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Comment Re:is it "the decline of smart homes" (Score 1) 145

My current washers and dryers are "dump" in that they don't even have sensors.....

I just set the timer on them and hit start...they go through the cycle I set mechanically on the front.

When these go out...I don't want anything fancy...just simple on/off/time and knobs to set the cycles.

Why pay extra....the clothes end up JUST as clean....

Comment Re:It's just a refinement of functionality (Score 1) 145

Then you are using old water for each drink.

What, pray tell is "old water"?

LOL...I've never heard of water aging before....???

I mean, the only thing I can think of, would be that having water out of the tap for awhile would generally be a good thing.....I learned from brewing beer that if you fill things up out of the tap and let them set overnight, the chlorine will off gas and make your water less chlorinated....

But old water...please give me some details in this and how water ages and apparently goes "bad"?

Comment Re:Good idea. (Score 1) 196

Fantastically good idea. In the USA it would save tens of thousands of lives. Antivaxxers would disappear in nothingness.

I disagree....I'd rather err on the side of greater freedom of speech.

In a free society it is the responsibility of each person to learn to reason, research and come to their own conclusions as to what to believe and live (or not) with the consequences.

This is the responsibility you have as an adult in a free society with free speech.

And while your example is a single, well intentioned targeted one...this has much farther implications that vaccinations..

Who is granted the God Like levels of authority to be the arbiter of truth?

That's what can get dangerous....I'm more afraid of that than some idiot not getting a vaccine.

Comment Re:old again (Score 1) 176

"Ordering in" is about the worst possible food solution there is, as far as I am concerned. I'd rather cook my own meal from scratch than deal with that inevitable disappointment.

Yep...the only use I have for delivery, is when I need food on days I'm too hungover to get up and cook.....

Comment Re: old again (Score 1) 176

Ok well if you are trying to pick the women up at Applebee's rather than taking them there for a date, I think I have found part of your problem.

Well, you have to find and meet women, before you can actually date them, you know?

I never thought of Applebee's as a prime meet/pickuip spot, but hey, there's potential targets wherever you go....and always good to be in a place with alcohol...."conversation lubrication" you know.

Comment Re:old again (Score 1) 176

Why the hell would I sit in a restaurant to eat food? More often than not, the music is shitty and/or too loud, there's a baby or two screaming its head off, a toddler running around unrestrained and unparented, and a gaggle of boomers all coughing up lungfulls of covid.

Maybe you're eating at the wrong restaurants??

I mean, step up, go to something a bit more high class than McDonald's....

And near the end of 2025...are you seriously still worried about Covid??

Comment Re:too "both sides" for me (Score 1) 67

Those "rare genetic anomalies" can be up to 1.7% of the population who are born with intersex trait

You're saying that 1.7% of the population is hermaphrodite?

I seriously doubt that....

I've known women and men...most were straight, some were homosexual....

I've yet to meet someone that was not readily categorized as "dick" or "no dick".....that I've ever known.

Comment Re:too "both sides" for me (Score 0) 67

Gender is a sociocultural construction. Usually it aligns with one's biological sex, but not always. It's certainly more than a feeling.

This is something being pushed in the past 5-maybe 10 years....and it's bullshit.

Anyone old enough to to remember back as far as the 2000's and before knows that this wasn't a thing in society....sure, we knew there were outliers as with everything. It used to be listed in the books as an official mental disorder....it still should be.

Aside from rare genetic anomalies you are a boy or a girl.....depending on where you have a dick or not.

Geez, life was SO much more simple a decade or so ago.....

Comment Re:But I thougth there was a loneliness epidemic (Score 1) 67

I was actually wondering how many close friends people typically had before social media.

I have never done social media and was around LONG before prevalence of SM and even the internet itself.

I''ve pretty much always had the same group of about 10-11 ( 1 passed a couple years ago )....very close friends I stay in touch with on a very regular basis. I live around many of them and those outside of my state...I"m on group text chats, and we *GASP* actually call each other and talk too!!

I've never found lack of social media accounts or interactions to inhibit my love for and interactions with my long term close friends.

Do most people not have real life friends numbering more than say 5+?

What about before the internet?

Remember the old saying goes:

"Friends help you move.....

........REAL friends help you move bodies...."

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