I really wish they did to a level that mattered. I don't even like kids nor do I want children of any capacity, but if you can't give them a good life, don't have them. Obviously I'm also an advocate of birth control. Children are expensive, and any prospective parent should understand that and have a plan to deal with the extra cost.

It is absolutely hard. As a gay male, I've probably seen more of it than the average person, but it's so damn important.

If only having children required training. Serious props to you for going the adoption route, it's important and undervalues.

EDIT: sorry, I misinterpreted it a bit. Still big props on doing foster parenthood.

There are generally two ways people use the term: client side modifications that assist or automate what a human would do, or direct communication with the server. There can be overlooked things that allow you to talk to the server in a way the official client never does, but can be used to get significant advantage. Since the server is usually what hold the "truth" of the game world, just modifying the client won't in and of itself give you ability to alter the game state in beneficial ways.

That is true for this study. There are other studies that show the largest cause of medical regret in gender affirming surgery comes from social pressure as opposed to internally based regret though.

That's my criticism of prop 65. It requires labels for anything that has a IARC category higher than 3 from my understanding and ignores dosage or any other factor. As a result, it's usefulness to the consumer is about zero.

Ironically, there's a study posted to /r/science near the top right now that puts the regret rate around 0.3%. That's better than most surgery.

SSDs often use more than two values. The nice thing about binary is it is the most resistant to fluctuation. In the real world, if 1.2V is high and 0V is low, you are going to see many voltages other than the perfect values especially when transitioning. With binary you can say something like "If > 0.2V, 1, otherwise 0" whereas the more states you add, the more bands you have to create. "If < 0.2V, 0. If >= 0.2 V and < 0.6 V, 1. If >= 0.6 V, 2". The bins will keep getting smaller the more digits you allow.

I'd love an explanation how thousands upon thousands of animals, many who want to eat each other, can fit.

We do know that SSRIs cause a withdrawal of sorts if stopped abruptly, this implies some sort of adaptation in the brain's serotonin system, or some other downstream effect. To really answer why you don't generally grow resistant to SSRIs would require to understand exactly why SSRIs work for depression, and we don't yet. One hypothesis is not that the additional serotonin is the direct way they work, but that the presence of more serotonin downregulates certain serotonin receptors and that downregulation is ultimately what gives it therapeutic benefit.

I wouldn't call that undermining freedom of association. You don't have to follow and can block people on twitter, for example. Just because a nazi is there doesn't mean you also being there means you support nazis by association, that's nonsensical.

That said, section 230 should not be overturned, and doing so opens a whole host of problems. Companies not associated with the government should have the ability to do what they want with their platform, within the boundaries of law. The effects of social media and its dominance in information, discourse and it's algorithmic attempt to keep you in a bubble is likely not good for society, and will have consequences we still can't foresee.

I've heard English described as a weird, messy amalgam of a germanic language with strong romance language influence being thrown in later, especially French. The closest sibling, Frisian, was described as English if it evolved without the large romance language influence on English.

There are many people who contributed, but Nixon was the key to execution and propaganda following. All for the vietnam war effort and disenfranchising communities most likely to oppose it.

Slight correction, but that's generally correct. Iron has the lowest binding energy per nucleon, and adding a proton adds the energy to add that proton in to the nucleus as well as energy needed to keep all the existing nucleons together with it, which ends up being more than just adding a proton and keeping all else equal.

The reason for this is quantum mechanical in nature and involves the strong force. It has to do with the strong force being strongest at certain distances before falling off rapidly, and protons don't naturally want to be near each other because they are both positively charged. It also involves spin and nuclear orbitals and other fun things, but the intuitive not really but kind of right idea is that the nucleus is getting large enough that the nucleus is getting large and complex enough that it takes more energy to keep them all together happily and not wanting to change to a new configuration.

That's actually quite interesting. I don't feel like I ever really learned about adjective order, or at least I don't remember it, but it's just intuition. "the brick brown big wall" to me seems to infer that brick brown is a color of the wall, and "the brick, brown big wall" seems like a weird way of saying the wall is of bricks and the bricks are brown, but I couldn't even give a inkling on why I feel that way.

I believe having contents in your stomach muffles it, and you produce more gases when food enters the bowels which takes a bit from the last time you ate. The time for food to pass through the stomach and small intestines is around 6-8 hrs, which is also somewhat close to the amount of time the average person takes between meals if they eat 3 meals a day.

It's highly experimental and we are still trying to do green propulsion engines. All of these engines basically take a fuel, make it explode inside with very fast air going through as well, and throw it out the back to generate thrust. The usual fuel for aircraft would be hydrocarbons, aka oil derived fuel. It's basically a slightly modified kerosine.

Hydrogen can still combust (or explode) in the presence of air. It's actually what made the original space shuttles able to get out of the atmosphere. The exhaust is mostly just water, as H2 + O => H2O (water). Whether this specific strategy will get off the ground is too early to tell (pun intended).

There is evidence that consuming antioxidants such as those in chocolate before or slightly after hearing something above safe thresholds can help prevent hearing loss. It supports the theory that damage to the hair cells of the ear are at least partially from oxidative stress.

Beyond research, no. Quantum computing still has many hurdles to overcome before it reaches the point where it is useful for practical applications. Current quantum computers need to be as cold as possible because heat causes the quantum state to "break" (decoherence). The lower the temperature, the longer the state can remain entangled, on average. Liquid helium happens to have the lowest known boiling point, and it also does not ever freeze at standard pressure.

We waste plenty from natural gas extraction too. Most helium comes from natural gas extraction, but not all natural gas extraction facilities capture the helium, instead just leaking it to the atmosphere, where it is extremely difficult to extract due to the very low concentration. It also tends to go toward the upper layers of the atmosphere, and can eventually escape into space.

It's not taste so much as smell. Mosquitos are attracted to the CO2 we emit, but also more attracted to some people than others. Exactly why this is the case is still being studied, but genetics and lifestyle are likely part of it, as is determines the exact composition of your sweat and body oils. Everyone is slightly different in that regard.