https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/409175/meat-plant-based-blind-taste-test

There was one veggie winner, 60% favored it over meat: 

Impossible Foods' unbreaded chicken fillet performed best out of the 122 plant-based meat products, with 32 percent of participants rating it higher than a (real) unbreaded chicken fillet from Perdue Farms, while 28 percent rated them equally.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/better-refrigerators-washing-machines-furniture-and-tires-are-mandated-for/

lotsa luck

The Most Affordable Hybrid SUV With a Standard Third-Row of Seats
https://www.howtogeek.com/most-affordable-three-row-hybrid/

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04%2Fgoogle-loses-ad-tech-monopoly-trial-faces-additional-breakups%2F/

About 10-15 years ago, we noticed our ultra-techy SIL had the tendency to scan emails & texts, acknowledge them, but consistently failed to answer direct questions in the body of the content.  Otherwise, he was (overly) diligent when responding.  Twas puzzling for a bit, then we guessed he was receiving so many emails/texts due to his job that he had developed a habit of quickly scanning.

We fixed the issue by re-ordering our correspondences; Actionable items first (bulleted or numbered), then the body.  Worked!

Nowadays, a lot of contacts seem to have this tendency.

 

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/16/google-used-ai-to-suspend-over-39m-ad-accounts-committing-fraud/

https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1jzv939/first_3d_printed_drivethru_only_starbucks_in_the/

We're going to need a law limiting the number of Starbucks at every intersection.

aka 'Balcony Solar' -backfed plug-in solar is already legal and heavily installed in western EU countries (DE).

Unless quashed by lobbyists, this could be a big deal for the US.

CraftStrom's Smart Plug & Play Solar Kits Are Already NEC & UL Compliant - CleanTechnica

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/04/14/craftstroms-smart-plug-play-solar-kits-are-already-nec-ul-compliant/

These are the Top 10 most-cited research papers of all time
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01124-w?linkId=13991623

Exclusive: the most-cited papers of the twenty-first century
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01125-9?linkId=13991630

"America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing."

• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree


"I would be better off if I worked in a factory."

• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree



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https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1jyc17f/recently_taken_image_of_saudi_arabias_the_line/

https://engineerine.com/chinas-flying-taxis/

https://apnews.com/article/shipping-emissions-climate-change-98ff23ca4739d8b4fc5a8f941a7ca0c4

....the United States notably absent

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/xs-dominance-over-bluesky-becomes-new-hub-research

https://electrek.co/2025/04/07/world-surges-past-40-percent-clean-power-in-record-renewable-boom/

TLDR; More than half of the increase in solar generation in 2024 was in China

https://qz.com/blackrock-larry-fink-recession-trump-tariffs-1851775108

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/5/texas-measles-outbreak-continuing-grow-59-new-cases-confirmed-three/

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/07/chrome_135_history_sniffing/

https://boingboing.net/2025/04/07/profile-of-bluesky-and-ceo-jay-graber.html

Same founder, same venture capital backing, same need for rapid growth, same cash fire. In that respect it's also a map of other problems with Twitter that aren't addressed by decentralization.

https://lifehacker.com/disable-acr-to-stop-your-smart-tv-from-tracking-what-you-watch