Not just with itself, also with other elements. Say, you won’t find pure iron in the wild either, because normally it reacts with oxygen so well.

But yea oxygen needs to pair with something because its outer electron shell is incomplete. So pairing with another oxygen atom is likely, but also with whatever else is available - nitrogen, iron, whatever.

Most elements are found in molecules really, with the exception of noble gasses like Helium. And some are less reactive than others.

Wow I see it completely differently. We’re all just a step of being in a shit situation, including prison. As an ex-taxi driver who’s been pointlessly harassed by cops many times, I keep wondering how far I was from just snapping one day. Actually I downright fantasise about it sometimes.

Guess it can work as a guilty pleasure… But I’ll stick to playing stupid NDS games and such.

In the late 90’s, the technology was incredible tho. The little machines were fucking monsters. A few years ago I’ve got a few portables from that era and even with antiskip disabled, it’s super hard to make some of them skip. With it enabled, it’s probably impossible without the device falling apart.

It’s also interesting how even despite obvious abuse and shitty shipping, those things work perfectly. The cheap plastics and close to zero weight would suggest they wouldn’t last a month, never mind 20 years.

There is/was something like a loudness db. I’ve got a bunch of CDs from the top of the charts and man that’s so good.

If I’m disinterested to the point of annoyance, I block them, if it’s just meh, I leave them unsubscribed. That way I can view either my subscribed list, or the all list if I want to see something else/random.

Blocking communities is a feature in every client and frontend, while blocking instances… Isn’t all that common.

But you’ll have a hard time for a while browsing all by new, my blocklist is in the hundreds… Best practice is to sort by top day or top something, and subscribe to what you want, then later switch to subscribed list.

These have been a few but I can’t find them in my blocklist, so maybe they have died.

But windows are glass, and glass don’t fold. Wait do you have one of those fancy foldable laptops? Lucky

Summit does too, I think

South East? Is that like… India? Just say so, why so cryptic? Idk what cities in India NC and VA mean either, just use geographical names, common, can’t know every city or province or whatever everywhere around the planet.

Sounds very romantic

I don’t, but I’m aware of that (same in cars). I only got into CDs near the end of their popularity, maybe that’s the main reason I’m sick of tapes and like discs. (Altho frankly, any portable/headphone audio was shit compared to what we have today.)

The thing that blows my mind about tape is that copying 1:1 is real time and takes the exact same time as the track is long. Or that making a copy always lowers quality with every generation. Analogue media is whack, man.

Cassette tapes. I like discs, but tapes… Damn that belongs in a museum. Even tho I do admire the technology.

(Unless for like, storage backup and stuff where it can be actually useful.)

Isn’t that how capitalism works, now that I think about it… The more you have, the more you have and the less difference it makes.

We wouldn’t be able to do anything about it, that’s probably the point. It would be interesting to see those discussions they have with each other… “Oh they don’t feel pain like us”, " We’re providing them with a planet, they have good lives" etc.

WhatsApp is the go-to thing around here

Ah okay. I just vaguely remember reading about it ages ago. But as someone whose native language is gendered, I do agree with that assessment at least to a degree. Nouns do have certain tone to them which generally corresponds to their gender as well, such as what I mentioned, words ending with -a usually being feminine and just having that softer vibe than words ending on a consonant. Tho that depends on the particular language of course.

And I wouldn’t underestimate the feedback loop from language to thinking in general. For example it’s well documented how we remember colors is quite dependent on how they’re named.

Well unless that was debunked as well, but considering both linguistics and art are my hobbies, that might shatter my entire world view heh.

No, it’s just how it’s always been, same with all the other grammar constructs like stemming, prepositions, anything. Often it doesn’t convey any additional information and it’s just a bitch to learn.

I mean, if your native language (or one you know very well) has gendered nouns, you may tend to think of inanimate objects as male or female - not all the time, but say, when writing poems and such.

Research also shows that we tend to associate inanimate objects with gendered qualities based on language. So if in your language “bridge” is male, you’re more likely to associate bridges with being strong and tough, while someone whose language has female bridges tends to think of them as lean and elegant. It’s a bit of a feedback loop that way.

But logically, no, no real reason or meaning. When adapting foreign words into the language, the tendency is to follow the habits of the receiving language. Such as if in your language most female nouns end with -a, then you’ll probably use new words ending with -a also in the context or grammar of female gender.

Ed: obviously there’s meaning if it refers to people, e.g. if “customer” has two variants based on gender - that’s additional information of the actual gender of the person. Of course then there’s the opposite issue if the gender of the person isn’t known. Usually there’s a fallback of some sort.

It’s just gonna get worse until everything crashes completely in a way that nobody will own anything they can’t carry on their back.

Questions (or comments) regarding my weight. Leave me alone, I’m skinny, it’s not my problem that everyone else is a fat fuck or a steroid junkie.