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@princessnorah

China does make a LOT of really low quality goods. However...
... those goods are made to the quality specified by the importer / wholesaler / buyer...
... because 'cheap' goods are often preferred over 'more expensive but higher quality' goods...
... by the people who buy them.

Which is probably what happened in this case!

I *think* that most Ming dynasty vases are still 'under warranty'!

@DiaDeLosMuertos

@ryannathans

Yeah, my parents purchased a Miele.

M&D initially wanted to use the Miele app to control the washing machine.

I explained that having an IoT device connected to the same network on which they performed their internet banking was a *bad* idea. (Would Miele ever bother to patch flaws in the firmware?)

Plus, they'd be telling Miele where they lived, how often, and how, they used the machine as well as probably telling Miele their WiFi password.

I *think* that Miele's power and water consumption algorithms use the same mathematical formulae as Douglas Adams' 'bistromaths'.

@ryannathans

That sounds like a Miele. Am I right?

The same 'German efficiency' as VW.

@Davriellelouna

@zero_gravitas

Appreciable difference? Not really. But a 'calculable' difference. Sure!

However, be sure to appreciate the HUGE difference of the landmasses in the northern and southern hemispheres.

The primary way heat "gets into" our atmosphere is via re-radiation from the "ground".

Compare the amount of "ground" between N45° and the North Pole, with that of the amount of "ocean" between S45° and the South Pole.

At perihelion (around 4th Jan.) the southern hemisphere is in summertime, but the southern oceans easily absorb any extra solar energy by being 'a little bit closer to the sun'. It's roughly equivalent to having the energy used by an extra 5000 cars arrive as solar radiation... and for *most* of that solar energy be absorbed by the ocean.

The tiny (almost insignificant) effect the earth's orbital eccentricity has on weather and climate is FAR less than that of our planet's axial tilt and the position of our continental land masses.

But, sure, if some researchers wish to tweak the underlying data used for the Milankovitch cycles, then, fine.

But our world is still on fire, and our children's future will be ashes unless we act now.

@Tenderizer

Ummm...
"No, it’s not the angle."
Wrong. Axial tilt IS what causes our seasons, NOT the distance from the sun.

Speaking of the sun, "The sun’s orbit isn’t exactly symetrical..."

The sun's orbit? Around what? The centre of the Milky Way?

@zero_gravitas

@atro_city
Well, as the saying goes...
"Experience is the best teacher, but it is also the most expensive."
@Deceptichum