"unquestionably"? Given that vast majority of ads are for harmful self-destructive projects or misleading or lying or make place where they got spammed worse... Sometimes multiple at once.
Spam alone (also advertisement) is quite annoying and destructive.
"largely insulated from politics" note that claim they made is that in past there was no political interference at all, not that it was smaller or manageable
yes, exactly. And article makes the "completely" claim
> The privilege that American scientists have taken for granted—one that is now being trampled—is the ability to go about their work free of political interference.
If in the past they could do 98% of their job without political influence most people would describe that as being free to do their jobs without influence.
If there's now political hacks interfering in 50% or more of their job that's a big change.
If in the past the political hacks were never interfering with THEIR role, just affecting what projects get funded, and now the hacks are interfering directly with them and controlling what they can say or publish - that's obviously new and significantly worse influence.
> The privilege that American scientists have taken for granted—one that is now being trampled—is the ability to go about their work free of political interference.
Communism style solutions ("it is better to have everyone being extremely poor, rather than having some poor and some rich people") is a terrible solution.
Trampling on everyone because other group got trampled earlier is not a solution at all.
Presenting insane and deadly pseudoscience as science is stupid, dangerous and will kill people.
But claiming that there were no problems whatsoever and no political interference at all is a really dubious claim. This kind of reality denial is unhelpful and further erodes whatever trust was left.
Both Repubs & Dems have lots of blood on their hands for their intentional mishandling of COVID (continued to this day, since the pandemic is not over) in service to our archaic consumption-first economy:
I think you're taking issue with the wrong thing here lol. There may have been something before (it's the real world after all), but what RFK is doing is quite frankly insane.
oh definitely - that is why I have not commented on this part of article, as I agree that such pseudoscience is simply idiotic, dangerous and will kill people and I am in agreement that it is bad
But this part made me go "really? really? really?" - this kind of reality denial is not helpful either and prompted my comment. And they could phrase it a bit more mildly for far greater accuracy.
Mostly by checking teardowns and reviews - that’s the one thing Amazon reviews are still good for - check them, especially the ones with a more negative sentiment and form an opinion based on that…
Also, certain brands more or less got similar issues over all the product ranges, for example power supplies giving up on Hisense TVs, compressors on certain fridge manufacturers etc - there are patterns to look out for - especially when the product has been on the market for some time.
The two times I had to open my Roborock S5 (once because our cat decided to vomit when the robo cleaned up and once to replace a broken Lidar motor) I actually was very delighted by its thoughtful design - basically none of what you describe, everything was very modular.
I mean, of course, you’re right - a different model can and probably will be designed differently - but that’s what teardowns are there for - fool me once, check the next time beforehand.
> Or, what's so wrong with anything so people need to replace it with something else instead of improving it?
not claiming that it applies here, but I wrote some small programs where writing my own library from scratch too less time than I spend on trying to understand existing one
In another case I was unaware that existing solution exists and I tried writing my own one (then migrated when I realized that surely this kind of thing was done and people on local hackerspace chat pointed out that it sounds like Ansible).
For that matter running joke on hackerspace chat is about spending 500 PLN and 20 hours on building a chair to save 400 PLN. Because in this case hobby playing with a wood was actual point, not maximum effectiveness.
Similarly, this year I planted basil - and fixed costs for pots etc are large enough that it will never make economic sense. But looking at plants growing from seed (and then eaten prematurely by some caterpillars) was really cool. LARPing a farmer and seeing how plant grows from tiny seed to about 50 cm plant was really cool and I recommend it.
Spam alone (also advertisement) is quite annoying and destructive.