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  • (Very new to thrifting) Bought a smooth 80s cast iron pan and noticed some silver specks only after getting home.

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  • Unfortunately that's a bit outside of my area of expertise, I never really see false negatives being discussed when this comes up, I'm sure they happen, not many tests are 100% foolproof either way.

    Most lead tests are really designed for paint, so using them on a pan is kind of outside of what they're made for to begin with and I'd be a little skeptical of the results either way.

    My understanding, and it may be wrong, my knowledge on the tests comes mostly from places like this where people are cast iron geeks more than chemists, are that the tests are almost more of a test for the presence of metal in general not so much specifically lead, so you get a lot more false positives because of course there's more metal in a metal pan than you'd expect there to be in any kind of paint, and it's better to err on the side of caution and give a false positive instead of a false negative.

    Again, that's secondhand knowledge from people who I don't have a ton of confidence in having their facts straight to begin with, so take that with a huge grain of salt.

  • (Very new to thrifting) Bought a smooth 80s cast iron pan and noticed some silver specks only after getting home.

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  • Certainly worth testing for lead, but know that most tests you can probably get your hands on are prone to false-positives

    And realistically, the risk is pretty minimal. Yes, cast iron is a good choice for melting lead because it can stand up to the heat, but think about it for a second, would a big skillet be a good choice for that? If you're going to be pouring directly from the skillet that's a pretty awkward operation, lead is heavy, the skillet is heavy, and those pour spouts are kind of hit-or-miss when you're pouring something less dangerous than molten metal, and if you're going to be ladling the lead out it's a bit shallow for that operation.

    And unless you're melting a lot of lead at one go, that big heavy pan has a lot of mass to heat up before you get to melting temp, it's gonna take you a long time.

    It certainly wouldn't be my first choice for a lead-melting vessel is what I'm getting at. Not that no one has used them for that purpose, I'm absolutely sure plenty of people have, but I'd probably be looking for something a little smaller and/or deeper for that purpose if I had any choice in the matter.

  • Who recognizes who around here?

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  • þat is indeed þe guy

    I also love how bent-out-of-shape people get over the thorns.

    I haven't stalked his profile, but I feel like every time I've seen him come up he's also seemed like a pretty cool and reasonable dude (I suppose it's possible he's off being a dick in the parts of Lemmy I don't frequent, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt)

  • Bill banning whites-only housing passes PA House by 1 vote

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  • It passed the house, but it's very likely going to die in the Senate which has a Republican majority

  • Who recognizes who around here?

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  • I generally don't recognize usernames and don't look at them too much

    There's the guy who uses thorns (who I have tagged as Nigel þornberry)

    There's maybe a half-dozen frequent posters who I'm genuinely not sure if they're masterful trolls, some kind of AI training bots, or just really need to go touch grass (preferably on their way to a therapist's office.)

    There's one dude whose username just happened to stick out to me after having a random conversation or two with him and seeing him being a generally pretty decent dude around Lemmy, I tagged him "this guy seems cool" at some point, and at some point it occurred to me that he might appreciate knowing that, so I shot him a message, and sure enough he did. I now consider him to be a pretty good friend, which is a new experience for me, I've never really been one to have online friends, I (somehow) do pretty well at making friends in meatspace and have never really felt a need to seek out an online friendship.

    There's a handful of people who have said some incredibly dumb shit that I've tagged (for example one dude who I tagged "Tankie, down vote and ignore" although the last few times I've seen him pop up it seems like he may have mellowed out a bit, so good for him)

  • TIL that for the average price of a car in the US, you could buy 5 cars in China

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  • The problem with EV battery disposal is mostly that there isn't enough used batteries for companies to want to be involved in recycling them.

    Part of that is because, unlike your claim, in a lot of cases they're having perfectly long long service lives, even exceeding what we thought their lifespans might be (there are exceptions of course, like the early Nissan leafs)

    And then other sources of used batteries, like from crashed vehicles, are being being reused more-or-less as-is for things like storage for solar power and home backups, which is preferable to recycling when possible

    Eventually we'll probably hit a critical mass of used batteries full of valuable lithium and such that companies will be clamoring over themselves to start recycling them, and maybe at some point we'll even reach a point where no more lithium needs to be mined and we'll be recovering all we need from dead batteries. Basically the whole battery can be recycled these days, its just a matter of building out the infrastructure to do it, and once there are enough batteries waiting to be recycled, someone will see dollar signs and step up to that plate.

  • TIL that for the average price of a car in the US, you could buy 5 cars in China

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  • And if the prices go up, I end up right back buying 10 year old used cars, so long term nothing really changes for me, personally, except I get to enjoy a couple years of driving a newer car than I'm used to.

