Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Having lived in Colorado this is common knowledge there. Pretty common in baking recipes to have high altitude adjustments listed.

Because you're all high all the time

basically

Like i remember this because i am coloradan and i am not high all the time, but mainly some movie with livingstone , the zambezi, and i presume stanley, too. someone was always boiling water to determine the altitude. I was a kid and i was just “huh, boiling point’s a thing.”

also I just visited wiki on livingstone and— holy shit that guy

I know this is going around the internet a lot already, but I didn't know Elizabeth Olsen of Avengers/WandaVision fame was the sister of Mary-Kate and Ashley

At what temperature does water boil in space then?

Well, it's rather difficult to define. Perhaps I'm just projecting my own concern about it. I know I've never completely freed myself of the suspicion that there are some extremely odd things about this question

It's an odd topic!

Indeed!

When we talk about putting liquid water in the vacuum of space, we’re talking about doing both things simultaneously: taking water from a temperature/pressure combination where it’s stably a liquid and moving it to a lower pressure, something that makes it want to boil, and moving it to a lower temperature, something that makes it want to freeze.
You can bring liquid water to space (aboard, say, the international space station) where it can be kept in Earth-like conditions: at a stable temperature and pressure.

But when you put liquid water in space — where it can no longer remain as a liquid — which one of these two things happens? Does it freeze or boil?
The surprising answer is it does both: first it boils and then it freezes! We know this because this is what used to happen when astronauts felt the call of nature while in space. According to the astronauts who’ve seen it for themselves:

When the astronauts take a leak while on a mission and expel the result into space, it boils violently. The vapor then passes immediately into the solid state (a process known as desublimation), and you end up with a cloud of very fine crystals of frozen urine.

There’s a compelling physical reason for this: the high specific heat of water.

It’s incredibly difficult to change the temperature of water rapidly, because even though the temperature gradient is huge between the water and interstellar space, water holds heat incredibly well. Furthermore, because of surface tension, water tends to remain in spherical shapes in space (as you saw above), which actually minimize the amount of surface area it has to exchange heat with its subzero environment. So the freezing process would be incredibly slow, unless there were some way to expose every water molecule individually to the vacuum of space itself.
But there’s no such constraint on the pressure; it’s effectively zero outside of the water, and so the boiling can take place immediately, plunging the water into its gaseous (water vapor) phase!

But when that water boils, remember how much more volume gas takes up than liquid, and how much farther apart the molecules get. This means that immediately after the water boils, this water vapor — now at effectively zero pressure — can cool very rapidly!

Just got the "glass half full/half empty" pessimist/optimist litmus test thing a few weeks ago. I'm a pessimist. I recently celebrated my 37th birthday.

Today I learned some states allow school board members to draw a salary

on a similar theme you should watch the movie Bad Education, it's petty good!

DJP is that in relation to this story:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/california-districts-school-board-resigns-comments-bashing-parents/story?id=76020108

why yes it is

wow those fuckers were getting paid? lord....

I saw some Gizmodo commenters saying "how dare they do this, they should forfeit their salaries" and my reaction as someone who grew up in a state where the school board is a volunteer elected position was "are you high, why do you think they get paid... oh no, wait a second" and I've been flipping back and forth between a state of horror and bemused puzzlement at why I feel so vehemently that school board members shouldn't be paid because I don't have a strong argument beyond "they just shouldn't"

i could see an argument for being paid if it was like "otherwise only rich people will do this" kind of thing? idk.

all work should be paid imo

i could see an argument for being paid if it was like "otherwise only rich people will do this" kind of thing? idk.

Let me talk to you about journalism internships some time...

That Pamelyn Ferdin did the voice of Lucy Van Pelt in some Peanuts specials and a movie.

Who?

She is an actress, known for The Beguiled (1971), Charlotte's Web (1973) and A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969)

well, today I learned who Pamelyn Ferdin is.

She was a pretty busy child actress back in the day.

I remember her from a made-for-TV movie where the catch line in the promos was "Daddy, I hate being dead." After that I noticed her popping up in various things.

Who?

Like for one thing I know there is nothing shocking about me coming across some hitherto unconsumed crumb of television trivia at this late date.

xp Lolololol i love you so much, James Redd and the Blecchs!!

