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Ich kann diesen fickenden Smiley nicht verstehen. Es ist so warm und stickig, dass ich bisher nicht schlafen konnte. x( Und nun wird's schon hell. Ich hasse ~~den Sommer~~ die CDU/CSU sowie sämtliche anderen Schwachmaten, welche in der Position waren den Klimawandel ernst zu nehmen, es aber nicht getan haben und es immer noch nicht tun sowie alle, welche solche Berufsidioten ins Amt wählen.

You got a degree in semi conductor physics? Lol

Man, that "lol" really annoys me and comes accross condescending. If you've got no arguments, there is no need for an academic dick measuring contest. You can just leave it. To answer your question:
In parts, yes. Not my specialisation though, but enough to be able to distinguish electromigration from whiskering.

being pedantic. Engineers will call all these things whiskers.

Being pedantic is part of the job of an engineer. I'm an engineer working in research. I don't call electromigration "metal whiskering" or vice versa.
Besides, as I've mentioned, it wouldn't even be pedantic to distinguish them that way as the differences are not miniscule. They are formed differently and look differently.

I’m not saying the photo in the thumbnail is an example of electromigration.

Yes, to the post which is titled "TIL computers can sometimes grow crystals" you said:

This can happen inside ICs [...] It’s called electromigration.

Which is still wrong. We can observe electromigration in ICs, or in metallic conductors in general, but this is a different phenomenon than whiskering, which can look like those crystals while conductors affected by electromigration form voids and protrusions out of material build-ups which usually can't even be seen by the bare eye.
But maybe that was a misleading expression and you didn't mean to equate those two.

Salt is contained in a lot of products. Got salted butter? Smear it on bread. Guess which ingredient is used in bread. Correct: salt. Maybe you put some cold cuts on it. They've got a lot of salt. What about cheese? Salt again. Now you move on to your coffee. You put dairy milk in it: salt. Lunch? Probably a lot of salt. Dinner? Needless to say. If you snack some chips, well, obviously it's a shitload of salt.

Salt is everywhere. Especially in today's food industry. Having salt is not necessarily bad for one's health – in fact, we do need salt for our body to function – but as usual it's the amount that matters.

And according to several dietary authorities worldwide, most people eat too much salt.

WHO:

The global mean intake of adults is 4310 mg/day sodium (equivalent to 10.78 g/day salt) (1). This is more than double the World Health Organization recommendation for adults of less than 2000 mg/day sodium (equivalent to < 5 g/day salt).
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/salt-reduction

FDA (USA):

Americans consume on average 3,400 milligrams (mg) of sodium per day—nearly 50%more than the 2,300 mg limit recommended by federal guidelines for people 14 years and older. Recommended limits for children 13 and younger are even lower.
https://www.fda.gov/food/food-labeling-nutrition/sodium-reduction

Overview in EU:

International health-related organisations have issued recommendations to limit salt intake to no more than 5 or 6 g per day (see Table 3A). In the EU, most national recommendations that quantify salt intake recommend the same. [...]
In the majority of European countries, the range of intake is 7 to 12 grams of salt per day
https://knowledge4policy.ec.europa.eu/health-promotion-knowledge-gateway/dietary-saltsodium_en

Salt is one of those substances which have large effects even in low doses. Therefore, being above the recommended intake on average increases risks of suffering mainly from:

cardiovascular diseases, stomach cancer and chronic kidney disease
https://knowledge4policy.ec.europa.eu/health-promotion-knowledge-gateway/dietary-saltsodium_en

So, if you're interested in your health, try to get an overview on how much salt you consume on average. And if it's above the recommended intake (which is usually the case), consider whether you really really can not live without salted butter or try to cut down on salt with other meals. And probably, taking the shaker off the table won't be enough.

If you understand "car" as "hardware degradation" there is something to it, despite calling it "electromigration".

You said it (= whiskers) can be simulated and that it's called electromigration. From what I understood, this statement is wrong, since they are both different in both cause and effect. Metal whiskering can be simulated to a certain extent, yes. But that's vastly different to what electromigration is and how it works.

Which exceptions?

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Where I live, Margarine has to have a fat content of at least 80 % otherwise it is not allowed to be called Margarine. Guess what happens? Even there companies try to cut costs and oversell less fatty water as kind of Margarine.

We consume too much salt, which has detrimental effects. Try it a few weeks with less (not necessarily none, you need at least some) salt. You may observe that you start experiencing more interesting tastes and won't need salt as much.

Electromigration is not the same as metal whiskering.

One thing I learned as an information technology engineer: language is a tool for communication. As long as the sender can send its message unobstructed and as long as the receiver receives and understands the message as intended, the information transmission can be considered a successs.

As I'm finishing 3 Japanese guys come in talking and laughing.

How it should be read:

As I'm finishing –– 3 Japanese guys come in talking and laughing.

What I first read:

As I'm finishing 3 Japanese guys come –– in talking and laughing.

What I then read:

As I'm finishing 3 Japanese guys –– come in talking and laughing.

Then:

As I'm finishing 3 Japanese –– guys come in talking and laughing.

Took me a while. I'm obviously tired and should sleep. Good night, internet people!

Depending on the machine, I guess it's likely that those aren't using Windoofs at all. I would be surprised if there were devices in use during surgery who run on that.