This is not yet established science. See, eg, https://www.bioedonline.org/news/nature-news-archive/electrical-brainstorms-busted-source-ghosts/

The joke here is that as biological organisms, the imperative to reproduce is genuinely more important than short term food and shelter and this man is making intelligent use of his resources to fill his life’s purpose. It only looks absurd.

Stoves and ranges often have high wattage hookups. They also often host electrical outlets. Seems weird there are no high speed boiling devices that exploit it.

Can I use two kettles to boil a quantity of water in half the time that one kettle will do it? And if so, why can’t I make a “double kettle”?

Humanity’s distinction is that it is aware of its own place within nature

That’s pure hubris. It’s neither evident that we DO understand our place, or that other creatures understand less well than we do. This is the sort of thing we tell ourselves for our own psychological needs, not because we have evidence that leads us to believe these things. We could quite easily “understand” a facile pretense presented to us by more fundamental layers of our own nature, crafted to bend our choices and perceptions towards those that benefit our DNA but harm individuals. Or, we could simply be wrong. There is no way to test our math.

One of the variables is the amount of water being boiled. For a given kettle, there is a roughly linear relationship between the mass of the water and the time it takes to heat it by a degree. If I get two kettles, plug them both in, and split the water between them, then don’t I get my water boiled twice as fast? Why can’t we just put two elements in one kettle?

I enjoy making porn.

We all sell our bodies, the entire working class. We sell our potential relationships, our potential health, our knees and our backs. It is not different to sell your cock.

UK kettles boil faster than North American ones because they are plugged into 240v lines instead of 120v lines. But IIUC, you can pull the same amount of amps from either line. Why can’t we make kettles boil just as fast no matter where they are plugged in, by pulling more amps? I guess it’s the inherent resistance of the heating coil being the same? Can’t we trade something off, use more coils, “plug it in twice,” nothing??

You could have made your point without shaming people. If indeed you want to help them change their behaviour, that is incredibly counterproductive.

the unification of all of humanity into one system

This seems so arbitrary. Why is there a line that perfectly encircles every single human, and no other organism? There is nothing we all share, that is not also shared by other creatures. And yet, there is essentially nothing of meaning that we do all share. This group seems either too large or too small. I think you only come to such a Goldilocks conclusion when you start there and work backwards.

We all have fundamentally the same stupid monkey brain. Given a novel problem, we usually all make the same stupid mistakes. But it only takes a tiny factor of divergence for each of us to evolve into a totally unique system.

I’m fond of dulse but it’s an acquired taste. Certainly tastes of the sea.

It sounds like you think these people are homeless because they are addicts, but it is the other way around. Taking fent or even becoming addicted won’t turn you into a homeless person living in hell.

The coral all died.

Yup.

I’m not an especially fast runner.

I found Wab’s comments really disappointing. He sounded like a typical rural Ontario voter, buying the bullshit.

Sorry, MS-DOS users would know this as their “html directory”. Typically, “C:\PRIVATE\SECRET\________.___\RECIPES\TAXES\PORN\HTML\” but YMMV.

jfc it’s only Stalin praise if you assume it’s praise also of a fucking political assassin what is wrong with fucking people