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You should believe it. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/geography-survey-illiteracy From the article: "About 11 percent of young citizens of the U.S. couldn't even locate the U.S. on a map."

A random American might not be able to locate the US on a world map ... Geography is not our strong suit.

The punchline should be written "You probably won't believe it but the answer is 5!." to eliminate confusion about the role of the exclamation point. Is it punctuation? Is it a maths operator? "Yes."

Saw the article on fark earlier today ... https://marineindustrynews.co.uk/gotheborg-of-sweden-rescues-sailboat/

NYC has rent stabilization laws limiting how much the rent can increase when an apartment's lease gets renewed. She's clearly been there for a while. A bit of quick googling says that getting a mortgage and buying a house in Italy is a fairly standardized process. Very few bankers are like...

I did some research and math for my neck of the woods. $3,000/mo for the 30yr FHA mortgage, property taxes, and homeowners insurance can buy 4 bedrooms with a nice yard in a good neighbourhood. $15k covers the down payment and upfront MIP. If you bought that 20yrs ago and haven't refinanced...

All of NYC is batshit bonkers.

He clearly does not understand that women will take their sweet ass time getting ready and make you wait if they know they can get away with it.

"Some people aren't happy unless they're complaining."

I wish public restroom stalls had one reminding people to "remain seated for the entire performance".

The "average Civil engineer lunch hour" panel is more like what a constructrion worker or warehouse employee has to worry about and deal with than what we Engineers regularly do. Engineers generally don't do the grunt work. We're too expensive. There's a reason why I'm "behind a desk" and...

I've done engineering fieldwork at an all-girls HS. Used feminine hygene products can wind up in unexpectedly innappropriate places.

There's a reason some women prefer to use mens public restrooms and it's not because the mens room usually has a shorter line.

Yes. For a TS example: @ATP's written English would horrify an English teacher and get an F. That's easily comprehensible compared to my daugthers when they're trying to pull a fast one. EDIT: No offense to @ATP was intended. His posts are Ph.D English Professor level clear when compared to...

Written and spoken English don't really have any rules aside from easy understandibilty and even that's optional because I have sometimes have difficulty making sense of what teenagers say.

Not always. Have you ever heard of an exclaimation? Like a QUESTION!

I'd be curious to see what the carb count on that bit of nonsense is ... Someone with Type 2 Diabetes is going take one look at that ingredient list and say "nope, I ain't touching that". For them something like that might be grounds for an insulin injection while real butter won't play merry...

The Romans did not have the addition sign or the equal sign. They literally wrote out plus and et instead. As for the concept of zero and decimal places? Those didn't reach Europe until after Muhammad ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi invented algebra in the 9th century AD. Something like these ... Ve =...

That doesn't even work with Roman numerals and all of it is wrong. That's Randall Munroe - the author of xkcd - trolling idiots.

The big bags (Saline and Lactated Ringer's) are 1L and shouldn't hurt. If they do there's a problem. Of the individual electrolytes, you are very correct about potassium. I know the feeling quite well. That 100mL drip is 4hrs of "please just shoot me". Some of the other drips that size can take...