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In the 1960's for about one issue of the Fantastic Four, T'Challah called himself the Black Leopard because of 'politics.' It was never mentioned again. Based on that I'd say in the Marvel Universe the Eldrige Cleaver/Bobby Seale political party was named something else. </s>

N'Jobu had pictures of Bobby Seale and Huey Newton hanging up in his apartment when T'Chaka drops in on him. </s>

<s>[INST] [Marvel/MCU] Does the Black Panther Party exist in the Marvel universe? And if so, what's the relationship between the Party and the king of Wakanda? Is the party named after the superhero, or is the shared name a coincidence and if so how do each of them feel about the other? [/INST]

When did Rogers ever say he was an atheist in 616? </s>

They’ve mainly met gods, not Gods. </s>

<s>[INST] [Marvel/DC] How are characters like Captain America, Batman, Green Arrow, etc atheistic even though they have met several Gods? [/INST]

Differences between sucrose ("sugar") and high-fructose corn syrup? I can't recall if fructose uses a little more energy in the conversion to glucose. </s>

Companies are allowed to round by like...10 to 20%. And can then round it further to the nearest 5, if they so choose. Iirc* </s>

<s>[INST] Explain like I'm five years old If a can of coke has 39 grams of sugar and that amount of sugar equals 151 calories, how come the coke has 139 calories? What happens to the missing equivalent of kcal? [/INST]

I’m not sure about studies, but I have slept more than that almost my whole adult life. There is great variation is what is “normal”. I certainly wouldn’t change your sleep habits for the sake of his “being okay with it”. If that is how you have normally functioned and it has worked for you in the past, tell him to get over it or go kick rocks. </s>

I am curious why “he can’t deal with it.” I have never looked but I have never seen a study or heard someone talk about 10 hours being bad. Can’t he play video games or something? </s>

<s>[INST] My boyfriend says he cant be with me if I sleep 10 hours per night? He says based on studies I shouldnt need that much sleep? I’m 29 female and always done this, its not consistent. Some nights I work its between 6-8 but if I can I’ll sleep 9-10. Are there any studies to prove its okay to sleep 9-10 hours for a woman? He says more than 8 is excessive and he cant deal with it. [/INST]

Cows have a digestive system heavily optimized for grazing on low-nutritional-value grass. Your small intestine is 5m, theirs is 40m. Your stomach is a small bag, theirs is a giant 4-chambered complex organ that they use like a fermentation vat. Plant matter that passes through this system is thoroughly destroyed and fermented by bacteria into nutrition for the cow. "Non-ruminant" herbivores that don't use this layout tend to leave more undigested fiber in their poo. </s>

Basically because cows are not as good at conserving water as other herbivores. Because their bodies aren’t trying to save water they don’t spend the energy to reabsorb the water in their poop. An herbivore who lives in an environment where water is scarce wants to loose the least amount of water through its poop as possible, so their bodies spend the energy to pull as much water from their poop as possible. Water is not a limiting resource for cows, so their bodies are not adapted to be efficient at saving water. </s>

<s>[INST] Eli5: How is it that Cows can consume the same fibrous grass that makes every other herbivores scat into tight balls, somehow manage to produce turds of such low density as to be called "cow patties"? ? [/INST]

This is actually pretty interesting because there are the same number of numbers between 0 and 1 and 0 and 2. Vsauce did videos that explains this much better than I can in a reddit comment: Banach–Tarski Paradox, directly related to question, and How To Count Past Infinity </s>

The concept of size that’s used for infinite sets is basically this: Two sets are the same size if you can pair the members from one up with the members of the other with no leftovers. You can do that with the two sets OP asked about, so they’re actually the same size. But you can’t do that with the set of all integers and the set of all numbers between 0 and 1. </s>

<s>[INST] Explain like I'm five years old: There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There are also infinite numbers between 0 and 2. There would more numbers between 0 and 2. How can a set of infinite numbers be bigger than another infinite set? [/INST]

Tuberculosis is another one that gets physically walled off to be contain it </s>

Typhoid Mary? Seriously though that seems like an example where a person's body became a colony of the virus without completely destroying it to the point that she stayed contagious. Can any redditors explain how that might have worked from a biological standpoint? How often does that happen to people? Most of what I find about it is history and they say something like 'medicine of the day was baffled' but then they don't elaborate at all about what modern science says about the phenomena </s>

<s>[INST] What exactly happens when the immune system is able to contain a disease but can't erradicate it completely? [/INST]

There's no way to answer this question without knowing the metal and the temperature. </s>

How much heat are we talking about and what is the environment? edit: Oh, and what is the application? </s>

<s>[INST] Would consistent heat degrade the metal components of a device? For computer or chemical engineers out there. [/INST]

There is an Indo-European mythological kingship ritual that has been variously attached to a few different, disparate cultures. In it, the prospective king is purported to have had sex with a white horse, who is then butchered and put into a large cauldron. The prospective king also gets into this cauldron and a soup is made from the horse and the king that the attendees of this ritual then all eat from. I have heard this described by multiple academics, colloquially, as the "sexy horse feast," and it is one of my goals to continue this tradition (though I, as of yet, have never the opportunity to teach said ritual.) </s>

In my field, there's a conference management software system called HotCRP, but people orally refer to it as "hot crap"... even though it's pretty good! </s>

<s>[INST] What is your 'favorite' academic jargon? From my grad advisor years back: 'Not to be pedantic' then followed by something that is either common knowledge or incredibly obscure. Field specific jargon that even most people that have been researching the topic for decades don't even know. [/INST]

NFTs </s>

Hyperloop </s>

<s>[INST] What is a current product that you expect will ultimately fail? [/INST]

Yes, replacing the flour is what I would do. I wouldn't go over 10% cocoa powder by bakers percentages, personally, or else I'd expect the cocoa to overpower all the other flavors </s>

I've always been told to sub the flour, but never more than 1/7 of the total. That's enough to give it a good chocolate flavor and color, but not enough to make it dry and crumbly. I haven't done it with a pound cake, but it's always worked for cookies. </s>

<s>[INST] How can I accommodate for cocoa powder in pound cake? So recently I’ve gotten into making traditional ratioed pound cakes (1:1:1:1 flour:sugar:eggs:butter) with some variations of different extracts or spices or zests or chocolate chips or apple chunks or whatever mixed in. I recently decided to try and make a mint chocolate pound cake, but if I want to stick with my super basic recipe (I’m more of a cook than a baker) how should I accommodate foe the cocoa powder I need to add in? I saw via some googling to replace some of the flour with it, but I’m not sure if I should believe that and if I should do it, how much to use (my immediate thought was a 1/4 or 1/2 cup of cocoa) [/INST]

I think there are a lot of extraverts in the management/decision making positions. This is anecdata of course. The vast majority of “we should get back to work in person” and/or “we should have virtual team-building events” suggestions that I’ve seen at my work have seemed to come from people who seem fairly extraverted, or don’t have a ton of adult human contact in their day to day personal lives. </s>

Meanwhile my dept never left. For the past two weeks at least half of us have been out sick. </s>

<s>[INST] Return to office rationale At a company with well over 1k employees only our dept is told to return to the office 3x a week, without an explanation of the rationale.The nature of our work is by no means site essential. Trying to determine what’s really at play here. Bit of background, we’ve had some turnover of late, management giving the rto mandate does not have to follow it, and our dept’s work has been praised for its quality while never missing a deadline. Considering everything, I’m curious what others in a similar situation have been told (of think) is the rationale for rto? [/INST]

In this image, the all white background is probably what gets people to assume model first. We rarely see real cars in such a way, so our minds instantly jump to model in such condition. You can make models a look lot more realistic if you place them in a realistic environment. This imagine shows how a model car can look pretty real. Here's another from the same photographer. </s>

Is it that easy though? It's easy to see because in your example, the model is not in a life-like environment at all. If you do place something in a lifelike environment with a good model, it's not so easy to see the difference. See this example. Only under very intense scrutiny could you figure out if this is real or not. And even then it would require a trained eye in my opinion. Result of above real or not? </s>

<s>[INST] Explain like I'm five years old: Why can we immediately spot the difference between a model car and a real one even if there is nothing to compare its size to? Just take a look at this picture, you can tell immediately that its a model car even though there is nothing in the picture to compare its size to. My guess is that the paint isn't authentic to our eyes, but are there other reasons as well? [/INST]

most people see Death as something evil, something that ends the joy of being alive. Deadpool, tortured and in constand late-stage cancer sees Death more like Death likes to see herself, as pleasant release from the pains of injury and sickness. Deadpool actually wants to die, what Death has to offer, not just to impress her, he actually loves her for what she is. </s>

