Electric are worse. You should still replace the heads regularly, but now you’re dependent on the specific company continuing to support your toothbrush

This is way too true of way too many things.

How about sneakers? I need orthodontic sneakers so it’s not even a fashion thing. I finally found a pair that doesn’t make my feet hurt … you have a customer for life. Oops, those are no longer made

too many spoons disappeared, I want to buy more. Nope, that pattern was discontinued right after you bought the set.

Or even just packaging? I pve always bought this product and you have a customer op for life but I don’t see the product I npdont see it. There’s something of the same brand: Is it the same, or do I need to search for a new thing

Maybe. By all means it deserves investment, deserves the attempt, but it doesn’t seem much more practical than fusion

Cost?

• renewables are the cheapest power generation
• nuclear is most expensive, not economical
• thorium isn’t even developed for regular use

Time?

• renewables can be built asap, and brought into use incrementally
• nuclear takes decades to build, no one can afford that
• thorium isn’t even commercially offered

Ooooo, now do we get to debate whether Britain is in the European continent? In the European Union? Or did they brexit this new community?

The northeast still loves you. We’re sorry we invited that side of the family to the little league game and drunk red neck uncle is out there shouting gibberish and threatening everyone he sees

Same as now. The poverty-stricken inland will be desperate for the money and free to exploit their natural resources without regard to their future

Note that there’s no claim of it helping any people or benefitting constituents, even his own. In this world of narcissism, there’s only “what’s in it for me?” And “how to spite anyone who disagrees with me?”

I haven’t heard of any details yet and wouldn’t be surprised if there are none

Most of us reading the comparison to Iron Dome will think of multiple interconnected layered weapons systems protecting the entire country, while having the intelligence to use cheap plentiful interceptors where possible. Not only is it ridiculous to expect that so cheaply, but we can’t even seem to account for Chinese “weather balloons” crossing our airspace.

It’s possible they will spend that money on the infrastructure to have more detailed live knowledge of the entire airspace, including low and slow drones, so that it’s possible to react. Not likely though, that’s not flashy enough.

That $175B is probably just meant to enrich military contractors, but in case there’s anything real to it …… $175B can buy several Patriot missile batteries (which I believe is one of the weapons systems integrated into Iron Dome) to be permanently installed near major cities. Done. Declare victory. Somehow tie it back to Joe Biden.

Military officials said at the time that they hadn’t expressed a need for such a comprehensive shield to defend the U.S., while critics noted the U.S. wasn’t under threat from its neighbors, Canada and Mexico

Now we know why he started shit with Canada!

I’m sure the ten million people losing healthcare are very happy their taxes will go toward enriching defense contractors instead

Plus if you let us know where your hide-a-key is, we’ll bring the pizza in for you

My kids’ teacher had a great teaching moment. He had the kids write an outline, use ChatGPT to write an essay from their outline, then he graded them on their corrections to the generated text

I hate the way people talk about AI. They’re going crazy at work pushing people to use it for everything while you have people doing less and less more poorly claiming they save 50%. Everyone is more efficient and has greater efficacy while nothing gets done.

AI is a great tool for programming - next step up from autocomplete, search, and templates. It can be useful to speed up some coding tasks but it’s rarely a final result. So I’m the Luddite where we have some non-technical manager trying to guide a bunch of us on zoom through a coding task with ai. Not only will she not listen but the only result so far has been clarifying that she needs to define requirements

And I almost missed lunch today spending almost two hours on a code review from someone who clearly had ai generate it and never tried to build, never wrote tests much less ran them, never actually put any thought into cleaning up the generated stuff to actually make it work. He had a bit of what I swear is Perl in his Java “code”.

I had to feed a write up through ai to translate it to something that “saved me time” by looking like ai wrote it

As someone in the ecosystem and who has no interest in watching on Windows, works for me.

• smart tv app just works
• iOS/iPadOS devices just work
• subscription is trivial to manage on iOS

My objections were

• do not like using smart tv apps
• FireStick does not have an AppleTV app
• I was set to try an Apple TV device but the current version was released 3 years ago so I have been hoping for an updated one
• shows were outstanding but it had less content than other streaming services

My teen wanted to go to a movie until he found out it was $17.50. That not just driving away customers, but the industry is losing the next generation entirely

Have they seen how far right our left is?

I would not vote for communism or most socialism either, but our left really has to move back to the left

We can though. Yes it was a minority of a minority and not likely to have made a difference. I blame everyone who voted for the end of democracy, human rights, rule of law, but especially those who voted most against their own interest

Latinos and people from West Virginia. wtf did you do that for. You’re the people hurt the most, but you’re taking the rest of us down with you

I hit delay so it’s finished when I want it but the clothes are not sitting around damp.

That’s different than “soak” or pre-rinse

I can start the laundry late without waiting up for it

I have a semi-smart washer with a “delay” feature that lets me run it later. My electricity price doesn’t change so I use it to have the washer finish when I get up in the morning so the clothes can go right in the dryer.

However a notification feature would be fantastic. I still don’t understand why appliance manufacturers never cooperated on a cheap and simple standard for remote notification

Still looking for the silliness. It was a tragedy and a flop