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It will have an effect on our population to have an additional 0.15% of Americans die in a year, especially in an event that affects countries more or less the same way

Not a localized famine or war, but a global thing.

What can it compare to? The number of dead is remarkable.

With the growing antivax movement making herd immunity less certain...this will surely be known for the number of our dead

Similarly Oppenheimer, of the Manhattan project

He thought assuming that leading J made him seem more posh and WASPy

It's does absorb the field and change its shape.

Not very extensively, but such is life.

I mean on first pass you can just compare the number of votes to voters

Grave ballots would require new/additional votes. That would sure the expected ballot returns.

There are a ton of ways to verify elections statistically that you could read into

If it were me, I'd probably have the camera fly down to between the two terminal ends (don't cut, so the viewer understands what's happening). Then, turn from one terminal and shoe the rotation with an arrow, then rotate and turn to the other and do the same. Maybe mention that they're mirror images, so the rotation coincides.

Obviously not a dictate, but if I were trying to explain it to my chemistry freshmen that is how I would do initially.

It might be useful to seek out some non-expert boards that help undergrads in physical science or engineering to see what they think!

Good luck! I'll bookmark your stuff and ref it to some EE people.

Yeah, I understand that they are mirror images of one another and their rotation ends up being complimentary

But if someone is at a very introductory level and doesn't know anything about rotational symmetry, the point that the terminal ends are rotating opposite directions may be confusing.

The transparency of the render models might lead to someone hearing that point about opposing rotations, stare at those rotating terminal ends, and then have something like the rotating mask illusion (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sKa0eaKsdA0) cause them to see that the terminal ends are visually rotating in opposite directions, rather than it being just in relative terms. I was able to do this on purpose with the faster-rotating negative terminal, and its rotation is genuinely kind of ambiguous at the scale I watched the video.

These aren't criticisms of the method, just a couple of points about the video that might pose some conflict with someone who is at a very introductory level.

I do like the idea generally. It's always fun to see new analogies for stuff.

I feel like the hydrogen atom model (the rendering model) is ambiguous, which makes the rotation ambiguous

Also, I feel like you have to have a good grasp of symmetry and rotation to grasp the thought that they rotating in different directions - the top part of the thing, closest to the viewer, is going right for both of them. Why is that counter or clockwise? Thank God I took quantum chemistry and think I know what they're going for.

It wasn't exactly sure randomness. I was registering for some band forum as an edgy teen and he was on CNN stroking Strom Thurmond's ego

It's wierd enough that any old niche forum friends I've lost touch with would recognize it...and I can't imagine anybody else would use it coincidentally. He's been a non-figure for years and years

Your curiosity demands more upvotes than I've got!

Isn't it unfair to allow some companies to profit on student loans when others were more prudent and didn't lend to 18 year olds?

All finance is done, of course, with pure equality!

The people who didn't take student loans haven't had to live with them. They had more years working, with better pay, and without loan interest - they got nothing for their decision! Certainly not a piece of paper that entitles the holder to work in a job unrelated to their studies and without any useful pay bump.

Quickly and easily design and make a GUI program with n real training?

VB6 got me into programming as a kid.

I mostly use python for stats stuff. I sorta understand how to run up a GUI using tkinter, but it seems like a huge pain in the ass.

I'm sure Visual Studio offers the ability to do whatever VB6 could with a GUI, but it isn't obvious how to get there.

VB6 was one nice thing - build 'a program' as you understand them in Windows. Why the fuck is it so hard nowadays? VS isn't intuitive - it's a firehouse of information and I feel like you need training to use it. That is a bummer.

I just want to Lego-assemble a cute GUI-based program that I can make into a binary and email my wife to use. But I need to dedicate 70GB and two weeks of study to get there, I guess.

It would be interesting if a delivery service curated a customer list in the same way that housekeepers do

People eat carryout often - sometimes every meal/dinner. Just pitch the service as "call Ma for dinner" or somesuch