Your logic is sound, the premise, however, isn't. People using a tool they were allowed to with no guarantees, are taking a risk. Taking such risk in anything with a potential of inflicting harm is throwing rocks. Nothing bad may happen, but you also may hit someone. The fact that you were offered a rock does not mean the one offering is responsible for you throwing it.

"Soft warm bullshit" is a metaphor for comforting lies." How come then you felt the need to point out it being a metaphor and doubt my English comprehension, given that the quoted meaning, obviously, is what I replied to? As for strawman - it would be if I'd proceeded to refute what I offered as a substitution to your phrasing. Which I did not. Also the substitution was offered as a correction to dial down the induction, putting it within likelihood of it's premises. And of course facts are the same regardless of who they're coming from. What I was referring to is whether the information coming from particular source is being treated as trustworthy or at least worth checking. After all, when the information you received, presented as a fact, turns out not to be a fact, the first conclusion probably is lies at some point in the chain of the source, not some disbelief in existence of facts?

Unless by a "metaphor" you mean the word "bull$hit", please, do elaborate - how was the statement a metaphor and a metaphor for what? I do have a nasty habit of falling back on heuristics. Maybe I did not notice something? "And this is a strawman argument." Quite an empty statement when made regarding a paragraph. Again - do elaborate.

Appeal to extremes, appeal to ridicule, reduction to absurd, appeal to authority, ad hominem. A well rounded, hefty, generic and standard almost to perfection bull$#it claim. Why, oh why people keep typing these? Is it really that hard to abstain from destroying the value and trustworthiness of your own words with something derogatory and/or presumptuous?

Follow your prepositions. They "abandon facts presented in some mainstream outlets altogether". That's a good thing. A position I've seen so many times on every f%&$&ing side of any major political question, it sickens - "our sources (or politicians, or ideas) are made from almost entirely pure BS. But the sources (or politicians, or ideas) of the opposition manage to spew something worthwhile from time to time. However, if anything - that makes them only worse! Those deceiving bastards use truth to their advantage!" There is no "better BS". Position along the lines "it better be our BS than theirs" is a near-definition of word "idiotic".

"I just have to take it on "faith" that those batteries have trouble with large current spikes as they grow older" - I have not objected that. Of course they do. The initial argument however is that lipos max current is so enormous for electronics that aren't expected to literally fly, that if the battery is just old and otherwise healthy, it's reduced in half or even 4 times surge capacity is still way above what the phone could ever physically handle not to mention require. If, however, after 3-4 years of use, the battery is damaged so badly that it is unable to even fry the cpu, not to mention handling normal use, it means that it was mismatched so that the daily use turns into abuse and it dies prematurely. So they get - #1 a bit cheaper and/or lighter phone, plus #2 a push for consumer to throw it away sooner, plus #3 an excuse to make it less usable even for those that somehow happened not to load the cpu, collaterally giving yet another push to replace it. The #3 part is what I referred to with "Let's heroically overcome the problem we created on purpose!"

Well, but the ability to provide constant current for lipo is lower than that for a short peak, is it not? I mean the potential is always there at it's max and it diminishes when the current ramps up as the "chemistry" has to keep up to restore the potential. So, given that instantaneous surge is within relatively continuous capacity, where would be the problem?

I'm all ears if I don't know something, but power capacitors? 15C is fairly normal peak load rating for non-high-end power lipos (for 5-30 seconds, which is way more than what can be smoothed with laptop capacitors). Let's assume it is a special snowflake not meant for fast discharge (which is the opposite to logical given the problem, but whatever) rated at 5c peak (which, again, would mean losing power at higher than that, but - whatever). For 2Ah (iphone7) battery that is 10A, or @3V =30W. That amount of heat with passive, low mass cooling would burn any ARM. Now lets assume the battery is a couple years old and can output half of that. The ARM will still let the smoke out trying drown that power.

How a damaged battery is relevant to the subject of them getting old? As for "Everything I've ever owned with lithium batteries has this problem" - Everything I've ever owned with lithium batteries have none of this problem. Not even a single occurrence. Nor I've seen someone having such problems (and people have asked to look at their stuff enough). I've seen lipos losing 90% of capacity after 10 or thereabout years of use, but not any sort of random behavior. Lipos can provide currents that they shouldn't be allowed to (or they damage themselves). If a device can pull so much that even that is not enough it's a fraud in the sense that it was initially paired with battery that will be killed prematurely.

Where have you seen a phone, laptop or anything with an adequate lithium battery that shuts down randomly due to it being "old"? That thing pushes multiple of it's capacity in current. "Let's heroically overcome the problem we created on purpose!"

Very strange move given the situation. Insanity of the supplier is a good reason to look for another one. AMD RX Vega is equal in price/performance of "consumer" hardware at moment. For CG at least.

A phenomena emerging from something being mutually beneficial to certain groups of people and followed as an unwritten rule may look like and for all intents and purposes be referred to as a "conspiracy". But there always is that someone... taking it literally... revealing the "truth" to the world... And a good metaphor becomes a vulgarity.

"known as the FSB that is a successor of the Soviet-era KGB" both FSB (federal security agency) and KGB (national security committee) properly translate to English (what people actually understand beneath each word) as a National Security Agency.

They should have reasonable length. Coming up with an idea doesn't forbid others to come up with same one, and tendency of that happening increases with appropriate developments. Thus many genius methods become a self-evident norm, not only because we have (if we do) an example. Patents should become obsolete under certain conditions, like current topic ("everyone" does 3d printing these days, and such ideas doesn't require being a costly educated specialist anymore) and their huge lifetime is obsolete long ago, with increasing speeds of communication compared to when they first appeared. There's a difference between protecting the inventor and creating a cash cow, which in turn is bought by someone anyway.

It's - people voice been heard and all that... But I wonder - if the tape is made up by the government to justify taking out somebody... It'd be ironical, how people lynch one in the name of freedom.

Ideally an illegal activity should be dealt with in person, not by any blacklist. Apart from that +1 Australia!