Let's strip away the cosmic stuff and parse it this way. You're a girl. You have two suitors. One is constantly sending you flowers, making big artworks of you, doing you unasked for favors, contacting you constantly, and generally always pestering you. One is clearly into you, but also has his own thing. He does nice things for you and likes to hang out, but isn't always at your house. Which one do you ask out, and which one do you get a restraining order against? </s>

<s>[INST] [Marvel] Why does Death prefer Deadpool to Thanos? [/INST]

Sometimes I only read parts of it that is relevant to my writing, not necessarily the whole content. </s>

Depends on the author. I’ve found a few submissions that when reading the papers that were cited, it was clear the author did not understand/read the cited paper. </s>

<s>[INST] do people really read all the papers they cite? or do they just read the abstracts? or do they just read someone elses’ literature review and cite what they said about the paper? [/INST]

25 here. Working in naval engineering. Located in New Jersey. Third year on the job and making $90,000 with guaranteed pay raises every year. Working on my Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering part time as my job pays for it. </s>

ITT: 5-10yr experienced engineers lurking that need to ask for a raise. </s>

<s>[INST] I'm curious about the percentage of people that are 25 years of age and what is your career looking like at this age. Salary, work location and years of experience wise.... Doesn't have to be 25 years of age! I'm just curious because I'm 25 myself and I'm moving out to Austin next month for a new job. Other inputs welcomed. [/INST]

FIRE COOK MEAT MAKE SAFER. FIRE KEEP WARM STOP FREEZE TO DEATH. FIRE GOOD JUST BE CAREFUL. </s>

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<s>[INST] CMV: FIRE BAD! ME NO LIKE FIRE. FIRE BURN MY WOOD HOUSE. MY BABY GO CLOSE TO FIRE. FIRE BURN HIM. ME USE ANIMAL SKIN FOR WARM, NO NEED FIRE TO KEEP WARM. ME SLEEP AT NIGHT. NO NEED FIRE TO SEE. FIRE BURN FOREST. FIRE BURN TREES. FIRE BURN ANIMALS. FIRE TAKE AWAY MY FRUIT AND MEAT. FIRE MAKE ME STARVE TILL I MOVE AWAY. EVERYBODY IN MY TRIBE SAY FIRE GOOD. I SAY FIRE BAD. CMV [/INST]

Totoro was in Toy Story 3. </s>

I wonder if Warhammer miniatures would be alive. </s>

<s>[INST] [Toy Story] Are Anime Figures (even the not kid-friendly ones) Also Secretly Alive? What Social Circles in Toy-Society Would They Be In? [/INST]

You have a valid defense: "It's a fake sign that I made up myself. Permits are not required for that spot." Using it will, however, lead to a much bigger fine as what you did was very much illegal. Suck it up and don't do it again. </s>

You put up a fake sign and didn't think to make yourself a fake permit to display on the dash? Pay the fine, out of principle. </s>

<s>[INST] [DE] Put up a fake "Permit Parking Only" sign so I could park in front on my apartment easier, but got a real ticket. My apartment is close to a few good bars so often after work its hard to find a spot, so I mocked up a fake "Permit Parking Only" sign. It worked really well until I woke up to a parking ticket for not having a permit, how do I fight this? Or do I just need to embrace karma of it all. My place is in Wilmington, Delaware. [/INST]

Exactly how are you supposed to have defamed him? </s>

People threaten to sue all the time and don't. There's nothing you can do until you're served legal papers. </s>

<s>[INST] I (24F) reported my coworker(68M) for taking pictures of my butt and legs at work without my knowledge or consent. He’s now told me he has a lawyer and will be suing me for defamation. How worried should I be about this? As far as I know reporting a behavior that someone is actually doing is not defamation. I’m kind of freaking out because I’m barely scraping by and I can’t afford a lawyer. ETA his reasoning for taking these photos was to “document my uniform violations” when I was wearing pants that he felt were “too provocative”. They were just slacks but I have a big butt. He is not in my chain of command, just another employee. [/INST]

Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, if we take the extreme option. Marvin the paranoid android. Angel in Buffy season 2/3. </s>

I mean its not SciFi but in Greek mythology Prometheus had a pretty shit deal. He stole fire from Olympus and gave it to mankind, as punishment Zeus commanded that a giant bird ate his liver every day and that every night his body would heal itself only for the bird to eat it again. </s>

<s>[INST] [Torchwood/General] Jack Harkness was buried for 2000 years, suffocating and reviving countless times. Have any other immortal beings had a shittier time because of their 'gift'? [/INST]

Now imagine candy apples, which are just raw apples dipped in red sugar candy which then hardens to a hard brittle shell that you have to bite through to get to the apple. Impossible to eat. So bonkers how these things took hold. </s>

If they didn’t cut it for you maybe next time try that, it would be a better experience. I refuse to eat an unsliced caramel apple </s>

<s>[INST] Caramel apples are really just that? Raw fruit? Title. Not from a western country, never had a chance to try one until adulthood. In media they always look soft and fluffy inside, so I assumed the fruit itself was first baked/cooked and then dipped in caramel or candy coating, but when I first had one it was a fresh crunchy apple dipped in sticky caramel. Not only it tasted incredibly weird texture-wise but it was also a huge pain in the ass to eat. I thought then it was just a lazy knock off stall who didnt know the proper recipe but today I've had a though to look it up and apparently it is just that? A freaking Granny Smith dipped in toffee? Can people who live in the US tell me what is it really like? [/INST]

It really depends on the brand. I can tell you first hand that any non-branded shoes you purchase at Target will fall apart after a month or so. Here's my days working electronics retailing coming back to be helpful for once in my life. Some brands really are crap that only coast on a name and advertising (Beats By Dre), but there are others that put the effort in and as a result are really good quality products that are significantly better than cheaper products (Bose). EDIT: apparently I'm the only Reddit user who has ever had good experiences with Bose products. Please don't detract this from the point I'm trying to make that not all brand name products are complete garbage </s>

For an easy example go to the mall and look at T-shirts from Old Navy, Gap and Banana Republic. All three are the same parent company but the Banana Republic is a superior T-shirt and the quality difference is fairly easy to see. </s>

<s>[INST] Explain like I'm five years old: When you buy a piece of clothing from a name brand such as Nike, Calvin Klein, or even Dolce and Gabbana, are the actual materials and product quality better than something from Walmart, or are you only paying for the branding? [/INST]

Tony had the Asgardian's notes to crib off of when it was time to build his Aether Extractor; while Asgard was more or less starting from scratch (or worse than scratch, since not all of their data on the Aether was good), Tony would be able to consult with Thor and take advantage of his first-hand experience. </s>

Do we have confirmation that Tony was behind it all? I assumed that Rocket was the brains there: dude's a certified genius at building weaponry/technology et al, and I get the sense that he'd have a *lot* more knowledge from various different civilisations across the universe than the "Nine Realms" Asgardians do. </s>

<s>[INST] [MCU] The Asgardians, an incredibly advanced species, couldn't find a way to safely remove the reality stone from Jane. So how did Tony, with comparatively lesser technology, do it so easily? In TDW, the Asgardians made a big deal about how it would be extremely difficult to safely separate the reality stone from Jane. And yet, in 2023, Tony managed to create the technology to do it, with relative ease; how? [/INST]

Use it in mashed potatoes. Maybe with a bit of celeriac </s>

I’m gonna be honest with what I would do: a big-ass batch of onion dip </s>

<s>[INST] Creative uses for waaay too much leftover sour cream I've got a big tub of sour cream and few ideas of how to use it before it goes off. I don't bake and I already have a big batch of soup to finish off, so those are two categories off the table. Please help. I can only eat so many pirogies. [/INST]

The speed of light is 1. You can do all of physics just using fractions of the speed of light, which makes the question completely disappear. You can ask "why is the speed of light 300 million times a typical human walking speed" - that is a question we can answer. But if you ask "why 300,000 km/s" the answer is just "happens to be that value based on our arbitrary units". </s>

LOL No worries, I'll just check the source code for the universe. Um, looks like c and hbar are both 1 and god left a TODO comment that I can't quite decipher, something about these affecting a lot of things. </s>

