Yeah, those sensors get sooty and you can have a perfectly otherwise sound furnace or boiler cut its own gas off because it's not detecting enough heat.

Can just scrub one with some fine sandpaper and then things will just work again. Not always the fix, but super easy to take a stab at

If it's a gas model, flame sensors are a really common failure point, sometimes just need cleaning.

Similarly, we've battened down our chickens for winter wind

Sails can be battened as well - 'battens' are just strips of stuff to reinforce things.

With AI degrading everything online, hyperlocal print crankery is more important than ever (sincere)

There's at least some reason for it - they're expecting younger and healthier people to drop coverage in response to losing the credit.

Without those folks, the risk pool gets worse for the remaining folks.

'Oops! All Tuvoks'

I mean, once you realize that you can make transporter clones on demand, why stop at two Tuvoks.

The real important question is where do you land on the Tuvix issue?

Entomologists out there, just yucking ants' yums.

I've officially entered my gentleman farmer era

Oh yeah, everyone in the long line is terrified of being seen as that guy. (And collectively judged)

Every once in a while there's a real hero who's capable of just asking.