The US is currently run by the world’s most notorious pedophile whose actions directly made beef more expensive to the point that the Hamburger Helper brand is now basically becoming the Hot Dog Helper brand

Add some gochujang? Add some hot sauce? Canned tuna can be very good if you know what to do.

NASA flies U-2 spy planes over wildfires. They might be able to do the same thing with the SR-71. I really don’t know, that’s my best guess for a realistic use case.

There could be some legitimate uses (NASA operates U-2 spy planes over wildfires to this day) but it would not surprise me at all if it is for some dumb reason.

It is always funny to head up to a trailhead and see a bunch of expensive 4x4 trucks… and a stock Toyota Prius

Tavern style is insane. Pizza cracker, and not in a good way.

Its worse than that, look into the owners of Bellevue Square in Bellevue, WA. They basically forced light rail development to not land in the actual main downtown area and the family has a history of racism.

Its kind of fucking nuts how so many things lead back to racism when you look at US history

I said like a smart plug. You could easily add those features to something relatively dumb like a smart plug instead of having some insane data collection computer in your fridge

There’s ones that use evaporative cooling, meaning they draw water off of a river/lake/creek (or domestic water supply) and cool through putting that water into the air. Lots of power plants do this exact thing, especially nuclear power plants.

There’s ones that use closed cycle cooling, like a bigass water cooled PC. The water generally stays inside. It periodically needs to be cycled.

There’s also measures out there that account for all of the water needed to produce all of the components. The water used for that is one time usage.

Are these things “using up” water? Sure, some of them are in the sense they are accelerating evaporation. Some are using very little water.

Wait until these guys find out about New Jersey

My fridge is old enough it can purchase alcohol in the US (21+ years old). It has an ice maker and water dispenser, both inside (nothing in the door, fewer things to break). The only tech I would want it to have is something like what you could get with an IoT smart plug - basic metrics like temperature, power draw, door open time, etc.

AFAIK the same model I have is still available in some form, and is still available without any wireless connection capabilities. I’ll probably buy it again.