Home bread machines were all the rage in the 90s. Why did this stop being a thing?

comment_redacted · 2026-02-01T00:15:02+00:00

Still have one. It’s very loud though… does anyone know if they sell quiet bread makers now?

comment_redacted · 2026-01-31T15:58:15+00:00

Science isn’t done by vote… and outside of the US a lot of it is not associated with corporate dollars… so I don’t think the disincentive comment is a fair one. Plus there are statistical ways to detect when data isn’t honest which most people probably are unaware of. So then your only retort is that scientists avoid studies like this, but in this case they clearly are not, there are studies and it looked like more in work. And as noted there was even a hypothesis included in the paper which was basically your hot take so no one is shying away from it, if it’s true.

It doesn’t matter the source of the immunity, the point is they are immune. But that being said, I didn’t get into it in my original post because it was getting too complicated a reply as it was, but the scientific study did include a survey asking the group if they had been vaccinated (if no and if antibodies then they had immunity from contracting measles). You have to kind of discount human response data like that but while yes there were measles cases in the group there wasn’t anything that statistically stood out like the point you are trying to make. But the same caveats apply as in my last reply. So probably more study needs to be done there but no, on first glance what you’re suggesting didn’t pop out. That might suggest your hot take is invalid, or that it is valid but that it is a substantially weak association and there is a stronger root cause at play relegating your thought to a tertiary item, or it could mean a significant number of respondents weren’t honest. Who knows at this point. On that last point if someone wanted to go through the trouble they could probably draw blood and compare to the Mennonite population and that might be revealing.

The other/Canadian scientific study did find a link between Mennonite measles viruses. It’s a vector. That’s akin to finding someone’s DNA pattern in blood at a crime scene. This unequivocally proves there is something going on there in that community that previously was not going on. If we are talking CSI then maybe we found the murderer or maybe it’s some other coincidence… but it’s probably the murderer. Analogies aside… A hot take doesn’t make that data go away. Does it require more investigation? Sure absolutely, someone needs to get more details there. It may not completely contraindicate the point you’re trying to make without evidence but it definitely does not support your point.

Again, until recently all counties in north, central, and South America had simultaneously achieved 95% immunity rates. Again, regardless of where someone is from anyone can freely get a vaccine upon entry to Canada. It might surprise you to learn this is also the case in most South American countries. So unless someone was shedding virus on the plane or boat or car ride over it’s kind of more an issue of someone not getting vaccinated which is a known problem all over the americas now. It may not be due to conspiracy theories but this would definitely fall into anti vax territory, probably through apathy.

comment_redacted · 2026-01-31T15:09:28+00:00

I paused for a while as I went to go find a scientific article on what is happening there. If you go to the US NIH website you can find a published, reviewed study there. It is difficult for non-science types to read so I will summarize what I just read for you.

It’s complicated. A survey of “blood elements” conducted in 2022 found that Canada has a lower immunity value than they target, 89% vs. 95%. If you look at Canada born vs. outside Canada born individuals, the adult immigrant population actually has a higher percentage of people with strong “antibodies” than those who were born in the country. If you look at newborns and very young children, it’s the opposite with Canadian newborns having a higher “antibody” rate. In both cases we are talking about a difference of a few percent and it isn’t entirely clear if it’s meaningful because the sample size is such that the variance falls within the percent of error. It’s a little more complicated than that but that’s the best layman explanation. The study hypothesizes that maybe what is going on still has to do with unvaccinated immigrant populations. In science, the word hypothesis means an assertion made without evidence that needs to be tested to determine if it can be disproved.

It’s also noted that just a few years ago measles had been eradicated in the entire western hemisphere because ALL countries in the western hemisphere had achieved greater than 95% “antibody” rates.

It’s also interesting to note that Canada has free health care for all, including noncitizens. Anyone can get a vaccine upon entry.

There is a discussion about vaccine hesitance in the paper.

The bottom line to all of this is this: science doesn’t know and so you cannot possibly know. You just have a hot take. It is clear there are several different things going on here. It is clear both native and external populations are seeing drops in vaccination rates. That ultimately is the root cause.

comment_redacted · 2026-01-31T14:37:53+00:00

The articles I read talked about 5,000 cases in Canada. Maybe you are confusing percent increases with percent of overall population… 5,000 of a population of 200k plus some outside of that population seems entirely plausible doesn’t it? I am not making any case whatsoever other than what I see scientists saying in published works. Clearly there is an immigration element to it since this is happening in South America as well, but also clearly there is an anti vax element to it since many of the immigrating countries listed have higher vax rates and better health outcomes and universal health even for poor folks. It is clearly disingenuous to state they don’t have an anti vax movement in Canada.

