things several times to cement them into our brain. If the thing you explained was not a common or important priority in your partner's life, it's unreasonable to expect them to remember it. Before you respond to your partner you must take a moment to actively empathise and imagine what's going on in their life right now. You can't just assume their involvement is related to getting your task done. This is being considerate - considering their situation before responding. If this isn't a normal habit for you, you can make it one with practice - there are lots of ways to retrain your brain into a new default pathway. I know a lot of people like to use their identity as an engineer to explain why they have difficulties in interpersonal relationships, but that's a cop-out. You're not just an engineer, you're also a loving, thinking, caring human being. And it's the human being who has relationships, not the engineer, so if want to be happy with other people you've got to take time to build and practise the loving, caring, interpersonal skills too. They might be harder to learn for you than the engineering stuff, but they're absolutely worth it.

1vjjjf

changemyview_train

We are in our most natural state as children. It is the job of educators, parents, governments, and other authority figures to beat the shit out of your inner child, so they can turn you into a mindless zombie who acts out some absurd idea of "this is what an adult is supposed to do." CMV. Why are children so joyful and carefree, while adults are often such miserable sacks of anxiety, depression, or some other form of psychosis? I believe that decades of learned repression are responsible. It all starts in the classroom with "Sit down Johnny, stop throwing that pencil at Suzy!" But after being told over and over that acting on your desires is unacceptable, you need to shut up and do your work, you learn to repress those desires. "Yes, yes, I do really want to do this work. I want to get this A." In a sense, you learn to create in your mind a little teacher that is yelling at you to stop being an immature brat and instead be "responsible." "Growing up" is the process of fully identifying with that little teacher you've created, so that you do the "responsible" thing without the need for an actual teacher threatening to send you to the Principle's office. Your conception of what it means to be an adult is not purely determined by teachers and parents either - this is bigger than that. It's also your culture (or subculture): how as a man/woman you are "supposed" to behave, or what is cool/uncool, for example. I believe that kind of pressure is equally (or more) powerful, and it also serves to repress your natural childlike state. We could say that in addition to the little teacher you created in your mind, you create an equivalent figure for the group of peers you're trying to fit into, and it yells at you whenever you do something uncool. Ground between these two rocks, authority and peer pressure, I believe that little is left of your inner child by age 20 or so. Its kind of still there, but it's been badly abused, shoved into the basement and chained to the wall. Many people have forgotten its even there. They're too busy trying to act out some script that was given to them, that really has nothing to do with who they truly are. Who doesn't want to be accepted? If anything, that's the only part of the inner child still left intact: this desperate desire to fit in. No one represses that desire, because it is so essential for being a zombie. Yes, you have to learn how to be responsible and how to interact with your peers. You have to learn how to function in the adult world. But is functioning living? I'd argue that you can only truly live by being in touch with your authentic desires, by stubbornly insisting on your right to be a child - that is, to be a natural development of the person you were when you were a child. This is probably one of the most difficult things you can attempt - a zombified adult insists that everyone around him be a zombie as well, so most likely you will have to go around pretending you are a zombie too most of the time. The only way to make this bearable is if you find some non-zombie companions, around whom you are free to be your true, 100% self around. I welcome any challenge to my viewpoint.

cesvolx

ceszk9u

I'd also like clarification on what your viewpoint here is. Depending on your definition of "natural" you could say that acting on your base desires is more "natural" than reining them in for the sake of society. The issue I have with this is that you seem to be portraying it as some sort of negative instead of the very foundation of all that humanity has been able to accomplish. It might be more "natural" to immediately act on our constant desires to fight and breed and consume, but the ability to delay that satisfaction and work towards our goals as a society as opposed to bestial individuals has allowed us to fight, breed, and consume exponentially. From a perspective of individual and group success, our method is extremely effective.

Read Lord of the Flies.

eiug7x

askengineers_train

Are engineers scientists? A lot of people seem to be saying no over in World news. What is the consensus on that? Bit of discussion going on in this thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/eipsoy/thousands_of_people_have_fled_apocalyptic_scenes/fct96it/ Most people seem to be be rubbishing the idea an engineer is a scientist.

fctqe6c

fcttvt5

Scientists, generally, want to know why/how things work. Engineers want to MAKE things work. I'd be bored out of my skull if the culmination of all my work was just adding to the body of human knowledge, which is an admirable goal but not my goal. I'd be asking myself "okay what's the point, what can I do with this now". I don't need to know why a phenomenon works to exploit it, just some basic parameters of how (though it is immeasurably easier to reason out the project if I know why). And not knowing doesn't keep me up at night. So I'm not much of a scientist. There's a bit of both in every job, but the point is entirely different.

"Engineering is approximate physics, for profit" We rely on pure scientists to advance ideas, but engineers to work out if/how to exploit them commercially.

fek32m

legaladvice_train

Landlord thinks my house is his Y’all. I’m so annoyed. we’ve been living in our new place for less than a full week and our landlord has popped up over here and tried to just walk in with his key three times. Today I drove up just as he was unlocking our door to walk in and I’m just like “what are you doing here?” The first time I walked out of my bedroom up to see him just standing in my living room looking at my thermostat. Literally didn’t even acknowledge the fact that he was in the unit like by saying “anyone home” or anything. I was about to pepper spray the fuck out of him because his back was to me and I was home alone. Today he said he needed to do maintenance on the a/c and proceeded to crane his neck to look in every room with a door open and rummage through my cabinets in my kitchen. I really don’t wanna be THAT tenant but I can’t do this for a year. It’s always just him telling me some small shit that could have been said over the phone. The anxiety of thinking someone is in my house when I’m not home is too much. I’ve rented since I was 18 and never had a landlord who just pops up at all hours of the day.

fjp0zdk

fjpblxf

First, tell him to stop showing up and give you the notice required by your state. He sounds like a nosy guy/pervert who wants access to your personal life, or to see you naked. Get cameras. Also, get gate hooks for the doors when you're home. Check for cameras.

