A long ton is about 1.016something metric tonne.

Buffalo the animal (I think it’s water buffalo for mozzarella)

The fumes are from the flux, if you’re evaporating lead your iron is a few thousand degrees too high.

Still shouldn’t breathe that, but that’s also true for lead-free solder

Yeah, but that’s hundreds of years ago and they’re a staple food now. Unlike Jicamas, where I had to Google what that even is.

So, linguistically not really comparable

But these aren’t found in Western Europe

The same worries exist here too though. The blood bank isn’t allowed to pay you for your plasma, but it’s absolutely a for-profit organisation that runs on selling your plasma to pharmaceutical companies.

I still believe it’s a good thing to donate, but sometimes it feels a little icky that there’s also a businessmodel around it

IR bottom heaters are usually not strong enough for reballing. They’re for boards that are hard to solder, because there’s a lot of copper or a heatsink for example.

The bottom heater preheats the whole board, not to soldering temperatures but enough to make soldering a lot easier.

The ID.4 doesn’t just have capacitive buttons, it has swipe controls on the steering wheel.

And of the most frustrating cars I have ever driven.

I have a good gaming PC in my living room. Still I find myself on the couch with my steam deck very often.

If you really believe Google is about to go out of business, you’re out of your mind

Taking out the high-pitch whine will make them much more bearable. It’s a student project, they did well. This isn’t groundbreaking Noble-prize stuff, but it doesn’t deserve all the hate it’s getting here either.

Ensure liberty is a very broad statement, and usually not an absolute one.

In most countries you aren’t free to sell, buy or consume meth, for example, because it clashes with the common good. You could make the same arguments for an abundance of nicotine in cigarettes, or even cigarettes as a whole. You could even make that argument against alcohol, speeding, wearing helmets, having guns, or eating fast food.

There’s a line somewhere, and where that line is exactly is not “written in the constitution” for most countries. It’s one that can be, and is argued all the time.

That is certainly an opinion!

I think I would. But at least I’d like to ban the practice of adding unnecessary amounts of nicotine.

Why allow companies to make their cigarettes unnecessarily addictive, and then use public funds for smoking cessation resources. That’s the world upside down.

There are unnecessarily large amounts of nicotine in cigarettes, making them very addictive.

Forced is a strong word, but many smokers aren’t smoking out of free will either

Yeah, that’s kinda the problem

I was gonna say the best way to meet new friends is to pick up a hobby, but then you already said it. Go get em.

Find new friends. Not even most people are like this, unless you’re in college age. Even then they are others who don’t want to get wasted regularly