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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • For a single mug microwaves are quicker in America. Potentially even for 2 mugs.

    BUT in America kitchen appliances have a power limit (usually) of 1,500W. This is usually higher than a standard microwave (1,000W). And since an electric kettle in America is just a heat source in water, it's very efficient. So if you're regularly heating multiple mugs worth of water, or just boiling water for cooking often, an electric kettle is definitely better. They are also pretty cheap.

    Now in Europe and the UK, electric kettles are faster since they can often be around 3,000W or higher. But that doesn't mean American kettles are useless. American kettles a way faster than heating water on the stove. And WAAAY faster than heating water on a gas stove.



  • The VCR was invented, marketed, and sold to do this very thing. When the VCR first came out (same for betamax) they didn't sell pre-recorded tapes because the only way they had to make those was to manually record them individually in real-time which was prohibitively expensive. That's also why movie rental places caught on: early VHS movies were too expensive for most to afford. But not too expensive for a business to rent hundreds of times.

    Suffice to say: if recording TV was piracy, it wasn't illegal and the people bitching had no way to enforce their will.



  • I wish we could get away from lawns entirely. I understand a back garden a bit, but why do we need 20' of space between the house and sidewalk/road? We could fit a lot more houses in there if we didn't have a useless bunch of space. Like we could have manicured parks in a lot of spaces and then a bunch of fields or forested areas where it wasn't convenient to build homes for unusable green space.