TO FEW UPPERCASE LETTERS.

So effectively, what How to Blow Up a Pipeline has been proposing.

Thanks. I translated it on the fly, because it isn’t on the English version of his bio page.

"When the Nazis took the Communists, I remained silent. I wasn’t a communist, after all.

When they imprisoned the social democrats, I remained silent. I wasn’t a social democrat, after all.

When they took the union members, I remained silent. I wasn’t a unionist, after all.

When they took me, there was none left who could protest.

Martin Niemöller

The German translation reads “Du sollst keine anderen Götter neben mir haben” so “[…] no other gods besides me”, which explicitly forbids paying homage to other gods.

The Vatican IS a sovereign country.

Yes/No. There are quirks such as “ton” but in essence you can say 1 million gram and everything is fine. Remembering all those short forms is a nice to have, not a requirement.

Uhm, it might sound arrogant but in metric you don’t need that sort of thing? The next order of measurment is just ±10^x where X is the number of dimensions you want to look at: 10 for i.e. length, 100 for area and 1000 for volume.

Lets look at length: Most commonly used are Millimeter, Centimeter, Meter and Kilometer.

Meter is the base. The name centimeter derives from meter and the Latin word centum meaning 100.So a centimeter is hundredth of a meter (decemeter, 10th, ist not really used much in everyday life). One step further down is millimeter: mille is Latin for thousand, therefore a millimeter is a thousandth of a meter.

Going up Greek prefixes are used: Deka-(10) and hektometer (100) are rarely used and Greek chilloi means thousand and therefore a kilometer is 1000 meters.

Staying in one dimension the same applies to gramme for weight: Milligrams, Gram and Kilograms are the moat common.

Going up in dimensions we use the same prefixes but the multiplyer changes because 10^2 is 100. So to go from 1 m² (one meter to the width times one meter depth) to 1 km² (thousand meters wide times thousand meeter deep)) the multiplier is not 10³ (1000) but 100³.

The whole prefixes are effectively optional and just for better readability.

Well, but every day for a couple of hours our consciousness goes away while we sleep.

That’s the thing: You can’t unless you are already well-informed beforehand.

Yes, it is possible to spot common rhetorical deceptions such as whataboutisms or straw man arguments, but misinformation in general is impossible to debunk in real time unless it defies common sense such as “Immigrants are eating the pets of locals”.

A popular talking point here in Germany when the government was trying to push for installing heat pumps instead of gas or oil based heating solutions was, that installing a heat pump would entail massive renovation costs to make its use viable. This information is semi true because installing a pump in older buildings might indeed require renovations. But exposing this argument as a broad overgeneralization takes so much time and effort that it is impossible to do on the spot, unless you have prepared multiple examples of home configurations and the associated costs of installing a heat pump.

The whole idea behind Steve Bannon’s famous tactic of “flooding the zone” is to flood the discussion with so much misinformation it would take a disproportionately amount of time to debunk it all.

TBH I don’t bother with watching discussions anymore because of this.

Not everything that glitters is (Nazi) gold. /s

I am pretty sure it’s just an effect of the photos’ perspective, but it looks like there are stairs on the far side, leading out of the enclosure: Tortoises can climb by pushing themselves up! Keep that in mind when adding more interior to the enclosure. We had to pick up my mother’s tortoises at our neighbours quite a few time.

… and there was that one time when a neighbour “returned” a tortoise which wasn’t my mothers.

Good point!

I am using PassAndroid

Most of the time these ‘Add to X Wallet’ buttons lead you to an .pkpass File which you can import. The app doesn’t look very nice but it does the job for me.

*Der Spiegel

Just for clarity

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

Bro, you can!

Am I missing something, or are the images for “Traditionalist” and “Modern” swapped?

An orbit sander either requires a flat surface, or it will involuntarily create one.

I want to remove the grime and leftover bark pieces and later apply some finish to bring out the texture.