noodles

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are famous chefs fighting PFAS bans?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Carbon steel is great, I’ve had a pan for about a year and it outperforms my 2 year old nonstick allclad hands down–even for french onlettes-if used right. Definitely a learning curve and a bit of work but also if it gets messed up it’s not trash like the nonstick is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is gold investing a scam?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t need (and can’t afford) a suitcase full of gold unless you’re obscenely wealthy and can probably just charter a plane anyway. There are hundreds of accounts of e.g. Jews fleeing Nazi persecution (and Nazis fleeing the allies post-war) carrying wealth for bribes or starting over or what-have-you in the form of gold jewelry worn on the person or gold coins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is gold investing a scam?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the “don’t hold it don’t own it” advice does make sense for a small amount of portable gold if you’re considering a scenario like a fascist government taking over and needing to flee the country with any wealth you can, predicated on the assumption that other countries are still relatively stable.

  There are also a lot of silly people who hoard pounds of gold for apocalyptic currency which you’ve pegged.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is gold investing a scam?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In fairness, if the US dollar collapses, say, but the euro is fine and you find a way to get to Europe, you’re much better off with a few chunks of gold that will be worth relatively what you bought them for than with wheelbarrows full of hundred dollar bills which are now worth less than paper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Native Americans?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Most demographic information in the US (all?) is self-reported, and unless you were in the American southwest, Hispanic communities and influence on broader US culture is pretty recent, so I suspect not that many U.S.-derived Native Americans are mislabeled as Hispanic.

  Traditionally it actually went the other way: Native Americans, while second class citizens in a lot of respects, were more respected than black people or dark-skinned immigrants. So, for instance, there were tons and tons of light-skinned black folk passing as Native and marrying into white families in New England especially. It was a big topic in genetics when things like Ancestry DNA reports became more common and lots of people who’s great great great grandfather was Cherokee or whatever found out he was actually an escaped slave who passed as Native.

  That being said, most Latin American Hispanics are of at least partially indigenous descent, so in a broader sense most Hispanics are indeed indigenous, they’re just descended from Nahuatl/Mayan/Quechua/Mapuche or some other indigenous ethnic group, rather than one of the groups that is today considered ‘Native American’ in the US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People dont believe protesting works if they will only do it on their day off.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nonviolent protests work fine, great even, they just have to be disruptive. The Civil Rights movement was largely nonviolent and got results because they striked, took up commercial space so commerce couldn’t operate, and gummed up the works so productivity stalls. The suits won’t care about violence either if they have ways of escaping, they only care about direct impacts, be it directed violence or economic harm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These were so common and so much fun⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Taller, worse station wagons since the extra height dramatically increases fuel consumption and rates of severe injury in crashes, while also making rolls more likely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here’s why there are so few new cars for under $30,000⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Used to be true, not consistently so since COVID or so. I had to buy a car about two years ago and brand new cars with full warranties were only $1-2k more and with better financing offers than 2-4 year used cars with limited warranties. It got better for a bit but apparently used car prices are spiking again