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I only eat homemade bread. I slice unused bread and put in the freezer after a day or two. Thaw it out with a toaster. It will easily keep a few weeks.

In cold climates, heat pumps are usually supplemented with electrical resistance heating (or even gas in some cases). The switch over is automatically controlled by the thermostat.…

Space-based ADS-B is now a thing. It is used for coverage of the north Atlantic. https://www.navcanada.ca/en/air-traffic/space-based-ads-b.as...

On commercial aircraft, which have more of a safety culture than cars, they go so far as to have different knobs and buttons with different shapes so that a pilot can tell by feel …

One scenario where the "believes anything" might be useful is to use ChatGPT to get alternate takes on opinions. If you have some great idea or strongly held opinion, get ChatGPT t…

Also this, for free: https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Auteur:Jules_Verne

I recently read The Obesity Code by Dr. Jason Fung and in it he states that bariatric surgery is little more than surgically enforced fasting. Most people can fast without doing th…