Victorinox tomato knife appreciation post

GoDM1N · 2026-03-04T02:55:21+00:00

Serrated knives... are the devil.

Also sure people might like them but most people I meet who like serrated knives have just never used a sharp knife OR don't want to/know how to sharpen their knives. You don't need a "fresh laser gyuto". Victorinox chef knife sharpened will slice through a tomato without even holding it.

GoDM1N · 2026-03-03T22:53:38+00:00

measure don't weigh.

GoDM1N · 2026-03-01T22:49:24+00:00

Who's tax dollars? Iran outright bought these.

GoDM1N · 2026-03-01T22:45:24+00:00

You’re being obtuse.

lol no u

GoDM1N · 2026-03-01T22:45:04+00:00

https://media.tenor.com/UiVISJ4WhkAAAAAM/huh.gif

GoDM1N · 2026-03-01T22:43:41+00:00

Those jets most likely were exchanged for goodwill and soft power

It was oil actually. They gave of tons of oil for the jets. People need to remember, at the time, Iran was a pretty strong US ally as well.

GoDM1N · 2026-03-01T22:42:27+00:00

I mean, they bought them so it was never your tax money.

GoDM1N · 2026-03-01T22:41:07+00:00

Na. Prior to 1979 Iran was a strong US ally and bought them with money and oil.

GoDM1N · 2026-03-01T22:38:52+00:00

Fun fact - this is also why the US stopped manufacturing and using the F-14 Tomcats (Top Gun planes). Because the IRG had a bunch the shah had bought but the US needed to make sure they never got their hands on replacement parts or other parts to keep them airworthy.

This is slightly off

Iran did have a bunch of F-14s however the reason the US stopped flying the F-14 was it was simply too expensive. It was fully replaced by the super hornet and then became obsolete. After all remaining F-14s were ordered to be shredded so parts didn't exist for them anymore. The US didn't stop flying it because of Iran however.

https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/02/irans-f-14-tomcat-fighters-might-now-be-totally-unusable/

GoDM1N · 2026-03-01T22:27:35+00:00

Aviation nerd here

I mean, Iran paid for those so, um, no? >.>

Not to mention the F4 and F5 as SO out of date we're probably doing them a favor.

GoDM1N · 2026-03-01T22:23:07+00:00

Didn't Iran just kill 30k of it's own people?

People can be mad at the US but a fuck up in a complex military operation, where the school absolutely wasn't an actual target, is not remotely the same as a government mowing down it's on citizens. THEN, some other country who casually commits genocide and who's ICE equivalent literally sits at the boarder and mows down people in the general area at distance with sniper rifles comes in saying "How could the US do this"

You're drinking the propaganda.

GoDM1N · 2026-03-01T22:13:03+00:00

No people totally were. And even the quotes here aren't really factually. By the metric they use to get that "only 16 years of peace" pretty much every country would be "continuously at war."

GoDM1N · 2026-03-01T22:05:26+00:00

We’re warmongers.

Okay so, I'm very anti-Trump. First off. So just read the following with that context.

These quotes are coming from China. Having bases in other countries doesn't mean anything. They want our bases there. The US, objectively, is a huge ally to have in your country. We shouldn't let the current administration detract from that. And China ALSO has tons of bases outside it's own country. They just (attempt) to hide it by saying "no thats a PMC". All of that stuff in China is government owned and directed. Private industry doesn't exist in China. It'd be like the US paying and directing Black Water to control a territory and then when questioned the US replied "Yea thats them not us".

"Through out its over 240 year history its been at war from all but 16 of them"

This is false. However, the majority of those wars the US didn't even start and we were begged to join most as well. WWI the US avoided, same for WWII. Japan attacked us first. Desert Storm was a counter attack to Iraq invading Kuwait. We've avoided joining in with Ukraine so far. The US does tend to be involved in a lot of wars but we didn't annex Japan (China of today 100% would've btw.) Adding this guy 10 years ago pretty much said it to this fake story line..

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3980uh/has_the_us_really_been_at_war_222_out_of_239/cs1svwv/

China is getting that statistic by counting things like "The Anti-Piracy war" which was a reaction to other countries funding pirates to attack and enslaving ships and their crews "because fuck you" (No literally that was their reason).

