Copper pans are fucking GORGEOUS though…

If your kitchen means your pans go in a cupboard, don’t spend the money on copper pans.

I cheat and use an æbleskiver pan. 😜 No flipping required, you just rotate them with a skewer.

https://youtube.com/shorts/pCQCW5NS2jg

Danger is in eating too many without realizing it. LOL.

For gas vs. electric vs. induction vs. infrared:

I’ve never cooked on gas so I can’t speak to it. I always had normal electric ranges.

Then I got an induction stovetop and it was a game changer. Instead of using a heating element to heat the pot, it uses magnets to agitate the atoms in the cookware and that turns the pot into a heater.

For example, I can boil a pot of water in 2 minutes, faster than a microwave.

The downside is you HAVE to use magnetic pans for it to work (like cast iron.) If you have, say, an aluminum pan, you have to get a stainless steel plate, which will heat the pan and the pan heats the food, just like a normal electric stove.

Infrared works the same way as electric, it heats the pot which heats the food.

I got started when I inherited my grandmothers Le Creuset dutch oven. She purchased it in the 1950s and it’s still going strong…

Then I found they had an outlet store near me…

Non-Stick, no matter what brand, will need to be replaced every 3-5 years. So, yes, enameled cast iron is more expensive, but when you compare 1 set of cast iron to 15 to 25 sets of non-stick… yeah…

Cast iron also retains heat better than non-stick, carbon or stainless steel, aluminum or copper.

But it is HEAVY AS SHIT. You aren’t hand flipping pancakes in cast iron.

Oh, god, I don’t. Not even close.

I’ve been banning them as bad faith engagement. If they post and don’t own their post by maintaining the account, why are they bothering? 🤔

The ones that bug me the most come out of nowhere, make 30 to 50 posts in an hour, then delete themselves.

I stay on top of it in my communities and ban them as soon as I see them, but they still flood new and other communites that are basically unmodded. 😟

It’s funny because “Daisy” is a character in both. 😉

It’s funny because “Daisy” is a character in both. 😉

Replacement costs on everything are going up thanks to Trump’s tariffs. So insurance costs on everything are going up:

https://finance.yahoo.com/personal-finance/insurance/article/tariffs-car-insurance-210219360.html

Also health insurance:

https://www.kff.org/quick-take/tariffs-are-driving-2026-health-insurance-premiums-up/

Homeowners & Commercial insurance:

https://www.brickergraydon.com/insights/publications/the-impact-of-tariffs-on-the-insurance-industry

That I can’t answer…

Buddy of mine went to see Joe Cocker and dude passed out at the mic before singing anything. They refunded everyone.

Weirdly, killed by lung cancer instead…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Cocker

I don’t know about “of all time” but “The Coming Plague” by Laurie Garrett should be required reading.

https://www.lauriegarrett.com/the-coming-plague

When you report a comment or a post it goes to the mods of that community, the Admins of that community, and the admins of the users home instance if it’s different from the community instance.

In this case, it’s hard because their sole remaining unremoved comment isn’t a problem.

Might be fun to look at the modlog though:

https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=18490277

Oh, yeah, that last comment is a problem too. 😟

The candelabra is carved 2 feet deep and surrounded by rocks.

The wind definitely makes it blurry from time to time though!

Bonus: The Nazca were pre-dated by another people called the Paracas who also made lines like that:

Paracas Culture - 800 BC to 100 BC.
Nazca - 100 BC to 800 AD.

The candelabra is actually Paracas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracas_Candelabra

The question is coming from someone wanting to buy a thermal camera, not PARTS for a thermal camera.

If you want to be sure you aren’t getting scammed, go to the manufacturer website.

Same for me looking at a new tablet, I don’t need to research the individual screens that go into a tablet, I get all the information I need from whoever makes the tablet, Lenovo, Samsung, whoever.

If you’re looking at a retailer and are thinking “this doesn’t look right”, you go to the manufacturer.

Whoever is making the camera.

Art is intended to be seen, and if you can see it, you can copy it.

This has been going on for centuries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_obscura

The only way to prevent copying is to produce media that can’t be seen, read, heard, played, or watched.

Not religious, but my favorite is the Gamma Ray Burst.

Totally invisible until it hits and BOOM, everything is dead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_burst