Sure are! They’re all steel.

Yep, that’s what I was driving at. If you’re a “medium” the cards are stacked against you and there are very few levers to pull (if any) to level the playing field at all. The only reason the mid-sized guy I know is able to survive is that he owns all his land outright and his family has been amassing acreage for three generations. Even still, he’s in a tough spot and the mega farms are buying up what is left of the family farms all around him and doing crazy shit like trucking manure across the state on a scale that he just can’t compete with.

Yes! That’s it - Matfer. I think America’s Test Kitchen recommend them and I’d follow ATK off a cliff on kitchen advice. So far, the pans have been fantastic, but I can’t imagine there’s a whole lot to go wrong with a carbon steel pan.

I think the primary difference, at least in the hobby farmers I know who are young, idealistic, and just getting started, is that they aren’t expecting to scale the operation beyond some arbitrary point - beyond which, it stops being fulfilling and starts being a giant pain in the ass. Conversely, the dairy farmer I know who has the largest operation in the county is a stand up dude, who avoids cutting corners but is getting squeezed big time by small artisanal operations with street cred and big, industrial operations with margins. The middle, where there used to be a huge swath of family farms, is a bloodbath of debt and suffering.

I imagine most of these new hippies are trying to stay small.

Bonus points if you budget a little extra and make friends with a local upholster. They can work magic in turning that solid, but ugly, chair from something your grandma would have to something you might find in a design magazine.

Carbon steel pans. You season and treat them like cast iron, but they develop a beautiful, smooth, non stick surface. I just made two over easy eggs in mine. They’re basically all I use anymore - no PFOx, no muss.

I thought I bought two from a French company that started with an ‘M’ but I can’t figure out which brand 😂

Your dream is Harris?! Shit, no. No, no, no.

My hope is that Biden is staying in the race until the 11th hour to be the lightening rod and the dems have someone better to step in.

Of course, that would require some intestinal fortitude and a few brain cells and I don’t think the dem leadership has that.

So good to see WI get out from under this bullshit. If the people want ®’s, let them get them fairly. Gerrymandering (in either direction) is bollocks.

Park them outside where they’ll be stolen by Kia Boiiyz*

• yes, we know these models aren’t push button. save it, pointdexter

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Yep - I bought sync way back in the day and paid less than $5 for it. Used it for years and years across multiple devices until I switched to iOS. I got my moneys worth for sure - $20 seems like a bargain.

No doubt, it’s a chicken or egg problem.

I haven’t done any Signal app recruiting in my circle of contacts (in fact, I don’t think I’ve talked to anyone about it) and I have 14 contacts that have it installed at the very least. I don’t think it would be a huge push to make Signal more prevalent.

The uphill battle is making a dent in iMessage adoption, which seems to be deeper and deeper entrenched every day.

Looking forward to the “reeeeee” from folks who will somehow equate this to think that the gubment is coming for their precious water heater

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I got a “new homeowners” tool kit from Ryobi, so I have my light duty tools there (oscillating saw, drill, impact driver, sawzall.)

My heavy duty stuff is Makita - impact wrench, hammer drill, etc.

I’ve arrived at the same conclusion re: fractions of a penny front-running.

I have the same dell form factor - 3060. Love it.

You should spend some time reading the literature of tankless heaters - the child post below explains it. Tankess heaters can only raise temp at certain flows. So, if your incoming water is ~55 degrees, it might be able to heat to 110 degrees and flow 6.6 GPH - basically one shower. In that scenario if someone turned on the hot water for… say… dishes, the tankless can’t keep up with demand and the overall output will be colder. Probably not cold but it might not be what you wanted.

The more expensive you go, the more the tankeless can do concurrently, but the more sacrifices you’ll make: they’ll be physically larger, they might require a bigger gas line, etc.

In that case, I would assume they’re talking about how cold the incoming water would be.

I used a tankless in a zone five area where our incoming water in the winter was often below 60 degrees. You’ll have to compare the charts of input temp and output GPH to determine how it would work for your specific use case.

I used an indoor mounted one, but there are tankless models intended for places like CA and AZ where they can be mounted outside.

We liked the endless hot water - we only had one bath and three people, so we offer were bumping against the 60 gallons of our old tank model.