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[Il Palazzo]

You'd look like an ass. Kinetic force is worse.

Try bar or torr, if you need a one-syllable word. Just keep in mind that they're larger units than Pascals.

In a pinch you could get away with Newtons or Pounds, under the assumption that the audience understands that it's meant as force 'per square meter/inch' respectively, and knows that you know that too.

[Ulfarr]

Joules are in no way used to measure pressure. Pressure*volume equals joules so that's probably the source of your confusion but these are strictly units of energy.

I'd agree with Il Palazzo on using bars.

[Yoink]

Uh... so "pounds of pressure"?
Alright, cheers. I think "bars" would probably risk confusing the audience. In fact I could just go with "elbow grease..." I'll work it out! Thanks.

[Rolan7]

For bicycle tires (tyres?) we use PSI which is Pounds per Square Inch.

...Apparently we sometimes use Hg for atmospheric/barometric air pressure, because something something mercury scales?  Or Bar, which makes a lot more sense, except that 1 Bar is not *quite* 1 atmosphere...

This is dumb, we should standardize!

[Ulfarr]

To be fair 1 atmosphere isn't quite 1 atmosphere either 

[scriver]

You know what I like? In Swedish oxygen is called "acidium" and hydrogen is called "wetium" and I think that is beautiful.

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[itisnotlogical]

I used to get the occasional spam call now and again, but ever since I visited the big city they've reached critical annoyance. I've installed an app, I've blocked dozens of numbers, I reject numbers that I don't recognize or can't Google to my satisfaction. I get 1-3 calls between 9 and 10 AM every morning. The fact that I've stopped answering doesn't seem to bother them; if anything, the volume has only increased. I'm already on my country's "do not call" list. I am now accepting creative suggestions for messing with the next scam caller that gets through, provided they're a live voice and not a recording.

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[itisnotlogical]

I suppose I could use a 3.5mm cable to connect my phone to my laptop acting as a "headset," but that would only work if I'm at home. Something to try out.

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[itisnotlogical]

Hmm... Intriguing, but I don't have a soldering iron or the cables in your photo. I'll have to do some research, but it sounds dead simple. If I do follow up on this, I'll hack a cable as you suggested, but I'll also look into the bluetooth option.

[Il Palazzo]

Can anyone explain to me what the title of P.K.Dick's book: 'A Scanner Darkly' means or refers to? It has always looked to me like a random collection of words. Even the structure doesn't seem particularly English.

[scriver]

I used to think "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" was called "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep"