Lots of companies will say it’s a job killer and it makes the product too expensive. Companies say plenty of untrue things all the time.

I agree with your premise, that the cost of the entire product lifecycle needs to be baked in from the beginning, I just disagree with you on how much pushback there would be.

For similar reasons, I can’t even be in the same room as someone eating mussels.

I would argue that unless you can sit at a terminal and wonder why your program does not work, then make a trivial and meaningless change which causes it to work but should not, then you haven’t really written software.

Sewing machines don't sew, so much as they loop threads around each other. Essentially, it pushes the thread on the needle through the fabric. While the needle is pushed through, the thread on that needle is looped around a second thread on the bottom, and then pulled back up. This process repeats. If you were to remove the bottom thread, the all the stitching comes apart.

I'm not sure I would say Singer is the best, but they're the most recognized brand for sure.

After the date, she gets so anxious about her bodily habits that she begins having trouble pooping.

The hypnotist was highly effective so she goes back to him, but she tells him what happened.

He says “That must be horrible. Think harder this time and we will figure out a word to end this constipation.”

She thinks to herself “I only ever hear people say the word deuce in reference to poop or cards and I don’t play cards”, so she selects that word.

She gets home, tries it out, and out comes a jet like she had never seen before.

She calls up her date and says “Let me make it up to you, let me come over and I’ll make you dinner tonight.”

He accepts and she goes to his house. Dinner turns out fantastic and they hit it off well. Things start getting a little hot and heavy so they start moving to the bedroom.

She says coyly, “So, how can I make this up to you?”

“Seduce me” he answers.