It was only while looking at IMDB last night that I finally realized that the rather hunky and mysteriously familiar looking Michael B Jordan who was Erik Killmonger in Black Panther, is familiar looking because he’s somehow the same person who played gangly little Wallace in early seasons of The Wire.

JUst had teh post I made about the black take on teh Meet me At McDonald'#s haircut i made after seeing the fillm repaear on FB a couple of days ago.
Did strike me at teh time that the same people wearing taht haircut 3 years ago would have been exactly the same people bullying those who were wearing it when it was first appearing in the early 80s. the white version of the do anyway, tended to denote one was playing in an indie band and may be slightly more enlightened in one's attitudes to homosexuality and things.

https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/590x/haircut-924718.jpg
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/529b67dfe4b06bb4b8f64fcc/1518492451848-SDZ2A6P9KT6JHMT9URB1/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kGFVPdioKLjvLPyZtExePgsUqsxRUqqbr1mOJYKfIPR7LoDQ9mXPOjoJoqy81S2I8N_N4V1vUb5AoIIIbLZhVYxCRW4BPu10St3TBAUQYVKcKdjJv59OPFora4UgArJqnTmVKBRn7Np-K9bZIgaTQmUCaRAT4KyiScmnuuGfS8_r/blackpantherhaircut1.jpg

Kim, I think the only reason I knew about Jordan was because he played Oscar Grant in Fruitvale Station, and I recognized his face immediately.

A few days late to this discussion, but watching a friend of mine on the school board work 20-35 hours a week on school board stuff makes me reconsider that they do indeed deserve to be paid. It's been eye opening, to say the least. Obviously a lot of it is intensified because of the pandemic and changing requirements/logistics on an almost weekly basis, but I've learned that it's not just a meeting every month and that's it.

I mean we had an outdoor dinner with them before it got cold out and she took no less than three board related calls between 7:00 and 9:00 on a Friday night. It basically is a full-time job and hats off to anyone willing to take on that burden for free, I guess.

2/3rds of LFO died, one of leukemia, another of cancer

(LFO aka Lyte Funky Ones, the American band)

1/2 (-to-all) of the real LFO died too, of "complications after an operation"

Whoa @ grim LFO news

Pop stars just don't last as long anymore. A bunch of old-ass bands have most if not all of their members still alive + kicking but I've been listening to early '90s pop this week and remembering that half of Milli Vanilli, Kris Kross, and PM Dawn are all gone.

Set Adrift on Memory RIP

A grim one for the "bands with no original members" file. Before Prince Be died, his brother DJ Minutemix was fired for repeated sexual misconduct (a mere ten years after being arrested for fucking his 14-year-old cousin), and replaced by a (different, male) cousin. After Prince Be was incapacitated by a series of strokes and had a gangrenous leg amputated, the cousin Doc G continued to perform his own material live as PM Dawn. In 2018, two years after Prince Be died of diabetic renal failure, Doc G added a new rapper, who had @-ed him on twitter to say "sorry Prince Be died, check out my studio."

New dude is called K-R.O.K. (Kings Respect Other Kings).

Lyte Funky Ones

Late Funky Ones, now :-(

KIss having a different logo in Germany to avoid the ironic Sigel SS. So the parts of teh S are more horizontal . Just foun dout thsi week.
Or is taht actually a coincidence initially, cos i thought that was intentional but seems a little unthinking if the idea that the SS didn't look exactly like the military group's insignia. Utterly tasteless if one's family history is Jewish, but who wanted taste from these shock rockers?
aargh.
Anyway looks different in Germany anyway.

^^^ This made me look up more info on Gene Simmons (birth name: Chaim Witz) and I found this on his Wikipedia page:

1989, Simmons managed the recording side of Liza Minnelli's entry into mainstream pop.

original version of the song was "Chaim with a C, not Haim with an H"

Can I just say I’m deeply aggravated by the Wikipedia house style of making sure the birth names of Jewish public figures known professionally as something else appear in the first paragraph of the article? Honestly smacks of (((this bullshit)))

tbf it's not just Jewish figures, I've seen it on tons of famous figure AKAs - it either born X or known professionally as Y

see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Hudson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_(singer)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_Keys

I think it’s scuzzy to do it for everyone else too but I’m less sensitive about it obviously

Who the hell needs to know Alicia Keys’ government name in the first sentence?