Stuff you didn't know and probably don't care about

[GagHalfrunt]

If there's not an arrow, the nozzle on the gas pump picture usually points to the side you have to fill up.

Like on this one, I'd expect to fill up on the left side:
https://academyfordadvantage.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/fuel-gauge.jpg

Call me old fashioned, but I'd expect to learn which side my fuel filler is on the very first time I used it and then remember that for the life of the car.

 

[Charmonium]

Have a kidney stone? Ride a roller coaster - https://medlineplus.gov/news/fullstory_161182.html

TUESDAY, Sept. 27, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Anyone who's suffered a kidney stone just wants the urinary obstruction gone. Now, preliminary research suggests relief might even be fun: a roller coaster ride.

There's been anecdotal evidence from patients that these amusement park rides can help pass a small stone, explained Dr. David Wartinger, a professor of urology at the Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, in East Lansing.

His team's new research -- conducted on the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad and Space Mountain roller coasters at Orlando's Walt Disney World -- seems to support that view.

In the study, Wartinger's group used 3D printing to create a clear silicone model of a kidney that contained urine, plus three different-sized kidney stones.

They placed the kidney model in a backpack and took it on 60 roller coaster rides.

"A ride on a moderate-intensity roller coaster could benefit some patients with small kidney stones," Wartinger said in a news release from The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association. The study was published in the journal on Sept. 26.

The passage rate of stones was nearly 17 percent when the backpack/model was in the front of a roller coaster, and jumped to nearly 64 percent when it was in the back of a roller coaster.

The position of the stone within the model didn't seem to matter, the researchers noted.

The study suggests that the fun ride might be therapeutic for small kidney stones -- and that's no small matter.

"Passing a kidney stone before it reaches an obstructive size can prevent surgeries and emergency room visits," Wartinger said. "Roller coaster riding after treatments like lithotripsy [using sound waves to break up stones] and before planned pregnancies may prevent stone enlargement."

According to the researchers, each year more than 300,000 people in the United States seek emergency care for kidney stones, with an estimated $2.1 billion in costs. About 11 percent of men and 6 percent of women will have a kidney stone in their lifetime.

SOURCE: The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, news release, Sept. 26, 2016

HealthDay

 

[KMFJD]

 

[Exterous]

Call me old fashioned, but I'd expect to learn which side my fuel filler is on the very first time I used it and then remember that for the life of the car.

Some of us frequently rent cars and do so in countries where the models available to rent are not the same as you can get in the US

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Some of us frequently rent cars and do so in countries where the models available to rent are not the same as you can get in the US

And again, you peek at it when getting in the first time and remember for the day or week or whatever period. It's not rocket science, it's one freaking brain cell. If you can remember whether its gas or diesel you can remember left or right.

 

[KMFJD]

The exact moment a group of Syrian rebels got hit by a tank shell while trying to defend a position.

 

[John Connor]

How did the camera man survive? Or did they just find a camera intact?

 

[KMFJD]

How did the camera man survive? Or did they just find a camera intact?

Here's the before picture...

The guy at the back survived, the article posted the frame after it hit..(NSFW)

https://fstoppers.com/pictures/phot...-moment-tank-shell-hitting-syrian-rebels-5347

 

[KMFJD]

United Arab Emirates is Washington D.C.'s biggest trading partner? What's up with Delaware,Utah and Nevada?

 

[highland145]

And I thought we owned the hat.

 

[Imp]

I just found out that the water resistance depth ratings on watches may not correspond exactly to their rated depths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Resistant_mark

Sounds more like it's a head rating and head includes pressure + elevation + velocity head, if I remember right.

 

[Puffnstuff]

United Arab Emirates is Washington D.C.'s biggest trading partner? What's up with Delaware,Utah and Nevada?

I live in FL and Brazil is exporting a huge amount of paper products into the states through our ports. Once the ports are dredged to allow for more draft the Chinese freighters loaded with paper will start flowing in as well. I would also expect for the Brazilians to increase their paper exports to save shipping costs.

 

[highland145]

I didn't know that he wasn't gone...until now.

:sadpanda;

 

[KMFJD]

I live in FL and Brazil is exporting a huge amount of paper products into the states through our ports. Once the ports are dredged to allow for more draft the Chinese freighters loaded with paper will start flowing in as well. I would also expect for the Brazilians to increase their paper exports to save shipping costs.

