WTF is this hyperbolic nonsense article title? It’s ridiculous not only because it wildly oversells the importance of the discovery being reported, but also because it is fundamentally anti-scientific to act as if previous findings are “beliefs” to be “upended” or that rewriting textbooks to reflect new research is anything but routine and expected.

No offense, OP, but get this shit out of here.

Does my country being destroyed because of other dipshits freaking out about them count as impacting my life?

Our Lord and Savior is RMS, who invented the concept of software freedom that Linus helps deliver.

Working-class voters may not have known who Lina Khan was, but they definitely got the “vibes” that Trump was at least pretending to care about them in a way that Harris was absolutely not.

Both your comment and the one you replied to are true.

Trump’s “solutions” to the working-class’ problems are absolutely blatant scams, but in some fucked-up way that still managed to be preferable to the Democrats trying to gaslight them that their problems didn’t exist at all.

Neoliberals will do anything to find some culture-war issue to scapegoat so that they don’t have to admit that voters hate their economic policy.

All going according to the traitors’ plans.

Because we’re not entitled to force some other country to take them!

WTF did you think the answer was‽

That is genuinely stupid enough to be plausible.

Mexico of course, just like last time. I mean, do you really expect them to understand, let alone care about, the difference between Navahos and Nahuas?

True, but for them it was slightly less suicidal.

Who had “Freedom of Press” as one of the first pillars to fall?

Are you kidding? On the fascism bingo card, that’s the free space.

1. Ironically, the cheapest machines are less likely to be annoying in the way OP describes because they have less fancy electronics (or might even still be electromechanical if it’s an old design, but probably not because PCBs and microcontrollers are even cheaper nowadays).

2. Even expensive machines aren’t necessarily higher-quality these days, unless you’re really careful to do your research and buy the right brand. For example, I would not actually expect an expensive Maytag to last longer than a cheap Amana because both brands are owned by Whirlpool and might very well share a bunch of the same internal parts. The Maytag would be fancier and prettier, but probably not actually better-made.

This you?

Samsung front loader washing machine here.

Had it for 10 years now, no mechanical or electrical issues.

Good luck. This is probably in your imminent future:

That’s called the “spider arm,” and is the only part in the entire machine that’s exposed to water but made of non-corrosion-resistant metal. It is very obviously designed that way for planned obsolescence.

If your machine starts making a loud thunk and the drum stops turning, that’s the part you need to replace.

If you miss this sound, it will lock itself again 10-15 minutes later and rotate your clothes.

LOL, WTF. That machine is too “helpful” for its own good.

My previous washing machine, a Samsung front-loader, did not operate in an annoying way but was much more of an asshole by the fact that it was designed with blatant planned obsolescence. Shortly out of warranty, it failed catastrophically and I decided to take it apart to figure out why. Every metal part inside was in pristine condition, including all the ones exposed to water, except one. The “spider arm,” which was what connected the rotating drum to its bearing, was so severely corroded that it literally broke into pieces:

(Note: not my picture, but mine looked the same.)

Samsung 100% used a corrosion-prone metal on that part on purpose.

Unfortunately, I had already replaced the machine at that point and I didn’t take particular care when disassembling, so I wasn’t prepared to replace the spider arm and scrapped it instead. At least I’ve still got the drive motor to use for some project, eventually. I sure as Hell won’t buy a Samsung again, though!

(In fact, considering the DRM on their phones, ads on their smart TVs, and other enshittification of the rest of their products, I will never buy anything from Samsung ever again in my life, and I recommend that nobody else does either.)

My current washing machine is a Bosch front-loader that I bought used for very cheap. No idea how old it is in total, but I think I’ve probably had it for longer than the Samsung at this point and it has continued to work without problems.

I think it would also depend on the speed one could drill holes with an underwater drill, as opposed to cutting them with some other tool (like an underwater sawzall, if such a thing exists), or making them with another method entirely. After all, it’s not just an issue of battery life, it’s an issue of finishing quickly so as not to get caught or give the crew time to stop/repair the damage.

I’m pretty sure you’d need more than a hole saw to sink a megayacht*. The hole would need to be big enough to overwhelm the bilge pumps.

and plenty of use cases perform fine by anonymising their data

Short of aggregating it to get rid of the individual records completely, “anonymizing data” isn’t actually a thing.