Women get unwanted pregnancies by not being educated or misinformed about how sex works, so sure, educate everyone in Sex Ed . But women get unwanted pregnancies in lots of ways that Sex Ed won’t stop, including failed contraception and rape. And there are a large number of reasons to have medical abortions available including ectopic or other high risk pregnancies. Hence the poster relying to you saying both is fine, but “just” Sex Ed is a terrible idea.

It’s not stupid. Anyone reading needs to know where a statement or conclusion comes from in case they need to check and see how that conclusion was reached in the first place.

Ha, while funny it still doesn’t work. If we use an interval scale with zero degrees Lat defined as 16 degrees Celsius, how many times hotter is zero degrees Lat than-1 degrees Lat? If you are using “temperature comfort” as your underlying property, zero had to be the university defined “lack of all comfort” which I don’t think you will find. Subjective comfort is notoriously difficult to make into ratio scale. Pain measurement is a well- known example.

This is an example I use when I teach data types. It happens because the scale (F or C) is an “interval” scale. Its zero is not based on the absence of the property it is measuring, so you can’t apply a multiplicative transform to it like, “double”.

It is like lining up by height, calling the shortest person the standard and measure height of everyone else from that. So, the next tallest might be 2 cm, the next 4cm. But clearly the person we are calling 4cm is not twice the height of the person we called 2 cm.

Truly you are a connoisseur…

Point for “gripping hand” reference

Also brilliant…😀

Not a movie, but the series Cosmos.

“We are a way for the universe to know itself.” -Carl Sagan

Same. That is the only vaccine that laid me out.

Historical sword-making, modern metallurgy, practical stats and experimental design. How to structure a business in a not-dumb way that treats employees as people.

Great story about the US border: https://www.npr.org/2025/09/11/nx-s1-5536953/line-fence-wall

It is possible, but very unlikely. Maybe two bh merge that has exactly opposite angular momentum.

Expansion red-shifts light.

If you saw the video, it was clear that he was hit in the brain stem and was dead instantly from hydrostatic shock. Look at what his arms did instantly.

That you Scotty?

You didn’t mention the third group though. More of us voted against him and are stuck in this nightmare.

Heh, that would have been perfect.

Yeah, no one “flashes a Mensa card” unless they are a jerk. We joined many years ago when we lived in Iowa for the social aspect. The parties are a lot of fun and the people are all fascinating. Not all people you want to spend time with, but fascinating. We let our memberships lapse when we moved back to Colorado.

Nearly universally, Mensans recognized that IQ is only measure of how well you do on an IQ test (which, as you may know, was never intended as a test for the upper end, only to find students who needed intervention) or the other allowed tests.

There were materially successful people and not, socially adept and not. People we learned to avoid and people who became friends. Cringe and connection.

I suppose it is like any other social club where you have something in common with the additional kicker that people were not holding back in conversation. You had the chance to rapidly be humbled in that case if you went on at length about some favorite topic only to find out the person you were talking to was an expert in it.

Plus there were cool speakers and field trips. “Dumb things smart people do” was one of our favorites.

City of heroes is still available for free and is a lot of fun. Pre-WOW but the graphics are decent. A great community too.

I was a peer writing tutor at a top engineering school. I would be surprised if an engineer had verb-noun agreement. (That said, my kid was a nuclear engineer and is a great writer, so that is the danger of stereotypes…)