u/Ok_Nectarine_8612

I think the description pretty much sums it up. By metro, I dont mean a place like NYC where you basically can't see anything, but where I live is not exactly rural either....as in, a place you have probably heard of. Telescope is fairly decent, but I am not "astronomically mature" enough to properly use it.

I am currently unemployed. I have a DUI that is a little less than a year old. I also have an accident on my 5 year history (but not 3 year) and a ticket for going 73 in a 45mph zone. Other than that, my driving record is spotless. Will most companies overlook the DUI?

I have been forced into using cheap single ply toilet paper because the pipes where I live are so old and rusty that they back up with anything else-even stuff meant to be easily passed through pipes. After the upteenth backup of the year, the plumber said this is my only option besides smashing through the floors and replacing the pipes. I didn't notice any issues at first, then I started noticing random specks of toilet paper that I guess fell out of my pants at various locations in the house. DISGUSTING. I am also fairly sure that I have likely dropped small specks outside of home as well. Does not happen with regular toilet paper. I really don't want to shower every single time I have to use toilet paper. Is there a way around this?

I feel like malt liquor gets a bad rap due to association with "bottom shelf" products like Steel Reserve and possibly due to the poor decision that many brands like Olde English made going plastic in the early 2010s. I have been drinking Mickey's malt liquor and personally I find it much better than standard macro beers like bud. I am not familiar with the recipe, but I feel it emphasizes the flavor of the malted barley over the hops. Budweiser, miller, etc. is decent but tastes like cardboard in my opinion compared to Mickey's. Mickey's has a low abv for a malt liquor and so is not brewed "high gravity" at the expense of taste. I am actually drinking a warm one right now. I am surprised that it tastes almost as good as a cold one. This is not something that is true for most beers and is CERTAINLY not true for something like steel reserve or natty daddy....which I have honestly wondered if prison pruno tastes better than. There are also riddles underneath each cap which I feel gives personality to the brand. I am bewildered that bars will gladly stock PBR but I have never been to one that stocks Mickey's. When I talk to others about Mickey's, they usually react by saying something along the lines of "wow.....sounds like super low class stuff....... I remember in high school I drank some high gravity bottom shelf beer.....never again". I firmly disagree. I truly would prefer it over a budweiser. I'd definitely also prefer it over most "craft beers" because lets be honest, a lot of craft beer is either over-hopped or designed to have weird flavors that make for a nice gimmick, but not an everyday drink (and are also overpriced). Mickey's: I give it 10 out of 10. Mickey describes itself as "fine" malt liquor and I honestly believe it lives up to that. I often stop off to buy Mickey's before going to my regular bar (and the gas station nearby does a special order of it just for me) and am disappointed that I have to drink standard beer if I want to socialize before I can go home and crack open a Mickey. I stop off before going to the bar because the only places that seem willing to offer it are small business convenience stores that close early and not your local 7/11.

I have had so many alcoholic attacks that I have lost count (I know...I know....but I dont think I am going to stop...currently drinking right now despite just having a flare last week..I would start drinking research chemical alcohols before I go to an AA meeting) and fortunately don't think I have crossed into chronic. But I have been reading this board for a while.

From what I have read: chronic pancreatitis does not get better and can reduce a person's standard of living. I see posts here stating they are significantly restricted in what they can eat, can't consume ANY alcohol, and are losing weight despite creon. I have seen posts from people stating they have lost jobs (and premumably, health insurance if they live in the US.....and creon isnt cheap) due to recurrent flares that just happen out of nowhere even if they havent drank a single drop. It is known that that as the condition progresses, it causes loss of islet cells (so, surgery should be done sooner to prevent diabetes...or am I wrong?) and typically causes a loss of exocrine function anyways. I have seen posts where people seem to get a "second shot at life" after their diseased pancreas is cut out of them. I don't see any benefit to just living with chronic pancreatitis. Yet that is what a lot of people on here are forced to do. Their doctors put them on non-narcotic pain relievers and tell them to hope for the best. That is the answer? Because the disease progresses, why not just immediately go for total pancreatectomy as soon as diagnosis of permanent progressive damage is established? Then put the patient on creon. Am I missing something? Also, many patients do drink after diagnosis. I personally would likely continue to drink if diagnosed as chronic and then risk a severe attack. It isn't the best thing to do, but yeah- it is what often happens. But again, you can have severe issues with chronic pancreatitis even without touching a drop, so it is not just about drinking. I get it is a MAJOR surgery that requires a special lab for islet extraction. But it is wild to me (disclaimer: as a non-medical professional) that people on this sub are literally progressing to type 3c diabetes that could have been prevented by getting pancreas removed much earlier into the disease process. Why is this happening? Why are literally ANY doctors waiting until the islet cells are destroyed by the disease and diabetes develops to even consider pancreatectomy?

