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The rare occasion that "the thing" ends up being exactly what you needed is incredible, though.

Costco sells them as dog treats

To be fair, most English speakers probably wouldn't know what to do if you told them the term in English, the Valsalva maneuver.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliograph

It is a violation of the UCMJ, and absolutely something they could court martial and imprison or discharge you for.

They ripped off Tennessee's bill.

https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=SB2691&GA=113

This book describes it well, I think, around page 32.

Tribe by Sebastian Junger

Basically, helping others keeps you sane.

Plus you might be able to get government incentives for it.

In a similar vein, heat pump clothes dryers. Due to the way they work, they can dry your clothes more gently than a traditional dryer.

That sounds awesome. There seems to be a bit of a gulf in investment between getting a few panels to charge a backup battery or run some devices while camping, and actually doing a proper home integration. I'm in the midst of that gulf where I can generate more than I can easily store and use later, so I'd like to find some worthwhile uses for direct use of solar energy.

Don't know if you've seen it before, but here's an interesting article about direct solar.

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2023/08/direct-solar-power-off-grid-without-batteries/

The term that people should look out for is "creamline" or "cream-top" milk. It's whole milk that is unhomogenized. It basically separates in the bottle, so there's a layer of cream floating on top of skim.

I couldn't say for sure, but I've heard it's better for making cheese/yogurt/etc.

Personally, I wouldn't buy it just for drinking cause I don't think it lasts as long.

Password manager. For things that I forsee I will end up needing to type often, I might choose a passphrase made of actual words. Some password managers can do this, or create passwords made of syllables you can pronounce. It's way easier to type correctly.

When I'm without a manager, I just look around for random objects, especially things with numbers and special characters.

Did you manually switch it on once your battery storage was full?

What kind of heating element did you use for the water? What type of control system to send power to it?

Crossbow bolts and modern arrows are not something you could produce more of in an apocalyptic scenario. A trad bow can use wooden arrows, but producing arrows capable of taking down large game is quite a challenge, and not something you can just go out and do in a pinch with a pocket knife and some sticks.

Arrows are reusable, but as someone who bow hunts, 100 bullets would probably last longer for me than a dozen arrows. If you miss your target, you can easily lose an arrow, or break it on a rock, break it on bone, break it by hitting your own arrow. Damaged arrows are really dangerous to try to use.

I see where you are coming from, but I think there are better ways to handle those issues than blanket tariffs. For example, you can get clothes from Bangladesh for cheaper than Norway because Bangladesh pays workers much less, (probably) has much lower environmental regulations, and the focus is on price over quality.

Adding a tariff to goods from Bangladesh would not improve the goods, it would just squeeze the business to cut even more corners to remain competitive, and likely put a lot of poor people out of work. Additionally a tariff on goods from a country is likely to be retaliated.

If the end goal is reducing production of garbage products at great impact to the environment and the workers, laws can focus specifically on those factors. We already place antidumping and counterveiling duties on goods that we deem are priced with unfair business practices, why not do more of the same for unfair labor practices, or environmental practices?

If someone can pay Ethiopian farmers a fair wage to produce landrace coffee (where it grows natively), and the environmental costs of shipping it to the US are accounted for, I don't think it should be arbitrarily upcharged relative to monocrop coffee grown in a narrow band of expensive former rainforest in Hawaii.

Those 2 are for sure on my good list. Also Bon Appétit and serious eats, too

CAD is a bit like programming, there's a lot of ways to do any given task. That can make it tricky if you are doing some tutorials that use one workflow, and then start doing tutorials that use a different workflow.

If you want to learn it, do yourself a favor and take time to find a tutorial that goes from start to finish doing the type of project you want to do so you don't get frustrated when you get midway through.

Like others said, if you are used to doing something in a different CAD software, you might find that the same workflow is clunky in FreeCAD, but if you start out with a workflow that works well in FreeCAD, you are fine.

Volumetric leafy greens are the worst, lol. I guess salad greens don't matter too much cause it doesn't really change anything, but something like basil, you probably want relatively accurate. Same thing with shredded cheese, it can be a huge difference to the recipe if you grate the cheese through the large holes on a box grater vs something like a microplane.

I think, especially in American recipes, cups are basically the missing link between "grandma recipes" and modern "accurate" recipes. Everyone has gotten recipes handed down that call for "some onion" or "1 handful of nuts". It's fine for lots of recipes: no one is going to actually measure out 200 grams of onion for a stirfry, they'll just grab an onion and chop up the whole thing.

I'd consider that within the margin of error for a volumetric measurement. Especially if you are being lazy like me and measuring something like milk by weight.

Funny enough, you made me go check my kitchen scales. They report in grams, ounces, and weirdly milliliters and fluid ounces. I used my scale that reports in hundredths of a gram to measure out exactly 1 oz mass. I then placed it on my other three scales to see what it would read. 2 of them correctly reported that they weren't quite at 1 fluid ounce, while the other said it was. I never actually put my scales in ounce mode, though.

If you live in a place that uses cups, the container the food comes in typically has both measurements as part of the nutrition facts on the back label. US nutrition facts are per-serving not per-100g like the EU, so for flour for example, it will have "serving size 1/4 cup (30 g)". The main exceptions are items meant to be eaten in their entirety like a candy bar or, unfortunately, liquids, which give you milliliters.