The slightly worrying part is though, that they apparently were in an ionized state before… 😬

Blizzard: WHAT THE HELL?

Wouldn’t that not just be British spelling meaning the same and coming with the same ambiguity?

Well, anyway, better stay away from high level electrostatic fields, just to be on the safe side! ;-)

That is great news! Workers unite!

Although I actually came here to tell what a strange word “unionized” is.
I am an engineer and at first I was like “They have WHAT???”
Took me some moments and actually reading the article to figure it out. :-)

By now really want to see what a American (you are from the U.S.?) furniture store looks like. Wonder if there is something on youtube, must have a look…

Damn, you are actually right. Just did a deep dive into Wikipedia and it turns out that I misinterpreted the curves showing the tax percentage depending on the income completely wrong during my whole life. It doesn’t show the tax percentage to be applied to your earnings, but you have to integrate over the curve from 0 to your income…

TIL…

No, I am the guy that just a few weeks ago got told that he can’t open the window of the joint staircases anymore to let out the stale summer heat, because then the pigeons would fly in.
I am the guy that can’t use the easternmost quarter of his balcony any more because it is constantly covered under shit from the pigeon-meeting-place above.
I am the guy whose car is covered in off-colour smudges because the pidgeon-piss from the tree above has corroded the paint.

I am pretty sure that most of the people here that like pidgeons would think completely different when they had to live with them in close quarters and have their quality of live noticeably reduced.

Other birds are great, though! We have sparrows, tits, blackbirds, dozens of other types. All great!
Occasionally a pair of crows is visiting. Those are impressive birds! Intelligent as fuck, don’t give a shit but stay out of your way if you don’t want to interact. And, double Bingo: the pigeons don’t like them!

Only problem is, we are by now in a technological position that the next collapse has a decent chance of being our last collapse.

Having both, that sounds really unimagenly strange and alien to me… 😯

So the more a shame that most times we leave them to their grim fate in the urban hell we brought them to with us!

Given the fact that they mainly were a food source instead of noble mail carriers, perhaps having been abandoned in reality has not been that bad a fate…

🤪

Well, more metaphorically and limited to densely populated areas. I mean, rural pigeons are great!
But their city dwelling cousins are mostly poor beasts, malnutritioned, disease plaqued, often invalid: half blind, missing leg, barely enough feathers to fly even short distances.
On top of that a public health issue. So the rat comparison mostly holds, I am afraid…

And if we are talking about other birds than pigeons - totally different topic!

Sure… a typical setup strictly for growing “lettuce”. Nothing else to see here…!

Happy about airborne rats?
Seriously?

I meant tailgaiting with your train ;-)
(but yes, I am aware of the systems that prevent that, heard some interesting talks about the topic and seen demonstrations in our local railway museum)

Locomotives? What is your profession?
In any case, I seriously hope that you are not tailgaiting ;-)

You before said it was based on the stuff that is used for college dorms, so I gathered he was looking at similar offerings as in other stores but just assumed it to be smaller because of some Ikea-specific reasons instead, so he then had to make up a suitable reason.

But on the other hand, perhaps he knew that College dorms are not a thing in Europe and had to find a reason the Ikea sold small furniture regardless of this.
In that case his remark wouldn’t have been stupid at all but a valid speculative thought process based on deeper cultural knowledge.

Who knows…

I am pretty sure physics says “no”:

Ff <= µ*Fn

• Fn is proportional to the mass of the trailer, so it is irrelevant for the deceleration (a) if it is empty or not (because Ff = m*a).
• µ is a constant relying on the tire/ground connection. Comparable to the towing car (if you happen to have car tire quality ones on your trailer, which might be doubtful)
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On top of that, typical car trailers use overrun brakes that per definition work by exerting an additional force on the towing vehicle in the direction of movement that is then used to activate the trailer brake.

I really wonder what happens during meditation to those people without an inner monologue…