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  • My grandpa rents some of his fields out to an amish guy who also rents a lot of other fields in the area. The amish in our area are known to be pretty loose with their rules so my grandpa wasn’t surprised when the guy showed up with combine harvester but he was kind of surprised with how new it was. My grandpa asked him how he could drive a combine when they weren’t allowed to drive cars. To which the amish guy responded, “Well, I don’t actually drive the combine; it drives itself. I just sit in it.”





  • Fosheze@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldlets be real
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    2 days ago

    Yeah, my parents made too much for me to get shit regardless of the fact I was living on my own and paying for everything myself. But I couldn’t declare myself as independant unless I was 26 or married. It’s a bullshit system. I was half debating finding a fellow student that wanted to get temporarily hitched just for FAFSA benefits.







  • So a few tips for cast iron if you want to know why people like it. It does take a bit of practice because cooking with it feels different and wrong when you’re used to other pans. But once you know how to work it it legitimately does cook better and clean easier while being practically indestructable. I used to think the same as you until I made myself learn how to use it and now I will never go back.

    • Let it properly heat up before you put anything in it or it will stick. Flick a drop of water at it before cooking and if the water beads up then it is ready. Unlike other pans, cast iron has a lot of mass and takes a bit to warm up. But that also comes with the advantage of being able to maintain an even and stable temp across the pan. Cast iron feels like cooking on induction no mater what type of range you have.

    • When in doubt use more oil, butter, or grease.

    • Use metal tools. This alone is one of the big advantages of cast iron. Unlike other pans you don’t need to baby cast iron. I use a steel grill spatula on mine.

    • When you’re done cooking just wipe it out with a paper towel while it is still hot. Unlike other pans you actually want to leave a thin layer of oil or grease on cast iron. You only need to get the food out of it which usually only requires a quick wipe. If you cooked something saucy then just wash it like you would any other pan (except don’t leave it to soak), just be sure to completely dry it on the stove afterwords and apply a thin layer of oil to it.

    • Use it at least every other week. The more you use it just for frying thing the more nonstick it gets as the layer of seasoning builds up. Letting cast iron sit is how it gets sticky and nasty. If you are going to store it long term then wash it with soap, dry it on the stove, and coat it in a thin layer of flaxseed oil because that stuff stays good practically forever.






  • We really need to break our conditioning that employment is the highest priority in our lives.

    It’s not really conditioning when it’s actually the case. Without my job I’m likely homeless or dead within weeks. If Iose my job then I can no longer pay my bills, within a few months I’ll be homeless. More urgently though I lose access to my health insurance which means I lose access to the medications keeping my mental illness in check. Finding a new job normally is a pain; finding one when you’re so depressed that you really don’t even care if you live or die is next to impossible. Also once it flares up you tend to stop caring about even seeking treatment for it making it a self perpetuating issue. If I got fired I would have only a few weeks to find a new job before I wound up in a position I likely wouldn’t recover from. Sure there are things like unemployment but that doesn’t even come close to paying my bills let alone affording my own health insurance.

    So it would take a lot for me to risk walking away from my job and risk getting fired. I could easily see myself in the same position as these people, waiting until it’s too late to run out of fear of losing my job. If we want people to be able to walk away from situations like this then we need to make survival possible without employment. We need healthcare to not be tied to employment and we need real unemployment pay to keep people afloat while they find a new job.