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Tiggum posted:Ceiling fans are pointless. Fans in general are a waste of space/energy. what
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In Training posted:I print out PDFs of books I'm reading bc I can't do screen reading. Have you tried e-ink? I know someone who also couldn't screen read for longer than 15 minutes at a time, and an e-ink reader worked miracles for them.
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JamMaster Flash posted:Totally wrong about the fans, homie. AC uses way more resources.
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Brimruk posted:Minimum wage + tips I think you mean - tips
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Tiggum posted:Living in Melbourne (and, before that, central Victoria) I've spent more of my life living without AC than with, and when I have had it I don't really use it anyway. I'll put it on if I have people over, but for myself it's not worth it. And fans are more annoying than helpful, in my experience. melbourne doesn't get very hot, tbf
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Jun 19, 2023 18:05
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Wasn't it on fire recently or was that Sydney
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Jun 19, 2023 18:07
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Shame Boy posted:Wasn't it on fire recently or was that Sydney buddy thats everywhere
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my dad posted:... how do you prepare meat and potatoes if you don't have an oven? Do you just deep fry it all while yelling God Bless America or something? Personally I'd make soup.
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Jun 19, 2023 18:15
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Y'know, you kind of reminded me that, because goons, I should clarify that you warm up a plate/bowl of soup/stew in the microwave, you do not use it to actually cook soup/stews, you prepare them elsewhere. Please don't try to cook soup in a microwave.
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Jun 19, 2023 18:20
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Do however make oatmeal in the microwave. It's so much easier.
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Tiggum posted:Absolutely bizarre priorities. What on earth. I haven't seen a list of shittakes since I quit using Facebook. 1) oven:toaster::aircraft carrier:20' johnboat. Firing up an oven to toast bread is a colossal waste of energy, and toasters aren't even that big. 2) attic fans and box fans work well in many climates during early and late summer, and they consume far less energy than an air conditioner. My attic fan cools my entire house down to the ambient outdoor air temp and maintains it there using 700 W on high or 350 W on low. Compare this to 2800 W for an AC. Also, ceiling fans reduce climate control by properly mixing air in rooms; not too much help with an AC but a godsend with heating, where frequently your warm air gets trapped at the top of a room. 3) Disposals and dishwashers aren't essential, no, but that's literally the case for every appliance. Disposals mean more food waste goes to a waste reprocessing plant where it'll eventually become fertilizer, and dishwashers have saved millions of hours of labor, usually female, since they were invented. Both are good, use them if you can. 4) rice cookers require zero attention. They automate an annoying part of cooking, and in my experience they produce perfect rice 100% of the time. Also, they yet again automate labor, mainly done by women. I seem to see a small pattern here. 5) Finally, you recommend a loving kettle after making GBS threads over all these time-saving devices, which can be replaced by a saucepan, or even a microwave? Bizarre reasoning. Edit: oh you're Australian, that makes more sense. Not your comments, just why you think like that.
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Jun 19, 2023 18:43
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my dad posted:... how do you prepare meat and potatoes if you don't have an oven? Do you just deep fry it all while yelling God Bless America or something? you braise it in a pressure cooker on the stove. microwave is for left overs and that thing where you scramble an egg into equal amounts of broth to make egg pudding. most left overs are better reheated stove top though so you can pretty much ditch it if you don't eat that egg thing
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Tiggum posted:Absolutely bizarre priorities. I think most dishwashers need garbage disposals and together save a lot of labor after cooking which saves relationships air fryer can move more heat per second than any other appliance besides deep fryer, which is too dangerous and specialized to use at home, and wastes a lot of oil. air fryer also doesn't use gas I just turn the ceiling fan on in the room I'm in and open windows and delay using my AC for months I can agree rice cooker is pointless unless you already have one in which case you will use it all the time because you'll have a less crowded stove for making the stuff which goes on the rice and it's fool proof and more energy efficient. if you don't make rice a few times a week then its skippable, don't clutter the countertop I did say it took too long to realize the power of kettles to the rest, fair point Antonymous has issued a correction as of 19:32 on Jun 19, 2023 |
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Jun 19, 2023 19:25
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i keep a ceiling fan pretty much all year for the air circulation. I can't sleep in my room without the fan on low https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjhPQfHaTWw George is right spacemang_spliff has issued a correction as of 19:29 on Jun 19, 2023 |
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gonna need more goons to weigh in with long bulleted lists of their individual appliance takes
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Everyone it should get rid of their phone, computers, webtv boxes and anything that connects to the internet immediately
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Jun 19, 2023 19:33
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As long as we all agree that my terrasse heater and sprinkler are essential
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tokin opposition posted:Everyone it should get rid of their phone, computers, webtv boxes and anything that connects to the internet immediately
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tokin opposition posted:Everyone it should get rid of their phone, computers, webtv boxes and anything that connects to the internet immediately please do this
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Americans are seemingly just discovering electric kettles but the real genius move is getting one of the asian water boilers/dispensers. You just always have perfect temperature water available.
