Even if you have tarnished silver things, like silver(-plated) cutlery etc. the "un-tarnishing" is stupid easy and cheap to do:
- take some container and put warm/hot water and a large helping of (table) salt into it
- put some scrunched up Al foil into the water
- submerge the objects to be untarnished in the water so that the silver touches the Al foil
- leave for a while in a well ventilated area (since it will smell of rotten eggs)
- rinse well
- done.
recipe from a kid's chemistry set I had a looooong while ago, used it successfully quite a few times on my parents' silver-plated cutlery they've had and used regularly since their wedding decades ago.
As someone who had cataracts and even after the corrective operations still has the significant sensitivity to glare, dark mode is not just a nice-to-have, but an absolute necessity for me.
I.e. it's an accessibility issue to some people, so don't laugh it off as "just a preference" or try to beat down any disagreeing voices with studies on only healthy eyes.
> Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get it in the air
I bet they do and the FAA should rightly tell them to fuck off if they're not willing to go through the formal procedure to get their proven-dangerous planes back into commercial aviation.
Germans have a ultra-wealthy upper class which own everything and skew net wealth figures massively. The bottom 50% of German residents by net wealth have nearly nothing compared to those in a similar situation in neighboring EU countries.
Same thing in the German supermarket I'm working at. Sending "feedback"(?) about the deliveries (e.g. about missing/broken/etc. wares) back to the chain's warehouses/depots is also done by fax through one of those huge multifunction scanner/printer office machines.
It's a hassle and can take minutes to get the "sent" confirmation coming out of the printer chute. Although I don't know what the other end of the fax call looks like; a virtual inbox or a real fax machine sitting in some office spitting out these forms from >100 stores, though I suspect it's the former because of the potential volume of fax messages.
I wonder if the other end is a person who'd rather have stacks of physical objects as their task list: read what the issue is, write down how to fix it, hand it over to someone who'll run and fix the problem, and give the replacement object and the paper to a delivery driver, job done.
They could digitize it, but this person would just be staring at the screen the whole day, and then has to click print and people have to wait, etc. Maybe they could amazonize it and have e-ink QR codes and scanners and robots that scan a code and fetch the next job over WiFi or 5G, but, hey, the whole idea's been discussed in the C-level for 5 years now! Especially if there's hundreds of such depots.
Although obviously the input side, at your supermarket, could be digitalized, and they could outsource a software that basically prints everything, replacing this person's fax machine, but hey, that idea's going to take 3 years to materialize, and they'll have to put such a computer with the software on each supermarket and it's been there since 2002, so...
You lose your hair thinking about inefficiencies...
> I wonder if the other end is a person who'd rather have stacks of physical objects as their task list: read what the issue is, write down how to fix it, hand it over to someone who'll run and fix the problem, and give the replacement object and the paper to a delivery driver, job done.
Happens, yes. Part of my job is digitizing analog processes, mainly for technicians in the field. And often you have the problem that the back-office really wants to get back the information what they need to reorder, what they cause bill the customer and so on, as fast as possible. But technicians don't want to bother with having to type into their smartphones or tablets while they are in the field. They just want to jot it down onto a paper, load the whole stack of at the end of the week and let the back-office do the rest.
One of the many sources of 'friction' if you make something digital that was done on paper before that, not made easier by the fact that the offices now want the information even faster, cause "you have the machine with you. You should do it the moment you've done the work."
True. But the way The System works isn't WS v WS, it's WS v Everyone Else. WS doesn't want to waste time and energy hurting themselves. They know better. They behave more like starlings. No conspiracy per se, just mutual interests that align strategy, tactics, direction, etc.
> – unusable profiles – in Chrome different profiles have different history and extensions, so for security purposes they are above Firefox's containers; I actually don't get the point of Containers at all, being useful only for logging into multiple AWS accounts, otherwise they have no privacy or security benefits;
FF has those kinds of profiles too, if you want to you can start it once using the ProfileManager from the command line, (un-)check the box asking if you want to always default to the last profile used or instead always start FF in the ProfileManager UI from now on, so you can choose on each startup.
These profiles are completely separated as well, have their own histories, bookmarks, cookie jars, extensions etc.
FF's Containers on the other hand are a less heavy-handed approach, by staying in the same profile, having the same bookmarks, extensions and history but fully separating the cookie jars, enabling you to have (just as an example) Facebook in its own little world, everything else outside that container and/or in their own specific containers, unable to cross-contaminate (to track you) with third-party cookies and the like.
Basically, profiles and containers are entirely different levels of sandboxing.
This is precisely what I'm ranting about. At this point, the Facebook container is privacy theatre.
You don't need a Facebook container, at least since “Total Cookie Protection”. Which itself it's just a better way to “disable 3rd party cookies”, that doesn't break websites, although Firefox's isolation goes beyond just cookies.
And Firefox isn't the only one that does it, although it may be the best. But Safari, Brave Browser and even Chrome have deployed similar protections. See for instance: https://brave.com/privacy-updates/7-ephemeral-storage/
The problem with this kind of mass-layoffs to maximize earnings is that it's a very short-term gain prioritized over long-term growth, a symptom of the cancer that is the mentality "shareholders expect infinite growth forever".
>it's a very short-term gain prioritized over long-term growth, a symptom of the cancer that is the mentality "shareholders expect infinite growth forever".
But "shareholders expect infinite growth forever" directly contradicts "short-term gain prioritized over long-term growth"? Even if they prioritized long term growth that would still be "shareholders expect infinite growth forever".
> But "shareholders expect infinite growth forever" directly contradicts "short-term gain prioritized over long-term growth"?
But it doesn't?
Shareholders expect companies to make whatever decisions are necessary to maximize short term profits, expect those profits to be infinite, and expect this to happen every quarter, every year, in perpetuity.
The part that's contradictory and that you omitted was "short-term gain prioritized over long-term growth". While it's theoretically possible for the two to coexist, the way it's presented is as one-or-the-other proposition, which is where the contradiction comes from. If it wasn't one-or-the-other, people wouldn't getting mad over it.
It makes more sense as "shareholders, over the long term, always want high short term growth". It's possible to be focused on short term growth in perpetuity. It's not rational for investors to make demands that harm their own long term goals, but you could argue they do sometimes, at least in aggregate.
- take some container and put warm/hot water and a large helping of (table) salt into it
- put some scrunched up Al foil into the water
- submerge the objects to be untarnished in the water so that the silver touches the Al foil
- leave for a while in a well ventilated area (since it will smell of rotten eggs)
- rinse well
- done.
recipe from a kid's chemistry set I had a looooong while ago, used it successfully quite a few times on my parents' silver-plated cutlery they've had and used regularly since their wedding decades ago.