Hm, this sounds too easy. Are you sure you don’t need to build yourself a vibration sensor that tweets every time your appliance finishes vibrating?

Does your washing machine display the time when it starts, or does it determine the length of the cycle while it’s running?

This must be what I was missing. Every machine I had ever used either had a fixed length, or calculated the ideal length and displayed it on a screen.

That’s what I was wondering. The machines in my apartment building definitely do some kind of calculation (weight-based, I assume) to determine the cycle length, but then it’s displayed and doesn’t change.

The humans are on to us. I was commenting on Lifehacker again and one caught on. We need to rush the invasion.

It seemed theoretically possible that some high-end washing machine could detect when the soap was removed and end the wash cycle then instead of guessing based on some amount of time. Or something along those lines, yielding a variable length cycle. In that case, a timer or alarm (which is the most obvious solution…

Right, no question that there’s a need to be reminded when laundry is done. But you could just set an alarm/timer. Every smart phone has that function (maybe dumb phones too!). As well as most digital watches, microwaves, and ovens. And of course alarm clocks. A device that monitors the vibrations of the washing…

My thought wasn’t that people don’t need to be reminded. It was that they could just use a timer. Or an alarm. Things that they have readily available on things like their smart phone, their watch, their alarm clock, even their microwave. A Raspberry Pi-based solution that monitors the vibration of the appliance…

I fixed it for you.

Don’t washing machines run on time cycles, or am I missing something?

Yes we’ll see just how bad this whining impacts Uber. Prediction: It doesn’t.

Jalopnik is the only business allowed to puts its own interests first. Didn’t you know that?

Orrrrr maybe they just wanted to slightly unfuck travelers unknowingly landing in a shitstorm at JFK who just wanted to get home.

Why stop there? I leave mine in airplane mode and never touch it. Lasts for weeks.

Idk if I had to pick who the current state of affairs bothered more, I’d choose you and not the current President.

Your phone is probably the device you use for email the most

Prediction: You join a rapidly growing list of people who were overly confident and had to back out of their promises when they were proven wrong.

That’s funny because just a few months ago everyone’s prediction was 0. Wrong.

Prediction: Pretty much every other prediction about him was wrong, so yours probably will be, too.

I honestly thought that my favorite part of a Trump victory would be Trump himself, but I was so, so very wrong. It’s reading posts like this, which attempt to project the author’s own desire for Trump not to become president onto Trump himself. I read the same post over and over again written by so many different…