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Good to know! I had never read that America's Test Kitchen actually recommended them. I heard pennies minted after 1982 had too thin a coating of copper and when scratched would re…

Oh my goodness please no one take this seriously. Heating pennies will result in harmful zinc off-gassing. You do not want to breathe this in. Use dry beans for blind-baking. They …

Most people in the US live beyond their means through credit card debt.

Is it really competition? Do American workers get paid in cash from employers who don't ask for their Social Security number? Skilled jobs require documentation. Unskilled jobs req…

He has literally said "Vote for me, and you'll never have to vote again."

Many do take credit cards. In The Netherlands and Belgium, the pay toilets in train stations allow tap to pay with a NFC card or your phone. Toilets in the airports are always free…

Tesla has implemented a virtual power plant in California using people's Tesla PowerWall batteries: https://www.tesla.com/support/energy/virtual-power-plant/pge

Yeah this. Several countries in Europe have seen negative electricity prices during the day this past spring and summer because of abundant solar and wind production: Netherlands, …

First thought: Otis the dog was improperly put into the some kind of vacuum hold on a flight to Acapulco and burst wide open.

Stocks do have a natural lower bound which is the actual value of the company.

Yeah the process is to run a full backup weekly, and keep four weeks of backups. This mimics the old rsnapshot system, but sends the data directly to S3. In this particular case, t…

I had to setup a quick backup to s3 storage to replace an aging rsnapshot setup. I looked at Borg, but Duplicity ( https://duplicity.us/ ) was easier to configure and connect to S3…

It's not FUD, man. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59214544 Native American Brittney Poolaw was sentenced to 4 years in prison by Oklahoma in Nov 2021 for a miscarriage in…