You should explain that to OP's insurance company. I'm sure they'll be very receptive to that argument.

Are there regulations against insurance companies encouraging OP to commit insurance fraud? Seems like there oughtta be.

> I've never heard of an insurance company offering to pay your deductible and rental but not pay for the repairs. They are ultimately liable for the repairs.

Sounds like that's why they're offering.

It's cheaper for them to pay a $500 deductible and allow OP's insurance to cover the balance, than to pay for the repairs minus the deductible.

It sure does sound like the other driver's insurance company is encouraging OP to commit insurance fraud.

Another issue is the energy of an atom doesn’t determine its temperature. Not exactly.

The high school definition of temperature as the average kinetic energy of the particles is merely an approximation appropriate only for gasses. Thusly the “ideal gas law”.

It’s better to think of temperature as a thermodynamic arrow. Heat flows from higher temperatures to lower ones. The rigorous definition of temperature is the inverse of the derivative of the entropy with respect to energy:

T = 1 / δS/δE

As you add more energy to a system, it gets more entropy, but because entropy is logarithmic it grows slower. So the derivative gets smaller. Thusly the temperature rises.

The flow of energy from high temperatures to low temperatures means that total entropy rises, because the system with lower temperature gains more entropy from the infinitesimal of energy. It’s how the universe obeys the second law of thermodynamics: Entropy always increases.

> That game theory suggestion was recently proposed officially by the Baltimore Ravens as a way to fix the NFL's sudden death OT problem there (with the opening OT kickoff abandoned, and the starting yard line for the offense being the cake-cutting choice)

There's just one problem with that proposal: The Chiefs (and possibly others) would offer up the 1-inch line.

Yeah, I could do without games that aren't the game we're watching as well. Once I heard someone suggest choosing to challenge a call was a game-within-a-game.

That's true. A sucky boring game within a game that's barely more interesting than "What number am I thinking of?"

Yes. I follow chess as well. I suggested this to TangoTiger on twitter a few years ago, and he came up with the number of ~6:00 (I've since deleted Twitter), which is roughly the break-even 50% point for the team up a man to score a goal.

Though, Tango also suggested you do a game theory cake-cutting method of choosing the time. One team chooses the time, the other team chooses the side.

I’ll do you one better:

One team enjoys a 1-man advantage during a 6:30 overtime period, 5-4, the whole time. Only catch is the team down a man enjoys tie odds. If the period ends in a tie they win. No more ties ever. No zero-point games where nobody wins. And with 3:00 left in the last OT period one team is going to pull the goalie and play 6-on-4.

Also: WHY IS GOMORRA?

Get them off the Enterprise, they'll tear the ship apart!

Well there’s your problem.

I guess I Am the Walrus isn't a Beatles song, either. Doesn't sound anything like Eight Days a Week.

I’d think as a suicide king, using axes.

> Shoggoth likes axes.

Not for nothing but the Israelis just blew up an Iranian drone factory. That’s them getting involved, along an axis they can justify, without directly escalating in Ukraine. After all RUSSIA ISN’T USING IRANIAN DRONES RIGHT?