Or they’re confident enough in their parenting that they can allow their daughter to come to her own conclusions about this situation after a while.

Is your ISP from a deep red US state? It loads fine for me.

she doesn’t want to because she knows it will be a difficult conversation.

That’s a lot of assuming. If we argue in her favor, then we might assume that her parents might not be the most receptive. This is a sensible assumption on her part. Any parent whose daughter is suddenly missing will be agitated. This state of mind is not conducive to a rational conversation.

So her reaction makes sense: She asks her brother whom she views as a good bearer of news to just tell their parents that she is fine, so they don’t go crazy. After they’ve calmed down, she intends to explain herself.

I think this is extraordinarily good thinking. Calling her parents immediately with the news that she’s gone will just end in a shouting contest. Not telling them at all is an undue burden on them and might have undesirable consequences like involving the police. This girl seems to do her best to have a calm talk. That’s way more than I’ve come to expect from adults.

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She said she’d talk to them afterwards. The way I read it she just wants her parents to not panic because their daughter is gone. This seems reasonable to me.

The alkali metals get more strongly reactive the higher their atomic number.

I thought it was the other way around. Thanks for correcting me.

Why is it safer to lick Lithium than Caesium?

Radon is a gas. I’d like to see you lick that. Same for the halogens, the noble gases, nitrogen, oxygen hydrogen and probably some I forgot.

Distance travelled is not the only metric by which you can judge a route. Others include:

• Traffic
• Traffic lights or other stops, since it’s nicer to drive uninterrupted.
• What turns you need to make (2 left turns over 6 lanes of traffic? Pass)
• Familiarity
• Road condition
• The view

4 × 2.97 < 11.89.

Thanks. I couldn’t come up with a reason why the material would be relevant, so I thought there must be some context or other meaning of “vinyl fence” that I was missing.

There is too little information in that comment for me to be able to provide a meaningful response with the given context.

Edit: I don’t know why the material matters, but I think it was a wire mesh with some sort of plastic in between.

First time I got to use a fire extinguisher was when a neighbor a few houses down the street thought it was a good idea to burn moss in his driveway with a blowtorch after it hadn’t rained in weeks.

That was the second time that neighbor’s neighbor’s hedge caught fire. He then replaced it with a fence.