Personally I haven't settled in on anything yet. I have accounts on several different KBin instances, a couple Lemmy instances, and Beehaw (which I guess is also a Lemmy instance)
Currently for me it's between Beehaw and Kbin. I like I can use either account to interact with either so at the end of the day it really doesn't matter. Kbin looks MUCH nicer on the phone, but I like Beehaw's moderation, broad-topic communities, etc. Alone, Beehaw would be too restrictive. Combined with Kbin and a couple Lemmy communities, eventually it's going to just be a matter of using your favorite username@whatever and deciding which front-end you prefer. Beehaw is a little better for people that want to avoid porn and stuff though.
If one platform begins developing much faster than the other, switch! Have a few accounts subscribed to all your favorite communities so they're all locked and loaded and ready to use.
I'm not a republican or climate denier or anything and I'm a big proponent of environmental causes, like to an extent that might be annoying for many... but there just isn't good enough data for me to stop preferring to cook with gas.
Elevated levels of benzene higher than those of second hand smoke do not indicate that it's anywhere near the same level of cancer-causing as cigarette smoke - it sounds like cherry-picking.
To run a gas stove you need great ventilation in your kitchen, there hasn't been some insane risk of cancer from cooking in commercial kitchens or well-ventilated home kitchens with gas stoves that I'm aware of. I'd be willing to bet that increased incidence of asthma would also be the result of improper ventilation as well.
I currently have an electric stove and I hate it after having gas stoves for years. Will be going back to gas ASAP.
That said everybody has their own preferences and risk-tolerances and can do whatever they want, it's just going to take more data for me to be willing to get an induction stove when it comes time to upgrade instead of a gas one. Electric cook tops just objectively suck.
Right now I’m cooking on just a regular electric stove and cooktop. I can cook whatever I want, but heat up time, temperature change time, top temperature, and temperature control are lacking. I get better results consistently on anything other than an electric cooktop. Induction stoves do handle all these things well, but there are some major quality of life issues with any glossy flat-top for me (other people may not have these issues).
They’re kinda ugly. When they’re new they can look nice and clean, and boiling water on induction makes you think every other cooking method is dumb and slow, but overall I don’t like the look.
Cooking casually over a few months, guaranteed to end up with some cooked on impossible to clean gunk and going over it repeatedly with bartenders friend (try breathing that if you accidentally heat it up - blech) and still never totally getting it clear. I’ve moved out of apartments with gas stoves that had extended periods of poor stove cleaning and never needed more than a sponge and a Brillo to get it looking new.
Hear me out here because you’re going to think I’m an absolute moron dying on a lot of stupid hills… but this is why I’ve become disillusioned with a lot of health and environment science that gets published to get end-users to make lifestyle changes.
Lately for steaks and burgers I’m cooking outside on a charcoal grill because it just makes them taste better than my stove does… high heat / short time and the grease drips out a bit which makes me feel healthier… but it involves standing next to burning charcoal and smoke which, terrible right? Standing next to a grill inhaling all that? Burning all that charcoal into the atmosphere?
But then here’s a pie-chart showing the leading causes of deforestation: chart
How many people are worrying that much about driving their car 22 miles? All these little things that bring joy to your life have less of an impact than the person who wrote the article’s daily commute in a lot of cases, industrial agriculture, suburban sprawl and the demand for paper make these environmental impacts seem like absolutely nothing. There are so many things bad for the world and ourselves out there, yet somehow it’s always us at home that need to buy new things and change our lifestyle? I do make lifestyle changes, but primarily in ways that improve my quality of life.
