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@engineers_feed x

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Two-alarm fire destroys several Vancouver businesses in Salmon Creek https://t.co/1jC7fDCs0x
Erratum: the building was about 11,000 ft^2

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@rkrulwich erratum
On NPR, story about pigeons & sounds.
Claim made that pigeons can hear 12 octaves below middle C.
That's once every 16 seconds???
C = 256 hz
2^12 = 4096

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@gnuman1979 Kayakers call that an Eskimo Roll

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

Raise your hand if you agree with the 73% of Americans who support establishing a CODE OF ETHICS for Supreme Court justices! ✋

[Debra Raab 🐰 @rayvnnray]

So what if a 16 year old tried to adopt a baby? She can't, she's not mature or financially stable enough to adopt a baby. But if she's pregnant, she has to raise that baby. Tell me how this makes sense.
#RoeVWadeprotest

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@bdzombak
80% smaller than the canyons’ volume today
not equal to
overestimate the discharge by more than 80%

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@jkwatson Don't ask stupid questions, you stupid son-of-a-bitch!
:)
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@AudioBruce "The general listener" doesn't measure magnetic fields.
A few of us have been around an MRI machine with 5, 7, or 12 T field magnets, & a few of us remember physics class, but we are about the only ones who can understand. Tell us real numbers pls.

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@AudioBruce
Please use standard units when reporting.
If you want to add homely analogies to try to clarify, add, but don't replace.
Eg. Many of us understand temperature in Kelvins, and many more can convert from Celcius or Fahrenheit. Pick any of those scales

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@AudioBruce Far fewer people know how hot the center of the sun is, nor how to convert than into Kelvin.
You might as well just say "It's F-word hot"

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@BBCAmos
https://t.co/nqgVC8eXjU
Consider: "A74... exactly a week ago."
Hard to read: must first note the dateline on the article, subtract 7, note that this is not a leap year, and eventually get to February 26.
Just SAY Feb 26 and save a lot of trouble.
Poetic license revoked!

[Michael Shermer @michaelshermer]

"47% of the students admitted because of their SAT scores 'were low-income or first generation students.' These students would not have been guaranteed admission on the basis of their grades alone. Why on earth would you surrender that tool?"

Wokeness.

https://t.co/8fvKOecFUf

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

“Any idiot can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands.”
- Unknown

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@twinatra @DerekCBlunt @ConceptualJames Vice-versa

[Mike Reese @SheriffReese]

In tonight’s presidential debate the President said the “Portland Sheriff” supports him. As the Multnomah County Sheriff I have never supported Donald Trump and will never support him.

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@engineers_feed So is every other number.

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@fist_my_throat @LuckyHeronSay You didn't do well in math, did you?

[Scott Barry Kaufman ⛵ @sbkaufman]

"Gifted children have always been in our schools—and they always shall be. Denying them educational equity while offering it to every other child with a learning difference is the ultimate example of misplaced bias." https://t.co/4iKePSzCcT