So other people have talked about the fact that it's just..expensive. But I want to focus on this statement here.

>Seems like Solar could play a significant role here...

I assume you mean solar power, right? That isn't exactly a solution even if we sidestep all the other issues like building the infrastructure that would be needed.

That solar power used for desalinating water would just be solar power we can't use for something else. Even in a world that is 100% renewable* there's a discussion that needs to be had about where the limited amount of power we have should go and with desalination, you are talking about something that was virtually free for the majority of human history and turning it into something that...isn't.

It's tantamount to saying "I bet spending money on it is the solution" I mean...yeah, but now that money can't be spent somewhere else.

*I mention this specifically because anytime you hear about a new thing that uses 100% renewable energy is still worse than replacing something that didn't use renewables. So like building a new water desalination plant that's 100% solar-powered is a lot worse for the environment than using all that solar power to shut down a few coal plants and not need the desalination plant in the first place.

I always thought sauerkraut wasn't "technically" pickled but fermented.

After a cursory Google search I have no idea how I came to that conclusion that that doesn't still count as pickling.

Easily my favorite pickled product.

They are in some places, or they have a different term altogether.

But in the US (and Canada) where it's called a "pickle" it's largely because that's the most common pickled food that people eat. Pickled herring is basically the only other thing I can think of, and that's super regional and still nowhere near as popular.

So we just shorted it to "pickles." Just like how a "roast" or "roast dinner" usually means roast beef.

Universal healthcare does not mean it is free at the point of use. It almost always is, but it does not need to be.

The swiss actually have universal healthcare that is not free.

The specifies of exactly how the system works varies a lot from country to country.

But it means that basically because you are a citizen of a country you just...have health insurance. That's basically the long and short of it.

This is different from the US where most people get their health insurance thru their employers. So if you are unemployed or don't have a job that gives you health insurance and you have to go to the doctor you are going to get a (massive) bill after you do so. But if you are insured and your insurance covers it you either wont get a bill, or you will get much smaller bill.

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> it seems to be in other countries rather than the United States

Indeed, the US is only developed country doesn't have something that could be considered universal health care.

There is nothing illegal about either of those in basically any country.

Either because that country has freedom of the press, which means the press can kinda do...whatever (within limits, libel laws are really serious in some places). Including hiring people that are inherently biased and refusing to publish work that doesn't say what they want to say.

Or the country does not have that and then its basically the state itself that's doing this.

McDowell's might be able to pull it off.

That's because our sense of taste is really closely tied to our sense of smell as well.

To the point that a lot of people, unless they have been specifically trained, might not even realize that the "taste" of something is largely from an aromatic compound they are actually smelling.

That said, if you somehow perfectly got the actual flavor compounds right, and got the aromatics just right you could almost make something that at least "tastes" like the real thing.

Except then there are also things like temperature and texture/mouth feel that affect it too. So a gummy that tastes exactly like a big mac isn't going to trick anyone. Because a big mac isn't just "Big Mac flavor" it's about how two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions on a sesame seed bun feel in your mouth.

The entire problem is there's a set amount of energy you can get out of something. So the only way to make something "run for a long time" as a power source is to really really slowy take energy away from it. Why would we bother to do that?

There's simply no point.

Basically your question is like asking "if bank accounts run out eventually why haven't we just made a bank account we take money out of slowly?"

Because we want the money.

We...have?

I'm not sure I understand your questions. We humans have developed lots and lots of things that just keep going as long as you input some energy.

For example, there is a clock in New Zealand called the Beverly Clock, its been running since the 1860s without having to be serviced. That probably qualifies as a long time right?

I've been to factories that have had the some machines running non-stop for 40+ years, too.

Derived units still count as SI assuming they are coherent, coherence is the important thing here.

In short, you can't take just base units and multiple them together to get a Litre.

What I mean by that is that in order for a unit of volume to be coherent with SI units it would have to be ONE meter times ONE meter times ONE meter. Not 1.5 meters, not 0.1234232 meters. Not any other amount of meters besides 1. And the same would go for any of the base units (second, kilogram, amp, kelvin, mole, and candela) and deriving a unit from them.

With a liter you going 0.1 meters times 0.1 meters times 0.1 meters.

This means that the "coherent" unit for volume would be a cubic meters. The thing is that's... a really big volume so we just don't use that day-to-day.

There are of course plenty of other derived units that are coherent. Like newtons, hertz, etc.

Are you asking about everything Plato ever did or are you referring to platonic forms?

German cases and genders are so weird. For me the fact that die is both nominative and accusative feminine is the most confusing part. Somehow neuter staying as das makes mir sense.

Adjective order matters in the same way that all other grammar rules matter. It's what we expect. And when those expectations are broken we tend to get scared and confused because it takes more work for our brain to interpret what we are hearing or what we are reading.

Adjective order is a pretty unique one though, most other grammar rules are broken pretty often in really informal settings. But something about adjective order makes us really not want to break that rule. At least in English, other languages might have much less strict adjective order rules.

Yes "me" is for when you are a object of a sentence (the thing being acted on) "I" is for when you are the subject of the sentence (the thing doing the action)

Like

I hit the ball. (correct, because you are the subject)

The ball hit me. (correct, because you are the object)

Me hit the ball (incorrect)

Regarding "what to do with the salt" wouldn't we be able to just use the salt from desalination plants and have that replace salt mining?

Obviously the concept is killed before even getting to this problem but I'm just wondering.

You only get refunded when you paid them more than you are required to by law.

By default when people have an employer take their money directly out of their check it tends to be "too much" so you get some of that money back. Because it's the law.

The government isn't giving everyone *all* of their tax money back. It's giving some people some of their money back.

Assuming we treat time the same way we treat the other dimensions "force" is required. A force is only required to change the speed/direction you are moving.

And considering as far as we can tell everything moves forward at a speed of one second per second. With no change in direction or speed we shouldn't expect a "force" in the first place.

That said, time is already weird and screwy anyway so the question doesn't really work either.

Looks like you are gonna want to fix that typo.