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The "stubby" bottles were replaced with tall "classier" bottles in a surge of .. fashion-moment, or something.

I remember somebody did a news vid, or documentary on it, & the industry lost usable-storage-effectiveness when they went with the taller bottles, and there's more glass in them, too..

They said if they'd known what the actual results would be ( it didn't alter the market to increase the percentage of the population which is always buying beer, for some reason.. ), they wouldn't have done it.

Well, Duh..

"never believe your own hype" IS a rule, because when you're believing your own marketing-bumf, then you're not competent at calculating any sort of project balance-sheet, right?

There's fish in Worcestershire sauce, iirc..

I hadn't known that, until reading the fine print..

Power-consumption.

Also, the vibration produced by the 2.5" drives is less, but they're more-sensitive to it, to begin with.

I'd not even consider spinning-platter drives, nowadays, though:

SATA SSD's for a NAS strike me as being the sanest choice.

Samsung what are those called, Evo drives?

excellently-high MTBF, ultra-short ( compared with rotating-platters ) seek-time ( literally orders-of-magnitude quicker ), etc.

I don't know of ANY reason to go with spinning-platters, nowadays.

( & I'm saying that as a guy stupid-enough to have not realized this in time, & who spent money on such a thing, when SSD's really were the answer )

& therefore Russia shouldn't be using Russian weapons inside Ukraina, then, right??

Oh, just Russian gaslighting, again?

sorry, I forgot..

Nobody accepts that they're going to win, because Biden's institutional-inertia & assumed-entitlement aren't sufficient to win.

Also, the economic house-of-cards that both China & the US are trying to keep from collapsing must go down, sooner or later, & if it goes down before the US election, then the incumbent's hosed.

( that is true no matter who the incumbent is, and I believe it always has been true: that it's a general rule of elections: economic-collapse automatically rips the rug out from the incumbent )

Nobody understands that they need to do the ideological psyching-up, in order to "justify" all the butchery, all the "getting even" their side's committed to enforcing, so that they will later be able to maintain they weren't responsible..

( it makes me wonder if there was similar unconscious-understanding, & similar setting-up-non-responsibility, among other violent political, or religious, movements' people )

shruggeth

A dozen years from now, I'm going to be very surprised if more than 150 million are left alive in the US of A, after Civil War Part2 is finished.

There are currently around 400 million, iirc.

I'm expecting 2/3rds extinguished in the coming maelstrom, & its consequences.

And that is just within the US.

Trump's commitment to gut NATO & back Putin..

the butchery of the US of A will be only the beginning, obviously.

But for ideology-addiction, rampaging's "The Answer", isn't it?

It's a responsiblity that should be only happening to people who've lived long-enough to have the basis, in experience, for doing it.

We've been failing children, more & more profoundly, as we've been letting the segregation-of-authority-from-responsibility and segregation-of-wealth-from-earners progress..

This is the perfectest demonstration of how Kahneman1 mind, imprint->reaction mind, ideology/prejudice mind, works to displace considered-reasoning Kahneman2 mind.

There's no point in appealing to considered-reason within any ideology, left or right, religious or ideological or political..

The imprint->reaction has already defined everything.

The only antidote to such is to have invested, through the previous decades, heavily in competent unbiased education, to make considered-reason/Kahneman2 mind the automatic default for more of the population.

Too bad it's too late..

"proletariat dictatorship" / "populist dictatorship"

both displace considered-reason.

Yes it's war: it's war against considered-reason because ideology's addiction to its own supremacy is all-consuming.

It's too bad..

At the moment, that is true.

What happens to ProPublica after Trump becomes dictator??

It may take a few years, but once he goes "full Putin", there are going to be executions of whistleblowers, real-journalists, etc..

Anybody who is ignoring/denying that is living in lala land.

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I would suggest, instead, that "Classical Physics" is created by entanglement:

the non-quantum reality at our scale is just what happens, when everything is entangled, to the point of clogging-up-the-works of quantumness, as it were..

