You have to eat nuts pretty slowly for this to be a problem in my experience. I have had nuts go rancid but they were really old. It's like sauces - they say "keep refrigerated" on the bottle but if you use them consistently it's better not to crowd the fridge/keep space for higher priority things.

It must be so nice that you can dismiss reasoned argument about why I don't believe they're being honest with a plain assertion.

go make your own free git hub with crypto and LLM?

Why? It doesn't interest me. Nothing that I've said suggests I would be.

In British English there's:

• arse-end of nowhere
• the sticks
• back of beyond

and probably more

I think this "<...>-nowhere" construction is common and adapted to different areas - I have definitely heard of "Bally-back-o-nowhere" in Ireland.

I mean there's a reason Bram Stoker picked the name "Dracula" for his character ya know...

If I keep them at the back of the fridge they'll freeze onto the back wall so that sounds worse.

I only move eggs into the door if I can be bothered or run out of space to keep the box on a shelf and have never noticed a difference - I wonder if you've noticed this yourself or are just repeating advice? I don't really see how changes in temperature are likely to affect anything.

Seems like you're in the minority on that one.

The humour is derived from there being an obvious remedy that he didn't take, so the violation of expectations is surprising and hence, humorous.

I think your feelings are irrelevant to the admins' and don't change the fact that they aren't being honest (with people, or quite possibly themselves)

Ah crap here they come again!

Jesus Christ, I didn't think I was being subtle.

It doesn't matter what's "doing" it; the energy has to come from somewhere - gravity is not a source of free energy. In the real world, you can't build a perpetual motion machine using gravity. With portals, you could pour water through a pair of vertical portals and use it to drive a waterwheel, and the waterwheel could, say, drive a generator and power a light. It would keep going forever. The light requires energy to work - where is it coming from?

Without the portal, an object tossed down a mineshaft would accelerate until, assuming it were deep enough, it reached the centre of the earth. Then its potential energy would be zero, and it would stop accelerating - it would have reached its maximum kinetic energy and minimal potential energy, and start trading speed for height, until it reached a maximum height (at the other side of the world) and oscillated back and forth. If you tried to use this to drive a waterwheel and power a lightbulb, each time the object hit the wheel it would slow down. That reduction in speed would translate to a reduction in energy, and a reduction in maximum height, until eventually the object would stop being able to turn the wheel.

That doesn't happen in the portal scenario, because the portal moves objects up, increasing their potential energy, no matter what.

Five years? Wow, amazing achievement. I only know of a single fridge failing and that was when my dad, in his wisdom, sped up the defrost process with a screwdriver.

I've owned my current fridge, second hand, for 6 years, and judging by the age of the other appliances it's likely about 20 years old. The problem here is that the things which lead to appliances being bought (price, ratings) don't give you a 20 year view on it. You need 20 year warranties or consumer advocacy groups doing longitudinal studies!