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There's a rubber seal inside the lid that stops them leaking. The milk etc can get behind it, where normal washing won't get. It can get funky if you don't clean it out.
Parenting mostly isn't that hard. You just have to keep all the proverbial plates spinning. Unfortunately there are FAR more than you expect, and you never get a break. You will miss some, then beat yourself up for missing something so simple.
It's also worth noting that it wasn't the hydrogen that caused the fire. The Hindenburg had an aluminium skin. It began having degradation issues, so they painted it. The paint was iron oxide based. Aluminium and iron oxide are the 2 main ingredients in thermite.
Analysis of the video shows that it was the skin burning off. It would have gone up almost as badly, even if filled with helium.
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I remember when my first was born. 2 different parts of my brain had opposing thoughts.
1 part was thinking "This is the cutest, most beautiful thing ever. I must protect and nurture them at all costs."
The other part was thinking "My god newborn babies are ugly!"
I can easily see cognitive dissonance pushes most people to the first thought. It's you being hacked by hormones, an effect that is disturbingly powerful.
I was also caught out by how much my (male) hormones were affected, even pre birth. It both disturbed and amused my wife.
Baked beans are definitely a VERY British thing, along with fry up in general.
Scotch eggs are Scottish in origin, I believe. I bundle them in with British, though a good chunk of Scotland would disagree. Definitely good, either way. Kippers and haggis are also Scottish/northern England traditionally.
As for Greggs... I personally consider them an example of how British food got screwed over by mass production. I've been disappointed most times I've brought from them. I know a lot of people swear by them however.
As for Yorkshire pudding. It's a case of a good one is absolutely amazing, while an average one is just meh. It also needs a good gravy to dip it in. Hence why it goes so well with a roast.
Most of the more obvious ones are intended as travel food. Wrap something tasty, nutritious, or expensive in a semi disposable, edible wrapper. It's a basic stable of most of mankind. England tended to use pastry or batter for this. Battered fish and burgers are other examples. Other as regions might use leaves for the same job.
If it was in a good state, you could eat it. If it wasn't, then you could still eat the good bit inside. The crust of a Cornish pasty is intended to be thrown away. Coal miners could take them down the mine, and eat them without washing their hands.
Other dishes are a thing. They tended to be more family orientated however. The recipes wandered over time, with less stable traditional dishes. Bangers and mash, or a ploughman's would fall into this sort of category.
There's 3 sort of sections to British food.
Basically, there is a lot of really good British food about. We also set the baseline for a lot of the comparisons, making us look bland by comparison. The London restaurant industry also does a complete number on tourists, making us look even worse.
I have something similar. I have to push, extremely hard, mentally. Even then the resultant visualization is weak and fuzzy.
In my mind, the concept and the image are decoupled. I have the concept of an apple. A viewed apple can be matched to it for comparisons. That concept includes all variants. Red, green, yellow, small, large, bpy or smooth. It also doesn't have a view direction built in.
It's a bit like how you can still recognise a cat, when seen from below. You might never have seen it like that, but your model of "catness" includes it. You can mentally render it and compare. My brain just drops the rendering stage as useless fluff.
I'm a parent. I would also struggle to keep a straight face. My minion might even get a compliment for the insult. They will still be in trouble for it though!
Parenthood isn't about being perfect, but just ahead of your chaotic lovable minion.
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I've not tried tin foil. The insulation seems to be more robust, and it wants to lie flat. It's also optimised for IR reflection, tin foil isn't.
Downside, it's a near perfect blackout material. I only put them up when it's going to be ridiculously hot, and only on the sun facing side of the house.
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You can get wall insulation that is, effectively a stiff bubble wrap made of milar foil. It's not even that expensive I cut it to match windows, then used suction cuts to fix it in place.
It's amazingly effective at keeping heat out. During the 45 degree weather, I barely had to use my air conditioner, to have a comfortable temperature.
A good counter example is vaccination.
Let's say a benevolent alien ship passes by, and discovers a planet with a 90% child mortality rate, due to disease. They introduce vaccines to the population which drop it to under 10%. That's great.
They return a few decades later, and the civilization is in shambles. It turned out that birth rates didn't change much. The population started doubling every 5 years. Food production couldn't keep up. The subsequent wars famine and civil unrest devastated the society.
We've seen similar problems, to a lesser extent, on earth. Providing cheap, second hand cloths to Africa ended up destroying the local textile industry. Many places are now dependent on that aid.
In star trek, Star fleet seems to do fly by visits to many places. They are not equipped to assess the results of interference. That would require a team onsite for long term study and assistance. You would need to improve multiple areas at once, each supporting the others. We see some evidence of this, in some episodes, though it is lacking.
The pre-warp limit also makes some sense. It's an obvious marker for a society. By that point they have likely learnt the lessons with neive help internally. They can assess the risks, and introduce them carefully. They are also likely close enough in technology that the boost won't destabilise their economy etc.
It's far from perfect, but as a rule for fly by captains, it makes a good amount of sense.
Animals are very rarely completely still. Even the motion of breathing or their heartbeat is enough to create very slight motions. This causes their fur to subtly move and shimmer. Our brain evolved to spot things like that (spotting prey, or predators). It's piped into the conscious mind without context however. We just get a visual "something is missing/it's fake" message.
I used both options. It's worth mentioning that, depending where you live, using a drying rack indoors can cause major mold issues. The humidity needs to go somewhere.
It's also worth noting that modern dryers are massively more efficient than the older ones. Many older dryers (at least in the UK) could run at around 2.5-3kW. my new one is down to 500W. That energy also gets dumped into the living area as heat, so isn't wasted in the winter.
Basically, the equations are not as simple as they first appear.
You joke, but it's partially true.
I heard about a tall building that had its basement flooded with sewage. It turned out that the plumbers had simplified the drains. Rather than install the random turns every couple of floors, they just used a straight pipe. In effect, turds were falling 20+ floors, to smash into an inspection/access hatch. Eventually the screws sheered off, and everything emptied into the basement instead of the sewer.
Hopefully they will be careful. A single, well documented attack on civilians would justify a LOT of retaliatory strikes on Ukraine civilians (in Russian eyes).
Taking out the troops/equipment during the parade, without hitting civilians, that would send a message.
It's a terrifying mix of a Gish gallop (a stampede of lies and half truths, delivered so fast they can't be countered) and razzle dazzle (camouflage via a swarm of irrelevant or counter intuitive points).
It's terrifyingly effective, and very difficult to counter.
Don't get me wrong, 90%+ who have one really don't need one. I'm not arguing with that.
The acid test is how dirty it is. If it's always ultra shiny, it's an ego prosthetic. If it's regularly mud splattered etc, it's more likely to be legit.
European pick-ups do have a place. You need to have to both tow, and go off-road regularly. Basically, horse owners, farmers, and some areas of construction. American pick-ups are just obscenely big, and completely inappropriate for almost all uses.
A van wins in almost all cases, except off-road performance. Vans are hilariously bad at that.
Kids fill you to the brim with love, and drain you of everything else.