Hey y’all. The GF loves French toast, and I’m pretty good at making it. Only problem is my roommates stole my only nonstick pan when I moved out. I’m going to attempt making it using my stainless steel pan, any tips? Or am I looking at a disaster here?
Please don’t use bar keepers friend on stainless steel pans, it will just deteriorate the surface and make things stick worse next time. Just put some water in the pan and set it back on heat to simmer, most of the cooked on stuff will just flake away as the water boils. Following up with a rinse with cool water and a scrub (made for gentle work on non-stick surfaces) should take care of the rest. A little discoloration will not ruin the pan. Stainless pans work better when seasoned just like cast iron.
“Them guys said he was dripping in sweat. Them guys said that guy was asking for water,” said Teamster 667 Union Chief Maurice Wiggins. “He did walk to produce a couple of times to cool off, and that’s where he ended up passing at, in the produce section on the dock in front of all his coworkers.”
His supervisor and those in charge of writing this policy at Kroger should be charged with manslaughter. In the heat we’ve been dealing with, especially this summer, limiting breaks in which a worker can cool down and hydrate is aggressively cruel and obviously deadly. A worker can’t will themselves to overcome basic thermodynamics. Workers should always feel empowered by support from their direct supervisors to take breaks when they need them, regardless of company policy. I don’t care if some jerk abused the system once, no company’s profit is worth a life.
However, the idea that a direct supervisor will by design know when to violate company policy in order to safeguard an employee is not feasible.
This just is not true.
Any halfway competent safety policy, BY DESIGN, allows anyone to stop any work whenever they reasonably judge that work to be unsafe. If that company doesn’t have policy designed as such they should be held criminally liable for the inevitable harm that will result. There is no excuse for any supervisor to not put employee safety at the very fucking top of their priority list, regardless of policy. Anything less is just making excuses. Anyone that puts company policy above community and worker safety deserves to bear the responsibility of their decisions or lack of action when in a position of authority. No company policy is above basic humanity.
Just a reminder that just because someone made a rule or law, doesn’t mean we have justice. Fascists and bigots LOVE rules. The big tent corporate fascists thrive on rules, on law. Disorder is often a fundamental prerequisite for any kind of positive change.
It’s funny because you can go buy an old rugged K-1000 with a basic 50mm prime lens for under $100, a couple rolls of film for less than $20, and the developing costs you can put off until later. That’s still about a tenth of the cost of a good new digital camera and this thing is built like a tank and forces you to learn the fundamentals. Very quickly, you’ll discover that your film and developing costs will quickly outpace the initial investment on a digital camera. Moreover, you’ve discovered that finding good glass to match you camera is no cheaper and a lot more difficult than finding lens for that sexy new digital camera that was outside your budget initially.
It does make you think twice before hitting that shutter. Lots of life lessons when shooting film, such as learning to appreciate a lot less instant gratification.
The shooter, a white man, killed three people after writing messages of hatred for Black people. He killed himself after opening fire in a dollar store....
A gun is unlikely to make you much safer in public. It will significantly increase your risk for gun related injury or death in your own home. A concealed weapon in public opens you up to liability, as well as an easy excuse for any police to murder you if they discover your gun before you can completely submit and follow their often confusing and conflicting orders. An unconcealed gun just makes you a higher profile target for an armed maniac like in the article and also the police. The statistics just don’t support the idea in general that getting a gun ever makes anyone any safer from gun violence.
I understand your motivation to protect yourself and I support your right to do so through responsible and informed gun ownership. Go take the prerequisite gun safety classes first. Go find a range that will let you shoot with their equipment. Start the process of getting a gun with as much education and experience as you can. Read the about the statistics of gun violence, paying attention to where the funding for each paper comes from. Read up on your rights, but also train yourself on how to deal with police encounters, now that you’re going to be the thing most police are pants passingly afraid of. This will help in dealing with police even when your not armed. If you’re not already going to therapy, make it a regular part of your gun maintenance. If you and the gun will be living with anyone old enough to grasp objects and understand language, make sure they go to gun safety classes also. If you have children that will have friends over know that a lock is not enough to keep kids safe (gun locks are notoriously easy to bypass), they all need age appropriate gun safety education.
