If it’s mostly mineral buildup just soaking it in white vinegar for an hour will dissolve it all and make it look and function as if it were new.

I would travel the US and buy one winning ticket for a small jackpot from each state I visit. Then I’d donate it all to a gambling addiction recovery charity. Or an advertising smear campaign against playing the lotto.

Being able to maintain the ratio with fluctuating water pressure would be cool too. It’s probably possible to do entirely mechanically.

concern

I’ll also add, besides the obvious public endangerment, street racers are just soooo fricking loud. Noise ordinances exist for a reason, but even where they don’t, nobody likes being woken up by a bunch of metal death boxes screeeaaaming past their window at 3am. (Near me, it’s a posse of motorbikes. I typed that as motorbiles at first. Heh.)

If I understand you correctly, I think “people don’t easily comprehend the significance of increasing orders of magnitude” is a better way to frame it. To use iii’s examples, people perceive a coffee that costs 5 as being 1 unit more than a coffee costing 4. But when comparing two cars costing 40000 and 50000, the human brain tends to just latch on to the most significant digit, and starts to see it the same way: just one unit more.

Tangentially, given our brains’ difficulty processing large numbers, I wonder if this effect leads to money management skills being worse on average in economies with smaller base currency units, such as the Japanese Yen, Indian Rupee, South Korean Won, or for an extreme case study, the Iranian Rial, which currently exchanges at 49,313 IRR ≈ 1 EUR. When your haircut costs 1200000, a new phone costs 18700000, and a new car costs 1331400000, it’s hard to judge the weight of your decisions. When the slightly nicer car costs 1645200000, it’s near impossible to notice that you just spent your coffee money for an entire year (~5 days a week for 50 weeks) on a moonroof and Apple CarPlay. Not sure if that example is applicable to the average Iranian, but eh.

Idk, I think that depends on the context in which the rainbow is viewed.

I would add PairDrop to your list to have bookmarked. It’s completely web-based so no download required and thus fully cross-platform. It also works across different networks (i.e. over the internet) by pairing devices or creating a room. Basically Apple AirDrop, but universal and on steroids.

Small but crucial correction:

Ghibli filter trend is just people hiding how ugly they feel.

I might also say trying to hide instead. It’s usually not hard to tell when it comes from insecurity.

Eh, I’m not sure if the world can be picked backup, it’s been knocked down pretty hard. I’m always down for trying though.

/apr1