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MEPs insist that age assurance systems must be accurate and preserve minors’ privacy

The EU, where War Is Peace, Freedom Is Slavery, Ignorance Is Strength and Surveillance is Privacy.

Can they be made into finished lumber in Canada at a cost that would allow them to sell for a profit into export markets? What would it take to achieve this?

Google can read your emails whether you opt out or not.

Is it disabled in hardware, firmware or software? Does Linux enable it?

If it’s a US company, it’s not sovereign for any country other than USA. In any other country, it’s US spyware and theft of intellectual property, from a moral perspective if not a corrupt legal perspective.

Actually, that makes a lot of sense…

Given that Trump is the best president ever (I’m sure I have heard people say so), then anyone who opposes him is, ipso facto, an enemy of the state and should be treated as such.

The more I think about it, the more obvious it is. I mean, why even have another election?

I’m not an expert woodworker but I did have aquariums when I was young.

A 20 gallon aquarium, all set up, can weigh more than 200 lbs. The stand will be under quite a bit of stress and if it fails…

One of my first non-trivial woodworking projects was a stand for a 20 gallon aquarium but I didn’t build it from scratch: I revised an existing table with stout legs. It’s a long time ago, but the legs were tapered and maybe 3"x3" at the top, or maybe even 4"x4". The aprons were maybe 1/2"x4" with mortise and tenon joints into the legs. The top was 3/4" plywood. I don’t know what the wood was, but might have been pine. It supported the aquarium fine, but it was much stronger than your design due to the stouter legs and more substantial aprons. The design was something like Build a Sturdy End Table, except for the mortise and tenon joints instead of dowels to join the aprons to the legs.

I would be hesitant to put a 20 gallon aquarium on a table of your design. The legs and bracing seem a bit weak. If the joints aren’t very tight, if it starts to go over, there might be excessive loads on the brackets and pocket screws, and it might collapse. It might be fine, but I would definitely loose sleep. I had a 20 gallon aquarium fail once (the aquarium, not the table). It’s a lot of water, a lot of mess and very hard on the fish.

If it were my first serious project, I would look for a proven design, specific to holding the weight of an aquarium. There are many designs available, some with nice build videos. All that I have seen are more robust than your design, even for 10 or 20 gallon aquariums.

If I were going to proceed with something like your design, assuming soft pine frame, I would use 2x4 or larger for the legs, wider aprons and angle braces at the corners.

Yes, but…

Making social media fake is the intention. It’s not a failure.

The failure is that the fraud is noticed: the bots and LLMs are not yet good enough to be undetectable.

The fraud will be perfected when LLMs can be fake without feeling fake. At least until the fraudsters have achieved their objectives. After that, will they care how their victims feel? I guess not.

Pulsing the power every 3 to 5 seconds would be fantastic! One pulse every 30 seconds is not good. But I haven’t yet found a manual or sales person that can tell me the period of the pulse width modulation for any brand/model. Not that I have tried very hard.

Maybe I should try KitchenAid. What you describe sounds wonderful.

That was exactly the problem with simmering anything.

Also, only 9 power levels wasn’t enough. It was very powerful (nice when I wanted full power) but the steps in power were too big. For many things the only options were too hot or too cold.

But the fault that made me replace it was an intermittent one: occasionally (about five times in 18 months) it went to full power. This could happen at any power setting. No change in the indicated setting, but the power would come on continuously. Anything other than a pot of water would, in just a few seconds, be burning. Very dangerous! Fortunately, it never happened when I wasn’t standing right there to turn the power off at the wall switch. Being intermittent, technicians couldn’t find/fix the fault. It also occasionally stopped heating for a minute or so at a time, as if there was some thermal lockout even when nothing was unusually hot, but at least that wasn’t dangerous.

It was Haier. And I see they are no longer the biggest by revenue, but still #3

The problem with simmering is that the cooktop was very powerful (nice when you want to heat something quickly) but it only had two modes: one or off. The power was regulated by turning it on briefly, once every 30 seconds. Even at the lowest possible setting (there were 9 power levels), a pot of water would boil each time the power came on for about 3 seconds. Then it would cool for 27 seconds. Even a pot with a thick base, designed for induction cooktops, and heavy cast-iron pans had this problem.

It would be easy to turn the power on and off more frequently than once every 30 seconds. It wouldn’t be much more difficult to have a mode that delivered less than full power.

A thick iron plate under the pot smoothed the power delivery to the pot, but then it’s not really induction heating of the pot: just a hot plate.

Pancakes, steaks and simmering anything were my biggest frustrations.

It’s good to know there are some decent productions. That’s what I was expecting. I understand the technology. I know what is possible. It was very frustrating and disappointing. The largest appliance manufacturer in the world is selling poorly designed rubbish. The documentation doesn’t describe essential parameters. If only there were a practical way to distinguish the good from the bad before buying… try before you buy is my advice.

I had a terrible experience with one just last year. Had to replace it. Went back to an electric cooktop with simmerstats just last month. We’re much happier now. Can cook again without all the burning and boiling over.

I know an induction cooktop could be much better but the one we had couldn’t simmer anything: it could only intermittently overheat it. And occasionally it would switch to either full power (very dangerous - it was very powerful) or no power (absolutely ruins a steak when you’re trying to sear it). Technicians came multiple times and concluded ‘there’s nothing wrong’. Fortunately, after almost two years, they agreed to an ‘upgrade’.

I expect commercial induction cooktops are much better than consumer grade but they’re too expensive.

I wouldn’t buy another that I hadn’t tried first. I know one place that has a showroom with everything powered. Not that they would let me actually try cooking anything, but at least one can put a pot of water on and try out the controls.

Thanks. I see that is in the linked article. My mistake was to read the article linked in the first paragraph: with the link text ‘restricted the approval’, thinking that was the details of the restriction.

According to the linked in the article, the restriction is a requirement to revise the warnings

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it has expanded existing warnings on the two leading COVID-19 vaccines about a rare heart side effect mainly seen in young men.

In April, the FDA sent letters to both drugmakers asking them to update and expand the warnings to add more detail about the problem and to cover a larger group of patients.

I don’t see any indication that the vaccines are not approved other than that the accompanying documentation must be changed. The companies have now had several months to make the required changes.

The linked article suggests that the conduct of the FDA and resulting requirement to change the documentation was inappropriate. But there is no restriction other than the requirement to update the documentation. Or am I missing something in the article?

The headline says she won but the article says:

The bombshell allegation raises a serious question: Did Kamala Harris actually win the 2024 election?

Could Kamala Harris have actually won the election?

Compared with the body of the article, the headline is overstated. There are allegations of suspicious results and a court case going ahead to investigate, but that case is not yet decided.

“Kamala Harris may have won.”

Really? You haven’t read about the tarrifs yet?

Proper procedure is to send anyone with a tattoo to El Salvador, if I understand correctly. “In a heartbeat”, I think was the essence of due process. It was looked into by Trump and his team and they went ahead with it, so it must be legal. Anyone who doesn’t want to be oppressed in the US can just get a tattoo. It seems to work.

Maybe other countries should have “reciprocal” detention and deportation of U.S. citizens, until Trump comes begging for a mutual travel agreement.