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  • Rapeseed (Brassica napus subsp. napus), also known as rape and oilseed rape and canola, is a bright-yellow flowering member of the family Brassicaceae (mustard or cabbage family), cultivated mainly for its oil-rich seed, which naturally contains appreciable amounts of mildly toxic erucic acid.[2] The term “canola” denotes a group of rapeseed cultivars that were bred to have very low levels of erucic acid and which are especially prized for use as human and animal food. Rapeseed is the third-largest source of vegetable oil and the second-largest source of protein meal in the world.[3][4]

    Brassica napus subsp. napus is the proper name. Everything else is slang and not worth arguing about.

    We call it Sunflower Oil

    We call it Rapeseed Oil

    Not Rape Seed Oil





  • This is part of common core math

    Making Tens (and Hundreds): Composing and decomposing: Students learn to break down numbers to make friendly numbers like 10 or 100, which are easier to add. Example: To add 8 + 5, they might see that 8 needs 2 to make 10. They could take 2 from the 5, leaving 3. Then, they add 8 + 2 = 10, and 10 + 3 = 13.

    They are teaching new students this




  • Let’s say the gas station worker makes $15 an hour

    Let’s say gas is $3 per gallon

    That means if the gas station worker wasn’t there the gas station could give away 5 gallons of gas for free per hour and still make the same profit.

    Which is better for the whole society? One person making $15 an hour doing a task that 49 other states have no problem doing themselves. Or 1 person from the community getting 5 free gallons of gas every hour?

    If you never stop paying that person $15 an hour, you can never move on to better things.


  • Broken window fallacy

    Destroying people’s ability to pump their gas then “fixing” it with a job program.

    Might as well let people pump their gas and then give the “workers” money and time. Consumers would pay the same and the “workers” still get the same money but extra time to hopefully better themselves rather than being stuck pumping gas for 8 hours a day.

    “Creating jobs” only works when the jobs are needed for the society.

    Creating a job just to justify paying someone is absurd.






  • I’m not trying to disprove you or anything, I know it’s not your paradox. Apologies that it came off that way.

    But like a tiny flake of space dust is enough to eclipse a sun for us a near infinite distance away. Matter is not going to let light through it. Even if some space dust thermalizes and radiates. The chances something like an asteroid, planet, moon, etc. Is high. Space seems mostly void, but an infinite amount of mostly void is still a lot of stuff.

    I’ll check then out!


  • Can’t we see stars that do not show up in the night sky? Like that spot looks dark to the naked eye, with a hobby telescope it looks dark, but with a space probe telescope you can see a distant star is there?

    You discounted space dust. But there has to be a near infinite amount of asteroids out there. If I wanted to see 1m lightyears into a specific spot, like the odds of not hitting an astroid would be pretty hard.

    Like if you had a Lite Brite globe with each Lite Brite peg representing a sun. In the middle of the globe it would be completely lit up. However, if you started throwing around astroids around inside the globe, you’d start blocking pegs. Suns, pegs, are still behind the astroid. It’s just blocking the light. A tiny astroid could cast a huge shadow. Even tiny space dust.


  • Ohh I see now.

    Yeah 160° is too hot. But people do it. Small tank multiple showers needed. You can stretch it.

    I was saying for people that have their water too hot. The regulator inside the US mixing valve has a stopper so you can’t go to max hot. That’s all the piece inside does, stops you from turning the valve more. Doesn’t help reglate the temperature. Someone in comments said their regulator is bad and I thought it was OP.




  • If you live in the US, then you probably have a standard mixing valve

    If you live elsewhere, it’s probably a thermostatic one

    For US:

    You want to turn your handle all the way hot to clear your hot water lines fast, it’s room temperature in the hot water lines. Once the water is hot, then you start mixing in cold water.

    The first cold water is from the lines in your house. It is heated or cooled by your home, basically room temperature water.

    So say I turn the valve on full hot. Pure hot water is pouring out. Now you add some of that “room temperature cold water” to get to your perfect temperature.

    Now, once you run out of “room temperature cold water,” it will start pulling water from the street.

    I’m guessing you live in a cooler climate area?

    120°F + 70°F = perfect temperature

    But if the outside water becomes, say 50°F after you use all your water stored in your cold water lines

    120°F + 50°F = colder water

    So you have to add less 50°F water, which means slowly creeping your valve up until you have steady temperature water going to the valve.

    Things like the type of water heater matters. If you use a tank then as you use water it adds water. If you keep your tank at 120° and you’re adding 70° cold water or 50° water to the tank matters. You also have “room temperature water” in your cold lines going to your tank at first, then colder water. So that creates another “lag” in temperature

    US standard mixing valves aren’t as nice as a thermostatic valve. They are just cheap and standard and work well enough in most places.

    Thermostatic valves allow you to select, say 100°F water, and the knob just controls the water flow rate. No matter what, the water that comes out of your shower will be 100°F. As the water coming into your house gets colder it will automatically adjust. As the water from your tank gets colder, it will automatically adjust.

    Sounds like your valve is working as intended though


  • Yes, but this wastes water, so if you’re trying to be green, you should be able to open up the valve to full hot.

    Not only does it waste water, your shower will take longer to heat up.

    Also, depending on where you live the perfect temperature changes a lot because of outside temperatures. If you use all the room temperature water in your cold lines then start pulling cold water from the outside. You’re going to have to adjust it. Bigger the house, the more the problem.

    But if you have to dump out your entire hot and cold lines to even begin to step in the shower, that’s a ton of wasted water.

    Answer is a thermostatic valve. It will just use hot water until it needs to mix in cold. If your cold water temperature changes, it will adjust it automatically. You really do pick a temperature to set the valve at, and then the handle just controls the flow rate.

    The regular for a standard mixing valve is there only so you can’t turn the valve to burn you. When people keep their water tanks at 160°F, a full turn to the left would be devastating if you’re standing in it.