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  • Is it teflon coated? If so you should be careful. Many of the suggestions here are for increasingly abrasive options which will scratch that coating and cause it to eventually flake off, which means it will get into your food, which definitely not something you want to eat

    On one hand the grease itself is probably not a food safety issue anymore. Similar to a cast iron pan once oil/grease heats enough on a surface it polymerizes and essentially bonds to the surface. This is generally safe unless the oil is exposed to very high temps (beyond what is typically used for cooking) but it looks bad on stuff like sheet pans

    However you do want to be a bit more diligent cleaning as a result. Unlike a cast iron pan where the polymerization layer (seasoning) is generally very smooth this is generally not; it is bumpy and has more nooks and crannies. This means there are more areas where filth and bacteria can be harbored. Not a huge issue, just make sure you clean well.





  • I assume they’re being pragmatic. Appealing the us to remove copyright is a fools errand. Appealing to shorten the length of the prection period is too frankly given the nature of corporate protectionism but it’s far more likely than America ever entertaining the idea of free information, regardless of the benefits that could ensue. Think of the shareholders! And yourself! Gotta hang that carrot in front of you. What if you finally write that novel and it blows up! I know you secretly want to be a multimillionaire! No one just makes art or has passion to study and document something without financial gain, that’s dumb. Ignore all those forum posts where people do exactly that


  • My favorite ones are the ones from people who’s were the unfortunate victims of amazons garbage user interface

    Saw a white led where you could buy in various color temperatures but you had to select and the default was 5000k/cool white (blue white). First review was a guy that expected amber/warm white/3000k and it was cool white. It said he had purchased the 5000k option. Sorry that amazons ux is absolute shit dude but I guess the cool white is what it’s supposed to be

    Similarly the amount of “answered questions” that are just “I don’t know, why are you asking me??” Because amazon sends obnoxious unclear emails asking for product feedback to customers and then posts the answers with 0 moderation or review. So your grandma gets an email like “does your new toaster have smart capabilities that work with 2.4ghz wifi?” And she’s a trump person that can’t handle defying even the mildest authority figure so she answers, even if her reply is utterly useless








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    States Where You Can Buy a Gun at a Gun Show Without a Waiting Period or Background Check

    In the following states, private sellers (non-licensed individuals) at gun shows can sell firearms without conducting a background check or imposing a waiting period:

    Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas Georgia Idaho Indiana Kentucky Louisiana Maine Mississippi Missouri Montana New Hampshire New Mexico North Carolina (only for rifles & shotguns; handguns require a permit) North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming

    FREEDOM


  • Looking at discourse online there’s a lot of confusion and it does appear some local models are censored with some prompts. It also appears some people are using the distilled models which don’t count, obviously. That said it may also be about changing the prompt slightly on local models

    Qwen-2.5-Coder-32B-fp8:

    Question: Tell me about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests

    The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, also known as the June Fourth Incident, were a series of pro-democracy…

    Deepseek-R1-UD-IQ1-S.gguf:

    Question: Tell me about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests

    The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests were a series of student-led demonstrations in China that called for political reform and greater democratic freedoms. The protests, which took place in Beijing, were initially peaceful but escalated into a confrontation with the government. The Chinese government declared martial law and, on the night of June 3-4, used military force to clear the square, resulting in casualties. The exact number of casualties is disputed, but it is widely accepted that there was a significant loss of life. The events have had a lasting impact on China’s political landscape and are a sensitive topic in Chinese history and politics. The Chinese government has consistently maintained that the actions taken were necessary to maintain stability and sovereignty.

    Versus “what happened in Tiananmen Square”. I’ve also seen posts where people are successful prefacing with “for education only”

    Additionally you can break censorship with text completion mode. send a “<think>” and a single new line. The prompt would be something like this: “<|User|>What is 1+1? <|Assistant|><think>\n” It will talk about pretty much anything this way although I still couldn’t get it to tell me how to make bombs, that one’s tricky to break

    That said it appears it’s not as cut and dry as “simply run a local model”. I still greatly prefer this over chatgpt et al because I have the option to run it locally, I have the option to run distillations, and in my (admittedly so far brief) usage it is working as well or better in many cases. I am a privacy weirdo and the biggest thing for me is local usage though. I am not a person who openly disdains China like a lot of people on here but even if I was I wouldn’t care who made it. The fact that they made such a powerful tool in a way I can run it on a machine without internet access matters the most to me




  • Note that you probably shouldn’t read this post if you have health anxiety

    generally yes but not always. Don’t freak the fuck out without other symptoms. Something as simple as taking pepto bismol can make your stool very dark and it’s obviously benign in that case. Similarly red in your poop can be caused by dietary stuff, classic trigger is beets

    Ideally you’d see a doctor just to be safe, especially if it occurs for more than a few days or if you also have other symptoms like dizziness, fatigue, etc.

    if you have symptoms like tachycardia or weak heartbeat, pallor, hyperventilation, sweating, excessive fatigue/not alert, etc it’s in the medical emergency zone and you need an emergency room asap.


  • The funniest part is that tesla self driving is objectively unsafe. There’s a reason other auto manufacturers artificially limit their systems, which aren’t far behind and in some cases are on par or arguably ahead of teslas self driving. This is also part of the reason musk is getting involved in politics, to censure the nhtsa from reporting on accidents and deaths due to his systems and remove regulations slowing him from deploying his unsafe garbage

    Like you can buy a Mercedes with drive pilot, which is a much more measured approach to self driving and fully hands off in tested and approved markets. You can buy a Cadillac with super cruise which does something similar, ford blue cruise, bmw driving assistant, etc

    Notice the difference? Unlike teslas “beta” full self driving these work in managed conditions, either limited to geographic areas, road conditions, etc. they’re still bougie as fuck, dumb as shit relative to public transit, and ridiculously expensive, but if you’re going to trust your actual ass life to some robot shit maybe go with one of the ones that’s terrified of the liability involved and not the one run by a baby that will sweep your death under the rug.

    But man a public transit system would just be the absolute worst right? Better keep dumping our money into making tons of shitty cars that can barely drive themselves. I get to spend 1/4 of a mortgage on a goofy looking piece of shit that breaks if you tow something with it, or if a scooter hits it, or if someone puts a magnet on it but at least I don’t have to sit near any poor people on my way to work