Is an elephant involved? I think I know this one but had completely forgotten about it until I read this.

While I get where you’re coming from, most people don’t understand what’s normal to others because they think their experience is normal. And most of us won’t get to experience someone else’s experiences to figure out what’s normal for others and what isn’t. You might be fully satisfied with your situation because it is a good situation, but it also might be because you don’t know any better and think what you experience daily to be the norm for everyone, similarly to people living in a dictatorship regime who don’t even know about the possibility of living free so they’re content with their situation.

I’m not saying it’s your case, I’m not saying you should feel bad or that there’s something that doesn’t work the way it should. I’m saying you don’t really know how things should work because you only have your experiences to rely on, and your satisfaction might derive from not knowing what something should actually feel/be like in comparison to what it is.

Also not necessarily correct, foreskin protects from chafing and other similar micro fissures that happen daily for people without foreskin (as shown by the person above you having issues running). And while removing a part of you does lower the chances of getting cancer there, if it’s protecting another part of you from something it can increase the risk of cancer on that other part.

If they say yes you can then continue with “I meant besides yourself”

A similar one to the plant is “somewhere in the world there’s a tree working hard to create the oxygen you just wasted, you should find it and apologize”

The first thing that comes to mind is this episode from the Simpsons, which is essentially that, the episode starts normally and follows what homer does in the day, at some point it goes back to breakfast and starts following Lisa instead then it goes back again and follows Bart. It’s an interesting episode from a narrative perspective.

It’s very different. One is “I will give YOU money if you vote for me” and the other is “I will give EVERYONE money if I win”. The main difference is that one is not discriminating against who people voted for. The first is buying votes, the second is a campaign similar to “I will retroactively lower taxes for this year if I win”, which I don’t think anyone would see as problematic but it’s exactly the same outcome as the one you’re finding problem with, i.e. give people money.

It’s a stupid campaign because anyone with half a brain understand that he’s not going to do it and that that money would have to come from someplace else, but it’s still a campaign promise similar to any other promise politicians make to ask you to vote for them.

I thought they had confirmed that they intended it to be a 40k movie but never got the rights to the name so they made it a “generic” future but kept the script essentially the same.

I forgot the name in English, but ceramic once cooked is very porous and rough, but usually you apply a layer of varnish to make it smooth and waterproof. I read somewhere that the interior of a salt pig is meant to not have that coating of varnish because then the ceramic can absorb the humidity from the salt and prevent it from clumping up.

All of that being said, I might be overthinking a simple storage for salt.

Carbon steel is great, but honestly the main advantage over cast iron is weight and that most modern cast irons (I’m looking at you lodge) have a surface that is a lot rougher. Neither is better than the other, but those differences can make some difference in what you’re trying to accomplish.

Also, and this is very personal experience and could very well be that my seasoning on the lodge I have is not great, but I find that I can stir cook some tomatoes on carbon steel and the seasoning remains great, but I get a metallic taste when doing the same on my cast iron.

Sorry to hear about that, have you considered getting some Carbon Steel? They’re thinner and therefore lighter but have very similar performance and characteristics

Which salt pig have you gotten? I want to get one but most don’t say whether their interior is coated or not, the only one I can find that specifies it’s not is the Emile Henry one, but I liked more the old design but it doesn’t seem to be made anymore

Most often used is probably a stupid answer like fridge, dishwasher. But I’m going to set myself a rule for answering, and that is “if I could replace it for a similar product and not feel the difference, it doesn’t count”, so while I use my fridge and dishwasher a lot, if they were different fridges/dishwashers I would feel exactly the same about them.

With that in mind, it’s difficult to answer because I’ve bought a couple of things recently that are quickly becoming my most appreciated items, and those are:

• A good carbon steel pan (De Buyer mineral b pro)
• A good knife (Dao Vua Bunka)

The carbon steel pan, has been amazing, first time since I ditched Teflon that I’ve been able to make a perfect omelette without it getting stuck to the pan.

The knife is not the best knife ever, and I know knife enthusiasts will tell me it’s shit, but it beats the crap out of all of my other knives, and it’s a joy to work with. Also it’s cheap so I don’t care that much if I fuck It learning to sharpen it or to take care of a carbon knife.

AFAIK UK is the only country that’s named “United Kingdom of something” and it’s shorter than Great Britain and Northern Ireland, so it doesn’t need disambiguation.

Those take over a month to manufacture though, so by the time you get them you will already have earned more than they’re worth, not to mention what will you do with them?

