This is why people use RAID. Because one drive failing means you lost the data.

They also take backups. Because more than one drive can fail at the same time.

You’ve lost the data, if the drive is dead. There’s no practical way to retrieve it, unless you’re willing to pay enormous amounts of money to someone who can dismantle the drive and try to read the data directly from the disk platters in a clean room.

One hard drive? :p

The fact that it’s a default option in an online shopping system is in and of itself deeply alarming and disgusting. I would expect the staff to get a living wage at any business I deal with.

Because free money from dummies?

Tipping culture in the US is vomit, to the point where it’s apparently now metastasizing.

That’s pretty fucking disgusting, not gonna lie.

Don’t ask us, ask your audiologist or doctor.

I SAID ASK YOUR DOCTOR! NO, NOT DAUGHTER, DOCTOR! DOCTOR!! ;)

It’s insane that BBC just threw out material. Talk about some short-sighted bullshit.

But of course there are immense amounts of material just rotting away out there, I’m sure.

Irrationality is a very human thing.

We’re incredible pattern matching devices. 8 billion faces out there and all unique and we can detect the minute differences between them, even brothers who look very similar can be very distinct.

So we’re fantastic at patterns. And if there are no patterns, we invent patterns.

There’s also placebo, where - after we’ve invented the pattern - our brain is more than happy to confirm there is such a pattern. We know it’s a more expensive cable, so then we know it sounds a lot better. And then our brain agrees it sounds a lot better.

Humans are just not rational and we’re certainly not objective. And then someone claims cable A is better, because reasons. Person 2 hears this and is inclined to believe person 1. Boom, now two people are saying it’s better.