Of all the criticisms I've seen directed at Andor, "It starts off slow" is one of the most consistent and one of the ones I understand the most. Yeah, I liked the start but it was definitely talky and slow.

Yeah, I especially love how his reaction made it clear that he was in so far over his head.

Exactly. Nobody is forcing anyone to watch these shows. And it's one thing to watch one and be disappointed, but don't go insisting that there's some weird conspiracy where Disney is actively trying not to make good television.

Then you are essentially bragging about the fact that you have no business discussing this show and are just trying to piss people off. And you are doing so in such a lazy manner that everyone knows exactly what you are doing and is just going to block you rather than take the fucking bait.

Yep. The simple fact of the matter is that making good entertainment is hard even in the best of situations, while complaining is consistently very fucking easy.

Penicillin is not the "pinnacle" antibiotic at all. It was the first one discovered. Since then thousands more have been created, most of which are better for at least a few types of infection.

And all allergies have the same root cause: some molecule is similar enough in structure to a molecule we use in our own body that our immune system gets "confused" and attacks us thinking it is attacking invaders.

That's not entirely accurate. Technically speaking, the US government doesn't create money at all.

What happens is the Federal Reserve adjusts the base lending rate, which adjusts how quickly banks are giving out loans. And every time a bank gives out a loan, it is effectively creating new money since it also holds on to the original money that loan was based on.

It is called "fractional reserve banking" and it is how almost all countries do it. Very few countries actually create money anymore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking

Basically, what you really care about is "How likely is it that any given molecule of this stuff will randomly break down at any time?" because if you know that and you are working with billions and billions of molecules, that gives you a very good idea how long the drug will last overall.

But even drugs with short shelf-lives are stable enough to make that probably very low, so instead of saying "In any given second there is a 0.000000000000000000000000000000001 percent chance of one molecule breaking down." we measure it indirectly instead. And that's what a half-life is: it takes the probability of each molecule breaking down and is an estimate of how long it will take for there to only be half of the substance left.

Let's use a model as an example: let's say you have a school of 1000 children, and you give them each a ten-sided die. You have them all roll the die at the same time, and every child who rolls a 10 gets eliminated.

In the first round, about 100 students will be eliminated, leaving 900. Next about 90 are eliminated, leaving 810. This keeps going with the number eliminated getting lower or lower until eventually there are only one or two students left and it becomes very hard to predict how long it will take to eliminate the last few people. The number or rounds necessary to get to about 500 students would be the half-life in this scenario.

Yep. If hypothetically you had a train on the surface of the moon (not a complete vacuum, but close enough) then it wouldn't matter if you were on top of the train or inside of it, because there would be no air resistance to slow you down.

In your stomach, food and liquid gets churned and processed with acid and enzymes, so by the time it moves into your intestines it is basically just liquid.

As it passes through your intestines, a lot of the molecules in it will go through the membrane and into your blood. This includes most of the water and most of the small nutritional molecules like sugars, but leaves behind other things like large non-digestible molecules like fiber.

What doesn't leave your intestines ends up forming your feces. Your urine, on the other hand, is blood that has been filtered by your kidneys.

That's pretty much it. The big thing about diabetes and feet is that it makes it so any wounds you do get on your feet are much harder to heal, so the most simple preventative measure is to just try not to get wounds on your feet.

In order to be so strong Amazons have to have muscle and bone that is more dense than that of humans, making each of them mass around 2,000kg. In order to bear that weight, their horses also have to be super-dense, making each of them weigh 40,000kg, much heavier than the comparatively light boulder.

And if anything, there are currently more good fantasy shows than there have ever been, if only because there are so many more of them (and because some of them are getting much higher budgets, allowing more time and effort to be put into them).