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Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 07:27:47 JST Anil Dash
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@TechConnectify I had my eyes so completely opened by this episode of 99% invisible. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/cooking-with-gas/
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  Cooking with Gas - 99% Invisible
  
  Back in January, Bloomberg News published a story quoting an obscure government official named Richard Trumka Jr. He works with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which regulates stuff like furniture and electronics and household appliances. Basically, the agency is supposed to make sure that the stuff we buy is safe, and won’t kill us or
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  Technology Connections (techconnectify@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 07:27:49 JST Technology Connections
  
  I used the word hoodwinked earlier - perhaps gaslit would have been better!
  But that's really what it feels like. How did I ever think I like the smelly, fumy, hot-AF cooking experience more? Why did I think electric stoves were so slow? How did these thoughts get in my head, and stay so pervasive?
  And that's the end of the thread. You do you, I'm sure some folks out there still want gas stoves. I won't judge you - but my mind has been changed, and HARD.
  
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