I have a multiple year gap.... but I am well educated. I would not lie about qualifications (obviously, saying I am a doctor when I am not would be a big no-no), but lets say that I significantly over-embellished. For example, stating that I founded a start up that failed or worked for a company that is out of business. Lets say they didnt check, but workplace conversation can sometimes lead to the truth slipping out. Would I really be fired if a year or two later, I personally confronted my boss and told them that I simply needed momentum and being honest wasnt working. Everyone needs money. If I was a model employee, would most really fire me?

Sometimes when people go to the bathroom and spend a long time in there, I go in and smell it afterwards. One time, I almost got caught with my head in the toilet bowl sniffing after someone used it. Is this rude? Would this make you uncomfortable if a roommate did this?

I know there are some states where you cant even buy regular beer at a grocery store (unless that has changed) and that some other countries do the same thing. But, every US state that I know of bans liquor sales at convenience stores. For example, many will sell "fireball" but when you look at it is not real fireball but instead some drink that was heavily fermented.

I left beer in my freezer last night for "30 minutes" but then accidentally fell asleep. When I woke up, they were still liquid (except for one.....which happened to be the only one that had sat in my room much of the day and wasn't semi-cold from being refrigerated (weird?)). After shaking the others to see if they were frozen, they instantly turned to slush. I was wondering if it would be possible to open a supercooled beer so gently that it does not freeze and rather than waiting for it to warm back up, I'd get to enjoy a sub-zero cold beer instead. The carbon dioxide bubbles seem like they could disturb things enough to cause instant freezing, so if this is not possible for beer- would it at least be possible for say, a powerade that was accidentally cooled below freezing?

Bonus: I put four beers that had recently been refrigerated in the freezer. Those were the slushy beers. I had another beer with the same alcohol content but different brew that was kept out at room temperature. It froze completely solid. That seems really odd.

I was never a very risk averse person and in 2017 I stared at a partial eclipse for enough time that I my eyes could see the crescent of the moon over the brightness of the sun. I did this several times. No damage. In 2024..... I did the same thing. I alternated left and right eyes try to protect them, but I guess I overdid it a bit with my left. Did not notice any issues until that night when I realized that there was still a small bright spot in the shape of the sun in my left eye. It was sort of like when someone took your picture with an old school camera and flash-the spot in my vision was similar. But, unlike the post-camera flash effect, it wasn't going away. No noticeable changes with the right. Eventually it faded for the most part, but when I close my right eye, I can still make out this "bright spot" in my vision. It is incredibly subtle.... not like I went blind or anything. I consider myself to have good vision. But, the spot is there even if it is only barely noticeable when I close my right eye. 99.9 percent of the time, I don't even notice it when both eyes are open.

Forget comparing it to 1997 or 2015, I am seeing news posts comparing it to the 1877 El Nino event....the strongest event in history. The euro model is showing a huge event, but that is pretty typical with its warm bias. The euro is laughable sometimes with ENSO predictions....all ensemble members predicted a significant El Nino at some point in 2017 when the year ended up being La Nina instead. However, other models like CFS are also showing a massive event. I am just not sure where this is coming from. Yes, the subsurface is warm thanks to a sequence of downwelling equatorial Kelvin waves that began during the winter and subsequently was reinforced by a huge westerly event in March-April. But since then, westerly wind activity is significantly behind 1997 and 2015 (obviously we can't compare 1877). The MJO is favorable but even with this El Nino developing, we can't buy proper westerly winds. Models suggest weakened trades but also for this pattern of no significant WWB to continue for at least much of June. By the end of June, 2015 had 3 major westerly wind events and fairly sustained (though weaker) westerlies in the interim. I am just not seeing that this year. Something about this event reminds me of either 2023 or 2014. 2014 had a promising start with a significant WWB event induced Kelvin Wave and favorable PDO..... and there was a lot of hype about a "super" El Nino that year. But the atmosphere never fully coupled and the subsurface warmth faded- resulting in a weak event that bordered on warm-neutral instead. 2023 had large SST anomalies despite weak atmospheric coupling... resulting in a high peak according to the old traditional ONI. This is because the tropics warmed globally that year and when you use the new RONI definition, it was only a moderate event. What is the most likely scenario for this year? Fully coupled super El Nino? A 2023 like event with high ONI but weak RONI? A total flop like 2014?

