AbsentThatDay

AbsentThatDay t1_j27mkii wrote

Reply to Likely-hood of becoming an astronaut by MisFitLoves

Beyond taking STEM classes, to achieve your goals it's important to avoid doing things that will begin to make you drift away from your dream. Don't get caught up in drugs or alcohol, stay physically fit, develop a routine and think about routine as your training partner. When you're young, your behavior is malleable and easily shaped, as you get older it can become harder to change your ways. It is easier to stay right-minded than it is to get right-minded.

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AbsentThatDay t1_iy6f29j wrote

Reply to Eli5: Some ice cream recipes put ice + salt outside the recipient to make it cool faster. But in the winter, salt is put on snow on the street to melt faster. Why one make cool and other melt? by zimobz

I'm no expert, but I believe salt makes the freezing point lower, this allows the water the fills the whitespace in between the ice cubes to be colder. The water is more efficient at changing the temperature of the internal wall of the ice cream container in the middle because it presses up against it and the ice over a wide area, where the ice cubes only touch the inner wall at points.

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AbsentThatDay t1_ix191rq wrote

Reply to comment by AsparagusFirm7764 in Chicago Alderman who said he wants fewer cops in his ward is now asking people to PLEASE stop shooting each other for 48 hours by CookieMasochist

So your first example, where everyone is armed to the teeth, is that how you view the U.S. right now? Are we really extreme, I mean the common man in the U.S., you view that as some extreme armed to the teeth existence? I think your impression of bog-standard Americans is out of whack.

That being said I can understand how another culture would seem extreme to some people who haven't immersed themself in it. I get that a lot of people suffer because of gun violence. I still think it's worth it. A lot of diabetics die from eating too much sugar, we don't ban cupcakes.

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AbsentThatDay t1_ix0be2i wrote

Reply to comment by AsparagusFirm7764 in Chicago Alderman who said he wants fewer cops in his ward is now asking people to PLEASE stop shooting each other for 48 hours by CookieMasochist

There's nothing radical in the U.S. about owning guns, it's completely normal. It's been the status quo since it's inception. The idea that you can't have a progressive country because of the second amendment is flawed thinking.

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