Brazil makes sense, although i never figured it would be paper products though

 

[agent00f]

United Arab Emirates is Washington D.C.'s biggest trading partner? What's up with Delaware,Utah and Nevada?

Those western states export a lot of minerals. I think in the case of nevada/utah it's gold.

 

[Puffnstuff]

Brazil makes sense, although i never figured it would be paper products though

Between all of the different trade agreements that we've entered into many countries are exporting to us as fast as they can make it. The Brazilian paper I saw was food grade paper being imported by Kraft, probably being used as the cellulose filler in their processed foods but I don't know for sure. At that time a coworker of mine was speaking with one of their reps who said something to that effect to him but I didn't personally hear it. As such it has to be stored in a food grade warehouse that is regularly inspected to insure that it meets health code.

What should really concern everyone are the increasing amount of food imports from China that we are seeing everywhere. Next time you're in Walmart or any grocery store for that matter take a look at some of the frozen fish packages such as tilapia, cod or whiting, not the processed food ones, and see where they originated from.

 

[Charmonium]

Yeah, and given the fact that our record on inspections is spotty and relies heavily on the good faith of exporters I'm surprised that we haven't had more well publicized health incidences. But then instead of being poisoned outright we're probably just getting low levels of toxic chemicals so that in 10 or 15 years you see the cancer rate sky rocket.

 

[Imp]

What should really concern everyone are the increasing amount of food imports from China that we are seeing everywhere. Next time you're in Walmart or any grocery store for that matter take a look at some of the frozen fish packages such as tilapia, cod or whiting, not the processed food ones, and see where they originated from.

I've actually been surprised by the amount of Made in India products at my Wal-mart. It's mainly food and stainless steel cookware/containers though.

 

[Puffnstuff]

Yeah, and given the fact that our record on inspections is spotty and relies heavily on the good faith of exporters I'm surprised that we haven't had more well publicized health incidences. But then instead of being poisoned outright we're probably just getting low levels of toxic chemicals so that in 10 or 15 years you see the cancer rate sky rocket.

I agree and if you think back just a few years ago with Chinese imports such as the tainted baby formula, dog food and lead paint on children's toys we ca see their lack of oversight has the potential to cause plenty of harm.

 

[lxskllr]

Generally speaking, I feel better about buying Indian than buying Chinese. I trust them more to try to do what's right, but sometimes failing due to poor qc, as opposed to China's outright fraud.

 

[Imp]

^I want to say that I agree but in my "travels," my immigrant or first-gen Indian and Chinese friends were more similar than different, especially in how they approached "success." My city has a lot of Indians and Chinese.

 

[MongGrel]

Frozen Vegetables.

We usually try to make things fresh, but the Flav-R-Pac ones from Sam's Club are the best frozen ones I think I have ever tried.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aFRBbnF-ag

The Northwest blend is really good for a fast general mixed veggie shortcut.

Much better than any mixed veggies I've had in the past IMHO.

 

[KMFJD]

Frozen Vegetables.

We usually try to make things fresh, but the Flav-R-Pac ones from Sam's Club are the best frozen ones I think I have ever tried.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aFRBbnF-ag

The Northwest blend is really good for a fast general mixed veggie shortcut.

Much better than any mixed veggies I've had in the past IMHO.

A friend of mine grows broccoli and he had lost a contract with a frozen vegetable company in Canada, it was cheaper for them to cut and ship the frozen veggies from China and then bag them here than to buy it locally. The price they have gotten for broccoli hasn't changed in almost 20 years he told me.

 

[MongGrel]

A friend of mine grows broccoli and he had lost a contract with a frozen vegetable company in Canada, it was cheaper for them to cut and ship the frozen veggies from China and then bag them here than to buy it locally. The price they have gotten for broccoli hasn't changed in almost 20 years he told me.

I dunno, as he is in Canada, maybe he should shift away from something besides broccoli.

 

[Imp]

A friend of mine grows broccoli and he had lost a contract with a frozen vegetable company in Canada, it was cheaper for them to cut and ship the frozen veggies from China and then bag them here than to buy it locally. The price they have gotten for broccoli hasn't changed in almost 20 years he told me.

Nothing like some broccoli farmed at <$20/day wages and laced with toxins from all the nearby factories -- second part is why I stopped drinking tea.