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That's on the private water companies and failing to invest and fix the infrastructure properly. Fuck them they are the same bastards as the landlords if not worse.

Idk I've never had any issues.

But olive oil does rinse away pretty easily with water and washing up liquid? So does butter and bacon fat?

Oh my how original. No I will not eat ze bugs. Are you gonna bitch and cry about le poor animals now too?

It's such surface level emotional thinking. Like if you just think about it for a moment - let 'em mfers burn and churn, momma needs her protein dust.

What? Is that meant to be a reference to something? Google doesn't really show anything for that exact quote with or without the typo(?). Bot gone wrong?

Yeah so I think it's okay because without the grease trap there's no clog. Idk about plumbing though. Ig it's something to keep in mind for longevity if you're lucky enough to own.

Thanks! I know about red means recording actually, love his vids! Got drawn in by him making stuff on the Teenage Engineering thingie.

Don't worry about releasing

Oh that's not an issue for me personally. I always release basically everything. I share with friends and acquaintances kind enough to humor me, and some of them actually give me some good feedback too, especially in terms of being able to convey ideas and moods primarily, like if what I wrote sounds sad but I didn't mean it to be that's pretty good to know etc. In a stupid bruteforce way it helped me understand (ab)use of intervals in a scale can become a vehicle for emotion.

For what it's worth I think releasing hundreds of bad tracks rather than 10 good ones helped me grow massively because I could come back to what I used to do and reassess it with a new lens after every new track. It helps to find direction too, in my humble opinion.

I started by just pressing buttons. I was a chimp with a machine gun, the machine gun being knowing how to pirate VSTs and Kontakt libraries etc.

Then I was very poorly aping artists I liked and making some pretty awful exemplars of genres, trying to follow convention, but not quite able to actually pull it off where like i'd try to make trap - but nobody would actually be able to immediately recognize it as such, and I knew it just didn't sound right, but eventually I got to where I feel like I can express myself both in terms of genre convention and mood a lot more clearly, though far from ideally tbqh.

I do feel like releasing gets harder though because as I grew so did my standards, I'm not one of those pros that sits there tuning a kick or actually understanding what a compressor is (lol) beyond that if a sound don't come through you slap it on, but that you can't slap it on everything.

Even if you did want to go pro getting ears on your music is an up hill battle anyway.

Yeah, that I heard. I can't even imagine what it must be like to wrestle with rejecthub and so on and try to make it as an internet artist without connections. The only time I could get an audience to even consider it was when I was shilling it in my YouTube videos alongside my OF lmao. It felt pretty gross (the shilling, I mean) but at least it got me >10 monthly listeners for a bit, even when I was leveraging an existing audience it was tough.

These days I don't really seek an audience, some of my music gets like a 100 listens on SC, but I assume that's primarily bots harvesting training data, there's probably a correlation to the genre tags that lures them in. On Spotify i don't even bother looking, it's like 1 or 2 listens which I think is me and my gf probably haha, bless her.

Still, having a genre probably helps build a style where an expectation is set and fulfilled/exceeded, seems like the prerequisite for any more naturally acquired audience, but even if I can't get an audience with that, at least I know that I can make a style and stick to it too. It's a challenge, y'know? I want to prove to see if I got what it takes to stick to one thing and stay creative within it's confines for a bit, rather than being the normal amateur of drifting between things at random.

I do like improving though. I wish I knew someone who was into music like me IRL so I could ask to collaborate, I think just seeing how other people do stuff in the moment or seeing them iterate on ideas through their exports and being able to work with that (and not like, in a YT tutorial) would be so useful, probably. There's probably all sorts of things that I don't know I don't know that it would benefit to know I don't know, and maybe eventually to know!

I've always felt that if it sounds good on acoustic THEN it will sound good on anything. There is no where to hide on acoustic.

Actually I think the reason I like it more than electric is that it feels so forgiving haha, I used to get so frustrated trying to play any rock songs because that palm muted distortion sound is very important for rhythm and even though I got somewhere with it, I could never do it consistently, on acoustic it frankly feels like muting is pretty binary. I'm sure I'll find acoustic licks to whoop my ass for me though and make me drop it in despair, but as long as I have fun along the way, I guess that's ok.

Good luck on your journey.

Thank you for sharing advice and your experiences, sorry if my reply was too long. Good luck to you too!

TIL. Thanks! Knew about wet wipes obviously. But first time I heard of this grease thing.

Apparently it's mostly an issue in the US due to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grease_trap so might be more common knowledge there. Apparently here as long as you're not pouring large amounts but just as whatever naturally occurs on pans, especially if you mix it with washing up liquid as you wash dishes, it is ok.

clean up after the parents

Huh? I live on my own and cook for myself and have for 10 years. My parents live in a different country and I've not even seen or spoke to them in like 6 years so I don't get what you mean to imply there.

I just haven't heard of this phenomenon before. I've never had any drainage issues either. Maybe in the shower due to hair, but never in the kitchen. I've just literally never heard of this, ever, my parents definitely never did this back in my home country, nor have I ever seen anyone do this in any of the countries I've been to or the one I currently live in.

I've lived with roommates, at boarding school, and with a partner, and not once have I seen them not pour grease down the drain either, least of all in a jar.

Doing some surface level research it seems like primarily an American thing. As long as you're not pouring litres of pure grease down the drain it should be ok to just wash down what naturally comes off pans etc. as you wash them, especially mixed with washing up liquid. Maybe I'm just not very greasy idk.

What is "lucky 10g"?

There's not really "public" per se.

It'll be handled by a private contractor owned by private equity that specializes in leeching taxpayer dollars same as everything. The tender will be won by those who can promise the local govt officials the best jobs at said private contractor or sister/parent company after their term.

Even if by some miracle the city/municipality has its own teams for this work, they'll be nickel and dimed by checkbox ticking legislation that exists as breeding ground for middlemen consultants who will suck away taxpayer dollars.

That is until some "budget hawk" type consultancy is brought in by some bigger fish whether it's the city or the state or the fed or the fucking IMF if you're Greece and force privatisation in the name of efficiency.

This will lead to a collapse of the service quality, collapse of living standards and a declining trust in institutions, leading to a far-right takeover because in the end - most people are monsters.

Or something like that I imagine. I used to work for the NHS in the UK. The owner of the trust "convinced" the procurement to allow the company to make a "surplus". He drove a Porsche and looked like a 90s movie villain.

So yes, pour that shit. And don't feel bad - the ghouls wouldn't, and we're all just human after all.

This is my first time hearing of this ngl. Actually I'm not entirely sure what "grease" means, is it what is left from oil and butter after cooking meats? Meat juices? I've always poured it down the drain. Never even heard of anyone doing otherwise, least of all putting it in a jar.

As long as we can take the rich with us, let the baby burn 🔥🔥🔥