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- Comment on Is airtags really useful? 1 day ago:
I can’t say they’ve actually helped me find lost or stolen things but they’ve helped me find my keys around the house. I’ve verified they find my luggage when travelling such as when I leave it at the hotel for a day trip and my laptop bag if I have to leave it on my car
- Comment on Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong? 2 days ago:
And yet they never worked that way. Sure sometimes they were at the end so you only had that to use and you never could tell how many days they were like that but otherwise you try pulling it and it’s all wet. I always assumed it was Chester to just turn it around at the end than to actually get a clean roll
- Comment on Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong? 2 days ago:
Nope, they never get changed. There’s gross
- Comment on Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong? 2 days ago:
Oh those were so gross. Nothing worse than trying to dry your hands on some wet towel used by thousands of previous hands.
Presumably they’re supposed to dry as you pull them through but they never did. Just sit there in the bathroom wet all day just growing whatever is floating around the bathroom air
- Comment on Discuss 3 days ago:
Thank you. People love it or hate it but don’t seem to understand it’s just bland palm oil. I want to like it. I’m their core demographic in many ways but there’s not enough flavor to like or dislike, and why would I eat palm oil?
- Comment on Discuss 4 days ago:
Hersheys has always been horrible but we never had any choices when I was growing up. We have much better options now and I haven’t voluntarily had Hersheys in a couple decades.
However I object to Your criticism of Reese’s. It’s fair to say it’s not quality chocolate, fair to say the filling isn’t really peanut butter, fair to say it’s ungodly sweet, but chalky? Yes, I love it: why?
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Kind of. It might be more fair that enshittification is making the traditional options less favorable.
I don’t specifically want to use self-checkout, but want to avoid the lines, hassle, slowness, and pushing affiliate cards that comes with a manned checkout these days. Self-checkout is only valuable in reference to how painful it is otherwise it.
Similarly trains : I don’t care what’s driving since I never come into contact with them but I prefer they not run off the tracks while texting and that they stop consistently
- Comment on What’s wrong, babe? You barely touched your Spaghetacos 4 days ago:
He’s a weird kid - likes “oldies” like Eminem, but also all the way back through classic rock and including Johnny Cash
- Comment on What’s wrong, babe? You barely touched your Spaghetacos 4 days ago:
Yes. My teen is a huge fan, so we had to go try it when it opened.
- Comment on Believe it or not 4 days ago:
Pineapple gives pizza a sweetness to compliment the savory tomato
No, pineapples pizza a sweetness to compliment the salty meat, the ham or pepperoni or salami or bacon or prosciutto
- Comment on A roundabout 5 days ago:
It’s always easy to say people don’t make mistakes but the reality is they do. They will drive the speed the road is designed for. They will lose focus. They will be distracted. Similarly road maintenance will be skipped or delayed and there will be times with no paint on the road or missing signs.
We can’t afford to build roads for people’s ideal behavior but need to account for their actual behavior, and need roads work safely despite human failures.
A clear line of sight makes it look like there’s no reason they can’t go straight ahead. A straight approach makes it look like there’s no reason they can’t go straight ahead. A dirty windshield or excessive headlight glare makes it look like there’s no reason they can’t go straight ahead. An unfamiliar road or a couple seconds of inattentiveness is all it takes before they see the clues too late. Meanwhile something as cheap and simple as shrubs interrupts their line of sight from way back so it is more apparent
- Comment on What’s wrong, babe? You barely touched your Spaghetacos 5 days ago:
- Comment on A roundabout 5 days ago:
I still think there’s a contributing factor that the road builders did not plant shrubs. There needs to be a clearer interruption in the line of sight
- Comment on A roundabout 5 days ago:
Do the road designers cheap out?
- The few roundabouts a couple decades ago may have been ambiguous but every roundabout I’ve seen for many years is clearly marked on the approach so you can’t screw up the direction.
- I understand someone unfamiliar may stop unexpectedly or not understand how to exit, but how do they screw up the direction?
- Even changing lanes which used to be where people screwed up a lot, recent roundabouts are clearly marked what lane you should be in and the lane markers lead to the exit: how can people not understand signs saying this lane for this road?
If your road designers aren’t following these conventions, that may be a contributing factor
- Comment on Tabletop convection oven 5 days ago:
My experience has been very different. They take about the same amount of tone. While I’ve never had bad rice cooker results, I have screwed up several different ways on the stovetop. While I never pay attention to the rice cooker after I start it, I have had to watch it on the stove top to keep it from boiling over or drying out or burning
- Comment on Tabletop convection oven 5 days ago:
Cooking rice on a stove may be easy but you have to pay attention to it, and it’s easy to go wrong if you don’t have all the meal done at the same time.
