And maternity leave…

The running is one thing, him getting votes is what baffles me.

And it’s expanding at such a rate that the galaxies there at the edge are moving away from us at a rate faster than the speed, so their light will never ever reach us. The part we can see, is the Observable Universe. Beyond that we’ll never know.

Think of it this way: people haven't changed much, but culture has mostly improved. For example, many places in the world had little or no police (or equivalent) that protected regular citizens. Often, soldiers in wars were not supplied with food, so the soldiers would steal food from local citizens, sometimes injuring or killing those citizens as well. Nobody in power cared. As another example, at the end of many, MANY, wars in some parts of the world, the winners would either kill their opponents or sell them as slaves. It didn't matter which religion the victors claimed to follow, they all behaved this way. The conflicts between modern Israel, Palestinians and Lebanon would be fundamentally different today if the founding of Israel included selling the Palestinians into slavery or killing them. So, as bad as the situation there has been and is today, at least far more people survived than would have in previous centuries. Culture is improving, but it doesn't have a solution for everything.

It's even more bizarre than that - between caterpillar and butterfly stage is mush, it digests itself!

Imagine someone who is deaf, dumb and blind. How the….??

Omg this...I just started paying for my own insurance when I got married. Was on state insurance for a long long time and they pay for most anything. Now I'm getting bills that are higher than my 600 dollar monthly cost ( that's for me and my husband) I don't fcking get it and I'm losing it

I understand it when it is being explained but it is so crazy I can't hold the knowledge in any practical way and need to hear it again and again just to understand it for that microsecond.

At the most basic, the wiggly grooves in the recording move past the needle fast enough that you can hear the vibrations of whatever is attached to the needle, as long as it is rigid. It's not loud if you just use the needle. Attach the metal cone to the needle and the vibrations are enough to make the cone vibrate, which is loud enough to hear. This video link below shows someone playing a record with just a plastic 5 pound note. The groove makes the corner of the plastic note vibrate, and the plastic note is stiff enough that you can hear it vibrate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUlu-XjCgtk

That system possibly made sense in the 18th century. But, because Americans have this pagan cult of their Founding Fathers, they somehow got stuck with it because clearly a bunch of slave-owning rich people from 250 years ago figured out EVERYTHING. So there.

I don't bother folding them :P

You're assuming animals don't have emotions and can't feel empathy? Have you never seen a huge dog and a tiny kitten get along, the dog NOT ripping the kitten to pieces?

I get OP's point. I understand the science behind it, but intuitively it seems like it shouldn't work.

I ate a lot of organically breeder chickens in my village in childhood. After cutting, I noticed their stomach was full of eggs. They were of different sizes at different growth rates.

Environmental impact has a huge role I think, 8 billion brains in 8 billion different and unique to them environments across a whole planet, everything from what's in the food and water, atmospheric difference such as altitude, social interactions, relating to the world in their little corner all firing neurons and creating pathways as unique as a fingerprint.

Or to settle on your lap exactly five minutes before you need to get up.

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I don't even know what pitch is!

Like any other scam.

Electricity travels at the speed of light, about 300,000km/second. From Europe to the US is about 10,000km. That means information (if there were no resistance) could travel there and back fifteen times in a second. Even with delays and laggy lines, that distance takes less than one tenth of a second. That's faster than you can blink.

Mattresses are one of the greatest rip offs of any consumer product.

To pick a much simpler example, a cake would seem magical to someone who just looked at the ingredients. The wrong ingredients or the wrong amounts would produce something that isn't cake. Edit: Regarding the comment in the original post "It does math??": The math part is actually a separate topic than the electrical part of computers. Computers are designed to use electricity to operate special circuits that enable the use of digital logic (Boolean logic). Logic circuits, when designed sufficiently (and rather complexly), enable math calculations. You could use something else besides computers and electricity to do Boolean logic and math calculations. For example, it's possible to design a complex network of pipes and valves powered by a waterfall to perform math calculations. It's just enormously easier, cheaper, and more flexible to use computers.

Sometimes I think I understand it, sometimes not at all. But most parts I'm just superpositioned about it.. 🤷‍♂️

It doesn't. Firstly it's not about different places, but different speeds, but for any individual time passes just the same as it does for any other. It's only in the theoretical case where someone's travelled close to the speed of light relative to another person and then returned to meet them that we notice a difference, but each person's time has passed no more quickly than the other's.

The internet is just a huge network of connections between computers. Web pages and photos and all that stuff are stored in the computers, not the connections between the computers. If you unplug the internet from all of the computers, the stored information doesn't disappear, you just can't access the information anymore. Edit: By the way, the "Cloud" is just a marketing term for companies that set up a bunch of computers to perform the same things, using additional software that coordinates the computers to work together better, like storing photos and playing back videos. If 1000 people are watching the same video, they are likely receiving the video data from multiple computers, not just one computer, because it's easier and cheaper to design the service that way, and the service responds to commands faster. The software coordinating the computers decides which computer feeds the video data to each viewer, depending on how busy each cloud computer is. It's a lot like when people want to buy movie or sports tickets: One ticket booth is too slow for handling a lot of customers.

It's totally random after birth! Some get influenced by their surroundings, but I don't think you can teach everyone. It's just random choice that you would be good or bad.

The diametre of a hydrogen atom 1.06 × 10^(−10)m, and the distance between the proton and the electron is 5.3x10^(-11)m. The diametre of a proton is 1.7×10^(−15)m, and the diametre of an electron is 1.0x10^(-14). That means an electron is 1/10,000 the size of a hydrogen atom, the rest of it is empty space. In one cubic metre of air, there are 2.70×10^25 atoms of hydrogen, so if you compressed all that one cubic metre of air via gravity, it would be smaller than one cubic millimetre. Even a cubic metre of iron would compress to less than a cubic millimetre if all the space were removed. It's the electromagnetic resistance that keeps atoms apart - remember, gravity is a WEAK force, not a strong one (e.g. magnets can defeat gravity), so black holes are incredibly dense gravity wells. A black hole weighing the same as the Sun would a ball only three kilometres across.

But you just explained it.

It's like that expression you've probably heard: any sufficiently advanced technology will seem like magic to those who see it the first time. All the wireless technology of recent years fits that idea very well.