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The kids nowadays, their parents were the first generation to grow up on a saturation diet of cable tv and streaming video, with no books, magazines or newspapers in the house. Their parents did not read to them. They did not play with alphabet blocks. They are not watching Sesame Street and The Electric Company. They are not being exposed to text longer than a sentence. It became noticeable in the 2010s and got worse after TikTok.

You can get a person who isn't you to file the FOIA request.

Clearly you are meant to only address the bigger issues with people below you, but not people above you. /s

Regarding the AI prayers, the Quakers have an expression: "Friend, thy water tastes of the pipe."

For meetings, there's a Job 38:2 t-shirt: "Who is this that darkens my plans with words without knowledge?"
Psalm 50:9 "I will take no bull from your house." Acts 9:5 "It is hard to kick against the pricks."

That sounds like the Wigner’s Friend paper of 2019, which involved 3 'observer' photons. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aaw9832

"Fire th<blip>e tachyon cannon!"
"We already did."

"I am the Cat Who Walks By Himself, and all citation formats are alike to me."

"This was once revealed to me in a dream." -- Berdyaev, Nikolai. 1949. The Divine and the Human. London: G. Bles.

Hanging's too good for him. Burning's too good for him! He should be torn into little bitsy pieces and buried alive! #heavymetalanime

7.5 mins per person ... we can get help with the problems

Kid, there's this thing called Office Hours? You should try it sometime?

"When the scores are put up, much is heard of the students' resentment; no one realizes with what sadness the examiners did their duty." -- Yuan Mei 1780

(Once results are up, one only hears the failed students' resentful anger. Who spares a thought, at such a time, for the sadness that fills the examiners?)

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Variations_of_%22nasa%22 it means many things

The practical formula used by surveyors is 6.7 cm × D^2 (km) or 6.9 in × D^2 (mi). Go measure the gap between a wheel and the ground, or look at 1-cos() for small angles.

You can get about 100 gallons from a standard water filter pitcher.

You're only allowed to be a "resident" of one state at a time, and in the process of getting a driver's license you have to declare an address in the same state. Your nephew is now a resident of whatever state it says on his driver's license, and he is not allowed to vote in any other state. If PA is a different state, then he needs to get a PA driver's license before voting, or else iron it out with the PA voting list people, because the voting-day checklist people are not supposed to accept out-of-state ID that does not show a local PA address.

The Flying Circus of Physics, How to Teach Physics to Your Dog, Back-of-the-Envelope Physics, and Hewitt's Conceptual Physics for HS

Clearly you were a karma chameleon.

There's the Ugly Halloween Sweater.

Gravitational time dilation is about 1 microsecond per year per 1 km difference in altitude, or 1 nanosecond per year per meter. The particles in the CERN LHC are running slower than us by about 7000-to-1.

The companies Flocean and OceanWell have already built deep-sea RO systems using freshwater buoyancy, as you've described. Yes, the system relies on ocean circulation to mix the brine back into the seawater.

You'd have to get within 1/(20 billion)th of the SMBH's radius to have that much time dilation. For the SMBH in the center of the Milky Way, that entire deck would have to be within 2 feet of the event horizon. Which is nonphysical.

If the bh radius is 1M km, the time dilation at 1 km is only 1000-to-1, and at 10 meters it's only 10000-to-1. Yes, those are real numbers.

That was touched on in the 2024 essay The Innumeracy of the Rulers.

Doctor Fun had some things to say about lightning.

Uranus has its own newspaper.
https://www.uranusgeneralstore.com/uranus-examiner/uranus-examiner/

The Wee Free Kirk was the origin of 'He's na heavy. He's mi brither.'