You really know how to be annoying.
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Try it in the stick variety. I’m allergic to everything, even air itself! And Aluminum-free deodorant never affected me.
Being right can sometimes be annoying, to some folks.
Take it or leave it!
I’m going to be VERY blunt . . .
You constantly talk as if you know best, as if your way is the right way and everyone else is wrong
It’s NOT a good way to be
As @VOLVO-V70 said . . . You sure know how to annoy people
I truly believe you are not even TRYING to improve
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The aluminum in those components doesn’t get rubbed into the skin, or poured into waterways.
Most of it gets recycled nowadays.
Common sense.
I just pass along the best information I find, as well as anecdotal(my own) if I find doing something a certain way works.
“Everyone else” is not always wrong. But they sure are allergic to knowledge! 
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I will take the results of multiple carefully-executed scientific studies over your ‘common sense’ every day of the week.
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Copper is both a necessary nutrient (about 1 mg/day) and toxic in excess. The EPA rule is the Lead and Copper rule. I read an article about a difficult-to-diagnose case of anemia that turned out to be a copper deficiency with similar symptoms.
Not I!
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This is a bit contradictory…. If they work.just fine you should not have ro adjust them.
But they don’t work well at all and the brake engineers who designed the brakes in your Chevy admitted that to me. Delco Moraine used to do all the GM brakes except Corvette and my division merged in the 90s
Because of those poor adjustors, I did the same. Everytime the wheels.came off my Suburbans, I snugged the shoes up a couple clicks. It made the brake pedal feel less bad. Not good, but less bad.
I know we are headed for 300! Doing my part!
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No Tylenol chart?
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That’s true of almost everything. You can die from drinking too much water.
Aluminum is the third most abundant element in the earth’s crust and 12th most abundant in the universe. We all have aluminum in our systems at all times. Absorption through the skin is the lowest pathway. The link to dementia was found in dialysis patients where the aluminum salts were used to bind phosphate in the administered intravenous fluids. Conversely, aluminum weldors had huge loads of aluminum in their systems but no correlation to dementia was found in them.
The old saying, correlation does not necessarily equal causation needs to be considered when looking at any data.
That being said, the first rule is that exposure to foreign substances should always be minimized as much as possible to lower any potential risks.
Copper is used in anti-fouling paint on the bottom of marine boats. It constantly leeches into the surrounding water as a means to prevent algae or barnacle growth. Its purpose in that application is to create a poisonous atmosphere around the hull and of course, the copper ions are gradually dispersed into the surrounding water…
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And, it is essential to balance copper intake with zinc intake. If someone is taking a zinc supplement (for… supposedly… fighting a cold), they may wind-up seriously depleting the copper levels in their body.
I have to take the AREDS-2 vitamin/mineral supplement for an ocular condition, and it contains both zinc and copper–in the proper proportions to balance each other.
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Correlation just tells you it may need further study. Correlation between 2 completely different things is found all the time. And many times, it means NOTHING.
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Usually hyponatremia, seen in long-distance runners who drink too much water but not enough salt. But we don’t have a rule limiting its presence in water.
It’s used in reservoirs to suppress algae. A friend lived on a hill overlooking Silver Lake, a small reservoir in LA. We could see a guy in a rowboat throwing bright blue copper sulfate into the water. It was collected on flocculators on the way out - too expensive to waste. He reminded me of the Ti-de-bol guy.
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1/2" OSB 4 by 8’ sheets are now around .42 inches. USB flash drives are about 97% of the advertised capacity. 64GB is usually somewhere around 61.5GB and 62.5GB. I don’t want to hear anything you have to say about binary versus decimal.
With gasoline, here is how it can happen. Someone will invent gasoline that provides more energy, so 15/16 of a gallon is equivalent to 1 gallon, and they’ll price it that way. People will get used to that. Then they’ll reduce this added performance until is is eventually equal to regular gasoline, but it’ll still be 15/16 of a gallon that is advertised as one gallon.
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It’ll be like potato chips with a disclaimer- this product is sold by equivalent power not volume. Some settling may have occurred during dispensing 
I get what you are saying but this one is a little different than the others. There actually is 64GB of memory. In order to use it on a PC or equivalent OS, it needs to contain various formatting and sector mapping which takes up some space. So you are left with less than the total as usable space- in those situations. If you use it in your own developed system, the entire space can be available. Years and years ago now, I wrote some system code to use the extra sectors on removable storage media as a copy protection scheme. The usable media extends well beyond the space used by traditional OS and you can force the driver to recognize tracks/sectors beyond what the OS normally uses. No one else can see it unless you know how to do that…
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Really?? That makes no sense at all.
I hope you realize that if I go down to the lumber yard and measure even one 1/2” OSB at 48” long, your credibility is completely shot!!
Not that it was good before.
Also doing my part to get to 300!
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I think he meant 1/2" thick is now only 0.42" thick, but still the normal 4’x8’ wide/long…
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He’s referencing the thickness, not the length. There’s a decimal point in front of the 42…
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That is why I learned a long time ago to always put a 0 in front of that decimal point when no whole number was used… I also refused to tell a customer that their bill was $29.98, I always said $30.00 cause very few people ever hear the $0.98 part and only the $29 part, way less arguments doing it that way, and yes, lots of customers would cry over the less than a dollar amount…
I DON’T miss dealing with people everyday… lol
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Yep, my wife was that way. If I asked how much something cost the only response was “it was on sale”.
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