I know it’s a matter of taste, and perhaps one’s upbringing, but I prefer the more formal “was’rnt.”
When I got title insurance on our current place, the insurer found there was someone else in the area with my last name (not a common one, either) who owed back child support and had a lien against his property. I had to sign an affidavit to affirm that I wasn’t him.
Interesting. We don’t do that. We have to hire a lawyer ontop of the real estate broker. Do you need a lawyer?
Really. I don’t remember doing that. Maybe it was rolled into my lawyer fee. Hmm.
When most of the world’s 1.4 billion cars have been replaced with EV’s what’s the plan for disposing of the batteries in an environmentally friendly way?
It’s more about stuff that you should pick up as you go along, not stuff you would learn in school, like the fact no one likes a grammar Nazi… :)
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I think they’re going to put a little dirt on it…
Ummm ok. So the nuclear reactor material method, then. Sounds good for the soil.
I’m pretty sure that conventional lead-acid batteries are a much bigger disposal problem than Li-ion, because of all the lead. Most of the environmental benefit of Li-ion battery recycling is reducing the need to mine materials for new batteries, not direct contamination.
And they often will require a gps tracker on the car. AND they are known for insta repossessions as soon as you fail to make payments.
Is commonwealth a prolific poster formerly known by another user name?
I hired a lawyer and got title insurance when I bought my apartment. Lawyers are common in real estate transactions in New York City but not so much in other parts of the country.
Yes
I’ve always used a lawyer to close and everyone I know does as well but I’m not sure if it’s strictly required. I haven’t bought that many houses but I have done it in multiple states.
A lawyer is not required and I’m not really sure what the point of having one would be but I’ve only bought one house and it was pretty simple so 🤷
Why doesn’t the color of grass change in the fall like the leaves do?
How do scientists know precisely when and where a total eclispe will occur like 100 years from now?
They can use Kepler’s laws of planetary motion to understand how the planets move around the sun and how the moon moves around the earth. This gives equations that can be used to calculate the position of planets and moons at any point in time. To figure out when eclipses will be, they look for times when the moon (or another planet) will be between the earth and the sun. Based on exactly where the object is positioned between the earth and the sun, they can tell if it will be a full or partial eclipse and where that eclipse will be visible from.
They can use the same technique to understand when eclipses happened in the past. I’ve been reading Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War, which was fought between Athens and Sparta from 431BC to 404BC. Sometimes he will mention that a battle happened a certain number of days after an eclipse of the moon or sun. The footnotes in my edition give the exact time and date of the eclipse, and this was calculated the same way that scientists predict eclipses in the future.
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How far ahead can you figure it out? Can you predict it millions of years from now?
Oh that reminds me. Facebook Jesus freaks going hard on the Christmas star appearing 45 min after sunset on the 21st. Just reminds me that these nuts think science is fake just like the China virus and moon landing.
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