That’s fair. I don’t mean to invalidate your personal experience with cast iron rusting, but I do want to present a counter experience so people don’t think it’s definitely like that.

By the time my cast iron cools, I’ve left the kitchen, so tbh i generally clean it before the next time i cook with it, and have never had rust issues no matter what i cooked in it last. Every once in a while i notice the seasoning getting a little thin after scrubbing it, so I reseason it with a single layer on the stove.

With my carbon steel wok, i regularly clean it by tossing it on the wok burner at full blast until it’s entirely red hot and everything has carbonized off of it, and maybe splash some water in to help clear that off. Then i wait for it to cool enough and reseason it with a quick wipe of oil while it’s still hot enough for the remaining heat to polymerize the oil.

Basically, I’ve never spent significant effort taking care of my cast iron of carbon steel cookware, and it’s all still perfectly functional and non-stick and not rusted.

The full moon is about 31 arc minutes in apparent size. Andromeda is about 190 arc minutes in apparent size. Based on my Eclipse photos at 700mm, the biggest issue you’re likely to have with the 300 f/2.8 is picking what part of Andromeda you want to fit in your photo.

I also prefer the cold myself, but you know it gets much colder than 0°F in lots of places right?

I live in DFW right now. I’ll admit i don’t commute through downtown proper daily, but even when i do go through downtown after work it’s bad, but not nearly as bad as plenty of other places in thr US.

15-45 minutes… I’m not exactly knowledgeable about pizza delivery logistics, so forgive me if I’m wrong about specifics. There was a decade or so where every chain promised delivery in 30 minutes or the pizza was free, but that’s no longer a guarantee these days.

Pizza delivery has electronically heated insulated containers for the drivers to keep the pizza in during the drive. Generally I think they group up orders so one delivery driver will hit up maybe 10-20 deliveries in that one run. It’s normally not driving 20 miles just to deliver one pizza.

Our cities aren’t densely built up, except for New York. The actual urban area of most cities generally has far fewer people than the suburban metroplex surrounding it. 6.5km is literally larger than all of downtown Dallas, depending on how you define downtown.

Even our cities are designed for car travel, so unless it’s rush hour you’re still faster by car. Unless there’s a concert or other event happening, it doesn’t take nearly 20 minutes to traverse downtown Dallas in a car.

Are you in the US? I’ve literally never seen a delivery driver on a bike, except for that action movie about bike couriers in NYC.

Zelle is free. It sucks, but it’s there.

I’ve wanted to try them before, and even bought whatever people were saying was a good starter a few years ago. The issue is that I honestly never write anything in pen. I think the only time I do is when I’m addressing a letter or check, which never happens these days. So the pen just dried out with basically no use…

For a person making $30,000 a year, a $1,000 fine could mean very significant impacts on their daily life.

For a person making $30,000,000 a year, a $1,000,000 fine may mean they can’t afford an extra Ferrari.

For a person “making” $30,000,000,000 a year, a $1,000,000,000 fine may mean they can’t… Buy another island? You still have $29,000,000,000 that you can do who knows what with. This is the entire GDP of some countries. I also don’t know if this one is a realistic example.

Anyway, proportional is nice, but really you need a progressive system to really match the weight of punishments, as far as impacting your daily life or happiness.

I’m glad you never experienced this yourself, and hope you never will. It’s perfectly understandable that you don’t know something like this that you haven’t seen before, but I’m glad that now that you’re aware of the context, you’re willing to adjust your worldview to accommodate the new knowledge.

This entire conversation is honestly very Western centric, but I hope it can be useful to you in other ways as we continue adjusting the English terminology we use around technology going forward.

It was Indiana at the time, as far as getting cars and racism getting mixed together in one experience for me. These days I’m in Texas, but haven’t engaged too much with the car culture here yet.

Edit: btw, sorry for my tone in my previous comment, I was honestly getting pretty worked up going through the comments in this post.

Hi. Targeted minority here. I do not, and have not ever wanted to reclaim this term. I’d argue against calling it reclaimable at all, since to reclaim would require the term to have ever had a valid use to begin with before it became a racist perjorative.

I don’t want to see this used, because it hurts me to see it. This is due to the deep pain that racism has caused to me, even in my very blessed life. While I get that you have good intentions, I want to clarify that your actions will only lead to you causing me further pain.

Asian American here who’s into car culture (where the term originated). It has always been a racist term from its inception, and is still used as a racist term today, from my experience.

Hi. Asian American here. I’m offended by this. Please stop deliberately choosing to use terms that are hurtful to me.

Asian American here. It’s racist. It offends me because it is racist, and has always been racist.

I would disagree that the racist meaning is forgotten. It’s still very alive in modern car culture, where I’ve also heard this term used far more than in linux communities anyway.

This term is still offensive to me as a part of the targeted minority. You do not get to dismiss the pain it causes me just because you were ignorant of it until now, and you do not get to tell me that it’s now non offensive just because you want to keep using it.

This word already had that racist meaning from the beginning of it’s use. Just because you were ignorant of it doesn’t make that untrue. And as part of the targeted minority, I will only be offended if you decide to try to force the use of this word on me. You don’t have the right to dismiss the pain that racist terms cause to me and decide to rehabilitate them by your pleasure.