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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:This is gonna sound like some boomer rear end generational complaining but none of my zoomer friends know how to cook & don’t know how to read recipes so it does end up with air fryer culture being dominant. I am not throwing any shade on anyone who doesn’t know how to do it but as someone who is the partner to a teacher I do think part of it is that a lot of schools have eliminated stuff like home ec. Anything that looks good on a test (gen ed stuff, history) or provides shareholder value (programming) is still around but what happened to home economics, automotive etc. unless you’re an enthusiast nobody really knows how to do overall household stuff and I think that’s sad There are Junior High courses like Food & Nutrition that no one wants to teach usually. I got one last year to fill out my schedule and it was awesome- I taught the kids how to cut properly, prepare large meals, cook meat safely, etc, all keeping in mind budgets. We even did an international thing, where students researched a country and a food from it, which we then made. I was going to teach them how to bbq but we got a lot of rain at the end of the year
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i didnt really start learning how to cook for myself until i was in my mid 20s. also i havent done the math lately but with the price of groceries these days unless you are really strategic with your menu it seems dubious that you can eat cheaper by cooking yourself especially once you factor in the time it takes to buy and prepare a meal from scratch. its a lot of work and still expensive so im not surprised younger generations arent doing it much yet especially if they are cooking for 1 or 2 people only
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:This is gonna sound like some boomer rear end generational complaining but none of my zoomer friends know how to cook & don’t know how to read recipes so it does end up with air fryer culture being dominant. I am not throwing any shade on anyone who doesn’t know how to do it but as someone who is the partner to a teacher I do think part of it is that a lot of schools have eliminated stuff like home ec. Anything that looks good on a test (gen ed stuff, history) or provides shareholder value (programming) is still around but what happened to home economics, automotive etc. unless you’re an enthusiast nobody really knows how to do overall household stuff and I think that’s sad These are all still options at my kids high school.
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Feb 24, 2024 22:54
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Maybe it’s just my red rear end state. I had a whole aviation program at my hs which is how I got my pilot’s license for close to free
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Feb 24, 2024 23:09
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yeah in the south ive never heard of a public school having any of that poo poo my whole life lol
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Feb 24, 2024 23:12
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Quality of education varies greatly by school district. I grew up in a nice area with terribly funded schools. The low point was high school chemistry where we had to pretend we were doing experiments, including doing the reports and everything. The teacher just described to us the things we would be seeing and we had to copy down the "results"
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Feb 24, 2024 23:13
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The 3 point shot has degraded basketball fundamentals.
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steinrokkan posted:It is both fair and necessary to give poo poo to people who can't feed themselves. Wasn’t there some terminally online Twitter people feud about making fun of people who don’t cook? Like because they were claiming it was some sort of trauma thing?
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redshirt posted:The 3 point shot has degraded basketball fundamentals. As a non sports player or watcher, I remember telling my friends in high school “why don’t people just shoot threes? Like why not practice nothing but shooting as far back as you can. It would be almost impossible to guard” and being told that wouldn’t work and nobody could do it. Look who’s laughing now!
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Feb 25, 2024 00:11
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Yorkshire Pudding posted:Wasn’t there some terminally online Twitter people feud about yes
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Yorkshire Pudding posted:Wasn’t there some terminally online Twitter people feud about making fun of people who don’t cook? Like because they were claiming it was some sort of trauma thing? Probably. People will rally over any dumb position for clout. I’m sure back when people were making fun of dudes for not wiping their asses someone was posting how that’s actually a very ableist thing to say and that expecting people to not be covered in poo poo is problematic As for cooking, there’s basically no excuse apart from disability for not learning how to do it. Even if you grew up in a cave eating berries, you have access to the internet and there are tons of recipes that require basically no skill or knowledge. I barely cook but even I can fry an egg or get some rice or pasta going and that’s enough of a foundation to make carbonara or a stir fry or something
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Twitter weirdos once got mad at some lady for bringing some chili to a neighbor.
