Brainsploosh

Such a pretty kitty!

What's brown and sticky?

A stick

Well written article, poor summary- bad bot

Hey! There's the badass wise alien dude as well, probably my favorite one.

Also, don't forget cynical back-up lady, planet, techno wizard, mushroom ship, robed tramp, warcrime doctor, and poorly cgi:d insect

It's about three years of damage late, but I guess the arms producers finally figured out that Russia has learnt and surpassed their tech.

Jeff Goldblum is such a treasure

Technically you're correct, however, the unevenness of the cast iron pans is harder to clean and thus effectively retains more flavor. In common parlance: the pan absorbs flavor even though the iron doesn't (let's gloss over the few things that do bond to iron).

Beyond cast iron, which is cast and thus has a rough surface from the molding. Carbon steel pans are made from sheets and then shaped, it's the same material, only different processing. But the sheet is smooth, meaning less nooks and crannies for stuff to hide behind come cleaning time.

Also, have you considered the feel of grass against your fingers, I hear it's lovely this time of year.

Your argument was that fascists can destroy a lot of incremental change in a short while. I'm agreeing with you.

Although your assertion that it doesn't apply to politics is tenuous. I would say there's plenty of evidence against it from the dawn of civilisation: Ur, the Aztecs, Babylon, Ancient Greece, Persia, the Nordic countries, China, Enlightenment France, the Roman Empire, the Empire of Japan, the Austro-Hungarian Empire. All rode to ages of political dominance on the backs of stability, even the ones who resorted to genocide or purging opposition.

Cuba, Poland, Iraq, the EU and Australia have all also had immense growth and development in the last century in tandem with stability. In contrast to Afghanistan, ISIS, Palestine or the African warlord regions who haven't had as much.

So my point still stands, in the US, at least one party has spent decades tearing down, and from the looks of it one of them never tried to build anything up.

Yet, the population continues to vote this way. It's hard not to see it as voluntary; In that much time, accessing as much free information and thought as the US has, you can't really claim to be ignorant of differing information, other than willfully.

If both ruling parties are that obviously corrupt, why is there no action? It's been done in the country before, as well as in many other places, including in the last decade (Arab spring, South Korean president, BLM).

The argument points toward willfull acceptance if not outright choice.

If you disagree, give me evidence, not just your feelings.

If you don't, but don't accept the consequence - get out there and do something about it.

I use a carbon steel pan, as I find the smoothness much easier to keep clean (smaller pores than cast iron).

I spent some time seasoning it at first (6 layers is a little overkill, I did 8, don't be me), and now I just lightly scrub/wipe off any food or oils after cooking and reseason maybe monthly if that. My pan is dry and clean between uses.

If I burn food or it sticks for some other reason, I scrub harder. If I need an abrasive, I reseason afterwards.

Reseasoning includes cleaning thoroughly with detergent to get any soot off. Then rubbing in oil with cloth, and drying off as much as possible with a clean cloth before popping it into the oven for an hour. Wiping it down gives thin, even layers.

If need be I repeat up to three times.

I've used them for 4-5 years now without issue.

My cast iron grill pan absorbs more flavors though, so that needs a lot more cleaning if switching between cuisines.

I think that positive change takes time, patience and planning. Destruction and plundering next to none.

Even if a messiah would force through single payer universal healthcare working through all the hurdles, teething problems and upheaval to get something in place. It doesn't take more than a Musk-Trump to tear it down in a month.

The Republicans have been tearing stuff down for a long while and for decades not building anything worthwhile. But apparently that's the way the country wants it

Agreed.

But I don't get why the expectation is that Biden would be the hero to save 50 years of progressively worse governance by the republicans. Even if he was altogether the ideal (which I'm not sure any politician could be), he's still human and also has a huge government apparatus with considerable inertia to overcome. And replacing people leads to the same behaviours we see now, entrenched resistance, passive resistance, loss of knowledge, loss of service/communication/trust/reliability, wasted resources, etc.

Constructive politics needs to create a stable environment, that can't be done by drastic changes, and especially not in every facet every 4 years. Isn't that why there's now so much chaos, uncertainty and loss of trust both nationally and overseas?