Here’s so far the best seasoning method for cast iron that I’ve found after having tried multiple ones and not having too great of a success. It can’t be overstated how important it is to remove all excess oil. It doesn’t take much to ruin the results.

• Wash with soap and hot water.
• Dry thoroughly.
• Immediately into a 100 degrees C oven for 20 minutes.
• Heavy coat of oil. Canola oil works fine.
• Wipe ALL of it off. First with a cloth, then with a paper towel.
• Put back into the oven and let it warm up to 150 degrees C. Then take out and wipe with a paper towel once more.
• Back into the oven and let it heat up and bake at 250 degrees C for an hour.
• Let it fully cool before next layer.
• For the first treatment, at least 3 layers are needed. Five is even better.

Cast iron lasts multiple lifetimes and only gets better as it’s being used so it’s not really even a competition in my books. It has its downsides but at least I’m not replacing it every 5 years or so.

From the few customers who have requested a written contract for the work I’m about to perform.

There are infinite things to pay attention to so I don’t feel the need to learn to be interested about something I feel no natural pull towards when there already are countless of other things to focus on. Watching sports isn’t anywhere near the top of the list of things I’d be getting into if I suddenly had more than 24 hours in a day to spend.

Internet was the “AI” of the dotcom bubble. It didn’t go anywhere after the bubble burst and neither will AI. What will go away are the companies with only hype but no product. Amazon and eBay came about during the dotcom bubble and now companies like OpenAI and Anthropic will likely be equivalent ones.

The bubble bursts when investors start losing faith that the company they have invested into will become profitable so they pull out, which makes other investors get scared so they pull out too and then the company goes under.

The difference is intentions. The intentions of a terrorist attack is to cause terror in the civilian population.

I don’t think it matters. The rest of the world has already learned that the US can only be trusted for four years at a time at best.

It’s not like people are going to start trusting Russia either once Putin is gone.

I started my own handyman business 3 years ago and I don’t consider it a scam nor did I need to invest millions up-front. Not even thousands in-fact. I earn a comfortable living from it and tons of gratitude from happy customers.

It’s pretty easy to stand out to your advantage by being fair and honest. People notice it and they tell other people too.

Many people hate human created content if you tell them it was done with AI and vice versa. It’s not the content itself but the story people tell themselves about it.

It’s the same as saying all toupees look bad. No, only the bad toupees that you can detect do - the rest do not.

People with tattoos used to be considered rebels. Now it’s the people without any.

Who “everyone”?

I thought it’s pretty common knowledge that solar panels are more efficient in cold climate.

That’s intentional. It wasn’t an invitation.

I pay for access to a certain social media platform specifically because the content is far above what you get on free platforms.

We have good definitions for what we mean by the word consciousness. We just don’t know how it comes about.

It’s the fact of experience. That it is like something to be. That experience has qualia.

Nor have I ever intentionally subscribed to one.

That doesn’t answer the question “what is intelligence” no more than a thermometer explains what is heat energy.

This applies in real life too - not just social media platforms. The extremists of your own side are often far more damaging to your cause than the ones on the other side of the aisle. It’s the loud minority keeping everyone else a hostage. I’d even go as far as to claim that much of the success of “the right” can be explained by the failures of “the left.”

Interestingly, a similar thing is happening with pride. I know lots of other gay guys who want nothing to do with them simply because just being gay is no longer enough to be accepted into the group. No - you have to sign off on a big laundry list of other completely unrelated stances and if you don’t, you’re effectively straight and also fascist.

The right has much less of an issue with me being gay than the left has with me not agreeing with (insert any far left grievance). It’s just one of the many examples of how it’s not that men are being pulled towards the right but rather being pushed there.

you low IQ low T soy boy

I wasn’t expecting you to start insulting me over a disagreement. You could’ve made your point without going there. I genuinely have no idea what you hoped to achieve with that.

A properly maintained composting toilet produces what is effectively compost. It smells like soil, not poop. I believe the tradition is that you empty the toilet and then let it sit for a year while the decomposing reaction is going on and it’s safe to use as fertilizer the next year.

Not really for as long as people engaging in the comments were real people. Though, then again, if they all were bots too but I didn’t know and couldn’t tell, then I’m not sure what the harm there even would be. If anything, I’d only expect the engagement to be more civil.