We abandoned them (for men, anyway) at the turn of the 19th century and never readopted them. It's really an absolute shame. Men's western fashion seems to have done little be decline in the centuries since.

SpeedQueens are commercial washers and dryers, so are intended to do a passable job for a very long time, with few other considerations.

Their washers and dryers, from what I've read in several articles that I've read because I keep seeing these l on this sub, not only use a lot more energy than consumer washers and dryers, but are also a lot harder on clothes.

They're laundromat machines, and that's the quality of wash you'll get.

BuyItForLife discovers commercial appliances are more durable than consumer ones, but doesn't check the downsides.

Yeah, every time a government bans something everyone immediately stops doing it and the problem is completely solved.

It is a possibility. "Likely" adds too much implication of "more probable than other possibilities", which doesn't seem to be supported by the evidence presented.

Or when they care more about public perception than competence. Most people opposed to big government aren't against the concept of regulation. They're against poor regulation that doesn't achieve what it's supposed to and overburdens the people it's supposed to protect.

Adjusted for inflation, bananas are way cheaper than they were. People with banana based diets are going to be lording their wealth over us any day now.