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Jun 19, 2023 19:54
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You can get taps here in the UK that dispense: Standard mixer tap got or cool water Boiling water Cold, sparkling water I'd be so terrified of selecting boiling while washing my hands or some poo poo, though
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Jun 19, 2023 20:00
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my kitchen has appliances, but not too many, and they are all useful
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Amphigory posted:You can get taps here in the UK that dispense: We considered getting one of those but they are obscenely expensive
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Amphigory posted:You can get taps here in the UK that dispense: my apartment in college had a sink with two faucets, one hot (from the boiler that the radiator style heaters used) and cold water. it sucked
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PoundSand posted:Americans are seemingly just discovering electric kettles but the real genius move is getting one of the asian water boilers/dispensers. You just always have perfect temperature water available. kettles don’t really work that well in the US because of the low residential voltage (takes twice as long to bring to a boil)
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PoundSand posted:Americans are seemingly just discovering electric kettles but the real genius move is getting one of the asian water boilers/dispensers. You just always have perfect temperature water available. I think you're over-estimating the demand for single serving hot water in the average American's day-to-day.
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spacemang_spliff posted:my apartment in college had a sink with two faucets, one hot (from the boiler that the radiator style heaters used) and cold water. it sucked are you sure it wasn't a vacuum cleaner?
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Weatherman posted:are you sure it wasn't a vacuum cleaner? oh you
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Charles Ingalls posted:kettles don’t really work that well in the US because of the low residential voltage (takes twice as long to bring to a boil) You need to stop repeating this stupid bullshit. Kettles work perfectly fine in the US. The extra minute and a half it takes to boil a liter is a total non-issue.
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MisterOblivious posted:You need to stop repeating this stupid bullshit. Kettles work perfectly fine in the US. The extra minute and a half it takes to boil a liter is a total non-issue. are you seriously breaking out the trope about kettles “working fine,” on juneteeth of all days? you need to revisit your dei training and apologize for the harm you are perpetrating
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My favorite kitchen appliance is my dog, its advanced AI allows it to mostly perfectly keep out of my way while assuring I never have to reduce myself by leaning over to pick up any scraps of food I've dropped. Plus, the ones that require the least maintenance are the cheaper off brands. It's also got an alternate mode where it jumps directly onto my balls if I'm playing Elden Ring in the living room and get to phase 2 on any boss Az I'm surprised you haven't gotten an invitation to Knife Bloc yet, you didn't miss the part of the requirements where you have to go to an axe throwing place with a BAC above 0.10 did you?
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Epic High Five posted:My favorite kitchen appliance is my dog, its advanced AI allows it to mostly perfectly keep out of my way while assuring I never have to reduce myself by leaning over to pick up any scraps of food I've dropped. Plus, the ones that require the least maintenance are the cheaper off brands. It's also got an alternate mode where it jumps directly onto my balls if I'm playing Elden Ring in the living room and get to phase 2 on any boss Something must be wrong with mine, it's collision avoidance never works and then it doesn't even clean up half the stuff that gets dropped while it's in the way
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Epic High Five posted:My favorite kitchen appliance is my dog, its advanced AI allows it to mostly perfectly keep out of my way while assuring I never have to reduce myself by leaning over to pick up any scraps of food I've dropped. Plus, the ones that require the least maintenance are the cheaper off brands. It's also got an alternate mode where it jumps directly onto my balls if I'm playing Elden Ring in the living room and get to phase 2 on any boss Well poo poo, looks like I'm gonna get tore up after work.
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MisterOblivious posted:You need to stop repeating this stupid bullshit. Kettles work perfectly fine in the US. The extra minute and a half it takes to boil a liter is a total non-issue. If only there were an excited youtube man that could explain this in a like 20 minute video
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Jun 19, 2023 21:25
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Oh that one was a whole 24 minutes 54 seconds actually lmao my mistake
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Charles Ingalls posted:kettles don’t really work that well in the US because of the low residential voltage (takes twice as long to bring to a boil) eh. japan and taiwan use a lot of hot water and they're fine with it too
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Tiggum posted:
If you don't notice a difference have you tried making the fan go faster
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Ebola Roulette posted:If you don't notice a difference have you tried making the fan go faster Seems like a good way to get your head chopped off when the fan pulls the ceiling down on you.
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Dog Case posted:Something must be wrong with mine, it's collision avoidance never works and then it doesn't even clean up half the stuff that gets dropped while it's in the way For heavier duty or mixed jobs like it sounds like you're doing, it's sometimes smart to get an auxiliary dog to cover all inputs. This can also solve the pathing issues you're running into but I'll be honest, it's likely to just make them worse.
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