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    Bad design: Sharp Microwaves you can speak to
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      Sharp made first Alexa-capable microwaves, the mid-size SMC1139FS and the larger SMC1449FS. Both ovens will take the expected voice commands from Alexa devices for tasks like defrosting meat, but they’re also uniquely tuned for Orville Redenbacher popcorn. Ask Amazon’s helper to “microwave classic popcorn” and a standard bag should be ready for your next at-home movie.

      The range of commands varies based on the model. While the base model has roughly 30 voice commands and 10 more voice-only presets, the larger SMC1449FS has over 70 commands and about 50 voice-only presets for food ranging from broccoli to chicken wings. You shouldn’t be left scrambling if you don’t have microwave cooking instructions, at least with the bigger version.

      It seems like this guys did not learn a dime.

      In good microwave three things matter:

      1. Big start button with +30 second function, easy to clean panel, it must not move and must not click (as it'll be dirt of it'll wear out).
      2. Big stop button with time reset on second press
      3. Big nice glowing timer screen, preferably green visible from any angle, even 89 degrees, not LCD

      And almost forgot - it must be build like a tank, and not like modern shite.

      Can check some top of the line Samsung microwaves 10-17 years ago.

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    Good quote: On Nature and progress
    • Я не ищу гармонии в природе.
      Разумной соразмерности начал
      Ни в недрах скал, ни в ясном небосводе
      Я до сих пор, увы, не различал.

      Как своенравен мир её дремучий!
      В ожесточённом пении ветров
      Не слышит сердце правильных созвучий,
      Душа не чует стройных голосов.

      Но в тихий час осеннего заката,
      Когда умолкнет ветер вдалеке.
      Когда, сияньем немощным объята,
      Слепая ночь опустится к реке,

      Когда, устав от буйного движенья,
      От бесполезно тяжкого труда,
      В тревожном полусне изнеможенья
      Затихнет потемневшая вода,

      Когда огромный мир противоречий
      Насытится бесплодною игрой,—
      Как бы прообраз боли человечьей
      Из бездны вод встаёт передо мной.

      И в этот час печальная природа
      Лежит вокруг, вздыхая тяжело,
      И не мила ей дикая свобода,
      Где от добра неотделимо зло.

      И снится ей блестящий вал турбины,
      И мерный звук разумного труда,
      И пенье труб, и зарево плотины,
      И налитые током провода.

      Так, засыпая на своей кровати,
      Безумная, но любящая мать
      Таит в себе высокий мир дитяти,
      Чтоб вместе с сыном солнце увидать.

      N. Zabalotsky 1947

      Adopted GT:

      I am not looking for harmony in nature.
      For reasonable proportions of things
      Not in the depths of the rocks, not in the clear sky
      I still, alas, did not not find them.

      How capricious is this dense world!
      And in the fierce singing of the winds
      The heart still does not hear the correct accords,
      The soul does not feel harmonious voices.

      But in the quiet hour of the autumn sunset,
      When the wind in the distance dies down
      When, enveloped in the weak radiance
      The blind night will sink to the river

      When, tired of the violent movement,
      From useless toil
      In an anxious half-sleep of exhaustion
      The darkened water will subside

      When a vast world of contradictions
      Satisfied with the fruitless game, -
      As if the prototype of human pain
      From the abyss of waters it rises before me.

      And at this hour sad nature
      Lies around, sighing heavily,
      And wild freedom was not dear to her,
      Where evil is inseparable from good.

      And she dreams of a brilliant turbine shaft,
      And the measured sound of reasonable labor,
      And the singing of pipes and the glow of the dam,
      And trembling electrified wires.

      So, falling asleep on her bed,
      Mad but loving mother
      Contains in itself a high world of a child,
      To see the sun with her son.

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    Mordor: Rapist caring about victim
    • Mordor President Vladimir Putin declared the inadmissibility of the situation when people do not have enough money for even basic food like it was the case in USSR.

      According to statistics from 20 to 25 millions of hard working Mordor slaves have trouble finding money even for worst quality basic good.

      It is just one problem with this lie, in USSR it was no working people who had no money for food, zero.

      Statement had been made right after new big price hikes had been announced for meat, milk, tomatoes and apples.

      Meat and milk prices are rising fast as export to China soared 3 times, Morodor exchange real stuff to various debt instruments (that they don't have right to turn into any real goods), management and top guys get special bribes and return from Chinese.

      Tomatoes and apples prices are expected to double in next two months as local manufacturers finally paid for new 4th round of sanctions preventing most of the imports (around 80% of world tomatoes and apple manufacturers can't import them in Mordor now).

