I do not at all believe that someone can't tell the difference between Popov and Belvedere 100% of the time. That article was talking about mixed drinks at bars though. Sure if you have 80% soda and 20% vodka it's going to be significantly harder to tell the difference... and in that case most people probably assume the shittier vodka just means the bartender poured a stronger drink so they'd like it better.

I wouldn't say this is true at all. Granted, if you gave me five top-shelf vodkas I doubt I would be able to point out which one is Chopin vs Grey Goose vs Belvedere or whatever... but if you put Belvedere against Popov I don't know of a single person who wouldn't be able to understand that Popov is total shit and Belvedere is way better than total shit.

I know this doesn't really answer your question. But if you filter cheap vodka through like a Brita water filter a few times it'll begin to taste a lot more like expensive vodka.

Ah, okay. Thanks :)

I can't actually say since I've never been to Boston... but isn't that place just like every other place in the US where you can simply buy whichever one you want? Or are you just talking about tequila that was made in Boston?

I thought I had that until I saw a physical therapist. She determined it was peroneal tendonitis further up my leg. Stretching and massage healed it. Every now and then I'll start to get that same pain along the top of my foot, using a muscle roller on my leg makes it go away.

Precision, sure. But not for piss....

Are you drinking Everclear straight? Got your liver transplant lined up already?

The thing about the azeotrope mixture at 95% ABV is that at that point alcohol and water have exactly the same vapor point. You could distill that stuff 100 times and not get any higher alcohol concentration. There are various tricks that are used to push past this barrier, but they either require exotic equipment (vacuum swing distillation) or can leave undesired residues (benzene addition)

No, "imaginary" has a specific technical meaning in mathematics. It doesn't just mean "constructed for some purpose". It means a member of a particular set of numbers that solve equations of the form x^2 = a, for some negative number a. For example, 2i is an imaginary number that solves the equation x^2 = -4.

I have had $20 bourbon and $100 bourbon, I can't taste any difference. It's all just alcohol.

It is also REALLY important in Electrical Engineering, especially along with Fourier Transform for example

Would something like '2.5 people per square mile' be considered an imaginary number? Since you can't have .5 of a person (well, you can, but that involves investigations and awkward questions XD)...

I just found out I have extensor tendinitis on my non-dominant foot. Trying to figure out how to help it out and still work.

The urethra opening for women is between the labia, which can certainly affect the flow pattern depending on your shape.

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This isn't a great comparison, the problem with dividing by zero is it could be literally anything, it is ambiguous. To have zero in the denominator is to say "I haven't provided you the necessary information to extract a value from this ratio, therefore the value could be anything." Like if you were to say 1/2. I am saying "I have divided something exactly once evenly to produce two equal parts, and I have handed you 1 of those parts." 0/2 is saying "I divided something exactly once evenly to create two equal parts and I have given you zero of them." 1/0 is saying "Something was divided into equal parts but I don't know how many times and here is one of them." <-- that isn't enough information to create a rational number.

The square root of negative 1 is saying "in a real sense negative square roots can't exist, but if they did exist we can manipulate them in this way." It is similar to anything in a computer that is 'virtual', it literally doesn't exist but if we imagine they do we can still do interesting thing.

Jersey City used to regularly turn some shade of purple because of the factory. Now there's a gated community in place of the factory.

The local wetlands preserve says not to eat the crabs in the water because you'll get cancer.

Dicks literally have rifled barreling. We didn’t even think to use that in guns until a few hundred years ago.

For some reason, nature decided men needed to be capable of pissing with extreme accuracy and precision.

(I’ve heard dogs like to pee high because it makes it seem like they’re taller/ smell catches in the wind)

Pissing through a hunting rifle versus spitting water out of your mouth

Nah, Northern California, Willits

Jersey City?

Technically termed laminar flow where liquid moves in a series of layers or lamina each molecule following the one ahead towards the destination. https://youtu.be/8N2BKglHQhE

No worries. Have fun!

Has anyone tried marketing a pure 100% ethanol drink?

I personally drink Everclear, and it's 190 proof, or 95% ABV. From what I can tell alcohol with water forms an azeotrope and has a lower boiling point than alcohol without. I would suspect that when alcohol is distilled some flavors may come with the water that evaporates with it.

I was thinking about trying to distill my own "dry" alcohol. If you add certain dried salts that form hydrates I think you can "soak up" the extra water and be left with basically pure ethanol, except for some of those other things you mentioned.

If either of those teams win they will be conference champion but they will need to beat the winner of the chiefs vs bengals to be the champion of the entire NFL. The NFL has two conferences AFC and NFC.

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