Its usually very easy to clean stainless steel. The crusty stuff falls right off with a good sponge or brush. Cast iron pans take a bit more work, but they're study enough to stand up to a tough bristle-brush without scraping.
Its those cheapo "no-stick" pans that break down as you use them and make everything impossible to get off.
Western backed fascist dictatorships just can't quit.
The problem with firing Mike Johnson is being, once again, stuck unable to replace him with anybody.
Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, who has been proposed by some members of the far-right Freedom Caucus as a potential alternative to Johnson, said he does not support ousting the current speaker over his foreign aid package. “We don't need that, no way. We don't want that. We shouldn't go through that again. That's a bad idea,” Jordan said.
“You are not going to get a majority of votes for any new person,” added Rep. Garret Graves, a close ally of former Speaker McCarthy.
So I imagine they'll all hold their breath and look very angry, while punting through to 2025.
Broke: Orbital Ring and Space Elevator
Bespoke: Giving Earth a Day Collar and Leash
I'm mostly just laughing at the notion of "being obligated by the government to show up on time to dinner" as some death knell to American freedom to leave other people waiting.
Further evidence of spookiness.
I would argue it isn't that media has become less effective, but that the role of media has changed from placating an agitated public to agitating a complacent one.
Liberals were insisting that the Wagner Group was doing a straight up Nazi Cosplay as they Blitzkregged towards Poland. But then also Ukraine's Ghost of Kiev had single-handedly shot down half the Russian air force.
Azov were freedom fighters rescuing all the beautiful blonde-haired blue eyed babies. Russia was in the midst of a pogrom against the Uber-volk. Half the Russian population had just been killed in an ill-conceived human wave attack against stout Ukrainian defenses. Then we got an earful about how the Spring Offensive would end in Moscow.
I think the craziest part of the war was when Prigozhin tried his coup and the Ukrainian front lines did not move. Like, if there was ever a fucking moment for western forces to reclaim territory, it was when Moscow was being evaluated and half of Wagner Group was racing towards the capital. But they just sat on their thumbs in confused shock, waiting for the next shoe to drop. This was the full extent of what Germany, France, the UK, and the US could bring to bare against Russia. Stunned silence as half of Putin's active duty military turn coat.
What a fucking clown parade.
would they have told us if one of those hypersonic missiles hit a parked F-35?
NPR lead in with the story by claiming "Iran's bombs killed a 7-year-old child". Not so much as a whisper of where they actually landed, before the announcer proudly declared 98% of the rockets were deflected by air defenses thanks to Rishi Sunak's UK Air Force.
These news stories are migrating from "puzzle pieces I have to assemble into something resembling the truth" to "pure shadows-on-the-wall manufactured gibberish". Just like with the air base bombing in Jordan, I'm at an absolute loss as to what's actually happening. Its just headline gore and a drum beat to war that's practically deafening.
I like how we've invented a vast incomprehensible machine that can't do words good. A large language model that cannot model letters.
Literally any Markov Chain could output better than this by scanning a telephone directory, but ten million of the finest servers Microsoft can assemble have to slurp up the entire Jordan Aquifer to put out this dogshit.
They're Coming After You, And I'm Just In The Way
Its a highly effective form of propaganda.
Take some guys who have had their bells rung time after time after time. Sit them down in a room with some bespeckled nerd and have the nerd tell them that all the secrets of economics are in six simple rules that even you can understand. If the guy says he agrees with you, start sponsoring his fights. Do this with enough guys and one of them is going to come out talking like this after the title fight.
The Saudis have been aggressively investing in MMA for similar reasons. These fight club events are great venues for attracting young people with chips on their shoulders. And when they're old enough to think twice about what they're being told, who cares? They're too old to be used in the coming Water Wars as cannon fodder anyway.