Extreme heat… of 30°C. For my Ameribros across the pond, thats like 86°F. Hoodie weather. Not exactly Arizona sun.

The mean temperature in the UK throughout the year is between 5.3-12.4°C or 41-54°F. In practical terms of you also consider the insane humidity upwards of 90% in the winter, rainfall and infamous wind speeds you end up with so much wind chill you can easily knock any winter temperature 10°C, dress for that and be bang on target.

This country is cold, damp, wet just like always and a few sunny days are a godsend and this article while pointing out an important issue (climate change) is clickbait.

Culture is a spook.

Manipulate

Being more isolated makes it harder to manipulate you, because you don’t pick up normie behaviours by osmosis, and corpos target the broadest demographic possible for the attention sucking slop.

If I was surrounded by people who just thought ads were fine, maybe I would be paying for netflix with ads. But I had time alone to develop my own thoughts on the matter and I go to great lengths to block ads for instance. Likewise I don’t understand the appeal of microblog social media like twitter/bluesky/masto.

Meals are cultural participation

That’s Brainrot. Meals are food and not much more than that. They can be enjoyable, but oftentimes to be truly enjoyable you kinda need to be alone, it just isn’t the same diving into comfort food at home vs at a public place lol.

But the trouble is housing prices are through the roof. People are packed tighter than cattle with strangers or staying with families long past due. It ain’t right and it does untold damage to the psyche to never have personal space - it is a crime of capitalism that we have a huge, largely untouched planet and empty homes galore while people are forced to surrender all privacy for the privilege of enriching their overlords.

I’ve been very fortunate in that I’ve been able to afford living alone in one way or another since 18, and I value that greatly because I wouldn’t be half the person I am from an intellectual, emotional, developmental and any other perspective if I didn’t have that time.

So to me - I am very glad that young folk are finding a way to carve out a moment to themselves, especially one as enjoyable as mealtime.

People said the same thing when Daft Punk went on stage just pressing buttons, and more broadly about all digital art.

Hey well that’s something. Genuinely good news and a genuine improvement over how things were

That’s nonsense, at least here in the UK we have:

1. Child locks on all bottles
2. Volume limits on liquid bottles - nothing above 10ml can have any nicotine at all.
3. Volume limits on internal tanks/pods to 2ml
4. Age restriction for purchasing even nicotine-free versions of vapes and/or liquids
5. highly regulated contents of the vapes themselves
6. timeouts on the vape “firing” to avoid fires and accidental burns

All of that has made vaping a massive hassle (have to manually buy nic shots and vape liq separately), more expensive (often two bottles cost more), and more environmentally costly (because the sheer amounts of fuss allowed the disposable and proprietary pod systems like Juul to gain a foothold before expanding to mass appeal.)

All of this has negatively impacted me and mine, and for no real benefit.

And in some totalitarian shitholes they even have limitations on flavours sold too, as if fucking adults can’t have anything except drinking themselves to death with the poison to end all poisons - alcohol so they stay compliant, angry and irrational.

I can’t even buy a fucking energy drink without showing my fucking ID and I can’t get anything with sugar because fat fucks can’t fucking control themselves.

This if anything to me is proof that basically many parents and largely people are often fucking rworded beyond what can be foreseen and will find a way to kill themselves and their child with a spork if no other option avails itself.

All of this is so fucking stupid.

You’re immediately blaming vapes because you’ve been manipulated by corpo overlords of old money against the Shanghai slop presses owned by corporate overlords of new money, they are funding endless research into vapes that time and time again can’t find a single fault with them and everytime someone dies from vaping black market cannabis with god knows what or spice or vaping into a collapsing lung, the tabloids owned by the same old money fucks or their friends spin it into a culture war narrative and manufacture consent for further restriction of liberties in a way that drives people back to the days of cancer and holes in their throat and mafia economics of the tobacco tycoons.

