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I didn't say anything about the heat treat or anything, specifically because, like you said, the dishwasher isn't reaching temperatures where that matters.

I also didn't try to claim that your detergent would rust your knives. This is literally all just you.

All I said at the end of the day, is that your knife edge is more delicate that everything else you're comparing it to, and your dishwasher can bang it against things which may chip it somewhat, unlike everything else you're comparing the knives to.

I generally touch up my knives every few weeks. It takes me about 45 seconds per knife on a whetstone and a strop. Add another 30 seconds if you want for grabbing the whetstone and splashing it with water first if you want.

You know there's a million different alloys that are all "stainless steel" right?

As far as some more specifics, nothing else you made is meant to hold a sharp edge, so they aren't made of heat treated tool steel. Making a knife is a balance between having softer metal that dulls more quickly, vs harder metal that chips or cracks more easily.

Another feature you'll notice on your stainless steel knives is a sharp edge, which is much more delicate than the blunt edges on everything else you listed. The thinness of the edge, combined with the metal being hardened so it can retain an edge, make it so you're reasonably likely to chip the edges of many nicer (better heat treated) knives due to stuff knocking around in the dishwasher. Also you're somewhat likely to damage the coating of the dishwasher racks with the sharp edges.

Also, probably not Wusthof, but some high end knives are, in fact, hand sharpened even in factory settings still. It doesn't take very long on a wheel or belt really, though if you don't count that as hand sharpening then yeah that's a definitions disagreement.

My grocery store is literally 0.7mi from my house, but there's no sidewalks along the two 6 lane roads I'd need to follow to feet there.

I'm just guessing, but I assume that after a certain point, what you're trying to draw is so niche and/or new that no one's bothered to make decent software for it. Like, you can do a Feynman diagram quickly on a chalk board, or spend 3x as long dragging lines in Visio or something to make a diagram diagram.

Even with CAD existing, I still always sketch initial project ideas out on paper just cause it's fast and easy.

The full moon is about 31 arc minutes in apparent size. Andromeda is about 190 arc minutes in apparent size. Based on my Eclipse photos at 700mm, the biggest issue you're likely to have with the 300 f/2.8 is picking what part of Andromeda you want to fit in your photo.

Hypoallergenic GMO cats are possibly coming in the future. I think I read before that there doesn't seem to be a downside to coding out the protein/s that cause most allergies.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2313803-us-biofirm-plans-to-make-hypoallergenic-cats-using-crispr-gene-editing/

I mostly disassembled an antique camera lens, only to realize I need to custom machine a tool to proceed any further in fixing it. This is what I get for not fully watching the 6 hours of YouTube videos in this camera repair series before starting.

I can go to any weekend gun show and buy as many guns as i want from anyone there with no questions asked. It's harder to legally own one in several states, but getting a gun somewhere in the US is easy, and if you're driving back, it's not like the police have a gun radar to keep you from bringing them home.

Chicken Tikka Masala appears to have credibly originated in the UK. It's probably as British as Beef Stroganoff is Russian (okay, looking it up, it looks like the latter may be at least a bit of a myth, but it gets my point across).

Not sure about the commercial planes, but some planes have a redundant wing.

https://theaviationgeekclub.com/time-israeli-air-force-f-15-baz-landed-one-wing-missing/

I like the idea, but I can't come up with any method that won't devolve into most reviewers only checking the highlighted parts tbh.

Disclaimer: I could be wrong or not up to date, but this is my current understanding.

On the small scale, forces like electromagnetism and gravity pull things together much much faster than the rate of cosmological expansion. That's why "we" don't expand, and neither does our frame of reference. There's a potential end to the universe where the rate of cosmological expansion (which increases over time) finally exceeds gravity and electromagnetism and eventually even the strong force, causing everything to fly apart forever.

Light waves propagate through spacetime itself, and basically it ends up being that there's nothing pulling it back from expanding as the space it travels expands.

No, this is actually the first time I'm hearing that this exists unfortunately.

I was obsessed with making variations of it on TI calculators in high school lol

I did recently discover you can turn off "Web and App Activity" for your Google account, which seems to disable Google saving most of your data (searches, viewed places, etc), for what that's worth. It definitely cripples Google maps even more than I think it should, since now I can't even search for labels I've added to Google maps myself.

I've been meaning to try Organic Maps as well, but haven't even gotten around to installing it yet.

1. Android has motion photos, which i think is on by default and is more or less the same as live photos.
2. This is just a coincidence, I know Apple maps is good these days, but just the other day my friend was using Apple maps to guide us and it hallucinated a restaurant wholesale. Like, this location for this restaurant has never existed as far as we can tell.

I also prefer the cold myself, but you know it gets much colder than 0°F in lots of places right?

I know what you mean, but yeah, in the Midwest I've been seeing more and more semis camping the left lane all the time. It's gotten really bad for my road trips.

It's interesting you say that, cause in the last few years I've noticed more and more trucks that never exit the left lane. They can be the only vehicle on the road for a few hundred feet in either direction but they'll still sit in the left, even when a car caravan catches up and is forced to pass them on the right.

It's honestly the most egregious in a few sections of highway I drive where there are "Left lane js for passing only" signs every few hundred feet (literally every 10-20 seconds driving).