I think it's more likely that the consistent quality is a side bonus from most of 3M's customers being other corporations, not individual consumers

If 3M only sold painter's tape to the public, most of the public will buy it whether it's crap or not because most of the public only needs to put up with painter's tape occasionally

However if a large commercial real estate company who goes through palettes of painters tape suddenly has to start ordering 1.5x as many palettes because some of the tape is defective, they'll threaten 3M with cancelling a multi-million-dollar contract that will hurt 3M's quarterly spreadsheets.

That is until inevitably someone at 3M gets the idea to start producing a cheaper "consumer grade" painters tape and then everyone who doesn't have a relative in building maintenance who can swipe a pro grade roll for you is SOL

Old Bay seasoning
batteries (when I have to use disposables)
Command hooks

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-12460-6

Here's a pretty recent paper on this. I only skimmed it but boy does this seem wacky. It is in Nature, though, so I guess it's at least somewhat serious...?

KOBEEEEEE

LXDE and LXQt is perfect
looks like hot garbage until you spend 300 hours theming it but BOIYE IT FAST AS FUCK

ARE U SO CUTE? WHY THE FUCK

what a neat bunch of rascals. sounds like they really know their stuff too. props to MTBA for being way less dickish this time around

Your mom dies, your brother runs away so now your dad spends all his time looking for him, and your village gets overtaken by fascists, oh and you're like 12. Somehow it's your job to save the world though.

I use AsteroidOS since afaik it's the only working FOSS watch OS. It's still pretty bare feature-wise. Everything has to be done via PC terminal, even loading custom background images. There are basically no apps published by the community.

BUT now I have a watch on my wrist instead of in a drawer, it interfaces with my LineageOS phone, and it's not uploading all the details of my boring life to Google :]

I need to learn how to fuckin code...

Unciv if you enjoy sacrificing hours of your life :)

Cannery Row by Steinbeck

Steinbeck's style is incredibly immersive. It has the perfect balance of illustrative/poetic/flowery descriptions and cerebral/analytical language. I love the characters and their antics, and how relatably they're written. I can identify with their feelings and motives even though I'm the furthest thing from a bunch of 1930's Californians.

My mom bought it for me to take on my high school band trip to San Francisco (which involved a long flight and some long bus rides). I think I remember more about the book than I do the trip :)