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/

Chinese Mockery of U.S. Manufacturing Reveals Economic Truth | TIME

https://time.com/7277920/china-manufacturing-us-trump-factory-workers-ai-videos-social-media/

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

>manufacturing job and be off the farm, but a few years later the worker realizes that the manufacturing job sucked

My paternal uncle ^{(born 1895. mentioned here before as a vehicle whiz kid.)} left the large family farm in extremely rural NE NC around 1915 to work in the early Ford plant.  I'm guessing that lasted a few years before he returned home.

"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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> Perhaps the motivation is more psychological?

Or cultural?  The Puritan Work Ethic, for example, still seems to be a strong force of motivation among the underclass and a justification used by the ruling class.

Protestant work ethic - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_work_ethic

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I've lost count of how many times I've heard "I'll work until I die" among laborers, carpenters, hvac techs, etc.

Rec'd April 9:

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> Why not a circle

My best guess is that it is aligned so that the walls get the least direct sunlight.

Also a guess - straight/rectangular construction is the cheapest.