Some front-loaders have the door offset higher than the axis of the drum. So the water level in the drum is never higher than the bottom of the front door (except during the "clean" cycle.) So in theory you can add washing after the machine has filled with water, though I haven't tried it. Yes, the water level sensor could go bad, but a top-loader has the same failure mode. Front loaders tend to use less water (I live on the driest inhabited continent) and for small houses also have the advantage that they don't need top access, so they can be installed under a bench and the benchtop is still usable space, e.g for sorting the washing.

I prefer Slashdot too. Moderation points are capped, which seems to reduce the karma-whoring. I wish Slashdot would bring back true anonymous posting though.

Reddit has forums, whereas Slashdot is "just" a news aggregator. This means that Slashdot has a regular turnover of threads, and old ones are locked. Depending on what you want, this may be better or worse. Different jobs, different tools.

I rarely look at Reddit either. It's too tiresome to edit the URL every time to get the "old" format.

I noticed that in many European cities the small comercial vehicles tended to be electric, but fewer private cars. This makes sense to me - a private car is typically only driven to the office and back each day, whereas a tradesman's van or a delivery vehicle is on the road 8+h per day. So the savings on "fuel" would be better for the commercial vehicle. Of course this is just based on my observation - I have no idea what the tax incentives etc are. In the longer term, hopefully it means more EVs for everyone as the commercial vehicles get traded in after a couple of years, then come onto the used-vehicle market.

Isn't this what Reddit did?

I guess so. I'm not really sure what "old water" is, or why it's bad. But in the case of the kettle, it's plain water, in an opaque vessel. It's not going to go mouldy, or suddenly sprout e. coli in the couple of hours between morning drink and afternoon drink. And gets boiled before use anyway.

One could just top it up from the tap after each use.

Funny that you specify LG here. I have an LG washing machine. Not an internet-connected one. It plays a tune when it's "done," but get this, it isn't fucking done! For some inexplicable reason, the machine's door stays locked for 3 minutes after it plays the tune. Why the hell would a washing machine play a tune to tell me my "laundry is not quite finished"?

This tells me two things:
1. LG engineers don't use their own products. Possibly they are kids who still live at home and their parents do their laundry.
2. If they can't get a simple feature right like "telling the user the machine is finished" then no way would I let any of their hardware anywhere near the internet.

Don't carry a cell phone, and wear a mask. Masks are more common since covid.

And forums. A good forum is still the best way to share subject-specific information. Whether it's retro computers, literature, cars.... if there's a lively forum of other interested people, not only is there a better atmosphere than Facebook, there's also more useful information and it's easier to search.

In Snow Crash it seemed like the crime families were in competition with the government. Here in 2025, it seems more like a cartel between the government and the big corporations. Turns out it's more efficient to fund a ballroom or buy some bogus crypto than it is to openly compete.

1.5) Trump takes to social media, claiming that he discovered that E=MC^2, invented nuclear weapons and taught the scientists how to build them.

2.5) Trump takes to social media and blames Biden, Obama and crooked Hilary for sabotaging the nuke.

On that you are probably dead right.

Email. Snail mail even, receiving a postcard in the mail is fun.

Obligatory Simpsons reference: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...
From Season 4, Episode 21: Marge in Chains. 18sec.

Driving a taxi was a job before Uber came along. Driving a taxi was job before cars were invented. There were even "gig" type taxi drivers (i.e, they drove taxis occasionally to supplement their other job or family commitments) The only innovation Uber made was outsourcing the cost of the vehicles to the workers.

Or, those three people meet up and set a minimum floor price for their product, to ensure that all three make massive profits. Then they get on with manipulating markets, politicians and laws to entrench their dominance, ensure that newcomers can't compete, that their product is a required part of other businesses, that future regulations will benefit their business etc etc.