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I have just joined Sam's Club in America recently to try to save money on things like gasoline, dog food, eggs and meats. I have found some good savings, but I don't like the notion that I must be forced to use my mobile telephone in order to transact business at Sam's or anywhere else. My phone is OK to summon an Uber ride, I guess. Sam's Club will no longer issue physical membership card to its members forcing them to be a prisoner of their phone. I had to have a gas station attendant show me how to use my phone to pump gas into my automobile. The Sam's Club app is about as difficult and slow to load into my Android 9 Moto E6 phone as the Walmart app. …

Is anyone else following the "drone" problem in New Jersey? I don't understand what all the hubbub is about. Nearly every video I've seen are obviously light aircraft, they even sound like light aircraft. Aircraft with landing lights! I have lived near an airport for many years and yes aircraft at night can look odd but I honestly do not see anything to this, it's all or at least mostly hype. It's concerning that many of these aircraft, whatever they are, have been sighted over restricted airspace like Langley air force base and so far I've not seen any videos of those "drones" but all the ones I've seen, in NJ, have aircraft running lights in standard configurations and …

It seems to me the new year should have started about 10 days ago, at the point when the days are the shortest. How did this day become the start of a new year? Also what is the point of having 12 months - why not just have four "seasons" each about 91 days long. Just random thoughts I guess.

For American new-car market. No thrifty little Scout truck as promised. Tacoma truck prices ever soaring. Still no plug-in battery electric trucks. Of course, I don't want plug-in battery trucks until they can compete with fossil-fuels-burning trucks with similar load capacity, trailer-pulling capacity, highway speeds and range. The promised solid state batteries were supposed to make this a reality. We asked for it, Toyota, when shall we get it? Gladly, base-model gasoline Corollas have not jumped up in price for 2025.

Wednesday it will be 25 years since the whole world was going to implode. Things haven't got all that much better. Did your school/job/family etc. have you jumping through hoops over what turned out to be a lead balloon? I got paid $200 over and above my regular pay for coming in and watching nothing happen for eight hours.

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I have a fairly high stress, high pressure, cortisol and adrenaline stimulating job with big clients and big money and big expectations. Working out and exercise help, as does awesome craft beer, but I’ve recently begun to get into woodworking. There’s a certain zen about it. I’ve got zero experience and even fewer coaches / mentors available to me. Like me, my pops was a corp software guy who grew up in NYC, so I’ve been watching YouTube for a couple of weeks and doing a bunch of trial and error this past month or so. One of my goals is to avoid using screws and power tools when possible (except the table saw, but no routers, pocket hole jigs, etc.), so I’m s…

For while now, I've been slowly trying to learn Finnish, since it was the natural tongue of all my grandparents. However this isn't going to be strictly about that but abut learning languages in general. They often start by teaching you a few simple phrases, that may come in useful, (hello, my name is... etc.) One of those phrases is often along the lines of "Do you speak English(or whatever language you normally speak)? For example, in Finnish, this would be "Puhetko* englanitia?" After some thought, I realized that there is no real reason you need to know how to say this. If you were in Finland and wanted to ask someone if they spoke English, y…

Hi. Rarely find a bottle not saying 'Dry' or 'London' style. Is there a not-dry gin ? Can you make it 'wet'🙄 adding something to it ? Sugar ?

I would like to create a little room here for the wonderfully unexpected, beautiful,... (add your adjective) in Nature. Unexpected and/or beautiful could be interpreted as curious/spectacular, or similar. I mean to use these examples in order to keep the kids interested in Nature. The youngest ones get bored very easily. Examples could be: a rare animal, plant or protist, an almost unbelievably beautiful geological phenomenon, an amazingly complicated molecule that looks like a tinker-toy assembly, spectacular phenomena in water eddies and such. You get the idea. My getting-started examples: Glasswinged butterfly A family of butterflies that eat …

Hi, Can I post an idea I have that I think may cover several differrent sciences? What protection would my work/idea have if I do post it? Im not a scientist either, does that matter? Thank you

I searched and didn't see a video games thread, so I decided to start one. I'm currently playing Death Stranding. It's very immersive, though the constant walking gets tedious. I tend to prefer shorter, sweeter games in general (the last game I was playing a lot was BlazBlue Entropy Effect).

Science is human technical knowledge. It can be applied for good or evil purposes. I thank those very much who've applied science to bring me the air conditioner in my home and the one in my automobile so I don't die of a heat stroke or an asthma attack on very hot days. I appreciate those who are applying science to try to make cancer a thing of the past. I appreciate those who are applying science in the name of getting mankind off fossil fuels for good by substituting those nasty, dirty finite things for clean and safe renewable energy means. I deplore those who have applied science to create weapons of mass destruction to cause widespread death and suffering…

Came across a rather clear cut yet humorous prerequisite for an article thought I would share it lol. "No prerequisites are required beside the standard courses of a Master in theoretical physics." Good article though lmao. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.14504

What do you think of this guy? How does he compare to Carl Sagan in your opinion? Personally I like him. He did an awesome job in Cosmos: A Spacetime Oddysey. I am yet to watch Cosmos: Possible Worlds as it didn't air in my country. Although he's sometimes wrong when he talks about stuff that isn't space related. His remarks after a school shooting on the US were quite insensitive too. Any thoughts?

