Yes, also that.

Great, do health insurance companies now, with their “vertical integration” (we own all the things you need, so fuck you).

I don’t know if you agree with this sentence: A person who yells does it because he doesn’t have power to modify a situation to his advantage, because he is powerless.

Definitely do agree, and I fall victim to this myself. I think the root cause is feeling that powerlessness is unacceptable. Resolve that root cause, and the emotional reaction to powerlessness solves itself.

The way I work towards that resolution is to try to recognize that “not being in complete control of things” is the default state. Then I try to add some “make the best decisions I can considering the circumstances I find myself in” – even (especially?) when those circumstances are the result of my own previous “less than best” decisions.

I don’t always succeed at this. That’s just how it goes. Reassess the circumstances, make another decision. If I’m continually running into difficulty, take smaller steps, make smaller decisions.

It’s a process, and a skill, developing a skill requires practice, and practicing means not being very good at it in the beginning, and never being perfect.

Take a pause, take a breath, figure out where you’re at and where you want to go, make a decision and execute on it. Expect to fail, and forgive yourself when you do.

For extension cords? Pretty much nothing. They can be dangerous all by themselves. You have an outlet on a 15A circuit. You can plug all sorts of things into that outlet all at the same time, especially if you’re daisy chaining cords and adapters. The sum total of current from all those things can be less than 15A, so the circuit breaker never trips, but more than what your mess of extension cords can handle. Even worse, if it’s just a little more than the extension cords can handle, you might not notice right away, and then you’ll come home later to a pile of smoldering ash.

Don’t chain extension cords.

Another bit of explanation I just thought of –

Think of an incandescent light bulb. It has a filament. You run electricity through the filament and it heats up enough to glow, producing light to see by. It does that because the thin filament has high resistance; it resists allowing current to flow through it.

Any piece of conductive material will do the same thing if you put enough current through it. Even an extension cord. It will heat up enough to glow. Being an extension cord, it will then melt the insulation and dramatically increase the likelihood of setting something on fire.

The longer the cable, the thicker (heavier gauge) it needs to be to carry the same current without burning up. One extension cord is rated to carry the current it alone is able to carry. Put two of those in series, and both of them together are able to carry less current than either one by itself. This is how fires start.

I’m pretty sure that Gargamel is a distant ancestor of Dr. Doofenschmirtz.

God I couldn’t even get it from the parent commenter. I am made of stupid.

Clue me in

Generally speaking, yes, they’re different.

In the context of this post by butthurt OP who doesn’t understand things, the distinction between censorship and violation of free speech is way too complicated.

Censorship is suppression or prohibition of speech

by government. Private entities don’t have to enable your speech if they don’t want to.

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A big problem with virtual worlds is that it doesn’t really take that long to get to the “end.” The end of the landscape, the end of the mechanics, the end of the economy, whatever. Then you’re stuck waiting for DLC, and that runs out in short order, too.

In reality, even if you stay in one place your whole life, you know there’s more to see; or are the wealthiest person in the world, there’s still more.

Take your exployer as an example. They want to get the most return for the least investment. This is “good business.”

You just want to do “good business” for yourself. Since your return (wage) is essentially fixed by what the company is willing to pay you, the only way for you to maximize the equation for yourself is to work as little as possible.

As are newspapers, radio, television, and the mobile internet. As were chiseled stones and scribe-copied manuscripts. There is no means of communication that is immune from propaganda and exploitation.

First there were newspapers. Radio made it so that you didn’t have to read the newspaper yourself; someone would read it to you. And music! And drama! And line reporting on location! Radio encompassed everything that newspapers were, and added more.

Television added sight to sound. The visual layer increased the value of broadcast exponentially, while doing everything that radio and newspapers did.

The internet showed up. Now you could choose between all kinds of text, audio, video, interactive games, instant communication worldwide.

Then it became mobile. The portability of newspapers and transistor radios is widely available, but also for video and global communication.

There’s already been some hints at what might be the next step. Self driving cars build a digital representation of the world around them. Mapping software will give you arrow overlays as you walk, just from your having showed your phone the buildings around you. Google tried to put this on your face with Google Glass, but it was too early, not developed enough, maybe too interactive for its time.

The next thing is going to be an immersive digital representation of real things, created from sensors on the fly and also stored to be available to everyone. This will bring newspapers and radio and television and the mobile internet together, and add all real world objects, about which additional information can be easily accessed in real time.

“There’s kind of a lot of people leaving X lately. How do you intend to reinvigorate the user base?”

‘this calls for a price increase’

“Almost instantly.”

This is totally it. Car is already required to support OBDII, adding the ability to display diagnostic info to the screen costs more.

A recall implies the product is irreparably damaged, or too expensive to repair, and needs to be returned/replaced.

No, it does not. I can’t think of an automotive recall that wasn’t repaired and resulted in a buyback. I’m sure there was one or two, I just can’t think of them. Edit: Here’s the list. And most of those have to do with bad welds or badly adhering paint (which affects windshields in collisions).

Lots of cars from all manufacturers end up with recalls that get fixed as a matter of course.