Whether he owns it or not. As a landlord and you being a renter, it is now your home, and you have a right to privacy. Make it clear that he is not allowed to just enter, with out first contacting you, and if he does so for anything other then an Emergency, you will call the police. To further cover your self, find out the local and state renters laws and rights. And make sure he did not slip anything into your lease that he could use, as his excuse for entering when ever he wants.

ui75db

changemyview_train

CMV: Adoption is NOT a reasonable alternative to abortion. Often in pro-life rhetoric, the fact that 2 million families are on adoption waiting lists is a reason that abortion should be severely restricted or banned. I think this is terrible reasoning that: 1. ignores the trauma and pain that many birth mothers go through by carrying out a pregnancy, giving birth, and then giving their child away. Not to mention, many adoptees also experience trauma. 2. Basically makes birth moms (who are often poor) the equivalent of baby-making machines for wealthier families who want babies. Infertility is heart breaking and difficult, but just because a couple wants a child does not mean they are entitled to one. Change my view.

i7b00zc

i7b1zcx

Have you thought about what would happen if we took measures to reduce the desire and need for abortion. Can both sides come together and figure out a way to support women getting proper birth control and emergency birth control, support women who want to raise their baby can’t don’t have the right tools and support, and support women who would be willing to put their baby up for adoption, but don’t want to risk poverty or be held back in any way by a difficult pregnancy or recovery? If we could set aside our differences and put the rage away, we could significantly reduce abortions and still have them be legal. The people who really want to end abortions need to realize that they can take a part in reducing them.

I’d like to suggest to you that you are completely misunderstanding the pro-life position. The pro-life position is that human life is sacred and that the unborn child has certain rights granted to it by virtue of our constitution. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I do recognize that this means that there are certain consequences that the mother must endure, but I would like to propose to you that if you truly believed as pro-lifers do that the unborn baby was a human life then I think you would agree that these consequences and inconveniences that the mother must endure are not reasons to take action to end the human life. There are certainly other situations that exist in which one human life is completely dependent on another. One example is end of life issues or those who are unconscious. Do you believe we should compel other people to suffer inconveniences to protect these human lives? What I will propose to you is that the entire issue is a question of when life begins, and actually has nothing to do with any of the points you raise such as compelling women to give birth. If we all agreed that human life began at conception, or at implantation, then I think we would all agree that ending a human life just to avoid childbirth is an unacceptable action. And if we all agreed that human life begins at birth, and then I think we would all agree that abortion is acceptable in all cases prior to birth.

5cky8g

changemyview_train

CMV: Hillary Clinton's e-mail server controversy is nothing more than the hard right-wing voter base/media being willing to totally disregard facts in order to win an election/sell a story for views, despite no clear wrong-doing on Clinton's side. First, a few general stances that have been shown in numerous CMV threads. 1) Clinton's e-mail server was not criminal, though mishandled, and was not a justifiable reason to accuse or threaten her with a criminal sentencing 2)Much of the e-mails are simply mild campaign actions that would be found in every major politician's e-mails during a campaign. From the idea of 'satanic cooking dances' and 'Pizza means child sex ring', the e-mail 'scandal' has showcased that the hardcore right-wing populous is more than willing to completely and totally disregard facts in order to create a nonsense story to ensure their chosen candidate wins the election, or in the media's case to sell a story for views. We have under-oath testimony from James Comey himself saying that Clinton did not engage in criminal acts, even down to agreeing that if a classified header is not included in the e-mail, that it would not be considered classified. While Clinton's e-mail server was mishandled and should not have been a private one in the first place, despite the fact that in tens of thousands of e-mails no single proof of criminal action was discovered, right-wing pundits and voters still created a tale of smoke when there was no fire and showcased a unnerving willingness to outright deny or ignore facts in order to manipulate an election and the voting population. Change my view, please, because right now I have a very low opinion on those people and I'd like to be wrong about them. _____ > *Hello, users of CMV! This is a footnote from your moderators. We'd just like to remind you of a couple of things. Firstly, please remember to* ***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****! If you are thinking about submitting a CMV yourself, please have a look through our* ***popular topics wiki*** *first. Any questions or concerns? Feel free to* ***message us***. *Happy CMVing!*

d9xdth4

d9xj2b6

People were not angry so much about her e-mail incident so much as they were about how she and the FBI handled the incident. She lied and repeatedly denied any wrongdoing despite mountains of evidence indicating otherwise. Then the FBI was just like "yeah, she did it, but we aint gonna do anything about it".

