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- Comment on Do people vote just by name recognition on the ballot or do they vote for the issues? 8 hours ago:
Platform.
- name recognitions says nothing about what they’d do, biased toward older candidates
- voting for issues tends toward single issue votes
- platform is how they tend to vote overall, how close they are to my values, and work for both senior and new candidates
- Comment on Why does the microwave button have a "popcorn" button when every microwave popcorn brand says "DO NOT USE THE POPCORN BUTTON"? 13 hours ago:
As a single datapoint ….
I decided to spend a little more on my microwave and looked for:
- 1200w, highest supported on a standard outlet
- reputable brand
- big enough for a new latter, not just a plate
- +30s button, by far the most commonly used
I see 15 “specialty” buttons; I found auto-defrost useful but never use the rest.
Worth the cost: it’s over ten years old, maybe 15, and still as good as new
- Comment on Let us end the stovetop war with the real chanp 6 days ago:
That’s one of my biggest objections - too many cheap ones with tiny coils. When I got mine, I ended up spending double what I planned, mostly so I could get useful sized coils
And this being the US where induction is rare and expensive , I had to get a double oven and and “smart” features in order to get larger coils
- Comment on Let us end the stovetop war with the real chanp 6 days ago:
I agree with induction where it can sense whether there is a pan but always thought the opposite with gas. Why do those burner knobs need to be reachable by toddlers?
- Comment on Let us end the stovetop war with the real chanp 6 days ago:
Just discovered one place my induction burner is worse for cleanness. Since it’s a glass top there’s no place for boilers to go, except down the side of the range.
Compared to my previous gas stove that had sealed burners that were recessed to catch boilovers
- Comment on Let us end the stovetop war with the real chanp 6 days ago:
I’m not sure what you’re saying here but mine has an app for that
- Comment on Let us end the stovetop war with the real chanp 6 days ago:
They exist
- Comment on Let us end the stovetop war with the real chanp 6 days ago:
Imagine having less asthma in kids and the elderly! Imagine having your inside air be less ubhealthy
- Comment on You've Just Been Hit By The Front Burner Gang 6 days ago:
But induction also leaves you no choice on burner supremacy. Why do they all have weird non-grid burner arrangements and only one large burner?
My front-right is supreme because it’s the only large one. Even if I secretly joined the front-left ascendancy
And that tiny summer burner behind it is unusable because the tiny pot would disappear behind the larger one
- Comment on You've Just Been Hit By The Front Burner Gang 6 days ago:
Front-right rules …… because that’s the big one, with MOAH POWAH!!!
- Comment on laughs in 12 hours, while still driving through texas 1 week ago:
Great. Now do New England
- Comment on Why do we need legal genders at all? 1 week ago:
Some amount of gendered colors is a useful social shortcut. When our children were babies, we painted the nursery green because that’s my favorite color, and otherwise didn’t bother much with color. However when we went out we tended to have some obvious blue to make it simpler to talk about our baby. It’s easier for someone to say “he’s cute” because he has a blue blanket, than to have the “boy or girl?” Discussion.
Similarly our dog has a pink collar because it’s easier for someone to say “she’s cute” rather than “boy or girl?” And have some random person checking her genitals. It’s only here on Lemmy where people get pornographic about mention of a dog where they don’t know the gender
- Comment on They say, "You'll have to wait". It's a bullshit argument against Universal Healthcare. 3 weeks ago:
I got one that’s a true fiasco of twisted incentives.
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I have a chronic condition requiring medication for the rest of my life. There’s almost zero chance of it ever just going away
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doctor will only prescribe 30 days at a time (I don’t know why. He admits there’s no chance of abuse, no black market)
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when he wants to say “yep, still there”, he rejects the refill with “see the doctor”
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now I’m out of medicine and need to call the doctors office, wait on the phone until someone answers, just so they can make an appointment.
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…. typically 3-5 months out. When I’m already out of medicine
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- Comment on They say, "You'll have to wait". It's a bullshit argument against Universal Healthcare. 3 weeks ago:
For-profit healthcare has an incentive to minimize costs
Public healthcare can have incentives like less wait time …. As long as we decide to pay for it
- Comment on Is gender affirming care for cis people a thing? 4 weeks ago:
What about those little blue pills?
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 4 weeks ago:
How about various particle detectors for physics research. Currently we build some of these deep underground to filter out the more local high interaction particles. Perhaps the moon, far from earth, is even better for some.
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 4 weeks ago:
In space there is only radiative method available
But on the moon you’d also have conductive, and be able to connect directly to a massive heat sink
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 4 weeks ago:
Excellent video.
- Comment on My mom an old school nurse will stop at traffic accidents and try to help if no one is around, my new school sister nurse won't. Saying everyone is sue happy thesedays. Who is right? 4 weeks ago:
It was attempted. The serious point is most places have some variation of a Good Samaritan law, so you shouldn’t be afraid to help. However like others said, the details vary by locale so there is no single answer. I even saw one where medical professionals were mandated to help.
