Faraday Constant Puns

The quote in the title is from an article regarding Avogadro's number and how it was found. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-was-avogadros-number/

How could they have known what a mole of electrons' charge is if they didn't have the accurate measure of a mole to begin with?

I am just wondering about the origin of the constant and how to recreate it.

Via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_constant,

> The Simpsons episode "Dark Knight Court" (RABF10) has Mr. Burns asking Comic Book Guy how much he wants for his entire comic book inventory. He says "the speed of light expressed as dollars" and Mr. Burns says to Smithers, "give him Faraday's Constant." The check is written for $96,485.34.

How brilliant is this joke? Can "the speed of light expressed as dollars" be interpreted as Faraday's constant somehow?

I don't know enough Physics to find a connection. One simplifying assumption is that a dollar bill weighs 1 gram.

Part one: The only reason Faraday didn’t always remember his 1996 encounter with Desmond is because his memory is faulty, as we see when he is trying to perform the card memory exercise with Charlotte. At the end of the episode when he sees that he had written in his notebook “Desmond Hume is my constant” that’s when he has the epiphany, that he had known Desmond and just didn’t remember it. If Faraday’s memory had been functioning properly then as soon as he got to the island, he would have been thinking, where’s desmond, the guy I met in 1996, or something like that, instead of the events being a surprise to him.

Part two: For the intervening eight years, Desmond doesn’t remember the events of 1996 where he meets Faraday or makes his request of Penny, because one of the effects of becoming unstuck in time is that when your consciousness goes back in time, you are in a sort of fugue state, and don’t remember those events at the time afterwards. In other words, by the next day in 1996, Desmond has forgotten that he met Faraday and Penny, and just returns to his military base thinking I must have gotten really drunk the other day because I don’t remember any of it.

I think something like the above is necessary to maintain the “whatever happened, happened” rule for time travel. Thoughts?

“You’re telling me that things my fucking clone?” I asked, almost forgetting I'd watched Eli murder-suicide himself moments earlier.

Eli nodded, then tugged the restraints binding my counterparts’ arms above his head. The other me screamed into the duct tape encasing his jaw.

“How?” I asked. “I mean...what?”

“It’s Carl Watson. He’s been workin’ for them all along. I shoulda seen this coming.” Eli pummelled the wall. “Stupid, stupid, stupid. That’s why the electrics went haywire before, Carl siphoned energy from the grid to power his clonin' device.”

Okay. Things had officially gone too far. Either I was in the middle of an intense fever dream, or I'd picked up a concussion during the tremor. Even though it seemed likely I’d wake up in the back of an ambulance at any moment, on the remote chance the tied-up individual who liked exactly like me was actually real, I didn’t wanna become an accomplice to kidnapping and torture.

I started on his restraints. “We’ve gotta let this guy go.”

When Eli realized what I was doing, he pinned me up against the wall while the other me screamed.

“If you untie that clone it’ll kill us both,” Eli said, his voice laced with a sudden warning.

“Eli, it’s not a clone. It’s a...someone.”

Eli pressed his forearm into my throat. “Don’t turn traitor on me Austin. I need to know I can trust you or we’re both fucked.”

“Okay, okay,” I rasped, my voice two tones higher than usual. “You’re right.”

He let go.

I had a huge problem: real or not, this Eli was just as unhinged as the last, and my only option was to play along. “So, what’s the plan?” I rasped.

“We roll up on Carl and blow the device.”

This sounded like a perfect opportunity to get rid of Eli. “Okay. But I’ll need a weapon.”

His demeanor became that of a child on Christmas morning. “I’ve got a whole arsenal in the kitchen. You stay here, keep an eye on him, I'll go get you a rifle.”

I gave a thumbs-up, still breathing heavily, as he practically skipped out the door.

The moment Eli left, I got to work on my doppelganger’s restraints. “Look, I don’t understand what's going on, but I’m gonna get you out of here. Just stay quiet, okay?”

He nodded enthusiastically.

Since there seemed to be an entire roll of duct tape around his mouth, I focused solely on his restraints, then said, “Okay, let’s go.”

In the garage, other me grabbed a shovel off the wall and brought

I've read through a lot of threads that go something like this:

User - "I'm getting constant login attemptes from random IP's trying to login to admin account."

