Well they aren’t wrong. They just come from a time with a lot less consumer safety. And we’re headed back with fake UL stuff being sold in stores. We kind of grew up in a golden age of consumer safety. We even made jokes about “don’t use grandma’s extension cord”.

American kettles are a lot faster than anything else Americans have access to, except a microwave. That does a mug of water in one minute. As a trade off it seriously degrades the mug over time.

But the warm mug helps keep the drink warm. Doesn’t everyone drink their tea/coffee with oven mitts?

I have, it’s overrated.

So many people don’t realize government positions have hard and soft requirements. Usually the hard requirement is the degree unless there’s profession specific stuff, (like Computer Security requiring the certification). Everything after that is generally how well you can convince them that you do actually have experience or how badly they need bodies. You might start at a lower pay level if it’s the latter but it’s a job and it promotes on time if you stay on top of it.

Alright, think about this for a minute. We produce enough food to feed everyone on the planet. But even without war or closed borders there are countries where people go hungry. Purely for economic reasons.

There’s enough housing in the US to house all of the homeless. But we don’t want to support rural areas so people have to move away. And we treat housing as an investment activity so instead of building to need, developers build to market. That means there will never be enough in the large metro markets because if there was, they would lose money.

I can go on. The idea that capitalism is the most efficient system of distributing goods is fatally flawed.

Died peacefully of old age at 61, paraplegic for 50 years, and craving one last hit for 48 years. Somehow survived being homeless and indigent for 57 years.

Too many people don’t understand this point. When we force the interest rate to be low that’s allowing more loans which creates more money. So when the Republicans come in and promise to stop printing money and lower interest rates for mortgages… Alarm bells should be going off. But we’re too busy teaching kids to repeat lists of names and places to teach them real stuff.

I think this is lost on a lot of people. You used to have to physically store assets or money in order to have that money. You no longer need to. This breaking of money from physicality has second and third order effects that Keynes and Friedman just weren’t equipped to understand. Credit in large organizations or wealthy families approaches digitalization but it’s not actually the same thing as 90% of the country holding their money in digital accounts that can be fractionally leveraged by the banks.

At the end of the day we need new big theories on the behavior of digital economies. MMT is a step in the right direction but we need more. Especially work on systems of distribution. We’re effectively in a post scarcity world but we insist on a distribution of basic goods that creates scarcity.

Doki Doki should be 90% blind. Players need to understand they’re going into a horror game.

But I’ll also add one, Detroit: Become Human. While it’s based on replaying it a massive number of times, going in blind makes the story a lot better.

This was all far enough back that funny things happened like Scotland’s royal family actually taking England’s throne.

And yeah if you get reductive enough there’s been no originality in the last 10,000 years. Food also absolutely crosses borders, like the Norman invaders who brought North West French dishes I haven’t even mentioned.

At any rate there’s definitely more to British cooking than curry and tea.

Haggis

Meat pies

Fish and chips

Shepard’s pie

Scones

There’s a ton of great British food.

The 1950’s called, they want their stereotype back.

I love that you said, green can, and that I know exactly which store sells that.

Can’t have you getting those cosmetics without paying for them!

Because large parts of Texas aren’t used to being cold. They’re hot desert climates and while a 75 degree night after a 110 degree high feels cold, it won’t kill you. So when they got nights at 32 degrees and their electricity was out it was something of a shock.

John stares at you until you remember he moved out a decade ago and manages an entire super size grocery store now.

Just go ahead and call the fire department now. It’ll save everyone time.

I do that normally anyways.

Haha, but no this is a serious issue, kids died in Texas last winter because parents didn’t realize it could get cold enough to kill them inside their house.