What did you learn today?

[Acebot44]

Learned about this thing called Payday Assault. Its something that happens to illegal immigrants because they cannot apply for bank account, and are thus paid via cash or check for their work. If they get paid in check, they must cash it at some lowkey withdrawal service in their neighborhood and once they leave with cash in hand, get beaten up and robbed for their earnings. Being illegal immigrants, they have a fear of being deported for any reason so avoid filing charges with the police and thus the criminals go unpunished.

[BreakABone]

Originally Posted by Acebot44

Learned about this thing called Payday Assault. Its something that happens to illegal immigrants because they cannot apply for bank account, and are thus paid via cash or check for their work. If they get paid in check, they must cash it at some lowkey withdrawal service in their neighborhood and once they leave with cash in hand, get beaten up and robbed for their earnings. Being illegal immigrants, they have a fear of being deported for any reason so avoid filing charges with the police and thus the criminals go unpunished.

We use to have something similar happen with teenagers in NYC during the summer. We have SYEP which is an employement group for youngsters, and everyone knew the pay schedule. So other kids would stand outside of cash checking places and waited for them to come outside and beat them up for their money.

They have since changed the system to giving the kids, an ATM/debit card in which their money is deposited.

[Swan]

That the going rate for a baby in Mexico is about $1500

[Fox 6]

Originally Posted by Swan

That the going rate for a baby in Mexico is about $1500

Actually it was $1200. Also I hope it was at least American dollars.

[Fyacin]

Molecular orbitals.
Wooo
And I that I hate writing papers the day before they are due.
Wooo

[DeathsHand]

I learned something along the lines of by 4-5 months of age, babies realize basic principles of how the world works; things fall towards the ground if nothing is supporting them, things don't just "disappear" when they go out of view, etc.
And if you try to confuse them with 'magic' tricks, they'll get very confused and upset.
If they are even a few weeks older, they are actually able to rationalize what you're showing them, and get bored with the 'trick'.
But that if you anticipate their rationalization, and find a way to 'disprove' it (even though their assumptions that you're tricking them are correct), they will once again get very upset and confused.
"That's not what's supposed to happen!", they will think. But be unable to say.

Or so Psycho 201, with the help of Alan Alda, tells me...
It was all very cute and interesting.

[ZebraRampage]

I learned that I should eat more before I go on bike rides. I guess I knew this, but I still went on a ride with not much in me.

[BreakABone]

Writing a psychosocial is not fun when you are with clients maybe once or twice a week, and if you don't interact with them that much due to school or sleep.

[Acebot44]

Originally Posted by Fyacin

Molecular orbitals.
Wooo
And I that I hate writing papers the day before they are due.
Wooo

So I was talking to one of my roommates about this randomly last night, and she was saying that the concept of electron orbitals is taught in lower division chem classes, even though its not necessarily completely true. Its simply taught in order to get the students to understand certain concepts, but as you advance in the chem classes you take, you learn more about how electrons actually teleport, and you begin to try to solve the equations to predict where they teleport to...or something like that.



Anywho, got a question for the folks from cold areas of the world. When you go to a party when its snowing or very chilly, what do you do with your coats/jackets? In SoCal, it stays around 65 or a bit lower during the winter time, so there isnt much need for something more than a light sweater, but I've found it annoying to even keep that on during a big party, as it get hot really quick. So what do you all do with your jackets? Are there coat rooms? Do you hold them in your hand? Wrap around your waist? Leave em on? I dunno...

[Bond]

Originally Posted by Acebot44

Anywho, got a question for the folks from cold areas of the world. When you go to a party when its snowing or very chilly, what do you do with your coats/jackets? In SoCal, it stays around 65 or a bit lower during the winter time, so there isnt much need for something more than a light sweater, but I've found it annoying to even keep that on during a big party, as it get hot really quick. So what do you all do with your jackets? Are there coat rooms? Do you hold them in your hand? Wrap around your waist? Leave em on? I dunno...

Normally the host of a house party dedicates one room as a "coat room."

[BreakABone]

Originally Posted by Acebot44

Anywho, got a question for the folks from cold areas of the world. When you go to a party when its snowing or very chilly, what do you do with your coats/jackets? In SoCal, it stays around 65 or a bit lower during the winter time, so there isnt much need for something more than a light sweater, but I've found it annoying to even keep that on during a big party, as it get hot really quick. So what do you all do with your jackets? Are there coat rooms? Do you hold them in your hand? Wrap around your waist? Leave em on? I dunno...

Yeah generally coat areas and what have you.

The problem is going to public place. Some have coat check areas, which are priced. Others have nothing so you have to hope you get either like a booth or some area where you can rest your stuff where you sit.

I once left my stuff at a bar (drunk warmth took me home), didn't retrieve it for like 2 months.

[Vampyr]

I usually leave my coat in the car, just in case there isn't anywhere to put it. No matter how cold it is, it probably won't hurt you to run like 20 feet to the house/store/restaurant.

[Typhoid]

Today I learned (rather remembered) that the CFL has a dumb (yet in this case good) rule about the standings- the crossover.

The second-place team from each division hosts the third-place team in the division semifinal, unless a fourth-place team from one division finishes with a better record than a third place team in the other.

So now the BC Lions - the westernmost team in the CFL, is playing in the Eastern Conference because we did marginally better than a team in the East.

I am now a fan of this rule.

[Angrist]

Originally Posted by Vampyr

I usually leave my coat in the car, just in case there isn't anywhere to put it. No matter how cold it is, it probably won't hurt you to run like 20 feet to the house/store/restaurant.

That's the best idea I've heard all week. Thanks.

[Acebot44]

Today I learned I can browse and post on GT pretty easily via my mobile browser.

Also, recently I learned that if you say "Beer Can" in a British accent, it sounds the same as saying "Bacon" in a jamaican accent