Reponse - "OMG you are such an idiot; remove your box from the Internet immediately and put it in a Faraday cage in a locked vault, buy a second one and put it in the ground, and still pay for a backup service because SECURITY."

I never seem to find anything beyond that, so I'm trying another one.

I use my QNAP for:

1. media storage, INCLUDING auto-backups from my phone and my wife's phone automatically via Qfile and viewing/streaming using Qmusic and Qvideo.
2. my own private VPN server via OpenVPN, so I can log in from around the world to various sites with my desktop IP and avoid the "lights and sirens"/secuity checks when logging in from an "unknown device."
3. Run a web server for my personal website.

Note I don't have a static IP address, so I use myQnapcloud, too.

I have already:

1. Disabled my admin account and created a different account with a hard to guess username/password.
2. Updated all apps and firmware.
3. Disabled various unused services.
4. Created individual logins for access to only the resources they need/none of my user-level logins have admin rights and they all have discrete folders for write/read access.
5. Banned some IP's that keep trying to log in to the disabled admin account.

How can I maintain the use cases I have for the box, yet secure it further against the near constant failed admin account login attempts? I tried QuFirewall but I travel internationally quite a bit and don't want to have to remembe to allow logins from X country every time.

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Who is the primary contact for the shuttle services (not the night shuttle but the ones that run during week day hours)? Now that it is winter the temperatures are getting ridiculously cold and there’s supposed to be a -20 wind chill in Worcester Saturday. There are no shuttle services to campus for anyone is is living “on campus” (townhouses, faraday, hampton inn etc.) who are far away on the weekends. It’s already bad enough we have to live so far away but now we are forced to be outside in these ridiculous temperatures to even go and eat meals? I understand we don’t need constant service like the weekdays but there should definitely be a service earlier than when the snap shuttle begins at night. Seems a little bit unsafe if you ask me.

AN : I've started using italics for thoughts and accentuating words to see if it looks better to read. Any feed back would be appreciated.

WIKI

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Leo

Leo awoke the next day with a knot twisting around in his stomach. Thorin had told him that most of Elaria’s emotions were backed up and would hit her hard when she awoke, but the enraged outburst was the opposite reaction that he was expecting. He thought that she would break down again from her suppressed memories, but the anger somehow made it worse.

Leo scowled as he recalled the person Elaria was directing all that rage toward, and that before it was all fear and hesitation when it came to that part of her life. ‘Vicondreas...’

From pointing out Leo’s power the moment they met, to having and being able to use a seriously advanced enchanted item like the book, Vicondreas was a question mark that Leo was not comfortable with in the slightest. The man’s actions and persona made him a walking comic book villain, with the backstory to boot. And after what he did to Elaria, Leo would be taking a kill on sight approach the next time he saw him.

Seeing as how multiple lines have already been crossed, with his sympathy meter tapping out after last night, Leo came to a decision. ‘I may not want to go on a killing spree, but if all the Venomara are like that, then getting rid of the problem now would be wise.’ He thought darkly.

This was the second time he was caught off guard and it nearly cost him dearly, but this time it was because someone was taking him seriously enough to go for his loved ones to get to him. 'I didn't want guns outside of Telnar until its defenses were up, but I'm going to make an exception for whoever I take with me. I can't reliably be around for every moment… Though Vicondreas may just be his own can of fucked….'

Leo remained in bed until Elaria awoke, causing Allis to stir as well. “You alright?” He asked when she remained silent for a few minutes, not once looking him in the eyes.

Elaria visibly held back her tears, but the scowl fixed to her face communicated that they were from a deep seeded rage. “....I remember what I was like before he fucked with my head. What happened with my mother. How I was going to leave because I couldn't do what the rest of the

i just finished watching the constant and the scene where desmond changes the outcome of the future, even though its explicitly stated in the show that the future can’t be changed, got me thinking about interstellar, for those of you who have watched it, when dr brand says “maybe [love] means more - something we can’t understand […] Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends time and space.” i realize that interstellar was more about time relativity than actual time travel but for some reason i made the connection. I know im probably just grasping at straws here but you know i just thought it was worth mentioning.