<s>[INST] Why is the speed of light what it is? why not any faster or slower? How/Why did the universe define the speed of light? [/INST]

people worshipping you and acknowledging you as superior to them. not just having power over people, but having them *want* to be subjugated by you. people fear thanos but they will never love him he doesn't really care though because he just wants to eliminate half of all life. he has convinced himself the universe will be grateful once he's done it and doesn't need any verification of that. </s>

I interpreted the line as this: While Thanos could acquire limitless power, he would just be a collosal brute who needed the Infinity Stones to accomplish his dreams whereas Loki is the god of mischief and doesn't need cosmic playthings to get ahead. Which, being par for the course, is a blatant lie. </s>

<s>[INST] [MCU] Loki seems to think it's this big own when he tells Thanos that he'll never be a god. What does he mean by this? What makes someone a god? Can you become one? Does Thanos care? [/INST]

The Good Place, from the good place (at least at the end of the series without giving away any spoilers) </s>

What dreams may come with Robin Williams was pretty nice. Each person gets their own version of heaven to do with what they please, you can travel to other people's paradise and stay there, merge realms as well as there being a sort of hub world where you can go and meet new people etc and the best part is you can be reincarnated but when you die again your original heaven still exists but you also create a new heaven tailor made for your newer incarnation </s>

<s>[INST] [General] What is possibly the best afterlife in all fiction? [/INST]

I'm surprised Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, by Samin Nosrat, hasn't been mentioned yet. It will teach you how to taste and adjust your food as you cook it, which is hugely important. *edit:* I am in love with SFAH and if my description above is dry, that's only to refrain from gushing about it for paragraphs. </s>

The Professional Chef from the Culinary Institute of America. On Food & Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen by Harold McGee. Larousse Gastronomique: The World's Greatest Culinary Encyclopedia Jacques Pépin New Complete Techniques by the Yoda of Cooking. The Professional Pastry Chef: Fundamentals of Baking and Pastry by Bo Friberg, Amy Kemp Friberg </s>

<s>[INST] What are 5 great books to have if you don't have the money to go to culinary school, but want to understand flavors, techniques, and maybe even styles? I've been fortunate to pickup Flavor Bible by Karen Page and must say it was an eye opener. I would love to know other similar books but now instead of flavor, could be focusing on techniques, etc. Hoping you could help. Thanks [/INST]

They 100% fucking </s>

Absolutely no reason to believe they wouldn't. Captain Rodgers is a pretty welcoming accepting guy, and Captain Carter is still Peggy Carter, a woman who was sweet on Steve Rodgers, and a woman who Captain America had put the moves on. </s>

<s>[INST] [MCU] Would Captain America and Captain Carter be....ok around each other if they ever somehow met? [/INST]

that gouda spent the last 1000 days in the perfect environment for it - as soon as it left that environment, it began to get old and die. industrial levels of packaging and refrigeration kept it stable long enough to make it to your house, but by the time you open it, slice it up, and put the leftovers in the fridge? it's got literally days to live. as soon as it was removed from its preferred environment, and as soon as you took it out of it's technologically-guaranteed stasis, its days were numbered. this is your fault, OP. you know what you have to do. don't let its sacrifice be in vain. </s>

The cheese paste is no longer protected by the rind from mold, drying, or oxidization. It's been handled by cheesemongers, wrapped (usually) in crappy off-gassing plastic, and subjected to whatever microbial excitement loves in your fridge. Also, cheese doesn't just get consistently better as it continues to age. Your 1000 day Gouda is about as good as it's going to get. Aged Gouda past its prime gets waxy, crumbly, and tastes a bit like burnt soy sauce. </s>

<s>[INST] Explain like I'm five years old: Why does 1000 day aged Gouda have a use by date of 30 days? [/INST]

Butter and salt. We use much more than home cooks. We use both in more dishes than home cooks too. We use shallots. Learn how to sharpen and hone your knives. Clean as you go. </s>

MISE EN PLACE. That is number one. Its always the first thing I teach apprentices. Have your oil in a squeezy bottle, have your salt and pepper in pinch pots. line up your tools. Put a damp towel under your chopping board. Get all the ingredients out of the fridge or cupboard at the same time. Get your pots and pans out and ready. 5 minutes at the start will save you so much time and will mean your not going through the pantry with stuff all over your hands while your onions burn. Cooking Isn't hard it just takes practice and preparation. </s>

<s>[INST] What things do you do in a restaurant kitchen that home cooks don't do in a home kitchen, but should? The best one that always stays with me is "light the broiler, no matter what you're cooking". Restaurants have something called a "salamander" they use for finishing dishes, melting cheeses, crispier sauces. I've found this incredibly helpful on most any home cooked item. [/INST]

Yay free comment thread </s>

Just commenting so in can tell my grandkids I once commented on /r/AskHistorians and it's wasn't deleted </s>

<s>[INST] Can someone explain why this sub was temporarily banned today? What made some dumbass admin decide to terminate an active sub with 1.3 million users? [/INST]

Reading thru this thread, I've just realised: Whilst highly unlikely to be one of the first things to cross his mind, as soon as the snap happened, Stark would've realised at some point, that it was more than likely that the Vision was dead/destroyed - it was unlikely that Thanos would've "collected the set" without disposing of Vizh first. </s>

As far as I know, there's no evidence that the snap specifically eliminated half of every species. </s>

<s>[INST] [MCU] Do you think Rocket Raccoon was never going to die from the snap in any alternate future because ain't nothing like him 'cept him? You can't eliminate half of a unique species. [/INST]

A very common way is something called Heat tracing on process lines. Effectively you put special insulation around pipes, when it gets too cold, the heat tracing starts putting heat into the pipes so it doesn't freeze (its also done for other reasons though). &#x200B; This also helps things like Butane lines from coming out of gas. </s>

Coolant loops require flowing water to cool the steam back down, and keep operating equipment cooled down and not melting or losing their temper. Even Nuclear Light Water Uranium Reactors can have issues if he coolant loops aren't sufficiently winterized for this operation. And no, it's not as simple as adding antifreeze to it. </s>

<s>[INST] How exactly do you "winterize" a power grid? [/INST]

A guy made an invention to stop it from happening. As gross as it is, when you pour milk you leave little droplets on and around the cap. When you close the cap it becomes stuck there.The milk becomes acidic, grows a bit of bacteria and essentially curdles. Just wipe all of the milk off of the neck and cap when you're done :) </s>

the jug design matters. kwik trip (an upper midwest convenience store chain) used to use nicer, higher quality design (even had a pop-off seal on the jug underneath the cap) that minimized the milk that got 'stuck' to the top that causes the stinky dried milk. but they changed to a cheaper design, similar to that used by most other dairies, a few years ago. </s>

<s>[INST] Explain like I'm five years old: Why do plastic milk jugs always have gross little dried flakes of milk crust around the edge of the cap? No other containers of liquid (including milk-based ones) seem to have this problem. [/INST]

The sanctums are located at key points of magical resonance. The Sorcerer responsible for guarding a Sanctum uses this magical resonance to power a spell that, along with the other 3 Sanctums, serves to protect Earth from threats from beyond our dimension. Tldr? 4 wizards did it. </s>

In the What If series, >!Strange Supreme ends up destroying his entire universe by performing actions solely on earth!<. If anyone, anywhere in the universe could do something like that, I can scarcely believe any universe would survive for very long. As weird as it is, there does appear to be something that makes Earth uniquely important in the grand scheme of things. Constructing the Sanctums there makes sense. </s>

<s>[INST] [Dr. Strange] Why does the entirety of the universe rely on four places on Earth to protect it? If the four sanctums are taken out, apparently that just allows any kind of dark being to swoop in onto earth? No doubt Dormamu would have kept going to swallow other planets or maybe the universe instead of just earth. [/INST]

Some engines do reclaim a portion of it with the use of turbochargers. </s>

Low latent heat is difficult to recover efficiently. It’s why sterling engines aren’t used much. </s>

<s>[INST] If the engines in cars waste 70% of energy as heat, why don’t we reclaim that? This may be a stupid question, but couldn’t we use thermoelectric generators to reclaim some of this lost energy? [/INST]

The next thing out of their mouth is usually, “Can you fix my….?” </s>

"You're an engineer and you can't fix..(something not related to actual engineering)" Or the, "oh Mr. Engineer doesn't know what happened in (some random *but specific* knowledge this person knows) Being an engineer you're expected to know everything, from non engineers lol </s>

<s>[INST] How do people react when you tell them that you're an engineer? [/INST]

