Amazing; the features I like the most about the things I like are also what I like about the most about them. Truly, you and I have our similarities in common.
Some people still complain about slow charging on EVs. Most electric cars have no problem getting 3.5 miles per kWh. A standard UK wall plug can safely provide 13A, and while the voltage is notionally 230V it's actually more than that for most people, but even if we ignore that, 230V × 13A ≈ 3kW, so an overnight charge of, say, eight hours on a standard wall plug gives you 3kW × 8h × 3.5mi/kWh ≈ 84 miles of range for under £5 if you pay 25p/kWh. I've said it before; if you can afford an electric car, you can't afford not to have an one.
Space is the stinker, of course. A lot of people don't have a spot on their property they can park their car, but for those that do it's a no-brainer.
Also, heat pumps are basically magic. Why they're not mandatory on new-builds, I don't know.
That'd be esteemed British author Georgie Orrell, author of such whimsical classics as "Now the Animals Are Running The Farm!", "My Big Day Out At Wigan Pier" and, of course, "Winston's Zany Eighties Adventure".
That's really clever. If you've not noticed it yet: if you hold your phone at arms length and blur your vision it creates the illusion of a vague blob that doesn't look like Taylor Swift.
"This... is Head Radio, a Love Media station. Just one of nine hundred radio stations, three hundred TV stations, four networks, three satellites, ten senators (thank you, thankyou, thank-YOOOU)... Head Radio."
In the UK our car number plates actually tell you when the car was first registered - the third and fourth digits are either the year or the year +50. Normally I object to this, since it was only introduced as the result of pressure from British Leyland to try and sell more cars, but it serves as a handy way of instantly categorising anyone with a, say, '23 or newer cuntmobile.
Here's the rule of thumb: do you think the food benefits from being cooked unevenly? For meatballs as you mentioned, I'd sear them in a frying pan to get a little bit of crispiness before I cook them through in the sauce in the microwave. Hunters chicken, cakes, seafood, all good. The microwave will cook far more evenly than a convection oven, though sometimes the unevenness is desirable.
Man, don't you be dragging down microwave cookery like that. People who depend on LLMs are not like people who cook with the microwave; they're more like people who don't know how to cook, refuse to learn, eat takeout for every single meal, and still demand you address them as "chef".
And now I'm going to talk about microwave cookery.
I think people who object to microwave cooking and see it as 'lesser' are either snobs, or people who have never used anything less than 100% power and get food that's both scalding hot and still frozen.
If you're in the second camp, try cooking for twice as long at 50% power. For most foods you'll get an even heat well beyond anything a convection oven could manage. In some dishes the unevenness (e.g. crisping) is desirable, but in most it's not.
Same here. Whether I start the day with a strong mug of coffee, six litres of olive oil, two cartons on concentrated prune juice, or just a simple handful of laxatives pills, the result is always the same.
It seems crazy that a company that's only really known for cars, motorbikes, tuning forks, heat pumps, brake pads, pens, tractors, fertilizer, display panels, outboard motors, pneumatic systems, oil tankers, furniture, locomotives, bricks, solar panels, ATVs, generators, hot air balloons, dinghies, hydrogen fuel cells, submarines, crop dusters, jet engines, cultivators, hedge trimmers, lawnmowers, precision optics and robots would suddenly pivot to rockets.
For giggles, I'd like you to explain how the President of the United States launching his old overpriced phone on his own overpriced network with every possible element named, adorned and even priced after himself could be considered anything other than abusing their power?
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