It seems that your argument hinges on two major ideas: the first being that because it was not determined to be "criminal," she did nothing wrong; and the second that there were a number of mundane emails that would be present on any politician's email. The bigger point for me relates to the first idea. While Comey determined that Clinton's actions were not deemed *criminal*, they were exceptionally negligent. Let's take a look at how classified information should be handled. This Congressional Research Service Report outlines how to deal with unauthorized disclosures of information. >Persons authorized to disseminate classified information outside the executive branch are required to ensure it receives protection equivalent to those required internally. In the event of a knowing, willful, or negligent unauthorized disclosure (or any such action that could reasonably be expected to result in an unauthorized disclosure), the agency head or senior agency official is required to notify ISOO and to “take appropriate and prompt corrective action.” Officers and employees of the United States (including contractors, licensees, etc.) who commit a violation are subject to sanctions that can range from reprimand to termination. 4 Clinton did not protect the information sufficiently, report its disclosure, or face sanctions. Anyone who has dealt with classified information of any kind can easily distinguish it from unclassified material via security markings present at the top and bottom of the pages as well as the classification of each individual paragraph. Even without these markings (as was apparently true of many of the classified emails on her server), most individuals who have dealt with classified material quickly gain a sense of what *types* of information is likely classified, and someone with as much experience as HRC would absolutely have a general feel for these boundaries. Essentially, HRC maintained plausible deniability from *criminal* activity because the material was not properly marked and it is hard to prove intent. Realistically, she was at best *INCREDIBLY* negligent and at worst, actively subverting the US security culture. The issue that many have with these actions is that because of her privileged status, she evaded any repercussions. Most government officials or military service members are held drastically more accountable for much more minor offenses. Finally, with regard to the point that many of the emails are campaign actions -- I'm sure that that is true. However, if my gmail was 99.99% generic personal emails and 0.01% disclosure of classified information, you can bet your ass that the FBI would like to come have a chat with me at some point. Using the server for purposes in addition to improperly dealing with classified information doesn't make the offenses any less grave. So overall, while I think that this story was often overblown and likely played a significant impact in hurting HRC's chances in the closing days of the election, it is definitely, in my opinion, a serious issue that is worthy of coverage when evaluating whether someone is fit to be president given the extraordinary amount of classified information that she would have had access to.

uy2jiz

askengineers_train

What did you learn in school that felt useless/outdated by the time you entered the industry?

ia1z0ys

ia1mc3f

in the 60s they still taught us how to design circuits with vacuum tubes.

In Uni - a physical portfolio (digital was not allowed) - I did an extra course learning how to work with a lathe and mills. I have never used it after that course and CNC everything. -specific software will always get outdated, like Matlab. In the field I mostly see Python these days. The majority are just basics like math and physics which will never change. And tools, physical and software change but the things you learn are largely transferable most of the time. High school - handwriting? I use it for birthday cards, that's it. I honestly can't think of anything else

8cwjg7

askanthropology_train

Why are there separate language groups and language isolates? Is it because complex language developed independently in multiple places or because those languages diverged too long ago for us to determine how they're related?

dxiggu0

dxiv80y

Very good question!! Some one answer please! I also want to know :P

Let's put this question into perspective a bit. Languages are constantly evolving and borrowing and changing and dying, but the oldest reconstructed language, proto-Afro-Asiatic, the ancestor of Arabic, Hebrew, and a number of languages in northern Africa, was spoken around 12,000 years ago. Before then, no one has any idea what people were speaking. Anatomically modern humans have been around for some 100,000 years, so assuming our species has always used language, that means that the languages of the world could have evolved entirely beyond recognition 8 different times since the beginning of Homo sapiens. And that's not accounting for the possibility that other hominins may have communicated with something that we would consider language. Couple that with the fact that the soft tissues of the vocal tract and the brain that might give us hints to earlier forms of language quickly decay, and you can see why it is difficult to know anything about the beginnings of language.

hco5kd

askbaking_train

Why does doubling the recipe never turn out well? My mum sometimes asks me to double my recipes, either banana bread or brownies. However I’ve noticed that every time I double the measurements of the ingredients (e.g instead of 1 cup of sugar I use 2 cups) the food just does not turn out as good as the original measurements. And why is that? I don’t understand why it doesn’t taste as good simply because I doubled the recipe. Can someone please give me tips on how to appropriately double the ingredients or explain to me why it doesn’t turn out as good?

fvg4jby

fvgdme5

Maybe over or under mixed? Can you not to two batches instead? It takes longer but you can only bake so many items at a time.

Are you measuring by volume or weight? If you are measuring by volume, the weight of the ingredients will vary each and every time. This is probably where things go wrong, if this is what you do. Baking is all about ratios and having the sugar/flour/salt/etc dry ingredient ratio not correct with the wet ingredients will have an effect on the results. Also, some ingredients should not be doubled when you attempt this kind of baking. Mainly the rising agents (baking soda/baking powder/yeast/even eggs sometimes). Again, the ratio will be off. Example: When I bake bread, and make a double batch, I measure slightly heavy on the yeast, I do not double the yeast. I would suggest making single batches 2x instead of trying to double everything. You can find a way to make it work, but it will take a bit of trial and error, and a lot of wasted ingredients. If you do it right, it will not take much longer. Just have 2 mixing bowls, measure your ingredients twice, one for each bowl.

lvzicu

askculinary_train

Is the risk of surface contamination from raw meat actually a significant risk, or a non-issue? My housemate washes their meat and doesn't seem to understand why it's important to wash their hands properly so as not to contaminate fridge/drawer handles and towels in the kitchen. Are my worries about this overly anxious, or is the risk a non-issue if I just replace tea towels, wash my own hands, and keep the awareness in mind?

gpeot65

gpemk9l

If it is raw chicken I would say the risk is rather high. It was shown that the touch of a fork tip on raw chicken can be enough for campylobacter (a bacteria that causes heavy diarrhoea among other symptoms) to infect the person eating with the fork. ... and I mean it is just disgusting and bad kitchen practice.

It depends on the quality of the meat, if it was frozen etc, but you shouldn’t risk it, a lot of people die of E. coli each year, some probably have the same mindset of your friend.

