One of these days I’m gonna wake up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, and my toilet isn’t going to flush because I forgot to renew my monthly “Kohler+” subscription.

Don’t you just love scientifically illiterate journalists?

Is this an ad? Because it reads like one, complete with the black and white terrible world footage.
“Space-saving countertop dishwashers aren’t a new idea, but they’re often more hassle than they’re worth, requiring a kitchen faucet to be upgraded with an adapter so a hot water supply hose can be temporarily connected…

I’m not sure the company’s claim that their graphite electrode heating system is more efficient than a traditional electric heating element is accurate. Electric heating elements are close to 100% efficient…

All but the cheapest dishwashers have a water heating element, so that old thing about turning on your faucet water to heat the dish washer water is outdated.

What am I missing here? The most efficient way of heating water is with a submerged heating element, not microwaves. If you put 2kW into an element, then 2kW goes into the water. Take this whole thing with a big grain of (dishwasher) salt.

Unless he went on an Amazon shopping spree on his 18th birthday, it’s easy enough for an 18 year old to not have bought anything on Amazon.

Nice try, Giz but I’m still not turning off my ad blocker. 

Let me just characterize the GMT800s once and for all:

they are the last modern trucks built to last.

The app regularly decides I’d like to avoid major roads and instead take gravel farm roads and/or as many residential side streets as possible because the route is slightly shorter. That it sends hikers to their doom comes as no surprise.

Another reason to use OpenStreetMaps. After Google removed the ability for users to edit public maps, the quality and reliability of them has gone down the tubes.

Well, that’s much more important than preserving voting rights, civil rights, limiting access to guns, making sure everybody gets vaccinated against COVID, preserving abortion rights, curtailing the filibuster, climate change, the RWNJ supreme court supermajority, convincing stupid people that Donald Trump isn’t…

You don’t see a connection between the right to repair and climate change? I may not have a big effect, but repairing instead of trashing and repurchasing consumer products will have a positive impact on the environment.

You can walk and chew gum at the same time.

The ad has since gone “private” on youtube, but yeah... they tried to work the “getting your car fixed at anywhere other than a dealership will get you raped” angle. https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj4ayw/auto-industry-tv-ads-claim-right-to-repair-benefits-sexual-predators

curtailing the filibuster

This seems like a weird take.

“Now, unless it is still under warranty (which may even just be a full replacement rather than sending a tech out), you’re probably going to just buy a new TV if the current one is broken.”

At least on paper, it’s something that could be cracked with a broader equivalent of the “Right to Repair”. I also think that if a company disables some product you are leasing from them remotely, they should have to pay you a penalty for breach of contract.