adhd_traco
Pretty solid and good read. Also love the last paragraph.
Got a cast iron pot for the first time a few months ago gifted to me. The heaviness really is a thing.
Popcorn is very hard to do, because it's so heavy to keep the pot moving the whole time (don't know another technique to make popcorn in a normal pot).
Draining pasta water without a colander is near impossible. Yes, just use a colander. But it takes away the flexibility of a light-weight pot, where you can absolutely get by without one, just making pasta meals.
Taking it out and putting it away is actually not that easy.
My 5 cents of living with cast iron pot.
Fascism supersedes AI in all aspects here, imo.
For example, fuck whatever AI is doing if your art is publicly funded, or you can live on UBI because humanity progressed towards truthful discoveries rather than the multi-billion dollar complex that keeps the rich & powerful where they are.
If AI would be in the hands of the people at large, this technology would in many ways not be causing so much trouble.
But as we are entering into increasingly more fascist territory in the west, that means little hope for effective controls. If anything the interest to use it to aid oppressing those that fascism intends to oppress fits more in line.
It means legal, financial and other freedoms are limited as people are to be sucked dry and controlled and not get any dangerous ideas. So not a whole lot of freedom around creating arts and/or creating thoughtful stuff. Wanna hang out with that interesting non-obeying person, hm Social Score? How's the art scene and all those great writers in North Korea? Wanna philosophize about the creation of Israel, genocide and moral duty, publicly in Germany?
So that great craftsmanship you speak of, might require resources and ideas that will not be permitted in that combination in the future.
If none of their ports work, I'd guess it would affect their war effort considerably. It also means stable supply lines by water and no worries about naval movements.
I had a similar situation where my internet source was Wifi via the guest network of the landlord's router. Eventually I setup an openwrt router which connected to that guest wifi as client, and networked it to ethernet connected devices. Since this meant I couldn't use wifi on my own network (hardware limitations, I guess), I connected another router to that one via ethernet to distribute wifi as well. Don't wanna know how many network problems this created, NAT was the obvious one.