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I feel like it's been well established that not even he has any idea what he's talking about

Yes, I saw that, but then you used water and hydronium ions in your redox examples, and he said, "All those examples have oxygen in them." So no, he doesn't seem to be aware of the difference -- hence why I was distinguishing between elemental oxygen and dissolved O2.

And now you're both being stupid. Water and hydronium ions both contain elemental oxygen. So mweiner2 is right that those examples involve oxygen. They happen not to involve dissolved O2 molecules... but he didn't say they did, either. He's wrong that oxidation actually needs oxygen to occur (dissolved or elemental), as I showed, and he's also wrong that dissolved O2 and other molecules with elemental oxygen are at all equivalent... but he's not wrong about your examples having oxygen in them.

Hey JJ, how is the supply chain affecting insurance claims?

Does the Pope shit in the woods? Why not? You own one already. If the price goes up, that just means you get more when you sell. (Spoiler alert: the price on a non-rare, unreliable 12-17-year-old car is not going to go up.)

Just be careful with the soap!

After our blower motor on our 16 year old HVAC went up during a cold snap and I had to take it apart and regrease the bearings three times a day to limp it along until the one I ordered arrived... I decided the next sign of trouble, and I'd replace the whole system, because I'm not about being without AC during a Baltimore summer. Compressor started making an alarming cyclic metallic buzzing sound the next summer. I didn't even second-guess. Just started getting quotes. Had a new HVAC system 4 months later.

That's just blatantly not true though. Seawater is corrosive enough (due to redox, BTW -- lots of free ions due to the salt) that even without air (and thus O2), it corrodes faster than pure water ever would even with air. That may be (and I don't know enough from that perspective to say one way or another, so I'll take your word for it)... But that's not the statement you made, and then you objected to other people calling you out for your incorrect statements. Link to post I made with Wikipedia searches in it?

You know there's a difference between elemental oxygen, which is present in literally every molecule of water (and thus, if water is present, oxidization is possible), and dissolved O2 gas molecules, right? Also, the definition of oxidization in the context of redox has to do with the movement of electrons. Although it primarily happens in the context of elemental oxygen in the real world, that doesn't mean it needs elemental oxygen to occur. See: http://www.chemistry.wustl.edu/~coursedev/Online%20tutorials/Redox.htm for an example with iron and cerium with no oxygen, and another with aluminum, chlorine, and hydrogen, also with no oxygen. Your original statement was that oxidization is not possible in the deep sea because there's not enough dissolved oxygen down there. Besides the fact that this is empirically wrong (there are plenty of rusty shipwrecks at the bottom of the sea), there is plenty of elemental oxygen down there that isn't a dissolved gas, and you don't even need it for oxidation as shown above. This actually is wild that you don't know this. I'm not even an engineer or a Ph.D in physical science. I just paid attention in high school chemistry.

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If you liked Charleston, try Bar Vasquez. It's an Argentinean steakhouse run by the same restaurant group (Foreman Wolf). Delicious, and good service. Try the empanadas and croquetas on the appetizer menu before you go for the steak, too. There are a few other restaurants run by the same group that are also good.

Nope.

Yeah we do 73 during the day, 70 in the evening, and then I turn it down to 68 when I'm about to go to sleep. It's definitely pricey, but I make up for it by keeping the thermostat lower in the winter. Plus, I can afford an extra $50 a month for 4-6 months out of the year to be comfortable. I do want to get solar eventually, though. Run the AC all I want, plus cryptocoin mining, all for free!

I do 68 in the summer, 64 in the winter. My father-in-law keeps his house at 72 degrees 24/7/365. Makes for very uncomfortable visits up there. At least in the winter I can open a window in the bedroom.

I lived there for a year. July 2005 to July 2006. The first month I was there it was 100+ for a whole week. It was definitely hot, and you had to make sure not to exert yourself too much... but it wasn't THAT bad. On the way back to MD in 2006, I drove up to Yellowstone, then Mt. Rushmore and the Badlands. I was young and on a budget, so I roughed it for most of the West. Going camping at Mt. Rushmore when it was 90 degrees was not fun. In other news, it was 95 degrees in NJ today and I was moving furniture... Nils is a pussy

You say "at any temp"... I mean, I agree dry heat is much more bearable overall, but hot is hot. I've been in AZ when it's 110+ out. You still move too fast or carry too much at your own risk.

Yep. Spent a summer in a sublet in Waltham, MA with the horizontal-sliding windows where you couldn't fit an AC unit. Had fans blasting. Also, Nils acts like we never have to go outside in the summer. Yard work at home, and at work I have to carry heavy shit between buildings. Heck, today I was loading up a box truck with some old furniture for a friend of my wife's. Although it was "only" 80 degrees (but with 90% humidity).

Yeah, I hear it's hot on that side of the country.

Wow, a whole 86 degrees F! You wouldn't last a week in a Maryland summer [emoji38]

"Hot" weather in Sweden, huh? [emoji38]

My dad loves soft-shells. They're a bit on the weird side for me. I do like lobster better than crab. But blue crabs are just such a Maryland thing. Even if most of ours come from the Gulf now because the Chesapeake Bay is so depleted.

Blue crabs have better meat. Then again, they're also a PITA to pick.

That's how I burned my MOSFET out in the first place. I just abandoned the project after that.