because you’re buying cheap non stick stuff.

you can. it’s just a lot of work. you also have to clean it without soap.

cast iron isn’t ‘easy’ to use or maintain.

non stick is fine if it’s seasoned or anodized.

i have anodized non stick and it’s worked for over a decade. it’s not cheap though, easily $80 a pot/pan.

Everything has it’s pros and cons. There is no ‘better’. A stocked kitchen will have variety of different cookware types, a professional kitchen will have more than one heat type as well. most people for whatever reason, only use one cookware type and convince themselves it’s the ‘best’, but that isn’t true at all. i’ve taken professional cooking classes and they use every type of cookware and tell you to but certain types for certain styles/dishes.

choose your heat source first, then your cookware. non-ferrous cookware won’t work on induction stoves.

personally i have non stick, stainless steel, cast iron, and ceramic. i don’t bother with carbon steel because i don’t do high heat cooking that works best with it. i have a couple of basic alloy stock pots too, because they are lighter.

most of my fun subs got you insta banned from more serious subs becauase no joking or mockery of weirdos was allow. had to separate out my accounts. even then I’d have crazy reddit weirdos stalking me and reporting my comments on other subs trying to get me banned for one comment i said in their sub.

lemmy.world is the least aggresive with moderation i have seen. i’ve been banned from other instances, mostly for not agreeing with politics or linking to factual sources that don’t agree with their narrative.

i have never been banned from anything on .world.

you were probably banned by association. could have made a post 10 years ago in a community that was banned and thus you were banned.

remember when social media was just stupid shit your friends were doing? and there were no influencers?

can’t agree enough. most of the focus is on the performative bullshit, not enough on actual policy that might result in a positive goal.

i remember how many ukraine flag people were ‘against giving ukraine more weapons because war is bad and people will die’…

same with the trans stuff the past few years. most of the people who freaked out about pronouns are the same types who refuse to vote because ‘voting is pointless’ or voting is ‘supporting the system’. also if you actaully wanted to talk about trans issues… you were a bigot. talking about it makes you a bigot.

been on the fediverse a few years, but didn’t really move over until my third reddit ban and how increasingly awful reddit is.

i still miss my ‘controversial’ subreddits i used to be a part of. like bicyclingcirclejerk. i don’t miss the insane people on my city subreddit who had insane political takes and massive victim complexes. but there are plenty of people on lemmy who make posts like that.

at least it wasn’t her cop dad that was home?

Long time ago. Went on this date from a dating website. She seemed cool online. We talked about cooking, hiking, and gaming.

Within minutes of meeting up she got put out a really weird vibe. She tried to change our plans from meeting at a bar for a drink to some expensive dinner place. I said no, lets just get to know each other first. She got angry, but stayed. Kept telling me how weird I was but she thought I was cute anyway. OK. We ended up going to another bar after like 20m, that was basically the same as the one we were in but she thought it was nicer or something. OK.

After sitting down at the second bar, and ordering a drink, she gets serious and stares me in the eye real hard and goes 'What is wrong with you? Why aren’t you in love with me yet? I’m trying so hard and you must be messed up in the head to not be totally in love with me by now. Every guy I meet loves me within minutes of meeting me." I just laughed my ass off at this absurd outburst. She got so angry, like gripped the table and starting ranting on and on about how men suck, how stupid I am, how amazing and hot she is, how pissed off she was because I should be eating out of her hand.

Anyway, I let her rant for awhile, maybe half an hour? She basically started talking to herself and like trying to convince me to bone her, and also going on about how she was some yoga teacher and had mental superpowers or something totally ridiculous. I finished my drink and dropped cash on the table and told her what a wonderful time I had, and I’d never like to see her again. She was completely mind-fucked by that and went totally silent. In her delusion land apparently no guy could ever not want her.

She sent me a bunch of really weird texts later and I ignored them. I’ve never met such a totally delusional weirdo before or since. Ever since that date I refuse to date anyone to references Burning Man as something they like doing.

princess entitlement. she’s mad you didn’t salivate all over her for just existing. probably said you were ‘low effort’ for not taking her to a more expensive place too.

I’ve met people like this. They literally… do nothing. They seem to aspire to be empty inside and outside.

And they think people who have interest/hobbies/friends are ‘weird’.

this feels like she was mad at you for not being able to complain about you ignoring her and watching the game.

you paid attention to her and treated her right and she didn’t like that. I’ve been there before.

you break up with them

yep. accident rates for older drives go way down. and then up again once you are 60+

or they hopped an age bracket. your insurance goes down once you hit 35-40.

You can also just change insurance companies when 2 happens. My rates doubled two years ago, so I switched providers and went back down to the rate I was at previously. Very common.

I get approached by weirdos on the subway/street and I have to shove them off. That happens 1-2 times a year. It never really escalates beyond a ‘get out of my face’ and a push.

A legit fistfight? Not since middle school. Had quite a few when I was 10-13.

Been physically hit or threatened with a weapon? Happened multiple times when I was dating, but I stopped doing that about 5 years ago. Almost always during a breakup or immediately before a breakup. I don’t tolerate violent women in my life. I can’t really tell people this though, because people immediately assume a woman threatening to stab you for breaking up with her means you are the bad guy. Sexism is wild.