What is this thing?

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SOLVED: This apparently is a baking dish. Thrift store find for my wife. But why is there a hole in the side? What is it? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/whatisthisthing

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Oh, and it's LARGE. That's my range it's sitting on, and it covers about 2/3 of it.

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[–] dual_sport_dork 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

People just can't resist the urge to say something, even if it's useless. Especially if it's useless. (Even me, here I am saying something.)

But in this particular community, if you don't actually know with certainty what something is it doesn't seem to hard to just shut the fuck up. There's no value whatsoever in conjecture. I had no idea what the hell this thing was but I was interested to find out, but I sure as hell didn't feel the need to speculate...

[–] canihasaccount 2 points 5 months ago

Engagement helps posts in various algorithms, though I'm not sure that Lemmy uses comments for Hot or anything else. More importantly, I think there's truth to the meme that the quickest way to get an answer to your question on the internet isn't to ask the question, it's to tell someone else the wrong answer. People will then chime in with the right answer if they know it. Wrong answers can be useful in that respect.

[–] meleethecat -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I can

[–] KillerTofu 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But should you?

[–] meleethecat 1 points 5 months ago

Should anyone?