Blame the people who switch primary streaming services based on which one still has The Office. I personally rarely rewatch shows but it seems like a big deal to some.

In this case they mean commercial as in commercially produced / mass manufactured. Some hobbyists assemble their own, though usually from mass manufactured kits. Shortening the phrase to just commercial does get confusing, without the very obvious context.

With the relative decline in smoking it's easier to tell that this is just how the polymers degrade in these plastics (especially in UV/sun light). It just takes longer without the chemical deposits from the smoke. This is also why you couldn't just wash the stains away.

I really hate that it tries to play anything. I just want it to take me to the landing page for that series/episode. But which episode is selected comes from the data feed that each streaming service provides for indexing. Netflix defaults to the first episode of the most recent season, I believe, even if you've never watched any of it.

Have you ever looked at pricing on a Macbook? Certainly every company has laptops with comparable specs to Apple laptops and the prices aren't that far off. It's just that with Apple you are sort of forced to pay premium prices regardless of your needs. $900 for a 13 inch is still way more than a $600 15.6" laptop from another brand that is at least minimally functional.

Roku does fairly well at this too. You can search in the app and it will show the list of free/paid options and one tap will launch it on the box.

That's great when I know what I want to watch. When I don't know, Netflix's old recommendations engine was excellent. I had rated something like 600 movies and TV shows on the web site during the DVD days and they carried that information over so the algorithm recommendations were spot on. Now, they just want to push their own self-produced stuff. They don't even show a percentage match for how well they'll think I like it. Back when it did, I would find recommendations rated at 98% and I would actually like those shows/movies a lot.

I would think if the grading system gives less As to the students that don't qualify for free/reduced lunch, then it wouldn't exactly be making anything easier on them.

Though not being eligible for free/reduced lunch is a pretty low bar for wealth. Rich students can certainly pad grades by hiring out their homework, while poorer kids who also don't have time for homework just don't get good grades on it.

The reason why is pretty obvious, but I didn't get a grant to buy all the high speed cameras. I just have a kitchen at home.

Why, do you think that metal can't be sanitized? It's not even porous, so it won't exactly harbor bacteria after a thorough surface cleaning. Unless you're talking about the health of the blade itself.

If I'm cutting vegetables to cook with the meat I won't even wash it thoroughly in between. There's no point.

I'd argue that Dish Wireless is the fourth but I don't know if they've built a single tower yet.

Everyone is tribalistic. It's just that some people's tribes include more of the world than orders.

It says the gravity was stronger. Hard to shrink something down and then expect the same amount of mass to have less gravity.

We aren't a nation of red and blue states. A city is blue because maybe 51% vote blue. The wealthiest vote red. A small town is red because maybe 55% vote red. The poorest vote red. In many relatively small areas, we are split close to 50/50 - but because of how voting and legislation works, 51% has the power of 100%.

Tuition was lower when the government directly subsidized it. When they subsidize loans instead, it changes the whole equation.

This is their "cash" reserve. When they bring in CPU profits, they can't reinvest it back into CPUs without building an additional multi-billion dollar fabrication facility. They need to stick the money somewhere to earn "interest" and adding products within their vertical might save them some money for a while too. When they struggle, they can axe these businesses without touching or hurting the CPU business.