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Life isn't zero sum. If you look at the state of civilization now vs 2000 years ago, it's clear that we've played enough positive-sum activities to create much more wealth for the …

I went to the trouble of finding monthly egg production totals for the US based on "NASS quick stats." https://quickstats.nass.usda.gov/results/80AF9DAE-99AE-31D0-... Hopefully yal…

Much of the rise in prices has occurred in January and February. Seems likely to me that culling has continued due to bird flu and production has dropped. I would also guess that d…

At a previous job we manufactured fairly large trailer-mounted generators. During design engineering testing, you would want to power a load with the generator to check performance…

Any inventory warehouse can choose how much inventory to stock. If it maintains, say, 1 month of monthly demand instead of 3 months, it is more likely to run out of inventory durin…

In the USA the EPA will fine you for intentionally venting refrigerants to the atmosphere instead of using a refrigerant recovery system for recovery/reuse/disposal. Pretty good re…

I think that when people are jealous of others, they cloak this motivation. To give an example with interpersonal relationships- never in my adult life have I encountered an adult …

CAFE standards were written in such a way as to encourage large vehicle footprints to work around the requirements of the standards. Motorcycling youtuber fortnine offers a good vi…

Mechanical engineer here- In the video clip at the top of the article, the carrot is placed at the location closest to the window. Given the location of the hinge for the closing m…