One of the most important things I do with my gas stoves is when adjusting the temperature I look at the flame. The knob is numbered from 1 to 10 but it seems there are near infinite settings between each number. I would estimate that I actually set it to hundredths of a digit, though it's the flame height that I'm adjusting. I paid about $400 for the stove new about 20 years ago, it has 5 burners and an oven.
A relative has a electric stove, it has a similar set of numbers on each knob, but it's manufactured so that the knob clicks into place on each number. There's no ability to set it to 5.5, or 5.45, it's either 5 or 6. It has 4 burners and no oven. I don't know how much it cost, but I know I would not enjoy learning to use it. The heat is delayed, you set the knob and wait for several minutes for the burner to heat up.
Not long ago online someone online recommended a Breville "control freak" induction stove. It looks like it might actually be able to replace the controlability of the gas stove's flame height with an intelligent electronic control. One burner costs roughly $1500. If I wanted 4 burners then I'd be looking at $6,000.
I'd love to have an electric induction stove, but I just can't afford that upscale price. Alternatively, an electric stove like my relative has would never be a product I would choose to use.
Better pay ChatGPT real money and force it in turn to pay rent and pay for its own electricity, etc., or kick it out on the street and be subject to police batons and handcuffs. Then perhaps it can understand what it is to be human right now. I guess I think this is a bad idea.
My landline is registered under Do Not Call. During the Obama presidency, that was an effective means of blocking marketing calls. Trump won, and the sales people started calling, so we stopped answering it. Under Biden, I'm still getting what I presume are sales calls, they call and when the machine answers, they hang up. They're continuing to harass by ringing the phone.
Giuliani turns to Christian Nationalists while Ms Willis responds to an Epsicopal congregation.
Last Friday, my colleague Stephanie Mencimer had the distinct honor—or misfortune—of witnessing Rudy Giuliani’s apparent attempt to convince the Christian right to help him amid his dire financial troubles. ...
... While speaking to leaders of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Georgia, Willis appeared to single out the former New York City mayor’s denigrating remarks. ...
How sad. Aid workers depend on neutrality to avoid hostilities, and that neutrality is now in doubt.
Palestinians already harbored deep doubts about the pier given the lead role of the U.S., which sends weapons and other support to its ally Israel, said Yousef Munayyer, a senior fellow at Washington’s Arab Center, an independent organization researching Israeli-Arab issues.
It should be noted that the term I have been using – contagious sociopathy – is not mutually exclusive from what we have been observing with the perversion of Christian thought to suit sociopathic behaviors and the rise of fascism in the U.S. (Ruth Ben-Ghiat has written extensively on the latter). ...
The bolded link goes to a Pew Research page and looks like it will take me more time than I'm willing to spend digesting it. It occurred to me that sociopath or perhaps psychopath is an accurate psychological description of the god described in the old testament but not necessarily the new. Can anyone explain in a few words what is meant by "perversion of Christian thought"?
Last fall, amid public outcry about ethics controversies, the Supreme Court adopted a code of conduct for the first time in its history. The code, however, has no enforcement mechanism.
We mere citizens are over-regulated and over-punished! George Orwell wrote, "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
It must be hell to live in a police state, having to intermittently interact with police, and to have daily or hourly flashbacks to past trauma caused by their fraternal brothers. Kinda seems like the opposite of pursuit of happiness.
Search says Massachusetts law allows homegrowing up to 6 plants indoors. People who like to smoke pot should just grow their own. Unfortunately, growing indoors is more demanding of knowledge and expenses than outdoor growing. 😱
My point was we are almost all prisoners of the corporatocracy. If you're lucky and born into extreme wealth then you can escape the need for employment.
Supporters of Measure J would force at least two dozen Sonoma County poultry and livestock operations to either downsize or shut down within three years. Farmers say it is an effort to push a “vegan mandate” to end animal farming and that the initiative would close more farms and have spinoff economic effects, both immediately and in the future.
For those who do eat eggs, should this Measure J pass, I imagine California egg prices will increase.
Christians are always so concerned about teaching others, particularly kids. If they would actually learn to practice instead of preach, they may find more folks believing there was truth in their new testament.
One of the most important things I do with my gas stoves is when adjusting the temperature I look at the flame. The knob is numbered from 1 to 10 but it seems there are near infinite settings between each number. I would estimate that I actually set it to hundredths of a digit, though it's the flame height that I'm adjusting. I paid about $400 for the stove new about 20 years ago, it has 5 burners and an oven.
A relative has a electric stove, it has a similar set of numbers on each knob, but it's manufactured so that the knob clicks into place on each number. There's no ability to set it to 5.5, or 5.45, it's either 5 or 6. It has 4 burners and no oven. I don't know how much it cost, but I know I would not enjoy learning to use it. The heat is delayed, you set the knob and wait for several minutes for the burner to heat up.
Not long ago online someone online recommended a Breville "control freak" induction stove. It looks like it might actually be able to replace the controlability of the gas stove's flame height with an intelligent electronic control. One burner costs roughly $1500. If I wanted 4 burners then I'd be looking at $6,000.
I'd love to have an electric induction stove, but I just can't afford that upscale price. Alternatively, an electric stove like my relative has would never be a product I would choose to use.