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The Tuscan retweeted
Our public schools have failed our children. While our taxes have increased, the woke mind virus has shifted from learning the basics;
reading, writing and arithmetic- to furries and flags.
Get involved in your local PTA and school board system! Do it for the children!
Do it for the future of our country.
The Tuscan retweeted
When people hear the word Tokyo, they picture neon billboards, thirty-seven million people, and the busiest train stations on Earth.
Yet this island in the middle of the Philippine Sea is officially part of Tokyo. Every car on the island wears a Tokyo license plate.
This is Aogashima, an active double-caldera volcano rising 1,380 feet straight out of the deep blue ocean, two hundred and twenty miles south of the capital. Inside a massive outer ring of jagged volcanic cliffs sits a second, smaller green cone called Maruyama.
Only about 160 people live inside the crater, making it the smallest municipality in Japan. There is one general store, one post office, and zero traffic lights. The only way in is a twenty-minute ride on a nine-seat commuter helicopter or a small ferry that can only dock when the ocean waves allow it.
Living inside an active volcano comes with a perk. Around the inner crater, natural geothermal steam vents called Hingya hiss out of the earth.
Locals do not need gas stoves to cook lunch at the park. They place sweet potatoes, eggs, and fresh fish inside wooden boxes built directly over the volcanic vents and steam them for free. They even use the volcanic heat to evaporate ocean water into prized mineral salt.
At night, with zero city lights for two hundred miles, the sky above the crater turns into a solid ceiling of stars.
🤖 Made with AI
The Tuscan retweeted
“Microsoft Offers Exit Packages to 60,000
Employees Amid AI Push”
Wow!
60,000 Microsoft—gone as AI “replaces” them.
This is the end of work as we know it.
Diversity is just the figleaf, the real agenda is wealth transfer between incompatible groups via the force of government. Because the state maximises its power via divide and rule.
Why is it that no one says India is not diverse enough? or China? Or Singapore? Or Mali? Or Mexico etc?
But Ireland, America, France, Italy, Canada & so on, all these majority white countries have to be diverse or there is something fundamentally wrong with them?
So diversity is only needed if a society if majority white?
The Tuscan retweeted
An oldie but a goodie. In 1968 a bunch of entitled hippy bastards sent a letter detailing their specious demands to the Warden and Fellows of Wadham College, Oxford. This was their letter of reply, which speaks to how far the academy has since fallen.
Interesting dishwasher news
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.