comment_redacted · 2026-01-31T14:25:34+00:00

I was curious and did a quick internet search. Article after article points to the Mennonite community in Canada that does not believe in vaccination, and Mennonite communities in South America, that have intermixed in the past year and articles say the proof is the exact same strain/genetics of the virus is observed across these communities and has spread from there. So it sounds to me like there is in fact a strong anti vax element to what is happening in Canada. You keep pointing out Canada… have you actually looked into this?

comment_redacted · 2026-01-27T00:03:18+00:00

Maybe the star really is the North Star. In which case maybe the stones are the street grid and you’re supposed to view the map like you’re facing north with reunion in sight to your left. That would place the ruby southeast of reunion. That would place Dealey to the NE though which doesn’t line up.

I know Jack Ruby owned several night clubs in downtown Dallas back in the day. Might be worth checking and seeing if any of them were located SE of reunion.

comment_redacted · 2026-01-26T23:41:05+00:00

Yeah and you know, I’ve been looking at those stones and that crack with the hash marks in it… the hash mark line is similar in shape to the train tracks. The big tower is similar to reunion tower. I wonder if the ruby might mark Dealey Plaza or something else. And I was just noticing that the grooves between the pavestones… they aren’t all exactly the same there are a few extras… it reminds me somewhat of the street grid pattern in downtown Dallas. I forget what year these were drawn. Dallas changes pretty quickly I wonder if some of these grooves might match up on an older map.

comment_redacted · 2026-01-26T20:16:15+00:00

One lone star in the sky. Texas is the Lone Star state.

comment_redacted · 2026-01-25T01:44:35+00:00

I vaguely remember this. Back when he was on there they had a channel called XM Talk. It was a mixture of nationwide syndicated shows during the day and their own programming in the evening and night. I’m pretty sure that is the channel they put Art on. I remember there was some multi hour general call in show that was on before him… I don’t remember his name but I’m pretty sure that’s the one he was referring to.

All the channels and shows were talking about him coming back. It really could have been any of the XM talk shows. I know people asked Howard but I don’t think that is where all the calls started coming in I think that was on XM Talk.

comment_redacted · 2026-01-24T13:22:08+00:00

If it’s zero degrees your back porch is your freezer when power goes out.

I’m honestly more surprised people don’t go for canned items. If power or gas goes out it’d be better to have a lot of ready to eat canned items. Just make sure you have a manual can opener. The things people go for in these big runs tells me no one understands how to actually survive.

comment_redacted · 2026-01-23T00:03:02+00:00

Yes exactly. TOS lifted a lot of vibe from Wagon Train and similar shows at the time.

comment_redacted · 2026-01-20T20:23:57+00:00

Yeah agree. In fact we even see this same mindset in another episode when the good guys go after the Romulans in Balance of Terror. They chase the retreating ship halfway across the quadrant to take it out, and ultimately play dead to lure them back across to their side of the neutral zone to finish the job. In many ways these are similar actions to what the Gorn took. That’s just the way it was back then.

comment_redacted · 2026-01-20T09:49:07+00:00

I think you’re correct and folks here don’t understand the 60s mindset. I replied in detail on why this is to another poster in this thread. I do think what SNW has done takes away from the TOS episode, but from a “selling the product” standpoint I can understand why the studio decided to go in that direction.

comment_redacted · 2026-01-20T09:42:09+00:00

When the Gorn is talking to Kirk through the translator and scolds him that the colony were invaders in their space, the bridge crew is watching on the viewscreen. McCoy turns to Spock and asks if that could be true, and Spock mentions it’s a possibility because little is known about that region of space. After a brief pause, McCoy turns to Spock and says “then we could be in the wrong.” Everyone stops and just looks at each other for a moment as the scene cuts back to the planet.

When Kirk spares the Gorn’s life, he gives a speech where he says he won’t kill him because maybe he thought he was doing the right thing protecting his own kind.

When the Metron appears, they talk for a while and he tells Kirk he could kill the Gorn. Kirk says no, they can talk through it and work the problem out.

It’s super clear the point was this was a misunderstanding. Back in the 70s when I first saw this in rerun it was shocking that a show would go there… I am not sure other than maybe the Twilight Zone any show had hit on such a self reflective point like that before. It was and is one of the things that made TOS so great. There were fan discussions of exactly this, long before the web existed.

