Between the Boston bomber and the APIpocalypse it seemed to me like the hive mind got a lot better, even on Reddit. You could find a lot of different perspectives, and it was rare for one that’s definitely wrong to stay on the top. Unless you just define “hive mind” as insufficiently conservative or whatever.

That something crazy just happened, and maybe they should care. I’m still not sure what was going on in their heads in those moments; it was a repeating theme.

It really is. You’ll never hear “someone forgot their umbrella, I hope he/she comes back for it” in real, native speech. Singular “they” has been around in that context for centuries.

Using it for a specific, know person is new. In this case it’s a specific unknown person, so it’s optional, but I chose to, just because it minimises personal information shared. My cousin in not nonbinary, for what it’s worth.

Huh, I looked hard and still don’t get how this is unclear. The “their” isn’t me because it’s third person, and it can’t be the region of South-East Asia or high school guy himself because that doesn’t make sense. That should leave one possibility. Singular their is a thing, if you’re unfamiliar.

I’ll just clarify. My South-East Asian cousin married someone not in the story, and their college roommate, high school guy, was present as a guest, which was highly unexpected. Hilarity ensues.

I have a cousin who lived in and grew up in South-East Asia. I’m Canadian. A guy from my (small, rural) high school class was randomly at their wedding. Apparently they became roommates in college.

Parents are tolerant, as are/were grandparents for the most part. Nice is a much more mixed bag.

Is this a reference to something I’m not aware of?

Once, when I was a kid (albeit old enough to know better) I was playing underneath a tall warehouse-style shelf. I could just stand up underneath it, so what do I decide to do? Jump as hard as I can, of course!

I’m not sure how I didn’t end up in hospital on that one.

Sounds like someone needs to start making catalytic converters for nitrogen oxides.

The water sits in it, but only where gravity holds it. There would be a very pronounced meniscus at the top. That is, if you looked closely the water would dip down really far at the edges before it meets the bucket.

It’s not that hydrophobic substances can’t touch water, it’s that the force of surface tension will oppose it. Unless you’re an ant, surface tension isn’t that impressive vs. most other forces.

Edit: If you have an ant-sized bucket, the water may sit on top of it as a droplet rather than going in.