I don't think anything can be taken for granite. Even though it's open source the kernel development is rife with politics and fuckery. And that's just the kernel. The various distributions all have their own politics and no doubt agendas.

This happened late last year,

https://lulz.com/linux-devs-threaten-killswitch-coc-controversy-1252/

So lots going on behind the scenes anon.

I guess the good thing is, if you were willing to spend tens of thousands of hours digging in to it, the source code is available.

>>6250695

Not totally batshit crazy, but it's usually the element number which is taken in to consideration in the general mindset. I'm thinking mainly of Farnell changing its name to element14–it didn't change its name to element28, kek.

Keep an eye on it though, atomic mass has a couple of decimal places to play with usually too.

>>6251134

Kek, missed the reply somehow

>>6250896

>>6251162

Are you saying there was no bus?

>>6251256

4 and 8?

>>6251266

That's lithium, sodium, potassium etc. anon.

Pretty sure I've put a magnesium strip in water with no spontaneous reaction, kek.