Dishwasher Manufacturers: If you rinse off your dishes in the sink before loading them into the dishwasher, they come out less clean! This always gets me in trouble. I of course don’t rinse first, because it is a Dishwasher. Right? Rinsing plates before loading the dishwasher feels diligent. Appliance makers say it is the very reason your dishes come out dirty. Engineers at brands like Bosch and Whirlpool, alongside detergent makers like Cascade, have spent years advising consumers to stop pre-rinsing. Contemporary dishwashers rely on internal turbidity sensors—optical eyes that gauge water clarity during the early wash cycle. When pre-rinsed plates yield clean water, the machine misinterprets the load as lightly soiled, shortening cycle time and reducing water temperature. Furthermore, the enzymes in modern powdered and gel detergents require food starches and proteins to latch onto; without debris to activate them, the surfactants simply wash down the drain, occasionally leaving alkaline film etched into glassware. Oh there is more… Cookware care harbors equally stubborn folklore. For decades, home cooks warned that a single drop of liquid soap would ruin a cast-iron skillet's seasoning. Lodge, which has made cast-iron cookware in Tennessee since 1896, explicitly debunks this in its care manuals. The prohibition dates to the nineteenth century, when soaps were formulated with harsh lye (sodium hydroxide), a caustic alkali capable of stripping cured oil. Modern dish detergents contain mild surfactants that lift loose grease without breaking the polymerized oil cross-linked to the iron matrix. A gentle wash with liquid soap leaves true seasoning intact. A similar misconception surrounds kitchen waste disposers. Generations of homeowners were told that tossing eggshells or ice down the drain sharpens the disposal blades. InSinkErator, the inventor and largest maker of food waste disposers, notes that residential disposers do not contain blades at all. The central chamber houses blunt swiveling lugs on a spinning turntable. These lugs do not slice; centrifugal force hurls food against a stationary outer ring of shredder teeth to pulverize it into a slurry. Eggshells cannot sharpen a blunt lug, and their fibrous membrane often snags in plumbing traps. Even oven maintenance suffers from well-intended habits. Appliance makers including GE and Frigidaire warn against lining the floor of an electric or gas oven with aluminum foil. Modern ovens hide the heating element beneath an enamel floor. Foil traps and reflects radiant heat directly against the base, reaching temperatures high enough to melt the aluminum or permanently fuse it to the porcelain finish.

Apollo software pioneer Margaret Hamilton dies at 90. Margaret Hamilton, who led the software team at MIT's Instrumentation Laboratory, developed the onboard flight computers that guided NASA's Apollo missions, including the safe Apollo 11 landing in 1969. During that historic descent, her team's priority scheduling and error-recovery features silenced overload alarms and kept Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on course. In the picture, Margaret Hamilton stands next to the navigation software that she and her MIT team produced for the Apollo Project (1969).

Eva Marie Saint, 'North by Northwest' Star, Dies at 102 variety.com/2026/film/news/e…

This might be the most accurate study I’ve seen all year 🤣

My wife grew up on the metric system, and she says the mile is the most ridiculous unit ever invented. For years, she had me. But history claps back.... The word comes from Latin, mille passus, a thousand paces. A Roman pace was two steps, counted each time the same foot hit the ground. A thousand of those made a mile. Along the Appian Way, built in 312 BC, stone markers stood at every thousand paces, counted outward from a gate in Rome's old wall. A traveler read the distance off the road itself. The strange number came much later. In 1593, Parliament under Elizabeth I set the mile at 5,280 feet so it would divide evenly into furlongs, the length of an English farmer's furrow. So the odd number is a Roman soldier's stride, adjusted to fit an English field. I love that. Every time you say "mile," you are still counting the steps of a legionary marching south out of Rome..... ...on the Appian Way that you can still walk today, counting the old mile markers as you go The poet Statius called that road the queen of long roads.

TEMU HARRY POTTER SAYS “AI WILL END ALL HUMAN LIFE IN 10 YEARS!. So here is the low down. The TLDR. Temu Harry Potter has been culled from central casting with Brit accent to scare up the 90% of the US to not just fear AI but to hate AI. His SIX WEEKS at Anthropic instilled such “fear” in him he was able to get ~60 media engagements (like below) and PROFESSIONAL PR REPRESENTATION just 24 hours after he had to quit. How amazing huh? Do you know how to get pro PR if you needed it in hours? Oh his experience and facts to be so certain in all of his two decades or so of life that AI will get us in 10 years? “Trust me Bro”. Yes thats it. But he looks like Harry Potter and you just want to believe him. See how this works? A big coincidence is major political actors coordinated to explode his fear theater claims. Just by coincidence to make sure it impact the US election cycle. Oh and he is directly tied to an anti-technolgy propaganda group that thinks they are oh so far more intelligent than you. They know, you don’t. Trust them, they are experts. See he has the right Oxford Pedigree and is directly connected with the Effective Altruist cult. He is not known to live in the group home collectives his cohort adores but is known to list them. So what we have here is a human injection into the most fear based AI company: Anthropic, run by the most fear based faux academic, Dario, who just so happens to have ingested Temu Harry Potter for SIX WEEKS and he gets to the top faux news circuits with the standard political figures like Bernie Sanders and his cohort amplifying him as the “expert” that was so in fear he had to quit his long term SIX WEEK job at the fear company. Got that?

Actual random reply from @grok. Its humor is exquisite. At least, I hope it’s humor 😜

Croatian freediver Vitomir Maričić achieved one of the most extraordinary feats in human history by holding his breath underwater for 29 minutes and 3 seconds, a new Guinness World Record. Experts had long considered such a duration impossible. While a trained dolphin can typically hold its breath for 8–10 minutes and most humans can barely manage one or two, Maričić remained completely still underwater for nearly half an hour on a single breath. The attempt pushed his body to extreme limits. As the minutes passed, powerful contractions wracked his diaphragm and his organs endured intense physiological stress. Yet through years of rigorous training, mental discipline, and specialized breathing techniques, he stayed calm and focused until the end. What makes this record even more impressive is Maričić’s purpose. He didn’t do it for fame or personal glory, he used the achievement as a powerful platform to raise global awareness about ocean conservation, marine protection, and the urgent threats facing our oceans. A stunning demonstration of human potential and a heartfelt call to protect the planet’s most vital ecosystem.

WHAT I HAVE BEEN WARNING FOR DECADES IS HERE, THANK YOU FOR YOUR BOOK BURNING TOO ANTHROOIC. “Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email” We are the amnesia generation and this is The Great Forgetting.

Frog Gut Bacteria Achieves 100% Tumor Regression in Colorectal Cancer Models Source: Japanese researchers (JAIST) via Good News Network and peer-reviewed in Gut Microbes, Ewingella americana bacteria from Japanese tree frog guts, administered in a single IV dose, wiped out colorectal cancer tumors in mouse models with 100% success. It triggering direct cell killing and immune activation with no side effects. This natural microbial approach could revolutionize targeted cancer therapies is a low-toxicity alternative to other modalities. goodnewsnetwork.org/japanese…