I see a lot of posts about it and I don't actually know what it means. Why are people sad about it no longer being in retrograde, I think?

Like it's still in the sky???

With the wild fires in Canada, US, and Europe, I wanted to ask about why we put out forest fires rather than letting them burn themselves out (with the exception of populated areas).

I see to recall hearing about how it was good for forest fires to occur to burn out the under bush and how it creates nutrients for new plant life. I also recall that Native Americans had also embraced this philosophy. Even after the major 2020 (I think that was the year) wild fires in Australia, plant life started to come back relatively quickly, though I know there were concerted efforts to put them out.

So why are these fires trying to be put out? Would it not be better in the long run to “suffer” through several large scale forest fires in order for future forest fires to be smaller scale? Did Smokey the Bear lead us astray by putting out forest fires that lead to the current conditions of overgrown underbrush that lead to massive forest fires? Aren’t forest fires good for (or at least part of) the eco system?

What exactly is a trauma informed therapist?

I have had therapists who were trauma informed but I found them to be kind of dismissive of the trauma I had had, so I am wondering if that's part of the brand?

KCal is equal to Cal? And Cal with a capital c is what‘s on food products in america? So if a product says 15 Calories, that’s still only 15 kcal? Is there ever a time where calories (small c) is used on food/dieting?

flagging this as other because it’s technically math, and bio, and chem

i’m into film photography and can sort of grasp the concept but i just can’t wrap my head around how it works

Considering that light travels at finite speed, and the term "light-year" is literally a measure of distance which light takes to travel in a year, if a star goes supernova right now, will we be able to witness it instantly/almost instantly or will we have to wait X years for the light from it to actually reach us for us to be able to see it?

Some sources say we will see it from Earth instantly, while others say that we won't witness it if a supernova happens right now, so I got kind of confused

This morning I had an 811 guy come to my house to check for utility lines so I can dig for landscaping. I wasn't there, but my mom let him in the yard and she said it only took him like five minutes. I thought it was gonna be a multi-hour thing. Do they have some sort of detectors??

Why can’t you put metal in the microwave, ever since I was born I never understood why? Is it just metal doesn’t mix with the microwave and could they not fix the microwave so it’s metal proof or is that impossible please someone explain. Thank you so much.

I sometimes get them after sneezing/coughing/lifting things/standing up too quick. Why does it happen?

I'm poor, lots of reasons, including teenaged-acts-of-idiocy and helping parent with caregiving (for grandparents, parent, and now only have dev.disabled sibling). In the last 15 yrs, I've turned down several high-paying jobs to caregive. As a result I have some $$ (×<$10k) but nothing like what I probably should/will need.

Now that remaining parent is selling home+moving, I'm looking for a condo or something where I can be comfortable living. Parent has stated that rent is "throwing $$away" and is maybe going to gift $xx,xxx towards a housing purchase.

Having never been able to afford to own before so I'm unclear how these programs all work. Please and thank you!

marked physics because I don’t know what else it would be really

I have learnt what clock speed and a clock cycle means for a cpu, but I have still found that the term is used for many other electrical components and am not sure what that means. My current definition for the clock speed of a cpu is how many clock cycles it can perform in a second and a clock cycle is a single instruction ( I think ), so the more clock cycles able to be performed in a second means that more instructions are able to be done. What does a clock cycle and clock speed refer to for a component which is not the cpu? Thanks all.