LilB0kChoy

Maybe there is a lot of Sumerians in Louisiana?

Beep boop bloop! 🤖

Would depopulation not have a knock on effect though (not enough for sure) or is that accounted for?

Fluid dynamics.

As the urine travels down your urethra it is under almost equal pressure from all sides. As the liquid escapes it loses contact with the vessel.

Through a process called adhesion the water in your product will experience a drag effect as the contact with the waste channel is extinguished. This drag is greatest in areas that contain the most perturbation.

The shape of the orifice that produces the stream produces the vast majority of the perturbative influence.

In this case the opening is a slit which produces semi-toroidal flows in the medium at the polar vertices.

Combine these forces (The sudden loss of pressure, the semi-toroidal flows, and adhesion) and the net effect is a torsion force on the stream.

The torsion force impels the fluid to twist and cohesion (water molecules are kind of like tiny magnets and really want to stick together) keeps the stream together.

There you have it. Why your urine spirals instead of just flowing out like a garden hose.

The spongy urethra runs along the length of the penis on its ventral (underneath) surface… This produces a spiral stream of urine and has the effect of cleaning the external urethral meatus. The lack of an equivalent mechanism in the female urethra partly explains why urinary tract infections occur so much more frequently in females.

Well Muffin is adorable anyway!

Haha! I’m convinced pets give you that look on purpose.

Interesting. I saw the fabric and wondered.

My mom had several pet rabbits over the years and they (at least hers) would pick a single spot. I wondered if chinchillas were the same.

Do chinchillas designate a specific spot as their bathroom and consistently go there?

Isn’t it interesting in how “officer discretion” disappears in instances like these?

On a large scale I have no idea but it does for me when I’m driving.

A crosswalk at an intersection, especially an unmetered one, serves as a warning that there’s enough regular pedestrian traffic or a risk that dictated it was needed.

Helps me, personally, to be extra aware for crossers.

Paywalled.

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Agreed. At first blush it reads more like that “Find a job you love, and you will never work a day in your life” kind of sentiment.

It’s a slogan used as a protest statement, particularly within anti-establishment and anti-police movements. The acronym has a long history, particularly within subcultures like punk, skinheads, and football hooligans. It’s also associated with anarchist and anti-authoritarian ideologies.

It also originated in England.

In the 45-second video posted later that day, one girl enters the classroom holding a cellphone. “Put your hands up,” she says, while a classmate flickers the lights on and off. As the camera pans across the classroom, several girls dramatically fall back on a desk or the floor and lie motionless, pretending they were killed.

When another student enters and surveys the bodies on the ground in poorly feigned shock, few manage to suppress their giggles. Throughout the video, which ProPublica obtained, a line of text reads: “To be continued……”

Talk about an overreaction.

When I was a kid in the 90s I used to run around our neighborhood with other kids playing “War”. I had a realistic looking cap gun western revolver made out of pot metal, much like this one.

We never had police called on us or even got stopped by them on the rare occasion they were cruising through.

the law allows for the carrying of a knife for a reasonable legitimate purpose

My opinion, not from the UK so it’s worth little, is that this is all that should be needed.

“What’s that? What’s it for?” … “Ok, we got a call from a concerned citizen who thought it was a knife. Have a good day!”

Maybe they could throw in a polite, friendly suggestion that they use a bag to transport their tools but its not like it’s required, if I’m understanding correctly.

These cops are bastards. Some cops are nice and genuine.

This is true pretty much everywhere, even America.

All feelings are valid. The issues come from how some express or act on those feeling.

Yeah, there’s this too:

However, a small but growing number of U.S. states, cities and counties have adopted legislation that impose maximum indoor temperature standards on rental housing. In the last five years, six U.S. localities, including New Orleans and Clark County, Nevada, have adopted such cooling laws, compared with just seven in the previous two decades, according to Reuters’ review of property codes and interviews with more than a dozen policymakers and housing officials.

But it shouldn’t have to be done at that minute of a level. State or federally it could (I argue should) be guaranteed as a basic necessity, just like water, power, sewer.

A Reuters survey of housing regulations in all 50 U.S. states found that, while nearly half of them require landlords to maintain existing air conditioning units, none require that air-conditioning be provided. Nor do rental housing regulations describe air-conditioning as an essential service like plumbing, heat and electricity.

AC not mandated in Texas

AC not mandated in LA, though that might change

In general, it’s a safe bet to just assume it’s not mandated and if it is or going to be there’s probably a landlord who opposes it.