It was realised by observing what happened to some people after they survived massive head injuries. The most revealing victim was Phineas Gage when a metal rod was accidentally driven through his head. He was literally never the same man after that incident.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage

This is a theory. It is known as the “hard problem” - determining where consciousness is birthed. Not sure why people are suggesting we know it “resides” in the brain. The brain is instrumental, but so is the heart and the rest of the body. And then there is the theory our bodies and minds only work as receivers for an externally emitted consciousness.

Would love to see some studies proving the idea that consciousness stems from the brain.

What's bad about pouring in boiling water?

Flexibility. I have a business owner as a client. He wanted to retire. He owned 2 businesses: a hardware store and the company that owned the land the store was on. Upon retirement, he sold his hardware store. The new owners paid a lump sum in cash and that was that. However, they now have to pay rent to my client to the tune of $10,000/month. Included in the sale was a lifetime lease agreement. He'll have that $10k/month as long as he shall live.

If he owned the store and the land as one company sure his sale proceeds would've been greater, but probably not to the same extent that sales proceeds plus $120k/yr in income will result in.

How much cabbage mass would come out as farts.

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Wave particle duality. Everything acts like a wave unless it's being observed (interacted with). Just like normal waves can interfere and overlap creating a superposition, the particle's wave can be split into two states that overlap and create a superposition.

When we describe a particle as a wave, it's basically the probability density of where the particle is.

Schrodingher's cat is the go to example of this. There's a 50% chance the cat is alive, 50% chance it's dead. If we describe an alive cat as a wave function, and a dead cat as a wave function, we can add them together and get the wave function of our superposition cat. We can then take this superposition cat, and do all sorts of math on it. Let's say we heat the box up a few degrees. Instead of taking the wave function of an alive cat and heating it up, taking the wave function of a dead cat and heating it up and then adding the two together, we can take our superposition wave function, heat it up and we get the same result. It's a shortcut that only works because it behaves as a wave.

Once we open the box, we collapse the wave function, and the particle is essentially picking a random point (probably of each point determined by the wave function) and then the particle is there. If it helps you to think of it as a mathematical trick, then sure, you can have that, but it works like this in the real world or else the single photon double slit experiment and quantum tunneling wouldn't work.

And my axe

That said, there's a pretty substantial amount of regular people who also legitimately want to enjoy such things, regardless of whether or not those companies lobby the government. It's not just some top-down conspiracy.

Then you are showing that you can hit the goal with a smaller budget, and will receive a smaller budget next year.

https://vimeo.com/27060669

That makes sense.

Don't spend £20 Billion this year. Clearly don't need £20 Billion. Here's £10 Billion instead.

Honey is literally antibacterial. Don't you see how that can be confusing?

Short term gains. You have just bought say, Woolworths, loaded the debt onto the company. You then sell off the freeholds and rent them back. Bang, huge profits for the new owners . Run it into the ground, go bankrupt but walk away a lot richer.

Wouldn't it be the sodium hydroxide that causes concern more than bleach?

Now I'm interested in that link.

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Honey is used not just because it was available before other sugar syrups, but because it's naturally antimicrobial. That and the sugar content is why it doesn't go bad.

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You’re probably not gonna get any on you if you use a snake like most plumbers would for a severe clog

That’s nice, thank you

Not the poop knife again

I'm a plumber, you're fairly spot on but 5 things to consider.

1. If a plunger didn't work then draino is unlikely to work as the clog is likely past the trap and vent meaning that the draino will be very diluted if it ever makes its way to the clog. If it's just a slow drain the draino will drain past it and not help.

2. Draino can weaken pipes. They swear up and down on the bottle that it doesn't, but it does.

3. People often have leaks under their sink that they didn't know about. Now there is draino covering your cabinet and floor, possibly leaking into the ceiling space of the floor below.

4. Draino has lye in it, your pipes have fat and grease in them. What do you get when you mix them together? Hard soap. Do it enough and you've made you problem a lot worse, it can also strip the oils from hair and leave behind the protein eventually causing a bigger problem.

5. It weakens auger cables. Weak auger cables can break off in pipes. Your problem just got a lot worse.

I started with 2 things to consider but more just kept coming to me. Seriously, try plunging, try using a hand held auger, don't pour boiling water into any of your fixtures, baking soda and vinegar won't do anything (but if you insist on trying DO NOT MIX WITH DRAINO)

https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/7qn75k/poop_knife_from_reddit/