This would have made my high school task of memorising the first 20 elements ALOT easier.
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I have it on good authority there is a 5th element. I saw it in a documentary. It's ... perfect.
Remembered this film this morning while listening to Tricky, and weird it is that Tricky is in it (and Lee Evans!). It’s like Eurotrash: The Movie with Bruno The Singing Bartender there as a thin veneer of Hollywood respectability.
The people that need to understand this, will not understand this.
They won't even notice the "others" part because they refuse to wear their glasses
Perhaps if we started using SVG or PNG instead of compressed JPG for graphs, it would have helped a bit.
I come for the memes but stay for the pedanticness
Oh, you still think they know how to read graphs?
and stars are enacting the trans agenda to turn Hydrogen into Helium
Everytime I wake up in the morning, it's because the light of a star has made me woke. Coincidences? I THINK NOT!
I'm shooting at the stars rn to defend you from woke!!!
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We also know elements can't change to a different element through any kind of reaction or anything that would be absurd. I'm tired of these woke scientists.
Have you tried alchemy?
Alchemy started as a hastily invented way to disguise a piss-drinking fetish that got way way out of hand.
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Oh yes, the statistical mindset. Similarly, one could argue that for large integers, statistically there is no prime numbers.
Statistically, there are no small integers.
Depends on the definition of small
Depends on the definition of numbers
It is UNUSUAL for an element to not be either hydrogen or helium. There is nothing wrong with it. It is simultaneously totally OK, an ABSOLUTE MINORITY position, and notably UNUSUAL considering statistical evaluation.
You can ascribe whatever meaning to that you want, but it is not a statistically typical position to be an element that is not hydrogen, not helium, and... Well... It's also pretty unusual to have extra neutrons or something and be BETWEEN hydrogen and helium.
Again, this is TOTALLY FINE. And it is accurate in other hypothetical contexts which are in no way being referenced here. These group sizes are still, of course, in no way the same.
It's not super uncommon to change from hydrogen to helium, but in other contexts... Yes it is. Still totally fine.
Everybody is just getting along the best he/she/they can, but PEOPLE have rights, we don't need to argue for rights by common-washing. It ain't common.
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