Well, currently Ball doesn’t make any jars, as I understand it. And I don’t think it’s in Muncie anymore either. So the term is just a holdover.

Those do look really nice, for sure. They’d make great snack cups.

Oof. I think I lean more toward her side, to be honest. I don’t like having cold hands.

Ok.

Believe what you like. Including that all mathematics communication and education is flawless and incapable of any ambiguity, apparently.

But for your own growth as a person, I recommend you chew on this: the people who write these “questions” to put on Facebook are exploiting the exact same mindset that made you decide that insulting my intelligence was the best way to have this conversation, and using it to get a massive amount of rage-baity engagement. They’re not teachers trying to educate. They’re scammers trying to build up a following so that they can execute a scam.

Actual math educators, on the other hand, are moving away from using the “PEMDAS” (or “BEDMAS”) acronyms because of the ambiguity inherent in them, and using “GEMS” (or “GEMA”) instead. Partially because, if even smart people who know PEMDAS can get confused, the acronym must not be all that useful.

Anyway. You’re trying to make me mad, and for a minute it worked. But I’m over it. Again–have a good one.

Yeah, for sure. Though if you drink it fast enough, it won’t warm the drink noticeably before it’s gone.

See also: the Apollo Lunar Module (LEM), the humble US Postal Truck (LLV), and the F/A-18 Super Hornet, all made by the Grumman Corporation.

Great at conduction, but with not a lot of thermal mass, meaning that actually your drink will usually just make whatever it’s touching (your hand, often) super cold or hot.

Muncie, Indiana is was the home of the Ball Corporation, which is the company referenced in this meme. Also of Ball State University, founded by his endowment. Like “Mason jar” before it, “Ball jar” has become a genericized trademark for the object itself, especially in the Midwest.

I don’t take homework from insufferably smug jerks on the Internet. Have a good one.

They’re definitely not

Just patently untrue, but I’m no longer interested in this.

Someone did a study on various means of welfare support, and figured out that doing away with all other forms of poverty easement and replacing it with an equivalent amount of UBI would actually save taxpayers a significant amount of money. And further, it actually costs way more to try to identify and prosecute fraud than the system actually loses to said fraud.

I think the easiest way to accomplish UBI, without dealing with a lot of rigamarole and nonsense, would be to figure out what amount “basic” should mean—you suggested $2000/mo, but for some cities that would barely cover rent, so maybe let’s say $3000/mo—and then have anyone who wants any form of government financial assistance register with the UBI office, indicating the compensation they receive at their highest-earning job. The UBI office would then simply pay them the difference between $3000 and their monthly paycheck. UBI office automatically cross-references with the IRS every year, so you can’t hide income without getting audited.

I generally agree, but rather than making it a specific number, I think we should tie it to some multiple of the poverty line or the average income of the lowest 10% or something like that. That way, if the rich want to earn more, they have to make things materially better for the poorest people in society; and if they don’t do enough, the government takes that money to do it for them.

Wait…I know Depp was in that, but Burton and Carter didn’t have anything to do with it, did they?

Ok… you’ve stumped me on “Lone.” I think I get the rest, but…

Joke’s on you, the name of this category is “Music by Danny Elfman.”

Tim Burton (1) really only directs dark movies (tonally, not luminously), and (2) went through a phase where everything he did either involved the actress Helena Bonham Carter (including his marriage, for a while) or the actor Johnny Depp (to whom he was not married), or both.

The question for this Jeopardy answer could equally be any of five things:

• What is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? (the 2005 film, not to be confused with the 1971 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory)

• What is Corpse Bride?

• What is Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street?

• What is Alice in Wonderland? (the 2010 live action one)

• What is Dark Shadows?

And if you add in his executive producer credits, you can toss in the Alice in Wonderland sequel, too.

First one: I better watch out, she’ll call a foul on me

Second one: I better watch out, she’s probably a felon on the run

Third one: I can’t watch out because I don’t know where she is

I’ve been ad-free for long enough at this point that I feel physically assaulted when I see one (at a friend’s house or whatever). It’s insane that we ever thought that was ok, and it’s become worse.

At this point, adblock is a survival measure. Piracy is self-defense. The first presidential candidate who campaigns on legalizing graffiti on billboards and mandating their eventual removal gets my vote. Burn it all.