WTF-Beta

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2 minutes later... / French accent

Just kidding!

Oh, I'm sure he's had courtesy calls/ other diplomatic interactions with many of the royal houses starting with you know which one EU state or not.

@realplayer

Do you have a particular shoulder bag design in mind?

Am I correct you're looking for a shoulder bag?

I just bought a rolling cart!

I've seen many that are beaten up.

I didn't know how nice they could be until I assembled it.

@realplayer Makes sense.

Btw, I looked at a stainless, insulated French press.

Impressive.

It was selling for 1/3 more than the coffee pot
fwiw.

@wtg said:

@Bernard Great idea.

I have a collection of tea cosies in various sizes that I picked up when I was in England many years ago. They do a great job of keeping my tea warm from the first cup to the last.

@bernard @wtg Didn't think about that with French press, thanks. Haven't thought about "tea cozies" for years and don't remember seeing one though must have.

@wtg My parents drank Folger and similar coffee, from plastic drip coffee makers, always black, all day, and often always took an insulated thermos to work.

And yes- they thought nothing of heating it up in the microwave.

@chas I've always flown with one carry on and put it under my seat.

Exception in the beginning when we'd have plastic "hard-sided" suitcases.

Suitcases of course were still "a thing".

They let you fly alone as a child (like 6 yrs old) back then.

I did and ditched the suitcase.

My dream bag is hard-case actually.

(I like leather, wood, stone, paper, like that, boxes; I'm a nerd).

It's the traditional briefcase at the TimeResistance site. Black.

The best quality craftsmanship, less than $600. Unreal.

Many here use a briefcase or have, but it's the last type of bag that would suit me.

In the old blues songs, you needed "a suitcase and a trunk".

I don't know who was supposed to be on hand to move the trunk.

@RealPlayer said:

I was gifted an electronic coffee mug that maintains a constant temperature, but if you want to program a different temperature (or other things) you need their app.

The whole thing is pretty unnecessary, tbh, with or without the app

@realplayer I am pining for a traditional coffee pot. There are a million used ones floating around. I want to buy mine new. Farberware brand it is? I think. It will keep the coffee I made hot. I've wanted to hit the "buy now" button more than once.

I hope I'll have it eventually.

It has no software. It has no camera watching you, and it's not recording your voice.

Bonus.

However, I use a French press. I like it.

Pros- Fast, Inexpensive

Cons- Not many are insulated. Glass breaks. Coffee has to be made each time you want a cup, or you have to microwave what's left (or bring it to a simmer?. Not inexpensive if you break the glass. Being made now with glass too thin for purpose

@chas @wtg Truth.

@jon-nyc Thanks for the correction.

I believe this too is around the corner.

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Yikes.

Every leather product made gets torn down aftermarket and researched by someone somewhere.

The same thing happens with tech products apparently.

court

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Ok. Unless this is AI, it is astounding.

Please watch about 2 or 3 minutes about a Bosch dishwasher.

This has to be fake, but it it's not, it's around the corner.

Can you image all of this complexity, expense, and surveillance- and what you would get out of it is- the ability to hit the start button on a dishwasher?

I lean toward this being real or a type of prototype template because I know for a fact that all new cars starting model year '27 will have a camera pointed at the driver's face and a kill switch. I'm not making this up.

I've owned a few Bosch dishwashers. You bought at Sears. They were somewhat more expensive than the other dishwashers Sears sold, but the difference was nothing in retrospect to the cost of living today. They washed the dishes. I didn't have to do anything to dirty dishes, pots, pans, etc. and they would end up spotless.

I have a dishwasher. It's new. It's the lowest price point model Lowes sells. So, you prepare the dishes, run them, and then hand wash everything that came out dirty.

I have a double basin sink and hand wash my dishes.

@jon-nyc said:

Not surprised. A round trip flight to Europe is like getting a chest xray or two.

I remember when I was getting a lot of imaging done before transplant. When I asked about the amount of radiation I was getting a doctor put it in terms of equivalent flights and that gave me perspective. It made me realize imaging was safer than I thought and/or flying was more dangerous

@jon-nyc

You do a lot of imaging and flying, no?

You have to live your life.

That's my bottom line this topic.

My brother has Stage IV bone cancer.

He had six days of radiation out of seven days at one of the NY hospitals.

That must have been brutal.

I wish I knew the organs where it's spread.

He doesn't want to to talk about it.

His right.

I used to worry about radiation but short of avoiding power stations and transmission lines IDK anymore.

My best friend in HS became a flight attendant.

Well, I hope he's OK.

I definitely believe there's something to it.

But when people have cancer of course there often isn't a proximate cause.

Cancers caused by smoking are one exception.

I've mentioned this before but there was a bad accident at a uranium processing facility in Pawling, NY.

See: Wikipedia.

They dumped the uranium waste in a lake.

We knew it as "Nuclear Lake".

Then they covered the lake by re-routing the Appalachian trail over it.

Pawling is a village of 2,000 people.

Of course nobody can/ will ever know who got cancer because of it.

What is this First Amendment of which you speak?

trauma

Also, what are your memories of that time and/ or your thought about it today?

I think most people (nobody here) forget it happened or unfortunately just don't have time to think about it.

The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression wasn't called "the Great" for nothing.

I remember this data point-- the time period for unemployment eligibility in Hawaii reached 18 months.

Elena Rybakina defeated Aryna Sabalenka 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 to win the 2026 US Open Women's singles title on Saturday, September 12, 2026, NBC

Congratulations to Elena Rybakina.

Yeah, like automobile racing and its history.

But those circuits could go away.

Beautiful!