Another adjacent life hack is when assembling flat pack furniture, use a quality wood glue on all the joints and connectors, but especially those little wood dowels. It won’t make it indestructible, but it’ll hold up far better over time.
This was one of the really interesting plot elements in World War Z, where towards the end of the war where they couldn’t really afford to be wasting resources on prisons, they brought back corporal and public punishment. They’d put people in stockades to let the entire community know they were caught doing something like stealing their neighbor’s firewood, or publicly lashing executives who were war-profiteering, and only imprisoning the absolute worst offenders who were incapable of integrating back into society.
For a silly zombie novel, it honestly has a phenomenal amount of prettt interesting social commentary, and is absolutely worth a listen to the unabridged audiobook.
I’m approaching 30 and will gladly use all of those both ironically and unironically.
It’s so funny because whereas a lot of other languages have rules with defined exceptions here and there, speaking English is more of a theoretical approach.
I feel like this also makes it useful in that you can butcher the hell out of it, and still communicate somewhat effectively. I don’t feel that’s the case in some other languages, or maybe I’m willing to put up with my colleague’s broken English far more than they’re willing to put up with my broken German/Spanish/etc.
3 phase is exceptionally rare in the US unless you’ve got a workshop or something, and even then some utilities will charge tens of thousands to run it.
240V 200A service is the norm in most modern homes now, so the disparity really isn’t a big deal. Something that people rarely point out is that we do have standards for 16A 240V plugs, they’re just exceptionally rare. The cool thing is that because of the way our split phase system works, you literally just have to move a single wire and swap the breaker, and you can convert an outlet to 240V, assuming you also change the outlet to the 240V type so you don’t accidentally fry something.
It’s kind of annoying that we never adopted some system where say, garages and kitchens were wired to have low amperage plugs with both voltages. I have a German friend that swapped a section of outlets in his house to 240V so he can use a bunch of his imported appliances, and it works great.
This had an interesting part in Westworld, where at one point they go to a big database of minds that have been “backed up” in a sense, and they’re fairly simple “code books” that define basically all of the behaviors of a person. The first couple seasons have some really cool ideas on how consciousness is formed, even if the later seasons kind of fell apart IMO
I’m amazed they let him do weekly donations. Isn’t it typically every 6 for typical whole-blood donations? I get he’s got special blood, but I’m surprised it would be that frequent compared to “normal” people
I have a couple of fun projects/hobbies at the tail end of my CV. I work in the auto industry, so I mention my racing sim and 24 Hours of LeMons car, which almost always wind up taking up a large portion of the interview.
Do cars not come with them at all anymore? My 2021 BMW has one, and I’ve used it in a pinch once or twice.
Unfortunately we don’t get those in the US, and they even stopped selling the i30 (Elantra GT) here in 2020. You can fortunately still get the Elantra sedan, but the hatchback definitely adds a ton of practicality to it.
See, I feel like I have to do it to show some levity, since tone doesn’t come across through text.
There’s a big difference if you’re talking with a friend about something stupid they did, and saying “You’re such an idiot lol” and “You’re such an idiot.” One is teasing them, the other is chastising them.
If you’re on single phase power, you almost always need something like a start capacitor, at least for large-ish motors. It doesn’t really have anything to do with the reliability of the grid, and moreso how single-phase AC motors work.
If that is a start capacitor, OP might actually want to shut it off once the motor is running, as they’re typically not meant to run continuously. Usually, there’s a mechanism that disconnects the start capacitor once the motor is up to speed, but it’s not strictly necessary
Because if you’re like me, I can use my phone in a nuclear fallout shelter or at Point Nemo in the Pacific and still have 2 bars of 5G, but the moment I step into the Home Depot or Kroger by my house, my phone barely manages a single bar of non-data service. If I need to make a call or look something up in the store, I have to use the in-store Wi-Fi.
Or, the Rebels hire him and he simply fires a blaster at the exhaust port from a distant planet.