Ziglin (it/they)

You American’s lost your manners the moment you sent off that declaration of independence huh? The civilized people on this side of the pond do tend to use utensils for their food.

A roller skate obviously.

I was going to say that it is quite common in Germany too but I guess the Germans brought it with them huh?

What’s wrong with true neutral?

Die Gittertiere scheinen komplexe ethisch Systeme zu entwickeln. !gittertiere@feddit.org

Up in a tree!

You sound awfully confident about that number.

Hmmm my parents always woke me up way too early I got ready and waited for them to do their stuff last minute (though for important things they usually planned ahead a little more) we were often late and it was my fault for not being ready (having my shoes on 10 minutes before we leave).

Parents are clearly just hypocrites.

The table that does it that way is a complete mess but I guess it was a good idea and got some things right.

They first started doing it with valence shells in 1864, Mendeleev had a pretty close one based on atomic weights in 1871 and correctly predicted that there were missing elements based on valences + weights. The atomic numbers which determine the valences appear to have been discovered about 40 years later.

I guess you are correct but I think the question was about the modern table.

Do you have spies behind you when playing cards too?

I don’t use em dashes but I do use punctuation (apparently some people find that passive aggressive and I don’t what to do). When someone else uses punctuation I just ignore it unless it doesn’t match their previous messages.

Doesn’t do it for me on Thunder.

Huh? It’s sorted by number of electrons/protons (atomic number) the mass is dependent on that and the number of neutrons.

The eight main groups are based on the number of electrons missing for the atom to reach a full valence shell. Once it is full (8th group, noble gasses) it starts a new Period (row). I’m not sure how the other groups are chosen (probably some quantum physics that I never had in chemistry class). After looking it up Wikipedia says it just keeps going that way.

Electronegativity describes how much it “wants” to attract negative charges and doesn’t affect the order (Flourine has the highest and is in group 7). I think you may have confused it with ionization energy which would certainly match my understanding of the top half of the periodic table and probably does work for the lower half too now that I think about it.

The groups tend to have similar properties but that is not why they are sorted that way. Hydrogen for example is quite different from other elements in group one. The colours are probably better for finding common properties.

I think providing human rights to it’s citizens is definitely more important, not sure if it is necessarily the primary one though.

So just don’t let them join/kick them from your server?

Yup, checked a few days ago, it most certainly is.

I’d just write C and get annoyed by the #includes having different names.

Aren’t they there by default?

Nice, I assume most people would get annoyed though.

And regret it two days later when you need to get the cat hair out of the server.