Good thing is, you won’t experience that, so that’s somebody else’s problem.

Das klingt super faszinierend, danke für die Empfehlung!

Morgen ist die Lange Nacht der Museen. Wollt ich Mal in den Raum stellen.

Scheint nicht allgemein zu sein, Berlin zum Beispiel ist erst im August. Ist vermutlich nur in deiner Stadt/Region morgen.

Ich fand den Film gut vor allem in der Darstellung der Banalität/Alltäglichkeit eines Bürgerkrieges und das keiner so recht weiß, was jetzt eigentlich passiert bzw. wer der Feind ist (außer in großen Schlachten zwischen den Hauptkräften). Schwach fand ich ihn in der Hinsicht, dass keine wirkliche politische Stellung bezogen wird. Das schwächt in meinen Augen die Aussagekraft des Filmes. Der Präsident war nur nebulös autokratisch, aber keine Aussage was denn nun zum entstehen der getrennten Staaten von Amerika geführt hat.

Ich habe das Vermächtnis der Tempelritter endlich mal geguckt und es ist ein ganz okayer Film. Unterhaltungskino ist es auf alle Fälle und zum darüber nachdenken ist es nicht gemacht worden. Aber ich musste mehrmals an Stellen fast lachen, was glaube ich von den Machern so nicht beabsichtigt war: nämlich immer wenn sie sich metaphorisch auf deren Unabhängigkeitserklärung einen gewedelt haben. In der derzeitigen politischen Situation der USA ist der Film unfreiwillig komisch.

Let me see, I once saw a wonderful comic about that…

Ah, found it:

First that, but second: what kind of wealth do they have? According to the article they are real estate investors… I don’t really see them moving their buildings or the land outside of the UK. So nothing of value is lost, the wealth is still inside the UK. Only thing that left are two parasites that extracted from society without contributing back.

Naja, die Vorgängerregierung hat sich aber auch echt doof angestellt mit den Problemen bei der Wahl und Giffey generell.

Immer noch kein Grund CDU zu wählen in meinen Augen, aber najut, was willste machen.

That’s my current state as well: if I kill myself just like that, the ones in power won. So I’m not letting them win. Either by surviving or… your option.

To be totally honest: I like the current divided setup for the purely selfish reason of the men’s toilet being less occupied than the women’s toilet at most places with a lot of people.

But that would mean that in average it would be a net benefit to use non divided ones, since then the empty stalls would be used.

Genau um das zu klären ist das Gericht eigentlich da.

Zu schade das vermutlich das Verfahren einfach eingestellt wird.

Pretty sure we mostly know them already. Problem is most aren’t listening.

Rarely do authors think about these kind of things.

The big ice spike on her head looks like roughly 1 kg of ice.

With the values for water content in the air from this table: at 30 °C (since the chapter is in summer) with roughly 30 g/m³, that would mean roughly 30 m³ at full water saturation would be needed to make this one ice shard.

Which is possible considering the class room has probably something like (6x10x3 = 180 m³) as volume. But the picture at end with the buckets full of ice are most likely dragon magic or they would have needed to cool down and dehumify enough air to probably change the local weather.

It’s mostly depression porn with a lot of crying, but not exactly badly written. Dystopia also doesn’t really fit in my opinion, the story plays in our time and world with magical sci-fi elements trying to help common teenager problems. Emphasise on trying.

True, but that factor would have been bigger as well at other places, because Munich wasn’t that important in the past. But admittedly, neither were Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

Just skimmed through the Wikipedia article regarding the WW2 bombing of Munich and found the following sentence:

Munich was considered a special target of allied bombings also for propaganda purposes, in that it was the “movement’s capital city”, the Nazi Party’s birthplace.

So yeah, then I understand why they probably would have nuked it.

Was Munich considered an important enough target for a nuclear attack? I would have thought they targeted the industrial areas around the Rhine or Elbe.

Honestly that would be great, because that means the rear of the universe is nicer than our corner.

I mean, imagine the other way around: we are the nicest ones. That would be one literal hell of a universe.

Does this sort of thing cause problems on Earth with airplanes and zeppelins?

That is completely outside of my expertise, but I would guess not. Most air vehicles are made out of metal on the outside, leading to the vehicle just being a conductor for the electricity passing further on to the ground and not “staying” in the vehicle.

Your islands would probably be enough of a ground mass, that it could store the electrical charge.

First thing that comes to mind: evolution lead to symbiotic union with another coral species that lives of stored electricity from lighting strikes, thereby protecting the other coral type.

Regarding the effect of a lighting strike: the biggest problem would probably be the change in electrical charge on the island as a whole. But not for the island travelers while on the island, but each time they interact with somebody/something from outside the island. Because the difference in static electrical charge would lead to an equilibrium between the two entities, i.e. a lighting strike. So every time a ship would land at the island, it would get zapped. Same if somebody from the island would get close to the ground.

The joke was that’s how the IQ works. It’s a relative measurement, not an absolute. So the average IQ per definition should always be 100, but it also needs constant adjustment.