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Target880 t1_iujlebi wrote

Should is subjective. The origin of the system is from how the wires are made.

You can make a wire but draw to conical holes that rescue the wire size it is called,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_drawing The wire gets thinner and longer in each step.

The AWG system is based on the number of times you draw it through a die to get the wire.

Each time you draw it in the system the diameter reduces to 92% of the previous.

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I am not sure why the system starts with a Nr. 0000 at 0.46 inches in diameter and end with Nr. 36 awg at 0.005 inches in 40 steps and not 1 to 40 but that is the way it was done

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spider-bro t1_iujkvbs wrote

An even shorter answer is that it was based on non-consensual relationships which are inherently more unstable than consensual relationships.

Of course all nations are that way; the definition of a law is a rule you adopt by being born. But the Soviet Union applied this kind of nonconsensual ordering to entire nations.

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BlowjobPete t1_iujkpil wrote

Wires used to be made (maybe still are?) by heating up metal and stretching it over and over.

The more times it was stretched, the thinner it got. They used dies for this (to shape the wire). The wire was pulled through a set number of dies to get a set size. To get a thin wire, one had to pull the metal through a larger number of dies. Hence the number going up as the wires get thinner.

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BlowjobPete t1_iujk395 wrote

A lot of the "every day" jobs like translator, data analyst, etc. can be applied to directly. The government (in the US at least) even has websites for this:

https://www.intelligencecareers.gov/

https://intelligencecareers.usajobs.gov/Search/Results?cmco=IC%20Intel&p=1

They also sponsor events to look for talent sometimes, like the "NSA Codebreaker Challenge" which tests IT and programming skills. The winners of these challenges may be recruited.

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bela_lugosi_s_dead t1_iujjq3z wrote

It was used as a flavoring agent in rock soup. Eventually, it was cooked over and over until it could no longer nourish comrades.

So they took Yuri and his family around the corner and shot them in the head with a makarov (that took several tries, a makarov is not accurate even point blank).

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LesterBanks t1_iujjlas wrote

Michael Jackson was given Propofol to induce sleep. It was administered intravenously by his personal physican. No REM sleep occurs when Propofol is used. He was given this drug every night for several weeks as he was preparing for a world tour that would never happen. Those around him noticed his troubling decline during this time. He wasn't able to remember song lyrics or dance moves. He exhibited symptoms of dementia. For Michael Jackson the consequence of a drug that suppressed REM sleep was death.

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GrumpyOldLadyTech t1_iujjddz wrote

What you're describing is "second intention" healing: the act of the body healing a wound without closure. It's unnecessary (and sometimes impossible) to suture every wound. Not much to glue together on, say, a skinned knee. Second intention healing actively scars over as fibrin (manufactured by your liver) knits a structure together for cellular regeneration. That's why a scar looks different from your usual skin: it's literally built over a scaffolding that your body isn't made of normally.

It's common and harmless, just letting a wound granulate in. Usually best for superficial wounds like abrasions, though I've seen it with deeper wounds on occasion. In both cases I can think of immediately, the wound was bandaged with honey, which acted as a secondary granular structure while also protecting the deep tissue from infection. Eventually the skin grew back in, though both times it did scar rather spectacularly. The doctors on each case felt sutures would be difficult and risky, based on the mobility of the sites as well as poor "margins," which are the edges of wounds. Without proper margins, they're nothing to really suture. Imagine taking a half-dollar sized patch of skin off your wrist: how do you put the edges back together on such a wide, mobile space? You don't. You let it heal by second intention.

Sutures (and staples) come in to play with lacerations mostly. Nice, deep, linear wounds with most of the skin still available to suture. But that's a different subject.

Your two biggest organs - your skin and your liver - are also the only two with active regenerative properties. That doesn't mean take them for granted, but do have a little trust!

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