Sometimes it’s good science and bad reporting, we have known for a long time now how terrible cigarettes are for your health. Obviously smoking cigars or pipe tobacco means you’ll get oral, throat, or lung cancer too right? A quick google shows me dozens of articles and studies telling me so. But then you dig deeper and find that when the FDA did a review of all the available studies they found this:
Because the desired outcome was to just be able to say it’s a public health risk, they say in their conclusion that it is, but their actual data shows that non-inhalers that smoke 1-2 cigars a day have an only slightly elevated risk that does not meet the conventional criteria for statistical significance. Very few people smoke more than 1-2 cigars a day and inhaling them is painful and insane. Almost nobody reported on the study that way, instead it was reported as “See, they cause cancer” by almost all major media, except a handful of conservative publications which really ruffles my pretty far left feathers
People should cook on what they think makes their food taste best. Nobody should replace what they own because of 8.4% of children (percent of child population with asthma) having a gas stove in the house was associated with a 20% increase in diagnosis, which we are unsure if the gas stove was causal or just an irritant that led to diagnosis of existing condition. There are also studies that found no link
In my opinion, for the vast majority of people, properly installed and ventilated it’s a non-issue. Just a lot of stove selling and fear-mongering.
Please forgive me for the length of my other reply, this topic (the use of scary sounding data to make people do things they don’t want to, stop doing things they do want to, or spend money) has been getting under my skin lately and also I have a lot of free time because of a guild strike timing up poorly with a career change. Also I couldn’t sleep.
It was too much and I fault nobody for not reading it and will accept any heckling that results.
I will agree though, especially in lower income housing proper ventilation is insanely not required by code. These little recirculating hoods are the standard and they do nothing, which is a health risk no matter what is heating up your food - but it’s certainly worse with gas than electric.
Everything on here is awesome right now, it feels like an online forum from the 2000s, everyone is friendly, optimistic, it feels like the start to something big....
In the past month, I suddenly was inundated by bots following my Reddit account every time I posted. I’m enjoying a reprieve - I hope AI develops to detect the AI and kill the AI
Thinking about starting my own OnlyFans and filling it with uncanny valley AI generated photos of almost-me showing ass but just barely weird because I've got three butt cheeks or six fingers or whatever then botspamming it across everywhere. Choosing to be part of the problem.
Yep! Just as common for me to start responding to the initial comment before they’re even able to start repeating themselves. Just reflexive “what?” from me all day, people hate it (me)
I see many communities that got started in the last ten days. Sadly, some that I'm most interested in are not that active. Some are not active at all....
I messaged the owner of /m/cigars@kbin.social to see if they intended to be active and didn’t hear back, so I made /m/Tobacconist@kbin.social and have been posting anything relevant I could while I wait for other people that maybe care at all about that stuff.
Otherwise I’m trying to pick one sub to post to for each of my broader hobbies, and I respond regularly to whatever pops up in /all
No food yet just coffee - probably make an egg Sammy soon
I was a psychedelic-inclined teenager at the time - and it was during the first Salvia boom where I’d had a few chemically-induced of body experiences at far too young an age. I was so excited by it, like “People can just trigger this and do it whenever!?!” Unfortunately none of the tricks really seemed to work for me, falling asleep is the end of my ability to control what’s up. But I do occasionally have very vivid dreams where I feel conscious of my decisions and even occasionally aware that I’m dreaming.
Still hilarious to me that it’s also the first place I saw and heard about Alex Jones.
Works great even on the smaller screen on my laptop. Didn't even know it existed, but today I was trying to clean up my system and streamline some work things and I discovered two things that I didn't even know about:
Stage Manager
App groups work better than separate desktops for me.
One group of social media apps, one with my browser, one with the finder, or some variations of that. They are dynamic and whatever I need was probably recently used so it's just waiting for me off to the side to drag over to the current group if I need it. Goes home just as easily. Just flick it over there and it's gone, but available.
Stacks
A stack on my dock for work apps and frequently accessed folders, another for apps, reading materials, text editors, another stack for social media
I had never liked the dock really at all, this finally actually makes it useful for me and in ways superior to what had always been my favorite (controversially) way of doing things... just a standard-ass Windows 95 start button organized with folders
Between the two of these things, I am actually able to do everything way faster than I had been. I'm sure if I put the time in I could have figured out how to make spaces, launchpad, mission control, various other MacOS features streamline like this, but I never was able to. It's all so basic but suddenly I'm actually able to do work fluently and stay organized which I really hadn't been able to do since switching to MacOS years ago.
I’ve been out of the loop. I was impatient during the bear and blew a bunch of what I would have now in NFTs and then sold off a lot to stay solvent during a career change.
