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they always warped

You used too much heat. I try to be careful but occasionally fuck up the same way.

Here’s why it’s bullshit: it still has Teflon (or whatever). You still can’t use metal utensils, because goodbye nonstick layer. You still can’t get it searingly hot. The uneven surface could make cleaning more complicated. Any Teflon-like nonstick will accumulate wear and tear and thermal expansion stress until it cracks, peels or stops being nonstick, all of which are good reasons to throw it away for ergonomic and (probably) health reasons. Being surrounded by stainless or whatever is going to change none of that.

I would suggest just getting one of each “major kind of pan” - nonstick and either cast iron or stainless will let you do most things. Getting all three doesn’t need to break the bank either. Then you can save the nonstick for the stuff that really needs it, give everything else the heat and surface it deserves.

Because it’s just not clever unless it’s literally Oscar fucking Wilde, I guess. Can’t please everyone.

Serious question? The principle is called “opportunity cost”. Chilling out and touching grass is free - but you could also have spent that time working, producing stuff, learning or whatever. You have “lost out” on a potential benefit due to exactly how that time was spent.

The pro Russia part does.

Roger Waters put a damper on my enjoyment of Pink Floyd.

Wow, imagine calling out a fucker like that, how dare you.

There are some beautiful argument chains.

Doubt.

Hated every kind, had some actually great ones in Greece, now I can sorta kinda get behind black olives. Greens are still a bit too bitter for my preference.

So don’t?

No, I just try to. My blocklist is like forty miles at this point

Edit: always entertaining to read rationalizations of “exposing myself to the constant depressing drudgery of political news coverage is like a moral imperative or some shit” btw

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This place is noticeably more anticorporate - which makes sense because corporations tend to be dicks - and leftist. Enshittification is a fairly apt term for what goes on.

“The American dream” was socioeconomic mobility, that shit is for commies these days.

That is just every country, countries would hardly try to look worse than they are.

Scientists and other rationalists. If you wanted to be dramatic, their fight to save ourselves and the planet would be against the inertia of “common wisdom”, known bugs in human psychology, the resistance of wanting to disregard the unknown or unpleasant, everyone for whom the truth (to the best of our knowledge) is economically inconvenient with the considerable economic and societal power they wield.

They are not good odds, but it is correct against incorrect and often against malignantly incorrect, and they are all extremely formidable villains.

If you have a perfectly normal (non-pathological) lack of confidence then pretending to be confident may allegedly help you. A cynic could remark that that requires knowing what that looks like and being able to pull it off, while almost nobody offering that particular “advice” seems to feel a huge need to elaborate on it.

It’s a cliché.

It’s not all that far removed from shit people say completely without a trace of irony.

That’s fair. Sounds like a very reasonable way to explain it to the kids’ parents, too, if you get the occasion.

Start handing out kazoos.

Can I non-jokingly ask why that’s such a big deal? If it’s all up in your grill I get it, or some stupid liability thing. Otherwise, there’s little enough joy in the world, what’s the harm?