Folding is the worst.
At least with my laundry when I take an article of clothing out of the basket to fold you can tell the volume in the basket is reducing. Each item is large enough that the difference is notable.
But when I take a piece of kids’ clothing out, it’s not noticeably less in the basket. It just feels like an endless amount of clothes.
This is a pretty silly mindset. I cook every day. I like to use high quality tools for my cooking. That includes high quality kitchen knives. Those shouldn’t be dishwashered. It ruins the handles and dulls the blade.
Same with my nice cast iron pans. And wooden cutting boards.
I also have several very large pots/bowls/etc that are just too large to fit in the dishwasher.
The dishwasher is an extremely useful tool, but it’s pretty ridiculous to limit what kitchen tools you’re willing to use simply because they aren’t compatible with another kitchen tool.
You do know the DNC doesn’t run presidential campaigns, right? They funnel money to the campaign, but the campaigns are run by campaign managers hired by the candidates.
If the fascists truly believed your votes don’t/won’t count in the future, they wouldn’t be working so hard to take away voting rights.
I think we’re dangerously close to a point where voting won’t matter, but we’re not there yet. Look at the Wisconsin Supreme Court race a few weeks ago. Elon Musk got involved and personally spent more than $25 million to try to buy the race. He was directly paying off voters to vote for the Republican. There was nearly $100 million spent on the race, an overwhelming majority of which was spent by/for the Republican.
Yet the Democrat won with like 10 percentage points more of the vote. She blew the Musk funded fascist out of the water. It wasn’t even close.
If voting really didn’t matter at all, do you really think that would have been the outcome?
If voting really didn’t matter at all, would they be actively trying to strip voting rights away from women right now?
Don’t fall for the fascist propaganda. Voting still matters. It’s not the only thing that matters. We should all be way more engaged in politics than merely voting. But voting still matters, too.
There’s really nothing he can do about it at this point short of completely disappearing from the public eye. He’s so thoroughly fucked his reputation that anything associated with him is fucked by extension.
Even if he completely leaves any interaction with politics at all, he still has SpaceX, Twitter, and Tesla that will all maintain his status as a public figure. He’s not going to de-Nazify twitter. Telsas aren’t going to suddenly become good cars without a reputation of being swastikcars.
The only way he could stop being bullied by “the left” is if he sold off every company he owns and disappeared into obscurity. Even then, he’ll still get roasted online all the time. But if he avoids social media he could probably ignore it.
But that would all go directly against his nature. So there’s nothing he realistically would do that could get “the left” to stop being mean to him. It’s the rest of his miserable life.
“Calculated Mediocrity” perfectly describes my career ambitions.
Only 20 minutes?!?! I do have a dishwasher, and I still spend well over 20 minutes hunched in front of the sink cleaning dishes that can’t go in the dishwasher every day.
Not OP, but I’m 6’6" (200 cm). I’m ALWAYS hunching over in the kitchen.
With kids it’s so much worse. I clean the entire kitchen at least 3 times a day, usually more.
I don’t think for China specifically, though?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but Trump never dropped tariffs on China, did he?
Yeah in a global environment essentially China is the workforce/factory workers of the previous gilded age.
Maybe 15-20 years ago, but not so much anymore. Cost of labor has been rising in China dramatically to the point that a lot of manufacturing is leaving China.
When were those days, exactly? I’ve studies a hell of a lot of history, and I can really only point to two moments:
The American Civil War, but we were both the good guys and the bad guys there, so doesn’t really count.
WW2. We fought against fascism. We were squarely on the side of the good guys.
I’ve never been alive when America was the good guys, and neither has the vast majority of anyone else.
There were MASSIVE anti-Vietnam war protests at the time. Far more massive than anything we’ve seen since. And they did recognize the hypocrisy in calling it a “police action” when it was obviously a war.
You do not understand anarchism in the slightest. You are imagining some Hobbsian hellscape out of a disaster movie, which is completely counter to human nature.
So your argument is that the only way to get people to live together is under the constant threat of violence from the state?
That’s a different situation considering the Irish language was created before there even was a united Ireland. We can trace the history of how English came to America, and it came from the English people. We can’t trace the history of how the Irish language spread across Ireland because it predates history.
I don’t know what that means, but I don’t think you do either.
What’s the circle A supposed to be here, then?
Good for him!