I am sorry to have to give you no credit for this answer as you did not state your units.

PBUH: peace be upon him or peace be upon her; an honorific phrase used by some Muslims after any mention in speech or print of the Islamic prophet Muhammad or any other prophets or chosen figures believed by the majority of Muslims to be sent by God (Allah).

In many important senses, PA, NJ, and NY are New England, because of the history.

Ohio also has or had a turnpike, but that's because Pennsylvania called theirs a turnpike.

I wonder if any states not connected to New England proper have turnpike other than Ohio.

But it is both, and this has been covered by people a couple times.

I say both, but I also had no idea how much my language was bent by having a dyed in the wool New England Yankee around from childhood.

Down the pike from roadways, and down the pipe from aqueducts, and later pneumatic tube messenging systems

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube

In fact, some of the people following up on this thought it more likely to be down the pipe "originally" or at least dominantly as pneumatic tube messages just show up without warning, whereas anything coming down the highway gives ample warning before arrival.

Language is general is fun. Hawaii and New England share lots of weird similarities that the rest of the US apparently does not. For me Aunt does not rhyme with Ant (that's not so uncommon because Auntie never rhymes with anty). And apparently this is the New England way as well. Tomahto is also not uncommon and that too is a New Englandism. Zoris too.

And that name is from the ducked cotton.

Send the Theseus. Siri will figure it out.

Are you against towheaded kids?

Duck/Duct Tape is interesting because it converges on that. It was originally two separate products, that resembled each other and so merged.

Expand this please?

> even most abstract artists approach their work with very specific political and social and ideological angles to their work even if it doesn’t seem like it.

Death of the author does not even slightly imply that the author has no agency or purpose. It just means that the author's agency or purpose is not primary or important to anyone but they themselves.

Only certain kinds.

> I think most art isn’t in the eye of the beholder as far as the artist is concerned at least, which is why most artwork comes with an artist statement.

I'd say most non-representational art is modern, pointing strongly at post-modern. I cannot really imagine a nonrepresentational artist who would not at least entertain the idea of death of the author being a valid talking point.

They certainly accept that there is a level of expertise in criticism, so they would not likely say that any and every person's opinion is of equal value, but I really have trouble imagining a non-representational author denying a suitably prepared viewer to take whatever reaction that viewer has to a piece.

Or in other words I have trouble making sense of a non-representation artist not allowing the beholder to exactly assign beauty, independent of the author/artist's intent.

I don't think they have a definition of art like that; rather they are frustrated that abstract art (or classical music, or opera) is given a place of honor in place of art they themselves enjoy.

Why is fine art given public monies, and sound systems are not? More people get enjoyment from sound systems than will ever even know that piece of art exists. And their enjoyment of sound systems is exactly about conveying a feeling or a vibe.

NB: I hate sound system music; but I am well aware that it is way more popular than any so-called fine art.

172*20,589=3,541,308

Jus' saying.

I think your calculator has a virus.

That announcer made me feel it, for sure.

You cancelled out your units. Now is a dimensionless scalar!

Hey, hey, my, my.

Helpfully it also cauterizes the wound shut too, so you don't bleed much.

I fear what the world will be like post anitbiotics.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2014.15135

I think if you search around you will find you are correct! Random results of chasing after the answer showed me some stuff!

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/the-top-10-causes-of-death

Clearly the work done in getting safe water has been way more effective than I was paying attention to. My statement was correct at one point, IIRC. It stuck with me, and you asking made me check! I may have read a statistic on causes of death of children. Either way, I am glad you asked!

War has always been pretty ineffective at killing people, though the people it kills are the engines that drove countries, historically: young males. And the concomitant civil unrest causes serious excess deaths. The Iraq war "only" killed 4500 US troops, and 15,000 Iraqi forces, but total excess deaths number as high as 1 million.

WWI had total military deaths at 10 million, but the resultant spread of Spanish flu caused at least 50 million deaths, and maybe as much as 100 million, in a world population of 1.5 billion.

Epidemics were the only truly effective killers, outside of China, which has had some insanely deadly civil wars, but the big one, The Taiping Rebellion, killed most people from the resultant famine from loss of central government control over irrigation and flood control. (30 million deaths out of a population of 450 million.)

Justinian's Plague,

>The Justinian plague in the sixth century and is estimated to have killed between 30 and 50 million people—about half the world's population at that time—as it spread across Asia, North Africa, Arabia, and Europe.

Black Death >The Black Death was the second great natural disaster to strike Europe during the Late Middle Ages (the first one being the Great Famine of 1315–1317) and is estimated to have killed 30 percent to 60 percent of the European population, as well as about one-third of the population of the Middle East.[14][15][16] The plague might have reduced the world population from c. 475 million to 350–375 million in the 14th century

and Spanish Flu all killed a significant percentage of the world's population.

Of course the 20th century managed to make men capable to serious mechanized death. Hitler, Stalin, and Mao all killed a serious percentage of their own countries populations.

TL;DR Justinian's Plague killed half the world's population!

To give the cholera numbers some place among the horrifying 2010 Haiti earthquake and its aftermath, the earthquake killed 100,000 people on the day, and up to 300,000 people in the resultant chaos (presumably the cholera outbreak was part of that larger number.)

The rotation of the earth changed measurably from the effects of the earthquake as well.

Japan 3/11 earthquake killed "only" 18,000. Civil defense readiness, and earthquake and tsunami hardened infrastructure made a huge difference, as it is clear that the tsunami would have done far more damage without those two factors.

The rotation of the earth changed measurably from the Japanese earthquake as well. Calculations at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory determined that the Earth's rotation was changed by the earthquake to the point where the days are now 1.8 microseconds shorter.

Another example: the Boxing Day earthquake and tsunami stills hold the modern title at 227,898 on the day, and 275,000 overall, because there was no civil defense readiness, or tsunami hardening at all.

A tragic story, well-known in Hawaii, is that the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii knew Boxing Day Tsunami was going to cause the damage it did, because they measured it in their monitoring buoys in the Pacific (!), but had no communication infrastructure to get the word to those impacted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Tsunami_Warning_Center All Hawaii boaters dear friends, even if they err to overcautious sometimes. We're happier out on the boat than on land watching our marinas get destroyed

The number one cause of death in the world is diarrhea.

EDIT: further research on this has led me to believe that I read a stat on the number one cause of death for children. Also, as a happy fact, access to safe drinking water has made some astonishing gains in the last 30 years.

Well since people who have studied this have found it to be true, you can say it's not true if you think about it for 5 seconds.

But you'll be wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvg242U2YfQ

Includes links to various studies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvg242U2YfQ

It also allows direct deposit of human waste as fertilizer!

Japan famously used untreated human waste for for the majority of its fertilizer until the 1950s, and still uses it in some areas.

Edit: Bring on the downvotes for stating facts!

Some people don't know much about Japan, I guess, including many young Japanese from the big cities who simply have no idea what life in agricultural areas in Japan is like. Trying to convince Japanese kids from Tokyo that paying the monthly 汲み取り bill is still a fact of life in parts of Japan is kind of funny. As is finding out that the pumper trucks just take it out to rice fields and dump it on. Yes, virginia there is a honeydipper.