You’re right, I had it backwards. Hydrostatic equilibrium makes it that the combined force vector of gravity and the centrifugal force is perpendicular to the planet surface everywhere.

This. Planets are in hydrostatic equilibrium, meaning that the combined acceleration by gravity and the centrifugal “force” is equal all over the world (except for local differences due to mountains and dense crust).

The Russian й (e.g. the last letter in the name Sergei) is a semivowel, the only one in the Russian alphabet.

That’s an interesting perspective. Do you think it would be better to have separate legal documentation in German, which you then can refer to in your comments?

I hadn’t even noticed that you didn’t put a space between the number and the unit. Looking it up online, the Bureau international des poids et mesures states that a space is to be used in front of all units, except for °, ’ and ". Dropping the space is very common though.

It’s actually 355 ml.

Oak contains vanillins and wood sugars. French oak tends to taste a little bit more spiced and American oak tends to be a bit more sweet.

When making my apple mead, I always add French oak while maturing, and it makes a huge difference in taste. I add it mostly for the tannins though (the bitter part of tea), which gives it more “chew” (like the difference between white and red wine).

Dag Noorderbuur!

I’m so glad my language doesn’t distinguish between apes and monkeys.

When the resolution of so low you can’t find your own country

The cat is way past catnip already.

As someone from not America, I hope you don’t elect Trump, and we all move away from this authoritarian movement. One can only hope.

I just don’t understand it. I once watched a video of his out of curiosity, as he had the largest YouTube channel, and I just don’t get it. Our country’s TV channel for children is more interesting.

Long live netcat

In Flanders (at least where I’m at) we usually say I grec, but when doing math or reciting the alphabet, we say IJ.

I had a student job with the HPC group at my university. I was working on adding features to some tools they built from the ground up, which was really fun. It’s also nice to work with a bunch of PhDs that are really passionate about their area of expertise.

English can apparently be difficult when drunk.

Downloaded the show because of this meme, was kind of a let down. Please pay back my Pirate Bay prescription.

It’s a world-depending-on-a-few-large-companies problem

Install Gentoo and put the package on GURU, it’s really easy (and .ebuild > PKGBUILD)