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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Carrots often have dirt caked on the outside that’s hard to get off with just water, so peeling is a good way to help with that.

    The peel has the healthy bits

    Sort of, but not really. The nutrients of a carrot may be slightly more concentrated in the skin, but all layers of a carrot contain those nutrients. You’re not depriving yourself of an appreciable amount of nutrients by peeling a carrot.



  • The way I see it, there’s two options:

    1. Pay people more. 300k, 400k, 500k, whatever it takes. Surely there’s a number that people would feel is worth the risk. The obvious downside is that increases the cost of construction.

    2. Make the process of roofing safer - invent new safety gear or safety practices, automation equipment that can be operated from the ground, introduce legislation that encourages those practices or subsidizes the new equipment. The obvious downside is this requires upfront investment and cooperation between government and industry.

    Either way, the current practice of “throw cheap immigrant labor at it until it goes away” is not tenable.






  • I’ve never experienced any critical part of a refrigerator break in my >30 years on this earth. Sorry you can’t say the same.

    The hassle isn’t just in connecting it to the Wi-Fi, it’s in securing and monitoring it to ensure it stays secure, so that I’m not giving people a foothold into my home network.


  • I’m glad it worked out for you in that one instance, but I’m not worried enough about my fridge breaking down to where I need to constantly monitor it remotely. Refrigerators are an incredibly old, well developed, reliable technology. The added hassle of an Internet connection isn’t worth it to me. If it is to you then fine, but your single anecdote is worth about as much as my hypotheticals, unless we’re talking about some novel, untested refrigeration technology.