Whoa, I bought a blemish pedal on sale and got a call from the company just now, a few weeks later, right before the holidays, just to see that everything was working well. Dang, that’s impressive. I already liked them a lot.

Another way of writing this post could be “People are terrible at assessing risk, and therefore we live in an ever more dangerous world where people die for no reason while we discuss violent crime endlessly, despite the fact that it is way down… everywhere.” See also: cars and pollution.