I can never take Americans who fetshize yoga and ashrams and Ayurveda and Hindu spiritualism shit in general seriously because if you Google basically any prominent yogi in India you will almost always find them saying some absolutely absurd/fucked up shit. There’s another yogi in India who opem discusses exterminating Muslims. Like I can’t square this reality with the “peace and love” image that Americans (honestly non-American white westerners are even worse I think, like europeans/israelis/aussies) have of India and yoga and Hinduism in their head. Like talk about rose colored glasses lmao
Having India on the internet has been fascinating for getting to see (often) English-speaking cultures that have just not internalized “modern” norms against cheerfully celebrating like, rape, or exterminatory social cleansing.
Big part of maturity has been realizing that the only Doonesbury character worth emulating is Zonker, which is why I’ve spent the last half-decade getting stoned, going outside shirtless, and communing with plants
how are you 40 years old and not know how stainless steelcookware works
stainless means it won't fucking rust not that you can't polymerize oil into it
My mother leaned in to the housewife domestic martyrdom and kept kitchen work to herself, then they skipped me to “Computer 2” in middle school because they thought I was smart (it was really a typing sequence and I didn’t know how to type) and that screwed up the rest of my (not really) elective cycle so I never had Home Ec, since then I guess my pans were either coated or cast-iron?
i've grown up learning that stainless steel is called so because it is resistant to rust and oxidation. it can still very much be stained by other things.
I can see why that would be the criteria that makes for the important, standard type of steel encountered in end-user applications, but couldn’t they have called it “rustproof steel”, or “rustless steel”, like Harry Brearley did? Or “chromium steel”, like how Billy Joel fits the meter in Allentown?
kudos to everyone who recommended Bar Keeper’s Friend, but even with that it took several rounds of hard scrubbing with heavy grade steel wool
Like my whole life I thought it was weird always hearing about “stainless steel” and if it had turned out this was the regular version in action I would be like “ohhhhh”, but this is stainless steel!
Actually kind of wild that since my childhood watching reruns of the original turn-of-the-70s series, Scooby-Doo has been a constant and periodically more prominent presence in American popular culture
Like, those kids would be in their early seventies today. They would have gone through several dogs after Scooby.
Actually kind of wild that since my childhood watching reruns of the original turn-of-the-70s series, Scooby-Doo has been a constant and periodically more prominent presence in American popular culture
