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I have owned my current dishwasher for about 15 years, and I have never once cleaned it. It's working just fine.

I feel sad hearing about parents who can't stand to hear their child cry for a few a few minutes, a few nights in a row, and instead have children who take years to learn to proper…

If it can generate working code, does that mean that asking students to produce working code was bullshit? Or does it just mean that AI can now do a lot of things we used to asked …

Long Covid is extremely similar to ME/CFS, but affecting far more people. On the plus side for those of us living with ME/CFS, we can now explain to people "it's basically Long Cov…

Not sure about the cultural dig at the English (that was probably very context-dependent and an in-joke for Germans/German speakers). But in general, Nietzsche probably meant somet…

Inside the US most people don't carry guns.

If you can't work with people who don't share your progressive politics, you may be the one who is hard to work with, not them.

Your map only appears to show the expected output of panels in those locations, with dark red and red obviously showing higher output. It does not support the claim that putting pa…

Orphans and widows were also important legal categories. Children without a father needed a legal guardian until they turned 18. Married women (at least under British common law) w…

Nope. If you can afford to live on the waterfront and enjoy the view, but never use your boat, are you morally obligated to sell your house to someone who will be out there fishing…

Since the beginning, I have been using N95s when I'm actually worried about catching the virus and think I might be able to prevent it (like grocery shopping early on, flights, etc…

I'm getting old, but at least 15 years ago, law school admission was almost purely LSAT score + College GPA (weighted by perceived difficulty/prestige of College).

What motive would you need beside "a higher score gets me into better schools"? Surely someone smart enough to get a perfect SAT score can figure that out pretty easily.

It is very easy to use reddit that way. I use it multiple times a day and only ever visit the subreddits I have subscribed to, and that's all that appears on my main page.

To be fair to her siblings, they didn't know they were Native American because they were not in fact Native American.

A "Republican" who has previous run as a Democrat and has voted for Democrats in all recent presidential elections. This says less about any shift in the electorate than it does ab…

Real pain would be buying an overpriced house that was bid up by Zillow or other similar companies and then needing to move. Missing out on that overpriced sale would actually be g…

The example was used car dealerships. You can always buy/sell your vehicle in a private sale without requiring a used car dealership.

A few seconds each day, unless you have a really bad or poorly maintained watch.

Drone pretty clearly implies to me "a craft piloted remotely by a human." A UFO/UAP is an aerial phenomenon we can't currently identify. It could be a human piloted craft, it could…

I'm not clear why it is assumed this is a "drone." From the article, it sounds like all that could be identified was a single green light. This seems like a classic UFO/UAP. Maybe …

Genealogists tend to be an older crowd for sure, for a mix of reasons. I'm just entering middle age, so I can only speak for myself. I remember as a very small boy doing an element…

FamilySearch is excellent and has a ton of primary sources once you get used to how to find them. Ancestry.com's main advantage is that it provides "hints" that suggests sources fo…

The best way I have been able to do this is to write a book as I am doing my research. I organize an outline for the ancestors, fill in the details I can find as paragraphs, and pr…

Treating our dead with respect is probably one of the oldest signs of human culture. People care a lot about the bodies of their deceased loved ones. See Antigone by Sophocles. You…