Thanks for posting the link to the supporting paper.

No it won’t. The problem causers can afford air conditioning.

No one makes a 65+" oled monitor so before anyone suggests “just buy a monitor” you can’t, I have looked.

Up until last year, I would have said get a good quality projector but even projectors have started getting infiltrated with smart “features” now.

Digital signage was also an option but oled options are basically non-existent and they often have matte screens that make the colors kind of mushy.

From what I have read online, the Sony tv offerings seem to be pretty unintrusive and don’t really care if you hook them up to the internet. The smart software is android tv based and can potentially be modded/stripped of google services. I have to do some more research though so don’t quote me on the above.

Our current TCL/Roku tv is dying and has turned out to be really bad smart/privacy wise and has gotten consistently worse performance wise over time. I’m currently evaluating options for its replacement and the Sony 65" oled is looking like the best one so far.

100% our first kind of fought it until he was ready. Then it was like a week pantsless before he had daytime peeing done. Pooping was a separate deal. He REALLY didn’t want to go in the toilet but when he turned 3 we just told him no more diapers and we followed through with it. It took about 2 days and he was over it but they were rough.

Nighttimes were also pretty quick, we did liner, sheet, liner, sheet and had extra pillows and blankets ready for him. He probably only had 10ish accidents and has been dry since.

I diagree, at current tech/time energy storage is the problem with peaky production methods like wong and solar.

You need capacity and quick spinup capacity for when demand occurs off peak production. Nuclear is the only green option with current tech for large scale. Fuel cells would be ideal when powered with electrolyzed h2 created by excess solar generation capacity but the tech isn’t there yet and we need something now.

Thermal energy storage and pumped hydro are both viable but spatially problimatic or expensive in the long term. IMO, micro grids with local solar as the source are where we should be going but local storage is an issue even where sun is abundant.

Not a stretch at all given they killed public transit in a number of American cities.

All of that is true but there are entire genres of science fiction that people grew up on telling them that nuclear waste is scary green stuff that will do everything from melt your skin off to turn you into the toxic avenger. A major chunk of the population only knows about nuclear waste from that and doesn’t care what experts say.

Modern nuclear facilities and storage devices ARE safe but when you bring it up, people will just go “Yeah but Fukushima/Chernobyl, happened, I don’t want that to happen in my neighborhood” completely ignoring the fact that the soviet design was flawed from the start, and the Japanese one was located in a Tsumnami zone.

As for other industrial waste, its not visible to the average person so it doesn’t exist. We are finally coming to the realization of how pervasive in the environment some of these chemicals are. PFAS/PFOS is basically everywhere, coal fly ash leaks all the time, creosote is essentially on every railroad track, leachate is entering ground water from old land fills, dioxin and mercury so prevalent on the gulf coast that eating the seafood is harmful. But again, none of that is visible. The East Palestine derailment was visible and nothing changed afterwards.

Humanity in general but industrialists in particular destroyed the planet and got paid go do it, then put the bill on the average person when cleanup came.

Nuclear is going to be needed 100% but it is an uphill battle. I hope the battle gets easier and the safety record continues to get better.

I’m not saying we shouldn’t have safe drinking water provided to us by our municipal water supply.

What I am saying is that between the choice of purchasing expensive bottled water which this article and others say is effectively contaminated, is horrible for the environment, and largely comes from the same supply as municipal water does, vs purchasing a point of use filter system which can remove most harmful thinks in tap water, you will largely come out with better water for less money in the long run, with a point of use filter.

You are also doing better for the environment by doing that and getting a reusable bottle to take it with you. If you are worried about water on the go, look at something like a grayle travel filter or one of the other options out there already.

A large number of inexpensive and effective filters exist already. This is a problem you can already solve for yourself.

If it was setup properly, you just us an if statement like, “if communication lost to control for t>5 seconds, release balast” or something like that. I had 0 issue with the controller being an ots consumer good. The rest was an idiotic design, I won’t even say it was engineered.

Same. Its so nice for consistency. I also keep a basic knife sharpener in my cooking bag.

Buy a proper instant read meat thermometer and learn about carryover heat. Seriously, just cooking meat to where it needs to be and no more makes such a difference when cooking.

Along with that, learning when things need to be cooked to higher temps for structural reasons.

Finally, learning how to get good browning or crust formation. Its all prep and heat control but damn a steak with a good crust is life changing.

A lot of them are adding that stuff. I looked earlier today actually.

Basically the only option I have found for a non-connected/smart/spyware tv in the last few months are commercial displays. They must price in the ad revenue to the consumer stuff because the price of those commercial displays is ~4x.

Pre-thickened water isn’t any less of a distrubing concept. “Here. Drink this water, it’s the same consistency of saliva.”

I know there is a reason for it to exist but I don’t like the idea/concept of a beverage thickener…

Take their coffee grounds for compost?

Waaaaake up and smelllllll the aaaaaaashhhhees

Did a portal to space open next to your weather station?

Is there a way to disable it on mobile? I have not seen anything yet.