New dryer, yes or no?

Coyote Chris said:
(funny story...when I met her, she could set up a Datsun dual point distributor, which impressed me more than her PHD in plant ecology...LOL!
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..... well, you know.... PhD in Plant Ecology...... meh......... now being able to set up a dual-point distributor, now THAT's SOMETHING!!!! Wimmen like that is hard to find....
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Mike
 
mikesim said:
..... well, you know.... PhD in Plant Ecology...... meh......... now being able to set up a dual-point distributor, now THAT's SOMETHING!!!! Wimmen like that is hard to find....
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Mike
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Well, as I said, I was fooled. I thought she actually knew what she was doing....LOL!
 
I think this thread jinxed me. I had to brag about our drier being 55 years old and still working. Well, I suppose it isn't a big deal at all really, but the wife informed me that the timer knob broke and she can't set the timer. Try finding a replacement for a 55 year old drier part:rofl1:

I'm pretty sure that I can find one that fits though. There can't be that much difference now except maybe color.
 
cliffh said:
I think this thread jinxed me. I had to brag about our drier being 55 years old and still working. Well, I suppose it isn't a big deal at all really, but the wife informed me that the timer knob broke and she can't set the timer. Try finding a replacement for a 55 year old drier part:rofl1:

I'm pretty sure that I can find one that fits though. There can't be that much difference now except maybe color.
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There appears to still be dryers without microprocessors out there for $500. I am dealing with some medical issues and our string of 70 degree fall days are about to come to an end so maybe shopping next week.
Wife is going to a dog trial this weekend so I am going to attempt to do some house cleaning...all the camp and bike gear from this summer's fun. She got high in trial last weekend.
The person on the left really makes nice quilts.
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Coyote, these random life quandary posts of yours read like the most ideal candidate for AI chats. Serious suggestion here, fire up Google's AI chat and pose it your dryer questions.
 
NewTo700V said:
Coyote, these random life quandary posts of yours read like the most ideal candidate for AI chats. Serious suggestion here, fire up Google's AI chat and pose it your dryer questions.
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If he takes his life quandary posts to an AI chat, what does that leave the rest of us to do?? Discuss pannier failures ad infinitum? I'm just sayin'.......
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Mike
 
I think there is more to the group than the NT700. For many of us that was a bike or three ago. We do not want to lose touch with those who post here, even if they are no longer riding. The experience base is valuable for the occasional technical question (probably answered in a thread here already if we can remember). :)
 
NewTo700V said:
Coyote, these random life quandary posts of yours read like the most ideal candidate for AI chats. Serious suggestion here, fire up Google's AI chat and pose it your dryer questions.
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Well, Unfortunately, I am going to have some much worse news coming up that AI cant fix....but it is amazing how many issues can be solved on youtube.....AI will be the death of us....it is taking huge amounts of electricity....AI farms cant even be hooked up to the grid....they have to have their own natural gas power plants...and some suck out ground water to cool the computers with no thought to the water tables....no closed loop cooling towers....same thing for bit coins.....2020 they took up 2 percent of our power...now they take up 12 percent of our power....
 
BTW, a powerful leaf blower didn't get this impacted lint out of the hose. My hand and a gun cleaning rod with a brush did. IMG_20251020_174855330_copy_719x523.jpg
 
Coyote Chris said:
...AI will be the death of us....
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Lulz, no bud. WE will be the death of us. Too many humans on this rock consuming non-renewable resources with rising sea levels burning fossil fuels (which has been going on forever before this little AI thing). More wars over remaining resources, famine, climate migration as more land becomes less fertile.

None of this has to do with AI knowing how to sort your dryer woes or generate goofy pictures from scratch.
 
Yes. Overpopulation was the biggest problem according to my engineering professors in 1970. It seems the rest of the problems maybe the result.
IMHO, humans are suited for this planet at this time in the planet's evolution. Humans going to other places in the universe is like the Goldfish seeing the ocean on TV and then making plans. :)
 
Frosty said:
Yes. Overpopulation was the biggest problem according to my engineering professors in 1970. It seems the rest of the problems maybe the result.
IMHO, humans are suited for this planet at this time in the planet's evolution. Humans going to other places in the universe is like the Goldfish seeing the ocean on TV and then making plans. :)
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Yes, I remember that too. I think the book "Population Bomb" by Paul Erlich played a big role in the population panic. His book came out in 1968 and caused quite a stir on campuses (campi?) nationwide. I didn't see too much anxiety amongst my engineering peers but it had the humanities and social sciences students convinced that the end of the world was nigh. Here it is 54 years after graduation and the world is still turning, thank you very much.

Mike
 
NewTo700V said:
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Lulz, no bud. WE will be the death of us. Too many humans on this rock consuming non-renewable resources with rising sea levels burning fossil fuels (which has been going on forever before this little AI thing). More wars over remaining resources, famine, climate migration as more land becomes less fertile.

None of this has to do with AI knowing how to sort your dryer woes or generate goofy pictures from scratch.
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We agree with your first paragraph. But climate change is causing major fires which add to the CO2.....that coupled with a dramatic increase in need for electricity for bitcoins and AI could hasten things along. Nuke plants can help, but the data farms are using natural gas.....they are so hungry you cant even hook them up to the grid.... Glad I lived when I did....
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mikesim said:
Yes, I remember that too. I think the book "Population Bomb" by Paul Erlich played a big role in the population panic. His book came out in 1968 and caused quite a stir on campuses (campi?) nationwide. I didn't see too much anxiety amongst my engineering peers but it had the humanities and social sciences students convinced that the end of the world was nigh. Here it is 54 years after graduation and the world is still turning, thank you very much.

Mike
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I am one of those who knew the bomb would go off....I just didnt know how mother nature would correct the population explosion and when. No one could have forseen, or wanted to, the energy per person needed from 1968 to 2025 and beyond. If you look at the birth rate of the US and other countries, the populations would actually drop after awhile, if we stopped letting people in and if we stopped increasing the life span. Ahhhhh....but the energy created per person, now that's the thing. AI in total has already been estimated to use 100 terawatt hours a year, equal to the power consumption of a brand new Netherlands. And AI is in its infancy. and that doesnt include bitcoin.
 
Coyote Chris said:
We agree with your first paragraph. But climate change is causing major fires which add to the CO2.....that coupled with a dramatic increase in need for electricity for bitcoins and AI could hasten things along. Nuke plants can help, but the data farms are using natural gas.....they are so hungry you cant even hook them up to the grid.... Glad I lived when I did....
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And now overlay the curve of global human (over)population... 🤔
 
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