Ooooh… Well, that’s not as bad as I imagined, but… Eh, give it 5 years and they’ll be back to having shows. That’s what they were known for.

Aw, did they enshitify too?

Bro, I’m at 20 right now ;)

Not seeing any of the following:

Friends in Low Places - Garth Brooks

Country Roads - John Denver

Forever and Ever - Randy Travis

Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler

This is a phenomenal list.

If you or the host use Karafun, you can drop the key an octave when selecting. In which case Let It Go from Frozen is a solid crowd pleaser and might be in your range.

What the actual fuck?

This isn’t even the first time I’ve had to post this today!

Yes, but trying to trick someone else onto eating your reproductive bodily fluids is sexual assault.

I don’t eat cereal. Whose did you actually ejaculate into and are you prepared for the sexual assault charge?

Please consider how many decades it took for lead in the atmosphere from leaded gasoline to be considered bad enough that we got rid of it. PFAS and other toxic chemicals that are ubiquitous are known to be toxic in lab conditions, so just imagine how bad that shit is in the wild.

I agree don’t waste money, but might as well get the cast iron now, keep it in training mode for 2-3 months, and just wait for the cast iron to get bumped up to the big show.

100% agreed on skill issue. I have one of those same Lodge pans, and it goes airborne as I like.

Seasoning should not add flavor. That’s a dirty pan.

I don’t want last night’s fish in this morning’s pancakes.

Cast iron can take a fair amount of abuse.

The method some people use to clean super stuck on bits it literally a square of chain mail. I just use salt, I don’t think the chain mail works that well.

Yes. Our house only has cast iron and stainless.

There’s a small learning curve with cast iron, but the less you worry and over think it, the easier it gets. I fry eggs every other day in mine, and it’s about as non-stick as anything else. Preheat the pan or griddle, that’s all. Cleanup is a wipe with a paper towel or a rinse and quick scrub.

Cast iron works 95% of the time, but acid can strip the seasoning. So anything simmered an hour or more in tomato or win,e or sauted with lemon juice, get stainless. Don’t put it in the dish washer. Not a lot of rules, really. My pan is 15 years old. My Mom uses ones that might be older than her.

When I travel and have to use someone else’s non-stick pans, I hate the delicate little snowflake pieces of shit. Flimsy, toxic, someone else showed it a fork once so now it has damage and sticks anyway in a line across the middle, can’t go on the oven, can’t sear, handles all wobbly. Generally just disposable trash. Why would you love trash?

This is actually fairly normal through human history. Oasies dry up, mines run out, rivers change, easily fortified locations prove later impractical, trade routes move due to conflict or geography. When it happens within your lifetime, it triggers the cognitive bias of loss aversion. You feel it personally. When it happens a century or two before, it’s a curiosity.

I’ve spent a lot of time in dying or ghost towns, and no one owes any human settlement the right to exist in perpetuity. If humans vanished tomorrow, who would mourn your or my hometown?

If you do a shot, the error goes away.

Well, not really, but you just don’t care of there’s an error or what.

Albert Watermelon, we are friends?

Yeah. We can be friends.

MFer loves that Amtrak.

I attended a very rural school district and in 7th grade a bunch of retired people got their friends to elect them to the school board and at their first meeting they closed my school.

But hey, it’s OK. They’re all dead now.

OoooooooohPleaseNukeItFromSpace

Hey now, ditch water tastes much better than any of those.