Nitpicks:

2 - You’re wrong about inertia being helpful. It cancels out because the suspension must be equally stiffer to carry the added weight. There’s a correlation, which is more because bigger cars are more expensive, which have better suspensions and stiffer bodies.

4 - Unsprung mass helps and hurts comfort. It filters out high frequency vibration, forcing the tyre to flex more, but the mass bounces higher up from bigger bumps, hitting the suspension harder.

• accelerating and braking between each bump causes engine and tyre noise, and tyre and brake dust, which are toxic.

London is unsafe for rightwingers: it hurts their feelings.

They let AI into the curriculum immediately, while actual life skills have been excluded for the benefit of work skills since Prussian schooling became popular. Dumbing down the livestock.

https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-things-schools-should-teach-but-dont/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

Maybe he’s allergic to what the placebo was made of.

My right-out-of-warranty Logitech M590 mouse lost its pairing to its USB-receiver upon booting up Windows after using the mouse in Linux for weeks out-of-warranty. I bought another one, and that too did the same the first time I booted up Windows after the warranty had expired.

Finally I searched the issue, and it’s normal. I had to install a non-default Logitech software in Windows and re-pair the apparently broken mice to their receivers. Both mice work again, except the older one’s left button is acting up a bit.

A non-asshole company would have notified me “Your mouse receiver needs an update that requires re-pairing the connection manually. Do you want to continue the update?”. And why the hell would a mouse receiver need an update when the warranty ends?

Obviously the purpose is to make the mouse appear broken with plausible deniability and bluff the customer into buying a new mouse.

I’m still on OkCupid after Match Group carved out the guts and threw them away. I’ve had a date every few years. There were never many users near me (Helsinki, Finland / Taipei, Taiwan) even when it was the best matching site by far, because the makers of the original site never took seriously being global. The founders did the worst thing they could and sold to Match Group. The empty shell and obsolete reviews still lure in new people, so I got lucky recently and got into a polyamorous relationship where I’m romantically connected to one person.

You might like the movie The Arrival (1996).

We didn’t have to fuck it up this badly.

The sick sad history of computer-aided collaboration
https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen
(long story)

Disambiguation might be useful:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachment_in_adults#Styles

Adults are described as having four attachment styles:

• Secure
• Anxious preoccupied
• Dismissive avoidant
• Fearful avoidant

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avoidant_personality_disorder

… excessive social anxiety and inhibition, fear of intimacy (despite an intense desire for it), severe feelings of inadequacy and inferiority, and an overreliance on avoidance of feared stimuli (e.g., self-imposed social isolation) as a maladaptive coping method.

https://www.torrentdownloads.pro/search/?search=clinical+radiation

The first ‘Torrent Search Result’ is always an auto-generated lie, don’t click.

There are three torrents at torrentdownloads.pro .

I’m guessing systems thinking.

The Starlost needs a remake. Great premise, dollar store execution.

What they wanted:

Foreseeing the destruction of Earth, humanity builds a multi-generational starship called Earthship Ark, 50 miles (80 km) wide and 200 miles (320 km) long. The ship contains dozens of biospheres, each kilometres across and housing people of different cultures. Their goal is to find and seed a new world of a distant star.

In 2385, more than 100 years into the voyage, an unexplained accident occurs, and the ship goes into emergency mode in which each biosphere is sealed off from the others.

Centuries after its original launch, most of the descendants of the original crew and colonists are unaware that they are even aboard a spaceship.

How it went:

Unable to sell The Starlost for prime time, [20th Century Fox television producer Robert] Kline decided to pursue a low budget approach and produce it for syndication. By May, Kline had sold the idea to 48 NBC stations and the Canadian CTV network.

Originally, the show was to be filmed with a special effects camera system developed by Doug Trumbull called Magicam. … The technology did not work reliably, however. In the end, simple blue screen effects were used, which forced static camera shots. … The failure of the Magicam system was a major blow, as the Canadian studio space that had been rented was too small to build the required sets. In the end, partial sets were built, but the lack of space hampered production.

As the filming went on, [the writer Harlan] Ellison grew disenchanted with the budget cuts, details that were changed, and what he characterized as a progressive dumbing down of the story. … Ellison broke with the project before the airing of its first episode.

Maybe it’s a physical illness? I have a recurring chronic inflammation in the gut that makes me mildly depressed and self-isolating. My bursts of optimism are bouts of health when I haven’t eaten what I’m sensitive to, so the gut is strong enough to kill the microbes that don’t belong there. Elimination diet would have been easy to try but nobody told me. Now I have the first competent doctor in my life.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/happiness-is-state-mind/202009/the-relationship-between-inflammation-and-depression

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phrs.2024.107322
“Inflamed” depression: A review of the interactions between depression and inflammation and current anti-inflammatory strategies for depression

I doubt they tested for all possible deficiencies. I was multi-deficient the whole time I suspected so, but found out years later when a good doctor ordered a blood test package costing 1,500€. People have random malabsorptions when the gut is slightly unwell. I’ve been healthy for 2 months this year in total. I had forgotten how different I am and feel. Then I ate a wrong food ingredient again and have been mildly depressed for a week now, maxing out dosages and doing everything right again.

GrapheneOS still does more for security:

• Even if an attacker disassembles a Graphene phone and reads everything off the memory chip, all data will be encrypted with your unlocking passcode. Then it’s just up to how long it takes to brute force it open on a server farm. I’m not aware how exacly /e/OS is encrypted.
  On the other hand, Google Pixel phones have suspicious hardware:
  https://lemmy.world/post/27344091

Hardware-level components like Titan M can execute processes that users cannot audit or disable, raising concerns about opaque data collection.

• Graphene installs security updates against online attacks the fastest of all. /e/OS promises “typical relaxed vendor pace”.

Here’s the founder of Murena claiming he never claimed it was about security, it’s for privacy via blocking all mass surveillance.
https://community.e.foundation/t/some-clarification-regarding-security-vs-privacy-in-e-os/51839