It has many of the benefits of cast iron and heats up more quickly. High heat searing is where it really shines. Steaks and burgers are just effortless.
I have a bunch of Le Crouset and stainless. I've spent an embarrassing amount of time scraping and scrubbing burns off of them from searing.
Tangentially to the discussion at hand, I think what we're running into with females being used in social-level discourse is the hunt for an inoffensive way to describe a potential mate, and to differentiate that word from the more general word.
When I was a kid, chick and all the other overtly misogynistic terms were going out of fashion. Later girls had some time in the spotlight, now it's females.
One group is looking for a way to politely describe a concept that the other considers inherently inappropriate or offensive.
I got sober from alcohol first. I wasn't really able to connect with the sober community until I got off weed a year later.
During that year, my life did improve, I wasn't ending up in hospitals, didn't shake all the time, wasn't doing nearly as much damage, but I was still trapped in a haze. My money was spent before I got paid. I was scared of looking for work, because I knew I couldn't pass a drug test. I worked under the table, hadn't paid taxes or social security for a decade. I was underweight. I couldn't afford to keep my clothes even reasonably nice.
I had stopped learning from my mistakes, I didn't dream (literally and figuratively), I had trapped myself in this weird stoner underclass.
So when I say everything flows from that event, I mean that I was finally able to be a member of the sober community. I was able to do the spiritual and psychological work that was necessary for me to grow into a productive, content, integral person.
As I began to heal, to brighten up, things started progressing the way they normally do for people who aren't on drugs 24-7. A friend offered me an interview at the company he worked for, I spent five years advancing, learning new skills that allowed me to find a career that I'll likely retire from. I met a woman at one of the meetings, and we connected well. We've been together in a loving, supportive relationship for 10 years.
Not having been involved with the financial, well, anything, I hadn't ever even had a credit card. That whole world opened up, suddenly I didn't have to drive fully depreciated cars any more. We've both advanced, career wise, to the point that we can travel, and help support our parents as they move into the later phase of their lives.
It's just been a complete change in the trajectory of my life.
It is not easy to stop. Anyone who says otherwise doesn't get it.
It was life-changing to get sober. Weed was the last thing I let go of, a decade and a half ago. Literally everything good in my life today flows (directly or indirectly) from that decision.
I've always heard that abolishing corporate personhood would make them untaxable. I don't know for sure, but I imagine you'd have to be very careful with that one. That said, I understand the general goal, and I'm for it.
Treating juridical persons as having legal rights allows corporations to sue and to be sued, provides a single entity for easier taxation and regulation, simplifies complex transactions that would otherwise involve, in the case of large corporations, thousands of people, and protects the individual rights of the shareholders as well as the right of association.
No. it's really strange and only happens with numbers. I entered everything just like one would, with double spaces, each item starting with 1., 2., etc. Nothing I did would make it come out with a gap.
It only worked after I changed the first letter of the section to an asterisk (to make the subject bold). Also, like you see here paragraphs that start with anything other than a number work fine.
I just had to install it for an upcoming trip to South America. Everyone seems to use it, even for business. It's basically the only time I've ever used it.
Try the Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold. The English is outstandingly well written, but not particularly difficult. Outside of a few basic weapons and ship types, most of the jargon is military or biological, and pretty well explained.
The audiobooks are extremely well narrated with distinct, entering voices.
There's also, like, a million of them.
All available for free on hoopla.
Edit: I just read the rest of your post about real scientific concepts and struggling with narrative elements. Try it anyway! It's free and wonderful.
It has many of the benefits of cast iron and heats up more quickly. High heat searing is where it really shines. Steaks and burgers are just effortless.
I have a bunch of Le Crouset and stainless. I've spent an embarrassing amount of time scraping and scrubbing burns off of them from searing.
This thing just works every time