Those are manta rays.

BMI is generally useful as a form of shorthand for whether somebody is a healthy weight. Body composition, specifically body fat percentage, matters more. Bodybuilders often fall into the obese category for their height but you generally wouldn’t call them fat.

The original BMI calculation has received criticism for classifying shorter people and taller people incorrectly. Shorter people end up with a BMI that is proportionally too low and tall people proportionally too high.

You’re fairly tall, but still fall squarely in the overweight category with the new calculation (https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/trefethen/bmi_calc.html). Even with the new calculation, it’s still a shorthand method and won’t be accurate in all situations.

For a more accurate picture of whether you may want to consider losing weight, a Dexa scan will determine you body fat percentage. General guidance is <20% for men and <25% for women.

I have no recommendation to meet your use case, but I do have experience supporting environments that process credit card transactions. PCI (Payment Card Industry) compliance is going to be a requirement you’ll want to keep front of mind if you’re going to be assisting. PCI doesn’t care too much about the software in use, so long as the network and data handling is up to snuff. For small businesses, this usually means you’ll be limited to a few choices based on the card processor you select.

Pro se means they’re representing themselves. Probably because of no money.

The linked page uses the Mifflin-St Jeor Formula which appears to have been published in 1990. As someone acquainted with eugenics but not how BMR calculations play a role, could you share some I formation on how the two are related?

The residue left over after boiling water is probably mostly calcium (if white) or iron (if orange/brown). Both are from dissolved minerals in the water source. If you need to clean anything stained by either, vinegar should dissolve the minerals with minimal effort. I’d avoid vinegar on anything stone (like countertops), as some types of stone will dissolve in the presence of acid.

Everywhere I’ve lived, most groceries aren’t taxed, so what’s showing would be the final price.

Things that might be taxed are things like pre-prepared food or soda.

I (distantly) knew someone who was cutting grass on an incline adjacent to a pond. The lawnmower flipped, and it pinned him in the pond. He drowned in a foot of water and was sober.

People misjudge things all the time. I would guess it was a combination of distraction and/or non-ideal terrain (slope, dropoff, or combination).

Franklin might have won the prize, had she not died 4 years before the prize was awarded. Rules forbid the Nobel being awarded to the deceased.

The penguins under car is at a blue penguin colony in Oamaru, New Zealand. Visited there in March. Might not be that exact format.

Walk-in coolers/freezers are giant Faraday cages. Can’t get wireless in or out. Any camera would definitely need to be hardwired.

Walk-in coolers/freezers are giant Faraday cages. You can’t get wireless in or out, so it’d need to be wired.

I don’t for a fact. Relying on probability and context clues. Someone posting the question in English and using the word yard instead of garden to describe a lawn of grass isn’t from this range: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornithogalum_umbellatum

Yes. Destroy with prejudice. They’re invasive, and you’ll need to get the bulb out.

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You’re not wrong, but R+D is mostly another operating expense which lowers net income. Net income is what’s taxed. Companies could spend this money on building another office or salaries for sales staff instead which would both lower net income.

Some jurisdictions may have special tax considerations for narrowly defined R+D work, but it’s mostly companies spending money to try and make more money. Sometimes that pans out and other times it doesn’t.

Do all of the items need to be directly useful to the players is a roleplay/combat situation? If not, you can make objectively powerful items with interesting effects with short durations, long cooldowns, or effects that scale as the wielder becomes more powerful. You can also give the items drawbacks until their secrets are uncovered.

An umbrella that can cause a light rain, a downpour, or a thunderstorm in a 10x10 mile area with a 1 week cooldown.

An orb/weapon that doubles dice damage for a single combat and causes two levels of exhaustion after the combat ends. Reduce to 1 lvl of exhaustion for characters with proficiency bonuses of +4 or higher.

A shield that summons a spectral guardian. The guardian cannot attack. On each of its turns, the guardian taunts all enemies within 10 feet. Those enemies make a DC 15 wisdom save. On a fail, attacks against targets other than the guardian have disadvantage until the end of the guardian’s next turn. Cooldown: 1 day. Scale the DC of the save with quests to uncover more information about the item, or give it synergies with some of the other items which increases the DC when the shield is within 120 feet of the umbrella.

You can also make the items deteriorate with each use until their secrets are fully uncovered.

A skeleton key which unlocks any lock it encounters. After each use, more and more cracks appear. After the third use, roll a d20. On a 1 or 2, the key’s magic fails and explodes dealing 8d6 damage in a 20-foot radius. You wouldn’t reveal the full consequences of the item, but you could describe the item getting hot and showing visible damage. Giv the players arcana checks to try to figure out what’s going on.

The possibilities are endless, and you make the rules. The items don’t need to be 100% useful when they’re discovered, and they can get more powerful so the players want to keep using them.

This is a common misconception. https://www.recyclenow.com/recycle-an-item/pizza-boxes

They can’t always be recycled, but they usually can be.

It’s rampant click bait. I try not to reward the behavior with clicks, but sometimes I’m genuinely interested in the topic. This is not one of those times.