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Showerthoughts_Mod t1_j6mi4th wrote

Reply to Something must have happened to the human species millenia ago that makes so many people afraid of touching a hot stove, like some ancient racial memory. by Mantis42

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HypnoticRoots t1_j6mhhqp wrote

Reply to comment by BreakfastBeerz in Parents hate homework just as much, if not more than their kids. by PeculiarPete

Actually, OP did not go into detail for why parents hate homework. People in the comments have given their own reasons.

For me personally it has nothing to do with not being able to help with it... It's just the fact that kids are in school for 7 and 1/2 hours a day where I live. After that I feel like they should be free to do after school activities or spend time with their families. My 13-year-old has a couple hours of homework every night and I would just love to be able to hang out with him in the short time we have in the evening.

Additionally some kids don't have the time and resources after school to really get that homework done. Some kids have to watch their younger siblings. Some kids have to go to work. Some kids just live in an environment not conducive to completing homework, unfortunately.

I do however understand the importance of the occasional homework assignment or extra work if you need the practice. And of course there's always projects... It's the daily busy work and over assigning of homework that bothers me the most.

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Crux_AMVS24 OP t1_j6mhhk8 wrote

Reply to comment by AxialGem in The direction of temperature is arbitrary. There is no reason for hot objects to be assigned a larger number than cold ones by Crux_AMVS24

Thatā€™s a good argument, however my point was a bit different. Temperature, by its very definition, had nothing to do with heat, or internal energy. Itā€™s a parameter used to describe the distribution of kinetic energy across all the particles(called Maxwellā€™s velocity distribution curve). That curve, is of the sort e^-(1/kT) where k is a constant and T is the temperature. In that sense, weā€™re using temperature the wrong way. If we defined absolute zero as infinity and very high temperatures as tending to zero, weā€™d have a scale more in tune with this actual physical behaviour of molecules. And if THAT definition of temperature, it is INVERSELY proportional to the kinetic energy of the molecules. Thatā€™s the thing, temperature isnā€™t a measure of heat, it just so happens to be numerical proportional to it. Is weight a measure of inertia? No, weight is a force. However, the weight of a object does have some sort of relation with the mass of that object, which IS a measure of inertia. Itā€™s the same thing with heat and temperature

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Dwarfdeaths t1_j6mh5th wrote

Reply to comment by draculamilktoast in The internet has become essentially 5 giants sites all sharing screen shots of each other and not much else. by DominosFan4Life69

I'd think plumbing is way more complicated than a package system. Plumbing deals with a variety of pipe sizes, terminal devices, hydrodynamics, chemistry, etc. all meticulously integrated into your building. A package system just has to get a single type of object to the general vicinity of your building, and that object won't deposit limescale or grease over time. I think a better analogy is internet infrastructure.

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snkn179 t1_j6mh1fc wrote

Reply to comment by FloatingSalamander in The amount of people that do not know that a cold sore is herpes is surprising. by BellyScratchFTW

To add more info, there's 5 main types of virus in the herpes family that you'll often come across.

HHV-1: Herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1), causes cold sores.

HHV-2: Herpes simplex virus 2 (HSV-2), causes genital herpes.

HHV-3: Varicella zoster virus (VZV), causes chickenpox and shingles.

HHV-4: Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), causes mononucleosis (glandular fever) and various lymphoid diseases.

HHV-5: Cytomegalovirus (CMV), another cause of mononucleosis.

But yeah the everyday usage of the word herpes is just for the herpes simplexes (HSV-1 and HSV-2).

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