Kornblumenratte @ Kornblumenratte @feddit.org

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That's a terrible ineffective method, and a waste of water.

Fill one sink with hot water + soup, put as much dishes in it as possible to soak them, and fill the other sink with fresh hot water. Clean one dish after another, preferably with a brush (you'll burn your hands using a sponge), rinse them in the clean water, and put them on the dryer.

If you do not have a second sink, use a tub for either purpose.

And yes, the water will get dirty and cool over time, and you'll have to switch if you've got too much dishes.

Of course, if you're only cleaning a plate and a knife and perhaos a glas, using just the tap is far more efficient.

According to the CDC, chicken should not be rinsed to avoid Salmonella cross contamination.

Notabene: this advise is from the pre-Trump CDC.

From https://github.com/notepadqq/notepadqq/blob/master/README.md:

This project is not actively maintained anymore. New maintainers are welcome.

-- Daniele

IMHO, you cannot apply the UNIX philosophy to a GUI.

I just checked some brands, and you are correct: currently both cost the same.

Not OP, so i've got no idea why they think it's bad, but systemd breaks with unix's key design principles, and monopolizes and absteacts more and more aspects of system management. Some people do not like this.

Well – this might be more succesful in boostering the IT skills of France's next generation than any curriculum reform.

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Actually there used to be another, more important reason:

Back in the old days, automatic transmissions accelerated pretty slowly. It was not possible to accelerate normally – or what we thought to be normal. No one in their right mind would pay ~5–10 % more (automatic transmissions used to be expensive) to get a lame car and annoy everybody at every traffic light. I don't know when automatic transmissions got as fast as manual shifting, but this memo hasn't reached Europe yet.

And, last but not least, and only still valid argument: automatic transmissions are still more expensive than manual ones. Why should I pay extra money for some fancy tech with no extra benefit that takes away my illusion of control and feels horrible to drive?

They renamed mens quintembris and mens sextembris to July and August. Originally, The Roman year started on the spring equinox at 1 March, and September–December were indeed the 7^th—10th month of their year. Spring equinox shifted over the centuries due to an incorrectly calculated length of the year. I forgot why they shifted New Year to 1 January and who did this.

IIRC Thunderbird acquired K9 and rebranded it.

Depends on a lot of circumstances – weight, kidney and heart function, temperature, activity. The people I saw developing hyponatriema drank more than 4–5 l tap water. Desalinated water will cause problems sooner.

People would make their own beverages (mostly beer and wine, as alcohol was the only preservant working) and use barrels to store them and mugs to drink them. After the development of pasteurization they would pasteurize juice and keep it in glass bottles. And they would share with neighbours, family and friends.

Of course there were breweries and wineries, too, they would sell their stuff mostly in barrels to pubs, and people would buy their beer and wine at the pub if they couldn't make their own. In our area it was a common task for children to get a mug of beer for dad from the pub until the 50s, I think.

Pre-fabricated, non-alcoholic, bottled beverages are a modern luxury item we all got used to as normal.

There are no cardboard container for liquids — cardboard soaks and dissolves in water. What you are likely refering to is tetrapak, a compound material made of plastic, aluminium and cardboard. I think I've seen packages using only plastic coated cardboard without aluminium as well. You can test it yourself: just rip it apart and you can examine the layers of the compound material.

I don't know about the impact of production — paper production still destroys woods, needs lots of water and energy, aluminium needs tons of energy. Probably better than glass and worse than PET?

Transportationwise they are as good as PET, probably better.

Regarding recycling they are a nightmare, it's almost impossible, because you have to separate the three layers which are designed to stick together. Tetrapak claims they are recycling them, but this technique is fairly new and I've got no idea how well it works and how sustainable it is.

There have been extensive studies on that topic, that showed that PET-bottles are more sustainable and environment friendly than glass bottles and have less impact on the environmdnt. Glass bottles use a lot more energy to produce and transport than PET bottles, and the oil you save by using PET instead of glass is more than enough to produce the PET you need. You also save sand, potash, limestone, soda and a ton of CO2.

If renewables would become the prime source of energy for glass production and transportation, this conclusion might change, and if the effects of microplastics and ocean pollution are considered it might change as well.

Regarding sources, there is an abundance of them in German and quite a few in English. I'll leave this one as an example.

Du you have any sources on the claim that recycling is a scam?

So — though using collected plastic as fuel feels sort of cheating — the percentage of plastic that is put to any use after use is even higher.

Ah, I got that wrong. Yes, Windows XP was the rebranded Windows NT 5. Thank you for the correction.

Do they still count energetic recycling (aka burning in a power plant) as recycling?

You cannot use cardboard for liquids. There are containers that have a cardboard exterior – just tear them, and you'll find out they are made out of a sandwich material with an interior layer of plastic, meddle layer of aluminium and exterior cardboard. almist unrecyclable.