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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•There should be a "last used combination" faucet handle for sinks so you don't have to balance hot and cold everytime during winter
2·9 days agoThe solution to that is for a third return line to be run during a new build or remodel, but that’s definitely not a weekend project for most homes.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•There should be a "last used combination" faucet handle for sinks so you don't have to balance hot and cold everytime during winter
37·9 days agoIt’s reasonably common for showers to have a mixing valve and a flow rate valve on separate handles. That accomplishes what you want. You just have to remember which is which and only use the flow rate valve to turn on and off.
More importantly, hot water circulation systems should be more common. It’s the waiting for the cold water in the line to flush out that really makes setting temperature a hassle.
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World News@lemmy.world•US House expected to approve resolution to release Epstein filesEnglish
16·11 days agoAnd the bill preserves carvouts for active investigations. Congress should not leave it up to the DOJ to determine what is suitable for release.
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World News@lemmy.world•Melissa now a Category 5 hurricane as it approaches JamaicaEnglish
25·1 month agoI’ll share my two favorite sources for hurricane info.
Tropical Tidbits for excellent parsing of meteorological data and models without much editorializing and essentially no fear mongering. Excellent videos and website tools for nerding out about the weather side of things.
https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/
And NOAA’s National Hurricane Center for up to date guidance on rain, flooding, and wind probabilities and warnings. This coupled with a local emergency services communications is what most people should be using to track what impacts they should expect for upcoming storms.
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ click on the storm in the map graphic to view detailed warnings and info.
Yeah. Who buys a pumpkin for it’s literal value as a food item? There’s canned pumpkin for that. Anything to do with buying a whole pumpkin is all about maintaining an experience and tradition. In that view, pumpkin carving a storebought pumpkin is the base experience, and going to the pumpkin patch is the extended experience. People can choose the level that matches their enthusiasm for fall festivities. Neither purchases are practical, but both can be worthwhile.
I don’t see this as much different as the buying a CD vs concert ticket mockery. Concert tickets are always economically an impractical purchase vs buying a copy. People don’t go to concerts to get a good deal, and there’s just as much crap to deal with as the muddy parking lot and unsocialized animals of a pumpkin patch. People go to concerts for a specific experience that brings them joy and forms memories. Mocking that desire is silly.
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World News@lemmy.world•Wealth tax would be deadly for French economy, says Europe’s richest manEnglish
18·2 months agoThe existence of an article specifically about his opinions on a theoretical tax shows just how disproportionate the power of being wealthy is. When is the last time any of you were consulted on a tax policy that would affect you?

That’s a truck tail light…