      Sweet capitalism.

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    Rumors: China considers Taiwan trade blockade
    • Rumors started to spread that China can establish sea blockade and no fly zone over the Taiwan and it can happen very suddenly.

      Best moment can be mess that will start during late December and early January in US due to presidential uncertainty and continues fight.

      China will publish open plan about Taiwan integration within 3 month period and propose it as ultimatum.

      Taiwan also is very worried about pro continental Chinese groups that can attack the core Taiwan industries like chips production.

      As it is clear that almost none of chips, GPUs, boards or notebooks manufacturers will make it alive and unharmed.

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    Capitalism: Advertisements and negative selection
    • Had short talk with guy who is responsible for placing ads on many big sites.

      Thing with modern ads is that they are extremely annoying, it is lot of them and they are extremely inefficient. But they also kill the content. Why it is so?

      Even at the start and prior the age of ad blockers every site around made negative selection, as it was the lowest quality and dumbest part of their visitors who click on most ads, so they gradually adjusted. As it is not too large part and site want good money - they placed more and more ads. And the more ads you place - they smallest is the cluster of dumbest guys.

      All sites also adjusted content accordingly. If you get cameras and lenses review sites - all their reviews are not written for you, they are written to machine called Google bot. All of articles are written according to schemes and checked to match certain SEO measurements (usually they have software for this or third party company do it with their software). Also it is very important for site to attract more matching Google ads, hence article must be written in specific manner. It is not that algorithms are becoming better, it is that humans are constantly adapting to dumb algorithms. But quality of content dropped a lot.

      As ad blockers came new round of negative selection fired. Sites try to counter this with huge popups asking you to turn on ads - but they are stupid like hell. Any such popup is just indication that present model time is up, it can't be dragged along and only sides that are interested for this horror to continue are Google and big corporations, not the content creators.

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    Capitalism: Remember that NFC payments are very dangerous for you
    • The ongoing pandemic and the proliferation of NFC-enabled devices have boosted the popularity of contactless payments in brick-and-mortar stores. So, in October-November of this year, the share of mobile payment services in the total money turnover of card transactions increased to 23% against 18% a year earlier. At the same time, the share of transactions increased from 21% to 25%. In other words, now about every fourth card payment is made by Mordor slaves through a smartphone.

      The leader of the contactless payment market in the Russian Federation is the Apple Pay service, but its share is significantly decreasing every year. During the period under review, 39% of transactions were made through Apple Pay, 35% through Google Pay, and 23% through Samsung Pay.

      You need to understand that it is big reason we have Apple and Google deep into this, as they collect and sell and provide to the state all your information. With normal cards you need to make more work (like combine information from different card) and lot of it is legally challenging. Also having your smartphone allows company to have location, nearby Wi-Fi and more info also collected, including your eye or fingerprint.

      All this information (all items your bough and extra) will be stored indefinitely, linked to all your search, activity while using smartphone and so on. Present AI systems at Google and Apple can guess that you started to use some stuff you bough, link this to your forum posts, chat messages, search requests and so on.

      One ex Apple developer told me that it is few clicks of a mouse to see that boyfriend bough to girl (relations are part of AI systems, Apple products have special features for this) vibrator and see all related info that she posted after occasional usage (that Safary tracked). Few more clicks are company can listen and record all this girl do in privacy (of course this never happen with small ordinary guys, but if you are some business and politician or such guy - it will be good leverage).

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    Capitalism: What we see with all this COVID censorship and pinky phrases?
    • Actually it is all pretty simple, this is big hierarchy feeling the danger and trying to protect themselves at all costs.

      Research shows that big hierarchies (in medium to very big companies, states, etc) can behave a lot like complex living being. It can protect the integrity, resist any changes, fight for survival and for grow.

      It also explains why largest modern monopolies joined the fight, as they have similar huge hierarchies and they also feel the imminent danger and want to survive and still be intact.

      It it also why all of them so much defend the "COVID not originated in lab" theory. As if this will become common knowledge it become big danger for them also, because virus research is also big very closed and tight packed international hierarchy that do not want any control and do not want to be held accountable for any crimes they do. Google, Apple and Amazon also don't want to be held accountable and their managers want to live and not hang on the trees.

      Pinky phrases and declarations come just from experience. Hierarchy looks back on that people liked while they had thriving hierarchies around. And makes things up, of course they will never keep promises, they only look at this like some for of marketing campaign.

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