Using a rice cooker is filling it up and pressing a button. It’ll be ready when you are and does a pretty good job of keeping rice on standby if it needs to wait for the rest of the meal
- Comment on Tabletop convection oven 5 days ago:
True, there is a huge variety of sizes of rice cooker, depending on how much they make and how fancy they are
The rice cooker I have is cheap, simple and small, makes enough for at least four people and is the size of a 1.5 qt pot, about 9” in diameter. It has one button and consistently cooks decent rice in 15-20 minutes
I guess microwave ovens are all sizes as well: mine has got to be 30” across by 15” deep
- Comment on Tabletop convection oven 6 days ago:
I’ll give counterpoint
- Many rice cookers are a fairly small appliance. There’s plenty of room on the counter in even the smallest kitchens
- My rice cooker is the reason I cook rice all the time. Before getting one, rice was rarely worth the effort, but now it is the easiest, most convenient starch
- Comment on Tabletop convection oven 6 days ago:
I see even reasonably priced rice cookers with stainless steel pots now. I have no idea what cleaning those is like but the PFAS surface on my current rice cooker is no longer as non-stick as it used to be so I’m looking at stainless
- Comment on Tabletop convection oven 6 days ago:
That may be true but it doesn’t have to be.
The processed garbage people feed these with are their choice, and probably due to laziness with packaging giving air fryer directions.
They are equally effective at cooking food, but you may have to look up time and temperature (or mine gives the rule of thumb to start with regular oven directions, subtract 20°, and subtract 20% from time)
- Comment on Tabletop convection oven 6 days ago:
An air fryer is a convection oven but more so.
When I looked a couple years ago there wasn’t a standard definition. But if you look at the specs of similar products from a specific manufacturer, you’d see air fryers moved more air than convection ovens
I had to get a new stove and wanted one with an air fryer but at the time there were none that were both induction stove and air fryer. I had to settle for convection oven but the only difference I found on the specs was more air movement. However the convection oven on this brand had more air movement than air fryer on a different brand
I don’t know if definitions have been standardized since then
- Comment on Tabletop convection oven 6 days ago:
This is just like a rice cooker. Since the toaster and microwave, there have been few kitchen gadgets that actually make life easier, but they are my rice cooker, my coffee pods, and my air fryer. All of them turn a common food process you need to pay attention to, to simply press a button and walk away.
And before people talk about junk and processed foods …. My air fryer is great with chicken breasts and tofu. I’ve used it to cook more actual chicken than processed chicken-like food product. An air fryer is just a tool/gadget: it’s entirely your choice what you use it for
- Comment on What options of resistance are programmers creating to not submit to AI culture? 1 week ago:
Yeah I’ve been trying to call this out at my company. Junior programmers, especially , do t seem to know how to turn ai responses into maintainable code
I find it ironic since ive mostly been on the QA side of dev. I’ve spent decades pointing out the stats that code is much more expensive to maintain than it is to write the first time, so now AI puts us in a position of writing something the first time a little faster, but that’s even more expensive to maintain. Does not compute
- Comment on What options of resistance are programmers creating to not submit to AI culture? 1 week ago:
I still look for answers on stack overflow, instead of waiting for an AI summary of the same answer
- Comment on Why doesn't anybody get notified about warrants for their arrest? 1 week ago:
if they could find you, they’d just come and get you
I’m skeptical. I always believed they just have no incentive to try when it’s something’s small. And their supervisor has no incentive to spend anyone’s time for something’s small So they just file it away and they’ll grab you the next time you’re pulled over.
Given laziness and capitalism, it’s plausible they don’t try
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 1 week ago:
There’s also quantity. Eating an orange is healthy. Drinking a glass of orange juice is like eating six oranges after removing the fiber
- Comment on Can someone fact check this 2 weeks ago:
Owls are librulz, they only want to escape the us, not return
- Comment on Can someone fact check this 2 weeks ago:
Wait, which mountains are between the us and Europe again?
- Comment on I balance my checkbook every day. I manage my bank acount . Why does the goverment have so much problems with this? I get large payouts and such but it always seem they are in the neg?? 2 weeks ago:
Part of the problem is some debt is necessary for large or expensive projects. Think of it as similar to your home mortgage: most of us could not buy a home without it. Similarly governments have large or multi year projects that can be difficult to pay as you go and make sense to take out debt.
But everyone likes being Santa Clause , everyone likes bringing home the pork, and it’s a simple matter of writing a little more debt. No big deal.
A traditional Republican position is that thinking is insane, it’s not fiscally responsible. We can’t afford that. It makes a lot of sense until you see what republicans actually tend to do. In today’s world I imagine some republicans still have some twisted concept of fiscal responsibility for kicking millions off healthcare, but it boggles the mind to use that plus take on additional debt to give tax cuts to the wealthy. That is very much NOT fiscally responsible. If there is anyone out there who still believes in traditional Republican positions, they should be ashamed of what it’s become
A traditional Democrat position is we have human services and infrastructure that are important enough to write more debt. That sounds expensive, but again, think of it like that home mortgage: some things are important enough.
Realistically, the cost of debt rises and falls with a country’s economy, so you can have unexpected results where additional debt causes business to increase, making debt cheaper
- Comment on I balance my checkbook every day. I manage my bank acount . Why does the goverment have so much problems with this? I get large payouts and such but it always seem they are in the neg?? 2 weeks ago:
Technically there’s no ceiling and as the reserve currency the us used to have special place, but there are consequences, there is “too high”, there can be a spectacular crash when other countries and currency traders get worried about whether you can pay it back. It’s just not clear where that will be.
US debt is now at proportions that has caused economic crashes in other countries. More importantly, payments toward that debt are now one of the biggest parts of the annual budget, making it tougher to afford other things