    And it generally helps increase EV adoption which is an overall good thing.

    Not really seeing any downsides here.

  • TIL that for the average price of a car in the US, you could buy 5 cars in China

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  • Even if that's true, it would still make sense for a ton of people to get these.

    Personally I've always had used cars that were already around 10+ years old when I bought them and so they cost about 1/5 of a new car. So far I've averaged about 5 years out of them because at that point pretty much any minor fender bender is enough to total them or my car just up and dies.

    So for me, buying a cheap EV that only has a 5 year lifespan wouldn't really change much, and I'd be happy to have a car, if only for a couple years, where random shit is just acting up just because of the age of the car (on my current

    And at the end of those 5 years, I'd probably have saved enough in gas to afford a new chinese EV, or at least a really solid down payment on one.

  • Theoretically, is it Friday somewhere?

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  • Its Tuesday night (or technically very early Wednesday morning) as I write this

    For me it's basically sunday, I was off yesterday and today.

    So for the guy who works my opposite shift, its currently Friday. He'll be getting off in a couple hours and then he'll enjoy his weekend when he wakes up on Wednesday and Thursday.

  • What was your "we have to leave now" moment?

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  • You're quoting from somewhere, but not citing your sources, which doesn't really add to the conversation either, for all we know you're just copy and pasting some AI-hallucinated bullshit, and it kind of reads like it might be because that last sentence is a bit of a mess.

    Now, sure, you technically can cook crack in a spoon, and I'm also absolutely certain that some people have, maybe even on a regular basis.

    But at least around me, most crackheads aren't usually out cooking their own crack in the field, they're buying rocks from their dealer. That's one of the reasons crack got big- higher profit margins for the dealer. Maybe the situation is different in Vienna, I honestly can't can't say I've ever talked to any Austrian crackheads about their local drug culture. And on the user's end the draw is that it has a faster, more intense high, and having to make your own crack before you can smoke it kind of takes away from that a bit.

    And it can be prepared in a spoon for injection like heroin, but like your quote said, most of the time people prefer to smoke it.

    It can also be smoked from a spoon in a pinch if they can't get their hands on a more suitable crack pipe, and giving you the benefit of the doubt that it was in fact crack, I'd bet that's what you saw, but that's a different process than what's described in whatever you quoted.

  • Go on...

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  • Even in English, something about Idina Menzel's singing voice in frozen (though not her other singing in general) has always struck me as a little grating, something about it just kind of hits some of the same parts of my brain that a sped-up "chipmunk" voice does.

    Somewhere on the internet I once found a version of Let it Go where they pitched it down a very tiny bit, it might even have only been by a semitone, and I thought that it was a massive improvement over the original.

  • Go on...

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  • "Home" by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

    After years of hating it, I've basically boiled my criticism down to the fact that it's

    Banal, saccharine, faux-folksy bullshit.

    I'm pretty sure I've written that exact string of words dozens of times over the years whenever this topic comes up. But I'll expand on it a bit.

    It drags on for a little over 5 minutes, it's too damn long for having no real substance

    Half of the lyrics are just cutesy-sounding words with no real significance

    There's a weird spoken word bit in the middle telling a story that just kind of doesn't go anywhere basically just "remember that time you fell out a window and I drove you to the hospital? That's when I fell in love with you"

    Why? Are you attracted to women who are bleeding all over your car? Do you get turned on by gravity? Did she say something funny? Did she at least look cute? There's just no fucking payoff.

    There's not really even anything particularly interesting musically interesting going on there.

    And what's with the fake southern drawl? You're from L.A. my dude. That's Los Angeles, not Louisiana. And by the way "Edward Sharpe," you forgot to even use that bullshit "alter-ego" name in this song, you're not even keeping your own made-up lore straight, just drop the fucking act.

    I'm pretty sure if I asked the crappiest LLM out there to write a "bullshit folksy love song for basic white teenage girls" it would spit out something better.

    And for some reason the radio stations around me played this song to absolute death, not to mention my sister practically listening to it on repeat. It's burned into my head and I absolutely fucking hate it.

  • How does the movie theater in Drake & Josh work?

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  • To me it kind of harkens back to my childhood in the 90s and early 2000s, which I have a hunch may be a bit before your time and is also roughly contemporaneous with when Drake and Josh premiered.

    These were the days before everyone had a cell phone and almost no one had a smartphone except for a handful of weirdos with blackberries, and most movie theaters worked on first-come-first-serve, seat-yourself seating.

