As it should be. This is not food, shelter or healthcare, let them gamble and the shareholders or customers pick up the tab. Nobody needs paramount, if it’s too expensive, cancel it.

Guys, guys! This dude is coming from the right, get him!

I grew up with real ones but became lazy. Plus I lived for a long time in a 22m2 studio and no real tree would fit so we bought a skinny artifical one. A realistic one with some asymmetric branches and high quality stiff needles.

Still going strong after 10+ years and moving twice, will probably last another decade.

You should try buying a carp!

Only if you’re not careful

Yeah, that and bullshit walking, balancing and alphabet reciting.

Stainless is just a piece of metal. Indestructible. No rules. Requires some skill to avoid food sticking, but it is doable. You can cook anything, anyhow and clean it however you want.

Non-stick is… well, non-stick, but there’s a ton on rules. No metal, no dishwasher, no stacking, … However they are really non-stick, no skill required.

Cast iron is like a middle ground. You cannot ruin the pan, but you can easily ruin the coating: no wine, no tomato, no lemon, no soap, no dishwasher, etc. And the non-stick effect is weaker than Teflon or ceramic, it still requires skill to use.

As a hobby cook I have never gotten into cast iron, I use 90% stainless steel and 10% non stick (mainly for pancakes) and for my wife who doesn’t want to fiddle with temperatures with stainless.

Wat

Scientific calibrated tests, like most civilized countries.

Those are not the only two options. I also prefer this to getting kicked in the nuts, but there are a million better options.

The land of the free, everyone.

If they could? They have tanks, for fucks sake. They don’t lack resources.

The only reason for bullshit tests is that the cop gets to feel powerful deciding himself instead of a specific measurement by a calibrated instrument.

Welcome to the club, it’s called everyone and we meet at the bar.

Imperialism?

It something both sides do.

That will fetch many mewgabytes.

That’s the only problem I had with it.

That it isn’t a statistic.

Never argued it isn’t bullshit…

Yeah, the problem with empires is they can only destroy themselves, usually. Which they are on a tremendous path of doing.