Echrichor

Could of look passed

Ftfy

A quarter is half of a half

When you divide by 0.5 (or any number) you are saying how many 0.5s (or other number) can I fit in that first number. You can fit half of a 0.5 in 0.25

Can't recall if it's mentioned in the mainline walking dead but gasoline going bad is definitely a thing in the walking dead universe, and a significant plot line in a season of so of fear the walking dead.

Wow. Read this (as a regular Amazon user) and thought "no way it's that hard". I tried, and including a multiple product side scrolling and with multiple options as 1 entry, the official one was 5th in the list, and you can only tell that's the case because "Nintendo Switch" is bolded and you can check the seller when you click on it. Not impossible but certainly not as simple as you'd expect.

I guess if you're very used to it you don't notice but I can see how that would jade or confuse new/inexperienced users and lead to buying the wrong or an imitation product.

Out of touch with tech and privacy minded population perhaps, but right on point for the majority of grease guzzling patrons they're targeting as their primary demographic, who probably think that's cute

Yep, look up the nocebo effect. It's exactly that.

It's not so common being an issue like the example describes irl for medication as generally people who don't think something will work simply don't take it, so it becomes more a compliance issue, but certainly is a concern for eg physical treatments - patients are more likely to report pain during a procedure if they go into it expecting it to be painful. Also mentioning side effects of medication makes patients more likely to experience them.

Yes. If you give two sets of people sugar pills and tell one set they are sugar pills, and the other that they're eg painkillers, the latter group will report (on average) a reduction in pain related issues while taking them.

This is why alternative treatments that don't medicinally do anything, like homeopathy, can appear to be effective - people believe they work and so they do, but if they just believed a cheap sugar pill they would help them, it would do for much cheaper. Even better get real meds that you believe in, and you get actual medicinal effect with a placebo boost.

Good Pharmaceutical trials are generally "blind" for this reason, ie there will be a control group getting a placebo to compare the effect of the medicine to that, rather than to nothing as comparing to nothing would make most things appear effective. Even better is "double blind" where the researcher doesn't know until after either, so that their interactions or behaviour don't give anything away, and that they don't bias their analysis.

Strongly suspected PEBCAK error

Oh that hurts

Because it's easier, and is more likely to "just work" using only the GUI. That makes it more accessible to people new to it, and as it is perfectly capable once you're no longer new to it there isn't much incentive to move away.

Same reason many people choose iPhones, they can just turn it on and use it without thinking or needing to configure it. Meanwhile those with more knowledge who might actively be looking for customisation may prefer another option.

Most people?

The problem with the twitch model is as soon as you are watching more than one person regularly, Twitch Turbo is cheaper to get rid of ads from everyone.

Plus if you just want to add extra support for someone, YouTube does already have the members feature which generally adds more value than twitch subscriptions