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I guess you could say it was…whale done.

A hard g? Like in giraffe?

I think they’re saying snip the header off so you don’t affect it, then reapply at the end.

No, GPT will make things up. It is absolutely not a good source for factual information or advice.

Rainbow vacuums, my parents had one when I was growing up.

No, mostly British and some parts of New England.

“an historic” works if you’re not pronouncing the “h”, which is common in some dialects. A vs an isn’t about there being an actual vowel, it’s about the sound. The same happens with honor and herb (again, depending on pronunciation).

That’s just a taxi.

No, it’s not something that is meant to be broader advice or a metaphor for something else, it’s literally advice for playing blackjack. What they’re saying is that it isn’t actually a good idea to split on an 18 when playing.

My fiancee’s car doesn’t like my phone. Sometimes it pairs just fine and gives no issues, other times it will disconnect every 30 seconds. Literally will be working fine, playing music, and then bam, no connection, and sometimes it will be a struggle getting it to reconnect. Doesn’t happen with anyone else’s phone. My phone also never has issues connecting to my car.

Our smart TV (Vizio) sometimes randomly has the video apps crash. In the middle of an episode it will just randomly kick us back to the main menu screen. Seen it happen with multiple apps, so it’s not just a problem with one app’s coding. Happens rarely enough that it’s not a big issue, but still weird.

What makes you think the pink salt is any better for this?

Because the English decided they were going to save those letters for later.

Yeah, I grew up calling them Mosquito Hawks and was told the same thing. Urban legend with good cultural penetration, I guess.

Yeah, when “Leicester” is pronounced “Lester”, you have no hope of figuring pronunciation out without help.

Let me see if I can try to explain this.

First off, light isn’t just the fastest thing we know of, it is physically impossible to go faster than light according to the laws of physics as we understand it. This is because the speed of light is actually tied to the way spacetime works.

Imagine you are standing and you throw a ball. The ball travels at whatever speed you throw it, let’s say 5 mph.

Now, let’s put you on a train traveling at 20 mph and do the same thing. If you throw the same direction the train is traveling, your 5 mph adds to the train’s 20 and the ball goes at 25 mph according to someone standing next to the track. Throw it the other way and they see it travel at 15 mph. To you, in either case, it appears to move at 5 mph.

Light doesn’t do this. We’ve measured it, and in a vacuum light always appears to travel at the same speed (we call it c for short). If you hold a flashlight, your friend next to you can measure the speed of light and will find it to be c. If we put you back on that train and stand your friend next to the track, you will see the light moving at c, but so will your friend. Not c +/- 20 mph, but c. Even if we put you on a rocket traveling at some significant portion of light speed, say 0.5_c_, both you and your friend would still observe the light from your flashlight to be traveling at c.

This is what Einstein figured out, and this is what we mean by Relativity. From this, we also know that objects moving faster experience an increase in mass (you have to get moving pretty close to c to really notice), and as you approach c that mass trends to infinity. That’s why anything with mass cannot achieve the speed of light, it would be infinitely massive, and thus require infinite energy to accelerate to that speed. Thus, only things with no mass (such as light) can move that fast.

If you wear glasses, get your next pair with a blue light blocker, those can help. If you don’t, you can get non-corrective blue light blocking glasses that do the same thing.

The other good thing is to regularly take breaks. Every 30-45 minutes, stop for just a couple of minutes and look around, focusing on objects at varying distances.

“Griff, why in the hell would you give someone CPR for a bullet wound in the head!? That doesn’t make a lick of sense.”

“You’re welcome, Sir.”

If it’s insulting depends on context, but responding that something is “double plus good” is implying that it is fake, false, propaganda, ingenuine, etc., so keep that in mind.

*October

Some storesnwaf me had set up Christmas decorations and music before Halloween.

Yeah, I don’t know how the person who wrote “Speaker for the Dead” could be such a bigot. It doesn’t make sense to me.