If you order enough IKEA shit to completely furnish your entire house and it magically all appears in boxes that you have to put together you would have to...ahh forget it, Just get a HD, you can get a 14 TB for like 80 bucks, bro.

The money did not come out of nowhere. The 2 trillion will be paid by a combination of taxes and borrowed money. The taxes probably don't need an explanation. The borrowed money comes from government selling bonds, a promise to pay back with low interest money later in exchange for money now.

People buy the bonds because the US government is known to pay their debts, it is a safe, almost no risk investment. The government sells the bonds because if the interest rate is lower than average inflation they are lest costly than they look, and the added value from being able to spend the money NOW helps invest for the future.

Basically the government was willing to take on some extra debt to invest money that could help its citizens today.

I've been using this for years, excellent tool

Random question... Does breaking stuff from solid make stuff slower aka colder? I know nacl+ water makes it colder but is it always like that

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>but are private-sector entities.

Wellllllll....kind of. But this is ELI5 so we'll let it slide!

>They didn't say "chemical bond"

Yes they did:

...it becomes part of the liquid by bonding with the liquid molecules.

Nothing is "bonding with the liquid molecules" - that's not happening at all.

>even you used "hydrogen bonding"

Which is decidedly NOT "bonding with the liquid molecules" exactly like I stated.

>It doesn't matter if hydrogen bonds, ionic bonds, chemical bonds, or magical bonds.

Yes it does, these are all WILDELY different things.

If you don't understand chemistry don't pretend to.

>They didn't claim it does.

Did you not read their post?

making these new bonds releases energy as heat

When you can actually read what they posted and my reply, get back to me.

So in effect, swimming in salt water (i.e., the ocean) would act like a Faraday Cage in a lightning strike?

> But new bonds are NOT created. There is hydrogen bonding, but there's no chemist in the world who would say that hydrogen bonds are a form of chemical bonding.

They didn't say "chemical bond", but just "bond". Just read what you wrote yourself again, even you used "hydrogen bonding", and indeed, there are many types of bonds and all of them involve some energetic changes. It doesn't matter if hydrogen bonds, ionic bonds, chemical bonds, or magical bonds.

> Secondly, this process doesn't release energy.

They didn't claim it does. Even in what you quoted they say "This refunds some of the heat used to break up the solid in the first place", implying that in total, energy is still spent. And it is correct that the break-up requires energy to overcome the ionic bonds, yet some other salts release quite a bit of energy when dissolved in water, exactly due to the reason they gave.

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Oh my god, I've never met someone else with sleep anxiety! I've tried to describe it to people before but end up conflating it to hypochondria because it's so hard to explain.

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Could this have happened due to someone very abruptly waking you up while you were younger? Almost like not letting you achieve REM sleep and shocking you in waking up

Yes governments can make money disappear, they do so by raising taxes and so taking money out of the economy, or by issuing bonds. These are loans to the government and so the amount that organisations give the government to buy the bonds has left the economy.

They can’t exactly do the same with student debt because it totals to zero overall. There is $1.6 trillion in debt but that is balanced by $1.6 trillion in cash that was paid to the universities etc.

If the government paid off everyone’s student debt then they would actually be adding more money into the economy; the money they would have to pay the owners of the debt (the lenders). They could in theory just cancel the debt and tell the lenders that they are shit out of luck, but that would make those lenders very angry, and would seriously destabilise any economy.

That is not at all why the geometry of the universe is described as flat. It has nothing to do with “thickness”

Also, why does my fully loaded wardrobe with all my latest fashion clothes and shoes weigh a lot more than the wardrobe did when I bought it?

The only line of latitude that's not bending left or right is the equator. For an extreme example, imagine walking the line of latitude one meter from one of the poles.

A line of latitude one meter from the equator is still bending, just not as much.

Lines of longitude do not bend left or right, and they all intersect at the poles, even though they're all parallel at the equator.

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The one who isn't walking on a great circle (i.e. an "equator" of the sphere) is constantly turning away from you, in the sense that if they imagine their path laid out in front of them, it appears to curve to one side.

Put another way, imagine doing this not with walking but with cars with the steering fixed dead ahead. Try it with toy cars and a basketball if you have those objects handy.

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Can confirm. I was slightly skeptical as well but holy balls is WizTree so much faster on the scan.

It doesn't appear to sacrifice anything significant in terms of accuracy to achieve it, either.