Induction ranges only heat the pan that is in direct contact with the cook top (via magnetism). So if you turn a burner on but there isn’t a pot or pan on it, you will not feel any heat, and it will probably turn itself off (my induction range flashes for about 10 seconds and then turns off). If there is a pot/pan on…

Yes. Gas is vastly better to cook with, in my experience. I’ve got one of those glass cooktop electric stroves (not induction), and it sucks. It wasn’t my choice, just what I got stuck with. Yeah, it looks pretty and it’s easy to clean, but actually cooking with it blows. I’m a good cook, and I can’t figure out how to…

For deep frying, go with induction. For something close to the gas range experience, go with infrared/ceramic cook top.

Congratulations, you have written the stupidest thing I’ve seen on the internet today. Quite the accomplishment. 

OJ 2.0

I agree with you but with a caveat - pretending to like a person, as in, finding that one thing you like and running with it - can really lead to empathy and sincere connection.

But the first two points of advice do seem phony and self-serving.

I would much rather someone hate me honestly than pretend to like me. I probably already know they hate me and probably know why, so pretending just makes me dislike them more.

Yeah, it really does rock. I lived alone for almost 15 years before moving back in with my parents just before covid hit. It was only supposed to be for a year, but it has turned out to be a blessing, overall, because I could help them with the house and with navigating covid (and childcare for my nieces and nephews,…

I love to entertain, so I had people over, and then they left, I locked the door, cleaned up and went back to doing me. I got a dog so I would have a reason to occasionally come home. I think living alone and being able to take care of yourself is an ESSENTIAL life skill. So many people stay in terrible situations…

Yeah the peace, quiet and not having people touch my very small amount of stuff was great but after 5 or so years I was going out less and less.  Ended up moving in with roommates, which was noisier and less private but better for my mental health in the end.

Living alone rocks. No one else to mess your place up, move stuff around or just mingle in your karma. I did it for years (and will again) and its really a great way to live. I am not even anti-social. You can always go out and see other people (pandemic aside) any time you want, then and have a fortress of solitude…

Or a whale.

Thanks. If video is the format of the future for Gawker, I’m out. I already skip the slideshows unless I’m on mobile (so that I don’t have to see a slideshow). If they want to load pages faster, reduce the advertisement overhead.

My grandmother lived through the depression and she never threw anything away. She would take old clothes (t shirts are ideal) and cut them into strips, and roll them then braid them, and join them end to end forming a long “cord”. She would then take the cord, wind it helically, stitch it together as she went and made…

Your boss is an asshole.

“the “mandate” portion is starting to rub me the wrong way.”

Exactly... this is why I do not use hotel room coffee makers. At some point we’ll all read about people dying because some psychopath poisoned the hotel room coffee makers.

Revenge was had in the form of no one would drink the decaff so he was forced to make his own coffee for a change. If no one was drinking it, no one was making it. It opened my eyes to how easy it was for someone to sabotage it and I now make/bring my own from home. You never know what kinda of crap some lunatic will…

Many people (including me) returned to work after a long holiday break today. This is a cruel, cruel suggestion.

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