absolutely a utopian question. thank you for the utopian (if 19th c answer).
“Fifty fires burn where one would suffice!” said some smart lady ?200? years ago. Foretelling climate catastrophes…
Because those who want to emancipate mankind have not included woman in their dream of emancipation, and consider it beneath their superior masculine dignity
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people in urban settings to cook their own food
I’ve already solved this problem in my mind. Got the basics of a system worked out for neighbourhood cafeterias.
You can still cook at home if/when you want to, but you can also attend the local cafs. There is 1 caf per x population, adjusted according to how heavily used they are. You can eat there or pickup (returnable, standardized) tupperwears for a middle ground if you prefer to have private at-home meal. I think it would be a great benefit especially for families. Reduce the amount of time you need to spend at the grocery store, cooking, cleaning, dishes etc. Would overall reduce the amount of food waste at both the individual kitchen and the grocery store level.
The food would be prepared according to healthy guidelines. We also have some sort of accounting for regional availability of foods. The selections would be subject to some sort of democratic control so that people could get food they liked. Regionalism would be accounted for. Some kitchen teams might decide to be extremely specialized in a given cuisine. I’m sure at the end of the days we’d have something that takes things like lent, ramadan, whatever, into consideration.
You don’t have to go to your own neighbourhood caf, you can go to other ones too for variety or it’s more convenient for you. Maybe there is some sort of reservation system (website/phone/walk-in) so that food can be produced in correct amounts. But extras can always be portioned and frozen for pickup later.
For those who have extremely specific dietary requirements such as intolerance/allergy, religious, ethical, cultural, there can be specialized cafs which they can either attend physically, or if too remote, have pickup/delivery of meals. Delivery could be either at the home or to their local caf. So if you are a tiny minority vegan in a constituency which largely favors vegan-unfriendly food, the vegan kitchen can drop off meals for you at your caf and you can still go to the collective meal with everyone else.
Kitchen teams could do fun events things like swap locations, tours or guesting at other kitchens, come up with contests etc if they wanted to. In a dense urban environment you’d have lots of cafs all over the place so it wouldn’t be like needing to travel a long way (unless they wanted to!). In terms of a workplace, I think you could keep some of the elements of kitchen culture that suits a certain kind of person, like competitiveness and showing off, but without it being so toxic and abusive. Because there would be many, many teams in a city, they could sort themselves by work-style preferences. Those who wanted a totally different wokrplace culture could have it.
Also include some way to teach cooking skills, particularly with an eye to preserving cultural styles of cooking. both to other professional food workers but also to whoever just wanted to learn.
This is my delicious dream.
never done any caregiving eh
When I was a little kid it was explained to me that Under Communism this is how things worked. You don’t even get your own clothes. Since I was a freaky little kid with a …distinctive… fashion sensibility it was horrifying enough.
Now that I’m adult and worn down by the world it doesn’t sound like a half bad idea.
I was eyeing a wash n fold for a while but then I moved and now there isn’t one anywhere close. I was procrastinating the whole thing because it felt too… lazy. But holy fuck I hate the laundromat.
Laundromats are fine
What’s your experience? I’ve been washing my clothes mostly always in laundromats for 20+ years. They are not fine.
For most of human history there have been professional clothes launderers
For rich people sure. But for normal people?
thanks that is rly interesting!!
now i know
clicking thru to the original link and scrolling I don’t see a single comment agreeing with OP
didn’t expect that
camo sux. find $15
One question I would have is whatever happened in the old lib group? Wouldn’t be surprised if this person eventually got themselves run out of it or it folded due to chaos. There might be insightful gossip available to you.
For me personally, with situations like this I am inclined to consider the person’s age. If they were 17 and now 23 that’s a much high probability of change compared to 40 now 45.
But all this talk about change and no idea if person in question is even claiming to have changed.
a soviet term originally afaik
really???
I thought it was just an internet term. is it subcultural to the left even? i never noticed
to extend this, the way I was taught to think about it is that they might be a fed (cop, agent, etc), or they may just be a person who for their own idiosyncratic reasons, acts exactly the way a fed would act. I have met people I am 99% certain are feds. Or conversely am 99% sure are just organically destructive without any external motivation because it’s the only way they know how to be. And lots ambiguous cases where you go back n forth in opinion, or maybe in truth there is a mix going on.
But at the end of the day you gotta manage them and it’s not gonna be much different between the two situations. The org needs to be robust enough to withstand an intentional attack from enemies or the attentions of a nasty person. The longer a left project goes on, the more success it has and the more public it is, the higher the chances you will attract one or the other or both.
Tldr: if it quacks like a fed, treat it like a fed.
Once I was in a CPR class where the instructor was heavily emphasizing how important it is to not do the compressions too fast. No more than 1/second. Instructor was walking around telling everyone who was doing it the correct speed to slow down.
Also the instructor had a big section about how you need to organize all your information if you call emergency services (like 9-1-1) so you can tell it to them all at once in a logical order. TIP FOR CALLING 9-1-1: You do not need to volunteer information. They will ask you the information they need in the order they need it. Don’t even start talking until you are asked a question. Then, answer exactly the question you are asked and no more. The operator is aware they need to ask you your location, you don’t need to interrupt them to do it. They actually deal with people like you all day long, every day.
I will admit to have become pretty snarky during this class.
Is there a way to preload them into the browser or something?
Or do you just clone it and browse the images locally to find the name of the one you want?
I don’t get how people use the emoji thing it so sloooow. I guess youse just have them all memorized.
wait they make justified crushes?
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I like the vibe but not sure I’d call it top notch design.
this is great if we can make an updated version that’s mechanized?? oo many cranks turning chains etc in this one.
looks to be doing 1 garment at a time, is that for the sake of the video?
it would be really cool to just dump my clothes into a canal, then stroll down to the end to have them come out cleaned.