I switched jobs after 2 years and got a 20k raise then got an interview shortly after that gave me a 10k raise so it's certainly doable. The nice thing about having a job is that looking for other jobs is something you can do "for fun" rather than having pressure to do something. Some employers care if you job hop though while others don't. </s>

Get pics of your boss with a goat. </s>

<s>[INST] Quickest way to increase salary? Ive always heard the quickest way to increase your salary is to change jobs every few years. Is this true? What is the minimum amount of time to stay at a job that wont look bad on a resume? [/INST]

Eletrician here, Yes but not enough for a sane human to care. It pulls a very a small amount power. Really old chargers can sometimes be a bit more wasteful even then it's still like whatever. To put it even more simply the seconds it would require me too unplug and replug the charger are worth significantly more to me then the cost. </s>

They consume a very small amount of power, but a good rule of thumb is that if it isn't warm after many hours, it's not drawing very much power - even a watt or two is enough to be noticeably warm. </s>

<s>[INST] Explain like I'm five years old: Does a phone charger or any other cable that is unused still waste energy and therefore money? Or do they only waste energy when they are connected to something? [/INST]

Just wondering, is it possible then to receive and 80 year old liver/heart into a 20 year old and then when they are 80 pass it on indefinitely? </s>

Age is very relevant in organ transplant. You wouldn't want to put a grown man's kidneys inside of a child or vice versa. However once the candidate and donor are fully grown, age is much less of a factor in terms of compatibility. </s>

<s>[INST] Explain like I'm five years old:Do donated organs age according to the donor´s age or do they adapt to the age of the new body? [/INST]

\*Staring at a datasheet, single-line drawing, etc.\* "Hmm... ah hah... it appears to run on some form of electricity" </s>

"Show them you can walk on water and they will send you across the lake to get a candy bar." </s>

<s>[INST] Are there any interesting colloquialisms you've heard on the job? I'll start. One of our senior engineers likes to use the phrase "We swallow elephants but choke on gnats around here." [/INST]

Then it would be cast rather than forged. Forged metal is stronger than cast metal. Forged metal has a kind of grain. It’s like the difference between hitting someone with a piece of MDF or a similarity dense 2x4. The MDF is gonna break a lot easier because it’s just a bunch of particles pressed together rather than oriented and interlocked with a grain. </s>

Cast metal is strong thick. Like a cast iron block in your classic car. Forged metal realigns molecules to be stronger thin, but is more labor intensive. </s>

<s>[INST] Explain like I'm five years old: Why do blacksmiths need to 'hammer' blades into their shape? Why can't they just pour the molten metal into a cast and have it cool and solidify into a blade-shaped piece of metal? [/INST]

The same techniques are used to achieve what plastic surgeons consider a perfect face. My best friend's dad growing up was a plastic surgeon and he would go to conferences and stuff just to study what makes the face "beautiful." When one doctor would find an amazing way to do X procedure that had an amazing outcome for a patient, other doctors would adopt that way of doing the procedure. So basically all these plastic surgeons are learning from each other. Why reinvent the wheel type of thing. This results in similar looking features. </s>

Keep in mind that we also mostly notice bad or weird plastic surgery, a good example is Tom Cruise, for his age he looks extremely good : That's a good lifting there. </s>

<s>[INST] Explain like I'm five years old: Why do people who have had severe plastic surgery end up having the same looking face/features? I have noticed that most of them end up having some variation of Jocelyn Wildenstein face. Are plastic surgeons taught in med school to only create that one face or is that how a human with the ideal facial symmetry supposed to look like? [/INST]

In short the same reason why *human skin isn’t anything else but light to dark brown and also the same reason why *human hair is naturally certain shades of one another like brown, blonde, black, red, etc. It’s because of a natural pigment group of amino acids called melanin that is the pigment in most living organisms. When is comes over to eye color, blue means no melanin in the eye, and when light particles get absorbed they gets scattered back into the atmosphere. Eyes with a little bit of melanin are green to hazel and eyes with a lot of melanin are brown to dark brown. </s>

Didn’t Elizabeth Taylor have purple eyes? </s>

<s>[INST] Explain like I'm five years old: Why is the human eye colour generally Brown, Blue and other similar variations. Why no bright green, purple, black or orange? [/INST]

Yeah, don't waste time answering calls from numbers you don't recognize. 95% are spam and that other 5% will leave a message or text you if it's important. </s>

I have never in my life considered buying something from a telemarketer. What kind of person are they able to convert to a sale? </s>

<s>[INST] Explain like I'm five years old what actually happens with a spam call and no one is in the other line, only a few clicks or beeps? [/INST]

Peter Parker sold his marriage to satan. </s>

The dance scene from Spider-man 3. And early on in his career, he's faked photos for the Bugle to make money. My favorite was when he just threw sand in the air and then started punching it to make it look like he was fighting Sandman. </s>

<s>[INST] [Marvel/DC] What’s the most despicable thing an otherwise wholesome hero(Spider-Man, Captain America, Shazam, etc.) has done? [/INST]

The ones that feed me/buy me beer and then turn me loose for the rest of the day. I spend enough time with my coworkers, I don't particularly want to go do something none of us really want to do in order to spend _more_ time with them. </s>

Optional ones during normal business hours, preferably involving company-provided food and drink. </s>

<s>[INST] What team building activities do you actually look forward to and enjoy? [/INST]

Bigger drama here. I'm in a smaller faculty, so we don't have a department chair only a dean (we'll call them Dean X). Dean X's current term is almost up and they are at the maximum number of terms that my school usually allows. Dean X has a couple of minions who have been campaigning to faculty members for another term and two of them even went to the provost. Little does Dean X know...there's an internal candidate gunning for the job that is backed by basically every single female faculty member and a few of the junior male faculty who are sick of the Dean's favoritism of a few people. </s>

Our Department was officially shut down! Reduced to a MA only Program and faculty dispersed throughout other departments. Embarrassing. Largely a product of an ultra conservative "run the University like a business" President, but also certainly due to a Department that was mired in political divisions and poor job placement after graduation. </s>

<s>[INST] What drama is happening in your department right now? After hearing some interesting tales of pettiness, I'm looking to hear yours. What drama is happening among your department or school now? How do you plan to cope with it? [/INST]

Ahh yes, the old plumb bobs from the pre Newtonian gravity era. Those ones were made before the new gravitational standard was set at the 1671 Rome Accords. Bringing them up to the current spec is difficult. You can still use them if they're in calibration, but you have to remember that they'll be off by sqrt(pi) degrees in the direction of the equator in comparison with the new standard. </s>

It’s quite simple, you just need to position a massive object (perhaps a small moon) to the side that the plumbbob is leaning away from. Then adjust the distance to bring it to vertical. </s>

<s>[INST] Does anyone know how to recalibrate a plumb bob? I have a really old plum bob that is no longer hanging straight down, any quick fixes or do I need to break down and buy a new one? [/INST]

I’m in Substation Engineering. 98% of my job is just marking up pdf’s of drawings etc in blue beam. That said, my current employer insists on being in the office all the time. So needless to say, they are only still my current employer until after I get my Christmas bonus, as I’ve accepted a new job at a company that is full wfh. </s>

There was a time during the pandemic I was fully work from home doing FEA simulations and modeling. :-) </s>

<s>[INST] Full time WFH Engineers: What do you do? I've always viewed most engineering (not management) jobs as needing to be in the office/lab/etc. What kind of job do you do as an engineer that's WFH? [/INST]

Probably the same reason people are lactose intolerant. Unless milk could actually out right kill them, they stay in the gene pool. I've been drinking milk since I was a kid. Had bad cramps every day. But since every kid eats cereal for breakfast, milk being the culprit never dawned on me. Suddenly lactose-free milk comes out, I suddenly find that moo juice was the cause. I'm sure generations have suffered the same fate before me. </s>

A documentary was made for this exact question. It's called Cooked: Air. From what I remember, it basically said that the way we make bread has changed drastically in the past 200 years (wonder bread, pure white flour, instant yeast, etc.) and that is what has caused people's "gluten allergies," not to be confused with Celiac's disease. It says that the original way to make bread, with homemade flour and long periods of fermentation, is better for people, and that most people aren't allergic to it. </s>

<s>[INST] Explain like I'm five years old:How after 5000 years of humanity surviving off of bread do we have so many people within the last decade who are entirely allergic to gluten? [/INST]

