…Right next to the oil furnace in the basement, trying to figure out how to rig it to blow and burn the place down.

“An admirer of the physical sciences are we, sir? Jolly good. Let me get the special tools.”

I’ve always done that with both my parents, but then again I’m Danish. It’s a radically different culture. Families are not seen as particularly inherently important here. It’s usually not even a meritocratic assessment of the family as a unit - it’s an individual one. You might like some people, you might dislike others. Either way, is has almost nothing to do with whether a blood relation exists or not.

“An asshole’s an asshole.”

Edit: Along similar philosophical lines, there’s no particular veneration of age. Age and wisdom might be proportionally related, but one does not guarantee the other. Some people manage only to grow more foolish with age. Precocious children exist.

I’d be very interested in exploring the differences between cultures more with you, assuming you’re willing.

Much like what happened to Digg back at the dawn of time, Reddit’s relentless series of unforced errors, undesirable policy changes and deliberate enshittification finally drove me to seek out an alternative.

Are they now…? Then it seems rather odd - in light of their usual behavior - that they’re just talking instead of acting upon it.

Why, it’s almost like Putin is so completely full of shit that the pressure is forcing it out his mouth.

Aguiar, Ana C. Barbosa, et al. “A laboratory model of Saturn’s North Polar Hexagon.” Icarus 206.2 (2010): 755-763.

Thinking more broadly than just portable devices, EVs seems like an obvious candidate for harmonization. I’m aware that the industry is still settling, but perhaps a set of standard voltages that all charging stations could support and a protocol / interface for dynamic charger / vehicle voltage negotiation wouldn’t go amiss.

You might be suffering from a stroke. I know I am after reading that title.