I’m thinking about things where the brand name has become “the name” of the thing. Kleenex & Google come to mind. Here in the SE corner of the USA, we say “Coke” instead of soda or pop.

Apparently, there’s a name for this. “Generic Trademark”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark

Also, I really like Hershey’s. Family grew up not far from their site, was always the chocolate we had as kids. So I like your bizarro universe. :D

$500/mo. Single person, SE USA. I eat 2 meals per day and a snack. Cook all of it except for one treat meal per week.

I should add, that price might be a tad high, as my grocery bill includes things for the household like laundry detergent.

Georgia has no inspections. If you live in the greater metro Atlanta area there is an annual emissions test to make sure you’re not making too much smog, but they don’t check the rest of the vehicle.

As far as I know, only Pennsylvania & New York have annual vehicle inspections. Hang on a sec. Okay, Wikipedia says 14 states have annual inspections. More than I thought. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_inspection_in_the_United_States

Just upvoting because it’s a good question. I often find myself wondering just how much “X” can I consume before I should reign it in for the betterment of the planet. I’d like to be able to say I left earth better than I found it. Mainly thinking about things like gasoline, but food should certainly be on that list as well. Consuming zero of everything isn’t a solution, but figuring out how much is okay - yeah, that’s tough.

I was thinking the same, so did a search here. At my local dealer, the cheapest is still $55K. But there’s a dealer within an hour who has them for $30-$35K. So, maybe the message hasn’t gotten out yet? Seems to be some truth to it.

About 6-7 years ago. I had a friend who still had some files on a 5-1/4 floppy. I kept an old Win95 PC specifically with a bunch of old drive types and a DVD burner, so I could rescue old files & move them to DVD. Sadly, that PC stopped booting about 2 years ago. I did consider trying to resurrect it, but neither of my current PCs even have a built-in DVD drive, so I think it’s safe to say that moving files to DVD isn’t moving the files forward enough anymore.

I think you already have your answer, but let me elaborate a bit.

The places in the middle where the filament is missing - those places are either dirty or too high.

The area in the back where the filament is sticking, but isn’t filling the area correctly, those areas are too low.

Most likely cause for both is the build plate on an Ender just isn’t perfectly flat. You can try to adjust it to get it closer to being level. But I’ve always found I’ll have sections that just aren’t right. And so, I just don’t print on those sections. Find the areas that do print well, and locate your prints there.

Last note - try putting down a layer of painter’s tape. I find that helps tremendously with both of the points you’re fighting.

My co-worker & I have the exact same lunchbag, except the label has a different gibberish name on it. Yup, both from Amazon.

I assume this is the same reason mouthwash is mostly alcohol.

USA, Southeast. In general, you have 1 trashcan for trash and 1 recycling bin for everything that could potentially be recycled. Sometimes it’s just one can for ‘combined recycling’ though. And if you’re in an apartment, it’s usually all just one big dumpster. A service comes around once a week to collect those.

If recycling is being done, the load gets dumped through an automatic waste separator (a building sized conveyor belt with machines that separate items by density). They find all the metal & recycle that. Particularly nice services will also grab the cardboard/paper. But none of them can really separate the different types of plastic from each other, so all of that goes to the landfill.

Interesting to me, the most poor/rural areas appear to be the best at recycling, as for them you must bring your trash to a transfer station yourself. And those stations have voluntary bins for each of the recycling waste streams. So if you care enough to separate your plastic into the different types (we number them 1 - 7), there’s a bin for that.

Same, I wonder if it’s available in the USA.

late edit In fact it is. https://www.birdshades.com/product/

Really disappointed to see both my senators (GA) on here. Thank you for putting the link in your post, I’ll write them both now.

Okay, bear with me for just a second. There’s a cartoon called “Hazbin Hotel”, which it told from the point of view of Satan (Lucifer’s) daughter. In her version of their origin story, Lucifer gave humanity free will. But because humans are, well, all over the place, this allowed for evil to exist. Which lead to the creation of hell as a place to put these evil souls.

As Lucifer’s punishment, he was sent to rule over hell, so that the only outcome he would ever see for giving humans free will was humans turning evil. Over & over again for all eternity.

Yes it’s a cartoon. But I thought it was very elegant here.

“You know you’re old when they take your favorite item off the Taco Bell menu.”

RIP chillitos. You are missed.

I wouldn’t call model railroading my main hobby, as I only touch it once in a while. But that’s also what I do love about it. You leave it packed away in a closet for YEARS, then one rainy day you stumble across those boxes & decide to unpack them. And they still work like you remember as a kid. It’s like reconnecting with an old friend.

See if I can bribe enough local officials to pass an amendment making bike lanes mandatory on all new road construction projects. Sadly, even at the local level I don’t think $10,000 would be enough.

I stopped a long time ago. I just prefer interactive entertainment over passive. TV was easy to axe, cut the cable bill & never looked back. Movies went much later, too many shitty movies back to back, eventually stopped going, so stopped seeing previews, which in turn broke the cycle of wanting to see the next one.

I will say that not watching movies or TV makes it harder to interact with folks. There’s something of a shared culture we have through our entertainment, and not having that makes it harder to connect.

Oddly, I just started watching movies again this year. I’ve been getting better about getting on the elliptical, and I’m now at the point where my ‘runs’ take about 90 minutes. So been catching up on all the movies I considered watching over the last ~25 years. Turns out I didn’t miss much. lol.

So, I’m a novice Linux user and have been on Ubuntu for maybe 2 years now. And I’m just starting to hit the SNAPS wall - IE, just a bit too much of what I want doesn’t install through snaps. Is there a good progression for my “next distro after Ubuntu?”. Still need some training wheels, but ready to take the next step.

I carry like $2 in change in my right front pocket, and have for as long as I can remember. I cannot leave the house without it anymore - it feels like something is wrong. I also would struggle to tell you the last time I ever NEEDED physical change. It’s more of a novelty than anything at this point, but it’s part of my routine.

I realize OP probably doesn’t care, but I find the differences interesting. Not too long ago, I just happened to park my truck (with grandpa cap) right next to the identical SUV. From the outside, the two looked like twins - same paint color even. And yet, when you peer through the back window, it’s immediately obvious how much less cargo space the SUV has. Even if you took the back seats out, there’s all this plastic trim that devours what should be cargo space. You’d never fit a sheet of plywood back there. And I don’t see why. Airbags & cupholders I guess?

I haven’t been able to even look at new vehicle prices in a while, but back when I bought the truck, it was literally half the price of the SUV. That’s an awful lot to pay for 2 rear seats and less cargo space. And yet, SUVs are everywhere here in America. Go fig.

I guess what I’m saying is that if you want more cargo space for less money - yes, the extra step of buying a tonneau cover or camper shell is totally worth it. Or was, anyway.