Without even reading the article I know the goofy guy in the thumbnail is the head of DaVita Dialysis.

Deodorant is blue, deodorant + antiperspirant is white in the store. It’s also all aluminum free now which sucks. I miss the aluminum deodorant gel.

I don’t do that. I only thaw and grind enough for about a month’s consumption at a time. I got ~6 pounds of coffee for Christmas and only have a cup a day usually.

I was just providing my process because it seems, unintentionally, well designed to avoid condensation.

I use old mason jars to store my whole bean coffee in the freezer until I’m ready to grind and use it.

A coffee aficionado can probably chime in on why this is bad, but uts the best use I’ve found for the jars.

Same with coffee. I believe it’s actually caffeine that can work as a diuretic.

Most people could cheap out on tools and they’d still last.

I think this is a great one. I learned growing up that if you need a tool for a project buy the cheap one. Then if you use it enough to break it, buy a more expensive one next.

Tool trial by combat, so to speak.

No, that was a potato… or a beet.

It is valid to call out motivation and engage in discussion around it. It doesn’t invalidate the case being brought but too often people and the media like to frame the situation in terms of morality.

South Africa and the other countries that support the case are likely not (only?) taking a moral stance.

I, like OP and others, see these articles and wonder why this genocide but not that one. I think that’s the difference between a human view and a political one.

You’re complaining to complain and/or arguing to argue.

No, I was engaging you comment to point out your singular perspective and privilege and now you’re upset about it.

I’m done now though. You’re either a corporate shill who’s literally doing what the original commenter stated or someone who just has this need to feel superior. Either way I’ve spent enough of my time on you.

You not believing it doesn’t make it untrue.

It does not, we’re both sharing anecdotal information.

Where do you shop? What do you buy?

I don’t buy a lot of clothes now, most of my clothing is several years old at least. I buy what feels comfortable, that I like the look/design of and that seems to be well made.

Find me a reputable store that doesn’t carry non-blend fabrics, and I’ll find you one around the same price point that does.

I never said d stores don’t carry non-blend fabric clothing, simply that disadvantaged portions of the population often don’t have the luxury of choice others do and that they are stuck in a system designed to keep it that way.

Nobody suggested you had to go to Old Navy, in fact I used it to demonstrate that even cheap places (Old Navy is all about cheap) have non synthetic options.

You did not, and I never said you did. I pointed out that the cheap example you used was fast fashion, which many cheap stores are. Which was an ironic choice on your part because fast fashion could be a poster child for the boots theory.

They’re a baseline that holds true as you advance to just about every price point.

Yeah, I saw your other examples of places like Patagonia which, again, is ironic because that could be the other side of the boots theory representing what “rich” people would buy.

It’s like you didn’t even read what I posted originally. I think you should check your privilege.

I don’t believe it. In part because it was not my experience when I was financially destitute and also because it’s not what I see now.

There may be some options at places like Old Navy that are inexpensive but fast fashion is just trading one devil for another.

Personally I think everyone should thrift as much as they can and avoid buying new when/where possible.

All great advice but I want to single this out:

You can also avoid synthetics when possible, and more people should.

The same issue applies to this as it does to most things, groceries springs to mind.

Just like with food where the fresh, healthier food options are often more expensive, the same goes for better made and single material made clothing.

The boots theory is a great example of what I mean.

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. … A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

Embrace the power of the pyramid.

I had one job where the writing was on the wall for our team. One big indicator was when our director out of nowhere dipped out to a new job.

For a few weeks any time I mistyped my password and couldn’t get into a system I would think “this is it, they killed my access”.

They did have the decency to tell me first. Our whole team was gone within 3 months.

Ok.

Yeah, because the experience trying to bike to work through snow and cold is the same between Finland and the United States.

I’m sure the Fins are able to manage it but I’m guess there infrastructure is far superior to support it.

Where do you live? Is it somewhere with below zero temperatures and snow during long parts of the year?

I’m pretty sure commuting by bike wouldn’t be any more enjoyable here.

Driving yourself probably compounds it but commuting in general sucks.

I used to take the train to work, it would drop me right outside my building. It saved me money, miles on my car, helped me avoid traffic but it still sucked.

It was lost time, there were people who would smoke, do drugs, play loud music from their phones on speaker. There were usually seats available but your better off standing because you never know what’s in/on the seats. Anytime there was an event that let out at the stadium around the time I got off work meant either missing several trains in a row because they were too full.

Better organized and maintained mass transit can reduce it but I think any commute needs the destination to be worth the time/hassle and, for me, work doesn’t make the cut.

Not quite.

A controversy surrounding the safety of MSG began on 4 April 1968, when Robert Ho Man Kwok wrote a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, coining the term “Chinese restaurant syndrome”.[58][59] In his letter, Kwok suggested several possible causes before he nominated MSG for his symptoms.