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Having just started to catch up, I will hold off except to say that it is difficult for me to see morality as something that can be anything objective and independent of what sentient minds value. Not saying there are no objective biology based aspects (aggression can harm cooperative survival imperatives within a group of social animals, e.g. or eating babies squanders the food investment of gestation) to it, but our moral intuitions seem predominantly mediated by acquired cultural perspective and memetics. Humility when you don't understand something would be a good option for you. Now have a seat.

I really don't know if it's a problem where normal absorption prevails. A nutritionist friend often steered people towards "overnight oats." And the same with brown rice. When I lived briefly in an Asian community, soaking was a big thing, and people said it also reduced arsenic levels - a problem with a lot of US grown rice.

I've tried cold cook with various grains. Never worked well with pasta (which sadly gave up, due to fatigue and mental fog from eating wheat products), due to the sticking. It is however perfect with rolled oats, especially since they are high in phytate which you want to get rid of. Add a lot of water, soak an hour, then pour off the excess water and leached out phytate. (I add lemon juice, which speeds up phytate removal)

Everyone knows it's Windy.

I am quite familiar (lived in Nebraska on and off for a total of 29 years) with the small towns which Walz grew up in or lived in - Alliance, Valentine, West Point, and Chadron. This will give him a unique ability to talk to Main Street, especially combined with him not being a lawyer but a schoolteacher. Rural and semi-rural America commands a disproportionate number of electoral votes, and Walz is a smart pick for someone who can engage with that segment. You call your dollar coin a Loonie. I have to respect that.

Really disturbing when Brits starting acting like...Americans. Musk is more and more showing the world the stunted adolescent I've known him to be for years. Fascinating legal argument that a company declining to advertize somewhere is somehow actionable. Not surprising that the lawsuit was filed in Texas, where Musk no doubt hopes a conservative bench will bend our statutes and Constitution into a grotesque pretzel for him.

Fact? No. In climatology, short term fluctuations are not much use as data. The brief temperature rise could have been from other causes. Contrails do sometimes persist as cirrus clouds, sometimes called cirrus aviaticus, but the research I've seen finds little clearcut effect on overall radiative forcing (climatology lingo for net atmospheric heat gain from trapping outgoing longwave radiation). The science is not even there yet on how the radiative forcing might be increased at night by clouds formed by jet condensation nuclei, let alone how nighttime RF balances with daytime cooling. This paper can give some idea of where the research was going a few years back. http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009AtmEn..43.3520L/abstract A key comment from the abstract: The lack of physical process models and adequate observational data for aviation-induced cirrus effects limit confidence in quantifying their RF contribution....

Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mondale, now Tim Walz. Sometimes you go to Minnesota to get a Midwest translator. Prepare yourself for headlines punning on a certain dance performed by a couple in 3/4 time.

Holding Dim a little more accountable for some of his cryptic one-liners - would be good, if achievable. And he does seem to set off newbies with some passive-aggressive stuff now and then. I'd go with Do Not Engage, as well.

https://apnews.com/article/robert-kennedy-rfk-bear-cub-central-park-f7e6cba9aa19dc2066a8d9c543974a97 It certainly saves joke writers time and effort when the politicians are already jokes.

I have speculated that American voter bias is now more about regionalism (especially the rural/urban divide) than about ethnic/gender anxieties. 32 states have had female governors (including most of the Red states, interestingly enough), 33 have had female senators, and we have had a two term black president, so I feel that Harris hurdles may be more about her political origins in Sodom in the Land of Flaky Liberals, I mean San Francisco, than melanin or two X chromosomes. I'm not discounting some misogyny on the Right and with RW Evangelicals, but they aren't the moderate swing voters at issue. But it's not a surprise that her genome still obsesses Trump, who has just attempted to resuscitate the Birther Theory again, long past its freshness date. He is getting desperate, I sense. Side note: agree with @MSC that Pritzker is a weaker option for VP. Really, I think his inclusion on a list was just a political courtesy.

SPOILERS (I think the eyeball button, for hiding, is only obscured on certain Chrome tablets - a quirk which remains a mystery) Do you see why only your last answer fits the conditions of the puzzle? There is only one house number for which there are two solutions, so that house number is the one that would require a further hint for the canvasser. Your last house number has another set of factors that will also add to that same number, but which make the reference to a singular eldest child problematic. (I got it, but my first answer didn't fully spell that out)

My two cents worth: There is just particles and particle events. Space supplies a metric concept, a volume in which those events can be located and mapped. Particles will move in that volume "as if" it is curved near a significant mass, but I see no reason to think that there is actual space-stuff. No aether. No rubber. Fields are just a volume whose points have a measurable physical quantity associated with them, either a number or a vector depending on the type of field, so they are just a conceptual thing like "space" - a volume where matter/energy has an influence of some kind and we can measure it at specific locations.

SPOILERS (hide button, again, not showing up on tablet) If I'm following this, then the guy needs a hint because there must be two sets of factors which give the house number. In which case, the piano lessons is going to resolve which set. So...piano is irrelevant (no definitve age for that), which only leaves "eldest" as relevant. Ahh! I think that's it. So, 13. 9, 2,2.