9x1ozm

asksciencefiction_train

[MCU]Hey Debbi-Downers! We need to stop having a pity party and look at the BRIGHT side! The cop who gave me a ticket last week is gone and so was the judge when I showed up tocourt so I beat the ticket! What are some of the GOOD things to happen in your life/on Earth after the Snappening?

e9oub8u

e9ozgmh

My hag of a wife is gone, and my insurance covers acts of little-g god.

Well not to be a downer, but just because the cop and the judge are gone doesn't mean the paper work is. You still owe that money.

k5fnrw

askacademia_train

how do you come to terms with your low post doc salary? do you really just love your research? Or have a dedication to the advancement of science (/insert your field here)? After a grueling 5 years of Phd, I simpy cannot come to terms of going into a post doc that pays $50k (average CAD) when im trying to start a family, get a house, have kids. I just dont see it. Is this supposed to be the expected right of passage to eventually become a professor and make the big bucks? Is this route worth it? is it obtainable? I dont see a light at the end of this tunnel.

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geeiv5i

A postdoc is still an entry-level/trainee position. One that you’re not supposed to stay at for longer than 2-3 years. Like it or not, you don’t see the light at the end of the tunnel, because the tunnel doesn’t end with the PhD in many (most?) scientific fields. You’re facing the same struggles as people that just landed their first jobs in other fields.

I think I'm on the higher end for 1st year postdoc stipends ($64k USD / year) and it honestly feels quite luxurious after making $20-40k throughout the PhD (which itself felt like an awesome bump from the $10-15k I got from ugrad fellowships). It's very much still a training role for me, and all super interesting, so honestly I feel lucky to be getting anything at all! (although my wife is also a 1st year postdoc / resident and is getting a bit more, $70k / year + ~$200/h for relief work, so that helps to pick up my slack lol).

8ln19x

asksciencefiction_train

[MCU] Why doesn’t Dr. Strange trap Thanos in a time loop like he did with Dormammu? So he can do it to a practical god like Dormammu but not Thanos? Why not? Is it cause Thanos has the infinity stones?

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dzgtsc3

A troubling implication about the ending of Doctor Strange's solo film is that, as it's presented as a montage, we don't know exactly how "long" Strange was stalling Dormammu in the time loop. It's possible that he was dying over and over again for what he percieved as years before Dormammu finally gave up. Messing with time on a universal scale is fine in a spaceless, timeless reality like the Dark Dimension, but it could have potentially world-ending repurcussions in the MCU's main universe.

He would have to be trapped with him.

37apdt

asksciencefiction_train

[Mad Max: Fury Road] How does Max have his V8 Interceptor in the film? It was destroyed in Fury Road as well as in The Road Warrior, and it was also the last of the V8s. Max's interceptor is said in both *Mad Max* and *The Road Warrior* to be "the last of the V8s", meaning there are no other supercharged V8 interceptors besides the one he drives. We see in *The Road Warrior* that Max's interceptor is destroyed by Humongous's gang running Max off the road, and Max's failsafe blowing up the remains of the car. However, in *Fury Road* Max still has his interceptor. *Fury Road* cannot possibly take place before *The Road Warrior* because Max's interceptor is again destroyed in the chase back to Joe's stronghold, and *Fury Road* cannot take place after *The Road Warrior* because, again, Max's interceptor is intact. And **DO NOT** tell me he salvaged it after the events of *Fury Road*, because we all saw that shit explode.

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crmmohx

he salvaged it

"The last of the V8s" is a phrase. The V8 Interceptor is an extremely rare vehicle. A vehicle that Max knows down to every nut and piston - but not extinct. In *Thunderdome* the V8 is gone, but afterwards, whose to say he didn't find one and rebuild it?

uzetmv

explainlikeimfive_train

eli5: Why do worms get out on the asphalt when it's raining?

iabdt98

iabjdvf

If you put a tuning fork or a pitchfork into the ground make it vibrate they will come up I always assumed worms came up when it rained because of the rain hitting the ground making a (vibrational) resonance frequency that made them try to escape the ground!

I have a follow-up question! I've lived in Ontario and in BC. In ON, when it gets 'wormy' out, it smells wormy. I can tell they're out even before I see them. In BC, it does not smell wormy. If its dark, I could be stepping on them and I wouldn't know! Yes, I have a phobia. But why does it smell in ON and not in BC???

g7bycz

askengineers_train

How many of y'all actually liked school better than work and why? From reading this subreddit, I know it's very much a minority opinion, but I'm curious as to who here genuinely feels this way, and the reasons for it - the good, the bad, and the ugly in comparing the two worlds. Did you go to grad school full-time or plan to?

fogh799

fogh4ui

I liked the constant technical problem solving that you were always neck deep in school. What I didn't like about school was how it 24/7. There was always something that you needed to be doing and I never felt like I could ever completely relax. Work has been pretty much the exact opposite for me. Pretty boring projects mostly bogged down in politics and bureaucracy. I've been working about 5 years now and I have yet to encounter any sort of remotely challenging technical problem I needed to fix. The vast majority of issues I've had to deal with are logistical, project managerial, and bureaucratic in nature. I can't seem to find a job that gives me the technical challenges I really crave. The plus side of work has been that it ends in the afternoon. I've gotten lucky and have basically never had a job that required more than 40 hours. Everywhere I've worked has really encouraged work-life balance and everyone practiced it too. I'm very grateful for that. All in all, I would definitely trade some work-life balance for something more technically challenging and fulfilling.

