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This is the normal story for someone who claims to suffer from MSG sensitivity. People claim they experience the most extraordinary symptoms, with perfect specificity and reproduci…

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This mashes a few different ideas together that don't really fit. Cargo-cult thinking means emulating something's appearance without understanding how it works. This is a specific …

Global heating has been thought to be occurring for longer than anyone has been alive. It's been proven beyond any shadow of a doubt for over forty years. There is no way for a dis…

You're quibbling over whether Covid-19 killed a million people or there were merely a million excess deaths attributable to Covid-19. It was a big deal.

I got settlement offers of $500 and $1000, the amounts of the advertised prizes, before going to court. In the first case I got the offer as soon as the consumer protection agency …

>This is just a form of “you may have already won!" If someone contacts you claiming you have won a prize, and it appears to be from a real but shady business (e.g. a car dealershi…

Our last president went on live TV and said we should try cleaning people's lungs with bleach. The leading American news channel regularly aired anti-vaccine propaganda. People at …

I don't count ChromeOS or Android because they're even more locked down than Windows or the Macintosh. I don't care about the Linux desktop. I care about people using a system they…

Fentanyl should definitely be Schedule 2, like it is right now. It has a wide variety of accepted medical uses and can be used safely with medical supervision.

Perhaps it is reasonable to solder parts to the motherboard. It's less reasonable to charge a massive markup on storage and memory. The margins on those upgrades are well over 100%…

>Having a software unlock for hardware you already have (but didn't pay for in the price). Fine. Tolerable, perhaps, but pretty far from fine. It's pretty shocking to me that peopl…

I think you know why: efficiency and safety. Driving fast greatly increases fuel consumption and wear on tires. It makes crashes more likely and more serious. Why do people need to…

People don't generally drive 200 miles in the city in one stretch.

Allegedly, 1. Other companies have more accurate estimates than Tesla. 2. Tesla uses a different and more accurate algorithm when charge is low. 3. Tesla's estimates used to be mor…

Bad example. Porsche's performance numbers are famously conservative. Most reviewers easily exceed what is advertised. Take the 911 GT3, a car I picked at random. Car and Driver te…

There are two important things you're missing: 1. Tesla's estimates are not "highly accurate". They are alleged to use a deliberately optimistic estimate when the battery is near f…