I’ve never had an issue with ice cubes fracturing in the twist trays if they’re trapezoid shaped, since it just makes them pop up when they’re squeezed by the angled walls. The newer ones I’ve seen that are rounded instead have a lot more issues, though.

It certainly seems like it should be simple to find a good one. It feels like we perfected the technology ages ago and then for some reason no one kept making the good ones. XD

That listing looks like it might be good at face value but it also seems potentially suspicious. I’ll probably see if I can find third party reviews of it to double check (compared to the Amazon reviews that are easier to spoof).

I appreciate the sentiment of wanting to avoid plastic. But I’m not sold on that style of design, especially because it looks like the cubes are not uniform in shape (with the ends being significantly different) which I know would bother me. I think it probably would be possible to make an ice cube tray in the twist style out of metal, if it was a relatively flexible metal. I haven’t seen any yet, though.

I’ve had bad experiences with modern-style plastic ones. The ones I tried were not shaped well to pop the ice cubes out and the thin plastic quickly broke. And I’ve had bad experiences with the hybrid silicone ones as well, their seams are a failure point and they’re less convenient as well.

Blahaj!

I am one of the people of the century.

So he’s resigning from his position, right?

Anyone who knows anything knew that it was blatantly unethical from the start.

He had me at “Return the dignity of work”.

I don’t think that he has any intention to do that, but that would certainly go a long way towards getting people to work like he wants.

How convenient for his Nazi friend who sells cars made in the US.

Things would be going much better if he was behind the wheel of that car.

I voted for democrats, because I know better, but it’s a fact that there are a lot of people who don’t pay as much attention to politics as I do. Ultimately, most of the people who voted for Trump are not perpetrators, they are victims. Of course I wish they were less ignorant, but I also don’t personally blame them, because I’m not into victim-blaming. The blame should be assigned to the perpetrators, the rich and powerful. Democrat leadership very much included.

I don’t think this is true. A lot of the people who voted for Trump in the election are simply disillusioned with the status quo, and rightly so. They don’t know enough to know which changes would help, but when only one side promised change, they went with that side.

Trump’s victory was assured not by an overwhelming amount of fascist voters, but by an overwhelming amount of unhappy voters combined with Democrats’ utter failure to challenge the system that made them unhappy.

It’s hard to tell which of my memory issues are from ADHD and which are from other neurodivergences.

I think the major issue with that idea is that the pain of a government shutdown is not equally felt by Republicans and Democrats. Republicans actively want to disrupt or destroy a lot of the government functions anyways, so they don’t really care when all of those things are temporarily shut down. If anything, it gives them what they want.

Crazy how the people who believe the government planned the pandemic are also on the side of the guy who ran the government at the time.

Under plurality voting, third parties are objectively bad for the winning chances of whatever party they pull more voters from (and/or bad for whatever major party you personally would vote for, if you personally vote third party). That might be what some people meant by them being “bad”, even though they prefer one of those major parties to win (and cheer on anything that makes the other party less likely to win). Although it’s certainly possible that some people just think they are bad in general. People do have different opinions, after all.

It’s only hypocrisy if they do things that disagree with their own views, and their own views are internally conistent in this case. Their view is not that all third parties are bad, their view is that third parties that have a negative impact are bad. So it doesn’t make it hypocrisy just because it disagrees with your straw man of their views.

If the democrats lose the election, I fully expect them to roll over and let Trump take power. In that case, Trump would have the institutions on his side, even as he seeks to dismantle those same institutions going forward. Democrats constantly show themselves to be willing to play by the rules, even as Republicans show themselves to be willing to bend those rules.

If he loses the election, I expect there will be an attempt to take power anyways (again), but I think that attempt is likely to fail (again) when he doesn’t have the institutions on his side.

The degree of difference between the two potential outcomes is quite pronounced. You can say “Both sides bad” and you’d be right, but bad vs good is not a binary, it’s a spectrum, and there’s a huge degree of difference in how bad the two sides are.

We don’t live in those “generally” times, currently. One of our candidates is running on a fascist platform, tried to do a fascist coup (and got away with no consequences for it), and has both promised and planned to overthrow democracy if he’s elected.

Maybe he would be prevented from doing all that stuff even if he won, but I’m definitely not counting on that. I’m gonna be fleeing like a jew from Nazi Germany because quite frankly that’s what I see it potentially becoming, and they’ve definitely painted a target on the backs of trans people in particular.

I am under no illusions that the democrats will be fully on our side, but when the other side is specifically trying to wipe out people like my partner, they’re a very clear choice. I’d much rather live under a government that’s not actively trying to wipe us out.