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When the light shuts off on Io, the photons from the previous 11 minutes are still traveling and will keep hitting Earth for 11 more minutes. So it still looks like a 30 minute ON period to the observer. Let's say you were blind and could only know my position on a football field by me throwing a tennis ball and you feeling which direction it came from. I'm always fifty yards away and the ball always takes five seconds to reach you. So, from due north, I throw the ball, while I'm running a circle around you every sixty seconds. Ok. So after five seconds you are struck by the ball and determine, "That came from due north." But I am traveling around you at a rate of 6°/sec. So I am actually (5x6=) 30° off due north, when you register my position as due north. IOW, information always has a finite speed in reaching you.

Apparently pendulums don't work well on a boat. 🤪

Well, the drumming thing apparently relates to red corpuscles in the hand splitting and then the iron-rich contents passing through the kidneys and excreted. Heh. Or men, if they're forced to admit they used it to open a jar. 😄

Yep. Also there's the easy-peasy, doesn't even need installation or hot water or ice picks, jar wrench,... BTW, is it true that drumming with your hands (vs sticks) can cause pink in the urine? This is a question for @pinball1970

Well the screwdrivers are fond of screwing, which is why they also proliferate inside of toolboxes. Best not have more than one in any given drawer or box - they are not parthenogenetic, thankfully. My default method. On both jars and cats mating noisily in the yard. Not obvious to me, mein Kapitan. Makes complete sense once called to my attention, though. Har! I mean, I laugh but I've actually done this with an old jar of electrical parts which had rusted shut over a couple decades. The top of the jar separated, with the neck remaining bonded to the lid. The parts inside were immaculate, so well worth it.

Also, avoid putting an unopened jar in the fridge; the metal lid will contract > the jar. This was so effective at further tightening that I had to run hot water on the top over a minute before it would yield. I had stupidly put peanut butter in the fridge directly from the grocery sack. @geordief 's stabbing trick might have helped for that, given that PB is pretty mold resistant. This problem reminds me of the now iconic comedy sketch called White People Problems. My God, man, there are people in this world who would LOVE to struggle with foie gras jars! Related to this - in the US, foie gras started to be viewed as evil in the seventies, as there was all this publicity on how the geese were abused. Did that improve, or did everyone just stop caring? Sorry, a bit OT, perhaps I can do a separate thread if that's not too much of a _____ _______ _____.

Good one! LOL. Alas, our younger and stronger selves didn't quite believe they would get older and weaker. I remember when young how many sort of imagined (quite irrationally) that they would be amazing and exceptional old folks, outliers who would get up every day and go water skiing or rock climbing. It's part of that whole Off the Bell Curve delusion where people imagine themselves exceptional and (as a US radio show guy used to say "all the children are above-average"). It's a cousin of Dunning Krueger.

UV on nylon, yes that would go to powder by now. Great, now we've spread microplastics on the moon as well. 🤪

Interesting. Which is the more significant effect, coefficient of expansion of metal threads, or raising pressure in the airspace? The hole method has a downside if it's a jam jar and your fridge is not the cleanest. Those wee spores find their way in there.

Improving the rez does greatly reduce the crater-dome illusion that can manifest on grainier old images. You can dispel the illusion by concentrating for a moment, or just rotating inage, but it is an odd experience. Greater detail seems to reduce the effect.

Cool. I'm also the jar opener in my house, and also getting older (seems to be a common thing in human existence). I also recommend the shock method - tap the edge of lid against something, which seems to slightly disengage the threads. (Obv not too vigorously, if it's a glass jar) Various heat methods work, I gather, because metal has a greater coefficient of expansion than glass or plastics.

I think that's correct. If I'm in Old Blighty, and the money gets tighty, and I need anything pawned, I will be careful how I respond.

Dear Mr Turnip , Please heed the advice of our neighbor, posted above. And please note that, while he correctly identified diarrhea symptoms, you should also seek treatment for mental constipation. I wonder if several years of you trying to live on a working class income would help loosen whatever is stuck up in there.

As I recall, you want FL if you handle highly imbalanced datasets. You are reducing the weight of well-classified examples. This is especially useful in object detection. Your situation with object detection is one where background examples far outnumber foreground objects, right?

