At work get emails from all over the world from different departments, all in different languages. Most of the European languages I can sort of work out, at least a bit, but I have no idea with German at all, it just looks like a bunch of random letters.

Ah, I got the Abfalleimer. Didn’t get the other. My German isn’t very good.

It’s used to condition the exhaust from diesel engines DEF

Reduces harmful emissions from a diesel motor. Most new diesel trucks and cars have an exhaust fluid reservoir that needs to be kept full.

It already existed but the popularity of Among Us globalized it and gave it new wind.

You are very lucky.

Red and white striped is sus.

No. Sussed out, means to work something out. Usually implies a certain amount of trial and error, or coming to the realization slowly, depending on the context.

So, “I sussed out how to work the printer”.

Sus, in British English didn’t really have any meaning until the game came out.

So they drill round and you chisel it square.

OHHHHHHHHHH. That’s cool!

Thanks for explaining better than I possibly could.

For those wanting to know how a rotary broach works https://youtu.be/IT8VXQEKzoo

It’s how the internal hex gets put into socket head cap screws

Not with that attitude it’s doesn’t.

Ha yeah honestly it’s weird to me too but they were old boys and did a lot of odd things.

I’m not an expert, but from what little I remember: mercury doesn’t immediately kill you like other poisons. What it does do is build up in your body until it hits a tipping point and starts causing problems. Your body has no way to process or get rid of it. Which was why accumulations of it in seafood was a big deal because eat enough of it, even in tiny amounts over a long time, and it starts to mess you up. The amount of mercury that you would be exposed to by breathing near an open source would be minimal I imagine. Or something like that. Like I said. Not an expert. Better to just stay away from it entirely, I’m sure.

Mercury boils at 356.7©

As I understand it, the danger is the vapour. It boils at a high enough temperature that it’s supposed to be safe for handling.

Aww cry more about it. I’m an LGBTQ refugee that fled Russia. Most of my life I’ve lived under the constant very present fear of deportation, death or at least homelessness, just to hold on another day. What’s worse is I fled to the UK, which looks more and more like Russia every day.

Very little bothers me personally and if anything I have developed an unhealthy habit of thriving on conflict, but that doesn’t prevent me from empathising with others and seeing how some things affect people differently.

It’s called going outside and touching grass and realising people have different contexts for things and that the world is very harsh and parents need not pile on that shit for a kid who may already have trust and confidence issues and viewing things systemically - using actual critical thinking - rather than simply humble bragging about how “tough” you are and how everyone else must be thin skinned and weak.

It’s a slippery slope to reactionary thinking of “good” and “bad” people and that makes it way worse than just macho posturing. I hope you can see my perspective but good day either way.

Idk, they do have peanut butter and jelly in the same jar!

I would imagine the paint is just somehow not mixed. But the horizontal and vertical throws me off because it can obviously be both

Who asks questions? The ones that feel safe asking them.

The ones that get set up and embarrassed? They learn to never ask anything because they’ll get laughed at.

And a young dog knows absolutely nothing. Really, you know absolutely nothing when you’re born into the world.

My grandmother can use her iPhone just fine, thanks. Old people just grew up still very deep in the “shame” style of teaching and so many are incredibly hesistant to learn knew things. They ‘re either proud they don’t know so it’s “cool” or laugh it off and say “haha old dog!”. Learning the new thing would require exposing themselves to a lot of information they don’t know and the struggle of learning it which all that trauma makes them afraid of.

You and another person can experience the exact same things and one can be traumatized while the other is not. Telling your children lies can be traumatic no matter what the context is, because it teaches the kid not to believe what you say is true or to expect fuckery, a bit like the crying wolf thing.

Yeah I’m with you a 100%, but this very much isn’t appropriate behaviour towards a child imo. They may recover, or they may end up on Lemmy rationalising it 20 years later as “hazing” to the horror of onlookers.

A grape doesn’t have weight because a banana is heavier

A mouse can not move because a race car moves faster

Covid can not make you sick because ebola makes you sicker

This is how you think?

I’m not here to play olympics with people who struggle to empathize with others. I’m sorry awful things have happened to you, that doesn’t give you any right to invalidate someone else’s pain.

References at the bottom

Here’s an article

As an example, I could say two things:

1. That took me, like, a minute to google both of those answers. C’mon, dude.
2. Yea good point. I tried to search “does shaming actually teach” but needed to move to “does shaming someone…”. Reading the articles I think “humiliation” is more the keyword here.

The problem with shame, in my experience, has been that it might reinforce one very specific thing strongly but it also closes people off to learning anything else. If they learn the wrong thing, new information changes what’s right, or they simply don’t know something yet it’s hard for them to admit that they’re wrong/missing info.

Being shouted at by an authority figure for leaving your dishes out, for example, might make sure you can’t see a dish without remembering that horrible event so you put it away but the extra baggage that comes with is so not worth it, not even a little.

Ah, fair enough.