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Every generation has some product/ingredient that they didn’t know was dangerous at the time: tobacco, lead, asbestos, etc. What is that item for this generation?
  • I love my gas stove, we just upgraded the hood, the old one barely covered the range top and was so loud nobody wanted to be in the kitchen when it was running. As unofficial family safety officer and fun dampener I'm always turning it on but that basically made conversations impossible and multitasking difficult.

    I grew up with electric ranges and then my young adulthood saw a series of lowest possible price stoves included in apartments, I could not wait to get away from them.

    Our extremely crappy coil based electric range burned out and at the time I researched it a pretty nice gas stove was half of what a comparable induction stove was. Now I understand there are more options and it seems obvious to go induction for the next one.

    That being said I think I will miss the gas stove, it feels very intuitive the way the flame reacts to the knob and the speed that the pans heat. The coil stoves I have used have all had hot spots, it isnhard to tell when they have reached full temperature and different cookware heats up very differently.

  • we all have a comfort chair, tell me I'm wrong
  • Thanks for these suggestions, I will check them out. I've read both good and bad reviews about the various chairs at costco and ikea, they all seem fine to me when I sit in them but then I've had two $100~ chairs start to give out in 8-10 months and then be passively irritating for another year or so before becoming intolerable.

    I'm working from home 8+ hours a day in a Lifeform chair that I can't find the model number on the internet(looks kind of like a legacy 900 but different fabric and adjustment arm placement). My mom bought it in a shop in Austin probably 15+ years ago and gave it to me when she closed her office. It's comfortable but extremely heavy and almost too adjustable, all of the moveable parts creak and don't stay where they are set reliably.

  • Retail employers wants you to cover employee's 10 to 20% income via tips and NPR is on board
  • I read this article too and I don't see where npr is saying this is ok. They are giving these workers a platform to express their side of it but what the workers are really saying is that they are being exploited financially. This main guy being interviewed says he loves doing this but the laws are allowing the business to subsidise his wages based on customer kindness. That is clearly not ok, the tipped minimum wage is clearly not ok.

    "If there is some means of tipping that's available to you, that should signal to you that workers there aren't being paid enough," says Schenker.

  • we all have a comfort chair, tell me I'm wrong
  • Any suggestions on decent chairs? I'm in the market for two chairs for my wife and son doing grad school and college from home.

    Everyone says they get aerons or steelcase leaps cheap but in central Texas the best I've seen are 400-600 and at least an hour drive each way. That's still kind of steep for me (especially given the two household members in university right now)

  • What are some good non-freemium games for Android that I can play for a few minutes at a time?
  • Sherlock Zen is a logic puzzle game that looks like dos shareware from the win 3.1 era.

    The previous version was one of the first android games I ever installed, I played through the free levels a couple of times but never bought the unlock.

    I thought about it recently when doing a grid logic puzzle in a magazine I bought at the airport and went looking for it. I was sad that it didn't seem to exist anymore and eventually went down a rabbit hole and found the creators website which gave me huge nostalgia. He is also active on mastodon. So I bought the new version finally and have been thoroughly enjoying it!

  • What video game have you played the most, that you think is garbage and no one else should ever play?
  • yeah the one I played the most of is Warframe, it's very doable to just play it and I'm impressed by the amount of content they have put out.. it almost feels like they failed at the model because I felt so little incentive to give them money beyond wanting to support them, fortunately they seem to be doing fine and I would think that would serve as a good model for others

  • What video game have you played the most, that you think is garbage and no one else should ever play?
  • What I am seeing here is that mostly people regret playing free to play games. That tells me that their business model is working as intended but we should all wise up.

    My regret is spending too much time making cool mods work together and then not playing the games, oblivion was the worst because I didn't get it until skyrim was a year or two old and there were so many stupid mods out already. Most of them are janky or old and have incompatibilities with each other. I discovered pretty quickly that I need less options not more in open world rpgs because I'm an adult and don't have time to play games the way my heart wants to (look in every door, under every bush, around every corner).

  • What video game have you played the most, that you think is garbage and no one else should ever play?
  • arena on low setting brings my i7 integrated GPU to it's knees, my laptop fans run on full blast and my room gets hot, if I get matched with an opponent that has a pet with particle effects it dips into single digit fps. meanwhile I get 45fps pretty consistently in wow

  • What's a true fact that is so misleading it's borderline misinformation?
  • but if we are trying to save the world getting the lowest mpg vehicles off of the road first will have a stronger effect

    if you already drive a 30mpg car and you are ready to upgrade then definitely look for better efficiency but I think we should have incentives in place to get cars that operate at for instance 16 mpg (my first car for instance, 1996 Chevy blazer, now deceased) replaced by even 10 year old models which are much more efficient

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