I know you’re kidding, but you touch on a very real point that I think will pass unnoticed by many. You know that this will be in predominantly poor schools. Schools that are attended mostly by people of color. I’m reluctant to make generalizations, but I have encountered far more children of color afraid of or anxious around dogs of any size relative to white children. I don’t know all the reasons why, but my gut says to blame the use of police dogs against people in their neighborhood, in their families, and people on TV that look like them. Maybe my experience is anecdotal and my experience is not the norm, but I no longer assume that all children will be friendly with or calmed by interaction with a dog, even a very calm friendly dog. Having grown up with dogs, it’s hard to empathize with that, but I try to be sympathetic. These dogs are only there to instill fear in kids from a young age and to train them to abdicate their dwindling rights to the people in power.
They don’t have security in the halls, those are actual police that will send you to real jail, with a real record, for the standard bullshit behavioral problems and trouble that almost all teens go through. And these kids know that there is always a very real possibility that the police with just murder them and then get rewarded with a paid vacation.
I don’t disagree with you in fact, but this comment is what-about-ism and arguing a straw-man since I never claimed privileged kids couldn’t be afraid of dogs. As a result, it comes off a little racist, regardless of your hopefully we’ll meaning intentions.
Noticed 4 inches of water in my rear passenger footwell this morning. After getting it all out, the floor felt like a water bed. Had to peel back the flooring to find rust soup. Another 2 inches of rusty ass water....
Do you live in a dry climate? Since the condensation is just pulling moisture from the humid air around it, in some regions the volume of condensation can be mind boggling. I agree that it sounds like too much water, but only because I doubt that an old cop car has an AC working well enough. Even then, it’s an option worth checking and rulling out.
Researchers found low concentrations of so-called forever chemicals in various “eco-friendly” straws, raising doubts about whether they’re an appropriate alternative.
Wasn’t actually today, but it’s an interesting etymology. Old Arabian speaks “majus” because they lack a hard G sound, similar to Japanese lacking L sound...
This is irrelevant to a discussion of etymology. Even if you don’t believe in the physical existence of a the man, he exists as a significant literary figure. Tom Sawyer didn’t actually exist either, but we should be able to speak about his whitewashing trickery without pedant trolls butting in. You’re not edgy. You’re not enlightened. You’re not even technically correct. You’re just an asshole.
The lesson was “your experience is not universal, other people have different experiences than you”. Your reading comprehension needs work, also you lack empathy, and project your own insecurities on to those around you.
I find this mildly infuriating, I only use Windows for work, I even personally purchased Windows 11. Local account and disabled as much as I could. I personally do not like Windows or Windows in general....
None of these are important settings though. These are all just ads for Microsoft services. The only one that even appears remotely important, changing browser settings, is really just trying to get you to set Edge as the default browser again, so really just another advertisement.
In the pre-streaming days I used to have a large collection of ripped and downloaded music. However as my taste in music is extremely wide and it became easier and more fun to use hacked streaming services (i.e. Youtube Music Vanced) to play music especially on the go, I decided to let my music collection go years ago. Plus…...
Lidarr is definitely worth a try (and also worth figuring out docker containers for).
Lidarr can be very effective at building a library, but be prepared for it to grab a bunch of stuff you maybe didn’t know you wanted and sometimes struggle to get that one specific album you need to go complete a set. It takes quite a bit of fiddling to get it going on it’s own. I’ve never really let it have free reign. I make it add torrents paused so that I can approve them individually and I don’t let it touch the part of my collection that I consider final and good. For example, I’d never want it to over write the stuff I ripped from my personal collection of physical media. So far as I can tell Lidarr is still also not the right tool if you have or want a bunch of live recordings or bootlegs.
I still buy a bunch of music, but now it’s almost all purchased as directly from the artists as I can reasonably manage; like live show merch tables, band websites, Bandcamp, etc. It wouldn’t be odd for me to grab a rip from Lidarr at the same time I buy a copy in my preferred physical format from the artist. Don’t forget to add that new stuff’s metadata to musicbrainz.org if it doesn’t already exist. Past me has definitely saved present me some hassle by doing this when I wanted to reorganize my library.
I realised the other day that I’ve enjoyed lots of murder mystery games and shows, but I’ve hardly read any mystery novels. The only ones that come to mind are Altered Carbon and some of the Discworld Watch novels (all great!)....
They can be order chronologically, but aside from very casual and occasional references to other cases it doesn’t matter, each story is entirely self contained.
My little brother refused to wear his new air walks to school any more because the kids told him they weren’t real because the style he had used a lowercase a logo. Same energy.
My wife and I started talking about this after she had to help an old lady at the DMV figure out how to use her iPhone to scan a QR code. We're in our early 40s.
