Ever since I realized that was a meme (trying to look cute with deliberate pigeon toes) I notice it everywhere. It never looks cute to me!

That’s a nasty case of pigeon toe! Might want to see a physio!

Chess is not segregated by gender. There are women’s tournaments and there are open tournaments. There are no men’s tournaments. Men are way overrepresented at all the open tournaments, but women do compete in all of them.

Women’s representation is increasing at the top levels but it’s a gradual process. Judit Polgar and Hou Yifan (侯逸凡) are so far the only women to reach the top 100 players in the world and regularly compete with success at the top open tournaments.

Love how the truant officer has a sign in his car window telling everyone who he is! That kid should probably get back to school so he can learn to read (or at least learn the meaning of the word truant)!

Laura’s one of my favourite movies of all time! It’s so beautifully written and acted, with an amazing score by David Raksin! I recommend it to anyone who loves classic movies!

Damn! I guess the word got out and collectors have taken over!

If you don’t need to play DS/3DS games, the Chinese systems are very popular. These devices are much cheaper than used Nintendo kit. Some of them are much more powerful, with better screens and battery life. There’s a whole scene dedicated to developing custom OSes with really nice emulator frontends for them!

I recommend TechDweeb on YouTube if you want to learn more about the scene. If I had to start over again today I’d get a Knulli-based device. I may still get one at some point.

Last Nintendo console I’ll ever buy is a used New Nintendo 3DS XL which I’ve modded with Homebrew and all that and loaded with emulators with tons of ROMs. It’s a fantastic piracy machine that runs NES, SNES, SMS, GEN/SMD, N64, PSX, GB, GBC, GBA, DS, DSi, and 3DS games!

On the one hand, yes, this is the minimum. On the other hand, they’re making their supply chain more complicated by carrying 2 different versions with different parts etc.

So in that sense they’re going out of their way to be assholes.

Sure, on almost anything non political. Politics here is a pretty rough situation though. Seems like everyone is a teenage radical.

“For regulation” is a pretty weird take, but it is self regulating (in the absence of pollution from humans). When the ozone layer is thin, more UV gets through from the sun. UV from the sun ionizes O2 and splits it apart, creating oxygen free radicals which recombine and create ozone. Thus, less ozone leads to more ozone, hence self-regulation.

If you have dual citizenship why not renounce your US citizenship and stop paying US taxes? If you don’t live in the US and you can’t get a passport, there’s not much advantage to having citizenship.

It’s only a lie if there’s intent to deceive. Mistakes are not lies and false memories are not lies.

Nice! This would also be a great candidate post for c/dull_mens_club! I’ve never thought of building a shed before!

Yes, he threatened someone. Always take threats seriously, no matter how much of a liar they are. Better to be proven wrong and alive.

Right, though Batman stories rarely depict ordinary people who just happen to commit a single crime. Criminals in that universe are all cackling psychopaths who wander the streets, assaulting, robbing, and murdering anyone they encounter. They’re much more aptly labeled villainous outlaw gangsters than mere criminals.

Inflation is a decrease in the value of money itself. If there’s a lot more money around today than there was yesterday, then money is less scarce than it was before. Scarcity is a major contributor to value by the theory of marginal utility:

Suppose you have no first aid kit. Gaining a first aid kit gives you a tremendous amount of value! Now suppose you get a second first aid kit. Still valuable, but not as much as the first.

Now you suppose you have a thousand first aid kits. What are you going to do with all of them? You can’t possibly use them all yourself! So you might as well give them away or try to sell them.

First aid kits have declining marginal utility. Having way more than one gives you very little value relative to the value you gained from the first one. On the other hand, those first aid kits will have much more value for other people who don’t have one yet. Thus it’s better to distribute first aid kits than to hoard them.

Most things work this way. One of the main exceptions is money itself. The more money you have, the more you can do with it! Of course, at large enough levels of wealth, what you can do for yourself personally (buy food, clothes, shelter, entertainment) shows the same diminishing marginal utility: being able to afford a steak dinner every day is one thing, but nobody is going to eat 10,000 steak dinners every day!

On the other hand, the other use of money is to hold power over others, and there’s no limit to that, unfortunately. The biggest problem is the existence of people who actually want that!

Wow, I love these! Very beautiful! Keep it up!

They were losing on the ground for most of the war. They lost a lot of territory and it’ll take a lot of work to win it back. Their drones can help them with that, but they also need more soldiers. They’ve lost a lot of soldiers, and almost nobody talks about that.

Where I live it’s against building code for hot water to be kept below 60C, due to the potential for growth of water-borne pathogens. A hot water tank that allows water to fall to 45C would not be allowed. In practice, the companies who supply water heaters set them much higher than 60C to avoid the risk of water cooling below that temperature during extended power outages.

If the hot water drops in temperature

There’s not much reason for that to happen unless the building’s water heater has failed or is undersized. I have had that happen once in the decades I’ve lived at this house and it was a simple matter of turning the handle up a bit hotter.

Otherwise, the effect thing you described (the mixer lowering the pressure to maintain a constant output temperature, assuming the hot water supply is constant temperature) works just fine. I have never had the water suddenly become unexpectedly hot or cold after the initial warmup phase.