Electric kettle acting up, not starting, cutting off early? Don't toss it.

Try this:
Pour out the water,
Flip that rascal over,
Grab a cotton swab,
Dip swab in oxalic acid or vinegar, (I use BarKeeps Friend)
Swab around the circular metal contacts -- just the biggest ring is fine.
Swab around again with a clean dry swab

Just remember this helpful mnemonic: PFGDSS

#kettle #repair

BEHOLD friends the power of a hashtag. This 2 year old post (^^^) was just found and fav'd

#yay

Here it is! Terere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqJ7-1gKX2Y

Anyway, here's the percussionist:
https://www.discogs.com/artist/893627-Mahamadou-Kone

Thanks!
Yer welcome tomodachi

#goodTalk

Trying to find a song they played that featured talking drum with incredibly elaborate beats. Might have just been a jam session. Appreciate any tips to find it.

Got to hear Habib Koité and my brain is still buzzing. Also, what a gracious artist. He welcomed audience members onto the stage to dance and then helped them back to their seats when they needed it. The band is touring again, 11/10 recommend GO SEE/HEAR.
https://habibkoite.com/
#cosomusic #music

Good deal, feed people.
USAID will provide support through the UN World Food Program (WFP) to facilitate additional shipments of Ukrainian grain moving through the Black Sea Grain Initiative

Before Putin’s invasion, Ukraine was one of WFP’s top suppliers of grain and the fourth largest commercial exporter of wheat globally, USAID recalled.

Today’s ($20M) builds on the $173 million to date in existing U.S. support to WFP to purchase Ukrainian grain
https://www.kyivpost.com/world/u-s-provides-up-to-20-mln-for-grain-from-ukraine-initiative.html

#ukraine

THANKS for the new userguide. Great stuff!

3 questions/comments:
1) On mobile (great!), best way to navigate back to countersocial from the guide? Used the back button a lot.

2) Translation feature mentioned in there? Searched, browsed for it and missed it.

3) Clarification: Is the modifier "abusive" understood to describe each list item in "countries, TOR nodes, VPNs, and proxies." ?

VPN does work, wouldn't want to discourage anyone from using good ones.

TIA
#userGuide

I might try some of these pop corn recipes. Custard? Sure.

https://archive.org/details/popcornrecipes00talb/mode/2up

#food #recipes

Generally love the idea of this sponge infrastructure for urban storm water control, have seen it done well. The examples in the article are a bit wild.

Didn't remove the fly ash from coal ash ponds?! Maybe it will kill the mosquitoes they don't mention controlling.

Definitely like the concept. Channelizing water is dumb long term and catastrophically fails in the face of, e.g. hurricanes.

https://apnews.com/article/floods-entertainment-asia-beijing-climate-and-environment-54f2b3282cad5ce8f165914f38023bdb

#climateChange #water #environment

While ago (a few covid-months I think) folks here were discussing the user of handles versus real names. Re-found this article about it, with evidence:

The Real Name Fallacy

Not only would removing anonymity fail to consistently improve online community behavior – forcing real names in online communities could also increase discrimination and worsen harassment.

https://coralproject.net/blog/the-real-name-fallacy/

I think the photo caption ought to explain the American flag patch.
Caption:
Kherson resident kisses a Ukrainian soldier in central Kherson, Ukraine, Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022. The Russian retreat from Kherson marked a triumphant milestone in Ukraine's pushback against Moscow's invasion almost nine months ago. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

https://storage.googleapis.com/afs-prod/media/5d595ed06a6e4139be5738afc893aab7/1000.jpeg

#ukraine #kherson

Do you like money, and/or living on a viable planet? The Inflation Reduction Act may be for you.

Seriously, it will pay back 30 percent of my solar installation costs.

See Rewiring America's Go Electric Digital Guide. It contains a link to a calculator: enter income and ZIP code, get the low-down on up-front discounts, tax credits, and low-cost financing to make clean energy and a decarbonized life easy and financially smart.

https://share.counter.social/s/65896d

#climate #money #electrify

Not trying to be an ad but hoooo that Penzey's cinnamon is whole different thing. Had this jar a while now and it still fills the whole kitchen.

#food

@Render is this waste of a perfectly good beer for real?

How Can a Glass of Beer
Demonstrate the Quality of a Tank?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd3zy5ReYu0

Look at your social media platform. Now back to CoSo.

Now back at your social media, now back to CoSo.

Sadly, that platform isn't CoSo, but if it stopped promoting Russian/Chinese/Iranian/QAnon talking points, it could be like CoSo.

What's in your hand? I have it, it's a $5 flat white from a multinational corporation that suppresses wages.

Look again, the coffee drink is now a CoSo pro subscription.

I’m on a horse.

https://www.stopfake.org/en/experts-grade-facebook-tiktok-twitter-youtube-on-readiness-to-handle-midterm-election-misinformation/

#CoSo #misinformation #attemptedHumor