Work is great, but I liked the socializing I could do in college. People are so professional in the workplace while in school you can make friends with literally anyone. Dating was also much simpler in college

kguc0k

legaladvice_train

I was taken to the hospital against my will by the police and now the hospital wants me to pay A little over a month ago my wife told me she wants a divorce. I was incredibly sad and alone, and I wanted someone to tell me it's going to be alright. So I called the Veterans Crisis Line. They asked a whole bunch of questions about suicide and just kept on asking about it, so eventually I told them that this isn't what I wanted and I was going to call someone else. ​ They called the cops. I had 4 police cars and 7 police officers come and get me. I was taken to the hospital in handcuffs, where I was kept in handcuffs for about 2 hours. Eventually a doctor came and asked me if I was suicidal, I explained that I wasn't, I was just sad. He said "okay, good to go" and sent me on my way. ​ That was literally it. I didn't get medicine. I didn't get anything. I didn't even want to be there, especially in handcuffs. And now the hospital is trying to collect $681.56 from me for the hospital stay. I'm in Maryland if that makes a difference ​ Is there any way I can contest/fight this? Is there any way I don't have to pay this? It was not my choice to go to the hospital, and I feel like it's incredibly unfair that I have to pay for this when I didn't even get treated... with the exception of being treated like a criminal.

gghu9c9

ggi0d5d

Hopefully you can get discharged as discussed in other comments. If not, If you qualify for VA benefits/medical care, contact the VA for proper forms. In a very weird government benefit, non VA hospitals are free/paid by VA. You would have a copay/charge if taken to a VA hospital.

Considering the small amount, it may be worth contacting the hospital billing department directly, telling them that the services were not requested, necessary or beneficial in any way and that you will be contesting the charges with the aid of veteran support groups if they are not dropped. It's $600, and any time they spend fighting you on this will result in a loss for them even if they do end up collecting - there's a good chance they'll just write it off for you.

2z9v1z

askacademia_train

Academics of reddit, what are the dirty secrets of your disciplines ? I 'll start: Computational Biologist here. Everyone talks how -omics technologies is the biggest thing to happen in science. You know what, this data is so damn noisy especially in e.g. whole blood of patients, that are not applicable everywhere, like people like to claim. The studies published is probably a very small subset of what people have tried before reaching positive results.

cpgzkrf

cphppdl

We purposely "fudge" the numbers when doing C14 dating with an AMS system. It's perfectly normal, just confused me when I learned it.

Every field but education: They all pretend that they're experts in how to teach their field of study, despite never having taken a single course or read anything on pedagogy, assessment of learning or anything education related. And they'll scream their heads off if anyone tries to tell them differently. But if a biologist insisted they were experts in quantitative analysis without ever studied mathematics or statistics, people would call them an idiot.

ynwtto

asksciencefiction_train

[general superhero] are there any superheroes who didn’t have an awful tragic backstory that provoked them into fighting back? I guess that does sound a bit lame, but has any superhero just said: ‘hey, I got the power, why not help out’?

ivc70mu

ivbxy5s

Saitama of *One Punch Man* is a hero for fun. Most of the heroes in *My Hero Academia* go to school for the purpose of becoming superheroes, tragic backstory not required (several of them have happy, supportive families).

In the DC Animated Universe, one of the characters is Warhawk who was part of the Justice League when Terry was Batman. He was the son of Hawkgirl and John Stewart AKA Green Lantern who went into heroics because his folks were heroes as well.

iefivw

askcarguys_train

? How does buying a car out of state and getting it shipped work? Does the dealership have to explicitly say they do delivery or can I message any dealership and tell them interested in a car (there’s one specific car I’m interested in in California and I’m in Portland Oregon and it’s about 700 miles away) and then pay a third party service to deliver it myself? I’m just wondering how the paperwork and title registration and everything would work and if dealerships even do that. I figured I could google this but it just gets drowned in unrelated results. Thank you

g2hcer9

g2gqd18

You can also ask to get a Pre-Purchase Inspection done by a mechanic local to the car

We bought our last six cars out of state. Each time I flew out with a cashiers check or wired funds to close. At the dealer I did need to sign documents, present ID, do a short drive and walk-around (previously, on-line, I did the title search and VIN look up at the manufacturer's website is available). I'm sure that all of this could be replaced using overnight mail and a Notary. They overnight you the documents. You sign with a Notary and overnight back with the insurance card, check and a scan of your license.) They receive and arrange shipping. * ask the salesperson to shoot a detailed walk-around video or a detailed set of photographs to document the condition before shipment and email these to you. * consider flying down and pick up in person. The cost is probably a little less than the shipping and you see it up close before the purchase. It can be a fun drive home. * I would not do either with a private seller - far too many scammers and non-dealers have no reputation to uphold or research. * Usually, if you pick it up you must pay that state's sales tax and save the receipt to show your home state. If you paid less than your home tax they will charge to the difference. If you paid more then usually nothing more is due. * if you pick it up ask the dealer if the car will have a plate on it. If not, bring a "one way" plate from your state DMV. On some of the six I did it to get a better value and on some I did it to get the exact car and color we wanted.

jtdpu0

askacademia_train

What are your favorite scientific articles of all time? I’m an undergraduate biology student and I’m interested in reading a bunch of scientific works over the winter break coming up. What are your favorite articles of all time?

gc6phlr

gc5jrlr

It’s not my field but I always loved Fuck Nuance by Kieran Healy https://kieranhealy.org/files/papers/fuck-nuance.pdf.

