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Having both, that sounds really unimagenly strange and alien to me... 😯

Sure... a typical setup strictly for growing "lettuce". Nothing else to see here...!

I meant tailgaiting with your train ;-)
(but yes, I am aware of the systems that prevent that, heard some interesting talks about the topic and seen demonstrations in our local railway museum)

Locomotives? What is your profession?
In any case, I seriously hope that you are not tailgaiting ;-)

You before said it was based on the stuff that is used for college dorms, so I gathered he was looking at similar offerings as in other stores but just assumed it to be smaller because of some Ikea-specific reasons instead, so he then had to make up a suitable reason.

But on the other hand, perhaps he knew that College dorms are not a thing in Europe and had to find a reason the Ikea sold small furniture regardless of this.
In that case his remark wouldn't have been stupid at all but a valid speculative thought process based on deeper cultural knowledge.

Who knows...

I am pretty sure physics says "no":

Ff <= µ*Fn

• Fn is proportional to the mass of the trailer, so it is irrelevant for the deceleration (a) if it is empty or not (because Ff = m*a).
• µ is a constant relying on the tire/ground connection. Comparable to the towing car (if you happen to have car tire quality ones on your trailer, which might be doubtful)
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On top of that, typical car trailers use overrun brakes that per definition work by exerting an additional force on the towing vehicle in the direction of movement that is then used to activate the trailer brake.

I really wonder what happens during meditation to those people without an inner monologue...

Not only the U.S. grid is weak compared to China’s… Strategically China seems to be outpacing the U.S. on many fronts, being much more stringent and focused on long term goals than the chaotic U.S. at the moment. I really don’t like the idea of living in a world with China as the leading nation, but it increasingly seems like the most probable development in the mid to long run. And transition will likely not be smooth…

Apparently these are not the seeds themselves but only the remains of the original ovulums that contained the seed when they still existed.

That surprisingly wasn't that hard, actually.

One side of the family already settled on Threema for communication years ago, the other side I had to first show Signal to and help with installing it, but now they are even using it in other contexts.

And apparently I live in a bubble that is quite open to Signal, so most of the people I know at least use it in parallel to WhatsApp. And for the rest there is still RCS.

The actual hard part are (since I became a parent) all the WhatsApp groups that exist for most kinds of organized child activity, including distributing much of the crucial information regarding school.
Also at my wife's work WhatsApp is standard for coordinating with the colleagues.

For that purposes we use an old customized WhatsApp-only smartphone, that is used by the family like some old-fashioned fixed phone-terminal, only for messaging...

And yeah the furniture size comments I made are definitely not true across the board

No no, I think now they might well mostly be true.
Even the extra high desk I mentioned doesn't cover much groundspace and is about as high as it is wide when fully extended...

That sounds plausible and might be true.

Also I have to say that I am a rather tall guy and the only height-adjustable desk that had a usable maximum height for me e.g. was the one from Ikea.
I think it is definitely not a specific Ikea or Swedish thing or has anything to do with the people being smaller (If anything, I think to remember that typical US citizens are actually smaller on average than most of the people in the northern parts of Europe...)