Agreed. If I could get a local ABC channel over the air I would be thrilled to see ESPN and their forty channels of talking heads and college football just fell off the face of the earth.

Gah...brain fog had me thinking of powerline ethernet, not PoE.

Many, if not all those “associated” costs are the same regardless of if a person works from home or in an office.. Your house will never meet health and safety regulations because YOU take sole responsibility for the environment (unlike an employer that takes the risk because YOU are in THEIR building) No different…

That title is reeeeeeally dumb.

Oregon is leading the way on secure voting.

TECs are effective, but really inefficient. Using a commercial calculator for TEC efficiency, I show that for a peltier cooling module to cool a 60C beverage to 32C at a rate of 1L per minute, it uses over 1700W of power at 230v. They also need to dissipate all of the heat being removed somewhere, so likely the…

Fringe

The Roku also likes to phone home... a lot. From my Pi-hole last year:

Unless I’m in a real pinch, you can count on my sheer laziness protecting your children. Imitation human meat is just so much easier. 

Wait you don’t think that won’t be a thing?! It will, like cell lines in scientific research. Except they’ll be celebrity ones. I’ll have the Beyonce with havarti and dijon mustard please!

It really isn’t that difficult a concept. The rest of the world eats meat, but a vegetarian misses eating burgers and chicken nuggets. So they make alternatives, so they can still eat burgers and nuggets, just not made of meat.

Okay, but do you have any old and/or weak family members I can hang out with? Maybe somebody who you don’t regularly hear from? 

Oh boy...you’ve done it now.

Also the tradition of a diamond being the only stone allowed on an engagement or wedding ring was started by De Beers to sell more diamonds. One of the most successful ad campaigns ever.

That’s what my wife says about me

We bought a bed from amazon and it showed up in a Walmart box.  Turned out amazon bought the bed from Walmart and charged us an extra $10 to do it. 😂

Not just cutting corners - but what I would call outright deception - using the same packaging as other stores but what is inside is smaller/cheaper. Especially problematic in the toy industry, where I experienced it firsthand. Most toys are essentially plastic-by-the-pound, so guess what, the Walmart version costs…

Many multi-store companies do this - they offer different prices on the same items in different locations in order to damage local competitors - Amazon is doing this to prevent other sales avenues from doing exactly this to them.

Thank you!