At the cost of leg room.

This book helped me out significantly:

https://www.saltfatacidheat.com/

Yes.

Legitimate question: is there no benefit to voting for a party if they won’t win?

Do they get any future election funding or… anything?

I realise the US uses FPTP, but can someone explain to me why this comment is being downvoted? I’d think participating in the democratic process would be considered a good thing regardless.

Raising tax revenue and funding some variation of single payer health care or socialised medicine are not mutually exclusive.

I used to deliver a keynote to 3-400 people, twice a month as part of corporate onboarding.

Absolutely this.

Obviously my experience was not as high stakes as a SOTU, but it was fucking exhausting. I knew the content well enough that I could deliver it in my sleep and actively did so when I was sick, hungover, generally tired and (usually) just okay.

Regardless of my initial state, I was at my tether after 90 minutes of being “switched on” and engaged. I am not an octogenarian.

That was with the benefit of delivering repeated content. Biden doesn’t deliver this same speech twice a month. I’m sure he practiced but it’s still a big ask regardless of age.

Just beware of their reclamation policy:

https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier_topic-Always_Free_Resources.htm#compute__idleinstances

https://youtu.be/FiDY2nXVLZ0?si=LYjbmf5sgeUlIFNM

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

I appreciate the info, but I am not a patient man. :)

Where on earth are you buying HP Mini machines for so cheap? Even the older gen seem to be 5 times as expensive as your estimate.

If the cast iron is well seasoned you’re fine.

The acid in the tomato will attack the coating you’ve developed but if you use it and season it regularly there is nothing to worry about.

The great thing about cast iron is even if you “wreck it” it’s pretty much always possible to fix.

As other comments have alluded to, a sharpening stone is a far better investment and only takes a half hour to learn.

Even if you do a bad job it’ll likely be a better result and better for your knives. Most sharpeners absolutely destroy knives and take far too much material off.

1000 grit is a good place to start.