I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]

Post by Arch-TK » Thu, Nov 06, 2025, 2:31 PM UTC

tobyhinloopen wrote: post #298

MarioMan wrote: post #296

A few things that stood out to me: - One of the key factors in powder over pods in his prior videos was cost. Cheap powder runs about 6.6¢/oz. The brand he’s promoting is $1.11/oz, nearly 17x more expensive than traditional powder. When comparing per-load costs, Cascade pods are about 39.5¢ per load and the promoted powder is 58.5¢ per load, or 48% more costly than pods. The price to performance is terrible and could…

The price was also an immediate turn-off for me, and I really don't like he's advertising it. It feels like a product that is marked up crazy amounts, greenwashed with "profits get donated" (profits AFTER the people involved get their salaries, obviously). It feels like his channel suddenly changed to go into "let's make some money", carefully packaged in a "non-profit / charity" deal. Maybe I'm just overly pessimist…

Post by conductr » Thu, Nov 06, 2025, 2:34 PM UTC

jonathanlydall wrote: post #376

mnw21cam wrote: post #343

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You mean you don't eat all your food? Disgraceful! Children starving in Africa etc.

I know you said this in jest, but I actually personally do try to not leave little pieces of food on my plate as it saves having to scrape it off later, but I've never even suggested to my wife that she do the same and even if my kids weren't only 3 and 5 years old, I don't think I'd bother asking them.

Post by threeducks » Thu, Nov 06, 2025, 2:37 PM UTC

dvfjsdhgfv wrote: post #348

hebelehubele wrote: post #325

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For long videos, I have a script that fetches the transcript using yt-dlp and pipes it to an LLM for keypoints. If the content sounds interesting, I watch it; if not, I save 45 minutes.

Mind sharing the script? It's becoming a big problem to me: people send me links to "must watch videos" but neither the title nor description nor subchapter titles tell me what it actually is about. In this particular case, it's spending 40 minutes of my life on something that could be explained in 4 sentences.

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Post by dpoloncsak » Thu, Nov 06, 2025, 2:40 PM UTC

dangus wrote: post #384

dpoloncsak wrote: post #378

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If I wanted a summary of Citizen Kane, I would expect it to include the ending, yes.

The value in the content is experiencing it. The moment some long form content comes out we are all TikTok kids who want a five second summary. Never mind the fact that YouTube provides a compete transcription that you can copy/paste and dump into an LLM, making this entire thread, as I mentioned before, pointless. The people asking for a summary are lazy people who want to be spoon fed trivia dopamine hits.

Post by cgriswald » Thu, Nov 06, 2025, 2:55 PM UTC

FredPret wrote: post #116

tonymet wrote: post #93

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even the cheap costco pods are 3x the cost of powder. And his point is that the pods undermine the dishwasher because they don't let you control when and how much detergent is deployed during the multiple washing cycles. powder deploys during rinse and wash. pods deploy only during wash (or only rinse if people put the pods into the tray, which is common) And the dishwashers are designed with a hardness index in the…

But the multi-pod strategy means you can give the machine soap to use in various cycles. Put some in the little flap, and some just in with the dishes. I'm not sure if my machine even has a hardness marking, but when I used liquid dishwasher soap, I simply filled up the compartment every time. As to the cost, yes it's 3X, but if you're reading this and you have a Costco membership, it's still a rounding error. Pods j…