Design

It's Not A Sports Car... But It Handles Like One

this particular pair is 98 GBP: https://www.ernestwright.co.uk/product/turton-kitchen-scissors/


yup exactly, these are their kitchen scissors so they have a serrated blade, a nutcracker, and a bottle opener

news

White House Repeals Ban on Supersonic Flight in the US

Boom is the future: https://boomsupersonic.com/

Canada’s unemployment rate jumps to 7% in May

AskSN

Be honest, does your LLM usage make you feel like you're getting dumber?

I've heard friends claim they don't think critically as often, I find myself prompting LLMs with ever-sloppier grammar and punctuation that I never would have used before (even incomplete sentences that don't make sense), I hear people rationalizing their stance in arguments with "ChatGPT said so", and I wonder if we're outsourcing our thinking enough to decay the neural networks in our brains.

Sort of how access to step-by-step GPS instructions have hurt people's abilities to figure out which way is North, or how not exercising makes people out of shape.

As a related note, anytime I come across an interesting tweet, the first reply I see is someone asking "Grok, what does this mean?".

Are You Getting Dumber?

Politics_And_Law

Why Are Some Countries Happy with High Taxes and Others Aren't?

It seems like on average, people in North America dislike paying taxes. In Scandinavian countries, where taxes are even higher on average, it seems like people don't mind forking over large chunks of their income to the government... at least that's my outsider understanding.

How did Scandinavian countries (this might also happen elsewhere too) manage to convince their citizens to accept such extraordinarily high tax rates?

Is there something about the quality of the services they provide that North America could learn from?

![](https://taxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Nordic23_1.png)

food_and_drinks

How Often Do You Cook?

Nice, hust curious to know how most people eat food. 

One of those things that you can easily assume everyone does just like you, especially if you’re eating at home a lot.

between the two of you counts too, i’m mostly interested in the ratio of cooking at home to going out for food

HealthAndFitness

The Best Workouts Don't Feel Like Workouts

yeah it’s a very sharp and very long blade, bad news for intruders

How many meals in a typical week do you cook/prepare at home?

Toronto New Home Sales Down 89% from 10 Year Average

Historically, new home sales for a typical April in the GTA would be 2,750 units based on the previous 10-year average, this April there were only 310 new home sales.

The other day [I learned how to use a scythe](https://youtube.com/shorts/MJ5npQe4OYI) to cut grass. I spent a good 6 hours outside chopping away at the grass, and started to get the hang of it by the end of the day.

There are lots of benefits to scything (no noise, no dust, no engine, no fumes, no fuel, lower cost), but the workout is one of the best ones. The most efficient scythe operators rotate with their core instead of getting power out of their arms, and they're basically doing the same side-to-side core rotation for hours on end.

But since it's so satisfying to watch the blade tear through grass, the time really flies. It's the kind of exercise that someone might only do for 60 seconds in a gym before getting bored (like throwing a medicine ball against a wall), but one that can be done for many hours without boredom when you're outdoors doing something productive.

Since my day of scything, I've also been standing and sitting with a noticeably better posture without forcing anything, will see if the posture improvements persist.

Overall, 10/10 experience. Would recommend.

This Dutch Oven Has A Secret Feature

Who Do You Trust More? A Smart Friend or AI?

Wow, basically nobody picked AI. 

Curious to see if this changes over the coming years...

If a smart friend tells you something that ChatGPT or some other AI tool disagrees with, who do you instinctively trust more?

Let’s assume you don’t have the time to dig into the issue and probe for follow up questions… who do you trust more in the moment?

Let’s also assume the smart friend is talking about a topic which you consider them to be knowledgeable.