Water weight is exactly that. More water in your body. Consuming a lot of salt or sugar can cause your body to retain extra water.

The human body is about 80% water. And an adult male can have their body weight fluctuate up to 5% completely safely just based on their water weight. If you eat a big salty meal and drink a lot of water, you'll gain a lot of weight pretty immediately. But as the salt works it's way out of your system, so too will the excess water. And you'll drop a lot of weight. By mildly dehydrating yourself you can lose a lot of weight.

Personally my weight can fluctuate by about 10 lbs. Just based on how hydrated I am.

I've learned, in my almost 20 years of construction experience across multiple trades, that plumb and square are often just relative terms. Are these window frames plumb? I have no idea. They measure the same offset all the way around from the brick face, or the framing, or whatever place the architect wants. If I make them plumb instead, it only makes me look bad. Nobody sees that the framer, or bricklayer, or whoever is the one that's off. They see the crooked window. So you have to live in whatever world the framer gives you plumb or not. With floor tile or ceiling grid, if you go to the main entrance to whatever room you are in, meaning the most common place people will first see that room, and you make either a joint or a full tile be right down the center everybody will love it. It's what your eye wants to see. A nice straight line. It doesn't matter at all if it's in the middle of the room or not.

Bail is what you pay the court. It is collateral against you turning back up when it's time for trial. The court holds the money and gives it back to you when you show up. If you don't show up, they keep the money, in addition to whatever further legal problems you have for skipping a court date.

If you do not have enough to pay bail, there are private bail bondsman companies. You pay them 10% of the bail amount, and they pay the bail money to the court. When you show up, the company gets their bail money back, and they keep the 10% you paid because that's how they make their money.

Bail is the dollar amount set by a judge after someone is charged with a crime. If that person pays the bail amount they are free to leave the jail. The money is returned to them when they return to their scheduled court date. A bond is issued by a private company when a person cannot afford the full bail amount. The money is still returned to the person when they make their court date, but the bondsman keeps 10%. Tldr bail is the amount set by the judge, the bond is a loan.

When I was younger and stupider, I was admitted to hospital and diagnosed with"exhaustion". It was explained that I had exhausted my body's resources and that's why I kept fainting.

Really, I had a heart arrhythmia caused by an electrolyte imbalance and malnutrition.

I was in my early 20's, a single mom, working full time and going to college. My diet consisted of grilled cheese crusts, nicotine and caffeine lol.

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Equity is the value of the home, minus the balance of the mortgage loan. So if you put down 10% when you buy, you start with 10% equity. Your equity would then grow as you pay down the mortgage and as the home value appreciates.

When you build enough equity, you can borrow against it. This is sometimes called a home equity loan or second mortgage. Say you've been paying down your mortgage for a few years, and home prices have increased since you bought so your equity in your home has grown from 10% to 40%. You could borrow 20% of your home's value (home equity lenders typically require 20% equity to remain). A common use is to upgrade or do large capital projects on the home, like paying for a new roof or remodeling the kitchen. But people can also use the money to buy a rental property, fund a new business, buy a car, etc. too.

Not sure what your dad's comment about insurance and equity have to do with each other, so either you misunderstood what he was complaining about or he doesn't understand something.

It's worth saying that the vast majority of settlements and plea deals don't involve the super wealthy. It's just what you said, cases are expensive and time consuming, both criminal and civil cases. There's another factor though, one that just can't be overstated: they're really uncertain!

A verdict is a giant gamble, even the most solid case might run into some unforeseen event, some crazy and charismatic juror or wacky judge. It's not just the verdict itself though, damages or sentencing can vary widely, and so a lot of the time people just don't want to take chances. If a company can settle a claim without taking the risk of a trial, they usually will, because even a slam dunk case has the potential to blow up.

Equity is the value of your home. For most people, that means the amount of money they could potentially get by either selling their house or using it as collateral for a loan.

You're conflating two different things. "Guilt" and "innocence" only apply to criminal law. Settling a case only happens in civil courts.

