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This one made me scratch my head. There is this guy who decides he's a woman so he transitions. Then they decide to get married. So they marry...a woman. 
IDK if their spouse is a lesbian or not but WTF? I know that many of us like the same stuff that lesbians do but did he need to become a woman so that he could get a woman? |
Yeah, I never understand that sort of thing either. Or a man becomes a woman and then marries a man which I guess seems more normal, but couldn't he have just been gay? I'm not going to pretend to understand these things. I suspect some are biochemical, and I suspect some are psychological. I'm not judging or damning. Hopefully, they find peace/happiness.
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Originally Posted by flatbutt
MacKenzie Scott married really well and divorced even better. Imagine being able to give away $billions and still have many more billions in hand.
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No idea who MacKenzie is, but anything that involves "billions" is a problem that I'd be willing to try to tackle.
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Originally Posted by flatbutt
Did you know...
For physicists, a jiffy is how long light takes to travel a distance of one femtometre, which is a millionth of a millionth of a millimetre. That means that there are about three hundred thousand billion billion jiffys in a second. A jiffy also has an electrical meaning. It is the length of a single cycle of alternating current. In the UK’s 50Hz system, a jiffy is thus one-fiftieth of a second.
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Interesting!
It's all about calculus!
You have position.
Then you have the rate of change of position which is velocity and also the first derivative of the position equation.
Acceleration is the derivative of the velocity equation or the second derivative of position. Acceleration is the rate of change of velocity. Possibly other than the calculus/derivative angle, I think most folks are probably good up to there.
But it keeps going!
The next derivative (3rd derivative of position), which gives us rate of change of acceleration is called "jerk".
That's interesting, but it gets even better!
The 4th, 5th, and 6th derivatives of position give us rates of change. The units for those are snap, crackle (or jounce), and, you guessed it, pop!
And, if you get that far, the 7th and 8th derivatives are sometimes called "lock" and "drop" which I may have heard at some point, but had forgotten. (I assume those are rarely called that, but then, my guess is that those are pretty rarely anywhere in the picture. But maybe I'm wrong about that.
What I definitely didn't know is that the integral of position is "absement" or absition. Which means that position is the rate of change of absement. "One meter-second corresponds to being absent from an origin or other reference point for a duration of one second." "absement" is the combination of "absent" and "displacement," and I assume absition is from absent and position.
I've always loved physics and calculus.