Yeah honestly there’s no point adding meaningless chatter either. I like the comment sections here because it feels like people have let their words settle in their minds before they started mashing the keyboard.

Contra still holds up very well, really fun to play with a friend.

I use stainless for acidic foods. Most of the advantages of cast iron are irrelevant when you’re making a sauce anyway, since the water adds mass, distributes heat and deglazes the bottom.

My favorite pan is from the 70s and I got it out of tge trash.

I recently got an induction stove (not even one of the expensive ones) and am so blown away by how fast it can heat up cast iron pans. It’s seconds, not minutes.

I mean I’m sure it’s pretty much instant with pans of lower mass, but instant isn’t what I need.

Why didn’t I think of that?

Not sure if this is real, but just to be clear, it is totally stripping your body of all ions, including the electrolytes that your nerves need to keep your lungs and heart functioning.

Small amounts will be fine, especially if you don’t hold your pee, but it can absolutely kill you. Read up on water intoxication if you want to know more.

Quit reddit 5 years ago. Had a 12 year old account then.

Thread asked for early examples of racism against a certain group, by my country. I dug up such examples and translated them into English. The examples included slurs. Got permabanned for using slurs, no appeal.

Apparently I should have included a racism trigger warning in a thread asking for examples of racism, although the mod admitted that that wouldn’t have saved me either.

This is a site which was notorious for indulging in gore with videos of people being killed by the way. Bunch of weirdos.

That’s not why I deleted my account though. The last straw was when CIA thinktanks made a hostile takeover of all Middle East and geopolitics subs, forcing a Washington agenda to manufactor consent for war. The Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq subs were riddled with ex-military Americans and the mods were literally paid thinktank gooners. They were quite open about it too.

That’s one of the most infuriating things. Like, you get tons of posts on your frontpage that you did not choose. At some point you engage with some unhinged statement, trying to reason with the lonely wayward person that said something horrible or sad. You are now shadowbanned from multiple large communities, so no normal users will see your posts and you won’t even get notified that this action has been taken against you.

If you need to wash something with hot water but don’t like the steam, mix it with cold water before applying.

No it doesn’t. She’s blaming social media for actually getting the truth out there. She’s been at the center of US politics for decades, in the White House for a lot of the time. She’s just panicking because the narrative that she’s been part of pushing is crashing down.

Misinformation is a problem, yes. And traditional media also reports misinformation. Here is how responsible actors react to misinformation.

to engage in some kind of reasonable discussion, it was very difficult because they did not know history, they had very little context

I don’t need context to know that it’s wrong to rape an autistic prisoner to death. I don’t need context to know that it’s wrong to bomb cattle and fields in order to starve a population. And why should I listen to Hillary fucking Clinton, the single cause for why open-air slave markets could open in Libya. Fuck her and fuck Bubba too.

I can see the ridges that cut across each segment in the rings of a fingerprint. And the fibers that make up the threads in a piece of cloth.

I’m very near-sighted. Also means I have a built-in microscope.

I’m not very sensitive to bright lights. But I can also see better in low-light conditions than anyone I know. Not sure how that works.

It’s 403 because they are upfront about the resource being censored as opposed to unavailable, and they tell you who to contact if you have legigimate reasons to access it.

It was annoying as hell trying to download a LaTeX compiler and having the entire word be blocked, presumably because certain degenerates use latex - the material - for immoral acts.

What if someone doubles down on being an absolute tool, can I be rude about dismantling their personality then?

Cool! Community-specific defaults is actually not a bad idea.

Exactly, threads that get new activity should be bumped. Maybe they don’t need to be super-visible for people who ignored the thread in the first place, but they could at least go to the top-50 posts.

I think it would be cool if conversations that link to the same URL are all automatically grouped, so that reposts just become bumps with a new context/title.