The dog evolution paper - one of the referenced papers in this review: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/348/6232/277

yi4izf

askanthropology_train

Would I be crazy to leave engineering and pursue a career in in anthropology at age 30? So I just turned 30, I have a clear path in my career as a hardware engineer, I have a respectable job, with decent pay, and I'm relatively successful. Only problem is, I'm super unhappy. I changed jobs and what I do now is as good as I could ask for, but I'm starting to think I'm in the wrong career altogether. My real interests lie in history, politics, law, sociology, and philosophy. I'm drawn to anthropology for how it straddles all these disciplines. Because my background is so drastically different, and I have no network in the humanities, I would probably have to start from the absolute bottom of the ladder. I live in Germany and while the cost of going back to university would be manageable, not making any money for 3,4,5+ years, would be a huge gamble at my age. I know anthropology has a poor reputation in terms of employment prospects, even for people who've been pursuing it since their undergraduate years, so maybe it's just a pipe dream? The people closest to me are skeptical and think I should just keep a passing interest in these topics and try to make peace with my lot. I would really appreciate honest, constructive opinions from people already in Anthropology. Thank you.

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iujbvpz

I was working in advertising after undergrad and hated it, quit, went to grad school for anthropology, got a PhD, now a university lecturer. I was younger than you - 24 - and already had a bachelors in anthropology, and had a supportive partner, but oh my god I'm so glad I took that risk. You only get one short life (probably), and we spend so much of it working, so if you have a chance to make that work meaningful, that is life-changing. The people suggesting an engineering-anthro hybrid are smart. In anthro, you're always applying anthropological approaches *to something else*, so if you already have a degree in another field that's super useful. The anthropology of engineering would be fascinating. I've done some work on how infrastructure is embedded with social values that endure in bridges and motorways long after the social values have shifted, and how that means infrastructure is a powerful structuring force that reproduces social inequalities and creates health disparities. Your engineering knowledge would be so valuable to this sort of research.

Unless you’re a terrible engineer, you will probably have higher income as an engineer than as an anthropologist. But if you’re unhappy as an engineer and happy as an anthropologist, go for it.

japhtz

askculinary_train

600 lbs. of Green Tomaotes. Need I say more? My college just harvested \~600lbs of green tomatoes. Iʼd like the collective vision of reddit to help me gaze beyond just fried green tomatoes or 600lbs of pickles. Please enlighten me. Please help.

g8r31ny

g8qw8xu

If there's a place to put them to let them ripen, you can have "almost garden" tomatoes for the next six or eight weeks.

We make salsa mixed with red bell peppers. Green tomato chutney is a sweeter type of pickle that you can use to replace ketchup.can't think of any beyond that. So many tomatoes.

x5ucz8

askphysics_train

how does general relativity contribute to modern technology?

in4ldwp

in37362

There’s a lot of subtle ways other than the gps everyone mentions. The math used in the theory, bringing Riemann and stretchy manifolds more into the mainstream, I think has influenced a lot of advances in other realms, which in turn influence technology. For example, a lot of people at JHU/STScI near where I live are saying gravitational wave telescopes are “the new telescope” ie the one people want to build to detect things undetectable otherwise. That LIGO detector is a seriously amazing piece of tech, and the way it operates just happens to make it one of the best seismometers in the world!

Geostationary GPS satellites have to account for the time dilation or they won’t line up with the earth. That’s one example but I’m sure there’s a lot more.

mu78ex

askbaking_train

DAE think that stand/hand mixers are not all that necessary? I've been baking my whole life and very rarely use my hand mixer. Mostly because I'm too lazy to drag it out and plug it in, but I've found that with what I make (cakes, cookies, tarts) it's very rarely needed. Note: I do use it for meringues and the like, because I'm not a crazy person. However, I've noticed that there's this attitude on recipe sites and even here that baking completely by hand isn't ideal. Take creaming butter and sugar. Most blogs say you need to beat it on high speed for a while to get a decent cake. From childhood to now, I just vigorously hand beat it until fluffy and it turns out perfect. And I feel there's just this general attitude that either ranges from "Nope you absolutely need a hand mixer at least" to "Ehhhhh, I guess you *can* mix by hand if you really want". What do y'all think, do you think a Kitchenaid and the like is a must for a casual home baker?

gv4g2hs

gv4onmr

I'm an amateur baker and I love my stand mixer because doing things by hand takes a lot longer and requires a lot more physical effort and I'm lazy.

I think it is if you haven’t been doing it by hand for a long time. I’ve always had a stand mixer—I used my grandmas sunbeam from the 1950s until I got married. I received a kitchenaid tilt head as a wedding shower gift from my uncle. And after our house fire, I replaced it with a bigger kitchenaid. I don’t think my arms have the muscles to do any of it by hand! Edited to add, I make brownies by hand and quick breads and muffins, but I always use the mixer to cream the butter and sugar for cookies, and I always use it for cakes.

v35sy6

asksciencefiction_train

[MARVEL] Why are there so many super-criminals in NYC with the Punisher around? Wilson Fisk, Bullseye, Vulture, Wilson "The Kingpin" Fisk, Hammerhead and have I already said Fisk? Marvel's NYC is stuffed with criminals. I don't speak about supervillains far above human like Venom or Rhino, just not-bulletproof bad guys like Kingpin. My question is: how fork are all these still alive with Frank Castle shooting around the city? What's the canon reason (I'm sure there's one) why he doesn't just kill them all?

iawcixi

iawi048

Those people are all hard to shoot. They're not spending time in abandoned warehouses like the other people Punisher shoots up.