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thathonkey posted:i didnt really start learning how to cook for myself until i was in my mid 20s. also i havent done the math lately but with the price of groceries these days unless you are really strategic with your menu it seems dubious that you can eat cheaper by cooking yourself especially once you factor in the time it takes to buy and prepare a meal from scratch. its a lot of work and still expensive so im not surprised younger generations arent doing it much yet especially if they are cooking for 1 or 2 people only Yeah and while cooking is absolutely a good life skill, it's never been something every single human has known how to do. Restaurants and household splits of chores where someone is the family cook, those scenarios have been around pretty much as long as civilization. poo poo even in the previous century in the USA, it was considered weird for a dude to know how to cook bc his wife is gonna do that for him. The 'everyone should cook' ideal is a pushback against that, and rightly so. But truly, we've never been in a time where everyone knows how to cook, it's an aspirational thing for our culture, not a reality. Combine that with the reality that lots of disabled people have trouble with cooking and I'm pretty much done with the ableism folks who poo-poo anyone who doesn't cook as less than human or somehow unskilled in other ways. That's the wrong extreme to take the ideal that everyone should contribute in a household. StrangersInTheNight fucked around with this message at 00:39 on Feb 25, 2024 |
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Yorkshire Pudding posted:As a non sports player or watcher, I remember telling my friends in high school “why don’t people just shoot threes? Like why not practice nothing but shooting as far back as you can. It would be almost impossible to guard” and being told that wouldn’t work and nobody could do it. When I was in Jr High there was a kid who only ever practiced shooting from the other end of the court and could fairly reliably get the ball in- definitely not 100%, but close enough that it would at least bounce back in our direction if he missed. Yeah I don’t know either. It makes the game more exciting to watch?
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silicone thrills posted:Twitter weirdos once got mad at some lady for bringing some chili to a neighbor. Yeah poor Chinchillazilla, tried to cook her neighbors some chili and got called ableist. Between that and the whole Jorts the cat is ableist discourse, I started wondering if Twitter was getting shittier or maybe it was always lovely, and I just didn’t notice until then.
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:Maybe it’s just my red rear end state. I had a whole aviation program at my hs which is how I got my pilot’s license for close to free Dang first time I've ever envied a red state.
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Complaining (or complimenting) about the American education system is futile because no such thing exists. At best there are state level education systems and even they are often more vague figureheads for whatever county/city government runs an areas schools. Just a complete madhouse of organizing. And that’s before you get into the private/charter nonsense.
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galagazombie posted:Complaining (or complimenting) about the American education system is futile because no such thing exists. At best there are state level education systems and even they are often more vague figureheads for whatever county/city government runs an areas schools. Just a complete madhouse of organizing. And that’s before you get into the private/charter nonsense. this is clearly the best and only possibility
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Free market education, only the best
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Rochallor posted:There are like 5 people still actively posting on Facebook so I check it once a week or so and yeah, scroll down more than 7 posts and it is the most insane collection of "curated" posts you could possibly imagine. I do not want to meet the person to whom it appeals. Why has the algorithm decided I want to see historic pictures of Salem, OR, a city to which I have never been? Instagram does the same thing, and all it does is make me spend less time on their platform. Facebook persists in showing me that a friend of mine in another state (and Facebook knows his location and mine) clicked Interested in a public event. I dutifully click the X to train the algorithm that this is not useful, but if I come back later in the day it'll be there again.
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thathonkey posted:i didnt really start learning how to cook for myself until i was in my mid 20s. also i havent done the math lately but with the price of groceries these days unless you are really strategic with your menu it seems dubious that you can eat cheaper by cooking yourself especially once you factor in the time it takes to buy and prepare a meal from scratch. its a lot of work and still expensive so im not surprised younger generations arent doing it much yet especially if they are cooking for 1 or 2 people only It can be a lot of work if you want to make a different, complicated recipe for every single meal but you don't have to. Just make several portions at once. Pipistrelle posted:Yeah poor Chinchillazilla, tried to cook her neighbors some chili and got called ableist. Between that and the whole Jorts the cat is ableist discourse, I started wondering if Twitter was getting shittier or maybe it was always lovely, and I just didn’t notice until then.
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Windows just updated and has some bullshit "AI" garbage built in that I can't uninstall or turn off, gently caress you Microsoft.
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Quote-Unquote posted:Windows just updated and has some bullshit "AI" garbage built in that I can't uninstall or turn off, gently caress you Microsoft. That happened weeks ago there was even a thread about it My most recent update moved it from permanently pinned to the task bar next to search to permanently pinned next to the taskbar clock
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mobby_6kl posted:Restaurants pay all of that for their supplies and then labor and rent and owner profit on top of that. YMMV with location of course but I can still buy at least a kilo of pork or chicken for the price of a single lunch. Sometimes more like two kilos on sale, it's not even close. Storing 1-2kg of meat is like 10-40% of the fridge/freezer real estate in a regular apartment. Also one thing I haven't seen mentioned - its totally possible to gently caress up cooking a meal and not have anything to show for the money and time invested. This is a bigger problem if you budgeted several portions from the meal.
