A cast iron skillet. If you use it regularly the seasoning will be so good that it’s as functional as any PTFE nonstick pan, you can use metal cooking utensils on it instead of having to get plastic/silicone stuff (for PTFE), and it serves many purposes from stove top to oven. If you can find a “vintage” one at a yard sale from when they used to hand polish them smooth instead of pre-seasoning them with a rough texture, even better. When I bought a small Lodge one years ago, I used a grinder and sanding discs to polish off the factory textured seasoning and re-seasoned it myself, which worked a charm! If you go that route, I recommend doing it outside, because the amount of metal dust that it stirs up is impressive (and magnetic, so an absolute mess to clean up).

That is not an answer, it’s a man avoiding the question entirely.

God existing would absolutely place all responsibility upon God, not on its creation for doing only what it was created and constrained to do by that God. Every “decision” would require that God to allow it, making that God responsible.

5k people is a bigger population than many towns yes, but crammed into a 250x250x1100 foot box in the biggest case (Ford class)

Tiling window managers like i3 may be what you’re looking for

I assumed you were getting downvoted initially for the disingenuous “both sides” rhetoric which is a non-point that has been gone over in detail here ad nauseum, and then subsequently because you doubled down by implying if people downvoted your first point, it means they think politicians have their best interests in mind. I don’t think anyone believes that, so it kind of reads like you’re tilting at windmills.

Rich people having to take a ferry to the mainland to get their weed = immediate effort from legislators.

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Great writing! This reminds me of Amy Hempel.

Not necessarily pertaining to your point, which I get, and have also heard directly from people I know IRL who are now or used to be police. I just get surprised every time how indignant they will get over other people committing crimes repeatedly, while they overlook the same things in their own in-group, or even help shelter.

Interestingly, the rate of domestic abuse among LEO is significantly higher than in the normal population. “Good cops” clean their own house so rarely that when they do, they can become a celebrity and have a book and movie written about them (Serpico).

There’s the rub. The outdoors and land in BIBN are beautiful and inexpensive but you have the local wildlife bigotry to contend with.

If he’s really dosing ketamine, it feels odd that he can’t seem to develop any sense of oneness with the universe, awareness of the innate value of other people, empathy for them, and self-humility. I guess it affects people differently, but what’s it actually doing for him?

It’s also happening to practically every other animal, and some of them were more sensitive to the effects before people.

It should say inflation-causing.

F I R E F O X already

Just “as any” everything until it runs. That’s runs, not works.

I got as far as seeing they chose Java and opening the constants file, and immediately executed a strategic withdrawal. I love that people went to this level of detail

Now I’m interested to try vegemite, on pumpernickel rye toast with crunchy peanut butter and blackberry or raspberry jam, or cherry preserves.

No one is denying Raytheon makes things for the military, that can only be used by the military, and test those things in conjunction with the military in military bases, and get special dispensation to sell them to allied militaries, but they are not part of the military and also make many things that are sold commercially. And, some of the things they invented and used to be sold only to the military have resulted in civilian applications and are sold to normal people.

An example: they spun off their air conditioning business to a separate company years back, it was huge news. Maybe you have heard of them: Amana? Later owned by Maytag and now Whirlpool? Are those part of the military? You can’t enlist to be a Raytheon employee just like you can’t enlist to be an Amana employee.

You know who else makes many things for the military? Lighthouse for the Blind, an organization that employs and trains many vision- and hearing-impaired people. But they’re also not part of the military. And same thing with many other companies that bid for and win military contracts to provide many different items that are also sold to civilians.