High tariffs and other economic sanctions would essentially be just that, but like another comment said the west isn’t ready for it.

We’ve managed to entangle our economies too deeply with cheap Chinese production, so actually sanctioning them would be painful to say the least and they know it

Taking a stab in the dark here, but they probably don’t like the genocide of Palestinians that the state of Israel is engaged in

Yeah to expand on this, in professional settings you’ll want a higher sampling frequency so you don’t end up with eg. aliasing, but for consumer use ≥44–48kHz sampling rate is pretty much pointless

Probably the latter. Seems like a cynical marketing ploy, really

Surprisingly enough, some essential oils do have research-based actual uses, such as topical antibacterials, antifungals and antiparasitics.

While there’s quite a bit of woo woo around them, there’s also a lot of interesting research into phytochemicals like essential oils. Same with a few other “plant-based” things like pine resin; there’s even a clinically tested pine resin salve that helps with wound healing and is used for treating difficult wounds in some hospitals in Finland.

The problem with essential oils is trying to filter out the snake oil claims from the actual research-based claims. Most vendors tend to have pretty, well, wild claims about what their products can do, so your best bet is scholar.google.com or www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov and the like

So because VPN works for you, it’s impossible for it to not work for literally anybody else?

Huh, interesting. I didn’t expect to learn about volcanoes today but here I am! Thank you for the explanation

Ohhh, I had no idea there were different kinds of volcanoes but it does make sense in hindsight.

Well, I guess this might have been covered in primary or secondary education at some point but it’s been about 3000 years since my last geography class

Definitely! I find that most problems in life can be solved with cement; if it didn’t solve your problem, you just didn’t use enough of it.

Ahh right yes, gotcha. I misunderstood you and thought you didn’t think the statistics were believable because they’re so skewed