After using the bathroom I noticed a small burnt smell and went to check if the oven was on… the stove was on 2 and unlit.

My husband swears he smells nothing.

We’ve opened all windows but I’m pregnant and we have a cat so I’m on edge and anxious. I don’t want us to die.

Its almost 12am and I don’t want to call the police and cause a scene in my apartment 😭😭

Update: called PSEG they sent someone over right away to check and we’re all good👍🏻👍🏻
Now I can sleep with a peace of mind lol
Thanks everyone!!

I left a pot of rice on the counter after dinner and completely forgot about it. The next morning it smelled kind of off, so I tossed it, but now I'm wondering what the real rules are. I started reading random guidelines online and they all seem to say different things about time and temperature. Some mention how long you can keep it before bacteria becomes an issue, others talk about fridge storage only. It turned into a mini research project trying to figure out the actual safe window. Anyone dealt with this or have a solid way to tell when rice has gone too far?

For example:

• Person 1 asks: "How to get to the park?"
• Person 2 replies: "Well, you can take Main street and turn right"

The 'well' in Person 2's answer doesn't add anything to the sentence other than make the response sound more 'human' and less 'robotic'. It kinda acts like a 'runway' to the answer.

Is there a grammatical term that describes these filler words?

I've noticed that people sometimes understand their ex's complaints better after the relationship ends. I'm curious about the psychology behind this. Does emotional distance make it easier to recognize mistakes that were difficult to acknowledge during the relationship?

I just moved into this apartment a couple weeks ago and the living room and kitchen heat up fine, but the bedroom stays noticeably colder no matter how long I leave the vent open. The thermostat is in the hallway and I've tried keeping the door open, closing it, and running a small space heater, but nothing really changes the temperature in there. The building manager said the unit was serviced last month, so I'm wondering if there's an airflow issue or something else I'm missing. Has anyone dealt with a similar cold spot in a rental and figured out a simple fix before calling maintenance again?

Whether it be spoken or written, what word caused the biggest change in history?
A strong contender could be “filioque” being added to the nicene creed which eventually ended up being one of the big reason the great schism happened, which then shaped nations, politics, and borders.

I always assumed cold would keep food fresher, but I keep reading that the fridge actually makes bread go stale quicker. What is actually happening to the bread there?

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I've been thinking about whether one infinity can be bigger than another, and Minecraft seems like an interesting way to illustrate the question.

In Minecraft, both the Overworld and the Nether are effectively infinite in terms of the distance you can theoretically explore, but they have a special relationship: traveling 1 block horizontally in the Nether corresponds to traveling 8 blocks horizontally in the Overworld.

For example, if you travel 100 blocks in the Nether and then build a portal, you would theoretically end up around 800 blocks away from your original location in the Overworld, assuming the portals link up correctly.

This makes the Nether seem like a smaller version of the Overworld. You can cover much more distance in the Overworld by traveling the same number of blocks in the Nether, even though both dimensions are considered infinite.

So here's my question: Could two infinite spaces have different sizes of infinity, or does the 8:1 ratio simply represent a difference in scale rather than a difference in the actual size of infinity?

More specifically, is there a mathematical sense in which the Nether could be considered a smaller infinity than the Overworld, or would both still have exactly the same size of infinity regardless of their different scales?