when you’re using a sailing ship, you’re not actually using wind to drive, instead you’re using the energy within the wind’s movement, that’s what you’re using to push the ship forward. the air does not get consumed in some kind of air-eating machine or sth

it’s similar with electricity. the electrons rarely get consumed (exceptions exist, mostly in electrochemistry)

there should obviously be indexes which tell you what stuff exists. stuff like amazon where you search for “desk” and it shows you the 10 desk providers that can be delivered to your location.

Yeah i have that.

My best advice is that it matters more where you’re going than where you’re coming from.

all advertisement is bad. best to avoid all of it. use the fediverse, don’t use commercial internet platforms.

well, i can concur. my eyes have trouble adjusting to looking into the distance when i have spent hours in front of the screen. they adapt after a few minutes to hours though.

kein problem ;-)

i mean i agree that most people prefer to live in small groups. i was just pointing it out for reasons that i now forgot.

also, Johnny, it’s really weird to be called by name somehow. especially mid-conversation.

because of WW2 and the experiences made there.

if euthanasia was legal, it would be immediately used against some kind of disadvantaged group, which is why it’s kept forbidden.

i would be a bit more careful when ascribing general character traits to all humans because frankly, humans can be extremely different depending who you’re interacting with.

Yeah and these goggles will also save you from oil drops flying around and into your eyes when you fry some fish in the pan.

eh i don’t have the energy to explain it rn in full detail but let’s say at the least i think that literature (of all sorts) should be a non-profit thing, not written for profit. and monasteries were the closest to a non-profit thing that you could get in the medieval ages.

How did bookwriting monasteries sustain themselves in the medieval ages?

I think that newspapers should be surprisingly similar to that.

like no. i never cared but also i’m not a normal person

people have different tastes. it’s routine that i find the women most attractive that others find most unattractive, and vice versa.

autistic girls exist, you know?

Spaceflight creates jobs.

they can

when you eat fruit, the sugar can enter your bloodstream directly through the mucosa in your mouth, you don’t even need to swallow it. although the main part of the absorption happens in the colon still.

The thing is that cows can’t digest grass either. They have an extra stomach along their oesophagus which is basically just a pouch where the grass goes in first. There are a lot of bacteria and they can digest grass. Then these bacteria grow because they eat the grass.

Then the cow swallows these bacteria and digests those. That’s where a cow gets their calories from.

no. it’s just another thing to make people upset at each other. ignore what they say.

If somebody owns shares of $company_A, they have to pay 1% of the shares annually, which become public property. This way, the means of production (company shares) slowly become public property over time.

you can never make art again