That's a constructive eviction. 10% off your rent for rendering you homeless is a joke. </s>

look up the minimum sanitary standards for rental in your state and if it’s a violation (I’d bet it is!), call the local board of health and or a lawyer </s>

<s>[INST] Landlord allowed digging on property I'm renting, they broke the main water pipe rendering us without water for 2 weeks, still isn't fixed and we still don't have water. She's offered 10% off the rent despite the house being unlivable for half a month. what to do? I talked with her, explained we haven't been able to stay in the house for the time the water has been off. We have 2 young children 5 and 3, who haven't been able to bathe, or shower. They brought us a truckbed full of gallon jugs of water so we can flush the toilet and "have" water. I tried to talk her down on the rent considering we haven't been able to stay in the home, she told me maybe I should find a new place to live. Does anyone have any options for me? &#x200B; I live in Montana, USA [/INST]

Depends. If they are fighting equally strong opponents (such as Terminator v Terminator) throwing does the most damage with the least risk. It also frees up his hands to use his guns, offering far more damage for far less risk. In the case specifically of Terminator, he was often trying to not kill, and so throwing a human was sufficient. I don't know as much about nemesis, but from what I understand, he is often punching, and his grip isn't that good, so he resorts to throwing because it's what he can manage. </s>

If you're melee fighting something smaller than you, but is still able to damage you, than throwing it into things is a good way to hurt it while putting yourself out of range of counterattack. Also, you won't get viscera all over yourself. </s>

<s>[INST] [Fiction] Why do hulking, strong monsters like Nemesis or the Terminator seem to have a fighting style that consists of throwing the protagonist away from themselves as opposed to just crushing them in their grip like an egg? [/INST]

It might have bought some time. And even a few seconds can make all the difference. As for whether or not it would, who knows? Voldemort was one of the most powerful, talented wizards of his time, after all. </s>

It's more meant to highlight James' bravery. Even if he had his wand, it wouldn't have made much difference. Voldemort is one of the most powerful wizards ever, and his horcruxes make him immortal. And there's James Potter, ready to fight an immortal dark wizard with his bare hands to protect his wife and child. </s>

<s>[INST] [Harry Potter] One thing always emphasized is that James didn’t have his wand when Voldemort killed him and then Lily. Would it have made any difference? How powerful was Voldemort at that point? Could anyone or any combination of people aside from Dumbledore have defeated him? [/INST]

I worked with an agency that did advertising for some RV dealers. From my understanding, there's a gigantic profit margin on each unit. Plus, many of them also make money from their service department as well. </s>

I actually work at an RV dealership. You'd be surprised how much they sell we're in a small town and sell from 40 to 100 a month depending on the season. You also have to remember there are alot of our of state purchases made too. Most of the time experienced RV owners are looking for very specific floorplans and will travel from Washington state to Florida just to get the exact unit. It's actually a facinating industry to be a part of. You also have to remember that gross is way higher on RVs than cars so it doesnt take as many RVs to sell to make the same amount of money as a car dealership, and in some cases even more. </s>

<s>[INST] Explain like I'm five years old How do RV dealerships really work? Every dealership, it seems like hundreds of RVs are always sitting on the lot not selling through year after year. Car dealerships need to move this year’s model to make room for the next. Why aren’t dealerships loaded with 5 year old RVs that didn’t sell? [/INST]

Never actually solved one after uni, but the deeply ingrained knowledge that dynamic systems can either settle down, oscillate stably or oscillate until they blow up has been useful in all kinds of situations. Also, the knowledge that if I need to know what will happen more accurately I can describe a system in terms of Laplace and solve the equation has given me courage to tackle some problems that I might have avoided otherwise. </s>

This sub is a weird mix of people who didn't do anything harder than a PowerPoint presentation in their careers and get paid 200k and people who do cutting edge R&D shit and get paid 50k lol. </s>

<s>[INST] Dear engineers who have been working in the field for a long time, when was the last time you solved a Laplace transform? [/INST]

Absolutely. That's what Vaught and Becca were trying doing with Ryan, and I think they would have been successful if Homelander had been kept away </s>

Yes but it's very tricky. The secret is that you have to dump them in a corn field with some older but loving farmers who will raise him to be a kindhearted everyman from small town USA who believes in the dream of Truth, Justice and the American way. </s>

<s>[INST] [The Boys]is there a way to raise a kid with Homlander's powers that's safe but also won't result in an emotionally stunted adult? so both Homlander and now his son were raised in isolation because, for obvious reasons, a small child with such incredible superpowers might be incredible dangerous. So the thing is the character they're both based on, superman, turned out the way he did largely because he had a normal childhood where he grew up interacting with other people in a normal way. I get why if you actually had a ten year old who can functionally do whatever he wants you'd be reluctant to have him in regular society, but it also seems like if you don't you get an emotionally stunted adult who can also do whatever he wants. [/INST]

No, I genuinely take pride in getting to call myself an Engineer. I worked hard for the degree, continue to work hard in my career, and I’m not ashamed if the ‘title’ comes with a little prestige. At the end of the the day, I think how you treat people is what matters most. People will love or hate you based on your interactions with them. If my title gives me a little early benefit, because it implies I have a decent level of intelligence; well ok! It’s still on me to prove it, and be a kind person while I do. </s>

From my experience, people ask that question to make small talk. Most people don’t really know the details of what engineers do (other than that they’re generally well paid), so it’s kind of a conversation-ender a lot of the time. I think that’s what contributes to a lot of weirdness. </s>

<s>[INST] Does anyone else dislike calling themselves an engineer when asked about what you do for a living? I used to take a lot of pride in it but the last year or two I feel like it’s such a humble brag. I’ve turned to describing what product/equipment I work with instead of giving my title out at the question. Anyone else feel the same or is just my shitty imposter syndrome? Also, hope everyone is doing well with the crazy shit going on in our job market during the pandy. [/INST]

An ancient process called fire assaying. Determines the ppm gold in a sample. I used to be a fire assayer. AMA. </s>

See this hole, I can pull 10k a day out and it cost me 5k a day to do it. 1 month later: See this hole, I can pull 4k a day out and it cost me 5k a day to do it. Time to stop. Operation is at a loss. &#x200B; If I really had to explain it to my 5 year old which I have: You can reach into the cookie jar and get as many cookies as you can pull out if you give me 1 cookie before you do it. The next day: Cookie jar has half a cookie left in it. You can reach into the cookie jar and get as many cookies as you can pull out if you give me 1 cookie before you do it. </s>

<s>[INST] Explain like I'm five years old: How is it determined that a mine has run out of gold? [/INST]

Only Ray Bans can do the job and that’s why they’re called that. </s>

I'd say they have to be more than just RayBans. Neauralyzer specs aren't necessarily public knowledge, but logic would dictate that any tech with that ability would require advanced shielding to guard against. </s>

<s>[INST] [Men in Black] Are the MIBs' sunglasses coated with some kind of anti-neuralyzer material, or would any sunglasses do the job? [/INST]

Refuse to engage with her any further. If she files for paternity, and you are correct that you've never seen this person before, then the DNA test would very quickly end the whole discussion. </s>

I would let the police handle it. If seeing she doesn't recognize you didn't tip her off that she is wrong then this is a scam or she has cognitive issues. Either way, don't interact and call the police. </s>

<s>[INST] [PA] Woman is claiming I 21M am the father of her 8 year old daughter. She is threatening me with family court. A week ago a woman came knocking on my front door, when I answered she claimed that I am the father of her 8 year old daughter. I'm 21 and male. The problem is I have never met this woman in my damn life and moreso I've never had sex with a woman in my life. Today it happened again and she told me if I don't agree to child support she will take me to court. I don't know what to do at all in this situation and I'm asking for any advice I can. [/INST]

My old manager had a good way to see if somebody was a good person to work with. Of course it's not perfect, but it does weed out the douche bags. If the interview goes well, he takes them out to lunch. And he pays extra attention to how they treat the waiter/waitress. If they talk down to the server, or are rude to them in any way, then they aren't getting the job because he wants somebody who is humble and doesn't think they are more important than anybody. </s>

Man we hired a mid to late 20s engineer that threw us for a loop -Wasn't showing up to work until after 9 closer to 11 and leaving at five -Went on a business trip and didn't show up to the supplier site the next morning. Apparently went out partying - had a bad coke problem come to find out No red flags during the interview stage and passed the drug screen </s>

<s>[INST] Did you or your team ever make a bad hire before? How bad were they? Also what red flags were overlooked in the interview process? [/INST]