.: you get things like .. as you scale up from quantum-level .. the everything-is-discontinuous/everything-is-turbulence .. turns into, once enough entanglement is happening, "laminar flow" in fluid-dynamics, even-though NOTHING in QM is laminar-flow, so there's simply no basis for "laminar flow" at the lower-level...

I wonder how significant this is, really..

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My experience is that USB storage sometimes breaks-connection for no discernable reason.

That if one REALLY wants to do USB storage, then put it inside the housing, and don't use one of the external-connectors, use something you can permanently-fix, so nothing can even sneeze in its direction.

This mayn't help you with your puzzle, but it's bedrock and unchangeable, in my experience.

USB-storage is an unreliable joke.

ANY revision of it, that I've tried.

hth..

WHEN a machiavellian's story doesn't add-up,

THEN .. you can either keep being the manipulated-idiot,

XOR you can sever ties & get back to somewhere where integrity is an actual thing.

There is no real 3rd option.

Vacuuming them probably won't kill them.

You'll instead have now-malevolent angry spiders in your vacuum-cleaner.

I happen to consider that to be a Bad Idea..

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Malnutrition creates life-long damage/harm when it harms growing children.

It doesn't require outright-starvation to damage an entire-population's viability.

No matter: evil does what evil does, & when it claims that "the bible" justifies it, well, that's just icing on the cake, isn't it?

We can see the "Christians" in the US & Islamist "Muslims" proving the same principle, can't we?

And the "Buddhists" who genocided Tamils, & "Hindus" who butcher whomever they're ideologically-intolerant-of at the time..

There is no "religion" which is the cause of this: it is caused by our animal-ignorance mind, which the Abrahamic religion called "behemoth", usually translated as "the beast".

You can even see the book of Isaiah railing against such things.

Human-nature won't change until most of our kind are extinguished, right?

Some other species might have had an instant-and-violent-reaction against doing what Russia & Israel are doing..

Our accommodating of it .. insults God/Life, doesn't it?

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They are creative, though:

They put things that are "near" each-other into juxtaposition, and sometimes the insights are astonishing.

The AI's don't understand anything, though: they're like bacteria-instinct: total autopilot.

The real problem is that we humans aren't able to default to understanding such non-understanding apparent-someones.

We've created a "hack" of our entire mental-system, and it is the money-profit-rules-the-world group which controls its evolution.

This is called "Darwin Award territory", at the species-scale.

No matter:

The Great Filter, which is what happens when a world-species hasn't grown-up, but gains adult-level technology ( nukes, entire-country-destroying-militaries, biotech, neurotoxins, immense industrial toxic wastelands like the former USSR, accountability-denial-mechanisms in all corporate "persons", etc.. )

you have a toddler with a loaded gun, & killing can happen.

"there's no such thing as a dangerous gun: only a dangerous man", as the book "Starship Troopers" pushed..

Toddlers with guns KILL people in the US.

AI's our "gun", & narcissistic-sociopathy's our "toddler commanding the ship" nature.

Maybe we should rename Earth to "The Titanic", for honesty's sake..

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And if she can't yet draw, then please get her to invest in:

• "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, the 4th Definitive Edition", by Betty Edwards
• all the tools recommended in that book
• a charcoals assortment ( I've no idea why Betty Edwards doesn't understand how much easier it makes it to learn?! )
• "The Simple Secret To Better Painting"
• "Mastering Composition"

and then dig-in.

The 1st book many know-about.

The 2nd, much-fewer do, so the advantage that someone has, when they've earned the meanings of both, becomes noticeable..

The 3rd? That's University-level better.

Nobody who's earned the meanings of all-3 is likely to remain at the bottom-of-the-heap in artwork..

The 1st 2 books, however, are required for competing well.

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There was a subreddit .. something like "hits worth turking for" or something like that??

"worth turking for" was part of its name, iirc..

There might be other communities identifying higher-paying items, perhaps a Lemmy devoted to that?

Perplexity may be able to find something of the sort..

just hoping that their right-answer finds them, is all!

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I understand both you position, and the position of those who attacked you with downvotes..

