Top load washing machine VS Front Load washing machine, which is right for you? Well you’ve come to the right place, I’ll try to keep this brief. From my perspective, I prefer the top loader, they are much easier to repair and often require less repairs over their lifespan. A well-loved top loader will also last many years longer than a pampered front load washer. The top loader is also a cleaning machine, agitators have largely been phased out but even modern top load designs without the agitator still clean MUCH better than any front load washer provided you are loading them correctly. Cycle times on top loading machines are shorter as well, for faster turnaround on your laundry. So why do front load machines dominate the modern market? Two reasons. Stacked Washer/Dryers for smaller homes, and water efficiency. A front loading washer allows you to get a full sized washing machine with a full sized dryer in a package that fits inside of a small closet. Front load washers require less water to fill, which keeps operating costs lower, however they have longer cycle times and consequently consume more electricity per load. To summarize, if you want a machine that cleans well, has a long service life, and you have the space for it, you want the top loading washer.

Other things like capacity, or follow up shots, I never considered all that valid considering the difference in terminal ballistics between 5.56 and 12 gauge. I use the analogy “I’d rather have 8 $5 bills than 30 $1 bills”.

Ground UP is the correct answer, full stop. The reason these outlets are normally installed upside down (Ground DOWN) is because it looks like a face. Ground UP protects the live prongs from falling objects, like thin metal sheets, metal yardsticks, metal outlet covers, etc.

You can’t have both, it creates paradoxes. Starship 1 sees a star go super nova, radios over to starship 2 to warn them. Starship 2 receives the radio transmission before starship 1 even sends it. Since starship 1 never sent it, there is no radio communication to receive.

I wonder if Japanese twitter would appreciate this photo of Mt. Fuji I took many years ago

If even a single bitcoin moves from the Satoshi Nakamoto wallet, bitcoin will instantly see the bloodiest drop in value any asset in modern history has ever seen.

2024 was a red year, 2025 was a yellow year, 2026 is a blue year. I will not be elaborating.

Fall Out Boy 🎶 Song of the Day is… Parker Lewis Can’t Lose (But I’m Gonna Give It My Best Shot) open.spotify.com/track/4mH8N…

“Helmsman, Bridge. Dive dive dive” “Sir this is a Frigate” “I said DIVE” “AYE SIR”

Ahhhh good ol’ Rinnai. The only positive thing I have to say about them is they are WAAY too confident with their product warranty. If you make junk but send me the parts for free basically every time? I’m good with it, I guess. Leaky Heat Exchanger, $700 wholesale $0 actual.

Friendly reminder modern elevators are insanely redundant and a snapped cable will simply lock the elevator in place instantly. The last dude who signed the inspection report is the only person who dies in the case of a snapped cable.

What it should look like (left) vs what it does look like… For jobs like this, I don’t bill the customer. Took me a whole three minutes to diagnose and that service fee can be put towards the new washing machine they’ll need to buy. A six year old GE, if you’re wondering.

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You think we're *scared*? We who have lived under threat of nuclear hellfire from our own species for over half a century? No, my friend, we are excited to have someone worthy of our destructive genius.

Dieting in 2025: Count micronutrients, macros, sync five apps, strap on a smartwatch, track sleep, read three guru books, lose 10lbs.. Dieting in 1925: Six eggs, six slices of bacon, six cups of black coffee a day for six weeks. Result? 40 pounds gone—and you’re ready to wrestle a bear!

If it cannot be emulsified in hot soapy water, please DON’T put it in the dishwasher. Or do whatever you want. I get paid to fix it after all. Cherry pits in the drain pump.. why would you put cherry pits in your dishwasher? It’s not my job to ask.

Time to bring out my 1 Hamper Method of laundry sorting again. Your washing machine is the dirty hamper, your dryer is the clean hamper, and you have a single laundry hamper for overflow. Here’s how it works. Dirty clothes go into the washing machine straight away. When the washer has a full load, you run it and then dry the clothes. Your dryer is your clean laundry basket. You live out of the dryer, until the washer is ready to run again. By that time, the only things left in the dryer will be the clothes you do not frequently wear. The left-over clothes go into your laundry hamper for sorting and folding. This will likely be a nice shirt and pants you wore out for a date one time, or whatever. It won’t be much and it won’t be your day-to-day wears. Rinse and repeat until you find a wife. Stay frosty, boys.

Induction solves this problem much better than gas but nobody wants to hear that

Folks with side by side washing machines and dryers, a piece of advice. Don’t put those two appliances any closer than 4-6” apart. Definitely don’t press them together side by side. The washer can and will bang the dryer’s drum out of shape and it will be rather expensive.

You might wanna Google who Jose Calvo Sotelo is. This is his eulogy. It seems rather fitting. “We do not offer to pray to God for you; we ask rather that you pray for us. Before that flag laid upon your breast as though a cross, before God who hears us and sees us, we bind ourselves with a solemn oath to consecrate our lives to a threefold task: to imitate your example, to avenge your death, and to save Spain—for these are one and the same; for to save Spain will be to avenge your death, and to imitate your example will be the surest way to save Spain.”