Sort of unrelated to OP's story, but the question got me curious - what happens in the real world if someone didn't talk for years (something like selective mutism)? Would your larynx be weak so that talking again would be an issue you'd have to have some form of physical therapy for? </s>

There's a world of difference between being alive for 2000 years without using your voice, and being frozen for 2000 years. Assuming your story solves the issue of unfreezing without damage, and people's brains and hearts and systems work normally -- vocal cords should too. </s>

<s>[INST] What happens to your voice if you don't speak for a very long time? I'm writing a story and a woman in the story is unfrozen after 2000 years, not speaking for that amount of time obviously. I was wondering if your voice would be completely gone due to that or if your voice would just be really hoarse? [/INST]

The richest engineer I know just retired. He worked at my company for over 20 years as part of test engineering. He bought company stock during his entire tenure and never sold. Loosely, my company stock hovered around $7 during much of that period. My company offers a discount plan and a buy one get one plan. He contributed to both plans, but I'm uncertain at what percentage of his salary. Within the past year, my company stock doubled several times. This colleague retired and sold it all near the peak. He is the wealthiest man and engineer that I know personally. He is a textbook definition of the millionaire next door. </s>

He had a garage bigger than my house (he used to brag about it) full of corvettes. What did he do? Send daily emails asking me how to use PDFs </s>

<s>[INST] Who is the richest engineer you know, and what do they do? [/INST]

Yes. We used Newtonian mechanics to get to the moon. General relativity doesn't make a large enough correction to matter on that scale. However, I skeptical there would have been the political motivation to fund the space program without the nuclear arms race, which required special relativity. So physically, yes. Politically, maybe not. </s>

Newtonian mechanics is sufficient not only to reach the moon, but other planets in the solar system as well. Somewhat paradoxically, the poster-child for things impossible without relativity (general relativity, even) is travel on earth instead of in space: GPS would not work without relativistic corrections. </s>

<s>[INST] Would we have reached the moon without knowing relativity? [/INST]

If it tastes smokey, it's Lox/Smoked Salmon. If it doesn't taste smokey, it's Gravlax. Gravlax is step 1 of making Lox. EDIT: Looked into it after some comments: According to wikipedia, both Gravlax and Lox are *always* cured and *can be smoked or not* afterwards. My family & that circle have never used Lox to refer to unsmoked salmon, but that may be a regional thing or a generational thing (or both). Either way, a bit of fun etymology: Lox and Lax both come from the Germanic Laks, which means Salmon. Gravlax comes from Graved Lax which literally means 'Buried Salmon' or 'Grave Salmon'. Salmon was often buried during the curing process. </s>

Gravlax, probably. A type of cold cured salmon from Scandinavian cultures </s>

<s>[INST] Whats the name of that salmon which is not raw but also not cooked i think, its pink and tastes salty its pink and salty [/INST]

Find an advisor with a track record of getting their students graduated and hired. I went with someone who was an authority in their field to the detriment of all else, and regretted it ever since. </s>

1. a huge portion of the job is public speaking, which I did not realize when I started out. 2. the labor situation is as bad as everyone says. 3. publish, publish, publish. 4. a huge portion of the job is being able to get other people (readers, students) excited about difficult, abstract, boring things and to help them see value and interest in knowledge (even if it doesn't have immediate instrumental application). </s>

<s>[INST] Advice to your younger academic self If you could go back and tell your younger self one thing about academia or the PhD process, what would you say? What did you wish you had known early on? I’ve been asked to speak at an induction day for new PhD students and would love to hear your experiences/advice (as students and/or supervisors) - and to share them with my group and others on here. Apologies if there’s a recent thread on this. [/INST]

I was once at a beginning of the year do where the Dean was introducing new faculty and he introduced our new female faculty member as male, and then ARGUED WITH HER when she corrected him. </s>

I feel like I have many, but the *worst* would have to be the professor who stated, "Well there wasn't any culture in Canada before the settlers arrived," and refused to back down when the First Nations were brought up. </s>

<s>[INST] What is the worst thing you have heard an academic say in a highly public, professional setting? I just want some good stories. Outrageous, blunt, callous, etc. I think they are hilarious. [/INST]

He probably got it from cheating as the symptoms are new. He wouldn’t suddenly get symptoms out of nowhere. Sorry. </s>

Sometimes cheaters will volunteer info like this... they're not always the brightest to be frank. On the other hand, it's a common gaslighting tactic. </s>

<s>[INST] Partner has gonorrhea. I don’t. 32F Partner has gonorrhea. I don’t. My boyfriend of two years suddenly started urinating molten lava and got diagnosed with gonorrhea. At the time we hadn’t had sex in a few weeks and I felt no symptoms, but to err on the side of caution I went to the doctor and I tested negative. He insists he hasn’t cheated (of course) however the only reason I’m inclined to believe him is because he had no reason to tell me he had symptoms or tested positive. He volunteered all of that information. Is it at all possible that he would have had it all along and suddenly started showing symptoms? Is it at all possible I’m immune or a carrier? I know I sound naive and these are ridiculous questions but I’d like to know for sure from a medical professional before I turn my life upside down. Thank you for reading. [/INST]

YES I'M THE SMARTEST GUY IN THE UNIVERSE. </s>

"You'd be surprised". I'm of the mentality that if I'm the smart one, then that's a bad sign. I'm not smart, I'm just persistent. </s>

<s>[INST] "Wow, you must be smart." How do you respond to this? It might be the most on-brand thing ever for an engineer to not know how to take a compliment, but I usually have no idea what to say and just end up blankly staring at them. [/INST]

Would it kill you to wait, I dunno, 5 or 6 years? You're emperor for life, your people love you, you should let them get busy and get your numbers back up. No need to keep going endlessly. </s>

>Emperor of all Europe Tsk tsk, please. This is the *real* Emperor of Europe speaking. I fought the French, Moors, and Heretics all simultaneously at the same time. You couldn't even handle the English. When you are ready to graduate from your boring and linear warfare, call me. </s>

<s>[INST] Should I invade Russia? Rhetorical question. Of course I am going to invade Russia. I will take Moscow and St. Petersburg and I will become the Emperor of all Europe. I already am, but I will be, too. [/INST]

Maybe not in the spirit of the question, but The Culture's Slap Bots are absolutely inescapable. You go on with your daily life, and every time you start to misbehave, a robot slaps you until you stop. </s>

Reed Richards used SCIENCE to build Prison 42 in the Negative zone. It was incredibly secure passwords change every 10 minutes, anyone who couldn't be physically restrained were forced into a Fulldive VR hell, just them in an empty world. Though it really matter WHO is trying to escape. An inescapable prison for daredevil would be easily destroyed by the Hulk. </s>

<s>[INST] [General] What is the most secure prison in all fiction? Title. And because this is going to be filled with inescapable alternate dimensions or hellholes: preferably (but not necessarily) a realistically portrayed prison (no magic). [/INST]

Easy way to determine this yourself. 1. Google how far away Voyager is. Presently, it's 19,622,661,552 km away. 1. Google the distance divided by 1 light year. That will show you how long it takes light to get to Voyager from Earth, in years. Of course it won't be sharp enough to see any details but I realize this is just a thought exercise. 3. Since it's only about 2x10^-2 years away, lets have google tell us how many light-hours away it is by multiplying the light years by 8760, the number of hours in a typical year. At 19.6 billion km away, it takes light (and all other radio waves, of course) approximately 18 hours to reach Voyager. Issuing an instruction to V'ger by radio telemetry means pressing SEND and getting a response no sooner than 36 hours later. </s>

I've been waiting to get an answer to my theory for years now. If we were ever able to reach alpha centauri (4.36 lightyears away) and we'd put a giant mirror there. Now we use a telescope - let's say a v20 version of the James Webb Space telescope - and look in this mirror, which is directed to earth. Would we have created a device that allows us to look back in time more than 8 years? </s>

<s>[INST] If Voyager had a camera that could zoom right into Earth, what year would it be? [/INST]

Six months ago, you could have said LIGO or LISA for the first detection of gravitational waves. But i guess you can still say that they will start marking out the territory on the gravitational wave map of the universe. (Including compact binaries, solar mass, intermediate mass, and super massive black holes, and the gravitational wave background from inflation.) </s>