He tries, and fails, because they're better at surviving than he is at killing. Remember, Punisher is one guy. One guy trying to eat a whale and all he has is a shrimp fork. He's also a criminal himself and has to both avoid being caught by the "good guys" while also trying to take out the "bad guys" with the limited resources he has. Compare to these guys who have entire support networks designed to insulate them from people trying to do them harm and, despite being notorious criminals, can generally walk around in broad daylight without fear of repurcussion.

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askbaking_train

I used unsweetened cocoa powder by mistake I used unsweetened cocoa powder instead of sweetened in my sugar cookies. They are bitter AF. Do you think dipping them in tempered chocolate, or making a sandwich cookie with sweet icing will salvage them?

hnvpgyg

hnvj6jf

I've never heard of "sweetened" cocoa powder. Did your recipe not call for any sugar? If you post your recipe here we can try to troubleshoot.

There's sweetened cocoa powder? Adding something on top won't make them less bitter but it will mask the flavour a bit. You might still get a bitter aftertaste though. Either will work but obviously if you use chocolate stay away from dark

s7z7eu

changemyview_train

CMV: I cannot understand how a modern developed nation can require skirts with bare legs as part of a school uniform, and only for some students I'm mostly talking about the U.K. and Japan of which I know it is done there, but I'm sure there are other cases. I grew up in the Netherlands, where there were no school uniforms, and certainly no bare legs. Almost everyone wore trousers. The idea of not only requiring this, but onnly requiring it for half the students based on their sex seems outright barbaric to me: - It is cold - To me, it appears as needless sexualization of often very young students to require them to expose this much of their skin - It is impractical as the skirts generally lack pockets I cannot understand how this can occur in a modern nation; perhaps in a country without unisex suffrage. Such a thing would only happen in very religious towns in the Netherlands where the opinion is indeed in against unisex suffrage. Outside of it, if a school were to require such a thing, both student and parent alike would not have it, and the courts would surely shut it down immediately as both cruel and sexist. Of course, similar arguments can be raised against the practice of requiring very short trousers, which are less common. — I do not understand how the adults in charge with a straight face can tell the children they are required to expose their legs for no good reason when full length trousers exist.

hteltmj

htf0xwq

I like bare legs in the summer. It's nice and cool and free feeling. If you're at school, people really shouldn't be looking at kids' legs in a sexualised way.

Isn't this somewhat in line with the medieval times, where women were forced to cover various parts of their body because people sexualized those parts? In my country(Korea) girls are free to wear trousers if they feel like and some do; but most students just prefer wearing skirts. I don't think anyone see them as sexual besides a few perverted individuals.

zuk4ap

asksciencefiction_train

[Doctor Who] Is there an in-lore reason the (current) Doctor rarely meets with his future self? Whenever there’s a big crossover event with multiple incarnations of the Doctor meeting, it’s almost always the current Doctor and whoever came before him. There is only exception I can remember, and that’s when Peter Capaldi appeared briefly before his official introduction. Even there, a moment where every Doctor to have been in the show at the time (1-12 + John Hurt) appeared, Capaldi’s Doctor proclaimed that “All Thirteen” were there. That line suggests that The Doctor doesn’t recognize whoever he will become as existing yet, despite the fact many past Doctors have met their future selves. Of course, in real life, they just hadn’t cast Jodie Whittaker or anybody else, there were only 13 Doctors at the time. But that’s no fun, so is there any reason that, in lore, no future Doctors interact with the current Doctor?

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j1jqp7f

> Whenever there’s a big crossover event with multiple incarnations of the Doctor meeting, it’s almost always the current Doctor and whoever came before him. There has been instances where The Doctor has met The Doctor, and neither Doctor has recognized the other, and nobody knows which Doctor is older. And in fact when they met, neither of them believed the other was The Doctor.

No reason to make Doylist elaborations in your question. We try to keep explanations as Watsonian as possible. And slight correction, another time lord said "all 13." The thirteenth doctor didn't speak in that appearance. As for why the doctor rarely meets their future selves... they do. Quite often. You're mostly following the doctor in a linear fashion. So you see him bump into his past selves, on occasion. However, those past selves are seeing their future iterations. So, for example, the twelfth will likely have bumped into his 13th, 14th, etc. iterations at least once. You just won't see that meeting during your exploration of the 12th's story. Every doctor has adventures offscreen we don't see. Meet ups with their future selves are just a small handful of them.

r7deyp

askacademia_train

For those of you on search committees, are you receiving more, less, or the same amount of applicants this year? I'm wondering whether COVID has created a large backlog and therefore more applicants per job, or if it has had the opposite effect where more PhDs have turned to industry, gov, k-12, etc.

hmz9ufj

hmzeg39

My department (in Canada) had the expected amount for their 2021 searches. One had 8 applicants, for a very targeted/specific position. The other positions we had open had 60-80 applicants.

Way, way fewer. Just failed a search over it.

ak3160

askengineers_train

What if money didn't matter? Would you be in the path you have chosen? Would you stay in engineering, change to another field, or change from another field into engineering? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd1IkirWmDo

ef15m1o

ef155ku

If money didnt matter id have a 50 bbl brewery that id constantly work to making almost fully automatic. Self cleaning mashtun and pressurized lines for cleaning fluid. Automatic drain and strain into temp controlled fermenters. Conveyor belts and grinders, natural gas lines and everything would contribute to a symphony to make a caucophony of booze. The best part? The beer fire hose that to blow out people i dont like. The i wouldnt even need to worry about court fees

If money didn’t matter I’d just tinker on guns and cars all day. Maybe drive truck every once in a while.

ucsy5a

legaladvice_train

Last week, I lost my wallet. A guy called me and said he had it, but wanted a $100 reward. I gave him $50 and walked away with my wallet. For all I know, he’s the pick pocket who stole it. Now he’s saying he’s going to sell my information to an identity thief. What do I do?

i6cnro7

i6cslfd

Get new ID and credit cards.

