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Parent Post: I'm a tunneler. It's a blessing, and a curse.
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saarnok
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5/8/2026, 2:58:09 AM
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Around 25 years ago I realized that what I "knew" about several things was just believing what someone told me. I dug into vaccinations, to name just one subject, and found the entire story is exactly that: A story. I'm one of the guys who can pick apart any pro-vaccine argument and for the most part demonstrate it's just wishful thinking and pretension. I long since realized that throwing things away because "you can't fix that" is mostly just defeatism. There are genuinely (modern) things not worth fixing. But, from sagging foundations to rotting walls to microwaves, dryers and washing machines, they're generally worth the bother of fixing. You just have to be a little crazy. That's all. I'm currently tunneling into early appliance temperature controls and I'm kind of shocked to find out our most ubiquitous range controls didn't exist until the mid seventies, even though they're basically a derivation of the control tech used in toasters since WW2 and first patented in 1924.
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