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I just discovered Projectivy as a replacement launcher for my Android TV-type devices (like chromecast or built into the TV) and I feel stupid for not doing this years ago. Wow.
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I remember Gmail for the first decade had some running counter showing you how they were adding more storage more quickly than you could ever possibly use it. Now they're giving me a banner at the top of the page saying "you used up all your storage, pay us or delete poo poo or soon you won't receive emails lmao!" All I have taking up space besides the emails were photos. Which were also supposed to be free to store forever when you bought a Pixel phone but I guess they walked that back too: https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/06/02/how-to-google-photos-pixel-free/ Vampire Panties posted:Also one thing I haven't seen mentioned - its totally possible to gently caress up cooking a meal and not have anything to show for the money and time invested. This is a bigger problem if you budgeted several portions from the meal. I mean it's possible but that's a pretty serious skill issue if you render meals inedible often enough to be worried about it.  There's no universe where rice/beans and a supermarket rotisserie chicken is gonna be more expensive than eating out.
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It's still much cheaper than fast food to buy ingredients and make food yourself. Anyone saying otherwise is Lucille Bluthing too hard
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im just confident someone is at business school right now figuring out how to eliminate rice and beans like you can only buy rice and beans with burlap sacks you must rent from Goya Corp or some poo poo
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big mean giraffe posted:It's still much cheaper than fast food to buy ingredients and make food yourself. Anyone saying otherwise is Lucille Bluthing too hard I realize this is all higher end ingredients, but a 6 pack of Impossible Meat burger patties is 18.99 at my store, and a 6 pack of brioche buns is $7. So right from the store that's 4 dollars for a veggie burger with nothing else considered. If it does end up cheaper than going out, it's real close.
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redshirt posted:I realize this is all higher end ingredients, but a 6 pack of Impossible Meat burger patties is 18.99 at my store, and a 6 pack of brioche buns is $7. So right from the store that's 4 dollars for a veggie burger with nothing else considered. If it does end up cheaper than going out, it's real close. That's still cheaper by several dollars each than an impossible whopper (just the sandwich). And you picked the most ridiculous options. big mean giraffe fucked around with this message at 16:05 on Feb 25, 2024 |
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big mean giraffe posted:That's still cheaper by several dollars each than an impossible whopper. And you picked the most ridiculous options. Add in the other ingredients and it's real close. And I said they were expensive items, as for sure you could just get a box of store brand pasta and sauce and that would be very cheap compared to fast food.
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redshirt posted:Add in the other ingredients and it's real close. And I said they were expensive items, as for sure you could just get a box of store brand pasta and sauce and that would be very cheap compared to fast food.
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big mean giraffe posted:No in fact it is not still really close, a fast food combo is upward of 10 to $12 these days. I didn't say combo.
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redshirt posted:I didn't say combo. You do know stuff like ketchup and mustard and iceberry lettuce is a few cents per serving, right? And nobody struggling to make ends meet is worried about brioche buns or high-end veggie patties. Do you even have a point or know what you're talking about?
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Condiments have a small up front cost but they last a while Anyway, eating fastfood where I live is now ~$30 to $40 for two people. It’s way cheaper to eat at home buying smart and planning.
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big mean giraffe posted:You do know stuff like ketchup and mustard and iceberry lettuce is a few cents per serving, right? And nobody struggling to make ends meet is worried about brioche buns or high-end veggie patties. Do you even have a point or know what you're talking about? lol guess not.
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20 Blunts posted:im just confident someone is at business school right now figuring out how to eliminate rice and beans The Juicero model DRM for groceries, if you don't use up the whole package within a set time period, it self-destructs by releasing a chemical stored in the packaging. Tempering also releases the same chemical. It's to protect the health of the consumer, you see. So you'd better use up that bottle of ketchup within a week of purchase
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Impossible burgers are the tastiest ones out there and about as expensive over here. But the 2nd best option (De Vegetarische Slager) over here is €3ish per two and still really tasty. And store brand (meh... edible) is €1,89 per two patties. How expensive your meal has to be, depends fully on how refined your tastebuds are.
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ya’ll are crazy. shop those sales and learn to cook and you can eat real good for cheap. get to know the vendors at your farmers market and start working out deals for their ugly produce. see what they have going on at salvage grocers. set your price point and don’t be picky. that’s all you gotta do
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I buy the most expensive option on purpose. Its good to have a high paying job
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