    So if you and a few friends wanted to see a movie and wanted to sit together, you'd want to get there early to get in line together to get good seats.

    And to some extent, you had to just pick some time to meet up beforehand, it was harder to coordinate rides on the fly because you couldn't just text someone for a ride and get an instant reply or get an Uber/Lyft to pick you up. If you were relying on public transit or the only ride you could get had other stuff to do, you might have to get there a bit early and kill some time while you wait for your friends to show up, or hang around a bit after the movie because your mom wasn't coming to pick you up until X time.

    So I remember there usually being a few tables and some arcade games and such in the lobby and you'd often see people hanging out there. I know at least one theater near me actually had a few people who would go there specifically to hang out because there were a couple arcade games that they liked (I remember DDR and Time Crisis being pretty big draws, and we didn't have a lot of dedicated arcades around at the time)

    As far as food, that was a bit of a rarity besides the normal snack counter fare, and even then we all complained about how overpriced it was, but if you were there with some time to kill and hungry, you might find yourself sitting at a table chowing down on a concession stand hot dog or some nachos.

    Now around me, these days we do have some theaters with actual food menus, and you might have some seating at a bar where you could, at least in theory, go to have a meal without seeing a movie, not that many people actually do that. That's relatively new though, that kind of thing would have blown our minds back in the day, even having a bar was basically unheard of, not that I was old enough to get a drink then anyway.

    And there was just a bit more of a teenage hangout culture back then. We just kind of found places to occupy that wouldn't kick us out. We'd just kind of go to the mall and walk around and hang out for a while, sometimes not even really going into any stores and subsisting on food court bourbon chicken. If a movie theater lobby was willing to tolerate our presence, I'm sure at least some of us would have found ourselves hanging out there.

    As for as how many screens, big multiplex cinemas have been pretty much the norm around me for most of my life, but even today smaller places with one or just a small handful of auditoriums are still out there, I see them in big cities where space is limited, in rural areas where there's just not enough of a market to sustain a bigger theater, and in the suburbs where they tend to be more independent arthouse type places.

    Personally my first memories of going to the movies are from a theater inside of a smaller local mall, I was young when it closed, so my memory of the layout is fuzzy, but I still remember quite clearly where in the mall it was and I can't imagine that it had more than 2 screens just based on how big the mall is and I'd struggle to tell you how they fit them in.

    And of course, it's a TV show and not one that's totally grounded in reality. The point of it isn't to portray an actual, viable movie theater business. It's to advance the plot. Teenagers like to go to movie theaters, teenagers also work at movie theaters, they only have the budget to to build so many different sets for their show, and these shows are being written by adults who are looking back at their childhoods of yesteryear through rose-tinted glasses, so if mash that all together with a little Hollywood magic and suspension of disbelief and you end up with The Premier- somewhere that feels just plausible and familiar enough to their audience to advance the plot.

  • YSK: even modest increases in time spent outdoors significantly reduces a child's odds of developing short-sightedness

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  • I admit that I barely skimmed the article so I don't know if/how they controlled for this

    But this also kind of feels to me like something that could go the other way- myopic kids are less likely to go outside

    Get hit in the head by a baseball you didn't see coming or trip over a rock you didn't see a handful of times and you might decide that the "outdoors" thing isn't really for you.

    Or of course a mix of both factors, kids who are already predisposed to short-sightedness go outside less, so the other factors at play make their eyes even worse and so they go outside even less and....

  • What tv show has the best theme song?

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  • It may not have been the catchiest song that you'd catch yourself humming

    But I really dug the opening for American Gods

    The song is sort of reminiscent of Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin, which is of course very fitting

    And all the imagery is also very spot-on

    The first season, IMO, was probably one of the all-time best seasons of a show I've ever seen

    But man did it take a hard nose-dive after that for a few different reasons.

  • People who fake dietary allergies/sensitivities do more good than harm, by increasing demand for hypoallergenic products

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  • It increases the range of options for sure, but it also dilutes how seriously people take it.

    Back around when the gluten free thing started taking off, I worked at a local pizza shop, and we started carrying a gluten-free personal pizza.

    The crust came frozen, wrapped in plastic on a disposable aluminum pan so it wouldn't come in contact with the oven, and there was at least some effort to make sure they were using a different bucket of cheese and sauce and such to minimize cross contamination

    But the truth is, I'm pretty sure just the air in that pizza shop probably had measurable levels of gluten, flour got everywhere because we had guys tossing around pizza dough covered in high gluten flour. If someone had a really serious gluten intolerance they probably shouldn't have trusted anything in our store except bottled drinks, and I worried a bit about someone getting lulled into a false sense of safety because we advertised a gluten free pizza.

