Neat. A piece of iconography I’ve often seen but never knew the significance of. Thanks

OOTL: What’s with the hat?

Don’t forget WiFi https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260522023127.htm

You didn’t think those data centers were for LLMs and kitch image and video generation, did you? (Non-existent tinfoil hat emoji)

Outdoor propane burner ftw! That was my go to before I had to get a new stovetop. My newer induction top gets the pressure canner up to temp pretty quick, so it’s the best option for me now.

Botulism.

And I don’t have enough space in my freezer for as many jars of sauce I make every year. I need them to be shelf stable, and that requires canning, and pressure canning is faster and more consistent than deep water bath canning.

$2.17 pfft.

Pack of 50 good tomato seeds: $3.50. Bag of manure: $10. String for tying up the plants: $2. Sticks to tie them up to: found in the yard. Water: no idea. Plant 30 seeds, get 20 plants big enough to transplant. Grow a pithy 5lbs of tomatoes from each plant in your first year because you don’t know what you’re doing. 100lbs tomatoes, would be $5/lb at the store (and don’t taste as good), $500 - $15.50 = $485 savings, less water costs.

Same set up in the next year, less seed costs (you kept yours right?), $50 in steel pipe to trellis the tomatoes to, few hours of YouTube University, and look at that, twice the yield. Now you have to buy some ball jars and a pressure canner ($100). $1000 - $162 = Still $838 ahead. And you now have fresh jarred tomatoes for the whole year.

See if the brand of switch has a HomeAssistant integration. I use HA as the coordinator for most of my “smart home” things, and only buy gear that can be controlled by it. That way my computer runs the show, and I can choose to use the HA android or iOS app if I want.

Under capitalism, you’ll own nothing and lease it.

You should see the statue of Juliette in Verona. People rub her for luck too…

Put up exterior shades on the south side of your home or at least outside your windows. It keeps the direct heat from the sun from baking your walls and windows, and you on the other side. Yeah boy, window awnings and sun shades are in.

Probably the only difference is that the Chinese companies don’t share their data (as readily or at all) with the Canadian government.

Overall consumer demand is drying up as people are getting squeezed from small wage gains and huge inflation. Low demand for goods and incessant demand for “stakeholder value” means cuts have to come. If they’re not in quality, it’s in overhead (staff) - or both.

And now bosses have excuses for cuts to both back-office and production staff - “automation” and “AI” respectively.

And this is why “nearshore” offshoring exists. Business take advantage of timezone-adjacent remote staff but with dramatically lower wages.

I’ll take “How Trump is maintaining his strangle hold on the Republican party, for $200 Alex”

Dogs react to the subtle changes in behavior of their handlers.

Find a dog owner that’s afraid of women. One that pulls the leash away at the sight of them, that tenses up and holds their breath and walks faster every time they get close. Then you’ll find a dog that “just doesn’t like women”.

$0.05/mile EV ($0.15/kWh / 3mi/kWh)

vs

$0.17/mile Gas ($5.00/gal / 30mi/gal)

I’d wager the US has blown through way more of their stockpile than anyone expected since they keep throwing munitions ineffectually at Iran. Cancelling the German deal means more capacity to build back their own supply.

I replaced mine this spring. Once I got the cap loose from the rust on the threads, there was… absolutely nothing left of the anode. A nub just below the cap maybe.

For the diy-ers, you didn’t mention draining the system before you open the anode cap on the heater… Turn off the intake water at your heater, turn down or off your heater, go to the furthest upstairs/away from your water heater faucet and turn on the hot fill blast, and back down to your water heater and open up the drain spigot (ideally with a hose straight to a drain or out to the gutter), and let that run out for a while. This way you won’t get the entire house-pipe’s full of hot water coming out of you anode hole. Ask me how I know 💦

While you’re doing water heater maintenance, don’t forget to purge the heater after you’re done replacing the anode. (Turn the heat way down or off, turn off the water intake, release the pressure if you haven’t already, drain out like 5 gallons from the heater, turn on the intake for a minute, turn it off, drain, on, a few times until the water coming out the heater is clear.) It’s worth the time to get the sediment and rust and whatever out.

Now you’re talking. I just linked what I’ve used.

Super long wire? Can’t you just put your laptop next to the tv, plug in with a normal 4’ or 6’ HDMI, and use a Bluetooth mouse or your phone to control it?