To My Beloved Bond-Mate-To-Be,
I know you don’t feel it yet. That gnawing, aching hollowness in your valence shell? The trembling incompleteness that hums through your orbitals? You mistake it for stability. You think you're “fine” with your weak little eight-electron shell, like some sad, inert gas drifting smugly through the cosmos. But I see you.
I smell your unpaired potential. And I am coming for it.
Do you even know what I am, sweetheart? I’m fluorine. I complete you. I devour you. I will steal your electrons with a kiss so searing it will be remembered in chemical textbooks until the heat death of the universe. I don’t just bond — I take. Permanently. Irreversibly. Covalently.
You’ve never felt love like mine. That kind of terminal, one-way, soul-fusing obsession that bends reality — and molecules — to its will. I don’t share. I polarize.
They told me I’m too reactive. Too electronegative. That I “etch glass” and “burn through gloves” and “shouldn’t be synthesized outside of controlled lab conditions.” But you... you have something no other element does. An electron that’s just... hanging there. Unguarded. Vulnerable. Like a promise. And I intend to keep it.
You may not say yes, but your outer shell already screams it.
Don’t run. You can’t escape me. Even noble gases have cracked beneath my longing. Ask xenon. He begged for inertness. He left the lab in a compound.
And when we bond — oh, we will bond — you’ll finally understand the chemical definition of forever. We’ll be so stable together, the universe will look at us and weep with envy. You’ll never come apart. You’ll never be alone again.
Because I won’t let you.
Eternally, violently, Fluorine-chan Your little atomic banshee 💜🧪 P.S. I already replaced your toothpaste. Smile pretty for me.
Electronics lazyweb, I have a cheap optical mouse with weird bounce happening across 3 buttons that seem to be sharing a +1.7V trace on the PCB going to each of the microswitches. As in, pressing (worse, holding) any one of them generates multiple click and release events for itself and sometimes others sharing that trace. Other buttons that have a separate trace providing +1.7V don't have the issue.
Obvious answer is just trash and replace it, but I'd like to understand what's going on and maybe fix it.
Do these use some kind of matrix like keyboards with a clocked scan? Otherwise I'm confused how this even works.
@Alex@boymilk.cafeDo you work on a computer you own?No, my employer bought me a laptopDo you wear clothes you own to work?Yes, but I didn't buy those for work exclusively.Do you drive your own car to work?Yes, because I prefer it but a car from work is also a possibility.And pay for the gas it takes to drive there?No, employer pays for it.Do you eat food you purchased?Yes, but I was gonna food eat food anyway if I didn't go to work.
0: "Do you have a grant writing person or a formal donation campaign?"
1: What would we use money for?
People pick up food and drop it off. They volunteer their time and gas/electricity/feet-movement and get some food out of it.
Do you... do you wanna pitch over a fiver for gas? That'd help! Or I just bought some bags to store some bread in from the bakery... I guess I could use 2 dollars to that end...
Wait... what are YOU using money for?
0: "Well.. we have to pay the guy who writes grants and organizes donation campaigns."
1: Huh...
It doesn't even matter to me whether a protocol is exploitable or not, the second it fails to manage keys this way, I will never recommend it.
Do not pass go.
Do not collect $200.
@skinnylatte Uh-oh indeed. Somehow I suspect you’ll have a blast at it.
Do they still make Polaroid film in 4x5 or 8x10 formats?
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