You’re right. Sorry for getting my post-7pm arithmetic skills on you. However, my point still stands. ‘Close’ is not ‘conforming’ to the standard.

I didn’t know Euro and Farad were related :O

I’m German. If the pages are a comfortable size, why does no publisher ever use A5 or A4 paper? To quote an answer I gave to another comment here:

Let’s check. I grabbed four random German books from my bookshelf. If you’re right, the pages should either be roughly 30cm×21cm (A4) or 15cm×10.5cm [Edit: 21cm × 15cm] (A5).

Book 1: 18cm × 11.5; book 2: 19cm×12.5cm; book 3: 20.5cm × 12.5cm; book 4: 24cm × 17cm. None of those conform to the standard.

Another hint that the paper format is weird is that scientific papers on A4 are always either printed in two columns or use the ninths rule for margins, i.e. 1/9 of margin on the inner and upper edges and 2/9 of margin on the outer and bottom edges, essentially throwing away almost half of the page (I’ll admit there are more economic recommendations of 1/11 or 1/13). This is to make the columns narrower to get closer to the target of 60–80 characters per line. Note also that this makes the ‘usable’ area approximately 20cm long, which is much closer to the American’s ‘Legal’ format (216mm).

almost all consumer printers are for a4.

I never said A4 wasn’t the standard. I said it’s not a good one.

books in a4 size actually consist of a3 sheets bound together in the middle. (same with other sized books)

Let’s check. I grabbed four random German books from my bookshelf. If you’re right, the pages should either be roughly 30cm×21cm (A4) or 15cm×10.5cm [Edit: 21cm × 15cm] (A5).

Book 1: 18cm × 11.5; book 2: 19cm×12.5cm; book 3: 20.5cm × 12.5cm; book 4: 24cm × 17cm. None of those conform to the standard.

To be fair, A4 yields unwieldy pages that are too long to comfortably read. And when do you ever need the feature to fold an A4 sheet into A5?

I used to have trust in the peer review process, thinking this is why it takes months or years for a paper to get published. Are you telling me it’s not real?

Ja

And we thought boomers reading shit off Facebook was bad. Now they have AI feeding it to them.

Eine wissenschaftliche Umfrage war nicht zu erwarten. Aber selbst Hans-Günther hätte doch auffallen müssen, wie dämlich

Forderung zur Rücknahme des Verbots

formuliert ist…

Why the fuck would they name it PRISM?

That might depend on the police force (i.e., state) we’re talking about. My colleague told me that when he hit a deer and called the police with the deer still lying around, they just shot it.

Where do these random medieval drawings come from? And who finds them?

This is Germany. Most bullets fired here end up in deer instead of people.

Sprudelwassertrick

Du meinst, Pommes in Sprudelwasser frittieren?

Autobahnen sind ebenfalls ziemlich breit

Jeder sollte einmal in seinem Leben eine Autobahnüberführung unterqueren (ich hoffe, die Präpositionen sind richtig herum). Da braucht man echt lange für.

Als plötzlich „Nudeln ausverkauft” waren waren es auch nur die billigsten Nudeln, die nicht mehr auf Lager waren. Soo wichtig, dass man ein paar Cent mehr ausgeben könnte, war den Leuten ihre Panik dann auch nicht.

„Vegetation” ist einfach ungenutzte Fläche wie das Gestrüpp an Bachläufen oder was?

Technically, the oath says not to ever perform an abortion.

I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.

Though there may be a loophole, since Hippocrates seems to acknowledge the existence of surgeons (“I will not use the knife, […] but I will give place to such as are craftsmen therein” ), and his oath doesn’t seem to apply to them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath

It would be nice if they actually taught you something useful in that degree. I say that as a B.Sc.

Old people without glasses, maybe?