J.C.MacSwell

Canada still uses both. Celsius generally for weather and fahrenheit generally for body temperature. Old habits die hard. I use both for weather and almost always Fahrenheit for body temperature. I do use Celsius more for physics unless it's thermodynamics....then I use Kelvin...same damn thing except I use what I find easier to think through...similar in some respects to picking reference frames except they are all on the same "frame" temperature wise. I use kilometres much more than miles, but 90% of the time use inches, or feet and inches, when building something. Half my tape measures are in feet/ inches, the other half in feet/inches on one side and metric on the other. This can be a pain at times...I can't remember ever having an all metric tape measure, despite half our drawings being metric (mm). I probably could get one special order but I lose them, and they aren't readily available. "Side" refers to different sides on the same face, not the underside.

So...you can explain it without Her? I'm certainly not going to do that, though I'm prone to make the same type of mistake.

Well I guess Ted for President 2024 then?

What's wrong with a fat tired beach Cruzer?

If only Ted had the political sense to have been wearing a pair on arriving back in Texas...

One thing I learned in the coldest weather I've ever been out in (at night in January in Northern Alberta) was that spit does not freeze before hitting the ground at -50, as per Jack London's story "Building a Fire". Not even close at -58 F/-50 C. I had believed it up to that point. It didn't even freeze instantly upon hitting the ground. It took more than a few seconds.

...and that's still +5o F in Texas, at the current exchange rate...

Had to get away from that Texas weather!

Especially with the high bar given?

He did want to be King...so maybe a Royal Flush would be appropriate.

That's generally an advantage in a well designed heat store. It will absorb or release it's heat more readily and more efficiently (less air/fluid flow and time required all other things being equal). It depends on what you want to do. Steel certainly isn't a good insulator if that's what you're getting at. My statement is that easy. It's just a statement of fact. You may not want to replace rocks or concrete with steel, for a number of reasons, but the statement stands. It's just a fact to be considered. You can store more heat capacity at a given temperature within a given volume with steel than concrete, and store more heat capacity with concrete in a given mass. It's not rocket surgery. I think you meant volume there, correct?

Steel is a lot more dense than rocks, so the heat capacity is greater despite the lower specific heat.

Hi Mon Die Would you have a link to that?

Susan Collins, again, did the right thing...

You mean of course in a civil and peaceful manner (wink wink) We do need to fight for our rights as we choose to perceive them. Meant to edit, not quote myself...(or maybe the new interface is at fault...yeah that's it...)

It's important, no doubt, for the reason you state. That doesn't change the fact that there are more important matters currently, especially given the fact that the outcome likely wouldn't change if they dragged it out.

Well. At least it's over. Bad as he may be, there are more important matters for lawmakers to focus on than Tump

I gotta agree...it can be tough out there in no man's land.

“O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.” Robert Burns, Scottish poet and socialist 1786

Must be rather nice to see that the Dems never do that type of towing the party line...

He's the favourite. God knows they need him. Seems many in the polls do also.

If you can provide jobs offers for everyone at higher wages, what is the need for minimum wage? Why aren't you doing it already? Why wait for the minimum wage to go up to $15? Spend the money...it's really only paper/not even paper...if it's so easy why haven't all the Democrat Governors already done it? Are they evil? Or do they realize limitations you prefer to ignore?

Then do that. Offer more and the need for a minimum wage disappears. If it can be done effectively by all means do it (okay...not all means...) But this is both an economic limitation and political one. And lawmakers (when unimpeded by lobbyists) can be good at setting the ground rules...but rarely good at carrying it out.

LOL. I biked in same with gloves and got cold hands. I hope you guys get Universal healthcare.

Fair. Just keep in mind that the "deplorables" in rural and/or economically depressed areas may see more harm than good. That could be a higher price to pay for having their freedoms restricted than what others see in the equivalent good in other areas. You're telling them, some of them, that they have no value to add without overall detriment, when you place yourself between them and their employer.