As others mention already, the problem is the plastic, not the microwave, even the article ends with "Go with glass". There have to be many alternatives but I happened upon cookanyday and never looked back. I almost never used the microwave oven before but these make it not only convenient, I actually like the results. Well, most times. Like many products (pressure cooker, air fryer) they want you to just do _everything_ in your new toy, but everything has its sweet spot. I use all at least once every week.

Startling number of people who either don't know how to or reject on principle actually cooking food (as opposed to merely reheating it) in their microwave, too.

And a few classist remarks and at least one usage of "white trash".

> cooking food in their microwave

There's only one recipe I semi-regularly use that I'd count as cooking in the microwave. The main reason being that the "classic" way of cooking it takes a whole day, where it only takes 20 minutes in the microwave.

I've legitimately never even considered there might be recipes that center around the microwave! Now that I know they exist I will definitely need to try one. Any recommendations?

Not full recipes, but this is pretty informative start to the topic: https://youtu.be/dJrdXRZ3PUE?si=Bpt15EXgF9kdETSo

Or pushing keys with a stylus, a pencil with the eraser side, or some other object that won't leave a thermal print?

I don't know whether it's a better suggestion, but telenovelas (and there are plenty of those) will likely help one learn Spanish better, or better Spanish, while using more realistic intonations and voices, than El Chavo del Ocho with its adult actors making child-like voices and using many expressions you won't find in real-life conversations.

Picasso was from Spain, so is it then the most famous from? or in? a Country

Picasso was from Málaga in the south of Spain and that is where he shows up on the map for me. Commenter perhaps mistook Spain for France.

From what I can see it's most famous IN that area, not "from". Looking in Australia I see a lot of not-australians.

Personally I don't care they're just copying a rival. I do not have/use Tiktok and do easily spend a good chunk of time looking at the "reels" in IG. Even if most of these turn out to be direct lifts out of Tiktok, I'm not about to "switch" or even open an account over there, I already have the content over here. I assume that's part of the strategy to not hemorrhage users, in my case it works.

Including a famous misquote

Which became the title of a play and a film by Woody Allen:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_It_Again,_Sam_(film)

Which is that?

"Play it again, Sam".

Similar sentences are said in the movie, but not that one -- which everybody "remembers"!

Actual quotes from the movie that sound similar:

"Play it, Sam."

and

"Play it once, Sam. For old times' sake."

Small scale. Where I grew up a billion had 12 zeroes, nowadays it has 9. It's a thousand millions, not a million millions.

As soon as I read "financial securities fraud identified in SEC filings…" immediately brought to mind an article in Bloomberg [1]:

"Securities fraud is a universal regulatory regime; anything bad that is done by or happens to a public company is also securities fraud, and it is often easier to punish the bad thing as securities fraud than it is to regulate it directly."

this right after:

"And so contributing to global warming is securities fraud, and sexual harassment by executives is securities fraud, and customer data breaches are securities fraud, and mistreating killer whales is securities fraud, and whatever else…"

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-26/everyt...

The point of TFA likely still stands, but I wonder to what extent the points from Levine's Bloomberg article colors, or skews the data.

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Same with money laundering.

If you do anything illegal, and there was any kind of economic transaction involved, you almost certainly committed money laundering.

Don't forget Mail Fraud.

If anything illegal happened, and the USPS was involved in any way... you're on the hook for federal mail fraud charges.

Memepool was my favorite source for interesting or fun links to follow. For "more intelligent" links (related to Web dev. IA, programming, etc) I frequented Tomalak's Realm. I see several mentions of Slashdot, Kuro5hin was a descendant from it that also got traction. Edit to add K10K which was design inspiration.

I have done this a few times, and got inconsistent results. Distance to mirror, or camera to face, positioning of the ruler, they all seem to induce variability. Once I got a reproducible result and went with that, ordered progressive glasses online and they were… off. On another occasion I got PD (and prescription) numbers from optometrist at Visionworks, then took numbers and ordered from Zenni, and they were… off again. Also this PD number again different from the one I had measured myself. But when ordering directly at the store they were perfect. I even wondered whether they actually gave me the wrong PD number, to "teach" me a lesson not to go order elsewhere. Sigh.

Progressive lenses need much more accuracy to be fitted correctly. This means a mono-PD (separate PD for each eye, not just the distance PD halved) and also a height, usually from "datum" measured for each eye too. This measurement would be different depending on the frame and how it sits/adjusted to your face.

This means the frame must be chosen and fitted to you before any of these are measured.

It becomes a 2D measurement.

There is a lot more to it (vertex distance, pantoscopic tilt etc) but the above is the absolute minimum.