Katie needs to be getting her thing going then. I’ve heard the name but not seeing or hearing the name much at all. (Gotta do better than the head of the Green Party.)

Seattle seems to like electing weak mayors that come and go at the whim of whatever old money’s really been running the show. Wow, imagine if they had a real goer and doer picked by the people running the show.

What kind of TACO has to hide behind a mask anyways?

Sit down sometime, make a realistic model of tidal power usage, and then figure out how long it’d before before ‘the moon being pushed away’ becomes visible. Once you can do that, then come back here and tell us about your calculations.

Of course the tides ‘rubbing against’ the Earth’s surface have been ‘pushing the moon away’ at a far, far greater rate for billions of years. Big deal.

Solar/wind & batteries will become so cheap nothing else will be able to stay in business. Already happening. Smart investors all going there.

That planetary core thing will probably be quite a way off, tho it last for millions of years. But the whole planet is swathed in tides, in-and-out.

Not sure on the numbers, but in videos I’ve seen dozens of places where -all- the local power cud be tidally-generated, and I suspect there’d be hundreds of places around the world. Largely depends on the geology around the local tides.

Seattle was a coffeehouse town before Nestle (and its evil ways) was even born.

Hell, the first coffee shop was WAY before 1957’s opening of ‘The Place Next Door’.

(Don’t) hope they’re ready to get stomped on. Oh, and Seattle’s Best might have something to say about it.

EXCELLENT news. There was a gang pimping for that at the UWDistrict fair this spring. Was noticing that happening W. of CapHill the other day.

I check a hatfull of old links -every day- (a sort of hobby), and am constantly surprised to see all they’ve stashed away there.

Recommend their browser extension for that. If you come across a page that fails to load, it will tell you if it -knows- people have asked it save a copy. If not, and you paste the failed URL into the ‘Search URL’ box, there’s about a 2 in 3 chance you will come up a winner.

If you land on a working page that you really like, and it doesn’t have a memory of it, it will -usually- save it for you if you click on -Save Page Now-. Yeah, that’s YOU backing up the good stuff.

Lately I’ve seen stuff going back as far the late 90s. One of my most-useful extensions… and there’s a lot out there worth saving!

I see quite a bit of humanity in many answers. Keep in mind a sample of people who choose to hang out here instead out there in the rat races (e.g. the Big R)

Are you say its only the water temperature that matters, then? Is yer last name ‘Kelvin’ by any chance?

That’s the trouble with electrics … once you buy one, you feel compelled to use it to get your money’s worth, ammiright?

Anyway, a true purist wud NEVER use an electric, wud tha? It’d been over a nice smoky hearth to give it that tang, like figgy puddin’.

Sooo … that’d be bad, then?

I’ve doon thot several times now. And so I -almost always- remember to check that the left digit on the timer is one.

In the US, if you go to the store and ask where are the tea towels are, they’ll look at you funny, then suggest you look in the T-shirt department.

I’m not a commie, and if god forsook me, how would I know?

OTOH, I still mostly only drink Red Rose and Tetley, and given enough steep time … say 10 or 15 minutes … they’re not so nasty. And I was born -next- to Canada, so I can’t be -too- disabled.

10-cent bitcoins

Three reasons I can think of.

• Americans don’t drink much tea. And soo…

• Not many stores carry electric kettles.

• Microwave tea.

PHew. I feel so much better now that AI’s are working on the problem.

I started hearing about climatologists leaving the US and moving to Scandanavia about 10 years ago.