Do your worst!

First off, Karl Marx was not a real economist. His work basically amounts to a bunch of demagogueries where he points fingers at everyone and blames them for things not being the perfect utopia everyone dreams of. Never mind that he never worked a day in his life and had zero real-world experience to inform him of the realities of business. What Karl Marx called “capitalism” was in fact mercantilism, a pathologically bad economic ideology which even at the time of Marx’s writing had already been thoroughly criticized by the likes of Adam Smith and Frederic Bastiat. However, since Marx was not an economist he made no distinction between mercantilism and the economics described by Smith et al, instead of lumping everything together and making the absurd moral statement that business owners are evil, greedy thieves who steal the productivity from their employees.

Secondly, communism and socialism do not work in practice. At all. There are three major reasons for this. The economic calculation problem, which is a complex subject that I will not cover here. Suffice it to say that an economy is an ecosystem and not a hierarchy. Incentives. When everyone is paid the same no matter what they do or how good a job they do, nobody wants to work at all so they do as little as possible and make no effort to correct mistakes. Governments are incapable of producing anything because governments are funded by the economy and without the economy, a government is nothing more than a bunch of armed thugs. When you take those three things together, it is absolutely no surprise that communist/socialist countries always suffer from empty grocery store shelves, hyperinflation, and are dominated by firing squads and gulags.JBP pretty much summed it up well. Humanity is not a constant struggle between two entities (Bourgeoisie and proletariat).

Thirdly, If you read the Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels call upon all the workers of the world to unite and kill all rich people so as to seize their wealth. There are no two ways about it, Communism is an evil doctrine. That’s why I’m so frustrated with the argument that Communism “sounds great in theory but doesn’t work in practice” because it stinks of apologia for supporters of an ideology that everyone with sound moral sense should oppose. The whole 'communism is good in theory' particularly irks me and even a lot of critics of communism parrot it. No. It is all about envy, taking from others, and controlling ho

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

"Clowns? I'm a mime, dumbass."

>"Yeah, I mime. No, Mr Mime is not my favorite Pokémon. It’s Falinks. Fuck off.”

• Half-blood- and non-half-blood-related conundrums: ADHD, Dyslexia, Lactose Intolerance, Peanut Allergy

They were cooked in Greece.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

AN : Made a general MAP for this chapter, just an overview of the territories for the major races, hope it looks good.

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Allis

Allis woke up to find herself coiled around her sheets, which made her let out an irritated huff when she wished it was Leo. She knew that she was drawing out her anger with what he did a little too much, especially after he apologized, but she wasn't going to let him off the hook as easily as Elaria did.

Allis frowned as she coiled a little tighter around the sheets. "Even if I do miss cuddling…" She muttered a little dejectedly.

After getting ready, Allis left her room and saw that Leo was waiting in front of her door. He was floating hundreds of beautifully colored flowers, while holding two trays of food. The flowers were flowing around in a hypnotic rainbow above his head while he balanced both very large trays on each hand.

The gesture set Allis's heart into a flutter, but she wasn't going to make it that easy for him. She tilted her head up and slithered a few feet down the hall, before stopping to glance back at the crestfallen man.

She smirked at the sight, but felt just a tad bit of pity. "Are you coming?" She called expectantly, and he immediately perked up to follow her to the dining hall.

'Oh yes, I'm definitely going to make him work for it.' She thought a little smugly.

Walking into the hall, they saw that everyone was already enjoying a meal at the table. Allis took a seat as Leo placed her tray in front of her, a simple egg and cheese sausage platter with hash browns on the side, and a tall glass of orange juice.

Allis turned to Leo with a questioning stare, because eggs were definitely not in Kesl's provisions. "Leo, what about the food on the ship?" She asked with a tinge of concern, not wanting to be poisoned if she could help it.

Leo shrugged as he sat down to begin eating. "Got up very early, went to the kitchen and cooked it all myself. Plus, even if I didn't, I don't think her majesty would like a very pissed off dragon showing up to find all three of her loved ones dead." He ended as he casually took a bite of his food.

