NeatNit

Yeah, chip fabs are exactly why I think computers would need more time. I'm not super familiar with this, but I'd wager such a factory can only be built using tools and machines that come from other specialized factories, and so on maybe 3 levels down before you get to a relatively rudimentary manufacturing process that can be reasonably achieved within a few years. It would take a lot to get that back up and running.

This brings to mind something David Mitchell said once on Would I Lie To You (British panel show):

In response to Kelvin MacKenzie's claim that the "This Is My" guest had built him a nuclear bunker:

David Mitchell: If there's a nuclear war, I don't want to live. I don't want to come out of a shelter and try to rebuild society. I have no skills. Okay, society is destroyed by a nuclear war, we're basically - we're back to the bronze age...how long is it gonna be before people start pitching panel shows again? It's gonna be at least 2000 years!

Watch it here if you want, it was annoyingly hard to find.

However I don't think David - who is a comedian - is precisely right about how such a war would affect the state of technology. If there are survivors, I don't think we'd really be back to the bronze age. Even if all technology was destroyed (which it wouldn't be), give humans a few decades, we'll have some sort of modern technology back up and running. Maybe not computers, but some certainly some analogue electronics - the knowledge isn't lost. Communications would be one of the first points of focus, so television would follow closely behind.

Damn that actress has range!!

I think it's much the same purpose that underwear serves for the testicles (and penis). As a man, I honestly can't remember any time I walked around without underwear, but I'm pretty sure it would be worse than with. Things would just flail everywhere.

Other answers about bras are great but I thought the male flip side ought to be mentioned.

All true, but it's even worse: sometimes some of the cited facts are plainly wrong. Taking your example, it could be that the midwest actually has the same heart disease statistics as anywhere else. Just because someone told you something confidently doesn't mean it's true. "95% of statistics is made up on the spot".

So maybe "dogs have a much shorter digestive tract" is already wrong? Maybe they have roughly the same length as us? And maybe "[things with parasites] have a much smaller chance of making a dog sick than they do humans" is also wrong? If you care about the truthfulness, you'd have to look that up too. And then you'd have to find that there's causation between the two.

But all that said, I agree with another reply: "It’s a really low-risk bit of information, whether true or false. [...] there’s no harm in taking in low-stakes stuff". So no need to be paranoid about every little tidbit of info, just the things that matter to you.

I was gonna include that in my reply but didn't want to make it into an essay.

Okay but have you actually looked it up to make sure it's true? Never trust facts from random comments, no matter how reasonable they seem to be.

Happy to hear you solved it for now. For a more long-term solution, consider investing in an air conditioner. And make sure it also has a heating mode (a.k.a a heat pump), it should cost pretty much the same and is the most efficient way to heat a home in winter.

I wish this was readable besides the first 6

Windows' might be complex, but it is NOT graceful. If you have notepad open with unsaved text, then shutdown will never shut down - but nothing on the screen will make this obvious to a non-technical person.

I'm assuming you already know AVGN, who pretty much invented it, but on the off-chance you don't - his oldest videos are worth trying. I haven't watched too much of his newer stuff, but I hear it devolved into pointlessness. Still, the backlog of good ones is massive.

AVGN is Angry Video Game Nerd, in case there's any doubt.

No /s, we all know it's true!