🍩Little Crafter Series: Donut Soaps with Damien! Check out his YouTube channel '5 Minutes With Family' for fun videos!🍩 . . . . #diy# #soap# #soapmaking# #soaps…#

Dishwasher Manufacturers: If you rinse off your dishes in the sink before loading them into the dishwasher, they come out less clean! This always gets me in trouble. I of course don’t rinse first, because it is a Dishwasher. Right? Rinsing plates before loading the dishwasher feels diligent. Appliance makers say it is the very reason your dishes come out dirty. Engineers at brands like Bosch and Whirlpool, alongside detergent makers like Cascade, have spent years advising consumers to stop pre-rinsing. Contemporary dishwashers rely on internal turbidity sensors—optical eyes that gauge water clarity during the early wash cycle. When pre-rinsed plates yield clean water, the machine misinterprets the load as lightly soiled, shortening cycle time and reducing water temperature. Furthermore, the enzymes in modern powdered and gel detergents require food starches and proteins to latch onto; without debris to activate them, the surfactants simply wash down the drain, occasionally leaving alkaline film etched into glassware. Oh there is more… Cookware care harbors equally stubborn folklore. For decades, home cooks warned that a single drop of liquid soap would ruin a cast-iron skillet's seasoning. Lodge, which has made cast-iron cookware in Tennessee since 1896, explicitly debunks this in its care manuals. The prohibition dates to the nineteenth century, when soaps were formulated with harsh lye (sodium hydroxide), a caustic alkali capable of stripping cured oil. Modern dish detergents contain mild surfactants that lift loose grease without breaking the polymerized oil cross-linked to the iron matrix. A gentle wash with liquid soap leaves true seasoning intact. A similar misconception surrounds kitchen waste disposers. Generations of homeowners were told that tossing eggshells or ice down the drain sharpens the disposal blades. InSinkErator, the inventor and largest maker of food waste disposers, notes that residential disposers do not contain blades at all. The central chamber houses blunt swiveling lugs on a spinning turntable. These lugs do not slice; centrifugal force hurls food against a stationary outer ring of shredder teeth to pulverize it into a slurry. Eggshells cannot sharpen a blunt lug, and their fibrous membrane often snags in plumbing traps. Even oven maintenance suffers from well-intended habits. Appliance makers including GE and Frigidaire warn against lining the floor of an electric or gas oven with aluminum foil. Modern ovens hide the heating element beneath an enamel floor. Foil traps and reflects radiant heat directly against the base, reaching temperatures high enough to melt the aluminum or permanently fuse it to the porcelain finish.

This past week in Bittensor Land… - Crosschain swaps on Bittensor went live via @taodotcom . Users can now instantly swap USDC and ETH to subnet tokens (!!) -@pareton announced that an optimization identified by miners during their Qwen3.8 campaign was officially merged into vLLM (widely considered the de facto open-source inference engine for LLMs.) - @conjectures_io reported solutions to five open, frontier math problems, with multiple solutions coming from a team of Purdue University students. Just another week.

Emma got paid in Bitcoin… but her rent is in dollars. 💸 Most people would sell on an exchange, pay higher fees, and compromise their privacy. 🕵️‍♂️ AQUA swaps Bitcoin to @tether in one tap. ⚡🐬 Why give up your privacy for something this simple? 👀

🇺🇸 Ilhan Omar husband snaps at reporters asking if she FLED the country after federal raid The congresswoman has NOT BEEN SEEN publicly since federal agents searched her Washington home in a citizenship fraud probe. Investigators reportedly took her phone over immigration paperwork her late father filled out when she was a child. But the trouble doesn't end there. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro is also looking into her financial disclosures after a $30 million asset filing was quietly amended to zero… Omar called the raid a political hit so close to the midterms and her husband Tim Mynett claims he has no concerns. Yet he lost his temper pretty quickly and refused to say where she was. Writer: Bri

OKAY, FRIENDLY DEBATE TIME… I just saw someone on Facebook explaining how to “sanitize” raw cow meat by washing it with BLUE DAWN DISH SOAP. 🐄🧼 I’m sorry… WHAT?! 😳😂 Are we actually out here washing our cow meat with dish soap?! Have I been living under a rock, or is this just plain INSANE?! 🤯🤔

Ripple “has emerged as a serious player in providing swap financing to leveraged ETFs”… Explosive growth of leveraged & highly concentrated ETFs, which rely on swaps for exposure, is bringing new counterparties into the fold. Like Ripple. Lucrative business if you’re properly setup to manage it (& its associated risks). Expect more “alternative” swap counterparties as balance sheets get tapped out on traditional options. That’s how fast this corner of ETFs is growing. via @Vlajournaliste