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For your perusal and pontification. Various short essays on Adam Smith, Scottish enlightenment thinker and humanist. https://www.adamsmithworks.org/documents/just-sentiments And if this is a topic of interest to you, but podcasts are more accessible (or just supplemental) then this 3-part series from the fine team at Freakonomics was well done, too: In Search of the Real Adam Smith https://freakonomics.com/podcast-tag/in-search-of-the-real-adam-smith/

Recently I read this story that sounds hard to believe but may be true. According to John Callahan and verified by the photographer on board in 1999 a boatload of surfers anchored off the notorious North Sentinel Island and had an encounter with the generally hostile natives. The following song was playing on the boat's sound system when the natives approached in their canoe, holding spears, bows and arrows. They paddled around their boat listening to the music for a while and then left them alone. Good thing the music was mellow, contemplative instrumental. Seems to me if it was heavy metal the surfers may have been murdered. Here was the music that was playing…

Merry Christmas hope everyone has a wonderful joyous day

First before anyone loses their mind, I'm not saying it was aliens or anything like that but for real WTF is in this video!

I have some polyester fleece sniper_type gloves for fishing that I want to stop getting damp. Has anyone any experience of doing this from scratch. What would be the most appropriate UK-available preparation for this?

Sorry but I have a line of text that I need it to be translated into German language. It's important and no time to explain. Sorry and wish a German or someone who knows German language will help. Thanks so much and highly appreciated! ----Text below---- End of year special offer All orders placed before Dec 31 are applicable to free international shipping and free express production which is worth up to EUR 130. Exclusive to long term customer. All terms are subject to change without notice and we reserve the right of final decision in case of any disputes. Thanks

the fact that we can not even edit our posts and much less delete them is a pretty big deal to me, never seen any other site doing this, I don't feel safe posting here.

hi, are there any university for international candidates providing remote master programs specifically in any of fields given below with suitable scholarship: ** cyber security ** software (I would get expertise in oop) ** data analytics ** linguistics target countries: egypt , china , russia or other countries* preferred languages: english, arabic. * any country wherein english is 1st spoken language. Thanks.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/10/kfc-apologises-for-kristallnacht-chicken-and-cheese-promotion

I often find myself watching clips of people doing some amazing feats, the diversity of talent and skill is astounding! From drawing/painting images, making music, to death defying stunts... humans are so talented. This then got me wondering about life in general, especially animated life and how special it really is. That a bunch of basic atoms arranged in certain ways, can form massively complex mechanisms that can perform such a diverse and unimaginable number of feats is quite remarkable. I was watching a young lady perform on a violin on the streets just the other day, she was no older than 13 and produced a sound from the instrument that just activat…

Can one hear a magnet? And does the shape of the sound change when there are two magnets proximal enough to noticeably interact?

Hi. What is the typical current allowance you would give to a 10 year old these days ?

Money is only valuable if you can effectively manage it and use it for your own, your loved ones', friends', and even strangers' advantage. In other words, you shouldn't love money and utilise others; money should be a tool. Naturally, if I were caring for a family, I wouldn't mind working to earn money to assist my spouse in providing for our children. But the crucial point to remember is the stark contrast between the need for only the necessities and yearning for trivial pleasures. Sometime, shortage of money lead problems in your family. There are some ways are available to fix this. You can get upto 300 to from your nearest lenders, and also from some app a…

Anyone remember Compton Mackenzie's Whisky Galore ? Here is an update. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-62990366

Greetings What makes the shaving products work ? Its application on skin, some action on the facial hair, lubrication? something to do with the sharpness of blades, slipperyness, edges grabbing onto hair, some displacement or not of hair piling on blades ? Seems an optimal thing developed trough years; trying soap, just water, dry, others, is not as successful. Can you explain ?

BALMORAL, Scotland, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Queen Elizabeth, Britain's longest-reigning monarch, the nation's figurehead and a towering presence on the world stage for seven decades, died peacefully at her home in Scotland on Thursday aged 96. "The death of my beloved Mother, Her Majesty The Queen, is a moment of the greatest sadness for me and all members of my family," the new king, her eldest son Charles, said. "We mourn profoundly the passing of a cherished Sovereign and a much-loved mother. I know her loss will be deeply felt throughout the country, the Realms and the Commonwealth, and by countless people around the world," the 73-year-old said in a statement. …

Thought I'd post these up. Pretty cool the images it can create for you. Tried to push it to see something that it couldn't have existing images of to see what it could come up with(Modern day Atlantis, Alien, Futuristic, Most Popular X in Year 3000). In some case it would incorporate an interpretation of the text prompt too. ie. Futuristic Bible, Alien School, Alien Religious Service which thought was interesting too.

Have anyone ever tried using this freeware? Is it reliable and reputable? Sorry, OpenOffice and LibreOffice often crash for no reason and it is so annoying that's why I am avoiding them. However, I have never heard about FreeOffice before. I find that they are likely created by German because their official site has some German text. What do you think? Is it reliable to use?

Greetings. Half a dozen in my house, and other places I maintain with several more also of the not-vintage types. Have replaced them, cleaned them, repaired capacitors, switches, wiring in them but never saw an obvious lubricating points above or below them nor seen owners manuals guidance to oil them. Do they need some dismantling in order to lubricate or there is a clever access to the proper point; or simply is a chinese discard-and-buy-new as if few drops of oil and little effort is too much to ask ?

I posted this in Other Sciences, but this will probably get more attention in the Lounge. Anyone familiar with very large numbers and very small things? My questions was: suppose you could fill a volume the size of the observable universe (less than 100 billion light-years in diameter) with a tiny sand that is so tiny that each sand grain is one Planck Length in diameter. Could you fill that volume with Graham's number of Planck-sized sand? My guess is yes you could fill the observable universe with Planck-sized sand. You could probably fill a volume you cannot even comprehend how large with Graham's number of Planck-sized sand. This is what I found in Wikipedi…

Creature's Table is the project that has the elements of the periodic table made to incredible creatures. Hope that you enjoy! More compounds are on the way!

I was listening to a podcast and the hosts, who are magazine editors, mentioned a headline they had a disagreement over. The article was about poets laureates being removed from their post and the headline was "unacknowledged legislators impeached." When one of the hosts mentioned the headline, someone went ah, in a "that was clever" way, but I'm apparently not, because I don't get it. Where's the cleverness?

Okay, I'll treat the physics community like a human being. The only reason why I get on your nerve is because I don't like what you're researching. We are (the Earth) are trying to get back on track for the race to interstellar space exploration. We literally need any hint we can find to get quantum gravity. If that means we have to lovingly remind the physics community that they need to be aligned with us on this goal, then by gosh, we will poke every nerve they have <that's a joke>. You have no idea how often jokes are used to ease tensions between the many races and planets. If you can't take a joke, you are encouraged to learn. There are more jokes in the…

Hi. My brother is paranoid because just found that the central air conditioning equipment at his home installed 30 years ago has always had a 3 ton exterior unit and a 2 ton interior. What should the behavior of such mismatch ? Am not an expert in the field to answer without 'maybes' and 'sometimes' Anyone around knows ? Question 2: What behavior should be expected if some technician fed refrigerant R410 in equipment that calls for R22 ? Anyone knows ?

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/nichelle-nichols-dead-star-trek-lieutenant-uhura-1235189880/ An interesting obit. I didn't know about her recruiting stint with NASA. Or that MLK was a Trekkie. And talked her into staying on the series when she was planning to leave Knew that she and Shatner broke the interracial kiss barrier on American tv, which required malign telekinetic beings to achieve but hey it was a start. May her hailing frequencies always be open.