Tar_Alcaran

75th percentile in weight for the US

Seeing how 30% of the US is morbidly obese, I’m rather shocked you’re were in a size L at all.

Or you’re using an outdated chart.

Fair. I guess you could read my reply as “they don’t flee to Europe at all”, but I intended it as “they don’t flee to Europe all that often”.

I guess I could have been more clear there, but in my defense, I did elaborate.

I loved Control, it had such a great setting and amazing world building that was constantly reinforced in your surroundings.

The Oldest House was an amazing place. I hope they can match it with the new area, a city just isn’t the same.

I am not interested in a political discussion nor in the overly-common mud-slinging that desperately attempts to label everyone either a hateful nazi or a moronic lefty.

Aren’t you in luck then, because I did neither. Your reaction is pretty over the top though.

Also, seeing how Ukraine is already in Europe, it would take a lot of effort for them not to flee to (elsewhere in) Europe.

Since people from war-torn nations often flee to Europe where they tend to get all kinds of help and support

They don’t do that at all. That’s a deceitful right-wing talking point meant to create xenophobic reactions.

People from war torn nations move to non-war torn parts of their own county, or their direct neighbors. Only a tiny fraction go further, and only a fraction of those go all the way to Europe.

I took a year of civil engineering in uni, then decided I didn’t like it, switched to chemistry.

When I finished my PhD I decided I never wanted to be in a lab ever again, and that academia is absolutely not for me. But it was in the middle of the housing bubble collapse, so my first job was in QA for a factory.

That taught me a LOT of “how things actually work”, completely unrelated to anything in chemistry. It was also fucking shit.

Second job was a major contractor, doing asphalt and concrete development. I started to quickly accumulate side jobs, in quality, safety, compliance etc etc. And since I was still in a damned lab, I jumped at the opportunity to not be. Leaned into the safety and regulation aspects, and they paid for all the certifications and educations. And when I was done, then they reorganized and didn’t need me anymore, which was fine by me because I was off the hook for all the education costs.

So I started my own consulting company in safety and compliance, mostly workplace safety, waste handling, soil remediation etc etc. I do audits from either end of the table and get to handle a lot of tricky problems with a lot of variation, it’s pretty fun. And being self employed in an in-demand field is great!

Can. But shouldn’t.

small levels centered on some gimmick that get boring on replays.

If I never have to fly through pointless glowing circles or highly dubious canyons ever again, it will still be too soon.

Small note on induction.

Since power setting works by turning the element off and on quickly, having a really thin pan with little thermal mass will result in some really weird uneven heating (basically just a hot circle).

The only thing you can’t do is chuck them in the dishwasher.

But mine usually clean with a quick rinse and 5 seconds of brushing.

Nonstick pans are amaaaaazing the first few months. After that, they get non-non-stick in places.

Whose page numbers did you pirate?

Don’t you know the industrialization lifted the material condition of those the party didn’t murder or send to Siberia to die?!

Ah yes, the white manmuscovite burden.

Thanks to denial, I’m immortal!

Not a lot of wildlife needing rescue in high risk areas though.

When the officer asks you to empty your pockets, you say “no thanks”.

Unless you live in the authoritarian states of America

Does a tabletop game with an AI video DM count as a video game?

you mean this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek%3A_The_Next_Generation_Interactive_VCR_Board_Game

Granted, it’s not AI, but this is basically what that scene was based on.

Only if your room is really really warm

The latter. Mercury bromide is highly toxic (I’m pretty sure all mercury salts are highly toxic). Its also a solid, not a liquid.

But mercury and bromine are the only two liquid elements at room temperature in their elemental form, which is why they’re “water”. One is silver, the other reddish brown and syrupy.

I mean, the other part of “why do so many people die from cows” is along the lines of “They work with cow every day”.