What’s the remade show? Samurai champloo?

Heat pumps absolutely do not need to connect indoors and outdoors, every fridge and freezer is just a heat pump connected to a box.

Ive had a ventless heat pump clothes dryer, about 5 years ago, maybe 6. Technically it made the room it was in slightly colder while it ran, but that heat from my house was just concentrated inside the box and then allowed to escape back into my house.

I also think there have been advances in heat pump technology either with the refrigerant used to transfer the heat or with cascading systems that run multiple loops with different heat capacity so that one loop takes room temp water to “warm” temps and a secondary loop takes the “warm” water to hot.

That’s not how inflation works. “Worth” is a pretty variable term, “buying power” is typically a better description.
Think of it like this, using somewhat made up numbers. In the 50s you could get a cup of coffee for 10 cents from a diner. That same cup of coffee in 2025 costs like 2.50 dollars. Is the coffee “worth” more in 2025? No, it’s the same 8oz cup of coffee but the money has less buying power

I thought I had read something that said there never was a genetic or even chemical difference between sativa and indica, just the terpenes are different. Like how there’s all these different dog “breeds” but if you compare genetics they’re like 99% the same.

https://bedrocan.com/international-research-shows-no-genetic-distinction-between-sativa-and-indica-cannabis/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-021-01003-y

settles in for story time
I don’t know why but retail horror stories are some of my favorites

Getting ready for the work day

It was a reality TV show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_World

And a grub hoe, basically a pick axe with one side a spike and the other side a flat blade. Pick to break the dirt up then shovel to move it out of the way.

Technically it’s the opposite of “I made this” because I’m removing something nature made, but I’m making progress on digging out a cluster of stumps

I love that guys channel, he does some crazy cool stuff with things you can easily source as an at home consumer.
I think my favorites are making cooling fibers with a cotton candy machine and the micro-camper build he did on a zero turn lawn mower.

We have two cats, a void and a grump. The voids full name is Robert but he goes by Bob, my wife calls him “little kitty” because he was a tiny kitten when we got him, I call him “you fat fuck” because he got up to 19 lbs before we started putting him on a diet (14 lbs now)

The grumps full name is Norman (as in Norman Bates, serial killer) but he goes by Norm (as in not normal), my wife calls him Normie and I call him “shut up you” because he’s constantly crying about something

Yeah but they can’t make other people wear it. There’s always that one person who thinks bathing in body spray is the same as actually bathing

You did the thing you just complained about by not writing out 400,000,000 (400M) in relation to the 4,000,000,000,000 (4T)

To scale that down, it’s like someone paying 400 from a net worth of 4,000,000 (4M), or 4 from a net worth of 40,000, they would barely even notice. Of course that’s ignoring all the details of revenue and profit vs net worth or actual tax rates, and I can’t be bothered to look those up.
But imagine you own some land and a house that you bought for 4,000,000 (4M) that you have to pay property taxes on, and the taxes were 400 per year. That’s a 0.01% tax rate.

Shit, now I actually want to know what the real numbers are. according to Finbox “Apple’s effective tax rate for fiscal years ending September 2020 to 2024 averaged 16.5%.” although I think that’s specifically income tax.

Per macrotrends, apple profited 180,600,000,000 in 2024, from 391,035,000,000 revenue, a profit margin of ~45%, from which they payed 29,749,000,000 in taxes for an effective tax rate of 16.5% on the income.

Relative to net worth valuation of ~3,800,000,000,000 at end of 2024 that income tax paid is 0.75% of their net worth.

My dogs have learned that the sound of a knife on the cutting board means there’s a chance food of some kind might make it to the floor, so they come running.

I knew I recognized that name, this was always the issue with playing Munchkin. So much time spent building up levels and gear just to get to lvl 9, fight some monster for the win, have the entire rest of the table throw everything they have at you to stop you from winning, just for the next person in turn to fight a potted plant for the win because everyone played all their cards to keep you from winning.

I don’t know what the solution is, the rest of the table loses no matter if you win or the next person, so they pretty much have to spend all available resources to stop whoever is near winning first, but that just sets up the next person to win with almost no resistance.
At a certain point all strategies go out the window and the only option is for the whole table to send everything stopping one person, which isn’t really fun for anyone.

Inattentive meatstick

Probably depends on the technical definition of “disease” cus obviously stuff like cancer or vitamin deficiency (scurvy) are not infections, but I’m not sure if they’re considered diseases.
Do you have a demonstration of the falsehood?

He played Wallace, the head of the company that’s blind or whatever , the guy who guts the girl in that ‘android being birthed’ scene

Immovable pendulum

Wouldn’t metal boots protect your feet from the caltrops?