Then it was an attempt at satire, apparently a poor attempt
- Comment on My mom an old school nurse will stop at traffic accidents and try to help if no one is around, my new school sister nurse won't. Saying everyone is sue happy thesedays. Who is right? 4 weeks ago:
ChatGPT tells me all 50 US states have Good Samaritan laws, but the details vary. However since it didn’t give me the link to verify, that may be just a hallucination
- Comment on How come we still haven't engineered a solution to this?? 5 weeks ago:
Do those really work? I don’t have a need or counter space for the “oven”, and the toaster needs to toast bread. Are those as fast and do they toast as well as the more specialized appliance?
The last thing I need is to take up more counter space. To the contrary, I am considering getting rid of my air fryer. The air fryer has worked really well, so well that I got an oven with that functionality. It would be tough to convince me to take up more counter space
- Comment on Should the next President of the US pardon Trump for all his crap like Ford did Nixon? 5 weeks ago:
He won’t live long enough to face consequences. Let him pass in infamy as the most corrupt ever. Let him be featured only in history about how fragile democracy can be.
And dish out justice for his minions and sycophants, everyone who violated the constitution, broke laws or enriched themselves. Especially including his family
- Comment on How come we still haven't engineered a solution to this?? 5 weeks ago:
Every manual toaster I’ve had allows you to pull it up manually
But somehow my current toaster needed to be electronic with buttons and an LED readout. There’s no manual release, just stick a knife in and try not to electrocute yourself. However it also has lasted far longer than any other toaster I’ve had, so ……
- Comment on Happier to use spices on tofu, beans, soy curls, and even sometimes the dreaded processed plant-based mock-meats (when they go on sale). 1 month ago:
Oh , I buy this, to some extent. As an omnivore…. I’ll never give up eating meat, but I do love some meals that are “accidentally” vegetarian.
Hot take on Indian food: one of the world’s greatest cuisines but when I visited, I found so many restaurants deprioritized even chicken so much that it was just not worth it. Enjoy the meals, enjoy what they do well without trying to push different preferences
- Comment on Happier to use spices on tofu, beans, soy curls, and even sometimes the dreaded processed plant-based mock-meats (when they go on sale). 1 month ago:
I’ll probably regret going there ….
But could this be a scenario where the cheapest chicken tenders are good? Is there any fiber to whatever they use for filler?
- Comment on Streaming Is Raising Prices Faster Than Cable Ever Did 1 month ago:
Buy ya gotta admit their point that streaming still costs way less than cable …… assuming you’re subscribing to what you want rather than try to recreate
When I first switched, the math said I cut my costs in third while getting much better internet service and three streaming services
- Gigabit internet + 3 * streaming service == 1/3 (200M internet + cable)
The math is still positive but much less so, however streaming services attempts to alienate me are succeeding - I only subscribe to one streaming service and am considering giving it up. Enshittify away and see what that gets you
I pay for Netflix family plan but since Netflix has decided my kids are no longer in my family when they are at their moms or at college…… I no longer need that. Clear cause and effect
- Comment on Can cartilage be replaced? And if not, Why can't they just inject something like silicone into a joint? 1 month ago:
Unfortunately this runs in my family and it’s past my turn. But there are enough family members affected to make it really stand out how important it is to walk immediately and follow through with PT. Those that do are more mobile than they had been for years. Those who don’t, never get their mobility back
- Comment on Can cartilage be replaced? And if not, Why can't they just inject something like silicone into a joint? 1 month ago:
For some people there’s cortisone injections. They don’t fix anything but reduce pain and inflammation. I’m actually a use case where that was enough for that occurrence. I had a sharp pain in my knee and the cortisone got rid of the pain and inflammation and that specific issue didn’t come back.
Of course now my knees are totally wrecked and the only choice they gave me is replacing them
PSA: I wish they told me more about strength and balance when I was evaluated. I wasn’t able to go through with it at the time and had no reason to believe it was urgent since I could live with the pain . However now after years of of being unable to use my knees, I clearly have weakened muscles in my lower leg, clearly do not balance as well, and have a hard time getting up from the floor. Even worse I keep reading that those are exactly what they look for in aging and independence. So now I still need the joint replacements but somehow have to rebuild my lower leg strength
- Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong 1 month ago:
Arguably carnivores have already cut meat intake, at least red meat, to greater impact than vegetarians.
While I’m going by anecdote rather than data
- vegetarians/vegans are a small minority so limited impact
- many people I know have cut back on at least red meat for health or environmental reasons.
Basically one fewer burger a week by 100 people has more impact than one person not eating meat at all
- Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong 1 month ago:
The arguments are usually that fish aren’t animals or more clearly insects aren’t animals, similar to how plants aren’t animals even if they react to damage. Very easy to argue.
I’ve seen arguments that whatever sentience fish may have, it’s too low level to be aware of pain. I don’t buy that but clearly fish have a simpler central nervous system than mammals. Also easy to argue.