The study you mentioned explains exactly why I saw 'kitchen hack' on a cleaning spray bottle yesterday.

Holy crap, zip ties? In an avionics bay? That's insane. I can't believe they'd use those things on anything you might need to touch again. Once you cinch a zip tie down tight, it's basically a permanent weld unless you've got dykes handy. Snip one wrong and you're fishing little plastic bits out of a bundle of thousand-dollar wires, that's a nightmare waiting to happen. Velcro might look a little messier but at least you can swap a bad cable in five minutes without breaking out the cutters. Whoever signed off on that idea is asking for a whole lot of unnecessary trouble down the road.

Is it just me or does this apply to basically everything now? I've noticed people posting the same rushed stuff on LinkedIn, YouTube, even Substack. Everyone's so scared of the algorithm forgetting them that they forget the actual people watching. My buddy runs a small landscaping business and he used to blast out five salesy posts a week. Got nothing. Now he posts one before and after photo with a short story about the job, once a week, and people actually call him. Same thing with my neighbor who does woodworking. He stopped flooding Etsy with junk and only lists stuff he's proud of. The higher prices actually got him better customers.

Tbh @ellis.mia wait, people actually complained about Theo in The Goldfinch? That's wild to me.

Had a buddy who swore by a certain brand of socket wrenches until one snapped on him mid job. He tossed the whole set in the trash right there in the garage. That same day he went out and bought a whole new set from a different company, never looked back. Funny how one bad experience can just kill your trust in something you used to love. Now he won't even let anyone mention that old brand without getting riled up about it.