When you make tea, do you boil the water to the recommended temperature/let the water cool before steeping for some teas or do you just steep it in boiling water without caring much
I used to always just throw the teabag in boiling water but recently I’ve tried letting it cool a couple minutes for some teas and I’ve noticed a difference, and I was curious how many people actually do that
- I steep my tea in the recommended temperature (check with a thermometer/fancy kettle where you can choose temperature)
- let the water cool a couple minutes before steeping for some teas
- just throw it in boiling water who cares
- Sometimes I do sometimes I don’t/it depends
- don’t drink tea button
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Have fun in the war dumbass I’ll be at home fucking military wives
Damn. Good way to get your fucking windows kicked in
shut the fuck up and raise my son bootlicker
All fun and games until someone with 3 confirmed kills shows up at your doorstep with a baseball bat
im not at my house tho, im at yours with your wife
But he’s got shooters all over the world 🌎 even when he’s away
just shot a load in his wife
You ungrateful asshole. My bf might be fighting for your freedom and you’re here mocking him for keeping your pathetic ass safe from the threats of the world. If a war comes to our country, we’re not saving you, you dumbass ungrateful fuck up of a human being.
Your bf is fighting for oil and killing civilians and probably cheating on you he’s a scumbag, which is why I just fucked his mom to make a better son
The fool taunts the hungry dogs but the dogs have their day and the fool becomes a feast
your girl boutta be the feast soon as you get deployed boot boy
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Who ever was the first person to post this is the biggest piece of shit in the world. You’re an amoral ASSHOLE!!!!!
Hotmeat89 you are a disgrace you don’t deserve to be called an American! You don’t even have the right to call yourself a MAN!
I don’t call myself a man but your wife still calls me to fuck
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Did you know?
Democrats have won the popular vote in seven out of the last eight presidential elections going back to 1992? The only time the GOP has won the popular vote in the last 36 years in a presidential election was in 2004, and it was a pretty narrow margin. This was a wartime election and the first election post-9/11. The Democratic candidate was the unfortunately uninspiring John Kerry, who had been lied about. You know how in politics we say someone has been "swiftboated" when a successful lie is told about them? That term originates with the 2004 election because a bunch of people concocted an elaborate lie about John Kerry's military service. He wasn't super inspiring as a candidate, but that was the worst thing he did. He wasn't a bad guy. He was just running in a very gross, jingoistic time after the worst terror attack in American history, and had a bunch of successful lies told about him to the point where a whole word about a specific kind of lie was invented about it. THIS is the only time since 1988 that the Republican party has won the popular vote. George W. Bush did not win the popular vote in 2000. The Supreme Court ordered that votes stop being counted in Florida and handed the victory to Bush.
Donald Trump has never ever won the popular vote. The electoral college handed him the victory in 2016, less than 15,000 votes across three states decided the election. Hillary Clinton in total won about 3.7 million more votes than Donald Trump. Trump HATES hearing this number. He hates even more that Joe Biden got about 7 million more votes. He hates even more that you bring up the fact that he lost his midterm elections for his party in 2018, badly. And that the "Red Wave" in 2022 did not happen because of backlash at his Supreme Court. Or that in 2023 voters continued to reject his Supreme Court at the polls.
He knows, the Republicans know, that if more people vote, they lose. They don't want small d democracy. They want authoritarianism. They want to suppress it.
So when you get cute about not wanting to vote, you're not doing activism. You're surrendering.
abolish the electoral college NOW
You’re placed in a room with an animal. The door is closed and you cannot leave. The animal is completely calm and has no intent of harming you. You are in no danger unless you provoke the animal in some way.
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unfortunately, Quark is understaffed this evening and has to run tables himself. he’s not happy, but at least he’s fabulous.
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Kitty no longer has any need for human
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and of course biden is doing nothing about this
Just because the media isn't reporting on their achievements doesn't mean that the Biden administration isn't doing anything. Biden issued an executive order in 2023 that specifically forbids any state from using more than $1M of federally-provided funds to build highway deathtraps, and established the Office of Slapstick Transportation to ensure that no new giant hammers or spinning baseball bats would be installed on any American highway or interstate without first getting certification from the Board of Harlequinade that smashing cars in that particular location would objectively be pretty funny.
i can’t believe this is real
not the source for the screen cap but here's a WSJ article (sans paywall)
Per previous tags--
In this model of Tesla, apparently—get this—according to the Tesla manual, you do it on a touchscreen.
Did a human being just die because of swiping the wrong way?
...And then, when you're in the water and the car's power systems (which operate the doors, because of course they do) have all gone down, how do you get out?
You partially disassemble the door and pull out one specific wire. The image via Warren Terra at Bluesky.)
...I don't know about the rest of you, but I am never getting into one of these alleged vehicles. Ever.
...you know, we've been saying that these things are deathtraps, but holy SHIT
I feel compelled to point out that the diagram above is for the back door. I still don't know where to find the wire to open the front doors.
This is why anyone who actually works in tech (being a tech ceo does not count as working) is wary at best about making things "smarter". The failure mode for a computerized mechanism should be functioning as a non-computerized mechanism, but very often the failure mode for a fully-smart device is undefined behaviour that the manufacturer doesn't intend for you to ever see. And that means there's no recourse in situations like this.
For any non tech folk, the concept discussed above is called fail-open vs fail-closed protocol and it’s an immensely important and well established consideration in tech. This applies to everything from firewalls to smart devices to anything else that has a computerized system(and some things that don’t but that’s a different topic).
The question is, “if the computer/network part of this fails, how much of this do I want to work, or break?”
There are some things where fail closed is important. Security devices/systems for example! If your security system fails, there is logic that dictates that it should fail closed because it would be better for people to lose access than to leave it open. Some security parameters advertise a fail close only model for this reason. Others like firewalls let you choose how your device fails.
Another example would be like. A system that is in highly specific motion, like a centrifuge. If the computer breaks or loses sync with the software running it, I want the whole thing to stop moving. This may seem obvious that it would happen but it’s not, and you can guarantee that manufacturers take it into account when making the hardware and software.
Then there are some things, many in fact, that you want to fail open. Anything where the ability to use it is more important than the “smarts” behind it. Including. For Dog’s sake. A CAR DOOR. Like if a computerized system blacks out, I do NOT want human beings trapped in the vehicle. The fact that they’ve removed the handle on a fucking car door is insane to start, if they’re going to do it, it should be fail open, not just for water but for ANY malfunction. If you get trapped in a car, you’re dead in MOST scenarios where a computer might fail. Heat? Oh idk what might cause that maybe FIRE. Dead battery? Hmmmm I wonder if you might be IN A SURVIVAL SITUATION IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE. Water? Duh.
This is an inexcusable failing on the engineering team because F/O vs F/C is something that has been discussed for decades, and I cannot imagine what scenario they put themselves in where a fail closed model is the right call here. Go hire better people.
Anyway all of this to say, when buying smart devices, it’s a good idea to go d out how they work in terms of F/O F/C. Does your thermostat have a default it reverts to? Do the smart vents you bought for it close or open if they lose power, or do they stay where they were? Does your automated faucet (yes they have these, yes they’re super fucking cool, they regulate the temperature and volume of the water I WILL geek out) allow water through it when it’s glitching out?
And as always, if you’re buying smart devices, it’s a good idea to set up a segregated IoT SSID for them so they aren’t coming in contact with your informational devices.
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