After ATLAS and CMS found the Higgs boson, it was basically going into "here be dragons" territory, and it didn't find any dragons. Lots of analysis went into determining whether it had detected superpartners or signs of extra dimensions or whatnot, but it hasn't so far. Last year there was hubbub about hints of a very large particle, but it turned out to be a statistical fluke. </s>

<s>[INST] When the LHC was created there was an expectation that it would lead to the discovery of the Higgs boson. Do we have any similar discoveries we are expecting to make in the near future? [/INST]

"nah, I definitely need my calculator to assure me that 7+5 is 12..." </s>

I had to look up which state Milwaukee was in the other day. I'd say it's debatable </s>

<s>[INST] What's your best/favourite response to "Oh you're an engineer, you must be really smart then eh"? And yes I am Canadian. [/INST]

Enders game </s>

Planet 51. </s>

<s>[INST] [General] Has there ever been a movie about aliens being invaded by humans? [/INST]

I doubt it. Would you tell him? </s>

He would probably shrug and say it's not his fault, but of the superheroes who try to stop him. If no one stood in his way everything would go smoothly to that nice future. </s>

<s>[INST] [Marvel] Has anyone ever pointed out to Dr. Doom that the reason the only good future is the one he rules Earth in might be that he destroys the Earth in the other futures while attempting to conquer it? If not, what might he respond to such a theory? [/INST]

The sooner she speaks to a lawyer, the better. </s>

If CPS asks the court for temporary custody, you can contact them to say you are interested in being considered for kinship placement (meaning the kid lives with you while in custody. </s>

<s>[INST] Pregnant cousin left her child in the car for over two hours while at a casino This was totally stupid and irresponsible. The cops were called when someone saw a 2.5 yo child left in the car. After reviewing footages, they realized it was over two hours. Child services was called and they contacted us to pick up her son because she was potentially going to jail. On our way there, they told us to turn around and they’re letting her go home tonight but there will be a warrant out for her arrest for another day. This is in NC for context. As a family member, what can we expect will happen? Is this a felony and will she lose custody of her child and her employment? Is it too soon to seek out a lawyer? Any insights would be greatly appreciated. [/INST]

Hair spacing. The limbs on lice are super specialized hooks, so specialized that if the hairs aren't the right distance apart they can't really function. The hairs on your head and pubic area have different spacing, so different species of lice live in each area. The difference in hair diameter in the two areas also plays a part, but as I understand it the key issue is the difference in hair spacing. </s>

Environmental conditions are very different. The head tends to be drier, with a different type of hair. Typically a little bit coarser I believe. Humans actually have a third kind of lice called body lice, which likes even drier conditions and typically travels in clothing. The second kind of course is the ahem naughty bit lice which like very warm damp environments. On that note humans are the lousiest mammals in the world. We have more types of lice than others </s>

<s>[INST] What’s the reason head lice prefer the head and pubic lice prefer the pubic area? Hair is just hair isn’t it? [/INST]

You don't have to. </s>

There is no obligation for an adult to inform another adult of any private medical procedure. Legally even if you were married and wanted an abortion you would not have to tell him. The only situation in which you need to inform someone you want an abortion is when a minor requires one - in that case parental consent is needed. Do not contact this man. You don't owe him a thing. </s>

<s>[INST] Pregnant by my abuser whom I recently got a restraining order against. Do I legally have to inform him I’m getting an abortion? AZ - USA My boyfriend and I recently split up and he turned violent. I was granted a restraining order against him after court trials. Unfortunately I have found out I am pregnant by him. I am planning on getting an abortion and am completely fine with it, but I am wondering if I am legally obligated to inform him, and if I am how I go about doing so without violating the restraining order. [/INST]

The American government built Sam Wilson's Falcon suit </s>

If they did it would be at the level of his first suit. Which he could easily counter. Stark tech is now centuries ahead of all other countries. The first iron man suit might have been able to take thanos for a second. His new suit was able to scratch thanos which no other avenger could do besides Thor. </s>

<s>[INST] [Iron Man 2] Tony said that most other countries were five to ten years away from replicating the Iron Man armor. In the nearly eight years since then, have any of those countries made any progress? [/INST]

He told the police you were planning a murder and got you arrested at your workplace, which cost you your job. Not a lawyer, but I think you have a case for slander resulting in financial damages. I would get a consult with a lawyer. </s>

Filing a false report with the police can be a crime. </s>

<s>[INST] exboyfriend tried to get me committed to keep me pregnant (California) This is a long story but I'll try to keep it short. Throwaway for obvious reasons. I got pregnant with my ex boyfriend. He wanted me to stay with him and raise it but I wanted an abortion. I left him and told him I was getting one and thats final. A few days later, I got arrested at work and they took me to some sort of psych eval. My ex had told them that I was threatening to kill his baby! He doesn't have any kids! He lied to them. I was held for about 6 hours and then released. The next day, I got fired from work for "causing a scene." Now, I'm jobless. I know the police and the state didn't do anything illegal, but did my ex? Can I pursue some sort of action against him? [/INST]

The Hoover Dam documentaries are pretty cool, in that case they actually made a tunnel beside the proposed dam and diverted the river(the Colorado) through it during construction, I think they still use the tunnel as overflow. This was from memory(what's left of it) so I could be wrong. </s>

They typically build a "cofferdam" to temporarily divert water around the dam site. Then they build the dam, and once that's built, they remove or destroy the coffer dam. The coffer dam does not need to be particularly big or strong to divert a river. The actual dam needs to be big and strong to hold back the reservoir that's created by the dam Fun dam fact: Glen Canyon Dam in ~~Utah~~ Arizona is one of the largest in the US, and is under threat by all the sediment that the dam has trapped from moving downstream. The millions of tons of sediment are pushing on the dam and may eventually cause its collapse. So just dredge the sediment right? The problem: Some of it is highly radioactive from all of the uranium mining that took place in Utah and Colorado in the middle of the 20th century </s>

<s>[INST] Explain like I'm five years old: When dams are being built, how do they build it with all the water still there? [/INST]

save it. Each time. Then melt all the pieces together for an infinity cheese. </s>

The cheese nubs are usually eaten by my husband. </s>

<s>[INST] How do you grate the last part of the cheese? Whenever I grate, I get a small nub that's all flimsy and it just crumbles. Is there a trick to it? How can i get every last bit out of this cheese? [/INST]

I guess you could ask to substitute the chicken for something else. My local curry house does paneer makhani which I prefer to the standard chicken one. They would probably be happy to substitute for something like cauliflower or mushroom. </s>

the sauce on its own is called makhan/makhani </s>

<s>[INST] Is there a name for the butter chicken curry without the chicken? I love butter chicken. I’ve been eating it for as long as I know, but I was never keen on the texture of chicken. Usually when I go to a restaurant I would order butter chicken with naan and eat everything but leave out the chicken pieces, but that causes a lot of food waste. I want to be able to order the butter chicken curry only without confusing the person serving me or offending anyone’s food. What’s a better way to ask this? [/INST]

Replied to a few emails, tracked down a replacement for a part with a long lead time, but mostly warmed my chair. Defense Mechanical. </s>

Mechanical engineer - spent my afternoon resizing a bunch of pipes in a Revit model because I accidentally changed the whole connected system to 3/4” instead of just the branch I was working on. </s>

<s>[INST] In a single sentence, describe what you accomplished at work today In layman's terms, the work you actually did today (or the last day you worked). Not a general description of your job, and obviously nothing confidential or identifying. Please list your discipline and industry. My job satisfaction has been low recently, and I think it's because I have a hard time finding a tangible answer to this question. I'm curious to see what other engineers are doing. Thanks! [/INST]

the common forms of colorblindness (*protanopia* and *deuteranopia*) don't really reduce the range of visible wavelengths (at least, not significantly), they just reduce the discriminability of wavelength patterns. the 'missing' cone pigments (so-called Long and Medium pigments for protanopia/deuteranopia, respectively) are so similar that they mostly overlap in their spectral sensitivities. a protanope might report more difficulty seeing pure very-long-wavelength light, like a red LED or laser light. but they should be able to see it if it's strong enough. a rare form of colorblindness is *tritanopia* (lack of short-wavelength pigment), in that case short-wavelength light will be relatively invisible, so the visible spectrum really is significantly reduced (the short-λ pigment covers a really different range to the L/R pigments). but tritanopia is not what we typically refer to when we say 'colorblind'. </s>

The question shows a misunderstanding of what colour blindness is. It's not that there are colours the person cannot see: it's that there are colours they can't distinguish. A colourblind person can perceive the same range of wavelengths of light as someone with full colour vision. </s>

