Real question: why?
I had a similar thought, along the lines of https://xkcd.com/538/
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My house came with a button like that for the garbage disposal. Previous owner didn't like the idea of using an electrical switch with wet hands.
I believe this is required by code in some places, depending on the location of the switch. Mine is inset into the counter top, so plenty of opportunity for water to pool around it which I think would rule out an electrical switch.
ASD diagnoses have skyrocketed in the past few decades (years?) with no clear cause. I'm just old enough to remember a childhood without cell phones - we didn't have a computer in my house until middle school but we were lower income than most of my friends - and people are definitely inside more and outside less than they were when I was 8 or 9 years old.
It seems like a plausible theory.
I've always understood the increase in diagnoses to be more about increased awareness than about a change in human behavior.
E.g. it looks like autism wasn't defined as a spectrum in the DSM until either 1994 or 2000: https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/evolution-autism-diagnosis....
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Big box stores do not sell green wood. They sell kiln dried wood. The wood warps at the construction site if it is stacked without proper air flow around all sides. It takes years to dry wood without a kiln.
My local big orange store sells both, there's a green pile and a KD pile.
This article claims that ketchup, like oobleck, is a shear-thickening fluid. Wikipedia says the opposite, that ketchup is a shear-thinning fluid. Any experts want to chime in?
I have studied the properties of ketchup extensively at burger joints all over, and in my expert opinion Wikipedia has it correct here.
This is why ketchup barely flows when you invert the bottle, until you start banging on it and it gets moving and it all comes out at once (thinned by the shear stress of your banging and gravity)
I want something like this for accurate room presence detection in my house (for lights etc) that doesn't require dozens of PIR sensors or similar.
My dream is that the lights in my long hallway gradually dim up in front of me and back down behind me as I walk.
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> EU law requires that consent is the genuine free will of the user.
Thus instantly began a circus of bad faith by countless companies.
Maybe it's time to just plain outlaw everything for which "cookie consent" UI make a show of getting consent. Doing a cookie consent UI would also be illegal.
Like (many places) prostitution is illegal, and soliciting it is illegal.
What is the connection between cookies and prostitution?
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Love the iteration story, but like, what about pants? And thick winter coats? And stuff I don't want a weird potential fold line slightly to the left/right of centre?
Her example rack only contains the clothes that would be perfect for this. My rack and hangers accommodate all my needs with one simple cheap design.
I think pants would work, if you put them in legs first.
You might believe I'm completely wrong about all of this, and that's OK. That's how message boards work. But do you think "you haven't read the assault weapons ban and don't know how silly it is" is going to work as a rhetorical strategy here?
Or we can just accept that reasonable, informed people might disagree on these points, and there's no winning this.
Frankly it's something I've always wondered about, but as mostly a spectator of these kinds of discussions I've never seen anyone explain. Like a lot of folks, from my surface-level knowledge it seems arbitrary and likely meaningless. But so much so that it feels like I must be missing something.
Or any chance of a link to your previous cpmments on the topic?