While as an American (the continent) I find that annoying, their country name IS America. For example, these are some other countries full names:

• Republic of the United States of Brazil (until 1930, now it’s Federative Republic of Brazil)
• Kingdom of Spain
• Argentine Republic
• United States of Venezuela
• Oriental Republic of Uruguay

Etc, a lot of countries have a long name that explains what type of government they run and then the actual name of the country, the United States of Venezuela is a country named Venezuela that was formed by a coalition of states, I know nothing of Venezuela but because of its name I can imagine states have some autonomy in their ruling. And similarly United States of America is a country named America that was formed by a coalition of states, they just decided to name their country after the continent they’re in making life difficult for the future generations.

Jef bezos net worth is 284 billion, a very bad investment yields 4% annually, that roughly translates to 11.4 billion per year, or around a billion per month, or around 31 million per day, 1.3 million per hour, or 22 thousand per minute.

In the time it took me to write this, of Jeff Bezos is stupid (which he’s not) and does very bad and safe investments he already earned over 100 thousand. The time it takes you to think on an innovative idea to spend money they already earned more than what you would spend, and the time it takes to do anything they already earned more. Think about this, of they wanted to buy a million dollar house on a different country that would take them 12h to reach by private jet, they literally lost no money buying the house and traveling there to sign the papers and fly back.

I dare you to tell me something that would actually lose them more money than what they would earn in the time it takes to enjoy it.

I don’t remember the charges he did time for other than them vaguely being about ‘corruption’.

That’s because they were bogus charges, they were only meant to remove him from the election. In short he was accused of money laundering and corruption, because they claimed that he received bribes through renovations on an apartment (that he didn’t owned nor lived in), and in short he was arrested before being judged, he served a couple of years in jail having been denied his abeas corpus while the prosecutor charging him gave speeches saying things like “we might not have proof, but we have convictions”. Eventually the judge that prosecuted Lula was given a position as the ministry of security in the government he help elect by taking Lula from the election, and a panel of supreme judges ruled he had had no actual evidence to convict Lula and overthrew the conviction.

He had close ties with Christina Kirchner, which is well known to have had people killed for investigating her,

Yeah, that’s one of the other ones I know enough to say they’re very well put on that list.

and i remember something about him and her wanting to make some kind of latin american alliance thing which I consider a terrifying idea.

It’s called Mercosur, it’s a very good idea that predates both Lula and Kirchner, it was formally declared in 85 by Sarney and Alfonsín. Lula has been a very strong advocate for a more united Mercosur, wanting it to be similar to the EU, this has nothing to do with left or right wing, Paraguay is a member and Lula has kept good relationships with Peña despite him being right wing, at the same time the Mercosur suspended Venezuela after the election fraud and Lula has criticized Maduro because of his authoritarian regime.

There were also stuff about political persecution of the bolsonaro nutjob proteters but I’ll take that with a big pinch of salt.

Yeah, they’re calling political persecution to the fact that violent radical protestors enticed by social media who invaded the house of government and destroyed property in an attempt to overthrow the results of an election were given the option to go through an education course and abstain from social media or serve prison sentences, and they chose prison sentences, so now they’re in jail (surprised Pikachu face). Some documents also showed that it was part of a plan from Bolsonaro to create confusion while Lula was assassinated, and his answer to that was “it doesn’t matter that we planned it and had it all scheduled, the assassin didn’t actually do it so we can’t be judged for planning something that didn’t happened”

I agree with most of what you said, but there’s one thing we STRONGLY disagree with, and that is Lula. The others you mentioned I either don’t know enough to have a strong opinion or (most of them) wholeheartedly agree that are authoritarians with only their own interests in mind. But putting Lula in the same bag as those guys shows that either you don’t know enough about him, or that you fell for the misinformation campaigns done by the Brazilian extreme right when trying to get elected.

And I’m case we’re not clear, I’m a latin american who lived during most of Lula’s governments in Brazil and I think he is a fair and ethical leader with the best interest of its people in mind. And if I were allowed to vote in Brazil I would have voted for him, without a doubt.

So, instead of assuming your information on him and trying to explain all of the policies he created through all of his governments, I’ll ask you what makes you think he’s like that?

I’m also a latin american, I’m not saying corruption doesn’t exist on the left wing, or that they’re not assholes who will go crazy with power. Also I’m not saying voting right wing is always the wrong thing to do, for me authoritarian/democratic is much more important than left/right, so if my choices are authoritarian left vs democratic right, I’ll vote right.

But fundamentally when asked about inequality the right wing answer is always along the lines of “it is what it is” or “it will be solved very slowly over the next hundreds of years by not doing anything”, both of which are either ignorant or evil, and of you’re talking about an educated person one of those should be off the table.