That's not how proof works. It doesn't come from a statistical sampling of opinions and interpretations. A qualified "best explanation based on presently available data" proof would come from experiment and observation. Science is empirically based. Since General Relativity, observation has shown that spacetime is geometrically distorted near gravitationally significant masses, pointing to it not being simply an empty void.

Wonder if this breaking story from the Washington Post could be of any use to the Harris campaign.... https://wapo.st/3SxAkvO (PW free gift URL) Five days before Donald Trump became president in January 2017, a manager at a bank branch in Cairo received an unusual letter from an organization linked to the Egyptian intelligence service. It asked the bank to “kindly withdraw” nearly $10 million from the organization’s account — all in cash. Inside the state-run National Bank of Egypt, employees were soon busy placing bundles of $100 bills into two large bags, according to records from the bank. Four men arrived and carried away the bags, which U.S. officials later described in sealed court filings as weighing a combined 200 pounds and containing what was then a sizable share of Egypt’s reserve of U.S. currency. Federal investigators learned of the withdrawal, which has not been previously reported, early in 2019. The discovery intensified a secret criminal investigation that had begun two years earlier with classified U.S. intelligence indicating that Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi sought to give Trump $10 million to boost his 2016 presidential campaign, a Washington Post investigation has found. Since receiving the intelligence about Sisi, the Justice Department had been examining whether money moved from Cairo to Trump, potentially violating federal law that bans U.S. candidates from taking foreign funds. Investigators had also sought to learn if money from Sisi might have factored into Trump’s decision in the final days of his run for the White House to inject his campaign with $10 million of his own money....

Thanks kindly, @MigL and I appreciate your reminders that Democrats cannot let the perfect be the enemy of the good. I would guess any of the VP noms would be an asset in some way (especially if they can bring a suitcase full of electoral votes with them, like Shapiro, Kelly, Whitmer or Cooper (who just dropped out btw)). And as @StringJunky notes, losing this round is especially unpalatable. I feel we Americans owe it to the whole world to keep the orange existential threat out of the WH.

I will be super clear: If it helps Kamala win WINVAZ PAGAMI (my mnemonic for the essential swing states), I would be all in for a rabid hyena named Beelzebub who digs up the corpse of Mister Rogers and buggers it on national television.

Yep. And presidents have been known to balance their ticket to thread tricky issue needles like Israel-Gaza. (that was also the speculation with Kelly, who is more of an immigration hawk than Harris)

Wow, indeed. Almost like he is trying to lose. I mean, swing states with large black populations: Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia. Not that blacks were going to turn out for him anyway, but that kind of behavior galvanizes people to show up at the polls. And you don't have to be black or liberal to be offended by that - my wife moves in a couple circles with a lot of conservatives and reports many of them were disgusted. I, too, am hearing more people saying things like might sit this one out.

I believe that spin - an intrinsic form of angular momentum carried by elementary particles - is related to human vertigo. And my framework for this belief is equally robust as KE's framework. Particles spin and after years of that incessant spinning we become dizzy if we lack the kind of talent that quantum tunnels between our ears and coordinates the vestibular molecules. PROVE ME WRONG!!! And keep an open mind!!! (it helps semicircular canals talk to each other!) 😂

The pun was inevitable. Though I think the coconut tree story will wear itself out if that is becoming a big campaign meme. Anyway, I suppose it's a nice change for the coconut symbolism, which used to be a racist slur, "black on the outside, white on the inside." In the US it was similar to "Oreo."

Amusingly, Trump has disavowed all of Project 2025 now, as I guess his handlers have noticed how poorly Americans are reacting to it. IIRC his campaign manager recently issued a statement that no one connected with the Heritage Foundation document would be part of a Trump WH or administration. The project director, Paul Dans, just quit a day or two ago. Even Stephen Miller seems to have slithered away from it. While Trump may not be that invested in the theocracy parts of the document, it remains pretty clear that he looooooves the consolidating all power in the executive branch part, ravaging NIH and NOAA, eviscerating the civil service, etc.

Don't AC circuits always have a difference between watts and volt-amps? Watts are the real power, the workhorse and VA is the reactive power i.e. the energy used to create the fluctuating magnetic and electric field that allow AC to work - my understanding is that you get that energy back as AC cycles. So VA just tells you (ah, I see Seth's post) the AWG # and fusing needed to handle that current and that is more than just the current that's making power. I had to be aware of this last winter adding an induction stove to the kitchen and new dedicated circuit for it. I couldn't just add up the W for all the burners and oven. Say the stove, running everything, used 7200 watts. Well, I couldn't just put in a 30 A, 240 V circuit and confidently not risk overheating problems or breaker tripping. It would need a 40A breaker. And #8 wire. (later, I learned that an induction stove is NOT really like a motor, that it manages an active power factor correction within the rectifier to maintain a PF close to 1, and maybe my circuit was a little over what was needed, but BSTS...) Still, hard to see the expense of a capacitor bank or what have you.