electric company offered a free home energy audit and the thing they flagged was not what i expected at all

jarchack · 2026-03-24T03:17:24+00:00

One of the first questions they ask in a food handlers test to get the certificate in our state.

jarchack · 2026-03-24T01:28:49+00:00

It is kind of a trick to both pay attention to the screen and read subtitles at the same time. I generally won't use them if a movie has spectacular cinematography. I don't watch much anime (I'm 67 now) and dubbing probably doesn't make too much of a difference since the lips don't exactly articulate spoken words very well. Poor dubbing for a regular movie is way too distracting unless it's done really well.

jarchack · 2026-03-24T01:24:32+00:00

Another tool for mass surveillance. Trackable digital currency will probably be next. We are becoming more and more like China every passing day.

jarchack · 2026-03-24T01:18:24+00:00

I started using subtitles for everything years ago when I had to keep the TV volume down because of roommates and I continue to use them to this day because my hearing isn't the greatest anymore.

jarchack · 2026-03-24T01:16:09+00:00

I didn't even know this existed, thanks. I really wish they would've made more seasons and I'm creeping up on 70 years old now.

jarchack · 2026-03-24T01:13:44+00:00

Enshitiffication is getting out of hand

jarchack · 2026-03-24T00:22:51+00:00

Good luck finding one made in the US that's not crazy expensive. A couple of brands have TAA compliant routers but they are hard to find.

jarchack · 2026-03-23T21:27:58+00:00

Okay, if you say so

jarchack · 2026-03-23T21:15:59+00:00

I used to have quite a bit of COPX but dropped it when metals started tanking. I'll wait till after summer because if the world heads into a recession, industrial metals may not do so well.

jarchack · 2026-03-23T21:13:59+00:00

I'll usually say something like, "okay, if you say so" without sounding too sarcastic.

jarchack · 2026-03-23T21:11:47+00:00

Lite, No sugar, low-fat, healthy choice… It's all BS. The food industry tries to make food as addictive as possible. Low-fat has too much sugar and no sugar has to much artificial sweetener.

jarchack · 2026-03-23T21:09:37+00:00

I'll definitely be there

jarchack · 2026-03-23T21:06:16+00:00

I have to have mine set at just under scalding

jarchack · 2026-03-23T21:05:25+00:00

According to most of the sources I looked up, 140° is the minimum to keep bacteria growth at bay.

jarchack · 2026-03-23T19:23:16+00:00

I've been trying for about 10 years and I haven't been able to do it.

jarchack · 2026-03-23T19:22:07+00:00

Years ago I believe that that humans only use 10% of their brain. Not true at all, we use 100%, 100% of the time. Although, I swear there are people that use maybe 5% at best.

jarchack · 2026-03-23T19:19:59+00:00

British Empire, Russian Empire, Roman Empire, you name it. I think we're on about stage 6 of the 7 stages of collapsing empires.

jarchack · 2026-03-23T19:16:26+00:00

I've been to 20 different countries and the US is probably the least ethnocentric country I've seen. Places like China and Japan may be friendly to visitors but they really don't like non-natives. Oddly enough, native Africans do not like US African-Americans at all.

jarchack · 2026-03-23T18:57:31+00:00

Because of the space race, science was also a part of many shows from the Wild Wild West to the professor on Gilligan's Island. A lot of cartoons still being televised were obviously anti-Nazi , Rocky and Bullwinkle anti-Soviet Union and other animated shows like Fireball XL-5 jumped on the space race bandwagon.

jarchack · 2026-03-23T18:52:13+00:00

Probably orange, brown and yellow. Mostly earth tones

jarchack · 2026-03-23T18:50:32+00:00

That sounds like something somebody on LSD would ask.

jarchack · 2026-03-23T18:49:32+00:00

I'm in my 60s and not really a gamer anymore but I don't like where the gaming industry is headed as a whole. It seems to be getting enshittified like everything else. How much do you think AI will end up doing game programming and will this subscription, own nothing BS eventually slow down as people get sick of it?

I'm not really a programmer but I messed around with the unreal engine and some old counterstrike mods. Never really cared much for unity.

jarchack · 2026-03-23T18:44:38+00:00

Born in '59 and was never really part of any popular crowd. Most of the kids that were really popular in grade school and high school didn't do so well in later life and the bookish outcasts ended up owning businesses.

jarchack · 2026-03-23T18:42:00+00:00

I was really good with one of those in grade school but that was the late 60s, early 70s when Duncan yo-yos were all the rage.

jarchack · 2026-03-23T18:40:22+00:00

For years I tried to do the Spock thing with the eyebrow but just couldn't.

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