The trick to getting the pit off the knife is to not whack it in to begin with. Hold the knife parallel to the first cut and use the point on the back of the knife near your hand to pry the pit up. It doesn’t take much force and the pit pops right out without sticking to the knife.

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Usually that kind of thing is done through a bond measure. The increased tax isn’t enough to pay for a big project while it’s under construction. Big projects are financed by selling bonds. Those bonds need to keep being payed back well after the project is complete.

We should all be so excited that a new federal sales tax that didn’t go through congress, and hasn’t been challenged by congress, is only at absurd levels instead of straight embargo levels.

I think it would be the progression from gathering firewood in the winter. They would notice that logs are easier to drag in the snow/on ice. Logs also glide way more easily along their length as opposed to across the side. So maybe you pick a couple long logs to pile all your other sticks on so you can drag a whole heap of wood in one go. Eventually that gets refined into a sleigh with bone runners. Then you just need someone who wants to have some fun with the idea and plays around with making a miniature version they can strap to their feet.

True. If your gut has decided that its purpose is to hate you and everything you eat, then no amount of fiber will convince it otherwise.

IBS isn’t always lifelong though. I hope you can work out a diet that avoids angering the growling intenstinal gremlins.

Fiber helps with that as well.

The recruiter sent you an inelligible candidate. That’s just as much their problem as it is yours.

Get a job at a turkey processing plant.

The North Carolina legislature has a supermajority of far right republicans. The NC GOP is currently brazenly attempting to throw out legitimate ballots to steal a state supreme court seat, and the courts are going along with it. If they want to move for political concerns, I don’t think NC is enough of an improvement to justify the disruption involved.

Another way to view it is that college classes are filled with your future colleagues, and should be treated similar to a workplace. Students should generally dress similarly to how they expect to dress in their future workplaces. Whether that excludes a tank top is a matter of discretion, but clearly the proffesor did not find it to be professional. There’s no hard and fast rule, but I am surprised by the indignant tone in the comments here. Lectures are the domain of the professor and its not outlandish for them to set expectations about what they consider acceptable conduct for their lectures.

The issue is that it’s a waste of resources. A dam is harnessing energy from the rainfall over hundreds to thousands of square miles of land area. So the resources required to build it, even though large, are very efficiently used over decades of use.

A tiny system uses orders of magnitude less materials but harvests many orders of magnitude less power. A tiny system probably isn’t going to ever generate more energy than it took to manufacture.

Systems like this are at best a novelty. We need to all be wary of greenwashed scams, and this is one of them.

The other benefit I can think of is keeping the fissile materials always sub critical. You don’t have to worry about a meltdown if the reaction is not self-sustaining. It’s an odd marrying of technologies, but I think people are being too dismissive.

Although, I wonder if the true purpose of such a device would be high output breeding of fuel for weapons use.

I meant commenters on youtube. I should have specified.

Is there a reason so many of the commenters (on youtube) are name+4 digits, or are those lazily named bot accounts?

The stuff that is heavier than water ends up in the river delta, everything else dilutes into the ocean. Once it’s in the ocean, there’s not much humans can do about it. Promoting populations of sea grass and filter feeders like mussels can at least capture pollution in a form that settles to the seabed and improves water quality.

There will be pockets of pollution that persist for a long time, and floodwaters could stir some of that back up, but the above poster is correct. Cleaning up a river can be as simple as stopping the sources of the pollution. A dirty river is dirty because stuff keeps getting added to it. Of course stopping sources of pollution is way easier said than done.

They already thought of that. The department of education has already been dismantled. If there are no school nights there’s no problem, right?

Detroit essentially exists in both the US and Canada. The Detroit automakers have factories on both sides of the border but within the same region. So a Canada tariff war will always disadvantage them.

That said, the f-150, Ford’s most popular vehicle by far, has only 45% US/Canadian origin parts.

On the ranking of vehicle models by how much of the vehicles construction is domestic, Ford’s highest entry is #35 with the mustang, the F-150 comes in at #58. The “American auto makers” are all produced in America less than Tesla, Honda, VW, and Toyota. Tariffs can’t save American auto makers, because they are less american than their German, and Japanese competitors. Tesla is the only “true American” brand, but they aren’t viable as a major auto maker for a variety of reasons.

https://www.cars.com/articles/2024-cars-com-american-made-index-which-cars-are-the-most-american-484903/

Is the sales tax in your area 7.5% by any chance?

$16 x (100/107.5)= $14.88

I don’t see any gloves priced at 14.88 on their website at a quick check. I wonder if the store is trying to set a price that tallies to an even dollar amount and doesn’t know the connotation. I only recently learned about those numbers being associated so I would like to believe a benign explanation. Maybe you could ask to talk to a store manager next time you see it an make sure they know to avoid that price point.

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