<s>[INST] How do colorblind people perceive lasers at the wavelengths they cannot see? [/INST]

All space within the event horizon points towards the center (or is a closed loop back towards it) There is no such thing as out. If two particles could talk to each other inside a black hole it would go like this: 1: which way is out? 2: what is out? 1: Where am I going if I go this way? 2: Towards the center... 1: (turns around) ok what about this way? 2: towards the center... If you move, you are going towards the center... Move faster? OK go towards the center faster... The problem isn't a lack of energy to escape, it is a lack of path. The mass of the back hole doesn't attract particles such that they cant overcome it (which is why there is a misconception that maybe a big explosion or something could overcome it etc...), it warps space so they have no choice... </s>

No. If two black holes approach closely enough they'll simply merge. A singularity can't be broken apart by any level of gravitational attraction, because the gravity at the singularity is effectively infinite. </s>

<s>[INST] Is there a distance at which the interaction between the gravity fields of two black holes would cause one another to effectively 'break open' and allow matter and energy stored within them to escape the system? [/INST]

In winter they hunkered down a lot. Imagine being in a Plains Tribe pre-contact hunkered down in a Teepee. (Tribes mostly set them up in river valleys, somewhat sheltered from the wind.) They were not much larger than a 10 x 10 tent, house 2-4 people. Crowded. Even the Iroquois tribes in upstate New York, while they had longhouses maybe 50-60 feet long -- they might have 20-30 people in each one. No TV, books, bathroom, running water....dozens of amenities (material culture) we take for common. In places where climate allowed sunny winter days, native peoples would venture out. But in many parts of the world sleet and snow and cloudy weather prevail almost all winter....Talk about waiting for winter to end. </s>

The Eskimo and Innuit were inhabiting the arctic regions well before modern society. They dressed warmly with clothes and furs. They built shelters to insulate themselves from harsh conditions. They had fire--they survived. I'll bet they still got cold, and that most have gladly adapted to many of the modern conveniences and heaters. </s>

<s>[INST] eli5 How did humans survive in bitter cold conditions before modern times.. I'm thinking like Native Americans in the Dakota's and such. [/INST]

This is common. Your also going to get face to face time with your customer, which is important. And finding something now that you most not see in pictures could save hundreds of hours of work down the line. </s>

I wouldn't consider this uncommon. 6 hours is at the outer edge of what I would consider for a single day trip though. I would expect more to drive there and visit the customer the first day. Take someone from the customer out to dinner that night and drive home the next day. Being in the middle of the country it is not uncommon to drive 8 hours to a customer or vendor instead of driving. </s>

<s>[INST] What’s the standard for “work travel” in your experience? My boss wants to take a trip to a customer 6 hours away, we’d stay there for roughly an hour to an hour and a half and drive back. Am I wrong for thinking this is crazy thinking? They haven’t requested we go there, there’s nothing to fix, he just wants to go and see the machine our component would go on in person. I’m dreading this trip, it seems like a nightmare driving that long for basically no reason. Is this standard practice in engineering? Can I just say I don’t want to go? [/INST]

it’s not even going to make covid 19 go extinct. The point is to slow down the spread temporarily so that healthcare isn’t overwhelmed. No healthcare expert is saying that covid 19 is going to go extinct. The spread is just being slowed </s>

I hope this doesn't break the rules, I'm just clarifying part of OP's question that doesn't seem to be getting answered: "decreasing in abundance". Even if it doesn't lead to extinction, would one assume that colds, the flu, or other communicable diseases could dramatically decrease in measurable ways because of the social distancing, emphasis on hand washing, etc...? </s>

<s>[INST] Will social distancing make viruses other than covid-19 go extinct? Trying to think of the positives... if we are all in relative social isolation for the next few months, will this lead to other more common viruses also decreasing in abundance and ultimately lead to their extinction? [/INST]

Gout. It used to be associated with wealth because only rich people could afford to eat and drink in a way that would lead to gout. Now it's associated with men who have crappy diets of chicken wings and beer. </s>

Pineapples was a big one in the UK </s>

<s>[INST] Symbols of wealth/indulgence that are no longer recognized as such in the West? Hi all, I'm looking for help with researching food/clothing/other items that were at one point considered status symbols in the West but are no longer, such as formerly exotic imported foodstuffs that are now available in every grocery store. I'm not looking for anything particularly specific (though if anyone knows some examples offhand I'd love to hear them), more just wondering how I could go about searching for that information myself. [/INST]

Make sure what you're frying is dry on the outside. If it's from the freezer, try to get rid of as much ice as you can. Moisture is what splatters. It'll never be 100% though, frying means splatter most of the time. It's just a side effect. </s>

there are like mesh shield things you can hold over the pan, but then you just have to clean that and the stovetop because some gets onto the stove anyway. They are more for if you have an issue with things like bacon spatter burns. </s>

<s>[INST] When frying something in oil, is there a way to keep the oil from splattering everywhere? [/INST]

He wouldn't be alive at all. The entire point of the mind stone being used in his construction is that it basically created his whole being on a non-physical level. Maybe you'd get more or less the same thing with the soul stone, but the rest would just be decoration in a metal corpse; of course, considering Ultron's original goal was to upload himself into Vision's body, that might have been ideal for him, but he wouldn't have needed to implant a stone at all in that case. Even if he did, it really wouldn't be any different than just having the stone normally. </s>

Without the Mind Stone, he'd look a little like this </s>

<s>[INST] [MCU] When The Vision was created an Infinity Stone was incorporated into his construction, specifically the Mind Stone. What specific abilities has this given him and how might he have turned out differently if one of the other Stones had been used instead? [/INST]

Totally! It would be "stock" because it's made from bones but it's really good for you and saves money if you normally buy broth/stock at the store. I don't know what people are talking about with germs or whatever. You have to boil stock for hours. There are no germs to worry about. </s>

I have a gallon size bag of bones in my freezer. They are from everything I eat that has a bone...chicken, beef, pork, everything. When the bag is full I make bone broth in a slow cooker over a weekend. It turns out fantastic. </s>

<s>[INST] Can I make chicken broth with leftover chicken wing/drumettes bones? Just got a whole bunch of chicken wing/drumettes from Costco. After I eat the meat off, can I freeze the bones along with vegetables and make a broth at the end of the month? Does that work the same as using chicken carcass? [/INST]

Just because in has increased risks doesn't mean it won't work. If you went from a 5% chance of having a child with serious defects to a 50% chance of having a child with serious defects, you still have a 50% chance of bearing a child who doesn't have serious defects. If a small group of isolated people gets lucky, they can still survive and prosper. Some isolated groups of humans died out, and some managed to survive. </s>

Some cultural practices promote this (eg some Arabic groups preference cross-cousin marriage). But humans don't live in isolated groups. Foragers live in bands which meet regularly, and usually have rules about who you can marry (some West Australian groups have rules so complex that anthropologists needed algebra to map them). One purpose of the meets is to negotiate marriages. The minimum number needed to keep a language alive (language being the marker of who's in 'my tribe') is around one thousand, which is more than enough to avoid the accumulation of genetic risks and probably the minimum number in regular contact (not all at once- but gatherings of 50-100 once or twice a year, each gathering connecting to another) </s>

<s>[INST] Explain like I'm five years old: if procreating with close relatives causes dangerous mutations and increased risks of disease, how did isolated groups of humans deal with it? [/INST]

If a vaccine gets fully approved, will all the other company's making vaccines give up, or do they all continue to do their thing? Do we get options or get to see if one company can do it better than another/have a more successful vaccine? </s>

New York Times is tracking the progress of each vaccine programme, and updating it regularly here: Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker </s>

<s>[INST] How are the Covid19 vaccines progressing at the moment? Have any/many failed and been dropped already? If so, was that due to side effects of lack of efficacy? How many are looking promising still? And what are the best estimates as to global public roll out? [/INST]

What you may be refering to is the Pitch Tone of the message. High pitch notfication sounds are going to sound higher than lower pitch ones. When i get an amber alert, it uses a stock notfication sound not my normal one which is a higher pitch however it will not bypass my volume settings so that might be throwing you off Also phone speakers can go higher then what they are limited to, The reason makers lock it is because it begins to become distored and thats not good for business. </s>

Phones make a noise for an amber alert? </s>

<s>[INST] Explain like I'm five years old:Why can phones make such a loud noise for an amber alert? Why can't they normally go this loud? [/INST]