Hold on now. I've worked with heavy clay for years and never had that kind of trouble. If you keep your blade speed up and don't force the feed, it'll cut through just fine. Most jams I've seen are from people running the cutter too slow or letting it bog down. Brunswick soil is different from what we get around here anyway. You might have just gotten a bad batch or had your settings wrong that day.

Honestly, 90% of my life problems come from skipping the boring maintenance stuff. It's like the universe punishes you for being lazy with a $100 paint bill and a ruined Sunday.

Jumping off that point, what gets me is the water waste side of it nobody talks about. All that food we toss took gallons of water to grow and ship, so we're basically pouring clean water straight into a landfill every time we throw away a sad tomato. That realization hit me harder than the methane stat because water's getting scarcer every year where I live. Makes the meal prep chore feel a little more like a responsibility than a flex.

Read some electrical engineering forum where a guy tested it with a multimeter and said the strap did basically nothing if you weren't plugged into a proper ground.

That headphone jack jiggle reminding me of how half the stuff in my life only works if you treat it just right. Like my minivan's glovebox that I have to smack on the left side before it'll latch shut. It's not broken, it's just got a personality. Your iPod probably knew you were in the middle of Nebraska and figured you needed a scare to stay awake.