Not 100% true. From the Wikipiedia article on BPA:

This is followed by several other uses of BPA in PVC.

Generally, the softer the plastic, the more plasticizers have been added. Plasticizers are usually the chemicals of concern, because they are often endocrine disrupters.

I'm pretty sure these plasticizers routinely leach out of headphone pads because the pads on every pair of headphones I've owned over the past 40 years has gotten brittle and disintegrated after a few years of use.

As soon as you send significant power through a banana, you'll start to split the water with electrolysis and generate gasses.

At that point, you're wasting all of the money you shelled out for those specially grown low-oxygen bananas.

Isn't that the one goal that Elon Musk actually achieved on schedule?

Actually, the statement probably applies to most countries.

Given that it's been 81 years since we have been involved in a bona fide war, it no longer makes any sense to call it the "war department".

Because vim has super-powerful features for development. I still prefer it to any IDE I've ever used over the past 30 years. (Although I will say that VS Code is better for read-only browsing of large code bases. Other than that use, I find its behavior to be infuriating, and its "vim mode" is crap.)

vim is also superior to nano-type editors for any nontrivial editing of non-code files, with macros and powerful commands that can reorganize thousands of lines instantly. Notepad++ is also OK for that work, but you have to install it separately and is mostly just for Windows.

BTW, with a desktop environment, use the GUI-based gvim, not plain vim in a terminal. You get scrollbars, better cursor and mouse behavior, etc.

I don't see why a device that simply shuffles data between the internet and your house needs more than 100 MB. Let's be charitable and say 1GB (which was an absurd amount needed only to power high-end servers and workstations just a couple of decades ago). Looking on Digikey, you can still get the cheapest 1GB chip for $3, retail. This is worth about two days of a $50/month internet connection fee.

Luckily, I have an old ISP box that they doled out before all their equipment had to be a router, and I doubt that it has even 1GB inside. My own WiFi router runs OpenWrt just fine with 128MB. If ISPs would just stick to their core mission of delivering packets, this memory crisis wouldn't be a problem for them at all.

I'll see your spew of whataboutism and raise it: The ones who think Federal laws, including the Constitution, are the most optional are the members and employees of the current administration who are blatantly violating them.

There are always special interest groups who are highly concerned about various government policies and actions. That's normal.

The drama I'm talking about here is dragging the entire country to the verge of a civil war, all while failing even to match Obama's performance on this key MAGA goal.

And somehow he managed to achieve that without all the drama.

To be fair, they were going use the ANSI C23 specification as a basis, but nobody wanted to shell out the money to buy an official copy.

In just the Linux example, it is most certainly not the "one guy model". There have been countless thousands of contributors.

Linus is great and all, but he's currently just doing coordination between the members of a very large hierarchical team. No one human could possibly do all of that work.

At liquidation, each bond holder will receive one obsolete Nvidia GPU for every $1,000 in bond face value.

And I'm totally sure you posting this same argument during the inflation in Biden's term.