Can anyone hazard a guess as to what these are. Just a couple of videos but are constant throughout the house TNPUSAE-313282-DDBUW_1728789911000.mp4 TNPUSAE-313282-DDBUW_1728788942000.mp4

Several days ago, I've emailed the "Floating Hourglass" puzzle (https://www.scienceforums.net/topic/132371-floating-hourglass/) to a relative, thinking that as former mechanical engineer he might be interested in it. Two days later, I've received his response with a clear and perfect solution. I was impressed and congratulated him with this success. But I was also suspicious because of the language of his response; it was not how he normally speaks. So, after a short Internet search I found a website, copyrighted 1998, with exactly the same text, verbatim. His dishonesty deeply offended me. I've taken some next steps but would like to know your opinions about th…

Greetings. Come and describe those unforgettable toys that made you happy as a kid. By 6, a pedal car like By 7, This transistor radio with shortwave. By 8, a blocks kit to build anything, By 9, A Coca-Cola truck with removable cases of bottles. Never seen another. By 10, a fire truck of heavy solid cast metal with real water cistern on board, working hoses, and a metal truck with hydraulic dump. Never seen another. By 11, a Lionel electric train. By 15, a Schuco wind-up car MercedesBenz with working gear box, steering, doors. Dad had a wealthy boss that gave away his kids' toys for a second life with other kids. …

Some people think a conversation is a one way street, they get a big shock when they have a head on collision.

Hi all. Done and tried it dozens of times. In a pot, put the dry pasta, barely cover with water and set fire until boils for 3 minutes. Works every time and never taste any difference with the "boil a lot of water first and when boiling, then add the pasta for 3 minutes" Are my taste buds dead or it is just another myth of having a lot of water wasting heat first ? Why ? I would guess that pasta in cold water first; starts hydration without wasting time until boils. Actually, am in doubt that the heating part improves the pasta. Hydrating in plain cold water for 30 minutes or as needed is a next test, no heat at all... Just warm to serve. Now you…

We need to talk about Dim. Who tf does he think he is? Coming onto threads, openly admitting he isn't reading anything longer than a few lines of text and shitting over everything anyone has to say half the time. It's trolling plain and simple. If I openly claimed I wasn't reading half of what any of you were saying and was just being purely reactionary to whatever words I happen to understand and just delivering thinly veiled insult all the time I'd have been banned. Is anyone else picking up on this behaviour or is it just to covert for anyone but the people who have had to live with people like Dim their whole lives? Honestly every time he comments I just want to…

Hello, I want to describe an idea of a science fiction. The main character from Russia considers himself a contactee, and through quantum pseudo-telepathy he interacts, as it seems to him, with extraterrestrial civilizations, but in fact these are employees of the Time Patrol from the year 2400. Fortunately for the universe and all intelligent life in it, alternative universes with a bad course of history develop more slowly than universes where reason and democracy win, and lose the competition to the latter. In the alternative universe in which the Putinism won, people could not learn how to manipulate time, but in the universe with a prosperous history - they could,…

My sympathies for those suffering the loss of their homes and livelyhood in Jasper Alberta. 30 to 50 % loss due to wild fires. https://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/jasper-townsite-damaged-by-two-wildfires

Brian McCleary's son, Sean McCleary, gives an interview in this video, which was uploaded earlier this year. Sean starts talking at the 24 minute mark. For a long time, only Fate Magazine was the source of this story, now there is Sean, Brian's son, retelling the story his late dad allegedly told him. In this version McCleary seems to have changed it from a sea serpent to a plesiosaur, and rather than just a head and neck he now says he saw a humped back. Sean himself uses up quite a bit of the interview promoting books about quantum consciousness that he wrote, but the rest is him talking about his dad's alleged experience. If you're familiar with cryptozoolog…

Restaurant food is cooked by a professional and might always taste nicer than home food. As such ordering healthy food in restaurants would make it easier to eat healthier at home. There's no harm in the odd indulgence in fast food at restaurants. Yet ordering too many burgers at restaurants would then make fast food more tempting for home dishes. The dilemma is that restaurants can be seen as a form of recreation if someone eats out seldomly. Yet there might be more reward to choose heathy dishes from the menu for those who eat out rarely. I've tried to desensitise myself to porridge through jams and fruit by ordering it frequently for breakfast at a restaurant: