I think that’s a big part of it. No one seems to be watching. Like there are regs and safety standards for this shit. And “not adequately welded together” certainly doesn’t meet them. If GM started doing shit like that some one would go to prison.

The freaky bit is that a lot of the commercial box trucks, big rig…

Cheaper is relative.

Yeah that sounds like the sort of thing that might side step some of the biggest issues. Like my folk’s frame problem. A bus or van conversion isn’t going to be stuck buying from one frame builder that can’t be assed to weld. Being a vehicle there are safety regs to be dealt with. And to the extent that something like…

Pretty sure you’re remains are still infectious. You might be cured, but the Rona ain’t.

Best we institute public burning of corpses.  

It’s definitely a human flaw. But it isn’t an obsession or the result of a particular rule of thumb like Occam’s off misunderstood Razor.

This stuff is mostly down to root psychological factors. Hard wired, deeply ingrained, structural things about how our brains work. Everyone is subject to them, and it takes active…

From what I hear the high end ones aren’t any better built. At least not with any kind of consistency.

It’s not like you pay $x you get a more reliable one. It’s that some of the more expensive ones also happen to be the more reliable ones. 

There are always opportunists.

But there’s actually quite a lot of research on this, though I can’t for some reason recall the exact terminology to Google it up. It’s a common cognitive bias to assume people we disagree with are disingenuous. But there’s very little evidence of that when you actually check what people…

Any and everything. New used, doesn’t matter. There was always a little hinkyness with this sort of thing, my grandparents were towing around airstreams in the 60's. Things need to be lightweight, and that has an impact.

I think it’s a bit more specific than just typical cut costs to juke margins BS. And like the article points out, this ain’t new.

My parents just went through something with their 10 year old RV that finally has them replacing it. The frame suspension failed catastrophically. The camper basically collapsed on the…

No it’s fake because it’s a forgery peddled for profit in the 50's and 60's. This has been known since the 70's, but the methods used weren’t authoritative enough to tamp down speculation. Leaving enough of a gap for some to argue it was valid.

Key bit of that is it’s unrelated to the discovery of Norse settlement at L…

If you’re not good at cutting off the tops. Take the cake and put it back in the pan, or a larger pan of the same height (or the height you’re looking for) and run the knife across the top of said pan as you cut.

It also helps to have the right knife. You want a very long scallaped knife, rounded bumps rather than…

Plus through the magic of massive, block buys and the mysterious power known is “negotiating”. The price paid per government provided vaccine is vastly lower than it would be if you or your insurance had to pay out.

Funny how that works.

Might be nice if Medicare was allowed to do that. Or we were all in one big…

What’s really magical is how the profits and motivations of some corporations completely vanish when you don’t look at them.

Pay no attention to the billion dollar industry behind the curtain. 

So it would kill you but you would no longer have COVID.

Yeah cause what was fucking horrible there was whether it would work or not. 

Trump wasn’t “leaning anti-vax”. Dude had long standing connections in alt med going back decades and pre-existing connections to existing anti-vax orgs, people, and press outlets.

He’s been saying shit like this since 2007:

How much looking did you do?

Nah it’s just something familiar that works as a good example of the difference. Not a lot of people outside the NY Metro are familiar with black and whites, which are actually good.

Poured fondant is also the filling in Cadbury’s Cream Egg. But I hate those with a passion, so didn’t use the example. 

Yeah which is what I said.

This follow the money, but real medicine is from companies and people with funding and profits line. Is about as default a pseudo-science tick as claims about lone geniuses struggling against an academic authority that just doesn’t want you to know the truth.

You don’t have to have sympathy.

You could have some basic human decency.