

I didn’t realize Mychal Threets was hosting Reading Rainbow now. He seems perfect for it. Back when I used Instagram, I’d always see his videos and he seems like a good dude.


I didn’t realize Mychal Threets was hosting Reading Rainbow now. He seems perfect for it. Back when I used Instagram, I’d always see his videos and he seems like a good dude.


They did announce recently that they’re gonna stop making and selling the Model S and Model X and put more emphasis on humanoid robots and AI instead of cars. Everything over there in Muskland seems so terribly chaotic.


only 3? With the way he consumes those things, he was probably actually going through a withdrawal


I think there’s a bit more nuance with this one. I’m all for safety and all that, but the fact that one company, SawStop, owns the patent for the blade stop system that they’re trying to mandate is a pretty big issue. Sure they’ve pledged to not enforce the patent if the mandate goes through, but that’s entirely on their word, nothing in writing. The cost of a saw would go up if they don’t waive the patent enforcement and manufacturers have to pay to license the technology (or some other related patent that the system can’t function without). Also, if the saw manufacturers are also making saw blades, they’d probably end up selling more blades as a result of the blade stop, since iirc, the system shunts a hardened steel block into the path of the blade as soon as it detects an electrical current from your finger (or a hot dog in all the demos lol), which stops and breaks the blade in the process. Dunno if that would make up for lost sales due to higher prices, tho.
None of this would effect table saws that already exist, and higher prices may drive people to buy more used stuff, rather than new stuff.
On top of dealing with the SawStop patent issues, there’s other things that could also help with table saw safety, like designing blade guards that people don’t want to remove cuz they get in the way, that aren’t addressed by this mandate. This NPR article from 2024 kinda talks a bit more about the whole issue around the blade stop mandate.
Not to say that this mandate shouldn’t happen, I’m more concerned about it being implemented in a way that won’t drive people away from buying saws with a blade stop system due to price


completely uncharted territory. No one tried to cook a potato until Sam Altman graced us plebs with ChatGPT
Oh my phone is on the list of devices now. Maybe I’ll give Lineage a try if I feel like hopping ROMs again


It least Instagram straight up doesn’t give a changelog, rather than letting you read dumb exposition that tells you nothing. (Thats still crap tho)
When my parents were shopping for a washing machine a couple of years ago, they asked their friend who works at Home Depot what seemed to be reliable and he basically said “anything but Samsung”. They had way more Samsung returns than anything else.


Here’s a similar post by Ed Zitron (Titled: Make Fun of Them). He gives a few examples of complete nonsensical stuff that some big Tech CEOs have said, and goes on to argue that more people, especially those who cover tech in media for a living, need to be far more critical of tech CEOs and not just basically go “oh wow thats so cool” to everything they say.


thats extremely creepy!


this is basically like “we can’t keep our shareholders happy in their quest for infinite return on investment without you overpaying for our services”


Absolutely hate having to log in to a website just to view tracking. Half the time I’m on my phone checking the tracking email and can’t be bothered to log in, just so I can copy and paste the tracking number into USPS or whoever.


id guess a lot went into designing a solar cell that could take being heated to 167F without losing efficiency or breaking. I think most common house solar panels have a temperature coefficient listed on their datasheet that measures how much its ability to generate power decreases per every degree above 77F


man i was staring so hard at the community name and the source and hoping they would both change to “The Onion”
This is just incredibly sad


Thats pretty cool. Using steam pistons to help compress the fuel enough for fusion, from which that heat gets used to make different steam to then make electricity.


“You all keep saying we’ve enshittified printers so you all lose your printing rights until you think about what you’ve done”


aw, i did like Jo-ann’s. So much nice fabric.

Next Bond car: Rivian Amazon Delivery van Next Bond Girl: An Amazon Alexa Next Bond Villain: A union


“Check Engine light on again? Check out the new 2027 Jeep Wagoneer! You’ll definitely get more miles out of the new one compared to the 2025 model thats now broken”
just in case you start aging backwards or something one year