I'm not claiming that my anecdote is correct for everyone like you are.

I used my anecdote to prove your generalization was false.

The judge may not like your attitude. Do you have time to spend a night or 2 in jail?

The judge will probably get really upset and put you in the civil jury pool, civil trials last much longer

You get a few days in jail. Don't piss off the judge.

Your engine braking will only contribute several dozen horsepower, since it's just drivetrain loss and vacuum pulling from the throttle body causing the drag.

Even on a typical Toyota Camry, its brakes are capable of over 1500 hp of braking power. The brakes will easily overpower the maximum traction of your tires, which is when ABS kicks in and keeps the brakes at maximum braking power (because sliding friction is lower than static friction, ABS helps to minimize tire slipping).

So just push the clutch in, slam the brakes, and let your car do its thing.

This is definitely the case for chemistry. There are master’s programs and some schools offer enroute masters, but most PhD programs only require undergrad and then after qualifiers/comprehensives you officially become a phd “candidate”.

Dice don't have a memory. They absolutely don't care what has happened already. Every time you roll one, you're starting from scratch, simple as that.

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I've come across quite a few farmers that do no plow.

That's not to say the majority of your post is wrong though, just adding a little bit of extra information.

Just tell them that you have always been a huge Batman fan and you can't wait to serve some good hard justice. They will usually excuse you from serving after that

originally film cameras used a reflector to bounce an image onto film, which was light sensitive and would capture the reflected light as an image. This however has changed a lot over time, with them now using digital light sensors instead of film, which has in most cases eliminated the need for the mirror.

All the results of dice throws are equivalent to each other... if you pay attention and take note of EVERY die number, that is. But if you're focusing on just the number 6, then the other numbers are all considered "not 6"s.

The "not 6"s are 5 times more likely to appear than 6 on a six sided dice. The probabilities are drastically different now.

The chances of a 1 being rolled after a 6 is the same as a 6 being rolled. But the chances of a "not 6" being rolled after a 6 is much greater.

A "13554663" result is just as likely as "66666666" to occur. But if you only note the 6s, then "########" (all "not 6"s) is much more likely than "66666666" to happen because "########" fits with multiple possible results while "66666666" fits with only one possible result.

There's a bunch of different scores, some of them have different ranges. The standard FICO score ranges from 300-850, but there's a specialized FICO Bankcard score used for judging credit card applications that goes from 250 to 900. There's also separate scores for car loans and mortgages.

I’ve edited my response to state that this is a US view. Your response is also anecdotal to your country of study.

If they are all different (i.e. you choose your numbers and make them different) then yes you’ll increase your odds. Same for a raffle, except you don’t need to worry about the numbers as each ticket is unique. But if everyone buys more raffle tickets with the same multiple, then your odds don’t change. If everyone buys more lotto tickets, everyone’s chances of winning increase (but also the odds of having to share the jackpot).

Yes, you are slowly dying. With each breath you are closer to death. Have a nice day.

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What if I just walk in and say “because I’m being inconvenienced I already decided they are guilty and will not give a fair trial”

That was my little plan when my number gets called

Accurate for the heel toe portion as most race cars have their pedals positioned for the driver to properly heel toe, but I feel like a large percentage of stick drivers can rev match. At least in my circle of manual drivers that seems to be the case

>It’s unusual in nearly all fields I’m aware of to take a Master’s and then go for a PhD.

You keep quoting your own anecdotal evidence. Your experience is incorrect. Master's degrees are required for PhD in many fields and universities around the world.

Source: I was required to get a Master's before my PhD in Canada and this is the norm at Canadian schools.

I went to another university other than my bachelor’s to help out with a summer study of someone my undergrad advisor was helping. The prof advising that study asked me if I wanted to take on a research project in their grad program. So serendipity. Toxicology.

> Didn't the government "print" lots of money for covid benefits?

The current episode of inflation started well after those policies had mostly ended.

Remember, "inflation" is just a term for "a general rise in prices". And there are obvious reasons for such a rise:

• Supply chains were badly disrupted during covid, and remained so into 2022 in part due to China's aggressive zero-covid policies. And since supply chains have many steps, it takes a long time for those effects to work their way through the system: a shortage of metal today might mean a shortage of lumber tomorrow if the lumber supply depends on, say, being able to buy more chainsaw blades.

• Wages have risen [though not as fast as inflation] due to a hot labor market, which in turn is due to a combination of retiring Boomers, a non-trivial chunk of the population being killed or crippled by covid, and a culmination of existing trends in labor movements.

• Rising wages did create some increase in the money supply.

• Energy costs are pretty high. This was especially true in the immediate aftermath of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which caused a big disruption to energy markets.

• All of this created an environment where profiteering was easy and could be blamed on "inflation" without brand damage. Fortune 500 companies posted record profits in that environment by considerable margins, even in real (inflation-adjusted) terms. A quick look at their list shows us that 200 of the Fortune 500 had their profits double or more in 2022, and many more posted growth far far above inflation.

I am not enough of an economist to tell you which of these is most important (and given the general voodoo that is economics I'm not sure I'd trust actual economists to say with that much confidence either), but at the very least there's plenty of alternatives to covid-related money supply.

This one depends on the country, masters degrees are usually prerequisites to doctoral degrees where I live.