Because it's not using hot steam, but vapor, it's more like sweating.

The heat exchangers are sprayed with misted water, which evaporates and takes away heat. But the resulting vapor is still only slightly above ambient temperature and can't be reasonably condensated.

I really wonder what's going on in the editors minds here.

The entire premise of the article is "All experts say no, but I think yes" - why would anyone about any topic publish this? If it would be an actual debate, maybe some contrarian but actual experts arguing in favor of sentience, you could get into an argument here. But this article is blatant science denial. Climate change deniers and antivaxxers use the exact same approach "facts say X, but my feelings say Y".

Don't underestimate the stupidity of white people looking for an identity to fill the void of meaning in their lives.

Since New Zealand isn't very big, there's a good chance we're just a fad away from having millions of 22 year olds getting shitty imitations onto their faces thus ruining it for the Maori.

It's not cultural appropriation BTW, because Kaylee and Braden absolutely do have Maori heritage 409 generations ago!

I mean, obviously. They had no other choice after the woke mob and their "slavery is bad, mkay" destroyed the entire workforce market!!!

(/s, just in case)

Wie soll man denn sowas auf Papier bringen???

Wo bekommt man den?

Ich hätte ein paar Denkmäler zu schützen.

And you really think "the elites" are the ones buying and selling here?

Yes, they have a lot of wealth in stocks, but usually they simply own a large chunk of their (or their parents) company and the rest is managed by a fund manager. And if you have millions or billions, you don't need to think quarter to quarter.

What happened to librem anyway? They used to be all the rage, now it's nothing.

One part is a reverse game of chicken, buy the dippest dip to realize most profit from less dippy dip buyers.

The other part is the assumption that this means the tariffs will never actually come or at least in a much relaxed form.

I mean, "safest" is a superlative, not a positive. It's perfectly possible that all other pipelines ruptured three times or more.

Das ist aber trotzdem eine eher unorthodoxe Vorstellung von Demokratie.

Du kannst nicht einfach die Grundgesamtheit nach Gutdünken bestimmen. Und vor allem kannst du nicht die Wahlergebnisse von einer Gruppe auf eine demografisch vollkommen andere Gruppe übertragen.

Naja, das ist schon etwas stark vereinfachend.

Wer nicht wählen kann - sei es aus alters- oder staatsrechtlichen Gründen, kann nicht für oder gegen irgendwas stimmen. Die dann in die Rechnung einzubeziehen, ist in diesem Falle ein bisschen unredlich.

That is ...

Surprisingly deep.

Pronouns are not adjectives, they're pronouns.

Maybe I'm talking weird, but how often do you refer to yourself by any non-reflexive pronoun?

It's not gatekeeping, it's a medical definition.

What's so hard to understand about that?

You're not OCD because you sorted Skittles by color once either.

But trauma, as I understand it, is more like a broken bone

That's a medical trauma, yes. But the situation described here is a light bruise at best.

Yes, these terms encompass a range of severities, but at some point you have to say "No, Terry, a broken nail is not a trauma, and you can't go to the emergency room because of it".

People love the feeling of being super empathetic if they support this language. And others love the feeling of self victimization.

And the actual victims don't get the attention they need, because Terry cries about having made a bad joke yesterday.

Of course there is. As I wrote above: if everything is a trauma, nothing is.

You can't just expand the meaning of a well defined word just because you like the vibe of it applying to the victim group of the day.

... And that in turn means the term is practically meaningless - as you can see in the example above.

If everything is a trauma, nothing is.

Not every bad experience is traumatic. Abusing that word devalues the actually traumatizing experiences. Being an outsider in school and being raped by your dad are categorically extremely different experiences. Lumping them into "traumatic" is just not helpful.