Please read some of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales..

written in the late 1300's..

Different classes were fighting over the validity of the word "ain't" back then.

That is STILL an ongoing class-war!

As for "anyway" vs "any way", there is a consistent force pushing simplification of terminology that is most-commonly-used, hence what used to be separate words, becomes hyphenated, then fused, as a natural progression in language..

( my hyphenation has nothing to do with that: its simply that having to translate between thoughtshapes & English mouth-words is sooo damn limiting, & I'm trying to communicate the closeness-of-relation between groups-of-words, & show how some are more interwoven, but others aren't.

Inescapable translation can suck, & be exhausting. )

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No: once a corporate-culture gets sufficiently divorced-from-reality, then they "have their heads up their asses" sooo far, that they commit blunders unless they "get a reality-check".

Committee-culture's fungus-minded.

The problem is that the frame-of-reference is relative, so a corporate-culture which is still immersed in outer-customers' reality is only one "degree" divorced-from-reality.

However, if the "frame-of-reference" of a culture is other sociopathic cultures, .. then .. then outright psychopathy becomes recommended/pushed/evolved, in order to compete among the misperceived-context ( which is only other-sociopathies ).

So, it's an escalating positive-feedback-loop.

Sociopathy breeds sociopathy, & when enough of the corporate-frame-of-reference is sociopathy, then psychopathy becomes primary, & eventually it is normal & ruling.

The increasing polarization in political-sphere, in religion/fundamentalism-sphere, in moneyarchy-sphere, in legalism's increasingly shameless contempt-for & eradication-of moral/natural law, the increasing polarization of class-system/monarchy among those in-love with that, the bolder & bolder violent authoritarianism..

it's all part of the SAME gorgon/hydra, just that each "serpent" is going in its own direction, but the fundamental change in human-unconscious is one of "fuck considered-reasoning: I'm going with ideology-enforcing!!"..

it's less intellectually-taxing to be ideological/prejudiced "believer" than it is to remain loyal to considered-reasoning..

there's less moral-anxiety within ideology/prejudice/belief than there is in considered-reasoning..

Overwork unplugs one from the push/pull cycle, the work-hard/rest-deeply cycle, which considered-reasoning requires..

& Microsoft is only 1 single example of progressing-through-sociopathy-into-psychopathy among our countless corporate world-possessors.

DarkHexad dimensions of human-evil:

Narcissism / Machiavellianism / Sociopathy-Psychopathy / Nihilism / Sadism / Systemic-Dishonesty.

Can you see how the more one immerses oneself in DarkHexad as a means of "winning", the more one's frame-of-reference normalizes that all?

It's just "drift", but in frame-of-reference, is all..

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This may all SEEM fine & dandy, but..

The such ocean gyres, if I'm remembering what they're called correctly, had a normal, established-for-millions-of-years kind-of-ecology in them..

NOW, however, we're forcing that this fungus become a dominant-player in them..

WHAT DOES THAT FUNGUS DO TO THE OTHER ORGANISMS IN THAT ECOLOGY?

( people may remember some years ago when the Purple Loostrife we imported was killing all our North American marshes, turning them into thickets of woody stems/runners/etc, & each individual plant could put out 50,000 seeds per year...

So, the Canadian Gov't did test after test after test, & finally resolved that a .. Chinese, iirc, ladybird bug ate the stuff, but didn't eat any other plants..

so, they imported them & let them loose..

You know those new orange ladybird bugs?

the ones that bite animals?

Those are the ones, ttbomk.

They don't eat any other plants, other than purple loostrife, but their habit of biting us means that carnivorism is normal in them, and .. how does that affect the ecology??

You can't just arbitrarily alter ecologies & responsibly expect them to remain functionally-balanced, & in-harmony: consequences tend to multiply each-other, & tipping-points do get crossed. )

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And, given the fact that having pressure-measurement manometer-arrays built into wings proves that the suction-side lift is greater than the pressure-side lift, and that this has been known since before The Great War..

some of us are inclined to consider the evidence to be valid.