One small note, health insurance is not the same thing as health care. Having health insurance does not ensure that someone can get health care. Insurance usually makes it easier to get health care, but ideally universal health care goes beyond just what insurance provides.

Linked to a Wikipedia article? Or did I copy and paste wrong?

A fan of the Insane Clown Posse.

>it's unlikely salt water would have any significant net positive effect on preservation length of time.

Given that high salt concentrations denature proteins, I'd suspect that the opposite is the case. Salt so concentrated that it causes life to die seems like it would cause DNA to break down faster.

There is a condition called Auto-Brewery Syndrome that can cause significant amounts of ethanol to be produced by gastrointestinal flora, but I'm not sure if it has any links to lactose intolerance.

The short answer is that copyright holders want to make money off of the books they own the rights to, and because of that they sell the license to their digital books to libraries under strict terms.

The longer answer involves explanation that not only are libraries limited in the amount of simultaneous copies that can be checked out, but they are also limited in the number of times those copies can be checked out before the library has to renew the license.

The whole issue is very complicated, trying to balance the rights of authors and publishers, with the public interest, and many misconceptions about copyright and economics on all sides.

Well, if you really wanted to come up with a reason for that non-standard adjective order, it could be used to describe an average sized wall that is made of big bricks.

It feels wrong because it doesn't mean the same thing. Even though we aren't taught the adjective order, and there's even some debate over exactly what that order is, there still remains an implied difference in how the adjectives are being applied to the word.

One commonly cited order of adjectives is "Determiner, Opinion, Size, Age, Shape, Color, Origin, Material, and Purpose." Since size usually comes before color, big seems out of place in your second phrasing, since it is not an origin, material, or purpose. There's also more ambiguity in your second example, since "brick" could be describing the shade of brown, instead of the material of the wall.

In other discussion of adjective order I've seen people use a "great green dragon" and a "green great dragon" used as example of how adjective order matters. In a fantasy world the first would be a large sized member of the green dragon species/breed, while the latter would be a green colored member of the great dragon species.

Glass is not fluid enough to perceptively change shape in hundreds of years, if it's fluid at all. There may be some debate on if it would flow over the course of huge, cosmic scales of time, I'm not clear on that, but glass is a solid for all intents and purposes when it comes any earthly scale of time, even geological time.

Stained glass windows have glass panes with one side thicker than the other because of manufacturing defects, not because of fluid dynamics.

How do you know if it looks bad if you don't even know what the dish is?

What culture are you from? I'll find you a dish you love that looks strange to those who aren't familiar with it.

There's an old question in writing: "What kills a vampire?" The answer is not garlic, or silver, or sunlight, or a stake through the chest. It's whatever the author decides kills vampires.

The security system, like a vampire, is fictional. It functions however the script says it functions, and the audience is not given a great deal of info about the system. We know it is sensitive, that it goes off when phones get notifications, and that the glass retracts on it's own. We are not told what triggers the end of the security lockdown, only that any lockdown Bron can't control is too much.

The glass goes down at some point, and ultimately that point is when it's convenient for the writer/director/editor for it to go down.

The override is "needed" because Bron likes having control. He wants to be able to view the Mona Lisa without any glass in the way, any time he wants, regardless of anything going on. He thinks the security is over sensitive, and it triggers too easily, so it put in an override that lets him have control. He's such a man-child that he can't even wait quietly for it to disengage. He's probably even touched the painting before.

Assuming you want to know, the Nvidia Shield is a set-top box that runs Android TV as it's operating system, and is fairly game focused in it's purpose (though it can also playback media and do a lot of other stuff).

Gamestream is software that allows users to stream games from a PC to an Nvidia Shield. It allows people to keep their powerful gaming PC set up at a desk, while also being able to play sitting on their couch in the living room. (And may also be able to stream across the internet, I'm not sure. I don't have a shield, but Steam's equivalent software can work remotely, though it takes mighty good internet to be able to get it to work smoothly.)

I'll admit that my two most recent examples happen to both be best case, DRM-free games.

Things can get a lot more complicated if you're using Origin, Ubisoft, Epic, and other launchers, or even worse Microsoft store stuff.

That's when you start breaking out tools like GloSSI and OSOL to try to get unruly games in line. I've had to use one or the other get Steam Input to work with Amazon Luna running through Microsoft Edge, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen order on Origin, and Far Cry 4 on Ubisoft's launcher. None of those worked when simply added to Steam normally, but were made to work with extra tools.

It's not an ideal situation, but there are options

The article is inaccurate in one point. It says, "It’s not quite an even switch, though. GameStream allowed you to add games that weren’t available on Steam manually" implying that you can only use Steam Link to stream games you've purchased through Steam, which is not true. Just yesterday I streamed my GOG copy of Psychonauts 2, and previously I streamed my Amazon Games copy of Battle Chef Brigade. You can absolutely add non-Steam games to Steam and stream them via Steam Link.

Did you pipe on the spiral with a very steady/practiced hand, or how did you accomplish that look?

EDIT: OP says they used a silicone mold.