Doesn’t that list also include Iran?

I don’t have to like it, but it’s sort of a sound strategy. The Red Sea is on the way to the Suez Canal, and the world had a demonstration a few years ago about what happens when you block the Suez canal.

I’m reminded of Bender:

“This isn’t even about you”

“That’s impossible!”

“I’m going to business school!”

I don’t use youtube for it’s riveting entertainment, I use it to learn things.

There are washing machines without anything more complex than a switch in them. If you really had a “pile of disassembled washing machines” you’d know that.

Doubt.

My electric bill changed by less than $2 per month when I installed an “inefficient” washing machine. It was so little that I’m not sure the washer was the cause. That’s $72 over a period of three years. The machine it replaced was just out of warranty and needed a $200 drain pump.

Protesting is a threat. The problem is, when you don’t get what you want, you’re supoosed to foklow through on that threat.

Does an old school washer dryer that runs off timer relays / knobs / push buttons really have a CPU?

Nope, it’s just a timer-drive. cam triggering switches. The physical cam IS the CPU.

We have reached a point in time where there are adults who think everything that runs through multiple steps must have a microcontroller, because only really really old machines* do without.

*For the most part. I bought a brand new whirlpool dryer late last year, and it has a mechanical timer in it.

Having a newer machine cost me slightly less money on utilities, and considerably more in washing machine parts.

There’s more to go wrong on an old washing machine and each control board was unique to the machine

What? Old washing machines just use switches and a cam that’s on a timer. Anyone who can read a basic schematic can figure out what is wrong with one.

Interesting how effective a strike is.

One of the most satisfying things for me is driving my wife’s little Mirage in the snow. With normal all season tires it does great, with proper snow tires it’s completely unstoppable - that is, until you need to stop.

It turns out that accelrating and stopping a 2,000 pound car on ice and snow is easier than it is with a 4,000 pound vehicle.

I couldn’t imagine the stress of knowing what I know now and being sent back to when I was six years old. I’d be trapped with my parents.

I’d take the money. My wife is amazing, and we are very happy together, but a lot of things had to fall just right for us to end up together.

I have everything lying around to build one of these…

I wish I could get my head around programming. I’ve tried learning from books, I’ve tried learning from codecademy, and all I can do is follow the lessons, I don’t understand how I’m supposed to turn all these lines of gibberish into a program that does something. The most common bit of advice I get is “Just make up a project! Find something that you want the computer to do, it’s easy and fun!” And I’m over here like… “OK, how?” It’s like someone pointing to a pile of metal and a welder and saying “Build something!” Sure, someone who knows how to weld can do that, but most people are going to need more information.

The last time I made anything like a profile for tinder was when I made one for PoF back in the before times, in the long-long ago, the year 2007. I didn’t have fish pictures, but I did have a picture of me riding a unicycle.

It was more effective than I expected.

Fox news hasn’t given them the new words yet.

Maybe because Peach wasn’t a simpering little thing with no agency who needed someone to clean up her whoopsies?

Well… that and she has seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

And… she remembered me doing it last year.