It'd be nice if there was a clear thing on a spec sheet that you can filter by while shopping around for this.
I can easily tell how powerful a microwave is by the wattage, but because microwave manufacturers put deliberately misleading buttons on their units that don't do anything useful, it makes it hard to shop around.
When you buy the cheapest base-model car, the car companies at least have the decency to put blank buttons in for the features that aren't on that model.
Never bet on Americans not eating a lot of food.
This is basic not-invading-russia-in-the-winter type shit
He should team up with Papa John to bring us the day of reckoning
To your first point, it seems as though her main complaint was there wasn't much of a way to dialogue with both party officials and the critical left she talks about.
To your second, no one likes when someone they know and respect is being fed-jacketed.
How useful her critiques are when even the non-government critical-voice she talked to (Maykel Vivero) said:
the most systemic change must happen through a change of policy in the United States. Absent that, the most likely possibilities for Cuba’s future would be 1.) a Chinese-style mixed economy, which would significantly increase inequality and leave workers without a democratic voice, or 2.) a full capitalist restoration, which would be a world-historic disaster for the working-class.
I think even she doesn't really see the realities, considering she thinks Cuba's standard of living can be raised and there can be less discontent if more voices are heard.
She wants the support to be more critical, but considering how bad the embargo is (and everyone in her group and the Cubans she talk to agree about), it seems as if this is largely a pointless exercise. No government is perfect, but what can you do from America where more people are pushing for an overthrow than an embargo lift. Weird not to mention Allende in this whole discussion too.
Honestly the boomers are right. The base price for things used to be way higher, but they lasted way longer.
A lot of home appliances already existed in the perfect form, many things have been solved. But we can't have that because then why how would we sell more?
Washing machines need to have hot/cold settings, and different agitation settings. I don't need wifi telling me it's done because I know how long it takes and can set a timer, or front loading, or fabric softener slots because I don't use that.
A dryer is solved, it gets warm and it turns around. My dryer from the 80s is front load.
induction is a pretty good leap in stove tech, but the actual oven part has been solved a while ago. Oven get hot, keep temp within a couple degrees, have lights, maybe have a broiler, maybe have a fan for convection.
Microwaves are all shit because the popcorn button doesn't work, but apparently some microwaves actually have a usable popcorn button, but how tf are you supposed to know if yours actually has a moisture sensor, or just a preset time?
Can you not do something with gparted on a live usb? Or are the files that fucked?
I usually add an inch to my measurements, no one can usually tell and I haven't been sued for false advertising yet
Different activities have different contexts for what "being able to do it" means.
If I said I can't drive, that means I have no license and probably think there's too high of a chance of something going wrong if I drove. That doesn't mean that idk how to steer, hit the gas, or brake.
If I said I can't walk that means I'm paralyzed.
Swimming is somewhere in between those two on the spectrum of "what does it mean when I say I can't".
I'd say that I am currently a bad/weak swimmer because I had some independent practice recently, but there was definitely a time where I'd say I didn't know how to swim even though I had taken lessons at that point.
If I can only swim a few metres before stopping, then I drown when I stop, then I can't swim.
If I'm terrible at running, I can just stop and not have my lungs fill up with water.
That's a pretty big difference. If you get chucked into the middle of an Olympic pool and aren't 100% sure you could get out, then I'd say you can't swim.
Usually when you talk about being able to swim it's about safety in aquatic activities. My grandpa almost died swimming in a small river without much current because he wasn't that good at swimming. He didn't die, but because it was that close I'd say he didn't know how to swim.
You wouldn't say you can ride a bike if you fall after a few metres.
I never got a grasp of how to breathe for front crawl, because it is tiring and I always needed more air than I could get in between arm strokes. Maybe if I had better technique so I was less out of breath, then I wouldn't need as much air and I'd figure it out, but whatever.
Swimming is pretty hard and tiring if you aren't using proper form and trying to streamline yourself. If you can only swim 10m until you get tired then that's basically the same as not knowing how to swim.
If I lived near a community pool maybe I'd try and learn/practice during lane swim times, but I don't and gyms with pools are too expensive monthly.
I feel like your kid is more likely to get got by a pedo grooming them on discord than just snatching them off the street in a van.
It's rough how little there leeway there is for kids to do stuff IRL. I was a latchkey kid because of parents working nights.
I saw a survey where kids still actually do want to go outside more than play fortnite for hours, they just can't.
Honestly the whole thing is funny in an unintentional way, critical support to Elon.
Buying a car that looks straight out of a ~~PS1~~ 80s mac game, that has uncovered stainless steel panels like the coked-out failed DeLorean, no crumple zones, a shatterproof window that shatters in the live demo, on top of the whole Tesla cult pay-pig thing is funny all around.
Usually things are focus-grouped, which is why all SUVs look the same. The cyber truck is the most likable thing Elon Musk has done in my eyes.
If it was slightly more competent I would actually want to drive a car that looks like a PS1 pre-render. But maybe I just watched too much ReBoot as a kid.