"the mountain in the sea" is recent sci fi that deals with this idea.

Cleanliness is overrated. Sure, it's great for surgery and if you actually have a wound, but your immune system needs pathogens to train on, or it does silly things like attacking your body, or reacting to pollens.

It civilized to live in a clean home instead of a dirty mess. Life is not just about maximizing your survival rate.

What does 'civilized' mean? Usage here seems to be another way to express your own biases. I consider myself civilized, and have a rich and meaningful life, but my house is much less clean than many. I prefer to spend my time and money on things other than being clean and tidy (beyond a basic level of functionality)

Stop washing your hands and showering and see how that goes. I'm not advocating for fab level cleanliness, just a certain level of it.

That's how a real plane's control works, so many games do the same.

Yeah, that makes sense. I've never flown a plane or played this kind of game before, so it felt a bit unusual to me at first.

Indeed. Trim wheels when rolled upward trim for higher speed, i.e. nose down.

Wait, this agrees with GP's experience but not mine. Did OP invert it?

This is only to make getting a fix faster - A-GPS downloads the almanac data via the internet (fast, but needs internet) instead of directly from the GPS satellites (slow but works everywhere). It doesn't make it any more accurate.

Pining for the days when phones had IR blasters (e.g. galaxy s6); that would work perfectly for this

The HP 48G series graphing RPN calculator had such a powerful, software-controllable IR LED with a learning remote program someone wrote that could control TVs roughly 70' / 20 m away as long as the TV had a sensitive enough IR receiver circuit. Some hijinks might've happened in the physics lecture hall but no exams or lectures were harmed.

LG V series is a few years old but I know some had them

some more modern phones from xiaomi still have IR blasters

See also: ISO standard for brewing tea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3103

By far the biggest source of carbon emissions is coal. The others make an impact too, but if we're not addressing coal, there's almost no point addressing the others.

Oil is a small proportion of carbon emissions. Coal is where it's at, and Iran has very little to do with that.

People with knee problems, areas with hills. An ebike is still active movement; sure you're not getting any cardio, but it's immeasurably better than driving. If this (or any ebike) is a thing that gets someone on a bike that otherwise wouldn't be on a bike, it is a good thing. For some it might be a stepping stone, for others it allows them to ride where they can't/won't ride at all.

I also noticed that some people who used to pedal switched to e-bikes due to laziness.

That would include me, except for the fact I'm e-cycling a lot more than I would have pedaled previously (and driving a lot less)

Decaf still has caffeine; about 30% of the original from the bean iirc.

Tea, as well as caffeine, has other compounds that are calming.

And yes, there are plenty of other compounds in coffee, as well as purely psychological effects.

FDA requires 97% reduction to claim “decaf”. Swiss Water Process removes 99.9% for example.

Thanks, I got it wrong. Not sure where I got 30% from.