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  • Mini washers can be seriously noisy. Check the decibels first.

  • The only problem I see is that the insufficient force feedback lets the steering wheel turn faster than the front wheels can turn, giving the driver wrong information. Only on a race track would you need to change directions that fast, and that's standing still when turning resistance is immense, so it'll turn even faster at speed. I doubt normal cars could turn the front wheels that fast standing still.

  • ben

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  • Your odds of dying are worse if you earn the million through work.

  • I expect gene editing soon to become so cheap that everyone starts customising their children, resulting in a situation analogous to where dogs are now: extreme variability improving the chances for survival by making sure we have the needed people for any situation except gamma ray burst which requires backups far from Earth.

  • Why take a screenshot of an image?

    • Telegram allows everyone in a chat to delete messages by anyone from anyone without a trace, making gaslighting easy.

    "I told you so!" - "No you didn't!" - (mutual distrust forever)

  • Comparison is irrelevant. It's entirely up to your response to those stimulants, short- and long-term. For starters, the half-life of caffeine can be 3-8 hours in healthy adults, which is completely unrelated to sensitivity, which really matters, for which there is no objective test.

    I used to drink up to 3 shots of espresso per day. Then I got my first amalgam filling, and coffee started causing muscle tension that I had to medicate. Over the years, my tolerance deteriorated, irritability got worse, and now more than a year after removing that amalgam, I still can't handle any amount of coffee daily. One shot makes me feel worse. Quarter shot stimulates but makes me angry, and then ruins the next night's sleep.

    I don't know what's broken, but having had chronic inflammation and likely malabsorption in the small intestine because of slow (IgG) food allergies even before the amalgam is probably related. The gut is fine now, been for a year, after two decades of IBS. I can have a cup of decaf per day for a week before the muscle tension gets bothersome.

    There's a book "Amalgam Illness: diagnosis and treatment" which helped a bit. Mainstream healthcare was useless against the IBS.

  • This may have been the purpose all along.

  • My right-out-of-warranty Logitech M590 mouse lost its pairing to its USB-receiver upon booting up Windows after using the mouse in Linux for weeks out-of-warranty. I bought another one, and that too did the same the first time I booted up Windows after the warranty had expired.

    Finally I searched the issue, and it's normal. I had to install a non-default Logitech software in Windows and re-pair the apparently broken mice to their receivers. Both mice work again, except the older one's left button is acting up a bit.

    A non-asshole company would have notified me "Your mouse receiver needs an update that requires re-pairing the connection manually. Do you want to continue the update?". And why the hell would a mouse receiver need an update when the warranty ends?

    Obviously the purpose is to make the mouse appear broken with plausible deniability and bluff the customer into buying a new mouse.

    This is known as programmed obsolescence.

  • Except naturally occurring, discovered, onomatopoeic words such as bang, boom, cuckoo, tweet, drip, splish, splash, slosh.

  • Taiwan Province of China

    Ewww. It's Taiwan, Republic of China #1! (ROC 1912 vs. PRC 1949)