Turning to the queen, Allis saw her eating the same breakfast. "Your grace, aren't you concerned that ‘we’ may have poisone

Hi everyone, I’m a biomed doctor-wannabe who has recently completed the September 2021 GAMSAT and scored a 76 weighed (98th percentile) and 73 unweighed (65/67/86). I would like to share some experiences on how to do well on the gammie (especially on S3). At first glance, the gammie may look super scary, I mean, who isn’t intimidated by a 4.5 hr exam? However, you might be surprised at how minor changes in test-taking routines/strategies can make your life a million times easier.

On the day of the GAMSAT: Believe it or not, sitting the September GAMSAT during Melbourne lockdown 6.0 has certain advantages. For starters, S3 is sat on a different day to sections 1 and 2 (which are on the same day), ensuring that you are refreshed by the time you start it. However, you presumably won't have this luxury in March 2022, but you can still replicate it as much as possible. I sat a full length GAMSAT back in March 2021 and I can assure you that your brain will be fried by the time S3 begins. To remedy this, you must first stay hydrated (but you should also avoid going to the bathroom, my hack is to drink in little sips frequently as opposed to huge gulps at a time, you learn in physiology units that huge decreases in plasma osmolarity due to drinking lots of water will cause your body to break down circulating vasopressin, the hormone that prevents peeing). During the lunch break, eat a muesli bar which will both absorb the extra water that’s likely to steal a few minutes from you in a bathroom break and provide you with enough low-GI energy to power through S3 without a sugar crash. DO NOT under any circumstances eat a full meal during lunch break, you will feel drowsy right afterwards. If you want caffeine boosts, I found green tea to be a more sustainable source than coffee (no infamous coffee caffeine crash), but YMMV.

S1: My score was pretty average so I don’t have much to say about it. Please be aware that S1 requires fast reading skills and the ability to distinguish nuances between words. There's an element of luck to it because the options they give you for each question might be really nice or too similar to each other for you to distinguish. Although for certain questions they direct you to look at a specific line, you often need to view the preceding paragraphs in order for your answer to make sense in context (many distractor options would’ve been otherwise correct except they don’t suit the text’s context). You may think that S1 is reading comprehen

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

We get to watch two of our favorite characters going on an adventure and understanding so much about each other!

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

Preface: For those reading this, know that this entire scenario really happened. As rare as completing a campaign actually is, this one ran for thirteen months, on a weekly basis. I was inspired to chronicle the story after reading other tales of RPGs, and, kept a word document spanning the length of the game’s run, which grew to be 107 pages in length (including NPC backgrounds, story threads which never came to be, combat notes, and individual pieces of information given to characters over the course of the game. From these notes, I have compiled my summation. This is a VERY LONG story, with this post serving as the first of three installments. This is also my first time posting a story, so, if I've made a breach of etiquette in any way, let me know!

In May of 2020, I reached out to a group of friends, offering to run a Discord one-shot for the White Wolf game, Vampire: The Masquerade (20th Anniversary Edition). This is a game I’d run a short campaign for previously, though not with all of the same players. Wanting to lean hard into the gothic-punk horror-vibe of the Vampire line, I told the players that the game would be set in Los Angeles, beginning on the same starting date as the actual game was being played, with one exception. I chose the year 1981, instead of placing the mission in the true modern-day. This setting allowed for players to build characters as either Sabbat or Camarilla (with Los Angeles being an Anarch city ruled by clan barons, rather than a Prince or Bishop).

The conditions I set for the game were as follows:

1. Each player would have to choose one of the existing clans from the game-line. No Caitiff were allowed, as I wanted to make the clan weaknesses a more active part of the mission.

2. Each player was given 200 experience to flesh out their character beyond starting builds. As this was intended to be a single mission, not a campaign, my intention was that players would be able to really play the characters they so often worked toward, but never fully realized. As a veteran of twenty years playing various role-playing games, I’d seen firsthand the collapse of countless stories for as many reasons, and, wanted players to be able to play a character without the concern for unlocking future abilities. This decision became the fulcrum around which the entire campaign developed, but, we’ll get to that.

3. No character could be more than two-hundred years old at mission-start.

4. All V20 material was accessible for building a

They’re on standbi

BamBOO!

Pilot on me!!

Christopher Walken

A play on words.