The urban legend usually just leaves the electrolysis part blurry. They vaguely call it a machine to process or prepare the water, and completely ignore the electricity going in. I.e. hydrogen cars, being “suppressed” by the government.

The urban legend goes back a long time. I first encountered someone telling specifics around 15 years ago, but the vague concept is much older. It’s similar to the legend that there’s a specially tuned carburator (yeah, that old) that would give you 100mpg, but it was killed by oil companies.

I mean, you could create your own hydrogen at home. Hydrolysis machines exist, and are sometimes sold as medical devices to create pure oxygen from water. The other half of the output is hydrogen, which would need to be captured in a way that you can put it into your car.

It’s an extremely inefficient way to power a car, though. Converting electricity to hydrogen and back to electricity (as most hydrogen fuel cell cars do) is a ton of loss. It’s also a bunch of complexity, both mechanical and on the operator.

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Have you asked them why they don’t use it? It may be something as simple as missing content, or it might be the UI they don’t like.

“Healthy” in regards to foods is problematic at best. It all depends on the rest of your diet, your needs, and especially your dosage (portions and portion size).

Could a small amount of chicken wings be a great supplement? Sure, it has all sorts of useful micro and macro nutrients, if that’s what you need. Could you have a bunch without any impact to your health? Possibly, if you’re doing keto. Would your health improve if you cut them out? Also a maybe, if it doesn’t work with the rest of your lifestyle and genetics.

Example: Chicken is high in omega-6. This is bad for some people, but only some. And I bet you hadn’t considered it as a factor in whether it’s healthy.

There have been reports that some chains like target and Meijer are monitoring self-checkout errors like theft, and waiting until it adds up to become a criminal issue. All of the individual pieces are there and confirmed, it just becomes a question of how long until it becomes common.

IOW, if a cashier makes mistakes, I might get something for free. If I self-checkout and make mistakes, I might get arrested.

At my local Aldi (Ohio, USA), I just put boxes into the new cart (where they put everything after it’s been scanned) before they start. Normally, they’re happy to put things directly into those boxes. Boxes are free, durable, and (at least for me) a lot more convenient than bags. Even moreso for the million plastic bags I would get elsewhere.

I’m afraid to ask why you have it then. Both for why you bought it or ahem received it, and why you haven’t gotten rid of it.

The answer is always “no”, regardless of what you have. Follow the 3-2-1 backup rule for anything important.

As for whether you’re sitting on a ticking time bomb, I’m referring to a run of mechanical (IIRC) 1TB drives from around 2010 or so. Quick googling suggests Green SSDs have a slightly higher than average failure rate, but only slightly.

For every anecdote like this, there’s another with different/reversed brands.

Aside from some particularly bad runs (like the IBM “Deathstar” or WD Greens), no brand is much more reliable than another.

There is, however, a big difference when you get to Enterprise drives. Often SAS but not always. They are a lot more expensive, but with much higher MTBF ratings. But even within this, the brands are pretty close.

There are certainly examples of that, and other videos that are nothing more than rehashes of earlier videos. But in most videos, I find that he goes into great detail about the subject, its design and reasons, and the environment for which it exists. When he begins a new section, he’ll often reiterate the introduction from earlier to set the stage, which can sometimes feel tedious.

The Beloit/Mindset list that comes out every year. It takes the form of “This year’s college freshman have always/never ______”. For instance, they’ve always had GPS in their pocket. They’ve never used a desktop computer. $Celebrity has always been dead. It’s always been a post-9/11 world.

Each year, that list always makes me feel old.

Cars in the US have to follow EPA testing methods, and those are the only numbers a seller is allowed to use.

The standard has changed several times over the years, most notably in 2008. Prior to this, the tests were “best case”, and were almost impossible to get in the real world. Since then, the tests have become much more “typical use”, including factors like air conditioning, high speed (80mph) driving, cold engine, and cold weather. These significantly reduced the published numbers vs previous years.

I could easily see a car rated for 27mpg in the 2008 test also getting 41mpg+ in the 2007 test.

Since you described it as stunt driving, Rockefeller Skank by Fatboy Slim.

And yes, mostly because of an ad 25 years ago.

This thread is good food for your mind, but I want food for my mouth.

Having worked in a call center, I would be surprised if such a thing is even possible.

That said, the call recording software was so bad, less than half of calls were actually recorded anyway. But they tried on all of them.

Asking for forgiveness and repenting seems to be entirely optional, and limited to certain sects anyway.

Most that I know just do shitty things, but it’s ok because Jesus is on their side.

I won’t speak about banks, but many (most?) security guards at businesses aren’t even armed. They are there as a deterrent, but also to witness and document. They are also (usually mildly) trained to defuse a violent situation and get any robbers out the door without bloodshed.

I’m pretty sure they’d just as happily sell you a pizza with veggies on it instead.

This is the most accurate answer. If you really wanted to, you can probably get a refund from the other state for the sales tax paid, but it only makes sense for very large purchases.

This is why I’m hesitant to say Adam Baldwin. He’s always the same basic character, but I think there are enough subtle differences between them to not count.