Doesn’t that list also include Iran?

I don’t have to like it, but it’s sort of a sound strategy. The Red Sea is on the way to the Suez Canal, and the world had a demonstration a few years ago about what happens when you block the Suez canal.

I’m reminded of Bender:

“This isn’t even about you”

“That’s impossible!”

So, just to be clear, you’re OK with someone telling you to get on the bus? A bus headed to a location they aren’t telling you about?

What if they took you to the train station and loaded you on a box car with a bunch of other people, is that OK?

I started making soap in 2016 just to see if I could figure it out. Now I’m pretty good at it and have a lot of fun with different colors and smells. I normally don’t use 100% olive oil, though. An equal-parts mixture of Canola, Olive, and Coconut oil is what I try to use, but I’ve also had good luck with “whatever cooking oil I have on hand”.

I used to work with truckers, and a LOT of them started out like this.

I used to use high-powered (4KW) lasers at work every day. Now I make 3D models and sit at a desk.

Guess which job I like more.

“I’m going to business school!”

Their editors told them it makes more money, I’d guess.

Yes. You can do that without even turning the lawnmower over.

hopefully there’s a foolproof way to temporarily disable the blades,

Unplug the spark plug and tuck the wire out of the way.

I don’t use youtube for it’s riveting entertainment, I use it to learn things.

I am tempted to save this comment just to see how accurate it is in ten years.

There are washing machines without anything more complex than a switch in them. If you really had a “pile of disassembled washing machines” you’d know that.

Doubt.

My electric bill changed by less than $2 per month when I installed an “inefficient” washing machine. It was so little that I’m not sure the washer was the cause. That’s $72 over a period of three years. The machine it replaced was just out of warranty and needed a $200 drain pump.

Protesting is a threat. The problem is, when you don’t get what you want, you’re supoosed to foklow through on that threat.

Does an old school washer dryer that runs off timer relays / knobs / push buttons really have a CPU?

Nope, it’s just a timer-drive. cam triggering switches. The physical cam IS the CPU.

We have reached a point in time where there are adults who think everything that runs through multiple steps must have a microcontroller, because only really really old machines* do without.

*For the most part. I bought a brand new whirlpool dryer late last year, and it has a mechanical timer in it.

Having a newer machine cost me slightly less money on utilities, and considerably more in washing machine parts.

There’s more to go wrong on an old washing machine and each control board was unique to the machine

What? Old washing machines just use switches and a cam that’s on a timer. Anyone who can read a basic schematic can figure out what is wrong with one.

Don’t they more or less give heroin to people recovering from surgeries?