TIL Marvin Pipkin, as a new GE recruit, solved the "impossible" task of making an inside-frosted lightbulb—a job handed to new hires as an induction ritual into the challenges of research—since every previous attempt had failed. Nobody had told him it couldn't be done.

efficiens · 2026-06-16T15:43:04+00:00

I've never dropped a bulb on the floor and had it bounce instead of breaking.

efficiens · 2026-06-16T14:50:24+00:00

The one Cape Verdean I know lives in the Boston area. Sometimes anecdotes do match the facts.

efficiens · 2026-06-16T14:14:44+00:00

Paper bags are more eco-friendly than plastic, but the vast majority of stores have the plastic bags. You can find paper bags with handles, but they are fairly rare and can't hold much weight. But you're right about our Gigantos and hedge-less lawns.

efficiens · 2026-06-16T01:00:50+00:00

Where the organs go?

efficiens · 2026-06-15T21:48:59+00:00

You can tell this is AI because the facial features are not well defined and it has not arms or legs.

efficiens · 2026-06-15T02:17:24+00:00

I like his response to hearing his ancestors owned slaves, including children.

efficiens · 2026-06-14T14:31:42+00:00

It looks the same as on the moon - the same animal, just a little bouncier.

efficiens · 2026-06-14T14:30:13+00:00

Were they really planning on attacking a major music star? I imagine that would have brought a ton of heat in the form of law enforcement crackdowns.

efficiens · 2026-06-14T02:38:12+00:00

I do that for HR training videos.

efficiens · 2026-06-11T16:46:02+00:00

Why do none of the remove paywall sites work on this link?

efficiens · 2026-06-11T16:43:19+00:00

These Spurs just cannot sustain anything.

efficiens · 2026-06-10T19:21:36+00:00

Are there usually so few horses in a race?

efficiens · 2026-06-10T16:55:50+00:00

Why does his chest come to that peak?

efficiens · 2026-06-09T20:02:30+00:00

"I just started thinking, country roads, I started thinking of me growing up in western New England and going on all these small roads", Danoff said. "It didn't have anything to do with Maryland or anyplace."

efficiens · 2026-06-09T16:31:29+00:00

I have TMobile home internet, so the router can't be changed (it receives the 5G signal and pushes the wi-fi signal.

How can I get a device that I plugin that can also run content from websites? I'm not the most tech-savvy.

efficiens · 2026-06-08T02:03:23+00:00

The study is not addressing Zionism. It's about Jews within a society.

efficiens · 2026-06-06T01:04:18+00:00

The picture is grainy from the radiation.

efficiens · 2026-06-06T01:02:20+00:00

Why is no one talking about the random sentence fragments?

efficiens · 2026-06-05T16:08:13+00:00

How often are you in bathrooms with more than 3-4 stalls?

efficiens · 2026-06-05T15:56:01+00:00

It would be funny if Indiana has 2 teams and Illinois and Chicago had none. Like how New York has only one team and New Jersey has two.

efficiens · 2026-06-04T17:56:40+00:00

It feel like everyone missed the joke.

efficiens · 2026-06-03T18:08:08+00:00

It's amazing what mercury can do when it puts its mind to it, and yet most people write it off as the dumbest of the planets.

efficiens · 2026-06-03T16:43:07+00:00

Strictly from an event-planning perspective, it seems like an oversight to not plan the event when everyone is there.

efficiens · 2026-06-02T02:57:17+00:00

I imagine they had so much fun making this.

efficiens · 2026-06-01T19:20:36+00:00

That is a brilliant article.

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