  • Even if we found a feasible way through physics to travel through time, wouldn't it still be impossible due to the evolution of bacteria and our immune systems?

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  • We can probably make a pretty good guess, but we don't know everything

    Let's say 10,000 years ago, some giant asteroid passed close enough to earth that its gravity nudged the earth a couple centimeters out of its previous orbit

    Maybe since then, that asteroid has continued on its merry way and left the solar system or crashed into Jupiter, or broke apart, or is just out still orbiting the sun somewhere in a place we haven't detected it, or we have detected it but just haven't done all the calculations to figure out where that particular space rock was 10k years ago to know that it probably nudged the earth a tiny bit.

    Now we transport you back in time and account for all the other movement of the earth, but not that little nudge.

    So you're appearing a few centimeters off from where you should. If you're lucky, you still end up with solid ground under your feet, or maybe you end up a couple centimeters in the air and you fall on your ass once you blink into existence in the past.

    Or maybe you end up with your foot trying to occupy the same space as a rock because you're a couple centimeters lower than you should be. How does that even play out? Does your foot and the rock explode? Does your foot get stuck inside of the rock? Do they merge into one horrible mess of rock and flesh?

    And even if we account for all of the earth's movements through space, what was at the exact point on earth you're currently existing in some arbitrary amount of time ago?

    Tectonic plates have been drifting around, you gotta account for that, the spot on the north american plate that I'm standing on right wasn't in the same spot relative to the rest of the earth.

    And even accounting for that, which I don't think we can really do super accurately, there's erosion and a million other random environmental factors to consider, go back far enough, and the space I'm in right now might have been inside of a mountain or a glacier or something. There might have been a tree growing right where I'm standing. It might have been in the middle of a wildfire or a flash flood, or there might have been a dinosaur standing right where I am now.

  • JetBlue told a grieving customer to clear his cookies after a $230 price hike—then deleted the evidence

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  • I once bought a couple copies of a book as an inside joke for a couple friends.

    It was not at all a popular book, I can pretty much guarantee that you've never heard of it or it's writer, and odds are you'd probably hate it if you did ever read it.

    I think when I bought them they were going for about $5 a pop.

    And immediately after I ordered them the price shot up to like $15

    I can only assume that the algorithm assumed that something happened that made that book popular all of a sudden, instead of just one asshole buying a couple copies to give to his asshole friends as a joke.

    Took a few months before the price dropped down again.

  • xkcd #3235: Types of Board Game

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  • I remember one time being over a friend's house, he had some board game they just dug out of the back of a closet somewhere and we were thinking about playing it. Can't remember which game it was, I want to say it may have been Diplomacy, but I'm not 100% on that.

    We open it up, looked like all the pieces were there, and we started reading through what we thought was the rulebook, it was a fairly beefy book.

    Then we realized that what we had wasn't in fact the rulebook, but some sort of secondary book that referenced the full rulebook, which it called "intimidating"

    On reading that, we decided that this game was just too much trouble for how much effort we were willing to put in that day.

  • Buy it for Life @slrpnk.net
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    No shoes are truly BIFL if you wear them regularly, but these come close

  • Cooking @lemmy.world
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    Corned Beef Wellington - Am I crazy?

  • Dogs @lemmy.world
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    Transitioning dog back into crate

  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
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    Resin printing in the cold

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Some of my usb ports not working in Mint

  • pics @lemmy.world
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    Turnip O'Lanterns (More in the Comment)

  • Dogs @lemmy.world
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    Sunflower (Sunny) being a very good girl camping over the weekend

  • Magic: The Gathering @lemmy.world
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    What are your favorite weird cards?

  • Philadelphia @lemmy.world
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    Philadelphia's largest city workers union goes on strike

    6abc.com /post/strike-looms-deal-is-not-reached-district-council-33-philadelphias-largest-workers-union/16887463/
  • Warhammer 40k @lemmy.world
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    Building my first army

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Does my friend's response rub anyone else the wrong way?

  • Automotive Repair @lemmy.world
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    Blower not blowing

  • Cooking @lemmy.world
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    QUESTION

    What are some of your favorite spicy/super flavorful dishes?

  • Old People Facebook @reddthat.com
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    Friend had a baby and is having a rough time, red does not seem to understand what "postpartum" means

  • Cooking @lemmy.world
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    Question

    best ways to freeze lunch meats and cheeses?

  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
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    My dad and sister went out shopping on black Friday one year

  • aww @lemmy.world
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    Sunflower making herself comfortable at her grandparents' house