I have no idea how people with multiple animals can keep their houses clean. I struggle with regular dust and my own mess…

In my experience, releasing the clutch without adding throttle will only get you moving in a diesel car.

Gasoline engines will stall much faster, which is part of the reason learning vehicles are all diesel.

Keep at it.

Nothing really to it, you just need time and lots of practice to build up the “muscle memory” for it, until it becomes little more than a reflex.

They’re kinda giving me more of a twice widowed vibe. Those birds have been to some funerals.

It said the White House had conflated that incident with a “completely separate” report by BBC Verify, the corporation’s factchecking team, which found a viral video posted on social media was not linked to the aid distribution centre it claimed to show. “This video did not run on BBC news channels and had not informed our reporting,” it said. “Conflating these two stories is simply misleading.”

BBC is misunderstanding this. They didn’t conflate the two separate things intentionally.

I fully believe they did it out of sheer incompetence and ignorance, and when they realised the mistake, they did what they always do and doubled down on it. The dimwits who elect them will get confused otherwise.

Ok so my understanding is that NaCl, and other salts, are bound together by ionic bonds.

In these bonds, one element typically gives up an electron completely to the other, as opposed to covalent bonds for example, where the electron (or electrons) are actually “shared” between the atoms.

So here, sodium is happy to give up its electron and live its life as Na+, while chlorine will gladly take it and become Cl-.

Since they now are oppositely charged, they kinda stick to each other because of electrostatic attraction, but not like the atoms in a molecule would.

While I do like the principle, in this specific instance I don’t think it’s correct.

When sodium reacts with water it doesn’t produce salt (NaCl), but sodium hydroxide (NaOH).

This is better known as lye, and it’s a strong base and highly caustic, so definitely not a safe compound.

Edit: the other product of this reaction is hydrogen gas, which technically is stable, but also highly flammable…

Really cool way of picturing an IP dataframe!

Like if you’re dropping it at a post office and praying it’ll get to where you need it to, which makes it rather remarkable that it actually does get there.