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Absolutely. You can buy caffeine by the kilo and incidentally it sort of looks like really stepped on coke.

But I'm not kidding about the accurate scale tho. I LOVE caffeine, but the last time I tried to eyeball 200mg I ended up feeling like I was going to die.

Exactly. Home carbonated filtered water and anhydrous caffeine. Just make sure you have an accurate scale.

Sharks fan, that's rough. It can get better.

Signed,

-- A Detroit Lions fan of 40 years

I'm a little skeptical about gas stoves causing or contributing to all these deaths, but I believe in science so if well written papers like the one OP linked are peer reviewed and published then I'm willing to accept their conclusions.

That being said, I'm a very avid home cook (with years of experience in commercial kitchens) and I've made many good faith attempts to find a way to cook on the stove top that doesn't use gas, and unfortunately none of them come even close to what I can do with gas.

Regular electric elements are garbage, and it doesn't matter what kind of cooking vessel you use, but I think almost everyone agrees here.

Induction is very interesting, and can heat a ferrous vessel quicker than a normal stove burner (but not nearly as fast as my outdoor wok equipment can). Unfortunately it is pulsed heating, and uses a rather course gradient, so techniques which require very fine tuned and consistent heat aren't easily replicated.

I'll admit that have a lot of money invested in non-ferrous cooking vessels (copper, not a copper plate in the bottom, legit 3mm thick copper walled pans) and they are incompatible with induction, so any switch to induction will require buying new cookware. I'm in a tiny niche, so I also admit my trouble with induction shouldn't discourage others from switching.

Gas is wonderful for getting precisely the results I need with sauces, when you turn it down it follows a smooth and predictable gradient, and works perfectly with high quality copper cookware which is superior to anything else on the market (unless of course you use induction, or care about price).

Yes, I have some cast iron and carbon steel, which work with induction, but they don't lose heat as fast as other materials, which is required for some techniques. They're great for some things, but terrible at others, so they don't solve my problem.

I run a hefty hood that exhausts outside, and I don't have kids in the house, so in the near term I'm not really worried about people in my home getting sick from whatever combusting natural gas throws off.

But like the meat alternative (or lab grown meat) effort, I'm genuinely interested in an alternative to what I already use, but only if it performs at least as well as my current solution. And unfortunately nothing currently on the market comes even close.

They pay the business who owns the ad space, who in turns pays the website or app for their space. You pay for the app or website content by watching the ad.

It's a terrible model, but you are being paid (in content) for watching ads.

This actually happens very frequently in the US. When hunters harvest a bird they report their kills in compliance with hunting regulations. If any of your birds have leg or neck bands you report that information as well. The bands have a tracking number on them, and scientists use them to monitor populations and migration patterns. It's literally part of their plan.

You get to keep the bands as well (I only have experience with banded geese and ducks). They're a neat memento.

You must have me confused with someone else?

Nowhere in this thread did I suggest people find cheaper housing by leaving cities.

How do I plan for job instability? By interviewing at many places continuously. By keeping my job skills and interviewing skills sharp, while interviewing continuously. By keeping my eye on the market and my value, by interviewing continuously, and evaluating the incoming offers.

It's not easy, but it's pretty straightforward. I picked a job sector with lots of opportunities and upward mobility, but also tons of instability. I picked a place to live which gives me physical proximity to those opportunities. I work smart and stay agile. All of that without a college degree.

Stuff is expensive and we don't always have everything we want, but we're secure enough to have everything we need, with a healthy risk management plan.

I do live in a major city in the US, so I have more local opportunities than someone in a small town. But I'd argue that my decision to live near where there are job opportunities was part of my planning process.

I mean, yeah, I plan for that. If you're a wage earner like me, you should know you're employed at the will of some company, and they don't give a shit about you.

I plan for this by interviewing for other jobs at least once a month. I turn down offers every few months. I keep my skills sharp and my eyes open, and change employment when it makes sense.

The longest I've been at one company is 7 years, but it's not unusual for me to change companies after 18-24 months.

I don't plan to get laid off, but it happens a lot in my industry, and I roll with it. It is planned out, risk management, or whatever you want to call it.

So the economy made it so people who were planning ahead suddenly woke up one day with an unplanned 2 year old?

Sure, money and housing are tougher than they used to be, but don't pretend like an embarrassing number of people just don't care to plan ahead, and when they get into deep shit they look to blame everyone else.

Huh, it's like planning ahead isn't even a thing.

Once the kid situation hits then yeah, it's harder to make planning decisions, people's options are limited at that point. I agree we should help people in those circumstances, but I also think we should help people make plans which avoid painting themselves into a corner.