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What's the worst invention of the 21st century?
  • A cast iron skillet. If you use it regularly the seasoning will be so good that it's as functional as any PTFE nonstick pan, you can use metal cooking utensils on it instead of having to get plastic/silicon stuff (for PTFE), and it serves many purposes from stove top to oven. If you can find a "vintage" one at a yard sale from when they used to hand polish them smooth instead of pre-seasoning them with a rough texture, even better. When I bought a small Lodge one years ago, I used a grinder and sanding discs to polish off the factory textured seasoning and re-seasoned it myself, which worked a charm! If you go that route, I recommend doing it outside, because the amount of metal dust that it stirs up is impressive (and magnetic, so an absolute mess to clean up).

  • Why in 2024 do people still believe in religion? (serious)
  • God existing would absolutely place all responsibility upon God, not on its creation for doing only what it was created and constrained to do by that God. Every "decision" would require that God to allow it, making that God responsible.

  • AOC backs Hunter Biden verdict and says its proof Dems are ‘willing to accept when our justice system works’
  • I assumed you were getting downvoted initially for the disingenuous "both sides" rhetoric which is a non-point that has been gone over in detail here ad nauseum, and then subsequently because you doubled down by implying if people downvoted your first point, it means they think politicians have their best interests in mind. I don't think anyone believes that, so it kind of reads like you're tilting at windmills.

  • What jobs were you horrified to learn are done by people with little to no experience or training?
  • Licensed Clinical Social Workers are a dime a dozen, and while there are some excellent ones, they're diamonds in a very abrasive rough. I have had mixed luck with PhD psychologists as well. Engineers and psychologists with PhDs were the first people I met who made me realize a PhD indicates someone is persistent, but not necessarily smart.

  • ‘It’s time we put a felon in the White House,’ California sheriff says
  • Not necessarily pertaining to your point, which I get, and have also heard directly from people I know IRL who are now or used to be police. I just get surprised every time how indignant they will get over other people committing crimes repeatedly, while they overlook the same things in their own in-group, or even help shelter.

  • ‘It’s time we put a felon in the White House,’ California sheriff says
  • Interestingly, the rate of domestic abuse among LEO is significantly higher than in the normal population. "Good cops" clean their own house so rarely that when they do, they can become a celebrity and have a book and movie written about them (Serpico).

  • Tesla investor accuses Elon Musk of $7.5 billion of insider trades
  • If he's really dosing ketamine, it feels odd that he can't seem to develop any sense of oneness with the universe, awareness of the innate value of other people, empathy for them, and self-humility. I guess it affects people differently, but what's it actually doing for him?

  • Why does Planned Parenthood contract with Raytheon?
  • No one is denying Raytheon makes things for the military, that can only be used by the military, and test those things in conjunction with the military in military bases, and get special dispensation to sell them to allied militaries, but they are not part of the military and also make many things that are sold commercially. And, some of the things they invented and used to be sold only to the military have resulted in civilian applications and are sold to normal people.

    An example: they spun off their air conditioning business to a separate company years back, it was huge news. Maybe you have heard of them: Amana? Later owned by Maytag and now Whirlpool? Are those part of the military? You can't enlist to be a Raytheon employee just like you can't enlist to be an Amana employee.

    You know who else makes many things for the military? Lighthouse for the Blind, an organization that employs and trains many vision- and hearing-impaired people. But they're also not part of the military. And same thing with many other companies that bid for and win military contracts to provide many different items that are also sold to civilians.

  • Do you organize the order of your groceries in the checkout line?

    I'm just wondering what the title asks: do you organize your groceries in the order you will check them out, if doing self-checkout, or arrange them on the belt/counter in a standard checkout line, in the hope that they'll be bagged in a specific way?

    I didn't know there was any other way people do it, but just learned some people prefer to checkout/bag without pre-arranging things. I'm kind of curious to see what's more common, or if there's some other options I haven't considered?

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    C++ creator rebuts White House warning
    www.infoworld.com C++ creator rebuts White House warning

    Biden administration seems oblivious of the strengths of contemporary C++ and the efforts to provide strong safety guarantees, Bjarne Stroustrup said.

    C++ creator rebuts White House warning

    Python is memory safe? Can't you access/address memory with C bindings?

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    Aaron Rodgers and Jesse Ventura on RFK Jr vice-presidential shortlist
    www.bbc.com Aaron Rodgers and Jesse Ventura on RFK Jr vice-presidential shortlist

    The independent candidate's campaign says Aaron Rodgers and Jesse Ventura are on the shortlist for the role.

    Aaron Rodgers and Jesse Ventura on RFK Jr vice-presidential shortlist

    Celebrity conspiracy theorists and pseudoscience promoters with ties to Russian state-run media outlets. In case there weren't already enough of those candidates.

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