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I miss the actual old Google, where the searches wouldn't intentionally show you a lot of things you don't want in order to keep you searching longer for their ad revenue. The one where if you put something between "quotes" it would only show you results with those specific words, and you coul -minus a word to specifically exclude results that contained that word.

Google has been a piece of shit for like 15+ years now. They're even making android suck.

Lead paint was banned because kids were eating it, but if not for that, paint made with lead was super awesome. it cleaned off well and lasted way longer. Made the best paint.

on Stephen King · c/writing · 2 pts · 7h

Just watched Stand By Me for the first time in probably 30 years, a few days ago.

Not one of his most obvious fucked up books\movies, but one that still totally wouldn't get made today. A group of 12 year old boys sneaking off to go find a dead body of a child while playing with guns and smoking and cussing and such.

I explained it a couple other times in the thread chain, but most European countries still use cold most of the time. Most places in Europe (like France) have 230v 50hz electricity. The US uses dishwashers on our 120v 60hz system (we have a 240v 40 amp system for our main water heaters). While the 120v system works great for most things, it does a pretty terrible job at using resistance heating for warming up water.

So plumbing cold water to the dishwasher in the US would make it take a lot longer to get the water hot compared to you guys on the 230v system, and running the hot water till it's warm let's the water be fully hot from the moment it goes into the dishwasher, so the pre wash cycle does a better job.

Most places outside US will still just plumb into the cold water side instead of the hot. It's a bit less important because the 230v 50gz electric grid most of Europe uses is faster at heating water than the 120v 60hz electric grid in the US.

Look, man. Instead of just trying to argue back and forth with me over this, just go do some research on the internet, hopefully a little more than asking Gemini, and you'll find out all on your own. Outside of the US it's less common to hook to the hot side, but it's the norm in the US. The non US models take longer to wash because they have to heat each water exchange up from completely cold to like 130f. Most of Europe actually gets to have a leg up over the US for electric water heating elements to work a bit faster, because the electric grid in US runs at 120v and 60hz instead of 230v and 50hz. The higher voltage can heat water quicker. I don't know where you live.

Are you in the US?

They all gave their own heating elements to adjust the water temp, but they take time to heat up those couple of gallons and the elements design isn't as efficient as a home water heater, so the cycle length is shorter if using hot water and the energy is more efficient than begining each cycle with cold.

Your hot water tank is more efficient than the heating element in your dishwasher, and the water starting off hot instead of slowly getting heated reduces the runtime of the dishwasher.