There is a zero percent chance that you will build up enough static electricity to destroy a thumb drive. They are tested to withstand much higher zaps than you can generate without special equipment.

I get happy, calm and controlled. The days I don’t take it, I am irritated and snap at other people.

Also, I don’t feel hungry when I take it. I feel like eating and taking naps the whole day when I don’t take it.

Blood is made up of fluid (essentially, water with some electrolytes) and cells floating around in the fluid (red blood cells, white blood cells, etc). Milk is also mostly water, with some fats and protein. The water is the only thing that would evaporate out of the solution when heated. Heat it for long enough though and you’d probably destroy the red blood cells and white blood cells into little bits.

There is blood in cows milk, And I think this fact grosses OP out. Not enough to go dairy free, but enough to ask reddit how to “boil the blood out”

[removed]

[deleted]

Are you worried about the white blood cells from cows suffering from mastisis? If so, I wouldn’t be so specific.

All the components of milk come from the organisms’ blood before being secreted by the mammary gland.

[removed]

[deleted]

This doesn't really make any sense to me.

Are you saying that you think there's (minute amounts) of blood in cow's milk?

And you think that that's what makes it not vegan?

[deleted]

[removed]

Nice

More or less, yeah.

So, it basically lets you think at a controlled pace?

Anecdotally, I've noticed that I can take a moment more to process conversations and allow others to speak more with less misunderstandings from my brain wanting to fill in the blanks and/or jump to conclusions.

I'm also able to return more to the original topic of a conversation when divergent paths pop up in the midst of discussions, where as before, I would ride the side rail chats out and forget the original topics.

I'm also able to direct my hyper focus a bit more, meaning without Adderall, I would randomly get stuck on tasks/ activities whether I meant to or not, and with Adderall, I'm able to better pick which tasks/ activities demand a lot of attention versus those I can put off to a later time.

This is from my perspective only though, your mileage may vary.

Best explanation here for visual people love it

I am no expert. Below is just one hypothetical scenario. Let's say you go to a currency exchange stand to buy Euro. Euro price will be set by currency exchange stand, this price will include cost of currency stand business plus FX rates from their broker. Their brokers are probably some local small banks. Small banks will trade with larger banks like Citibank. Larger banks will trade with each other to set the FX rates. Governments will also participate in interbank market to influence FX rates. So FX rates are ultimately set up by interbank market.

Your hard drive runs a chaotic, but organized office. It keeps track of a lot of file cabinets, putting your files in them without a system, but always remembering where they are. It's a hectic mess, but your hard drive is a genius and can concentrate pretty well.

Now, it has a bunch of files on it's table, putting some back, pulling some out, all at the same time. It concentrates really hard to remember where everything belongs. Then you come up and bonk it. (Unplugging while it's working) When it wakes up, it might forget where some of the stuff goes and that creates a problem.

Generally, you want to make sure all your components are powered off and cleared of any residual current before touching them, as your filthy lil' hands can make electricity conduct to where it's not supposed to be and bzzt.

I always though that the point of this sub was to come up with creative teaching tools as well as explaining the answer.

Thanks for the nice compliment

The operating system and the drive itself each have a level of cache to defer writes to the disk and combine them with others to make the process more efficient with less random seeking. USB keys are usually configured with writing cache disabled and are slower, particularly when copying many small files.

When the drive is instructed to turn off, all outstanding data is written to the disk. The heads also get retracted from the surface of the disks and parked on a dedicated ramp. The drive tries to do this in case power is suddenly removed, but won't be able to orderly write out any buffered data.

When a computer is running, it often is reading g data from and writing data to the hard drive. This process isn’t instantaneous, it can take a bit of time to happen. If you unplug a hard drive while data is being written to it in any way, that data will become corrupted and unreadable. If it’s something important like a system file or a file you need, that can be really bad.

Shutting down a computer properly or hitting the “eject flash drive” button always ensures that these readwrite operations finish what they are doing and come to a stoping point where you can unplug the hard drive with no risk of this happening.

Even if you aren’t saving something actively, the operating system does a lot of miscellaneous readwrite operations for all kinds of reasons almost constantly. You never really know when they are happening, so it’s best to be safe with that.

This is also the same reason why unplugging a computer without shutting it down properly is bad. It can corrupt data that is part way through being written to the hard drive.

Thank you for dumbing it down so my grandma can understand to not just unplug everything to turn it off

If you unplug a hard drive while computer is on, electricity from your clothes/rug/pets could zap it and break it.

Don't need to turn off a hard drive which is impossible. Delete anything on it if moving to another computer. If not, don't worry.

Here's the actual explanation for a five year old.

When you go to bed at night, you don't just get in bed. You take off your clothes, put them away, put on you pajamas, brush your teeth, and say good night to everybody. The computer is a little like that, it needs to 'put on its pajamas' so it will sleep well.