riskable

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[–] riskable@programming.dev 10 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Melt some PET water/soda bottles (e.g. with a heat gun) so the plastic drips on to the bottom side and scratch out a huge ass warning into it with a hobby knife (or any knife, really... It's just PET). Also write another warning with a sharpie in multiple locations.

Why this method? Because that plastic will stick pretty good to the bottom of a cast iron panβ€”making anyone thinking of using it think twice, "How TF am I going to get that off without making a gross burning plastic stink?" Or a fool will try and quickly get annoyed that it won't sit flat on their stovetop and it'll be too far away from an induction heater to work. Make the plastic nice and uneven πŸ‘

Also, if you're just hanging it up on the wall no one will see the bottom so it won't uglify your pretty hanging pan.

Melting a water bottle with a heat gun happens pretty fast and the iron pan will absorb the heat in the plastic quickly too. So the whole process will take less than a minute. Then scratching out a warning label will take a few minutes 😁

[–] riskable@programming.dev 49 points 7 months ago

More Americans are witnessing people being hauled off as they shop, exercise at the gym, dine out and otherwise go about their daily lives

There was another time in history when this happened. It's pretty famous. Maybe the news media could make that reference? Nah, that would be too prescient and "too biased." In the same way the news media didn't report the same things realistically for the same reason during that other time in history when this happened.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You obviously haven't met it's immodest cousin: The lamp pole dancer.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 4 points 7 months ago

Underneath that mask is a sheepish grin

[–] riskable@programming.dev 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't know how you can even listen with all that hare under the stethoscope!

[–] riskable@programming.dev 24 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Biden just followed through with what was negotiated with the Taliban by the former Trump administration. If the US doesn't follow through we lose credibility in all future negotiations with everyone.

What you're complaining about is the fact that Trump et all made an agreement to pull out the troops within a certain (completely unreasonable) timeline. They had no idea WTF they were doing and obviously didn't do due diligence or any sort of logistics planning for such a withdrawal before making the agreement.

If you think that sounds like bullshit let me ask you this: Does Trump ever do due diligence on anything? During his first administration nearly all his executive orders got thrown out because they were deemed arbitrary and capricious and during his second administration it looks like we're getting the same exact situation.

They don't know what they're doing. They don't know how to govern. If they didn't have several powerful right wing media empires backing up every stupid decision they make Trump would never have been re-elected and he'd have long since been impeached in this administration.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 38 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Missing:

  • A game console
  • All the maps in the world + compass
  • Gigantic notepad
  • Calendar
  • Entire stack of catalogs
  • Newspapers
  • Thermostat
  • A whole fucking supercomputer
  • An entire building-sized stack of photo albums
  • Flashlight
  • An sycophant assistant who makes shit up just to keep you happy.
[–] riskable@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago

I can understand the appeal of the Ten Commandments to conservatives. Each commandment has its own prescribed punishment and for Texans, especially, I'm sure they all sound fantastic:

  1. Death.
  2. Death.
  3. Death.
  4. Death.
  5. Death.
  6. Death.
  7. Death.
  8. Death.
  9. Death.
  10. Feces on their faces.
[–] riskable@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago

Actually I believe the correct term is, "fascism"

[–] riskable@programming.dev 45 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Correction: Education is not OK.

AI is just giving poor kids the same opportunities rich kids have had for decades. Opportunities for cheating the system that was made specifically not to give students the best education possible but instead to bring them up to speed on the bare minimum required to become factory workers.

Except we don't have very many factories any more. And we don't have jobs for all these graduates that pay a living wage.

The banks are going to have to get involved soon. They're going to have to figure out a way to load up working-age people with long term debt without college being involved.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Not covered on the site: The fact that San Francisco experiences earthquakes. Unlike all those other cities it sources as being perfectly fine with completely different building standards.

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