While I agree in principle, that's not an entirely intellectually honest evaluation. The government is prohibited from creating an electronic registry of guns, not because of the guns themselves, but ultimately because of the judicial understanding of the Second Amendment confirming (not granting) an inherent right of citizens to possess them. The restriction is in service to the gun owners by protecting them from government overreach. The guns are merely a layer of abstraction on that.
I don't understand why you'd want anything in your house to release smells independently of delivering some essential function. I find it distracting at best, and headache-inducing at worst. Cosmetic products are particularly offensive. Let this study serve as a call to eliminate stinky products!
I agree wholeheartedly. The more unnatural the scent the more it impacts me. Cinnamon is tolerable but as we trend towards “beach day bonfire” it creates a feeling in my olfactory system similar to tasting something sickly sweet. I think it ties back to my brain smelling what I expect to be eating.
Generally the "pleasant" odor is meant to cover up some combination of "unpleasant" odors. It's nice when the area around a liter box doesn't smell like cat piss.
That makes more sense. My brain immediately suggested R&D + FUD = Research, Uncertainty, and Doubt, which is a fair description of life in academia but didn't seem relevant here.
This is what pushed me to get my parents on NT4 in 1997: the system would run until you wanted to reboot it, rather than crashing twice a day because Netscape decided to have a conniption like Win9x did. Never looked back. Win2000 was absolutely awesome for them, WinXP was twice the size and half the speed but fine and very long-lived, Vista was extremely reliable despite all the hate heaped on it...and we're approaching the modern era.
Meanwhile, I was running IRIX (for which my record was 4 years without a reboot, and that only due to a power outage) and Linux; and when I got some money, macOS X: all rock solid.
edit: I just remembered that Netcraft used to have a server uptime leaderboard, and for quite a while in the 1990s, Lamborghini was at the top of the list with their IRIX servers. The earliest archive I can find of the list is from 2001, with ONLY FreeBSD and IRIX occupying the top 29 places: https://web.archive.org/web/20010226190549/http://uptime.net...
Putting Win2K on my parents’ tower, replacing Win98SE, absolutely transformed that machine. It instantly went from cranky nuisance to unstoppable workhorse. Software updates like that have become depressingly rare.
Those companies represent the collective effort of thousands of talented people creating novel products. I'm happy to support the engineers. I'd barely be online here without Starlink!
Not everyone cares about the political drama associated with companies that some dude has an ownership stake in.
> "From her perspective, I order doordash and turn into a degen who is unfit to father. From my perspective, I get to enjoy my favorite place and just tinker or play games or do whatever. These are the days I get to play mad scientist and feel most like myself."
Most demeaning and depressingly toxic thing I've read today...
