So a couple of things, it usually isn’t the outfield where they shift (well they do, but it isn’t as dramatic) and not where the ban is. The ban is for the infield. For a right handed hitter, the 2nd baseman will shift over and play on the 3rd base side of second, and the SS and 3rd baseman move over a little as well, basically saying “we know if you hit a ground ball, you will hit it to the left side of the infield and there’s no way it’s going to get through us if you do now.” For a left handed batter it’s in reverse and they all shift to the right side of the infield for the same reason.

Asking “why don’t they just hit it the other way” is sort of like saying “why can’t a pitcher who hurt his elbow on his throwing arm just pitch with his other hand then?”

First it’s not every batter they would do this for. It is only about 40% of batters, those that overwhelmingly pull the ball. These batters have hit like this their entire lives. Their entire approach at the plate with timing, movement, rhythm, muscle memory, etc is predicated on hitting that way. And remember that these are basically the best people in the world at hitting a ball with a stick. Could they learn a different swing? Maybe, but they made the major league because of their current swing.

Also, keep in mind that when the defense employs the shift, pitchers pitch a certain way as well. Batters tend to pull pitches on the inner half of the plate and push pitches on the outer half. And a batter will tend to pull off speed pitches more and push very fast fastballs (like pitches that can hit the upper 90s and triple digits). Finally higher pitches are easier to hit in the air, and lower pitches, especially those with late breaking movement tend to be hit on the ground. So a pitcher will throw primarily on the lower inner third, and will take a little off their fastball and throw off speed to get the batter to pull the ball, and will try to throw with downward or inward movement to force grounders and pop ups.

Changing their swing to try to hit the opposite way could have a drastic impact on their hitting ability in general, and ruin their ability to return to their old swing when the defense isn’t in the shift. Plus for most of those hitters, the goal isn’t to hit a ground ball anyway. The goal is to hit a home run in every at bat. The shift doesn’t matter when the batter crushes the ball. Changing their swing means they aren’t crushing the ball anymore. So most of the adjustment they are doing is swing lower since they will be expecting pitchers on the lower inner quadrant and are trying to avoid hitting a grounder.

The IRS wouldn’t come after you for being a drug dealer/weapons smuggler. That doesn’t meant the DEA or ATF wouldn’t.

One thing I don’t see mentioned is that up until 1054 AD, all Christians were Catholics. In 1054, the Eastern Orthodox broke off from the Catholic Church. Then the whole Protestant reformation started in 1517 with Martin Luther, a German Catholic Priest, was upset at the Pope and the Church for a variety of reasons, but the primary one being the Pope selling indulgences (free entry into heaven) to finance the building of St Peters Cathedral. The Pope didn’t like his rule being questioned (due to the Catholic belief in Papal infallibility, meaning if the Pope says or does it, it is right), so he excommunicated Luther (kicked him out of the Church). However Luther was extremely popular in Germany, so he still had a large group of followers that he continues to preach to. This group went on to become the Lutherans. Other religious leaders saw it was possible to nitpick certain Catholic beliefs, which led to many other Protestant churches forming like the Baptists, the Calvinists, the Anglicans, etc. This cherry picking of ideas has continued since then leading to hundreds of distinct Protestant sects. All of whom are still Christian, but vary in their specific ideology from other Christian sects, including whether or not other Christian sects will go to heaven or not.

This is exactly it for “active noice cancelling” headphones. There’s also passive noise cancelling headphones which are far easier in terms of technology and thus far cheaper but they don’t cancel noise as well. Passive noice cancelling just plays a white noise, similar to the sound you hear when you put a seashell to your ear. This noise can help drown out outside noise, particularly when the headphones are also playing something else as well.

Without knowing what specific type of lift you are talking about, here are just three ways off the top of my head with something like a bicep curl.

1. A bicep curl with a dumbbell can do a pretty good job at isolating the lift to only use the bicep, especially if you are seated with your elbow on your knee. If you are doing a standing two handed bicep curl with a barbell, you have the ability to engage other muscles, particularly at the start to overcome inertia. You can engage your shoulders and back to help get the bar moving. This overcoming inertia is the hardest part of the lift as it requires extra force just to get it moving.

2. Along these same lines, if one arm is slightly stronger than the other, then when using two hands this arm could begin moving the barbell slightly which helps the other arm in overcoming inertia to start moving.

3. this is more specific to a slight increase in two handed… let’s say you can do bicep curls with a 30lb dumbbell, but you can’t go up to 35lb. But if there was a 31 or 32lv dumbbell, maybe you could. So with both hands, you could possibly do 65 lbs, because your arms working together adds in that slight little bit more each could do.

You realize this is like saying “I’ve never been murdered, so murder doesn’t exist!!”

Blood moves at roughly 3 feet per second through the body. So assuming average height, it’s approximately 1.5 seconds for blood from the foot to go back to the heart, where it is pumped out again throughout the body. This is repeated every single beat your heart is making. Now that cooled blood will be mixing with warmer blood in the heart, but each and every beat after that first 1.5 seconds will be mixing in slightly cooled blood from your foot over and over.

This right here. Imagine you are on jury duty with 11 other people and you are sequestered, meaning you are not allowed contact to the outside world, you are not allowed to go to work, you aren’t allowed to see your family or friends. And for all of this, you are making a whole $20 per day. These 11 other people all agree the person is guilty, but you don’t agree. They all want to leave. You want to leave. You are the only reason they can’t leave.

So first they are probably going to ask you why you don’t agree. Then you will need to layout why. The others will all go over your reasons and for each reason, try to explain why they disagree. This process will repeat all day every day until you agree with them. Yes, you could hold out for several days to weeks and eventually have it declared a hung jury. In most cases though, instead of having your every thought picked apart and analyzed over and over all day for days on end, you will end up agreeing just to make it stop.

Priapism

This is a great answer for digital protection. Physical piracy would be where you physically need the game disk to play the game. But physical disks can still be copied. Either to another disk, or to a hard drive.

You’ve spent years buying goods and possibly property with another person. Now you are splitting and those goods and property need to be divided. How do you divide it? And what if the other person wants more than you think they should get? Together you bought all your furniture and you both REALLY want to keep the living room set you bought together. That’s why it’s complicated.

And good divorce attorneys cost a lot because they are good at arguing why their client should be entitled to more for a wide variety of reasons, and end up getting their clients more than they would have without them.

Because PV=nRT. This is a formula from chemistry, also known as the Ideal Gas Law where:

P - pressure

V - volume

n - number of moles of the gas (where a mole is Avogadro’s number of molecules of that gas)

R - Boltzmann’s constant

T - temperature

So in a closed environment like a tire, the volume and moles of gas are constant. That means if the temperature goes down, with everything else being equal, pressure has to go down as well. Similarly if temperature goes up, then the pressure would necessarily have to go up.