There’s 4 tablespoons in a quarter cup, so 8 would be half a cup of peanut butter. Seems like a lot, but I haven’t had peanut butter in years because of allergies

From my experience the numbers left of the colon are minutes and the numbers to the right are seconds. The seconds count down to 0 and then reset to 60 as the minute count decreases by 1 For whatever reason I actually get a tiny kick out of this weird behavior and almost always set my microwave for X minutes and 99 seconds (also almost never 100%power), my favorite part is adding 30 seconds with X:60< <70 so in theory it should be able to just go back to 9x but it always jumps up a minute and adds 30 instead. It knows 99 seconds is silly but still let’s me do it.

Pure water (deionized) is actually really bad for cooling systems because it will slowly dissolve the metals it’s in contact with. You definitely want Distilled water (organic content removed) usually mixed with a glycol to improve corrosion protection and lower the freezing temps, with the most common one being ethylene glycol which can contaminate food and drinking water and make it unsafe for consumption

I’ve had almost the opposite experience, also decently embarrassing for me.
Thought I recognized some one from a work trip, we shake hands and they said it was nice to meet me, I asked didn’t we meet at X a couple months ago?
Nope, that was their boss, I’m just bad with faces.

Can’t report data you don’t have, just like how COVID went away when we stopped testing for it!

I ain’t paying 50$ for a garbanzo bean on my chest

R value for 3/4" plywood sheathing is 0.94 according to this. Sorry for PDF and Google link my phone is stupid

So, although green houses technically do the thing where infrared light can make it in and is then emitted at a wavelength that doesn’t make it out, much more of the ‘greenhouse effect’ is simply trapping the air that gets heated from escaping through convection. Even though the inside of that box will be shaded, without enough ventilation the air inside will just keep getting hotter and hotter as the sun shines on it.

If you liked Lost I would like to recommend From. Similar mystery thriller, leans more into the horror mystery than the sci fi mystery. Final episode of S4 is about to air and they’re making S5 already

Do you have a source for “all evidence” that humans are not actually “wired to lead and to follow” or that human society is functional on a large scale without having leaders in some fashion?

Pavement princess is my favored term for trucks that clearly have had work done but do no work.

One of the only Christmas movies I want to watch yearly is the BBC adaptation of Terry Pratchetts The Hog Father

What are you driving that gets 60 MPG?

Yeah, I’m actively sourcing a laser welder for my work and one of the requirements is the ability to fit a part that is ~24 inches long and pretty much the only way we’ve found to do it in our budget is to have an opening in the enclosure that uses curtains and brushes to allow that part to stick out but still protect from the light escaping, and we’re only talking 300 watts

I’ll have to see if I can find where I read this to cite the source.

The National Ignition Facility is researching using insanely huge lasers to start a nuclear fusion reaction. They are currently the most powerful laser in the world.
Want to know what the second most powerful laser in the world is? The reflection of the NIF laser.

Found it, SciShow. https://youtu.be/gqPlVUuXiYY

Two drums and a cymbal fall off a cliff… Ba-dum tish

Honestly in some ways the actual number doesn’t matter, if you earn your living by selling your labor for a salary or wages you aren’t the problem

Gravity is also ultimately why the winds blows, hot air rises by being less dense only because colder denser air is pulled down displacing the hot air up. Burning a candle in microgravity is very different than on the surface of Earth

Yes, but the line from Carl Sagan is if you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe

Oh boy do I have some news for you about what makes stainless steel be stainless.

It’s chrome

My attempt at translation:

They investigated me for
Month – found nothing!!
So 16 year old charges (results?)
It is a treat to be able to choose ones
Time to say goodbye.
Watcha want me to do – (burrat) crying!!
NO FUN, NOT WORTH IT!!