Oh God, do people do that? Shouldn’t do that with any pan.

Toss a cup of water in the pan to deglaze it and scrape any crap up with your cooking tool. Dump the water in the sink and use some paper towels to wipe out any loose stuff.

This might be enough to clean it, but if not once it’s cool clean as appropriate. If it’s carbon or cast iron, reheat to cook off any water and wipe with a drop of oil you bring to smoking.

Inevitably leave on the stove until you need to use it next instead of putting it away properly.

Ah, true. That one’s become so ingrained for cooking in general that I don’t really think about it. Putpan on low/medium heat, toss in a bit of oil and let the heat get even then swirl the oil. Adjust heat to desired level and cook.

No, it doesn’t. But people think it does and will get really vocal about it if you, god forbid, get it super gross and need to rinse it out with some soap and water.

That’s why I specified that it was peer pressure, not necessity. :)

For your clothes dryer most definitely. Probably not great for the sheets either.

Carbon steel > cast iron. Lighter, basically the same heat properties, and you don’t get peer pressured into unnecessarily babying a lump of solid metal.

Seriously no reason to dote on either of them so much. Only real care you need to take is that they can rust, so don’t leave them wet. And don’t needlessly scrub them with chain mail or angle grinders, or you might need to take a few minutes fixing them with cooking oil and the oven.

Heh, I like that.

It can definitely haul cargo, and we have much less use for the type of bombing that it does in modern times. It was still built as a strategic bomber.

The b-52 is a US long range strategic heavy bomber. It’s been in service for a very long time, and the reference seems to be that we’ll just keep updating it until it’s eventually also “new” and refreshed when the enterprise is being decommissioned.

They just wouldn’t believe it. They wouldn’t accept that it was real, and any investigation would either confirm that belief or be obviously political and corrupt.

True, but in the modern era so is aluminum, and I would have expected essentially everywhere to have updated by now since we’re more than a century into knowing lead and food don’t mix.

Like I said, there are lawsuits and there should be, because a business is ultimately responsible for what it sold and who it chose to do business with to a fundamentally higher standard than an individual is.
The consumer facing businesses can turn around a sue their suppliers to continue the chain.

Finding they destroyed documentation that they knew something would indeed be a pretty big smoking gun. There’s no real reason to think that they did though, since the businesses in question aren’t actually making any money off of it or in a position to benefit. They actually loose money by having to pull stock and destroy it.

In at least one case, we know which company added the lead and which potentially knew about it, they’re just in Ecuador.

Also, felony murder requires that you have intent to commit a criminal act. As written, not necessarily as applied, it would apply if you agreed to drive to a gas station robbery and your passenger killed someone. If you just agree to give someone a ride and then they kill someone you’re not culpable, assuming you said “oh hell no” and then didn’t continue to give them a ride post-murder.

It’s complicated to hold the people responsible responsible, since they’re largely outside the US jurisdiction. The US companies that sold the product were, as far as anyone knows, ignorant of the contamination, buying from people ignorant of it who bought from people ignorant of it.

But yes, there should be, and are, lawsuits about the issue in addition to the recall.
Recalls are about public safety, and lawsuits about assigning blame or correcting wrongs. They’re not exclusive or substitutes.

Lead and heavy metals will be added to spices by unscrupulous middlemen to increase apparent yield, and lead in specific is, for some reason, used in some older industrial spice grinders and will leave an intolerably high residue.

I interpreted it as a week with a holiday. If you get labor day off, taking the rest of the week gets you 9 days off for 4 days PTO.
Likewise, if your birthday is near there and you get it for free, it’s 9 days for 3 days PTO.

There are also some places that might just do a nice, if not grandiose, gesture for someone on their birthday.

Previous place I worked it was pretty routine for a manager to grab one of those containers of store made cupcakes if it was someone’s birthday and they knew they didn’t mind, make sure they got one and leave the rest in the break room.
Never anything more or less than just a nice gesture.

I’m guessing someone tried a nice gesture and it came out looking sad, so they posed for a picture for a chuckle and moved in. I don’t know anyone who would be really upset by being given a pizza bagel on their birthday.

My workplace gives you a free day within a month of your birthday. Most people take the closest Monday or Friday to get a three day weekend, but some people are lucky and get to bump a three to a four.

To convey uncertainty, because the dictionary classification of the word was a bit of a mouthful, and I was only 90% certain that I was interpreting it correctly.

That’s the annoying part of English. How we got here is perfectly logical for the most part, and that does absolutely nothing to make any of it make sense.

From the dictionary: (archaic) second-person singular simple present indicative of be

So, yes?

It’s legally the same chemical, and often the same brand. However, their handling of potentially sensitive products is profoundly lacking. See: https://apnews.com/article/dollar-tree-lead-cinnamon-applesauce-wanabana-7376af3115d7fe506ad2cb168787d1d3

I wouldn’t trust them to properly comply with a recall that I as a consumer would usually trust the store to handle, like taking products they know to be contaminated off the shelf. Additionally, I wouldn’t trust them to ship or store those products in compliance with manufacturers guidelines.
Most things will be fine, but some things breakdown or develop issues if not stored in what are typically reasonable conditions.
For example, if kept too long or in improper conditions, aspirin can break down significantly and provide less benefit. Annoying if you’re taking it for a headache, potentially dangerous if you’re taking it for clot prevention.
Likewise bottled water, although typically drawn from municipal water supplies, is not held to the same standards and can develop bacterial growth if left in poor conditions too long.

Then there’s the chronic staffing issues that can lead to food that requires refrigeration, like meat or dairy, to sit waiting to be put in the cooler for far, far longer than is safe.

Dollar stores are great for stuff like “I lost my shirt at the beach and I need something so I can go inside a restaurant”, crayons, and general “stuff” you need only a small amount of and can afford the relative markup or only need infrequently. I wouldn’t trust them for anything that goes inside a living creature because I have no confidence they even have enough staff to try to handle things appropriately.

I was a bit skeptical as well, but there’s at least one seemingly reputable academic researcher who says as much: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_February_2003_anti-war_protests (first citation).
So even if it wasn’t, one could easily be forgiven for the mistake.