My parents bought an Echo Show that they pretty much just ignore nowadays, except to set a timer or tell them the weather every once in a while. All it does all day is sit there and show ads for random stuff. It makes a terrible clock because its too busy showing ads half the time to actually show you the time in a font you can read from across the room. I know you can ask it to tell you the time, but thats so much slower than just looking at a normal clock
if this was their first job, then boy I can’t wait to see where their new art thief careers take them
I think there’s a bit more nuance with this one. I’m all for safety and all that, but the fact that one company, SawStop, owns the patent for the blade stop system that they’re trying to mandate is a pretty big issue. Sure they’ve pledged to not enforce the patent if the mandate goes through, but that’s entirely on their word, nothing in writing. The cost of a saw would go up if they don’t waive the patent enforcement and manufacturers have to pay to license the technology (or some other related patent that the system can’t function without). Also, if the saw manufacturers are also making saw blades, they’d probably end up selling more blades as a result of the blade stop, since iirc, the system shunts a hardened steel block into the path of the blade as soon as it detects an electrical current from your finger (or a hot dog in all the demos lol), which stops and breaks the blade in the process. Dunno if that would make up for lost sales due to higher prices, tho.
None of this would effect table saws that already exist, and higher prices may drive people to buy more used stuff, rather than new stuff.
On top of dealing with the SawStop patent issues, there’s other things that could also help with table saw safety, like designing blade guards that people don’t want to remove cuz they get in the way, that aren’t addressed by this mandate. This NPR article from 2024 kinda talks a bit more about the whole issue around the blade stop mandate.
Not to say that this mandate shouldn’t happen, I’m more concerned about it being implemented in a way that won’t drive people away from buying saws with a blade stop system due to price
completely uncharted territory. No one tried to cook a potato until Sam Altman graced us plebs with ChatGPT
good thing the crabs cant read this meme
Oh my phone is on the list of devices now. Maybe I’ll give Lineage a try if I feel like hopping ROMs again
It least Instagram straight up doesn’t give a changelog, rather than letting you read dumb exposition that tells you nothing. (Thats still crap tho)
with one glance, that horse can understand the pain that is Haru Urara Arima Kinen
If you ever come across a page you want to read that’s on a fandom wiki, this github has a blocklist that makes the site far less bloated and more bearable
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At my local supermarket, a Code Red is $3, a Can of Pringles is $2.50, and just a glance at the prices of different cuts of beef, it seems like you’d pay at least $13 for a pound of steak. Things like Rice and beans would probably be around the same price as the processed food or cheaper, but probably not anything that includes meat.
in today’s economy? That’s fine dining Mr. Moneybags
the true inspiration for those vertical mice: Hot Dogs
When my parents were shopping for a washing machine a couple of years ago, they asked their friend who works at Home Depot what seemed to be reliable and he basically said “anything but Samsung”. They had way more Samsung returns than anything else.
Here’s a similar post by Ed Zitron (Titled: Make Fun of Them). He gives a few examples of complete nonsensical stuff that some big Tech CEOs have said, and goes on to argue that more people, especially those who cover tech in media for a living, need to be far more critical of tech CEOs and not just basically go “oh wow thats so cool” to everything they say.
in 3 years PC build guides are gonna be like “You need 3 drives in your gaming PC. One for the OS (this can be small, its not important), at least 2TB for games, and another 1TB for the shaders for those games. Oh and you’ll need a top of the line Nvidia card because even a dumb UE5 asset dump game like Notary Simulator won’t run on a budget card”
It’ll be serious once traffic at Papa John’s picks up. That garlic butter sauce can only be consumed during times of crisis
Double or Nothing but it makes no mention of the odds. Oh well. I’m a gacha gamer so the odds have got to be better than FGO so i’d take it
oh man thats unfortunate. I’ve never had any issues with mine, but I’m glad the Nalgene worked out better for you.
I’ve had a Hydroflask wide mouth for about 7 or 8 years now and I’ve never had any mold issues with it. At least once a week after cleaning with soap, I pour in maybe half a cup of white vinegar, put the cap on, and shake it around, then leave it for about 15 minutes or so, then rinse it out fully. Never had any issues with mold on the bottle or in the cap. I use a bottle brush I got from the baby section of the supermarket to clean it out.
Pressure Cookers are wonderful for beans. Something like the Instant Pot can cook beans for you, as well as a whole bunch of other stuff. If you’re not comfortable with pressure cookers, there’s also slow cookers, tho they’ll take longer than just boiling the beans.
You could also just put the beans, water/stock, whatever seasonings you want in an oven proof pot, bring it up to a boil on the stove, and then transfer it into a 325F oven and let it go for 1-1.5 hours