What are we excited about in Ethereum now? I have interacted with ZkEra and have some very small weekly collections on velodrome. I got a decent amount from the Arbitrum drop. Beyond that I don’t know much.
What are things to currently play with or upcoming things that I should keep an eye on?
A boob, a butt, or even some violence like one might see on the news anyway, I’m not freaked out about all that and I don’t feel the need to hide it from those around me usually… that’s all fine fine, but I don’t want porn on my feed like at all....
Pretty much exactly what I’ve been trying to say, just put more eloquently by you here. Incidental art nudity and medical stuff etc., exactly. I guess it ruffled the feathers of some folks with the way I worded it or people just really are that upset about what seems to be an absolutely benign thing to me.
I’m not an avid consumer of violence, I’m not craving it. A general NSFW is great, and I’m not against it. I’m not sure if you were trying to disagree with me here or not, since people keep trying to talk me into arguing points that I never actually had any intention of arguing I don’t even know what is directed at me at this point.
The number of false equivalencies across the entire thread here is wild, because people somehow think porn is under threat or something. I am a freelancer and look at kbin for fun at home, ANY use of social media while I’m actually at work is kinda NSFW because I’m supposed to be working. I browse the internet at home, where the eyes that might see my phone are a teenage son and a girlfriend.
Should I be browsing, and somehow the kid sees that there’s a news report or shared image of a dead Russian soldier on the ground, or a portrait featuring a barely visible nipple, he’s mature and I can contextualize that for him. He has seen R rated movies with sex scenes, whatever. None of that is a big deal. Hardcore pornography is a different deal. Any granularity beyond that is great.
If only I actually was talking to myself instead of compulsively responding to bad faith arguments from a handful of people here I would have done a much better job paying attention to the mindless television I was trying to watch last night. Felt just like reddit again for a few minutes there, but now back to uh... anything other than arguing on the internet. Keep on abiding.
@marioguzman Popping in here a month later because I didn’t even know stage manager existed and just turned it on and it was an immediate “Aha!” moment for me after years of trying to make spaces and Mission Control and third party add-ons solve problems for me.
It’s definitely a different strokes for different folks thing along with different tools for different jobs. I am generally only sincerely working on one thing at a time, but need to have a lot of different windows for completing those tasks and clutter on the desktop makes it feel impossible at times. I tried moving related things to different desktop spaces, but it slowed me down in as many ways as it helped me.
With stage manager, I can grab my current app and then bring in other recently used apps as I need them and push them back when I’m done, switch to another app and do the same. Works for me because I usually am using one of a handful of primary applications and then need elements from others as I go. Spaces creates too much division for my workflow.
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Welch's fruit snacks (sh.itjust.works)
Study Compares Gas Stove Pollution to Secondhand Cigarette Smoke (www.nytimes.com)
By Hiroko Tabuchi June 17, 2023...
I feel like there is a pending wave of AI bots incoming
Everything on here is awesome right now, it feels like an online forum from the 2000s, everyone is friendly, optimistic, it feels like the start to something big....
Rainy morning Oliva Serie V Perfecto
ZZ Top
Epiphany. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Earliest known photograph of baseball being played in California. 1860s (i.imgur.com)
Are you doing your part?
I see many communities that got started in the last ten days. Sadly, some that I'm most interested in are not that active. Some are not active at all....
How did you discover lucid dreaming?
Did you have one spontaneously? Randomly read about it online? Are you one of those lucky people that have had them since childhood?
With iPadOS 17, Stage Manager Is (Finally) Moving in the Right Direction (www.macstories.net)
There are still bugs with Stage Manager and, look, this is not surprising given this is the first beta of iPadOS 17.
Daily General Discussion - June 19, 2023
Welcome to the Daily General Discussion on Ethfinance...
We need to be able to differentiate between NSFW and porn.
A boob, a butt, or even some violence like one might see on the news anyway, I’m not freaked out about all that and I don’t feel the need to hide it from those around me usually… that’s all fine fine, but I don’t want porn on my feed like at all....