STOP GETTING OUT OF THE WAY
Stay at your post for fuck's sake. Make them fight you. Drag it out, make it slow and expensive, make them look bad.
Don't just offer them your chair and the keys to the kingdom and tell them here let your stooge take over, have fun
Individual oxygen atoms are very very grabby; they're stage-5 clingers on PCP. They're straight-up homewreckers, and they cannot and fucking will not be alone. They need a friend or two, and they will go and rip molecules apart to take them because fuck you.
Now, if there's nothing else available, they'll pair up with another oxygen atom, and form O2, what people normally call oxygen; the stuff you find in the air.
But it's an uneasy alliance, and the bond angles are all wrong so it's kind of spring-loaded.
And the same goes for lots of other molecules - carbon-carbon or carbon-hydrogen bonds ferinstance are also kind of tense and uncomfortable; it takes a surprising amount of energy to snap them into place, like building a tower of interlocking mousetraps.
So smack an O2 at reasonably high speed (or in other words, at a high temperature) at big structure of carbons and hydrogens, and it's fucking chaos.
The oxygen-oxygen bond splits, and the two halves grab the other atoms, ripping the structure apart and releasing all the energy that went into spring-loading those bonds.
The main byproducts are CO2 (a carbon with two oxygens) and H2O (an oxygen with two hydrogens), both of which are very low-energy, strong bonds.
They're both gases, and all that energy leftover is released as heat, which does two things:
So you get plumes of glowing hot gas-and-particles streaming off the stuff that's burning - and hot air rises, so the plumes point upwards.
But they also cool down quickly in the air, below the glowing-hot point, and that's why flame has a shape: the boundary is how far as they get while still hot enough to glow.
Of course, hydrocarbons and carbohydrates aren't the only things that burn, there's lots of other molecules you can do this to, and the same principle applies. It's just that carbony things tend to burn easily and well, and we're surrounded by the stuff because that's what living things are made of, so that's what you tend to see being on fire the most.
Oh my fucking god - Facebook has redacted the number of reactions.
Little pissbabies.
Because the conditions required for fascism to take root have been incubating for decades.
Massive wealth inequality, insecure employment, non-existent labor laws and worker's rights, hollowed-out education, healthcare and social services, large corporations getting to write their own laws verbatim, political parties sucking dick for their donors, endless war ensuring unlimited money for the military-industrial complex, demonization of brown-people-of-the-week, fetishization of 'the troops' and ongoing acceptance of brutality.
People are poor, desperate, ignorant, exploited and forgotten, they're shown every day that killing the shit out of outsiders is the solution to all the country's problems, anyone pushing actual progressive ideals is shut down and demonized as a threat to the profits of the 0.1%, giving people a choice between rightwing bastardry and neoliberal bastardry as their only lens through which to see the world.
Give that the opportunity to flare up and of course it's fucking going to. The republicans want it, the dems do nothing to prevent it.
It's like watching a party get the wrong kind of rowdy all night, you keep supplying drinks regardless, then you wonder why it turns into a fight, oh no how could this ever happen?
Cut bits of a girl baby's genitals: jail.
Cut bits off a boy baby's genitals: An occasion for a fucking party.
Sex work is work.
The people that do it deserve respect, and all the social and legal protections that attach to any other kind of work.
Your own preferred attitude to sex isn't the point.
Female as an adjective is perfectly fine.
A female patient, a female politician, a female customer, etc. That's the best way to refer to those.
What's bad is using 'female' as a noun: "A female. "
In general, you just don't use adjectives-as-nouns to refer to people. You don't call someone "a gay", "a black", or "a Chinese". That is offensive, and "a female" has the same kind of feel.
(there are exceptions to the above: you can call someone 'an American' or 'A German", but not "A French". I don't understand why - if you can't feel your way, best just avoid it)
Now, you could get around it by calling someone "a female person" - except that we already have a word for "female person", and that's "woman". And to go out of your way to avoid saying "woman" makes you sound like some kind of incel weirdo, and you don't want that.
This never was about Hamas, and never was about the hostages.
It's about exterminating Palestinians and destroying their infrastructure, while ensuring that enough of the survivors are radicalised enough to keep the military funding going.
I mean, it won't let me. Windows Update inists my PC doesn't meet the minimum spec, and I'm not inclined to argue with it.
Your body is constantly generating heat. If that heat has nowhere to go, your temperature goes up and up.
You need to be in an environment that sucks heat away as fast as you create it - and if the external air temp isn't cold enough to do that on its own, then you have to rely on evaporation of sweat to help shed the heat.
If that doesn't cut it, you die.
Yea, but let's design some to work on male bodies. Dresses are generally built for female body shapes, and rely on curves most guys just don't have in order to complete the shape - so we end up looking like Graveyard Barbie in them.
Guys tend to be a lot more oblong, and the overall design would need a rethink in order to actively work with that shape, instead of unsuccessfully trying to compensate for it.
No, I don't know how to do this.
I worked for a company once that installed a remote-activation killswitch in their drivers, as a secret weapon to force the customer to stay current on their maintenance contract.
The CEO was a fuckup however, and the code killed their system even without being activated - resulting in a bunch of angry phonecalls and some of the most egregious lying I've ever heard.
god, he was a piece of shit