This kind of thing is why I rarely offer any advice or correction at work anymore unless it’s a safety issue. If you stop someone from doing something dumb and wasteful before it happens, you’re the asshole. Once they’ve screwed up all on their own, they’re much more receptive to some patiently explained lesson based in experience, as long as you’re kind and delicate. It can be hard to step back and not get immediately involved, especially when I know I’m going to have to deal with the fallout. I’m happy to drop everything and help anyone that asks, but they always get the introductory “Forgive me if I (because I probably will) tell you something obvious that you already know.” Now I’m not the know-it-all asshole people are afraid to cross, I’m the laid back know-it-all that gets excited when people come to me with questions.
It is a constant struggle though.
It also involves waiting and really listening when people talk tangentially about something you have some weird interest in. The whole “me too! Let me add…” attitude is more often seen as mansplaining or one-upsmanship than sharing excitement. People don’t usually that care what things you know unless they explicitly ask.
Cooking French toast in a stainless steel pan
Hey y’all. The GF loves French toast, and I’m pretty good at making it. Only problem is my roommates stole my only nonstick pan when I moved out. I’m going to attempt making it using my stainless steel pan, any tips? Or am I looking at a disaster here?
Union leaders demand change following Kroger employee death (www.fox13memphis.com)
“Them guys said he was dripping in sweat. Them guys said that guy was asking for water,” said Teamster 667 Union Chief Maurice Wiggins. “He did walk to produce a couple of times to cool off, and that’s where he ended up passing at, in the produce section on the dock in front of all his coworkers.”
GOP silences ‘Tennessee Three’ Democrat on House floor for day on ‘out of order’ rule; crowd erupts (apnews.com)
What is your "inexpensive" hobby that turned out to be expensive/ you gradually invested lots of money into?
Edit: so it turns out that every hobby can be expensive if you do it long enough....
Jacksonville shooter who targeted Black shoppers had swastikas drawn on rifle (www.nbcnews.com)
The shooter, a white man, killed three people after writing messages of hatred for Black people. He killed himself after opening fire in a dollar store....
Hallelujah (lemmy.world)
K-9s will be used in random classroom screenings, Florida school district officials announce (www.clickorlando.com)
Water leak rear passenger footwell (lemmy.world)
Noticed 4 inches of water in my rear passenger footwell this morning. After getting it all out, the floor felt like a water bed. Had to peel back the flooring to find rust soup. Another 2 inches of rusty ass water....
Paper and bamboo straws contain PFAS chemicals more often than plastic straws do, study finds (www.nbcnews.com)
Researchers found low concentrations of so-called forever chemicals in various “eco-friendly” straws, raising doubts about whether they’re an appropriate alternative.
TIL - "Mage" derives from Magush, the old persian name for Zoroastrian priests, which means "Fire worshipper" (en.wikipedia.org)
Wasn’t actually today, but it’s an interesting etymology. Old Arabian speaks “majus” because they lack a hard G sound, similar to Japanese lacking L sound...
No context (sopuli.xyz)
Windows Updated and is Pushing More Stuff (lemmy.world)
I find this mildly infuriating, I only use Windows for work, I even personally purchased Windows 11. Local account and disabled as much as I could. I personally do not like Windows or Windows in general....
Looking for resources to rebuild my music collection
In the pre-streaming days I used to have a large collection of ripped and downloaded music. However as my taste in music is extremely wide and it became easier and more fun to use hacked streaming services (i.e. Youtube Music Vanced) to play music especially on the go, I decided to let my music collection go years ago. Plus…...
Kellogg’s is going to war over Mexico’s nutrition label rules. A similar fight is coming to the U.S. (www.statnews.com)
Kellogg’s is waging a war here over Tigre Toño and Sam el Tucán....
Recommended mystery novels?
I realised the other day that I’ve enjoyed lots of murder mystery games and shows, but I’ve hardly read any mystery novels. The only ones that come to mind are Altered Carbon and some of the Discworld Watch novels (all great!)....
‘You’re Telling Me in 2023, You Still Have a ’Droid?’ Why Teens Hate Android Phones (www.wsj.com)
(unpaywalled version on archive.today: archive.ph/03cwZ)...
Hemp rope armor of the locomotive "Hairy Mary", Second Boer War (lemmy.world)
Do you think millennials who grew up with the early Internet and home computers will be as bad with future technology as boomers are with current technology? (dmv.pub)
My wife and I started talking about this after she had to help an old lady at the DMV figure out how to use her iPhone to scan a QR code. We're in our early 40s.
This is my life (lemmy.world)