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  • Money or currency is a way to represent value

    It is a medium of exchange

    Could your boss pay you in cows? Could you take those cows and trade them for a car? Yes but this would be difficult.

    So if your boss gave you a cow voucher “money” and you could trade that for a car, then you wouldn’t have to lug the cows around.

    It facilitates trade

    Why a US dollar, or another currency, has value is a whole other question




  • You can’t cheat sound placement

    If you want the T-rex to roar to the back left of you and then run around and roar to the very right of you. You need two speakers placed exactly in those spots.

    With just a sound bar under the TV the roar is always going to be in front of you

    Does a sound bar ruin the Jurassic Park movie? Of course not.

    But 7.1 gives you front middle, front left, front right, middle left, middle right, back right, and back left.

    12.1 goes a step further with ceiling speakers for each speaker creating more atmosphere

    If you want good full sound then a sound bar is fine. And most people would be really happy with that.

    But if you want directional surround sound you have to place speakers in locations where the noise needs to come from. No other way around that.


  • The idea was as she got older he wouldn’t date younger than her current age. Weird and creepy but not the weird and creepy way you think.

    “In 3 years when you’re 20 I won’t be dating an 18-year-old.”

    This was in 2006

    Trump married Melenia in 2005

    So imagine saying this after being married to your wife for a year.

    Here’s another quote of him saying he has no age limit only to back track and then “weaved” to bring up another senator’s folly to divert attention on what he almost just let get confirmed.

    Things got a little weird after co-host Robin Quivers asked Trump if he had “an age limit.”

    Trump fumbled a bit at the response.

    “If I— No, no, I have no age— I mean, I have an age li—” Trump said, while Quivers asked him “the upper bracket” of his limit.



  • I get that

    I wouldn’t buy diamonds or gold hoping they increase in price just as much as I wouldn’t buy bitcoin to do the same.

    If you offered me 1USD in Gold, Diamond, or Bitcoin.

    I would take the gold. It has the most intrinsic value.

    The probably that gold hits 0USD is less than bitcoin hitting 0USD.

    The only reason you’d take bitcoin is if you think that it has a higher ceiling. Intrinsic value is the floor. But that is gambling



  • Gold and diamonds have intrinsic value

    Gold is needed for computer parts, and diamonds are used for cutting

    They are more than just shiny

    Their value will “never” hit 0 (Bitcoin would be worthless without gold for computers)

    Yes, we could find substitutes in the future, but for the substances to not be useful somehow is so low and would have to be an apocalyptic scenario. And in an apocalypse, gold could even be worth more.


  • Rapeseed (Brassica napus subsp. napus), also known as rape and oilseed rape and canola, is a bright-yellow flowering member of the family Brassicaceae (mustard or cabbage family), cultivated mainly for its oil-rich seed, which naturally contains appreciable amounts of mildly toxic erucic acid.[2] The term “canola” denotes a group of rapeseed cultivars that were bred to have very low levels of erucic acid and which are especially prized for use as human and animal food. Rapeseed is the third-largest source of vegetable oil and the second-largest source of protein meal in the world.[3][4]

    Brassica napus subsp. napus is the proper name. Everything else is slang and not worth arguing about.

    We call it Sunflower Oil

    We call it Rapeseed Oil

    Not Rape Seed Oil







  • Ohh I see now.

    Yeah 160° is too hot. But people do it. Small tank multiple showers needed. You can stretch it.

    I was saying for people that have their water too hot. The regulator inside the US mixing valve has a stopper so you can’t go to max hot. That’s all the piece inside does, stops you from turning the valve more. Doesn’t help reglate the temperature. Someone in comments said their regulator is bad and I thought it was OP.




  • If you live in the US, then you probably have a standard mixing valve

    If you live elsewhere, it’s probably a thermostatic one

    For US:

    You want to turn your handle all the way hot to clear your hot water lines fast, it’s room temperature in the hot water lines. Once the water is hot, then you start mixing in cold water.

    The first cold water is from the lines in your house. It is heated or cooled by your home, basically room temperature water.

    So say I turn the valve on full hot. Pure hot water is pouring out. Now you add some of that “room temperature cold water” to get to your perfect temperature.

    Now, once you run out of “room temperature cold water,” it will start pulling water from the street.

    I’m guessing you live in a cooler climate area?

    120°F + 70°F = perfect temperature

    But if the outside water becomes, say 50°F after you use all your water stored in your cold water lines

    120°F + 50°F = colder water

    So you have to add less 50°F water, which means slowly creeping your valve up until you have steady temperature water going to the valve.

    Things like the type of water heater matters. If you use a tank then as you use water it adds water. If you keep your tank at 120° and you’re adding 70° cold water or 50° water to the tank matters. You also have “room temperature water” in your cold lines going to your tank at first, then colder water. So that creates another “lag” in temperature

    US standard mixing valves aren’t as nice as a thermostatic valve. They are just cheap and standard and work well enough in most places.

    Thermostatic valves allow you to select, say 100°F water, and the knob just controls the water flow rate. No matter what, the water that comes out of your shower will be 100°F. As the water coming into your house gets colder it will automatically adjust. As the water from your tank gets colder, it will automatically adjust.

    Sounds like your valve is working as intended though


  • Yes, but this wastes water, so if you’re trying to be green, you should be able to open up the valve to full hot.

    Not only does it waste water, your shower will take longer to heat up.

    Also, depending on where you live the perfect temperature changes a lot because of outside temperatures. If you use all the room temperature water in your cold lines then start pulling cold water from the outside. You’re going to have to adjust it. Bigger the house, the more the problem.

    But if you have to dump out your entire hot and cold lines to even begin to step in the shower, that’s a ton of wasted water.

    Answer is a thermostatic valve. It will just use hot water until it needs to mix in cold. If your cold water temperature changes, it will adjust it automatically. You really do pick a temperature to set the valve at, and then the handle just controls the flow rate.

    The regular for a standard mixing valve is there only so you can’t turn the valve to burn you. When people keep their water tanks at 160°F, a full turn to the left would be devastating if you’re standing in it.