My theory with refrigerators is that you’re actually better off buying a basic, freezer on top, no bells and whistles model. That’s pretty much the simplest possible design, and one that’s been around 100 years now. I think when people complain that fridges aren’t as reliable anymore it’s because they bought a fridge with the freezer on the bottom since that’s all the rage now, which means now you need fans to circulate the air within the fridge because you’re trying to make it go the opposite direction cold air naturally wants to go, which adds additional points of failure. Plus extra bells and whistles like an ice maker. They may have paid more for it, but they paid for extra bells and whistles and a trendier design, not higher quality.
As a data point, the basic fridge I bought in 2008 has never had any problems whatsoever.
There’s currently what seems to me a large percentage of people who want to vote but were prevented by circumstance. Considering that if you expect not to be able to vote on the day or during the given hours you can now in most places vote in advance in person or by mail, I’m surprised it’s that high (nearly 20% when I looked.)
Usually these days I vote in person in advance, just in case something does come up to prevent me on the day, but for this off year election with most positions unopposed and when I had no other reason to drive twice the distance to the polling place I left it till today. Done now, though.
Well, I’m one of the “prevented by circumstances”. The circumstance is that my local elections are in the spring, not in November. There are no elections i am eligible to vote in today.
And as for voting for unopposed candidates, it depends on what i know about them. If i like them, i vote for them. If i know nothing (or dislike them) i don’t. Especially for local elections. There are often write-in candidates. They even occasionally win. Anyway, why vote for someone i don’t like, unless i know them to be the lesser evil?
Regarding the question on voting for unopposed candidates, I said I don’t bother. These are mostly local elections where I don’t know much, if anything, about the candidate. On the other hand, I will vote for a Judge or Commissioner running unopposed if I really like the person. Today’s ballot had a bunch of school board, fire district something or other, and port commissioner races that were unopposed and I didn’t bother voting.
I have never once had nothing to vote for on Election Day. There have been times when there was nothing important going on but there is always something. The next few years will be important. This year the big race is for Governor. I’m also voting for mayor and council. Next year is for Congress. 2027 Cory Booker’s seat is on the ballot. Then of course we are hoping for a presidential election in 2028.
I’ll only vote for an unopposed candidate if I’m aware of and approve of his policies or they have been endorsed by my state party. Otherwise I will leave it blank.
Time telling devices that didn’t automatically adjust for DST: 5. Stove, microwave, alarm clock, the old iPod dock / radio I picked up at Goodwill recently just to use as a radio in my home office, and my car.
Sorry for not putting more choices at the higher end-I myself had 2 (my 2013 Honda, and the one on my old stove), and figured in this day and age that would be a bit below the median. My alarm clock c. a decade old updated on its own, as did all my phone devices and my PC.
As with others, I will vote for an unopposed candidate if I support that candidate and believe he or she is doing a good job; otherwise I will purposefully not vote for that person.
Time-telling devices that “failed to automatically adjust”? None that I know of.
Time-telling devices that didn’t even try to automatically adjust? Several, including a wristwatch, a car clock, a stove, a microwave, and a decades-old alarm clock.