I do like how well they describe the data source (other than the unclear “main business city” part). It gives enough detail to know that the FMLA applies, which would total the 168 days shown here. FMLA is unpaid, however, but the chart says paid days, which should be zero. The “data souce” page does not specify that the leave is paid, so I’d suspect it’s wrong for other countries as well.
This is pretty suspect to me. I think it would mean more if it were “legally required days available” or “average days taken” or “average days available”.
assuming that the parents reside in the main business city and work in the retail sector
This just seems bad to me. In America, there’s no way parents who work in the retail sector get half the year off.
Olympic record is different than world record. He’s done a longer throw at a different event.
Making the panels high enough off the ground with sparse enough supports to be convenient adds a lot of expense. I mainly see it in paid parking lots where the shade can be sold as a value add.
These pressures are all gauge pressure, not absolute pressure. 1 bar gauge pressure would be about 2 bar absolute.
Sure, people love it when you make your chocolate iridescent, but hate when their pork is, lol.
In America, the government doesn’t technically have the right to know where you live. You don’t automatically get to vote without registering because the government doesn’t necessarily know where you live. You have to give your address to get a driver’s license, so often that government office also does voter registration.
Before our elections, we have primaries. That’s where each party picks who the candidates are from that party, but they are a state-run event. Technically a party doesn’t need to do this, they could just submit their candidate to the final election. Every state does it a little differently, but in many states, you need to declare which party you are a part of in order to take part in the decision for who that party is sending to the election. In some states, it’s optional, and when you go to vote in a primary, you tell them which party you want to select the candidate for, and they give you that ballot. Other states are weird and do what’s called “caucusing”, where everyone from a particular party within that voting district meets up, and they try to come to a decision on which candidate to send forward. In those states, it’s not a blind vote, but you essentially get a sort of instant runoff, at least in my understanding.
It looks like in Ireland, since you have multiple parties, you have more options at your elections, so you don’t have to help the parties pick their candidates?
I know this is a meme/satire, but it did make me think.
Windmills take energy from wind, which slows the wind down. Many crops can be damaged by high winds, so a windmill would theoretically reduce likelihood of this crop damage, but is it enough to be a measurable benefit to the crops, or is a windmill so tall compared to the crops that the benefit is lost in the noise?
Yes. It cooks faster with the fan. Btw, it’s also referred to as a “convection” oven as opposed to a “conventional” oven. Air fryers are just small convection ovens.
I bought a variety pack of scouring pads and brushes that I can attach to my cordless drill. Super handy for cleaning stuff that would otherwise take some major elbow grease. Probably bad for my drill, but it’s worth it to me.
Belgian fries (and any good fries in America) are fried once in low heat for a little while to cook the potato through. Then they are allowed to cool, and they can be frozen to use later, or you can fry them again at higher temp to crisp them up.
Can confirm, I have the same set, and I do probably use them every day. It’s one of those tools that you don’t realize how often you need it until you start using it.
This seems like it’s flipped around backwards. The picture says you have to pump more than 4 gallons if you are getting E15, but the explanation seems to explain why someone pumping E10 would want to pump more than 4 gallons.
I bet the real reason is that someone could pump a couple of gallons of cheaper E15, knowing they’d actually receive E10, leaving the next person to actually get that gas.
Read “a mathematicians lament”, by Paul Lockhart. It was originally a short essay (25 pages you can find free online), but expanded into a book that I haven’t read yet.
In a similar vein is Shape, by Jordan Ellenberg.
There was an app called Buycott that lets you join “campaigns” of things you are either for or against, and when you scan something, it tells you which positive and which negative campaigns apply to that product and the company as a whole. Koch was on there. Seems like it may have been abandoned years ago, though.
The particle board stuff is the midrange stuff. The cheapest ikea furniture is cardboard lattice
Ikea stuff, at least on the cheap end, is made of cardboard lattice coated in plastic. Maybe if you get more expensive stuff from particle board, or even plywood, you’d be better off, but that cheapest stuff is really cheap. Once the fasteners start to loosen, there’s nothing you can really do. With real wood, you could just put in a fastener in a different spot.
I just read the abstract, but it seems like interesting work. The thing that often bothers me in some studies in first-world countries is that vegetarians/vegans are probably better off than omnivores, and therefore live longer, while in poorer countries, the wealthier classes probably eat more meat.
I like that they are focusing on meat consumption, not identification as vegetarian, because the reality is that for poor people, you often eat what you can get. People often say that a vegetarian diet is cheaper, but that’s not actually true. An omnivorus diet will always be cheaper; unless you think that every meal has to contain store bought meat. You could have a poor country where everyone is omnivorus, but eats very little meat on average, and a rich country where half of the population is vegetarian, but the other half more than makes up for it.
The only thing I can really point out that I don’t like is that they used GDP-PPP to compare wealth between countries. That messes things up for places like Ireland where it’s a reasonably wealthy country, but it’s such a tax haven, you’d think it’s all millionaires. There’s also many countries with huge levels of income inequality, like petrostates, where most people are relatively poor, but gdp-ppp is high.
I’m still not convinced this is the right way to study the effects of meat consumption on health, but I guess it’s a good part of it.
Coffee beans aren’t beans. There are some beans that are roasted as a substitute for coffee, like the seeds of the Kentucky coffeetree. In times of shortage, people have tried many things to replace coffee, like dandelion and chicory root. For the most part, the substitutes arent as good as the original, so people don’t stick with them. There’s a chance someone has tried to roast and brew pinto beans or whatever, but they probably taste bad.