Finally, an answer that makes sense.

Should include the U.S. in there.

Yes, because of the stupid turntable. 1:30, the water isn’t hot enough. 2:00, the water is too hot and cup is at the back of the oven. The right amount of time, for tap water, in the summer, is 1:47, that puts the water at the front of the oven at the right temp, but I don’t want to punch in 1:47, so I just hit the 2 to start and run the oven for 2 minutes, and then pull the door open at 1:47. Also, no beep that way.

Commercial microwaves, like in a restaurant, have a row of numbered buttons that can be programmed for time and power setting. That’s the best way to control a microwave.

I’m guessing that isn’t the only reason.

College rhymes with knowledge.

Stupider rhymes with Jupiter.

You know it’s a rhyme, so you got that part.

It’s an insult chant school girls use against boys. There’s nothing more to it than that.

All food packaging could be glass, paper, metal and cloth. It was just that until plastic was invented. We could go back to that and the world and people would be a bit healthier for it. We won’t, though, not until we’re forced to by something catastrophic.

2003, and hold it there.

I remember all the formats shown.

My first machine was an AST Research 286 16Mhz (in “turbo” mode) with two 5-1/4" floppy drives, and a 40 MB 5-1/4" hard drive. I paid ~$2000 for it in the late 80s. That was a good move, I knew more about computers than most people applying for jobs at the time, and that allowed me to make a decent living without a college degree.

Because times when electricity is cheap coincide with the need for lowering humidity?

That’s the feature they sell. But, its real purpose is to monetize your data and/or lock you into some sort of ridiculous subscription service and/or run ads.

That’s pretty much ubiquitous for “smart” devices.

The issue isn’t as much high prices, although we are in a bubble that is currently popping, the main issue is ongoing, too low pay.

Even if Tesla drops Musk as CEO to appease public opinion, he’ll remain on the board of directors, because he owns so much of the stock.

I urge you to (while ignoring the Pink Floyd theme) read https://welcometothemachine.co/ to understand how we can’t strip billionaires of power by attacking the companies they are associated with. Because, they all own each other’s companies, they all sit on each other’s boards, they’re all in bed together. Musk doesn’t only own big parts of Twitter, Tesla, and SpaceX, but many other big corporations as well. They all do.

Here in the U.S., we let billionaires tell us which of two candidates are “electable”, and we then argue over which one is “better”.

A vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for evil.

Not yet. Reddit and Lemmy are my only social media, I don’t use anything else–I only see content from other sites, like TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, etc., on Reddit or Lemmy. There are a couple of klunky things about the Lemmy interface that bug me, which I’ve complained about already. And, the Lemmy communities I’m more interested in are not active enough to satisfy me. Lemmy still feels empty, but it’s getting better.

I’ve transitioned to digital books. I still have a few physical books on my shelf that are special to me, but digital books are just too damn convenient. (And, yes, unless apocalypse, and unless battery dies, I know.)

Here’s a pretty good Slate article on this dress, and how important this image became:

https://slate.com/technology/2017/04/heres-why-people-saw-the-dress-differently.html

When I look at the image attached to this post, I can’t see anything but white and gold, as I always have. This, in spite of now knowing it’s black and blue.

I stuck my foot in my mouth about this dress. It was about a year later, and I didn’t realize it had been proven to be black and blue, and I said something snarky when someone I liked said it was black and blue. I was so sure it was gold and white, I made an ass of myself.

Back in 1989 I had a co-worker friend who went to Jamaica and returned with a custom coffee mug with my name on it. It wasn’t a cheap printed one, the letters were formed out of clay. I don’t use it every day anymore, because I’m afraid it will break, but it’s in my rotation. It reminds me that some people used to care something about me, for some reason.

AOL was my first access. Before that, it was local BBSs. I ran a BBS for a short time, there wasn’t much I could do with only two phone lines into the house.

They had a good run. It was fun while it lasted.