To my ear, pawned and pond sound the same, in American English. FWIW, your line "Who knows what's out there, Is it dangerous, is it blonde?" struck me as pretty funny. Ha! I've noticed that, despite the French origin, Americans often fail to properly gender their usage and just attach the e to everyone. We Yanks toss suffixes into a blender, And often ignore the uses of gender, When to such neutering we dumbly surrender, We can't tell a girdle from a suspender.

Gosh it's almost like the government says one thing while doing just the opposite. AP NewsBorder Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining thos...The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.

Abscond respond frond pawned dawned bond pond spawned batoned conned....if any of that's of use? While I'm here, this is from a 1956 New Yorker, so may be familiar to older members... Well up beyond the tropostrata There is a region stark and stellar Where, on a streak of anti-matter, Lived Dr. Edward Anti-Teller. Remote from Fusion’s origin, He lived unguessed and unawares With all his anti-kith and kin, And kept macassars on his chairs. One morning, idling by the sea, He spied a tin of monstrous girth That bore three letters: A.E.C. Out stepped a visitor from Earth. Then, shouting gladly o’er the sands, Met two who in their alien ways Were like as lentils. Their right hands Clasped, and the rest was gamma rays.

Did I swap God for a jalapeno, Nepal, a jar of dog paws? I did.

I wonder if early ragweed exposure is much guarantor of avoiding that allergy. My early life was in Kansas, which is just swimming in ragweed pollen and I had some allergy to it, off and on. Like yours, it abated in later life. (Goldenrod is the state flower of Nebraska, btw, and there's an amusing story about a governor's event manager who organized some gathering in which she thought it would be a nice touch to have vases of goldenrod set out everywhere at this banquet. About 30% of the population is allergic to the ragweed family, so there were all these people sneezing and wiping their eyes before someone figured out what was going on...) I saw that, too. With foods it does seem that desensitization protocols are pretty useful. I worked for a while with a nutritionist who advanced the theory that exposure to certain foods with pesticide/herbicide residues could trigger allergy formation. The idea being that the body would start to associate the food with toxicity. She fed her young children all organic foods, hoping to diminish such an effect. I think I've had some Indonesian cuisine. There was a peanut sauce, anyway. Fortunately my dinner partner and I were both PB junkies.

Haha! I'm proud of my work on the sulking in the Happy Vertical People Transporter.

I'd say let's not fix the alpha-gal, though. Too much red meat eating going on in the world. Any assist from ticks appreciated! Seriously, yes, I think hygiene hypothesis could be modified. I wouldn't entirely discard the hygiene aspect where some douse household surfaces with antibacterials and generally try to create a clean-room ambience. I also am unsure that putting HEPA filters on HVAC systems is good. As a lifelong benefactor of the vag/boob/poo/dander/turf/no antibiotics regimen (kids! ask me for my pro tips on faking washed hands!), I am very nearly a Filth Evangelist. We did go kind of overboard on the animal contact, though. These are the species I had live contact with ages 1-10: cats, dogs, horses, cattle, goats, chickens, pigs, rabbits, possums (don't ask), toads, lizards, hamsters, rats, parrots, and elephants (riding an elephant is surprisingly comfortable), to name some of them. If someone doesn't have relatives who farm or employed by a zoo, "petting zoos" are also a possible option for conditioning an immune system.

That was my first thought on seeing this thread. Second was the expense and energy consumption of moving fairly diffuse heat somewhere useful - the net gain seemed possibly tiny. Paging Maxwell's demon...

Your deep and incisive analysis has provided a fresh and illuminating perspective on this longstanding mystery!

Hoping the unintentionally humorous aspect of this article is obvious to our members... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/nov/18/house-representative-vote-on-epstein-files-release ICYMI... I mean, there was one No vote. What was the point of the mile-long chart? Just write, "All House members voted Yes, except Clay Higgins, LA Dist.3." Any reader with an IQ higher than that of a cement block will immediately have complete information on their district from that sentence. I suspect the era of AI generated content is going to bring more such absurdity.

Makes sense, given they're basically cylindrical. And cylindrical coordinates being a 3D extension of polar coordinates.