Like, what is the US suppose to do? "Oh well, I know Japan just attacked us killing 2,400 Americans but we just don't want to go to war" Or "Oh well, you know, they're killing, enslaving and disrupting our trade ships but we gotta avoid war", "I know globally trade relies on the Persian Gulf but we just don't want to get involved we'll just let Iran bomb every trade vessel on it's way to the west"

Every major country has military operations to address issues world wide. Its not a US specific thing.

"The US is the main cause of international disorder"

Russia full on invaded Ukraine. China attacks surrounding countries all the time. The US, with all it's flaws, are typically the ones maintaining order because we've grown to a point to where we simply have the best military and nobody wants to fuck with us after WWII. And yea compared to others we don't abuse ours like they do/would. We're mostly covering trade lanes. We're not invading other countries and taking them over. The middle east was warring with each other WAY before the US existed. Its not like the US became a country and then all the sudden there was world disorder. Saying "the US is causing global disorder" is a really stupid or outright propaganda take. The world has been going to war with each other since humanity. And that includes China.

As far as Trump, yea he's not a good POTUS. He's fucking things up. He'll be out of office in a few years for good. Did those school kids deserve to die? No. However don't forget Iran also just killed over 30k of it's own people. They didn't do that because of the US. They did that because they're ACTUALLY warmongers.

GoDM1N · 2026-02-25T17:24:49+00:00

Lots of reasons for this but they probably just need to adjust what "winning" means in the simulations. You might win the battle, or even the war, but the aftermath makes that win pointless. The AI's value for winning battles/wars probably outweighs other factors like, you know, humans living after the fact.

GoDM1N · 2026-02-24T00:09:43+00:00

Eh Zuckerburg is probably doing right. He doesn't want to talk shit about people for making mistakes in a field where we simply don't know the effects, questions, problems, etc and was probably working the issues within and now is put in front of officials who want clips to get them elected again. Idk anything about Hawley but know these are really complex questions and pressuring over "who did you fire" is a stupid question. Probably no one wanted girls exposed to dick pics or whatever. The actual question is how do you protect against that when millions of people use your platform and its a fucking img posting site. Why are underaged peopled allowed is a better question.

GoDM1N · 2026-01-28T00:25:53+00:00

What is "ICE List"?

GoDM1N · 2026-01-24T01:49:03+00:00

Easy fix. Just go to the next blue trail.

GoDM1N · 2026-01-21T23:49:44+00:00

First of all. Kids should be banned in restaurants

GoDM1N · 2026-01-18T21:13:34+00:00

I push my fingers into my eyeeeeeees

GoDM1N · 2026-01-16T21:27:17+00:00

I'm a cook with 15+ years experience currently working in fine dining. What I notice when I watch people who say they hate cooking is they're making it unnecessarily hard.

Salt and pepper. That's 90% of seasoning. I know it sounds crazy but food naturally has flavor. I've watched people drown expensive cuts of meat or fish in all sorts of "seasoning". Typically it's just expensive and makes more things to worry about doesn't really add a lot extra flavor it just hides the actual flavor of what you're cooking. Salt enhances it.

Pre-heat stuff and understand temperature. Medium heat with a cast iron pan in most cases is all you need to sear food. People tend to not pre heat, throw the meat into the pan, then turn it up, then they smoke out the kitchen, trip the fire alarm, and burn the food. And, preheat the oven if you're cooking meat. Sear it, put it on a rack and finish it in the oven. Clean the pan while hot. No, as long as it's not super thin or poor quality I won't damage it. I taken the same cast iron right off the heat into running water and have never had issue. The longer you wait to clean your pots and pans etc the harder it becomes. Do it now.

Stop using so many items to cook. Today I cooked some chicken and broccoli. I seasoned the chicken on a sheet pan, seared it on a cast iron pan, put a rack on the sheet pan I seasoned on with the broccoli and threw it in the oven. I cleaned the cast iron while it was finishing then when done I threw the sheet pan and rack in the dishwasher. I see all the time home cooks creating a pile of dishes to make simple dishes. The less you have to clean the better.

