It is a general trend: People believe some random crap over expert statements.

So we now have idiots of the 2nd order: They believe the AI hallucinations and defend them as if they were their own hallucinations. Nice.

Indeed. It is one of those things he is, truly, the greatest at!

I sometimes wonder if a large part of his 'appeal' isn't akin to the fascination people have with accidents: I mean, his train of thought derails so often there's always plenty of opportunity for 'shock value'.

The polarisation of politics right now is just evolution experimenting with the correct response to a Trump in our time...

Pretty much everything not big-name-brand that's on Walmart or Amazon is marked up 25% or more from the Aliexpress price for exactly the same product. If you're willing to wait for it to come from China, you can get the same crap for less. I've just placed an order for an item that's $200 on Amazon and was $150. I expect it to take maybe an extra week.

A civil war is more likely than maggots reading something.

Calc will generate pivot tables, but not with a live WYSIWYG interface where you can tweak it as you go. It creates a new tab in your sheet after you fill in a dialog which is static, so if you want a current one or want it to be slightly different, you have to create it all over again.

I hear that these days it handles very large files OK, so IMO this is the last major feature needed before it can really be taken seriously as an Excel replacement.

You mean like Teslas have done in incident after incident, including several where people have died?

Well, shit. My phone are my reply which was quite long. So sorry my second go will be worse.

The EMF requirement is yours not mine. I don't see why an emf of 0 is a problem. Just a special case of complex impedances. But given your requirement capacitors fit.
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I've also never heard the term "series loop" before, and that only holds for a pair. What would you call it work 3, 4,5 or more capacitors connected how I specified as parallel?

When you say"no it only behaves that way", that's what I was talking about. A paralleled set of capacitors can be plugged in and behaves as one capacitor too am external circuit. Circulating currents or not ate part of that. A parallel R And C behave as a single complex Z externally, and certainly have circulating currents even in the ideal case.

As for describing it with a single capacitor, this is where pedantry falls because it goes all the way down.You can't describe a single real capacitor as an an ideal point lumped element. So one night as well say "good luck describing any real capacitor as a single capacitor". To preclude one and not the other you have to pick a very specific level of approximation to make your definition of parallel.

Though this of course is where the OPs answer comes from. A pair of ideal capacitors connected in parallel is a single capacitor. The ideal model doesn't work for only having the left half of a capacitor charged in isolation. Or alternatively implies infinite currents. But since it's not ideal...

Imagine you have R, C on series with a battery. R charges C too 10V and then C2 is connected in parallel with C. You are I presume on with that. Now let R get very large. At some point, say 10^12 ohms, it becomes indistinguishable from a cut wire. So at what point does it become not parallel?

On to the switches. I have a DC powered device with some input filtering, namely a couple of capacitors in a series loop with the pair of those forming a series loop with the rest of the circuit. Is that how I should describe it when off? I can assure you any EE would look at me like I had sprouted an extra head of I said that when the circuit was off, and parallel when on. It's the same circuit diagram after all!

Let's be real. It still has quite some way to go. But unless there are drastic changes in the voter population, that is where it is going.

Yes. Lets hope not too rough (as in WW3 or the like), but yes. It had to happen. And it will be be ultimately a good thing.

While certainly historically accurate, do you think the MAGAs can be really reached that way? They seem so deeply stuck in their made-up parallel universe that nothing can shake their deep and entirely baseless conviction that they are right.

Must have been a long, long time ago ...

That would be sort-of a good thing. But the reality is that the US voter population is broken and wants to remove democracy.

Racism is universally bad. I guess that detail is a bit too complicated for you ...

And on the other hand, said comedian does a far better job than any career politician would have done. Maybe these people are valuable to society?