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Here's Gemini's response, for what it's worth: 'You should pull the door. Since the word "push" is written in mirror writing, it's intended to be read from the other side of the do…

I subscribe to both those subs, and the signal:noise ratio is very bad. It's pretty obvious that there's a substantial amount of posts from people who have neither lived in nor tra…

It's over 20 years old, it launched in 1996. Time flies.

Out of curiosity, why is this not a good precedent? Were the results bad, or because it's Portland?

I've got to thank you for this suggestion. I read this maybe 20 years ago in middle school, the concept stuck with me ("everything is oriented to this big box in the largest room, …

The Bill of Rights was also written in an era without systematic government ID or national police system, when you could live or travel in near perfect anonymity if you just left t…

Something I've wondered recently: in the past 10-15 years, how many functioning democracies have fallen apart vs been created? I'm fairly ignorant about this, so please correct me …

Fort Sumter isn't really a major site (it's got a lot of name recognition, but not much happened there compared to other places). Antietam is one - the bloodiest day in American hi…

Google Docs did this for a specific reason. Browsers restrict access to the clipboard on general user actions (like click, right click, etc). On the other hand, if you use ctrl+C o…

The article literally has a chart showing that the current candidates are all speaking at a higher level, and that the remaining candidates, Democrat and Republican, are speaking a…

Apparently 1920 CPUs and 280 GPUs according to The Economist.

Google, should they win, is donating their money to Go charities, STEM education and UNICEF. So they're doing what you want them to (I can't find a summary of how they're allocatin…

Profession is literally 'a paid occupation' and homemakers aren't paid - so homemaking would be an occupation but not a profession. Furthermore, as the parent mentioned, there aren…

I'm no engineer, but I'll take a crack at it: * Both axes of the chart are inaccurate. The temperature on the X axis intermingles ambient and O-ring temperature, but they're not th…

I thought the rebuttal was very well written, if a bit dense. For (1), you're correct that the engineers did not have the historical data. More than that, though, it did occur to t…

You can simply drive to the rim. The entire path around the rim is paved and handicap-accessible. You can take a mule into the canyon. It's difficult to get to only in the sense th…