thawed_caveman

Yeah i believe you can break a cast iron, it will snap instead of bend, but i have no idea how hard you'd have to drop it. It also probably would damage the glass

Funny and horrifying.

I don't know your glass cooktop, but i'd be shocked if the weight of a cast iron was enough to damage it. Does this mean you also wouldn't put a cooking pot full of water on it? Mine had no problem, didn't even get scratched which i was worried it might.

That said i do think cast irons can be too heavy for some people, especially when it's full

People seem to think children will get brain damage if they see anything sexual even in writing.

I was actually thinking of using I2P, but there may be complications there too and i don't want to get my hopes up too much

it's so much better than stainless

debatable but i think so

it takes a little maintenance

everything needs maintenance in the sense that you have to clean it. jokes aside, the only maintenance it needs is to burn oil in it if the seasoning got a little damaged for any reason

can't cook anything tomato based

you can, it's not great but won't ruin it

eight coats of oil you have to burn onto it before you can use it

that's not true, all cast iron pans come pre-seasoned from the factory

you can cook fried eggs and steak

that is true

even after seasoning it everything will still stick to the pan

not really, it's pretty non-stick

to clean it you gotta heat it up then dry salt scrub then re-season

not really, you only need to do that if the seasoning got damaged

if water ever touches it the entire thing will disintegrate

that's not true, you'd have to leave it in water for days to get it to rust

things that aren't mentioned: you gotta use it regularly otherwise it gets sticky; you can use metal tools like knives and spatulas directly in the pan that would demolish any teflon; the seasoning is more resilient than people think, you can even wash it with dish soap; the seasoning actually gets stronger when you fry fatty things in it (grilled cheese, steaks, eggs, sausages); it's very simple, durable, rustic, old technology, and incredibly cheaper than skillets of a similar quality (excluding cheap teflon pans); you can unrust it in your garage and even weld it back together if it breaks, which is sick as hell.

Over the years i've torrented with no VPN, Tunnelbear, NordVPN, Mozilla VPN, and Proton; i'm pretty sure all of them messed up my torrenting in some way, not necessarily by making the connection slower, but by making some peers invisible and making me invisible to some peers.

And then there was Soulseek, which had me trying and failing to set up port forwarding. It was complicated and still didn't work as well as it would have if i didn't have a VPN.

Incidentally, i do need a VPN to torrent because i've gotten two fine-threatening letters already

Honestly YT Premium has been a thing for a long time and it's done the opposite. There used to be exclusive shows that were made public later. (i.e. they were made public the day after i paid for my subscription)

I like YT Premium (and Twitch Turbo for that matter) for two reasons: they support creators (wayy higher CPM than ad-supported viewers), and they support the platform in a way that makes them less dependent from advertisers. If more people subsribed to YT Premium, their incentives would lean towards paid members and away from advertisers and music labels.

Having said that, i have ethical problems with both Twitch and Youtube, hence why i don't subscribe to either and subscribe to Nebula instead. It'll do until PeerTube becomes usable.

I've been doing that, but then it doesn't play the next video in the playlist. Which sucks because i can't listen to my favorite audiobook

Some people will link to Piped to avoid YouTube, some people will link to Bing Videos

It's undeniably better for you to not worry, but also the ability to not worry is undeniably privileged since it means you're not personally affected.

Also i just don't think it's true that we can separate our issues from the third world's issues, they are connected, and the very uncomfortable fact is that the connection often is our benefitting from their exploitation. That's not as true as it once was, colonialism is different now, but it's still true, i own countless cheap items thatwere manufactured by exploited workers in other countries.

The trend on social media is idle outrage, it's overexposing ourselves to the most devastating and most infuriating information while doing nothing about it. I've seen a lot of Gaza footage but i haven't done anything other than donate e-sims and upvote memes.

I don't blame anyone for wanting out of that. If you're not going to do something about politics, then you might as well not let it poison your social media. If you are doing something about politics, then you already know to step out of online flame wars, or you should know.

Of all human emotions, rage is the one that's best at keeping us engaged, so for-profit social medias feed us rage bait constantly to keep us on their platform, and one great way to do that is through politics. Here on Lemmy, the same is done for internet points. I see no point in either because neither leads to action. In fact there's incredible danger in being politically angry, we should be politically educated.