Why doesn't the heat from a gas stove make copper pots release the gas?

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we could rise black and white unbound and make them pay
for every tear, for every fear, defend our yesterdays


we aren't revolutionaries, but we are the revolution! sometimes I think that the whole movement is just me and you, or that maybe we'd all be better off if that were true, because then at least we'd know where we stand. and we could tell our comrades apart from "the man"