I think Nicotine is a good thing. I actively like it and choose to take it. It helps me. I enjoy it. I’ve never suffered from peer pressure and chose to try it of my own accord. I do not suffer any health issues from it and it has helped me with my ADHD since my teens in ways that rival the actual medication for ADHD. It keeps my mind sharp and my emotions under control, without it - I don’t know where I’d be.

I think if you choose to become a parent, you should take every precaution to ensure your child stays away from substances that could present a potential danger, including in some circumstances - discontinuing your use and/or possession of those substances.

I do not think this is a matter of the state, nor sufficient reason to curtail any other taxpaying adult’s choices - my taxes fund daycare, natal care, etc. because I do not hate those who make the choice to be parents - even shitty ones and I think it’s a good thing we have those societal facilities even if I do not benefit from them personally and never will.

And I don’t think that falling for this clearly orchestrated moral panic is a good use of your, or anyone else’s time, either.

Yeah I ain’t able to gaslight myself like that. None of this shit has ever won anything except a one-way ticket to humanity’s worst times and places. A deep cynicism has taken root and it will never leave.

I like infodumping, then being infodumped back at, until we arrive at some crossover subject of mutual curiousity we can discuss till the cows come home. Unfortunately while my gf loves this, my bff doesn’t appreciate this tho.

I understand the viewpoint but this seems exaggerated. If anything I think good interpersonal relationships are far easier and more widespread than like 20 years ago (mid-2000s), though 2010s were def peak 👌

But nothing rinses away with just water? That’s why I assumed you meant “rinsing with water” = “washing dishes” because by that logic nothing at all can go down the drain, ever.

Why would that even be a rule of thumb? Who “rinses” dishes “with water” instead of washing them normally as described?

If you think I’m a piece of shit for doing what is just normal and widely accepted as such because there is no reason to the contrary you can provide, you must live a helluva sheltered life. I’d adjust your expectations and fast if you want to get through life.

Why should I give one single shit about any of this?

Because some random on the internet said so in a shitposting thread?

I pay taxes so they keep the goddamn gutters running, if they’re made badly and aren’t fit for purpose - wastewater from washing fucking dishes - just make them better.

It’s not rocket science, but the approach is the same - you don’t bitch about space being hard - you build better rockets, better fuels, better calculators for trajectories and so on.

If you that concerned with grease maybe consider taking a shower. I’d rather flush grease down the drain than my one life like some of y’all.

Ah sure thanks. The “g” threw me off. Wouldn’t it be “lucky 10k”? g means “grand” but that’s usually only in reference to money, nah?

Yeah in many years never had a problem.

Why do you keep focusing on “water”? I don’t get what you’re getting at. You don’t wash dishes with just water. Water is a very small and inconsequential component of the process.

You wash dishes by squeezing some dishwashing liquid on a dishwashing sponge, then pour hot water onto the dish being cleaned and leave it on as you clean, then you scrub the dish clean with the sponge while water flows over washing away what’s left.

Then when there are no longer any visible stains on the dishes in question, the dishes are considered clean and you put them on a drying rack and/or pat them down with a towel to ensure dryness.

All i see going into the sink during this process is soapy water. I’ve no idea what is or isn’t “grease” of that liquid. It’s all just food waste. It disappears away into nothingness, as it should.

Why it could cause any issues all of a sudden when it never has and the only place people have ever mentioned it or claimed to do it is on the internet.

Ig it’s like one of those “put an iPhone in a microwave” trolling things to get people to keep jars of dirt/trash/food waste and spread insects and/or disease?

Edit: Downvoted because you’re upset at the mention of dishes?

Whatever is downstream of my sink should be built to handle food waste. That must include fats. Not my fault if they half-assed it honestly. Build a better world next time.

Y’all deserve each other. Actual lard eater and veganoid. Just use butter.

Yes. It just rinses out normally like anything on the pan with a scrub and washing up liquid.

Nah eastern Europeans aren’t like that at all we’re all very friendly, except the poles obviously.

I’ve done this too for some washes. The shrinkflation on those capsules is unreal too so gotta throw in a couple to make it up for that. How did it cause a problem?

Do you live in like a castle or something. Who tf has those.