Are you going to tell this to the British expat pensioners in France and Spain? Because they probably never knew that meaning.

Fast food is called “fast food” because it’s fast, not because it’s food.

Apart from that, there is probably no production chain that has profited better from making things the cheaper way than anything related to food.

So this does not just concern fast food, but the HFCS loaded soda you drink, your bread swimming in dough raising and stabilizing chemicals, or your tinned soup made from water, starch, food coloring, flavors, and preservatives.

Just because of the masses produced and sold, any cent saved on a single Burger quickly adds up to a million dollar in extra profits. Don’t expect them to waste that money on better ingredients or flavor, as long as you keep buying that stuff, they keep on making it worse to save yet another cent.

No solvents, thank goodness. It’s a lab, but it’s an electronics lab. And no, anything with soldering or cleaning boards is done far elsewhere.

My boss printed me three LEGO bricks when he got his 3D printer (everyone here knows I am an AFOL = Adult Fan Of Lego). I have no idea what kind of printer that was, but the bricks were very detailed. Now they have totally warped out of shape. I kept them on my desk in the electronics lab, so heat or sunlight are no major issues here.

In the US, white, rich and influential people don’t get arrested just because they committed a crime!

That’s how I got a free netbook. The netbook had 32GB flash with windows and office occupying 27+GB. Then windows wanted to do an update - with an 8+GB file. Spot the problem. And windows can get quite annoying with updates. As the netbook could not be expanded, and attempts to redirect the update to a USB stick did not work, a newer netbook was bought, and I got the old one. Linux plus libreoffice plus a bunch of extras happily sat in 4GB…

What I like: It is definitely nicer than Reddit was.

What I dislike: It lacks some of the communities I was frequenting in Reddit when it was good.

The problem is creative tax application AKA tax evasion. Somehow, rich people manage to pay way below what one would expect in relation to their income.

Normal for a soft- or hardware project designed by a political committee.

Old people do have less control - this is the case with cars and bikes - but while they would never get up to dangerous speeds anymore on a normal bike, an ebike empowers them to go way faster than they can control - just like a car would.

It is more a problem with ebikes than with normal ones. Most of those people would not be nearly as fast on a normal bike than on an ebike.

He forgot that mushrooms (yeast) make alcohol, cakes and bread…

It is actually a completely different kind of production. A modern TV show is made in hundreds of takes in any order with loads of repeats, and the result is then cut to make the final show.

Filmed with a live audience implies one more or less continuous take, in order, no repeats, and each actor has to be able to run his or her part perfectly, know every position and line.

That is quite tough in comparison to modern methods, and I am convinced that most modern TV or movie actors would have difficulties with that concept.

I second that. I wanted to remove loam in the front garden (here it is 5cm top soil and then hard loam down to the center of the earth, it seems), so I could mix in sand and other stuff in order to actually get something growing there.

I started by shoveling two 90l buckets by hand, and wanted to go to the landfill with them. But up the road was a construction site. I stopped and asked, and they were happy to take my stuff - for free. I went back home and refilled the buckets, and returned to the construction site to dump them again. My back already was quite unhappy about that day, as the clay is rock hard and heavy up here.

There I saw them riding a front loader, and I asked them if they could drop by and just take a load or two with that. And they did. With just two runs they took out more than I could have done with a dozen runs on my own. They really saved my day, and my back. And it only cost me a case of beer.

I wonder how much of that actually is development and not just the gazillionth instance of some web site builders scripts.

You forgot the lack of mental capacity in the average windows victim.

LG recently released an interesting series of “monitors”. Basically smart TVs without the smart, but sized like big TVs.

If you want to escape an ad-filled roku, a smart TV is not exactly an escape. It only bundles all the privacy violations and intrusions in one place.