Did you reply to the wrong comment or something?
I didn't say anything about Boeing not being able to make aeroplanes. Only a note of surprise that the parent comment would dismiss Airbus as an alternative manufacturer of aeroplanes when they are the largest manufacturer of aeroplanes in the world.
I'm stoked to hear that you live near a Boeing factory though. That must be very exciting for you.
Yeah, and more realistically pineapple and pepperoni is a firm favourite of mine too. A bit of sweet with the heat.
The first recipes for curry in English cuisine date back to the 1700s. They predate pizza (as we know it now) in Italy. They predate the US as a country.
We just have the good graces not to go all "cultural appropriation" and claim these things are ours without proper attribution and citation of sources. We also managed to get all the nice twentieth century new arrivals to update our recipes.
When I was a kid my mum's idea of pizza was: ready made pizza bases, tomato puree from a tube, peppers and grated cheddar cheese.
It wasn't bad, all told, but it also wasn't pizza...
Pineapple and anchovies it is! (And I'm not really joking).
Ironically, your problem is that your jug is too clean. Do a less good job washing up and there shouldn't be any danger.
Why not Airbus? They're the largest manufacturer in the world by market share. Boeing is not a monopoly.
The headline is kinda burying the lede. You're absolutely right that "kamikaze drones" already exist. Others have rather glibly pointed out that cruise missiles that have existed for decades are essentially this, and more recently there have been a great many "loitering munitions" drones which are what this startup is talking about.
The thing that seems to be novel here is that they are intending to make them fully automated, with AI-driven target acquisition, and capable of operating in a zero-comms environment. Currently drones generally still need a human at the controls.
The idea of what amounts to the equivalent of Tesla's "Full Self Driving" tech being in charge of deciding who lives and dies and what should be reduced to a smouldering crater is, it has to be said, faintly unnerving.
For the record, I'm not an American and I don't microwave water for tea. Being a Brit of these blessed shores, and of our blessed 230v mains electricity supply, I have an electric kettle.
I am also a big tea drinker, and I'm perfectly happy with my setup. I have a metal kettle with a thermostatic heating element (because I prefer my green tea brewed cooler than my black tea), and I use filtered water (because I live in a very hard water area). My kettle is kept sparklingly limescale-free. I am well used to drinking other people's terrible tea, and I know what a good cup tastes like and how to make one.
But I also know that heating water in a pyrex jug in a microwave is exactly the same as heating water in an electric kettle, as long as you're not leaving it boiling for too long or letting it cool too much before using it. Because heat is just heat...
With respect to you, that's about technique rather than tooling. If you overboil your water you're going to have overboiled water, but nobody is making you overboil water in a microwave.
Fundamentally, a microwave just applies heat the same as any other cooking appliance. It doesn't add or remove fluoride or change your water hardness. The temperature of boiling water will always be as close to 100° as makes no difference because of simple physics. If you let your water sit bubbling away in the microwave for endless minutes then that's on you for not taking the water out of the microwave when it was done (and is not fundamentally different to overboiling water with a stovetop pot either).
People seem to think microwaves are some sort of spooky exotic magic technology, but they're not. They're just heaters.
I'm going to go to bat for our American friends and say that there's nothing wrong with boiling water in a microwave if that's the quickest water-boiling-method you've got. Boiling water is boiling water, who cares.
America's greater sin against tea drinking is their habit of letting the water cool down and then steeping a bag in the barely-hot water so that it makes a drink the colour of dehydrated urine. Why drink tea if you don't want to actually taste the tea?
But then on the other hand iced tea is nice, so they do redeem themselves a little.
I had no idea ready mixed Marmite peanut butter was a thing, but I've been making Marmite & peanut butter on toast since I was a kid. It's delicious. I had it for breakfast just this morning, actually. It's also great hangover food- carby and proteiny and salty and savoury in a big "kick you square in the taste buds" sort of way.