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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm impressed the water has its own phone to facetime people with.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe he is FaceTiming it from his Apple TV

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Or his iPad or Mac

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Smh all these people giving their water phones instead of stepping up and being a parent 😔

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Water without anything in it doesn't boil over

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Until it suddenly does, and violently if actually superheated.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not becoming super heated in an open pot.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That’s what the impurities are for

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tbh it doesn't even boil at all, like trees that make no noise when falling if nobody is looking, water doesn't boil either. It requires conscious observation, similar to photons acting as a wave until observed which then they are particles.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The first (known, at least,) webcam monitored a coffee pot.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

For basically the same reason: they were too lazy to check and see if the coffee pot was full.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

human uses internet to bounce image onto a dozen servers, captured by multiple governments, data mined and ai trained on by proprietary software company, just to not spend five minutes standing

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If they wanna spy on ma boiling water so be it

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Does your face also need to be visible to the water, for this to work?

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, it's mostly an intimidation thing

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Actually makes it worse. The watch pot never boils.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's "a watched pot never boils."

How did you fuck that up so badly?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Budget cuts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

American education and a mother who was poor and never heard that originally saying on her farm

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Wow if only there was some kind of device specifically designed to boil water for you that has a switch that automatically turns itself off once the water is boiling.....

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But who took the picture of the phone pointed at the water?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

That would be the fridge.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or just like… set a timer? 6 minutes is what it takes for my pot to boil.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's far too low tech and easy, gramps.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Back in my day we used to have to stick our fingers into the water to tell it was boiled. Blistered sisters, we’d call em. It was the style of the time

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[–] rushaction 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sigh, amusing but really unnecessary effort.

  1. use a lid. Water boils significantly faster with one!
  2. buy a $5 pot minder, it'll make noise when the pot starts boiling

There done.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought pot minders were little ceramic things you put in pots to stop starchy foods from boiling over?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Recall the rule of quantum imaging.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This pot costs $200 by the way

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think it's called hexclad

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

So much money so Teflon can leech into your food. Gimme some old CI and keep your crummy nonstick

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Why is he just boiling pots of water on the stove? Shouldn't there be some kind of food in the water? It looks like it's already boiling, what is he waiting for?

I hope he posts the video of the phone tipping over and going into the boiling water

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lots of things need to go into already boiling water to cook properly. Pasta for one. Depending on the rice and the texture you're going for, that can be better cooked by adding it to already boiling water. This is the same thing as preheating your frying pan or oven.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why would he need to film it then? Water by itself doesn't boil over.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

He watched TV. It's easy to miss the time while doing something engaging, by a lot, up to tens of minutes. So he dropped a facetime window over his TV screen, I guess? Or onto another phone he has at hand?

I think that he did that post because it's silly and didn't put more effort than it needs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This is the real question.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

if it works it's not stupid 😅

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Your phone is a small TV 🤦

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