bleistift2

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[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 5 points 21 hours ago

Sure, but have you ever wasted hours of your life checking the documentation for the exact string of case-sensitive letters that force LaTeX not to yeet your image 45 pages further into the document, because that’s THE MOST PERFECT PLACE to put it?

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

Or they’re confident enough in their parenting that they can allow their daughter to come to her own conclusions about this situation after a while.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is your ISP from a deep red US state? It loads fine for me.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

she doesn’t want to because she knows it will be a difficult conversation.

That’s a lot of assuming. If we argue in her favor, then we might assume that her parents might not be the most receptive. This is a sensible assumption on her part. Any parent whose daughter is suddenly missing will be agitated. This state of mind is not conducive to a rational conversation.

So her reaction makes sense: She asks her brother whom she views as a good bearer of news to just tell their parents that she is fine, so they don’t go crazy. After they’ve calmed down, she intends to explain herself.

I think this is extraordinarily good thinking. Calling her parents immediately with the news that she’s gone will just end in a shouting contest. Not telling them at all is an undue burden on them and might have undesirable consequences like involving the police. This girl seems to do her best to have a calm talk. That’s way more than I’ve come to expect from adults.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago

It also checks your browsing history.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago (4 children)

She said she’d talk to them afterwards. The way I read it she just wants her parents to not panic because their daughter is gone. This seems reasonable to me.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

The alkali metals get more strongly reactive the higher their atomic number.

I thought it was the other way around. Thanks for correcting me.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 days ago

You’d need multiple people. Or a very quick upload schedule.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

Why is it safer to lick Lithium than Caesium?

Radon is a gas. I’d like to see you lick that. Same for the halogens, the noble gases, nitrogen, oxygen hydrogen and probably some I forgot.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 days ago (4 children)

The Greens in Germany were new in the 1980s. They focused on one thing (environmental protection) while still having opinions on everything else.

They were especially popular after the Fukushima reactor incident and when Fridays for Future took off. Otherwise, they suffer from a more right/conservative temperament in the population (currently due to immigration politics).

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 days ago

Distance travelled is not the only metric by which you can judge a route. Others include:

  • Traffic
  • Traffic lights or other stops, since it’s nicer to drive uninterrupted.
  • What turns you need to make (2 left turns over 6 lanes of traffic? Pass)
  • Familiarity
  • Road condition
  • The view
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