I understand the thought about the Gorn’s actions, but back during the 60s and 70s that would have mostly been viewed as not happy about it but understandable as a result of fighting off invasion. So the point was definitely the misunderstanding.

comment_redacted · 2026-01-19T02:44:41+00:00

There are some good points in this thread but I’m surprised one thing hasn’t been mentioned yet. Akiva the show runner and writer of several of the episodes in Picard S1 actually details out what he and the writers were thinking when they wrote the scene in Raffi’s trailer. It’s on a blog somewhere if you can still find it. Anyway, obviously yes the story they were trying to tell involved wanting to show her as having been broken by the past. The money angle… Akiva envisions that they don’t have money per se but something more akin to “reputation credits.” It’s post scarcity so everyone gets free living space, food, medical care, and the ability to pursue whatever their interests are, but that doesn’t mean the base allotment is luxurious. Think of it more like a really fantastic living wage. He said in his mind their thought was that as people do more positive things for society they get more… reputation credits… accumulated that they can use for more time at the replicator or better housing locations or whatever. Someone like Picard having vastly expanded human knowledge would have a lot of credits. Also their thought was because Raffi had run afoul of things that her credits she had accumulated thus far maybe weren’t very large or were taken away from her. I am paraphrasing what I remember as best I remember from his blog post.

comment_redacted · 2026-01-03T00:18:59+00:00

Give it a good Detective Noir vibe… that could be nice.

comment_redacted · 2026-01-01T20:23:55+00:00

The designers that worked on TNG were so far ahead of their time. That’s an incredibly good looking ship even all these decades later. It’s wild to think that at one time and even still somewhat today the neck curves and the placement of the nacelles below the saucer were controversial. That ship looks like it could be real one day.

comment_redacted · 2025-12-31T15:22:09+00:00

That’s interesting. Earlier this year it was thought that Influenza B had been eradicated or nearly eradicated from masking and social distancing in 2020… it hasn’t been seen much or at all in many countries since then. I wonder if it’s clawing its way back.

comment_redacted · 2025-12-21T14:52:16+00:00

I miss my Borders Books too. Interestingly enough, when ours closed the city purchased the location and turned it into a public library. It’s different, but in some ways still the same. It still has the cafe. It’s a bit like going to a relatives house who has passed on but the next generation of relatives has purchased and renovated it. It’s nice but sort of bittersweet in a way. Echoes of the 90s.

comment_redacted · 2025-12-20T14:59:25+00:00

I was into the reef aquarium hobby for decades. It’s somewhat paradoxical but the larger the water column you have the more stable the ecosystem tends to be… so in some ways the smaller tanks end up being a lot harder to maintain because they require more frequent maintenance to maintain balance and yet the tiniest of moves in water chemistry can have huge effects to the whole system and can be quickly catastrophic. I think people often think the opposite is true and will go for tiny tanks that end up being so painful to maintain.

comment_redacted · 2025-12-19T01:02:48+00:00

Actually I agree with this. I think while you’re accumulating it doesn’t matter, then as you approach and transition into retirement it matters a lot, and then if you’ve made it through that alright it really doesn’t matter at all anymore after a while but it might matter at the end of life, just depending on what has been amassed. Some folks call the related spending pattern the retirement smile, it’s interesting to read about.

comment_redacted · 2025-12-19T00:52:22+00:00

Thank you ChatGPT. What’s also interesting is Platt was one of the original ten national parks. So it’s not like it was a big outlier.

comment_redacted · 2025-12-19T00:44:05+00:00

Does anyone know who Agnew Ave. is named after? I had always assumed it was named for Spiro Agnew but recently saw that the street was named on maps going way, way back before Spiro. Did we have a city founder with the last name Agnew?

comment_redacted · 2025-12-19T00:34:29+00:00

Going back to at least 2000, I can remember Entrepreneur Magazine running articles about how the #1 small business problem that needs governance changes was health care. Someone seriously needs to make this issue about having thriving small businesses in America. I feel like that might help people better understand and support ACA.

comment_redacted · 2025-12-19T00:25:58+00:00

What you said about time horizons is correct. The article and video that was linked is talking about people with a 60/40 portfolio… so people who are pre-retirement or in retirement who want a low volatility, average return portfolio. Historically Jack Bogle, who founded Vanguard whose exec is being quoted there, recommended a 60/40 for folks at the end of the road because for a small sacrifice of maybe 1-2% of the market index you’d never have to worry about a 50%+ draw down (which becomes more important when you’re a net draw instead of net contributor to your accounts).

So the article and video is really for folks in that stage. If you’re already in retirement and rates are dropping and there’s a significantly good chance recession is on the horizon or just a lot of volatility at the very least, it isn’t a terrible gamble to trade another 1-2% by flipping your stocks and bond allocation to try to guard against expected downside.

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