I can fit a baking dish in it so I can use it for many of the things I might want to bake in my oven (lasagna, casserole, small batch of cookies/muffins) but don’t want to heat the entire oven for. It fits a standard frozen pizza, I’ve occasionally baked bread or rolls in it. One of my most frequent uses would be the broiler setting where I just want to quickly brown the top or melt cheese onto something.

One of the drawbacks of my current air fryer is that the fan blows so hard I have to make sure that what I put in there is heavy and secure enough not to get blown around. My son was heating something and put a piece of cheese on it to melt. The cheese was definitely NOT where it was supposed to be when it melted.

Convection toaster ovens have been around for a long time, but for the most part have been “toaster oven plus a little fan.” Air fryers showed up with an emphasis on I’M BLOWING ALLLLL THE HOT AIR!!! I’ll make frozen mini pizzas in my air fryer and have to stab the pepperoni with toothpicks or they end up God knows where lol.

I have both, but would be willing to just have the toaster oven version if it stepped up its blowing game. Until the day comes when one of the appliances craps out on me, I’ll use both.

For the love of God could you not?

Your parents are doing their best with the tools they have, but they’re preparing you for the world they grew up in - not the one you will live in. The things you think are for other people? They’re for you too. You can have them, it’s just going to be a lot of work to get there.

I truly appreciate the fact that I can browse Lemmy for my entertainment, and easily walk away when I need to be an adult and don’t auto smash the button when I open my phone.

To me this is a very, very good thing.

Throw in some subtle nuance in the delivery, and I’ve done similar to basically call someone a jackass to their face.

For a rough example - attending a kids birthday party in the presence of racist ex-inlaws. Somebody says something predictably racist, I say something obnoxious which on the surface sounds like I might agree with them for half a second, then the realization hits that I was making fun of them and I roll my eyes and walk away.

I’ve got one for you. I used to work at the Cortiva Institute - they were massage therapy (and some with esthetician programs) schools with about 30 campuses across the US. Staff were increasingly overworked, underpaid, and under pressure to pump out grads. This tore up the faculty because we WANTED the best for the students, so on the corporate level they leveraged that against us and went cheap on everything.

In their last year in attempts to “pretty us up” as investors were ready to sell us, someone had the brilliant idea to build a new “exciting” curriculum and print our own manuals, promising educational, color materials. What students got for they $17-19,000 was incomplete bullshit like this.

They ended up selling in 2019 and countless people across the country lost jobs, but I like to think we’re all better off for it considering the shit direction the company was going.

I work in hospice and travel to patient’s homes all day, but my scheduling is done over the phone from a work provided cell phone.

So either I have families/caregivers who never answer the phone and half don’t have voicemail set up or the voicemail is full. On the other hand, I have people that answer every call and now and become targets at a vulnerable time. Scammers fucking suck.