That’s not how humans have ever worked. Superstitious behavior exists in any animal that has the capability to learn.

Every single group of humans has had bad habits created and spread among themselves. Now we have the ability to learn both the good and the bad impacts. There are absolutely people who saw this news story and realized that raw milk is a bad idea.

There are also groups of people who saw this news story and didn’t learn, but as a species we are far better off than we were.

Almost anything can be consumed “raw” if the entire handling chain is working 100%. The reality is - even without capitalism - germs can spread pretty easily, people can make mistakes, and contamination is inevitable. Once you add capitalist incentives to cut corners, go faster, and produce more… it’s a disaster waiting to happen. The more popular raw milk gets, the more dangerous it will be.

The absolute safest way to drink raw milk is to pick it up directly from a farmer that you know, and that has a very low volume farm, and is very educated on the best handling and bottling processes. Again… the types of farmers that will be selling such a risky product aren’t the ones you want to be buying from.

Yeah, fuck these researchers. We should stop studying things cause you don’t like reading headlines.

Just pointless papers saying we should be cautious of things. Let’s ignore all that and put up all the lights and point them wherever we want.

Cities don’t have plants anyway, so what’s the harm!?!

https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/nhtsa-announces-final-rule-requiring-rear-visibility-technology

That’s because backup camera law just passed in 2014, effective 2018. Which means that screens of some kind became mandatory in all cars.

Once you have to have a screen, might as well throw a few features in to make use of that expensive screen since it’s just a couple bucks here or there to add things like an infotainment.

Now that people need the touchscreen anyway for the infotainment, might as well get rid of those expensive buttons and just do everything with a touchscreen menu.

As long as we have all that other stuff, might as well throw in a cell modem and get some $$$ from the insurance companies and data brokers to get some ongoing revenue from these cars we sold.

It’s a specific legal term, most native English speakers get it wrong too, cause it’s not used in everyday conversation.

Works fine for me.

https://www.rei.com/product/784606/bens-100-max-formula-insect-repellent-95-percent-deet-125-fl-oz

Zero above 25%?

Insect mesh netting comes in many grades, you can certainly get a fine enough mesh to block any bug that matters.

https://www.seattlefabrics.com/54-No-See-Um-Mosquito-Netting-500-linear-yard_p_92.html

Did you know that it’s also illegal to collaborate on committing a crime? If fellow humans assisted with planning a crime, they’d be arrested too.

Why does an organization get a pass on committing crimes?

If you went to a bar, or a bowling alley, everything you had on you smelled of smoke until it was thoroughly washed.

Damn, this is good.

I’ve taught Jiujitsu for 20 years. I love it when new people show up and legitimately want to learn.

Any place that’s even halfway decent would have the same opinion.

Go check it out. Karate, Judo, Jiujitsu, doesn’t matter. Just stay away from woowoo places that pretend it’s magic, like Akido.

Ars often has multiple titles for a while before it settles on one. The URL is usually one of the title options.

There are some pretty big downsides to essential oils. They can be an allergen to some people, they don’t last nearly as long, and they don’t tend to work as well.

https://www.cdc.gov/yellow-book/hcp/environmental-hazards-risks/mosquitoes-ticks-and-other-arthropods.html

The CDC does not recommend them for use in areas where mosquitos harbor disease.

DEET and Picaridin are just fine for people to use, they last much longer and actually repel mosquitos very well. You’re unlikely to breed resistant mosquitos because there’s already plenty of mammals around that don’t use repellent (like wildlife) for them to feed on.

I like to give out $2 bills for tips. People always get kinda excited when they get them.

https://youtu.be/46HJM0TkOoU

There’s a handful of videos out about full color 3d printing. It’s very impressive, but without color mixing, there are some serious flaws in the process.

Would be interested in seeing how the Prusa method works compared to existing. Especially with an INDX printer.

No, because they gave that $10 million to someone else first.

The bank became $10,000,000 in debt, then recovered it (with interest) what the bank gets in the end is the interest above the $10,000,000.

An example would be that a bank goes into $10,000,000 debt on paper, recovers $11,000,000 including interest, now bank has $1,000,000 extra due to it’s risk that the person paid their debt.

Assuming the bank is FDIC insured - If that money wasn’t paid back, the bank would have to sell that debt to a collector to get some of it back. If they did their risk calculations correctly than enough people would pay rather than default that they make a sizeable amount of money. If they didn’t, then the federal government takes over the bank, sells it to someone who can afford to handle the debt/credit load, and covers accounts due any lack of funds.

In theory this means that the bank is still required to keep their risk low enough to maintain their FDIC status. In practice it’s a lot more complicated and sometimes (but rarely) banks don’t get punished for risky bets that don’t pay off.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/03/youve-got-20000-to-spend-on-an-ev-here-are-some-options/

There are still plenty of deals on electric cars, especially used ones.

If you get a good rolling boil, you shouldn’t need to stir macaroni.

Tho it is a bit of a waste of energy, since a rolling boil is more than you need to cook pasta.

Eventually everyone is going to have to own two phones, one for “official” work and government stuff, and one for actual privacy.