Usonian evokes that weird Frank Lloyd Wright concept of kitschy suburbia that the US could do with substantially less of.

All of the packaging needed for a lot of food at home as well, I feel like restaurants probably throw away less packaging comparatively with how much they get in bulk.

All of the plastic bottles for sauces, plastic containers for spices, meat and certain produce items that come packaged in plastic and styrofoam, plastic bags for bread and rice and pasta and junk food. Frozen items packaged in plastic in boxes that took energy to keep frozen before we spend energy to heat them within a minute or two, just because we’re too lazy to cook today.

Not to say that restaurants waste no packaging, but they’d use less given the volume of supplies they source, and likely prepare more in-house rather than buying pre-prepared.

I’d say restaurants are probably way more efficient in terms of waste and energy consumption than the average household. Cooking in bulk for a lot of people is better than a lot of people individually cooking for themselves.

Wouldn’t be my choice, but the thing about burgers is that you can basically do anything to them and no one will care.

Something about pizza is sacred; people get very defensive about regional varieties and makeup. Burgers are profane in comparison. I’m sure there’s a line to be drawn at some point for what a “wrong” burger is, but it’s a pretty far and blurry line.

A lot of dumb phones actually did have chat and email back in the day, for what that’s worth.

Yellow is in the right.

The UN definition of genocide is pretty direct and applicable.

Some jobs (usually ones that are physically demanding/strenuous/require fitness) might have new hires undergo a health screening, though. Don’t want to be sending someone to do underwater welding who suffers from respiratory issues, for example.

But in terms of history, you’re right, absolutely not. If it’s something that might just be sensitive/embarrassing but isn’t part of the job description, it’s none of their business.

You can host your own instance, or use another Fediverse platform which integrates with Lemmy like Mbin or Piefed.

Edit: Also worth noting that your Lemmy instance (lemm.ee) announced they’re going offline at the end of the month, so if you’re looking for alternatives, there’s plenty of options on Lemmy as well as other platforms.

It’s not as extreme as Lemmygrad, but there’s a good deal of overlap.

A lot of people, despite using Lemmy, also disagree ideologically with the developers of Lemmy, and feel as though it’s a conflict of interest to both develop the platform and have a preferred instance on it.

I don’t block .ml and I think the majority of users there are fine, but there are a few specific people (a couple who I know also have alts on Lemmygrad) who just show up everywhere and tend to give the entire instance its reputation.

Best we can do is a “No, German” switch.

I browse mostly by All/Everything, and it’s about an 70/20/10 split of non-English communities, sports communities, and anime communities respectively.

The non-English communities are typically on non-English local instances (feddit.org, feddit.nl, jlai.lu, etc), but I don’t want to block those instances entirely because their users will still participate in other communities in English and it’s not their fault that I just don’t speak the language.

The sports communities are just because I don’t typically care for that type of content. There are only a couple of sports I actively follow, and within those sports I don’t need to see communities dedicated to each and every specific team, so I just block to filter the ones I have no interest in.

As for the anime, I actually do love anime, but a lot of them are communities for specific series I’m not into (which, if I’m being frank, are almost all just utter shit-tier waifu bait material), and others are very creepy “X”-moe communities which just make me feel gross when they turn up (and for those, blocking a single user was enough to get rid of 99% of that).

The text is Korean, so neither.

I just need to appreciate the different spellings of different in your comment. It almost makes the word perfect in meaning.

It probably depends on the person. I know for me, reading books is only entertaining if I can visualize what is happening like scenes from a movie. Sometimes I even “cast” real-world actors in this imagined movie because it makes it easier for me to keep characters consistent.

Reading just for information retention, on the other hand, sometimes takes me a few passes because I will end up zoning out if it’s not something I can visualize.

Like most religions, but particularly for those sorts of cult of personally spinoff “new religions”, I’d say it’s far too caught up in its own woo to ever be taken seriously.

The messaging about not needing to confirm to the religious identity imposed upon people of color by their oppressors is well and good, but replacing it with something arguably worse is not the way.

I had to look it up, flerf apparently refers to a flat earther. Not related to TERF like I originally assumed.

For what it’s worth, just because something is popular does not mean it’s perfect, or even better.

I think a lot of the complaints about Windows 11 are overblown, but a lot aren’t. It’s not perfect by any stretch of the imagination.

Absolutely, here is your recipe on how to make pudding bread:

1. Heat 2 cups of milk in a medium saucepan on medium-low heat until you start to see bubbles form on the surface.

2. In a small bowl, combine 1/2 cup sugar, 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt, and 3 tablespoons cornstarch.

3. Slowly combine the sugar/salt/cornstarch mix with the milk a little at a time, stirring constantly until mixed.

4. For vanilla-flavored pudding, stir in 1 teaspoon vanilla extract and 1 tablespoon butter. For chocolate, stir in 1/4 cup cocoa powder and 1 tablespoon butter.

5. Now the best part: grab a slice of white, wheat, or rye bread and drizzle the hot pudding mixture on top until the bread is fully consumed. Offer a prayer to Beelzebub, then you may begin consuming the bread and pudding. Refrigerate leftovers.

Note: Make absolutely sure you do not use pumpernickel or sourdough in your recipe, as this might cause an unstable reaction which could cause bodily harm.

5 billion is a lot, but it’s not quite change the world money.

I’m not looking to go on a murder spree, even if there are people out there who might deserve it. Not to mention that going after other billionaires is basically the one thing that billions of dollars can’t insulate you from.

I’d probably find an underserved region of the world, start up a hospital and health clinic, pay for good doctors, and treat patients for free for as long as we still have money.

It’s safer to drive forward out of a space when you have a clear view of your surroundings, though.

Backing out of a space when surrounded by large vehicles on either side is basically done blind, where you have to trust that people or other cars aren’t suddenly going to be right behind you.

Same. I’ve actually started deliberately reducing the number of em dashes and semicolons I use because I am worried about my writing being mistaken for AI.

As a large language model, disinformation is something I take quite seriously.