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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it offensive for me as a man to dress as a male version of a female fictional character for Halloween?'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure there are other exceptions

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Printer ink solution?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s looking at you and your stellar body

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To be rejected by a desk...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A desk reject, also known as a desk rejection, is when your paper is turned down by a journal or conference, prior to them sending it out for review. It basically says: either your paper is rejected for technical reasons (i.e., not within the page limits or clearly written by AI) or it’s so shitty, nobody wants to waste the reviewer’s time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i need an rv, and lab equipment, and a helper⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s different if you control the whole supply chain obviously, that’s one of the exceptions I talked about

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i need an rv, and lab equipment, and a helper⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They are all enabling drug cartels, so no, none of them are good. We can’t go around and say companies if not by law are at least morally responsible for child labour and forced labour camps in their supply chain and at the same time ignore that every fucking dealer gets their shit from sources that do the very same thing. There might be exceptions for some drugs, I’m not that deep into it, but in general there is no moral way to sell illegal drugs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i need an rv, and lab equipment, and a helper⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s a good person

  Not the person I’m replying to, that’s for sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whoever wrote this headline has never encountered a passenger train before in their lives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not if your goal is to reach net zero emissions at some point

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whoever wrote this headline has never encountered a passenger train before in their lives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are definitely use cases for battery-electric trains:

  • We have these in Germany usually in areas with low traffic. E.g. if a train line is only serviced a couple of times a day, it’s more cost-effective to carry the batteries with you than to electrify the line.
  • Another use case are train ferries. They are the reason why Germany also had Diesel-powered high-speed trains for a while.
  • Another challenge in Europe is the lack of harmonization of power supplies of train lines between countries. In cross-border traffic, trains have to be adapted to work with different energy supplies. Battery-electric trains can add flexibility for these scenarios. E.g. Germany uses AC 15 kV 16.7Hz, the Netherlands DC 1.5 kV on low-speed and AC 25 kV 50Hz on high-speed lines. When a train goes from the Netherlands to Germany, it disconnects from the Dutch system and reconnects to the German system on the fly. For a moment in between, the train loses power. If the train lacks momentum or has to stop unexpectedly, the train is stranded and has to be pushed over the border by another train that is independent of the power supply.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon meets a good man⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s very popular, I’ve seen it a lot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colorblindness check!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  🖕🤘 🤘👉

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Irish Journalist Excellence⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A bar chart for this kind of data makes no sense to me as the bar doesn’t really represent anything. A scatter plot is a good choice and adding a connection line for readability is imo not so bad. It should however be inverted going up to 1 and not down to 0.