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I think there are a number of word phrases in English that would be, what are called, Trennbare Verben in German. To give English speakers the idea, when somebody says they “work out”, it’s not like just “work” - it has a specific fitness idea because of the additional word “out”.

In German, the equivalent verb would be “outworking”. In common English grammar, the “out” is always separated. In German, many words can be inserted between working and out - so like “working on the elliptical machine out”. That need not be the case in English, but it often is.

In English I would like to say “I outbuffed the scratch in my car with a chamoisé.”, or “I uppicked a record from the flea market.” or “I uppumped my tires last week.” or “I downfell and broke my ulna while skiing.”

Which is more correct: “I pumped up my tires last week.” or “I pumped my tires up last week.”?

In German it could be “I buffed the scratch in my car with a chamoisé out.”, “I picked a record from the flea market up.”, “I pumped my tires last week up.”, and “I fell and broke my ulna while skiing down.”

I’m just saying we should normalize these two-word combinations as a “standalone verb” concept so the trailing qualifier is not so difficult to parse and locate correctly in a sentence - since each of the meanings absolutely requires both parts of the verb.

There’s some good Art Deco in Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley

Theoretically, it seems second degree murder can be subject to a pardon… https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-pardons-two-police-officers-convicted-murder-black-man-washington-2025-01-23

From the office of the pardon attorney: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/clemency-grants-president-donald-j-trump-2025-present

January 22, 2025 - 2 Pardons

NAME and WARRANT		DISTRICT		SENTENCED							OFFENSE
Terence Dale Sutton, Jr.	District of Columbia	66 months imprisonment; three years supervised release	Murder in second degree; conspiracy; obstruction of justice and aiding and abetting
Andrew Zabavsky			District of Columbia	48 months imprisonment; three years supervised release	Conspiracy; obstruction of justice and aiding and abetting

You’ve obviously never opened a document (with tabs) where your IDE setting doesn’t match what the author used. It looks like shit. Spaces are never, ever, misinterpreted. Tabs are. If your experience in viewing a document depends on a setting that the author had in their IDE, then it is a failure. This is why .PDF files are so ubiquitous, it doesn’t matter if you created it in Microsoft Word with a uniform tab setting, or TEX in a console, it looks the same to the reader. If you cannot guarantee that the reader sees your source files as you see them, then you have failed. Full stop. Tabs should be cast into the dust bin as an archaic pre-optimization that failed in the real world.

Code indentation should never use tabs, only spaces.

OK, it’s really a mathematics equivalence, rather than a scientific fact, but Euler’s Identity:

e^iπ + 1 = 0

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler's_identity

it shows a profound connection between the most fundamental numbers in mathematics.

Disheveled hair. If you have long(ish) hair and you’re going out in public, at least drag a comb through it so you don’t look like a bed-head.

Yes, living well. Happy mostly. Embodying values and dreams - as much as possible since some dreams would have needed to be started years ago to be realized - like my vineyard and my orchard. Mostly it was reinventing myself every five or seven years to follow the lucre (in software development world look for the bright and shiny new thing).

I was self employed for most of the time, and I can recommend that for those who have a pretty good work ethic. Having a goal in high school was also a key factor, since it led to a useful degree. I was also doing constant internal evaluation - like the feeling where you’re going over your desired job description for a job interview - via a journal or a self help program like “The Red Bucket Strategy”. So, in answer to how did this happen question: it was pretty methodical in using the steering gear you have to make course corrections all the time.

Graph A (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk1189) just has model year and not the actual year in the common era. I just assumed all of it was extrapolation from today, which shows a cliff in about 1700 years, so give or take 3700CE.

Is it just me, or does anyone else who sees temperatures in degrees Fahrenheit (without a Celsius conversion) in a summary of a scientific report like this just automatically consider it an American fluff piece and click-bait to be ignored?

You should read the actual report https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk1189.

It might be my naive reading, but it seems that flooding the ocean with 4-5% of the gulf stream flow with fresh water from glacier melt (I think that’s a lot) will cause a shut down in the year 3700 or so. Even I, as a climate change believer, think that’s a little too far out there to be considered germane.

Make note of your friends phone numbers, emails and addresses (not just via social media), especially the ones from earlier years, and keep track of them with regular calls, notes or visits. Forty or fifty years from now, after the cycles of graduations, weddings, babies, moves, etc. you’ll have some golden relationships.

Don’t Look Up - https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dont_look_up_2021

Sort of summarizes the total shit-show that current politicians and billionaires are responsible for.