Criminal cases are brought by the government (district attorney), and cannot be settled. The punishments for criminal offenses are fines, community service, and/or jail time (possibly other conditions such as required addiction counseling). If someone is found guilty, they owe their fine to the government. The closest thing to "settling" a criminal case is to take a plea deal, meaning you do admit guilt, usually in exchange for a lesser sentence than you might receive if found guilty at trial. In some cases, the DA might also offer to drop charges if you give them information which leads to a more serious case against someone else.

Civil cases are brought by a third party, and the punishments are generally limited to money. If someone loses a civil case, they owe money to the person who sued them. There is no crime for them to be "guilty" of. Settling a case means they made an agreement with the person suing them, who agreed to drop the lawsuit in exchange for some payment.

A game engine is a program that has blank worlds, pieces, and character models. It's the equivalent of an empty stage or empty film set. The game designers fill it with backgrounds, objects, and characters. The game engine also has some basic physics built in, so if two objects bump into each other they will behave in a certain way.

The human body is like 60% water by weight, and the difference between being well hydrated and dehydrated is like 5 lbs. So, you can easily lose “water weight” by exercising hard without proper hydration. You really do lose weight if you get on a scale, but it’s highly impermanent because you’ll get the weight back as soon as you drink enough water.

You can also gain or loss equity if the value of the asset goes up or down. I’d think of it as what you would get to keep after selling it at the current market value and paying off any debt.

Water weight refers to water in your cells and the spaces between cells that your body retains due to the presence of excess salt and sugar. When people begin to diet they tend to cut down on salt and sugar, which leads to a rapid loss of weight, but it's easy come, easy go. This isn't a loss of fat tissue, it's a loss of retained water, so it isn't what people usually mean by "losing weight" which to most means "burning fat."

Gorf is after a filling meal snarf is during.

Sometimes it's just genuinely preferable to end the legal proceedings and move on with your life, even if the allegations are untrue. It costs a lot to clear your name legally, both in terms of money and time and stress. Sometimes it's not worth it, and it's less burdensome to simply settle out of court to close the book on it, regardless of "how it looks".

Say I loan you money for 10 apples. Because it's my money I own the apples. You make a payment and that pays for two of the 10 apples. You now own those two apples. Bob really wants ten apples so you sell him all ten. I am ok with this because I get my money. Your equity was the two apples you paid off.

Rule 1. Innocent until proven guilty in a court of law Rule 2. Yeah, probably, but please see Rule 1.

In those types of cases, it is typically made on the decision of cash amount. If a lawyer has a 20+% cut of the financial payout, it can be more profitable to the person accepting the payout than it is to go for a larger sum, but then have to pay the lawyer.

I'm sure there are other reasons on a more technical level, but I've been witness to the above situation before, and that's all it came down to in that specific scenario.

It’s just how much of the home you actually own, as opposed to the total value. You can find this by taking the home value and subtracting the total mortgage outstanding

Equity is a liability that will eventually become an asset.

At this moment, your paying a bill. But that hill has an end date and once that end date arrives, you will own it and you will be able to sell or so what you want with the asset.

The equity in a home is how much of that debt you have converted into an “asset”. If the house is worth 200,000 and you have a 100,000 paid off, you have a hundred thousand dollars in equity.

The actual ELI5 answer: the same reason you understand 4803 as 4803 and not 48 and 3.

1. Separators: in this case, spaces or special sequences between words

2. Conventions: we use byte-sized words, so each 8 bits is a separate word

Of course, these have to be agreed upon by the sender and receiver.

"Exhaustion" which famous people suffer from is something their publicist tells the public, it's essentially made up by them (even though the person might be exhausted.) The medical diagnosis they would probably have would be something like a fluid imbalance (they need to drink more water or aren't getting enough salt) or a problem with drugs.

Court cases are expensive and very time consuming. If you’re a rich enough celebrity, money isn’t a huge deal. Easy to pay less than 1% of your net worth and make a problem go away instead of drawing it out, regardless of guilt

Is “gorf” synonymous with “snarf”, or is there a subtle difference in meaning/usage?