It is my understanding that inbreeding produces complications with the child because of recessive genes being paired up. Some tribes are so inbred that they have distinguishable abnormal traits compared to the rest of the human population. If my understanding that the genes involved are recessive is correct, could these people have completely normal looking children in a single generation if they had those kids with "an outsider"? Or would it take many generations for the inbred traits to wash out?

*stories. I have noticed that some of my friends post stories all the time and yet they never appear in the list of stories. However, if I visit their profile I can look at their story. On the other hand, I have friends who are active maybe a few times a year and their story will always be one of the first in the list. Why?

I subscribed to a bunch of nostalgic groups and apparently this was super common. I never heard of this. How much of a thing really was this? Nostalgic groups sometimes overplay how popular things were.

Will it still taste good? Is it safe to drink?

I have heard to take out the hard drive from computers you dont need anymore. I got rid of the hard drive years ago. I was wondering if there is a way to retrieve all the data for nostalgic purpose without having to hook up a new hard drive to boot it?

I remember watching one of the 9/11 movies way back when they both came out in 2006 (either United 93 movie or WTC movie). One of the people in the movie (I think acting as a flight controller or military) said "the plane can break up at those speeds". Is it actually possible for such a sub-sonic plane to break up when flying at full throttle at low altitude? The air density is greater than higher up, but I imagine this would only limit the speed of the aircraft and not actually cause it break up. Just something I have wondered about for years.

Seriously, I bought the bed jet device that blows air under your covers. It is nice. I like it. It is certainly superior to the option I am about to tell you. BUT, the bed jet has no actual cooling ability....it just works on the principle of making a blanket less effective at trapping body heat. A poor man's version of that is to simply get a thin blanket that is quilted together in such a way that it is visibly porous and so doesn't trap much air. Then, turn on a fan. I don't know what you call these blankets, but I have one on right now. Definitely helps with feeling cooler without raising energy costs. Sleeping without a blanket would be even cooler, but to me that feels uncomfortable in a different way. This allows for a similar cooling effect to not having the blanket, while still being tucked in a blanket.

I am talking about neurotoxic bug sprays that include ingredients like cypermethrin and act quickly, not baits or boric acid. I think a lot of us have been in the position where a cockroach walks by and there happens to be a can of Raid right there so we give it a small shot-- small enough to hopefully kill it but not enough to make things wet and get it everywhere...hoping the roach would die immediately, but instead saw it start to continue what it was doing but with a drunken stagger. So, you blast it again and again until it is basically bathing in the stuff. Finally, it stops moving. So my question is, is the insect doomed the second it starts showing that initial stagger or can they sometimes recover from it? I get that it is always possible to have sublethal dose of any compound..,..LD50 yada yada yada, but the question is: is the LD50 of pyrethroid compounds (the one's found in typical sprays like Raid) close enough to the dose for impairing/incapacitating an insect, or alternatively that the dose in the smallest spray of Raid is sufficient, that it is highly likely a lethal dose has been delivered if visual symptoms are observed?

Second question: what if I am not applying a "normal amount" but instead took a pipette and placed a few drops of RAID on a roach, evenly spaced? Asking this because there have been times that I missed when I sprayed and it probably only received droplets, but enough to noticeably impact it neurologically and cause the stagger. I usually do a proper spray after when that happens, but I have always wondered: how likely would it be for such an insect to survive if I didn't spray it again? Does it even make a difference or is it basically dead the second it starts struggling?

I am talking about neurotoxic bug sprays that include ingredients like cypermethrin and act quickly, not baits or boric acid. I think a lot of us have been in the position where a cockroach walks by and there happens to be a can of Raid right there so we give it a small shot-- small enough to hopefully kill it but not enough to make things wet and get it everywhere...hoping the roach would die immediately, but instead saw it start to continue what it was doing but with a drunken stagger. So, you blast it again and again until it is basically bathing in the stuff. Finally, it stops moving. So my question is, is the insect doomed the second it starts showing that initial stagger or can they sometimes recover from it? I get that it is always possible to have sublethal dose of any compound..,..LD50 yada yada yada, but the question is: is the LD50 of pyrethroid compounds (the one's found in typical sprays like Raid) close enough to the dose for impairing/incapacitating an insect, or alternatively that the dose in the smallest spray of Raid is sufficient, that it is highly likely a lethal dose has been delivered if visual symptoms are observed?

Second question: what if I am not applying a "normal amount" but instead took a pipette and placed a few drops of RAID on a roach, evenly spaced? Asking this because there have been times that I missed when I sprayed and it probably only received droplets, but enough to noticeably impact it neurologically and cause the stagger. I usually do a proper spray after when that happens, but I have always wondered: how likely would it be for such an insect to survive if I didn't spray it again? Does it even make a difference or is it basically dead the second it starts struggling?