Smuuthbrane

Metal is also elastic.

But that doesn’t mean metal is plastic or elastic in terms of material type, just the English sucks.

Get an insulated water tank, dump all the energy in there for free hot water.

Want my mother’s maiden name and my favourite pet’s name too?

Reputation in industry. If they’re viewed as crap, your degree could actually hurt you in the job market.

First year residence guarantee. Unless you’re commuting from home, see who guarantees first year residence. Depending on the city, housing could be hard to come by.

Related: distance between housing and your lecture halls. If there’s multiple campuses, make sure your housing is near the one you’ll be at.

Co-op. If applicable, you want this.

Wait, Stellantis? The hodgepodge collection of like 15 different brands that is currently headquartered in Europe, and has formed a JV with Leapmotor to do all their EV stuff? Lobbying FTW I guess.

Technically, a military surplus store could be considered a second hand store. What militaries use berets that could be considered “raspberry” in colour?

I’ve only seen the sciencealert.com link, so that one.

It might be that I expect technical proficiency from science journalists, which might be a high bar.

15 days. Great. What’s the circumference? Oh, they didn’t give that either. “15 days” is still not a rotational velocity, it’s linear.

I’m not giving these folks grief for doing near impossible measurements, I’m giving the article grief for claiming a measurement was made, and then not stating said measurement.

I’m fine with even just an “order or magnitude” ballpark number. But again, they did not give us a rotational speed.

The same thing that’s wrong with saying I’m going 1250 rpm down the road. It may be correct, but doesn’t actually mean anything without more data.

They calculated it, and could only say “less than 25% of C” which isn’t even a rotational speed measurement?!? Get bent. If you don’t want to say, fine, don’t. But don’t tell me you’ve calculated something and then A) not give me that number, and B) give me a number that isn’t the number you calculated and can’t be used to determine the number you calculated without additional data that you also haven’t provided.

The disarming route:

You: Can I have a raise? Pest: What? I can’t give you one, I’m not your boss. You: Say that last part again slowly. [insert raise eyebrows here for emphasis]

Weasel to ferret to mink.

In a city with no prominent industry, people will always needs healthcare, childcare, food, and maintenance on their belongings.

Healthcare: doctor, nurse practitioner, nurse, dentist, dental hygienist. Skin and hair care might be stretching the category, but everyone needs haircuts.

Childcare: teacher, ECE, nanny. Big spectrum here from no training required to professionally registered.

Food: production, supply, distribution, and sales. So farmer (but that’s capital intensive), food maker (baker, chef, cook, butcher) or distributor or seller.

Maintenance: vehicles (tires, oil changes, body shop, parts, detailing), homes (carpenter, painter, gas tech, electrician, window installer, roofer, landscaper), appliances (appliance technician), power equipment (mechanic, blade sharpening).

Probably more, but that should be a pretty decent list to start with, and all should be pretty portable no matter where you go, save for certain licenses that may be specific to a state or province.

Returneth thy cart.

NO DICKS, ONLY CHICKS

Pick one person at a time and speak to them in human language. In some cases it will be to give them a special magical friend, in other cases it will be to cause them to question their sanity.

Then I’d get to seeing about this whole corkscrew dick thing.

If he wasn’t before, he sure did after.

It has a given strength, and will use that to get to its destination unless programmed to detect undue force. This one obviously wasn’t.

Robots don’t get confused. They have a path, and they follow it. This one followed the path when someone was in the way. Why it did is likely human error, either in robot control, programming, or lock out tag out.