Not for everything and not good enough though.

Especially for something as complex as mental illnesses/trauma your body has hardly any ability to heal by itself.

Though then we can get pedantic: How long should you feel down when someone you love died? Because I don’t consider it a bad thing for something like this to take a while before healing. It’d suck to attend their funeral having completely healed already.

Are you also happy about play things (toys), fire things (lighters), hit things (drums), work things (tools) and green things (greenery)?

(a <=> b) <=/=> [(b => TRUE) <=> a]

This is a critique of honor societies which do not serve a point in proving someone’s “honor”. The college requirement is essentially: Join this club to prove you have joined this club. Anyone can join an “honor” society without demonstrating anything related to honor, meaning:

([Joining an honor society] => TRUE) <=> [Being allowed to join college]

Being allowed to drive a car implies having a license and having a license implies being allowed to drive a car. Neither of these implies TRUE - in an ideal world at least.

By the way, TRUE is a tautology because it is always true, which is the definition of a tautology. Unnecessary repetition is not a requirement of a tautology.

Sorry, I wasn’t quite clear.

What I meant is that more expensive houses should pay more insurance - just that the property value of the house is usually not the correct metric for determining whether a house is expensive. After all, it takes hardly any cost to reconstruct a lawn even though every square foot of lawn raises the property value.

Plus it can help prevent gentrification to avoid your insurance skyrocketing the moment an investor turns every property in your neighborhood into luxury flats.

The price should be [cost to rebuild an identical house] * [expected monthly risk of catching fire]

Invest the yearly excess into something stable to pay for when a large wildfire happens and a large amount has to be paid.

Property values shouldn’t be part of the equation because they’re massively overinflated and rather useless.

The risk part is extremely important because houses built out of matches should probably cost more to insure than houses built with fire safety in mind.

Huh seems weird. Doesn’t the US have extremely broad contract law that would make this a contract violation that can be legally enforced - including seizing your salary or bank account until the penalty is paid?

Over here you can park for free exactly once and successfully deny payment if you claim it was someone else who violated the contract. However, you can then be legally forced to sign a declaration that your vehicle will never park there again with significantly higher violation fees.

Well, at least not in the same way as email with a centralized server.

Unlike email, most modern messaging services are end-to-end encrypted. If an abusive professor manages to manipulate their victim into deleting the messages (and does so as well) it’s nigh impossible to verify accusations. With email, the university’s email server keeps them stored and visible.

Unencrypted messaging poses severe privacy risks since - you know - the messaging service can read every single message.

Usually I am all for encryption, though for official communication I don’t think it’s the best idea. It does have the minor drawback that particularly sensitive information isn’t sent (such as exam scores) but you can just check them on the university’s web portal anyways.

Modern meaning American?

All communication with professors has to be official over here to prevent abuse. Phone messages don’t leave a trail that can be investigated, emails do.

Plus I’m pretty sure you could insist on getting a phone number from your university if you didn’t want to share yours with them or if you didn’t even have one, for some reason. That would just lead to an enormous hassle for the university over here, it’s easier to just give every student an email address.

ENERGIE was the first thing I could see.

I had to look it up, it’s the technical term for a certain firefighting vehicle.

In particular, what distinguishes it from a normal crew firefighting vehicle (Löschgruppenfahrzeug) is its equipment for “Technische Hilfeleistung” (technical help-providing) which basically means it carries equipment beyond basic extinguishing agents. If you’re physically stuck in your car after a crash, a Hilfeleistungslöschgruppenfahrzeug has to arrive to cut open the doors.

A Hilfeleistungslöschgruppenfahrzeug

A (small) Löschgruppenfahrzeug. Note that it only contains firefighting equipment.

I can imagine little worse than doing what you just described although that is (in part) due to moderate social anxiety. I behave in the exact opposite way - ignoring people regardless of how much they stand out because I don’t want to stare.

Though I can imagine what you’ve been doing has helped others.

You would?

I use public transit daily and hardly ever interact with anyone. Maybe there is one interaction every 100 days? I don’t frequently see two strangers interacting either, it’s unheard of except maybe for retirees with effectively infinite time.

I can’t really answer/reply to most of your comment but there is something about the last paragraph that I can respond to:

What about bi-/pansexual men? They exist [1][2] and there will be many that are attracted to people in between gender( expression)s.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisexuality
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pansexuality

To be fair, I haven’t heard of that song.

My sole intention was to show how shitty London Bridge looks, the comic’s bridge reminds me more of Tower Bridge (due to the towers on the bridge).

That’s not London Bridge.

This is:

Turret3857 is not in the sudoers file.

This incident will be reported.

Wouldn’t that be akin to adding new features? Adding support for previously unsupported (due to their lack of existance) hardware is a feature imo.

Besides, while a program may eventually be bug-free, no modern computer has flawless hardware so creating a large program without bugs will always remain a thought experiment.

The only possible reason to do it would be if an alien civilization were to demand producing such a program or else they’d destroy Earth (similar to Erdős’s thought experiment with finding Ramsey numbers). Perhaps with all of humanity’s resources and a few decades this could be done.

Absolutely, I was thinking more along the lines of focusing solely on bug-fixing.

Eventually: Yes.

There are a finite number of bugs (or bug types rather, you could have infinitely many bugs from the same few lines of code) and it will take finite time to fix them all. You cannot know when you have fixed all of them though. But some games have gone above and beyond with fixing bugs, like Factorio where you will not encounter bugs without explicitly looking for them.

Assuming the bathroom is in a hallway, having the door open into the hallway would cause the flight path to be narrowed which would be against (some) fire code(s).

After all, significantly more people would want to flee through the hallway than out of a room adjacent to the hallway.