Carbon steel, yes. Stainless steel, no (you can season that one too, but the coating will not stick to the pan well due to the steel's smoother surface).
Funny enough, I made the opposite journey. Bought a LeCreuset a while back and had to toss it after 1.5 years, because the enamel started to flake off, despite great care handling/cleaning it. Replaced it with a cast iron skillet and am thoroughly enjoying its simplicity.
Probably yeah, but wouldn't it be hilarious if every drag performer, every cross dressing enthusiast, and every transgender internet personality would now come out in defence for JD like he's Britney Spears after the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards?
Yes, the 2.3% increase is the inflation rate for July 2024 versus 2023. Regarding the "how is it measured": This is an interesting topic.
Typically, inflation is measured by tracking a consumer price index (CPI) over time, which is a weighted average of prices for a wide selection of consumer goods (i.e., a typical "market basket") and other living expenses (e.g., rent). The weights are computed on the basis of surveys, and the prices are tracked in a decentralized manner by market watchers (both online and in stores). The German federal statistics agency has a documentation for their weighting method here. They also provide a tool for computing a personalized inflation rate that is adjusted to someone's individual consumer behavior.
One interesting part about rent is that it typically reduces estimated inflation rates when they receive a large weight in the computation, because large rent increases happen only when people move to a new apartment (which happens relatively rarely, so the impact of rent increases on yearly inflation is often relatively low). There are also other indices that use different weights and track different goods and services, so the inflation rate will be different for those.
Yeah, but can the 6am friends stay up all night browsing increasingly obscure websites, while reflecting on the poor state of the world and feeling helpless to change anything?
Tell me you don't know anything about German society without telling me you don't know anything about German society.
From a German perspective, punks camping on Sylt during the holiday season is a 100% fitting way to protest the far right, economic exclusion, and failure to act on climate change. Honestly they should make this a yearly thing, make it bigger, build a festival around it.
I guess they made the call that releasing this information is the lesser of two evils, the other one being to withhold it and to let speculation run wild in a heated political climate, in which one side is not shy about threats of violence.
The political atmosphere certainly played a part. But this is true for both sides of the iron curtain, where Soviet literature was suppressed outside the Soviet area of influence, while Russian authors who did not align with the Soviet values were relentlessly suppressed (and imprisoned or killed) in the Soviet Union.
There are also some authors of whom I would say that at least some of their works were highly regarded both in and outside the Soviet Union, such as Maxim Gorki (Mother), Boris Pasternak (Doctor Zhivago), and Mikhail Sholokhov (The silent Don).
rustydrd @ rustydrd @sh.itjust.works Posts 23Comments 528Joined 2 yr. ago
This type of deep, academic discussion is why I joined Lemmy.