BillyClark

Is that confidence based off of your gut feelings? Because my statement was based off of similar research done by behavioral economists.

And there’s sausages!

I am concerned that people will read your comment, and end up using dangerous dull knives.

I don’t really want to get into an argument, but most people will put off doing anything even mildly complicated to the point that they never do it. If you never sharpen your knives, then you will end up with dull knives, which is the worst possible outcome.

Pull through sharpeners do actually sharpen the blade. I don’t know where you got your information from. You certainly don’t have to sharpen a knife every time, but even if you did, it would be something quick and simple that anybody could do.

There are also different levels of pull through sharpeners, some that make multiple passes for different types of blade care. But any sharpener, even the most basic pull through, is better than a dull blade.

A person who uses a pull through sharpener will generally know when they need to start looking into more advanced methods. I do not think it is safe to warn beginners off of using the tools that they are most likely to actually use.

The thing about the advice you’re giving is that it’s for pretty advanced users. But by the time you’re that advanced, you should probably know all of that stuff, anyways.

At a certain point, you might even get to the point where you feel it’s better to have your knives professionally sharpened rather than doing it yourself.

But when you start out, I think you should buy cheap knives and a cheap knife sharpener. The knives get dull quickly, but it’s super fast to sharpen them, so you don’t have to let them get dull. And you don’t really care if you wear down your knives by sharpening them too much because they’re cheap.

When you need to move on to a better system, you’ll know it.

There is no check for presidential pardons. Perhaps the pardon itself is supposed to be a check, but there is nothing to stop a president from pardoning criminals who were already serving completely justified sentences.

I have heard that the files were restricted until Maxwell’s trial and appeals ended. Her last appeal ended in October 2025.

Most of my complaints about Biden concern his foreign policy.

I thought he was surprisingly effective at domestic affairs, especially considering how reluctant Republicans were to work across the aisle.

Lately, I’ve had to alternate between three browsers just to watch YouTube videos.

In Australia, for example, which has mandatory voting, the only requirement is that you participate. So, you can do the equivalent of submitting a completely empty ballot if you want to protest.

it’s unlikely to win many supporters

If I could just somehow get permission to amend the constitution for one day, I’d fucking shove democracy down people’s throats so hard, totally against their will.

forcing people to perform an act to legitimize an unjust system

I assume this means that you don’t believe votes are properly counted and that all of our elections are “rigged.”

If you have that belief, then what reforms do you think are possible? Most people who I’ve heard express those opinions are far right wing people who want to discard democracy.

Taylor Rehmet, a Democrat and local union leader, won a runoff for a state Senate seat that’s been held by Republicans since 1992. What’s more, he bested the Republican Leigh Wambsganss despite having one-tenth as much money. Much of Wambsganss’s funding came from Dunn and the Wilks brothers.

Republicans blamed low turnout for Rehmet’s victory, while pundits opined that the Trump administration’s unpopularity was to blame.

In America today, these are the same thing. The way you win is by encouraging certain people to vote and discouraging other people from voting. Trump has been taking care of discouraging Republicans and MAGA from voting all by himself.

I really think America needs mandatory voting to stop this behavior, but it’s much easier to encourage or discourage people to vote than it is to actually carry out the will of the people.

Even if it’s not entirely faked, you can instruct an AI to give you wrong answers to your questions. So unless you can see the entire conversation history, you can’t make any conclusions about a single response.

I imagine if somebody started a thread here that asked the same question, but said, “Wrong answers only,” people would find a lot of evidence that humans aren’t capable of figuring this out, either.

If she doesn’t eat any creature that feels pain, that doesn’t mean she’s a vegan. She might be a vegan, but that statement makes her a vegetarian by most definitions.

And he’s snuggling with pigs on pig farms. I think there are some people who would say that such actions are only possible on exploited pigs who are headed for the slaughterhouse, and therefore, because he has made himself part of the meat system, he wouldn’t be a vegan, either.

I’m not a vegan either, but I find it weird that SMBC would use that word so loosely in a strip where the definition of “vegan” is so central.

Does ICE stand for Inhumane Cruelty and Executions?

When I open the door on my personal toaster oven, it automatically pulls a rack partially out of the oven (using a little hook on the door), so there is no need to put my hands inside the appliance. Knowing this, I position the food items toward the front of the rack so that they will come out easier.

You might have to be careful when removing things that have toppings or whatever, but since a normal toaster can only produce dry toast, it would be unfair to leave those items in the comparison criteria. So, we should just stick to dry toast.

With a toaster oven, you can always just grab dry toast from the top edges, and your hand, which we’ve already established doesn’t need to actually enter the toaster oven if it has a feature like mine, doesn’t even have any chance of coming into contact with the rack, either.

I also don’t think a toaster oven is necessarily slower than a toaster. It simply depends on the heating elements. Even among toasters, some are faster than others.

I will admit that subjectively, it probably feels like toaster ovens are slower due to a difference you didn’t mention, which is their more complicated controls and mechanisms. But since my recommendation was predicated on not needing overly specialized tools, I think a lot of specialized tools are simpler to use than general use tools. And this difference becomes smaller and often irrelevant as you get used to the tool.

reheating pizza

Blasphemy!

Cold pizza is the world’s greatest food and this is a hill that I am willing to die on!

If you prefer to avoid single-purpose kitchen appliances, then you will prefer toaster ovens to toasters. (Also, a normal oven can do.)

A toaster oven is also the superior appliance for making toast as it can toast bread that has already been loaded up with things like butter or peanut butter.

I think I see one toaster oven in the list, listed as D tier, which makes sense for that one because it has a built-in coffee maker.

But where’s the normal toaster oven in this list? That would be S-tier.

According to the article:

A grand total of zero — zero — grand jurors agreed to return the proposed indictment. As a former federal prosecutor, I have never heard of this actually happening before.

Pirro also personally appointed the two prosecutors who worked on the case: One of them is a lawyer and dance photographerwho had never worked in the Justice Department before last year, and the other is a former staffer for House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.), who is not exactly famous for conducting competent and nonpartisan investigations.

“The average person doesn’t appreciate how stunning” it is for a grand jury to outright reject an indictment, as a former prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s office in D.C. put it to me. “The rules are skewed so heavily in favor of the prosecutor that it’s almost comical. But the public is essentially saying, ‘We do not trust you. We are skeptical of you.’”

In a statement, Pirro touted the office’s prosecutorial work, including efforts to curb homicides, and said she was focused on law, not politics.

You misunderstand. Israel is “prioritized,” America is “first,” Russia is “primary,” and China is “essential.”