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Plastics, waxes, solvents, synthetic fibres and even pharmaceuticals. There are second order products from cracking like hydrogen which are important for things like fertilizer but that is rather carbon intensive.

You can use organic oils for some of these. However organic oils are more complex so need to be broken down into simpler building blocks which all takes energy and processing. Of course you also need to grow oil bearing plants which also tend to require a lot of fertilizer.

Time your run with the pulsing sphincter!

My first year Chemistry dissertation was about this. Of all the useful things you can do with hydrocarbons burning them is the most wasteful.

Hmm I see nothing - I guess the posts don't federate back to .ml?

I joined the .ml server because it was the dev server. Looking at the communities I subscribe to most are on other servers. Occasionally people ascribe beliefs to me based on my home server but so far I haven't bothered looking for a new home.

When I first joined there were a bunch of popular instances that closed down so choosing a non-dev server seemed like a bit of a gamble. Same with mastodon servers.

We also have the very catch all of "disturbing the peace". Some friends of mine got done with that because the police had been called despite no actual crime being committed. They were eventually "bound over" for a year which is basically a deferred fine to encourage you not to do anything that attracts the police's attention.

I don't begrudge peoples difficulties with English. It has some positives like not needing gendered conjugation for objects and a fairly wide cultural exposure. However it freely steals words from other languages making it a bit of a mongrel. Also the spelling and pronunciation is entirely non-regular so the usual answer to people looking for rules to work these things out is "just know".

Thanks. Are they related? I don't understand any Asian languages myself but I do recognise difference in for example the Korean symbols and Japanese ones. But Japanese and Chinese ideograms look very similar to my ignorant eyes.

It's super common if it's any sort of open source project because the collaborators can be anywhere and English is a good baseline.

IIRC one of the big tasks when Star Office became Open Office (later Libre Office) was translating a bunch of the German comments to make the code more accessible.

I'm sure I've seen some majority french code bases as well. There are certainly academic hypervisors out of China which have comments in Chinese kanji.

They have their own flags, languages, laws and legislative assemblies.

Debian for the stable base flatpak/snap/src for the bleeding edge apps.

Sure, you own a little bit more of it with every mortgage payment.