Imagine it like a car steering wheel.

You’d say turning the wheel to the right turns the car right.

Think of it like this. Like your hand is holding on the top of the steering wheel.

You can donate blood in 20 minutes. It takes an hour plus to donate plasma

Am I going to sit in a chair for an hour plus without any compensation? Maybe once or twice here and there. But you can donate plasma at least twice a week.

It requires two donations for a single unit. If you donate once and don’t donate the second, then your first donation is unusable. You have to get them to donate twice.

When I was donating plasma, it paid about $75 for each donation. 50 first, 100 for second. The money is pretty good. $300 a month is a lot for a lot of people.

If you didn’t compensate people for plasma donations, a lot wouldn’t do it. They currently need more people to donate.

Plasma “donation” is a good thing.

Criminal Minds

Dead fish 🐟

Good take

I wouldn’t even be against sharing some information so they could give me better ads

I’m not in the market for a new car. I don’t need car ads.

But knowing I shop at Something Hardware a lot and they are having a spring black friday sale on the tool I’ve been eyeing would be nice.

Even still Something Hardware just slapping their logo in an ad is not helpful at all.

If ads were helpful they wouldn’t be annoying

Ability to act on freewill

You ask Chat GPT a question it is going to answer it becomes that’s what it has been programed to do. Input question, output answer.

Now if Chat GPT could be like “Nah I’m not going to answer that because I don’t feel like it”

Yes “AI” can be programed to not answer certain things. E.g porn stuff. But it does not make the conscious choice to do so it is following programming.

It’s a suicide cord. Works great for generators

1% of 33 is .33

.33 × 7 =

.3 x 7 = 2.1

.03 x 7 = .21

21 + 2.1 = 2.31

So

7% of 33 = 2.31

You could also do

33% of 7

10% of 7 is .7

1% of 7 is .07

So 11% is .77

.77 × 3 =

.7 × 3 = 2.1

.07 × 3 = .21

2.1 + .21 = 2.31

Easy way to do %

Say you want 6% of 45

Seems hard right?

1% of 45 is .45

.45 × 6 =

.4 × 6 = 2.4

.05 × 6 = .3

2.4 + .3 = 2.7

So 6% of 45 is 2.7

Extra:

Say you want an item that is 40 dollars and it is 20% off.

10% is 4 dollars.

20% is 8 dollars.

So item would be 32 dollars.

A choosey nose indeed

Idaho must be an awful name to live with

Condolences

If this was alway true UPS and FedEx wouldn’t exist

Celcius isn’t rocket science

For 99% of things it’s simply reading a thermometer or typing in numbers on a device to set a temperature.

Just like I would have to look up what temperature to bake my cookies, 325°F, 350°F, 400°F. I’d have to look it up to cook them in C.

Me “knowing” the system doesn’t help me. Because I have no idea what 325°F really is. That would cook my skin, no way I’m “feeling” it. All it is is just a number to me. If I had to push 325 or 163 on my oven it makes no difference to me.

When someone says I put a liter of gas in my car, I can reasonably think and know what a liter is. To me, the easiest way is that it’s half of a 2L of soda because soda is sold in metric liters, and it gives me a reference. I also know that a liter is basically 1/4 gallon.

But when you say 28°C, I have nothing to compare it to. I know 40°C is really hot, and 20°C is basically room temperature. Even that doesn’t even help me. So I guess I can deduce it’s somewhere in the middle? It’s 82°F. But I have no reference to how 28°C feels.

82°F. Is low 80’s, I know what low 80’s feels like. Easy for me to figure out the realitive temperature.

Fahrenheit and weather temperatures just line up so good at 0-100.

But if you just thought of 82°F as 82% hot you could easily get a general idea of how hot it is.

Livable temperatures are between 50°F and 100°F. Humans like it halfway between the two. ~75% hot. 65°F is a cold house, 85°F is a hot house. 99% of homes are between those two and still averages to 75°F.

1°F is smaller than 1°C.

82°F vs 83°F a normal person wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. But you know, as it approaches 85°F or 90°F it’s definitely heating up.

I could say 93°F. 93% hot. That’s pretty hot. I’m sure you could wrap your mind around that.

But tell me 34°C and how am I suppose to really quickly wrap my head around that?

6° less than the hottest realistic temperature outside? I don’t even know how 1°C drop feels, much less 6°.

• or - 5°C

23°F to 41°F is -5°C to 5°C

If it’s below 40°F I’d be cautious of Ice. Once again, it doesn’t matter that water freezes at exactly 32°F at standard pressure.

It’s like boiling water. No one puts a thermometer in water to make sure that it hits 100°C exactly.

150°F water will scald you in a second (65°C)

140°F water will scaled you in 3 seconds (60°C)

120°F water will scaled you in 10 minutes (50°C)

+100°F water has the potential to scaled you (~40°C)

I’d rather know that +100°F water has a chance to burn me than remembering +40°C has a chance.

That’s way more important knowledge than the freezing and boiling temperatures of water at standard pressure.

Water freezes at 0°C at standard pressure, sea level.

If you are above or below, it will be different.

Saying “It’s not 0°C outside so there’s no ice on the road” is dumb. Because there could definitely be ice on the road.

You should be looking out for other things while driving. Not if the one thermometer, who knows where, is saying that it’s 0°C or not.

What’s 28° C? How can I envision in my mind what that means?

0-40 as a scale. 28 is about 3/4 between the two. So it’s towards the hotter side but how far into it?

It’s 82.4° F

Low 80s. I know exactly how low 80’s feel.

0-100 is easy to compare with %

82.4° F is 82% hot.

Humans like it around 75% hot between 50-100.

So 82° is hot but not pushing 90s

You can get a general idea of temperature very easy.

35°C with 100% humidity can be fatal to humans

46°C with 50% humidity can be fatal to humans

Humans can not survive for extended lengths at these temperatures and humidities.

Saying “40 ain’t dangerously hot” is dumb.

56.7° C is the hottest temperature ever recorded. It was in the US.

It’s scummy but not a scam

Personally, I like the pre-tax amounts displayed. I should know that I am paying 10 dollars for a shirt and that the government is taking an extra dollar. Rather than just being told, the shirt costs 11 dollars. Price tag saying 10+1 would be fine, but tax should always be displayed. Taxes shouldn’t be hidden.

Let’s say they outlawed it

Do you think:

A:They round up

B:They round down

In reality, it might save us .1 cent