Please keep it up, it's always a joy to come across a post with your username against it, knowing that there's going to be a fascinating explaination inside.

shards of exploded tooth were flying around the room

quickly and cleanly

I...I think you and I have different definitions of "cleanly". Also, please excuse me while I go and clean my teeth again!

Might want to cycle through them, but treat the unworn pairs really gently for the first few wears. Msybe they'll still be ok.

Are you speaking to us from the afterlife? What's the wifi signal like there?

Mariah Catrey?

To be fair, that was amost 13 years ago, and I doubt he can remember what he said 13 minutes ago, so this is probably "fake news" as far as he is concerned.

Which is why you always get this sort of order in writing, from the boss. If they won't send it, you send them an email saying something like "Thanks for taking the time to discuss this issue with me today. Just to confirm, you said I should . I pointed out that this could lead to , but you stated I should continue anyway. Please let me know straight away if you don't agree with that recollection."

Bosses who wont send this sort of thing in writing, and who don't read emails you send them are handy, as you do things your way and just poibt out that you emailed them about it a week ago. The papertrail becomes your greatest asset.

After a certain point in the day, "same day delivery" is a threat, not a promise.

I'm wondering if one of your chargers is defective, delivering too high a voltage, and slightly damaging the charge controllers on your devices. The fact that the devices failed one after the other suggests sone sort of "contagion" as they have, presumably, been in different environments, so are unlikely to have picked up the same amount of dirt. You also mention that they seem to work better with cheap chargers and cables, both of which, regardless of labeling, are less likely to support PD, and are more likely to just pass the standard 5v, which hints at a problem with your devices' ability to perform PD negotiation.

You might want to see if the repair shop can run board level diagnostics on one of your devices to check if the charging controller is ok. Do check the basics like the port beung really clean first though as that will cost you nothing. I find using the thinnest embroidary pin I can find gives a chance to really scrape around in the socket to dislodge any compacted lint.

I would just like to commend your phrasing of:

some fancy physics flavor of fucking vaporized

It gave me a hearty chuckle.

Thank you for an excellent idea. I'd been wracking my brains (please excuse the pun) for a way to stack miscellanious things like that, and this is an ideal solution; it's got good airflow, plenty of places to secure cables, enough room to access everything, whist also being compact.

Agonised Linux user noises "Argh, it burns!" "Not the fire, touching windows!"

That's definitely a good word, but I think you need a few more to really round out that description; words like: senile, bitter, gullible, weak, thin-skinned, foolish, and evil.

I don't know if it would be possible, but maybe tape small paper flaps over the holes? That way, anything inside could get out as the flap would open easily that way, but getting in would be much harder.

Have you tried just climbing onto the roof of your nearest cathederal and refusing to come down?

This review was so good I had to see if it was a real book! It is: The story about Ping.

Bravo, the world needs more reviews like this.

I didn't mean paper tape, but just normal, but moderately stiff, paper, with the tape above the hole, and the loose end of the paper covering the hole. As these are just drill holes in a solid wall, I'm assuming the wasps are not nesting there, just resting overnight. If so they will hopefully find somewhere else if blocked off with a flap. The paper being chewed or torn would be a good sign the hole is in use though. I could be way off base on this, but it's probably what I'd try first.

No, no, that's Play-doh, a Plato is what Australians serve food on.

So you're saying big pharma invented viruses to mine bitcoin in people, for profit? I knew it! I knew they were up to no good! Bacteria were probably invented by the homeopaths to mine Etherium, and that's why big pharma keep pushing antibiotics, they don't want the competition for resources! It's not Pneumonia, it's competition. It all makes sense now!