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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





  • Insulation on the dishwasher is mostly for noise and stopping moisture or heat from damaging surrounding cabinets.

    The dishwasher is using new water or heating water. It is not designed to keep the same water hot for an hour plus.

    The whole back of the dishwasher is a tiny piece of plastic. Not insulated at all. Some fancy ones now put a little insulation on back.

    But the idea isn’t to keep heat trapped to wash dishes, but to keep heat from being released and damaging things.



  • Funny thing is cars still use right and left (atleast in US) often. Somethings driver vs passenger side. Driver vs passenger doesn’t work everywhere for every car in the world like it does with boats.

    What also might be funny is driver vs passenger could be seen like port and starboard in the future if we get self driving cars. There would be no designated driver side of a car, and every side is a passenger. Just like boats nowadays can port on either side because there are no steering oars needed.





  • You can’t check for back feeding.

    Cable coming from house to pole has no power. Electrician goes to hook up wire. Homeowner puts on generator. Electrician gets electrocuted.

    Yes the testing and hooking up could be a small window of time but a fraction of a second after testing is all it takes.



  • Space isn’t really a vacuum

    Wait what?

    Space is a vacuum.

    Could argue it’s not a perfect vacuum. We haven’t created a perfect vacuum on Earth but we have come close.

    If I have a container and remove all the air inside. I have created a vacuum. Not a perfect one, but a simple vacuum.

    If I add rocks to the container. The rocks are now in a vacuum.

    Just like space. Space is a vacuum and there is “rocks” in it.





  • Same can be said about traditional stock markets. The prices are entirely fictional there, too.

    Not true at all.

    Microsoft has 7.4B stocks outstanding.

    Microsoft has a valve as a company.

    Owning 1 stock gets you 1/7.4Bth of the physical company.

    If Microsoft goes bankrupt or dissolves you could get some value out of your share.

    There are 19.9M BTCs

    BTCs have no intrinsic value

    Owning 1 BTC gets you 1 BTC

    If BTC goes under you get nothing

    The stock market does have artificially inflated/deflated prices but they are roughly based on a company’s value. The stock is backed by the company.


  • Brake cleaner will eat away paint

    Walk by the car and spray it. It’s clear and will take 5-10 minutes before showing damage. Eventually, the message you draw will show up.

    A car with messed up paint would have a harder time getting approved to get fixed. If you mess up the engine, then it’s just getting fixed instantly with taxpayer money.



  • 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!