Looks delish

Totally fine, and we are pretty conservative about this stuff in my house.

If you are surprised, you need to track your own tax bill better. many of us have gotten bit by this.

Kind of doubt that. With just as many sources as you have provided, I imagine our instinctive fear of spiders comes from some evolutionary factors.

That damn sock again

We are saying different things. If you pay EXTRA, yes, it will reduce your principal and interest. If you simply pay EARLY, it will not.

4 properties, 7 mortgages (inc refi and HELOC) and probably 20 servicers. Haven’t found a lender that applies payment mid month.

Right. Even my biweekly payment does not save interest because I pay half the balance two weeks early every month. It saves interest because I make two extra payments per year and pay off the whole thing six years early.

Absolutely 100% false for mortgages

Thanks. They’re wide for cow horn. Thought they were jalapeño.

They’re pretty good. They have been my family’s Christmas morning tradition for 40+ years.

Butter, maple syrup, Nutella. Lemon curd or blackberry preserves for those who like it a little less sweet.

In the US, it is called German pancake or Dutch baby. Dutch in this case was a screwup, bastardized form of deutsch.

Invented in Seattle by German immigrants, as a large version Pfannkuchen

In the US, we call these Dutch babies or German pancakes. In our case, “Dutch” was a corruption of Deutsch, which of course means German.

Much sweeter though. In America, we call your Yorkshire pudding a popover. A Dutch baby or German pancake, like the one pictured, have a ton of sugar and is even eggier.

Much sweeter though. In America, we call your Yorkshire pudding a popover. A Dutch baby or German pancake, like the one pictured, have a ton of sugar and is even eggier.

I’ve only ever heard it called German pancake or Dutch baby. Not Dutch pancake.

This animation/video is a bit simplified. In real life, a couple things are different. The part at the top of the valve (or linked via pushrods and rockers) that actually contacts the camshaft is called the tappet. Tappers can be “flat” (not literally, they still have a bit of crown) or roller style. In either case, the tappet is made of friction resistant alloy and does NOT break contact with the cam. It follows the entire lobe so there is no “striking” just rubbing. Roller tappers greatly reduce friction but increase mass. In either case, the cam and tappets are enclosed in the engine head and continually fed motor oil to reduce friction and dissipate heat.

They are turning in the same direction. Counterclockwise as viewed from the left.

Starter motor aka cranking motor. That’s the sound you here when you cold start a car. The pistons rotating without igniton.

That’s incorrect. Body develops antibodies (also known as immunoglobulin) to most foreign substances (known as antigens). Virus, bacteria, fungi, allergens, toxins, venom, etc..

First, cancer is a a single disease. It is 100 diseases. Even breast cancer, lung cancer, or skin cancer each comprise a half dozen common types and dozens more rare types.

Second, cancer isn’t a foreign cell, like a venom protein, bacteria, or virus. Cancer is your body’s own on cells run amok, replicating without control in places they shouldn’t.

Debunking a common myth, it takes an awful lot of chocolate to kill a dog. My retrievers on several occasions crushed multiple king size Hershey bars, with no ill effect, other than a really messy yard for a couple days. Their bodies are as good as ours at expelling disagreeable materials.

Some patients develop a sensitivity to anti-venom. However, there is a common myth that you cannot have anti-venom more than once. It is totally false. If you do develop a sensitivity and have a reaction from a subsequent administration of anti-venom, that reaction is very easily managed in a hospital setting.

Addressing your comment below, anti-venom does not provide much if any lasting benefit. Snakebite vaccinations have not shown effective in humans or pets. First, the venom antibodies are relatively short-lived. Second, vaccinations work well when your immune system gets to have a fair foot race with an incubating infection. Snake bites don’t work that way. You can be delivered a lethal dose in half a second. No amount of vaccination can prep your body to catch up with a sudden envenomation.