To be fair I’m sure most COBOL devs are on the verge of dementia.

You could also go the opposite direction like me. I just started watching The Man in the High Castle. It seemed topical after the inauguration.

If they’ll let me then I’ll just not leave the house. Now that I think about it Canadian prison actually seems like a great option for a shut-in american emigrant.

Yeah, it has potential but it’s still just do buggy.

One time when I was watching my sisters mastiff I took him to the dog park and saw him get attacked by a little terrier. Bear in mind that this is a +200lb dog who’s job it was to protect livestock on my sisters farm when she had a farm. When that terrier attacked him he literally just put a paw down and pinned the poor thing with it then looked over at me like “help. What do I do with this?” The poor terrier was fine but it’s like, really? That mastiff is bread to be able to fight wolves. What in that little terriers mind made it think it was going to be the david to that goliath.

I still remember when my sister was sick as a kid and my dad asked her if she was going to puke because she looked like she was. She got half way through saying “no” when she abruptly projectile vomited all over him.

Something about this really makes me want to see if you can separate out the component metals of a car via extremely high temp fractional distilation.

You’re still putting too much work into this. Just heat up the metal shaft where the knob was with a torch and press any old hunk of thermo plastic onto it. Now you have janky done even more quick and cheap.

This is why I always buy cheap vice grips whenever I see them in a box of tools at an estate sale or something.

“Oops, I broke a handle on (thing).”

Clamps vice grips on the bit left over

“Fixed it.”

Right now both of the seats in my truck just have a vice grips for the reclining lever.

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Ah, going with the quantum bogo sort then.

You say that, but I have had a pet snake since I was a child and because I was a boy child I assumed they were male. But once I got older it occured to me that I have no idea if they’re actually male or female (because sexing a snake isn’t as easy as with mammals) and it seems more likely that they’re actually female. But I’m not certain either way and I genuinely don’t care. So I’ve since started refering to them as they/them. My dad still points it out every time I do it. “Oh, you have multiple snakes?” It’s kinda weird considering he’s so progressive in every other way.

You definitely don’t need to oil it after every use. The main reason for applying oil is to keep it from rusting while it sits. If you just use it at least once a week then that rust isn’t a concern. Even if it did rust you can just scrub the rust off before you use it.

There is all sorts of special care you can do to cast iron if you really get into it. But if you really don’t care then you can just use it and wash it exactly like any other pan without issue. The whole soap thing is a myth now a days because modern soaps don’t contain lye anymore. Soap is entirely unnecessary in cast iron but it won’t hurt it. Seasoning is adequately acheived just by actually cooking with it. You really don’t need any special process to season it unless you deliberately stripped off all the old seasoning. You can cook acidic foods in it without issue. I do tomato sauce in mine all the time.

Coated pans require way more care. At least I can use proper metal utensils in my cast iron.

It’s pretty hard to ruin good cast iron. A good cast iron pan could spend a year at the bottom of a lake and all it would need is a good scrub and reseason to be good to go again.

About the only thing I’ve seen that makes them completely irrecoverable is when people use them to melt lead. Also you can crack the cheap ones in half with thermal shock.

You can fly with a gun in the US as long as it is in a checked bag. As long as it was in her checked bag and stored properly then the TSA has no reason to care. It was on her to know what is and isn’t allowed at her destination.

This is definitely someone who shouldn’t be allowed to own a gun. If you pull a gun on an assailant and refuse to shoot, then congratulations, you’ve just armed your assailant. You never pull a gun on anyone or anything unless you are planning to shoot it. What an absolute moron. They give clowns a bad name.

My new excuse is, “I only know linux, I don’t know anything about windows.”