When we had to replace our 20 year old set, the feature-packed washers didn’t, in my estimation, have sufficient utility to pay for the higher prices. Like you, I don’t need to know everything down to how many seconds remain on the spin cycle and the temperature of the hot water...

“Even after getting a ~5 page opinion...”

Probably only about 30 seconds difference either way. Hell of a way to die...

Same - though I liked it for a while, I ground to a point where I HAD to team up to progress, and since I’m a solitary player by preference that was pretty much it.

And it dug out what’d have to be excavated anyway, in a rather energetic manner.

That’d be an interesting outcome - certainly more unusual than just natural gas...

1,008 new coal plants have been announced, are in the permitting process or are under construction.

That’s one hell of a UTI you got there. Might want to go see your doctor - but until you can get in try Azo Standard, it’ll help with the symptoms...

I’m thinking a sandblaster might have been more appropriate for some of the messes I’ve made in pans...  ;)

They got someone else to clean up after them in the retail kitchens, including dishwashers that use really hot water and detergents that contain serious caustics? (I mean, if it comes as a powder with a pH of 14 - that ain’t no OTC dishwasher pod.)

There’s a big difference between a theme part and an amusement park - and I think it’s lost on a lot of the folks that run the ‘amusement’ parks. I’ve thought some portions of Universal Orlando were rather nondescript, even though the theming would have been easy to do, but other parts were excellent. It’s the little…

Seems like everything in California causes cancer...

They do it right, don’t they?  Universal tries - but they don’t quite manage the same sort of immersion that Disney’s accomplished yet.

That sort of attention to detail isn’t cheap - and it’s essential for full immersion. You don’t quite get that at Universal - though it’s kind of close in the Harry Potter area.  

Separate you from your money as painlessly as possible... ;)

Same reason they like shitting on Musk. They feel ‘better’ when they can put someone/something down. Disney sucks! SpaceX is crap! Musk is stupid!  Endorphin rushes from dislike and hate can really be addicting.

I’m pretty sure a lot of people driving locally have used GTA5 as their driver education programs...

“The price difference is more dramatic for those who mainly recharge at stations. Frequent charging station users pay $14.40 per 100 miles.”

No, it’s not. You can do everything in the rule book (and bear in mind those rules came about BECAUSE someone did something that either killed someone or badly damaged equipment, and there’s likely going to be ANOTHER rule added because of this) - but if the person doesn’t pay attention in a hazardous area they’ll get…

Ran into that problem where I worked - the extremely expensive and versatile CAD-CAM system was running on WinXP. And the manufacturer of said system was out of business, so no updates were possible.  We attempted to upgrade it to Win7 - but the software crashed consistently no matter what we did. Emulation mode? Haha…