File a police report, replace all of your credit cards, freeze your credit and report your drivers license as stolen. Edit to add, you can unfreeze your credit when you need to apply for a loan.

552szl

explainlikeimfive_train

Explain like I'm five years old: How do singers know they are singing the correct tone if the sound of our voice we hear is different than what others hear?

d875q7k

d871lc6

For clarification, the name of the variable component is timbre, the first syllable of which rhymes with ham, not Jim. Tone can mean multiple things. The clearest breakdown of the sound produced by a singer would be pitch (frequency), volume, and timbre. You have asked about tone, but it seems you mean pitch. The difference between a sound resonating in our head and in a room is not in the frequency, but rather in the timbre. Timbre is the quality of the sound that allows you to tell the difference between a trumpet and a flute. They could play the same frequency and volume, but you could still tell them apart. When a trumpet hears itself on your voicemail, it thinks it sounds like a flute. Stage monitors, as have been mentioned in other posts, are not to correct this phenomenon, but rather to provide a way to hear yourself at all over loud concert crowds and bands. They are also used to combat phasing in large Opera houses where, even though singers are not amplified to the audience, the orchestra in the pit is played through monitors so that the singers are singing in time, rather than with the echo off the back wall of the opera house. Source: am Opera singer and voice teacher.

The pitch isn't really affected by the difference we hear, only the tone and "quality" of the sound. More or less nasal, and more or less "bass" in the voice are usually the biggest differences. It's more like a different equalizer preset than an auto-tune, if you recognize those effects.

aqvefg

askacademia_train

Academics of Reddit - impostor syndrome is something a lot of academics struggle with throughout their careers. But, has anyone actually ever met somebody in a professional sphere they thought was an impostor? The issue of impostor syndrome is quite a widespread one and I doubt many people haven't felt it at some point. It might be interesting, and perhaps helpful for some too, to see whether anyone has ever actually come across an individual in an academic position, where their having expertise would be essential to their role, whom they thought was actually an impostor in some way.

egixzo1

egiy6hr

I've met one true imposter. Basically a sociopath who knew how to say the right things at the right time, but absolutely no real understanding under that veneer. He would get himself into a grad program on the basis of that, then eventually everyone would realize he was both a phony and a creep (he had sexual harassment issues), and then he'd find a way to transfer to another program. After three programs of this his luck finally ran out and he quit grad school. Which is to say: the world is full of many types, and while we'd like to believe that academia would weed out "true" imposters, we all know that there are ways to game academia. So it can happen. But I suspect it's pretty rare. This guy was, to be sure, a stone cold sociopath. Unusual. And though I can't say for sure, I doubt he had imposter syndrome (which is to say, if you feel like you don't belong, you're probably not an actual imposter, unless, like, you get off on that sort of feeling).

g2tgv9

asksciencefiction_train

[SW-The Mandalorian] The Empire had a tracking fob that lead straight to Baby Yoda, it also had an army, why did it need to hire every Bounty Hunter going to go get him?

fnoc7vs

fnnn4fx

Basically you have piles of Nazi Gold but your manpower is dwindling. What do you do? Buy manpower. It seemed like the IMPs officer loyalty to each other was falling apart or they knew was failure could mean. Herzog's character isn't going to ask for help if he didn't need it. Lastly...did you see what those rebels did to that pirate base? Jesus christ, no wonder IMPs are keeping their heads down. Looking at it on the other side the Rebels are super dangerous and will murder you and blow up your base if they catch a whiff of you. Why stick your head out when you have some more qualified bounty hunters to do the job.

Discretion.

qrrfuu

askbaking_train

What are you going to bake for Thanksgiving?! I'm making a caramelized pear/pumpkin pie again and I'm already so excited to eat it. But I might make something else and looking for autumnal inspiration

hk9yjf7

hke2hu1

I’m thinking pumpkin cheesecake bites with cinnamon graham cracker crust. They should travel well in a cupcake holder I think.

It’s a family member’s birthday too so I’m going to do a lemon and raspberry cake! Maybe some nice soft dinner rolls too.

rxkwg0

askbaking_train

Gift Ideas For a 14 Year Old Who Loves to Bake I’ve been invited to a birthday party for a 14 year old who loves to bake. I think she likes to bake sweet and savory. She’s a pescatarian. She made some divine chocolate chip cookies for a small get together a few weeks ago. I was thinking about getting her a book. I think she would like the sciencey aspect of Bravetart and Stella Parks works. I have Dessert Person by Claire Saffitz. I know there is a mistake in it but I don’t remember where. I love some of the recipes but I feel like some of them could have used more testing. I don’t want to set her up to fail. I also love Sally’s Baking Addiction but I don’t have the book. I can’t imagine it’s not great. Any one have it and want to chime in? Any other books or gadgets you can think of? I use an instant read thermometer a lot. I might get her one of those. Tell me all your favorites! By party I mean we are going cross country skiing and horse back riding in Yellowstone. Hopefully some hot springs too. I can’t wait. Thanks for your help.

hriurgm

hrk0fbh

I love the baking books by Kim Joy if you can get them. She was on GBBO and I’ve had good success with the recipes and they’re a great resource for making good looking bakes.

Does she have cookie scoops? If she likes to bake cookies, maybe scoops of different sizes? And another vote for kitchen scale. Let’s convert the next generation to weight not volume 😉