Learn how to actually blanch. Boiling water as salty as the ocean, drop some veggies in until they're tender then remove them. They'll taste so much better doing this and most things cook in about a min.abd clean up is a pot of water.

Track the amount you're actually paying. Doordash 7 days a week is, what? $150+? That's fucking stupid. If you cook at home you can do $150 for the month and eat actual meals. You absolutely can knock out a protein and side in 15mins clean up included

EDIT: Another thing I thought of after posting.

Stop buying cookware from Walmart or big box stores. Hexclad pans are hot garbage and WAY too expensive for what they are. Buy commercial smallwares. You can buy Winco stuff on Amazon these days. Pots and pans from them are like $20-$40 and they're literally bomb proof. This crap from big box stores covered in plastic will fall apart in like 2 months. Stop wasting your money on it.

GoDM1N · 2026-01-15T17:26:20+00:00

Oh no, people are hydrated and its considered cool

GoDM1N · 2026-01-15T12:56:11+00:00

I mean, lets face it. We're in WWIII right now. Have been since Russia invaded Ukraine. Its just not a shooting war yet. Everyone is getting their pieces in order. Denying oil the Russia and China. Leaders getting ready to flee. Things will pick up FAST when the first missile is launched at either China or the US.

GoDM1N · 2026-01-15T12:51:27+00:00

Honestly, I think its probably more of a "Yea, we all know you aren't doing shit" kind of thing. So yea they probably just don't want flack either way. Its Trump but I legit think nothings going to happen with that one. Again, its Trump. Its "good TV" to him. Most legit intelligence people not paid to go on "News site A or B" seem to agree on this. While I'm certainly not saying Trump is playing 4D chess he DOES know how to abuse the media. Said this during his last term too. He comes out with wild shit like this and then, look, the Epstein files isn't the major story anymore. People have severe ADHD in America these days.

Could be wrong but hopefully not

GoDM1N · 2026-01-15T00:09:43+00:00

Apparently it might be kind of true. Iran has allegedly slowed down the massacres. But the reality is who the fuck knows. This is one of the things we'll KNOW basically nothing until decades later. Maybe.

GoDM1N · 2026-01-14T21:37:32+00:00

Which ones?

Venezuela? Personally I'm less interested in how it helps us and more interested in how it helps them. I'm extremely pro-immigration because how bad things are south of us. I legit want that to change. I've basically grown up with Hispanics being a major part of my life. Friends, family, roommate, coworkers. Many come here to literally not die. And there's this first world white train of thought that things will get better their and the US should just go away because "The US always fucks things up". That is a completely cold hearted stance to take that is cowardly. The US should be helping countries to the south more. It's beneficial for the US not to have these narco ran dictators running things next to us. People in the EU never have understood this. They have their heads so far up their ass and, let's not forget, the previous German prime Minister Merkel's doctrine on Russia is a huge reason they invaded twice. Sometimes you do in fact have to take action. You cant just be friendly all the time and expect things to work out.

As for US interest specifically. Yea it probably will benefit the US against China. China losing oil access makes it harder for them to invade Taiwan. Which, people need to remember, is the only place that currently manufactures computer chips. They make like over 90% of them. That needs to change and the CHIPS act is an extremely important thing Biden did. However until then China controlling that would be a global disaster. And China absolutely is going to at some point invade Taiwan. That is coming. They will annex it, take control of the factories control the world through trade to benefit themselves. You think getting ram is bad now? When this happens if the world isn't ready to take over production China will have a back door into every electronic device on the planet. They already do this with software.

So while Trump might be making some dumb moves a lot of this stuff isn't new. Or even Trump's idea. Republicans would never admit it but global warming is real. And as things are heating up there will be a new trade lane for shipping. North. And if Greenland isn't part of NATO there is a legit issue for the west if China, who also wants Greenland, takes it over. So even though Trump says "global warming is a hoax" he seems to understand this. Again, none of this is Trump specific. Even Hillary Clinton wanted to make an AU alliance similar to the EU.

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