Maybe its where they are manufactured?
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Accelerating, or reaccelerating, the incandescent light bulb ban is a pain in my industry. To remelt solidified honey the easiest method is a warming box using one or two light bulbs and a dimmer switch, LEDs will not generate enough heat. To store honey, often people will warm a closet or pantry with a bulb to keep the honey liquid for a bit longer. Some people use them to keep pipes from freezing, or in my mother’s case, wine.
There are many applications where heat isn’t the waste product but the desired effect. Applications where a heat lamp isn’t desirable or is too dangerous.
But that’s ok, they keep making washers and toilets worse too.
What about a reptile ceramic heat bulb? No light, just heat. I use those for chicks.
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Could work for my purpose, but then I need a light too. At least it looks like you can run a dimmer on them.
Brad Garrett has been doing commercials as a competitor of “Jimmy’s Johns” that sells a “bread-like substance”. Danny DeVito doesn’t play a specific character, but he is making commercials for Jersey Mike’s Subs. I really want to see one of them show up in the other’s commercial.
Have you seen the old Boss Coffee commercials with Tommy Lee Jones? They’re hilarious.
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AstroPixelProcessor is a total beast.
I drink Boss coffee because of those(that and its a really good coffee).
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Kia, I know the way they way your new logo is made, it does spell out “KIA”. Every time I see it, it looks like KИ (K, backwards N).
In other random news, I just learned that the standard character sets for fonts like Arial include the Latin NJ character. Since the mixed case and lowercase variations are included, you can spell “ninja” using just four characters (ninja) or even just two if you go more phonetically (nja).
I really want to send someone an MS Word document that includes the four-character ninja and see how long it takes them to find out why the word is misspelled. Or does that fall into the “that’s just evil” category?
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Playing make-believe has changed a lot since I was little. Kids these days assign CEO roles to each other.
I just google translate KИ from Russian to English, and it’s nothing offensive or silly
It just says KI.
As you were.
Ever take a stroll through your old posts and see how some of your opinions on things have changed, or not, over time?
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On occasion, yes.
If you are driving and there’s a large mob ahead, DO NOT try to drive through them.
Just turn around and find an alternative, safer route.
If you’re in the middle of a mob, and they start banging on your car, DO NOT get out to confront them, GIVE GAS and get the hell out of Dodge.
Seriously, situational awareness is where it’s at these days.
Dunno if this instagram link will work, but it shows a flash mob surrounding and beating up a car.
People/businesses/publishers who use that character in place of N to make sure you know it’s supposed to be Russian
are really really irritating if you actually read Russian.
Double for the backwards R (which is pronounced like “yah”).
That put me in the mood for…
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I saw that for my 12th birthday in the theater. Only one person showed up to my birthday party, and we weren’t particularly close before that or after, but I would absolutely commit felonies for him.
How did I not know about the wonder that is compression packing cubes before now??? Not even just from the compression point of view, which is nice, but just for the organization factor.
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While looking for other information here, I came across what I wrote back in February 2018 in this topic. It was how the “your grandchild needs to be bailed out of jail” scam was getting a boost by software that can take a recording of a person’s voice and turn it into text-to-speech processing. Run the scam late at night when a grandparent may still be trying to wake up after the answering the phone and it has a better chance of succeeding.
While theorizing about all the problems this could occur, I said “Now comes the fact that we shortly may not be able to trust that an audio recording is actually from a person. We’ve already got that with video and pictures.”
At the time, I meant that graphics and video programs allow you to edit and manipulate existing media. In the five years since then, we’ve added deepfakes and more widespread AI-generated material. Give it a few reference points and AI will create new content from existing content.
It’s had benefits, such as allowing actors to play younger versions of themselves (with varying degrees of success). The new content also includes scams that do a good job of targeting specific audiences.
It’s gonna be interesting watching this develop.
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Due to being away for a couple weeks we had a nest of finches on our front porch. They’ve been shoved out by doves now.
The doves are much bigger and the chance of a larger egg surviving in the nest they’ve taken over is unlikely… but doves and pigeons are known for terrible nests.
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