Don’t forget about cheap labor over there, economies of scale with the large Chinese market, and with a very different regulatory environment. The American auto industry has an uphill battle ahead of them.

Not to excuse the lack of innovation here, I personally blame the trend of wealth extraction for executive pay and shareholder returns at the expense of long term thinking and reduced R&D spending.

This was the part that I wouldn’t do just because I view the sink as mostly clean and plunger as mostly dirty. So unless I were to sterilize the sink afterwards I wouldn’t put a plunger in the sink.

Very cool, but I suspect that participants will be giving up something when it’s implemented. I would be curious if the user can override the load sharing when the car is needed. Would be rather annoying to go get your car and find it at half charge.

You are right of course, but that’s part of the joke. I think it’s provokes such a viseral response because it’s directly “against” the reader, not many of us can claim to be directly impacted by genocide for example, even though it’s way worse.

Just in case you forgot the /s tag, that person’s job isn’t to collect the carts scattered across the parking lot, it’s to move the carts from the cart area to inside the store. The right way to handle the lack of cart areas isn’t to make the workers job harder, it’s to complain to the store.

My 4 year old’s memory ability is all over the place. One day forgets mid sentence what he was talking about about or can’t remember if he is wearing pants, then later says, “remember 3 months ago when you promised me a Popsicle” or repeats verbatim the theme song for some random show.

OpenAudible - because Audible cycles books in and out of the membership too fast and sometimes their phone app sucks.

Prairie dogs along the front range of Colorado, deer in the Colorado mountains…

I wouldn’t cap it but put in a Studor vent if there is a chance that you need more venting.

They make what is called a studor vent for this situation. Not sure if there are code restrictions for different areas. If allowed you can put them under sinks etc to get better venting of sewer lines.

I had instability in kde when an upgrade moved me away from the proprietary Nvidia drivers. Might be worth checking that.

Please don’t do that while hiking around others, lots of people go hiking to get away from constant sounds like that.

Exactly the same story for me, the free Linux cost didn’t hurt either.