Clueless.

Hanlon’s razor. Also, how great a cultural understanding would you expect 1940’s America to develop?

Yes, it is. America really biffed it, and the nuking a couple cities thing wasn’t great either.

Now, that’s not to say Japanese democracy is fake. The elections are real, and AFAIK the parties have gradually taken on real ideological differences. It does help explain why they’re broadly racist, still not sorry about WWII and have a lot of regional vote buying with projects, though.

Edit: Not great women’s rights either, ironically.

Yeah, FWIW I recognise some of these users, and they’ve been fine. And Reddit hasn’t looked better when I’ve incidentally browsed through.

Really young kids don’t care and mingle freely. It’s a learned thing; the latter. Although “oppressive” might be a bit on the strong side.

Sure, they’re okay. Honestly we might be a bit too strict about avoiding them, at this point.

Where it becomes a problem is if you’d like to join whatever group, but the only one available is not open to you. Which happened a lot historically, but is rarer now.

I think their claim is nonsense, grossly exaggerated at best.

Can confirm, in my experience the problem with mancaves is that you pretty quickly want to let women in. There’s no tradeoff, we can not talk about our feelings and make a mess in a mixed gender crowd, too.

That’s actually amazing, and I think I just spawned a new project.

(Y’know, to distract from all the other ones)

The APIcalypse for me.

Slightly concerned by how many people here managed to get banned from the entire site.

Hah! You had me going for the first part.

This one might be the most heartwarming. All it took was a little hand-me-down.

I mean, certain strains of the right are critical of government and what they see as authoritarian systems. That gives me an idea how it started.

They’re generally well adjusted.

It does not say a good thing about humanity that you need significant personality flaws to care.

TBF fascism never really stopped in Japan. The American occupation was so clueless it changed very little of what Japan was before; the elites just kind of divided into nominal parties.

You could make an argument that’s a big gamble if you’re expecting to use up the principal at all. So, 10x what you use in a typical year would be an absolute minimum, and that would involve an aggressive portfolio that you run down when the market is bad and earn back later. 20x or 30x would be more comfortable, especially if there’s a chance you’re going to spend more than you did when working.

A bit of a hack people do make work is moving to a poor country where costs of living are lower. Then the question is how much lower can you actually get it, which is both about your personality and interests and how poor a place you’re willing to consider. Obviously, you can make $2 a day work, if you eat only corn and squat all day under a piece of aluminum. On the other hand, if you want to live the exact same way as at home down to brands, far afield can end up more expensive.

Generally it never was.

(Or even late or never, globally. The ancient system involves your kids paying for your way)

Interesting. What do ARM platforms have? BIOS and friends, as important as they are, always kind of come across as a precarious tower of baked-in technical debt.

(I know a Galaxy in particular uses a locked-down SoC you can’t really touch in the first place)

Hmm. Maybe we’ve found another dimension where brand matters, then.

Something in between enamel and plaque in hardness seems like the most advisable approach.

Is this the paper you’re looking at?

If you found something else, can I have a citation? It’s actually really hard to find hardness information on charcoal. Graphite is 0.5 on the Mohs scale, while tooth enamel is 5, for reference.

I can’t rule out that it’s actually harder than graphite and just seems softer due to being full of voids and crumbly. Then again, the activated charcoal in toothpaste isn’t exactly the same thing as the wood charcoal I’d be familiar with (or cow bone charcoal, for some reason).

Silica could wreck you, if there’s a significant amount. The silica in normal food is probably a big contributor to tooth wear. If like the other poster says it’s a common ingredient I wonder why.

I could totally believe that ThinkPads are more rugged under actual abuse. I don’t think Apple tries to be, really.

That being said, I have plenty of other younger laptops around that have been reduced to server usage do to falling apart. Apple’s early adoption of SSD also helps.

Oh, I see.

We both agreed that the late 20th century – broadly, the period from the early 1990s onward for a decade or so – had mostly been one of fairly steady improvement.

Ah yes, a famously bubble-free period. /s

Talking to old-timers, and reading history, it sounds more like revolving hype cycles have been around for the whole industrial age. TBF they do touch on that timeline later and correct themselves a bit.

Some were dumber than others. Foo-as-a-service wasn’t even a new concept, that’s just called renting shit out!