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.
you can show up and have to wait around because someone else came and filled every single machine at once
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
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.
Brass Eye was a brilliant TV show satirizing the news. Hard to believe season 1 was 1997. Totally called so much about media crazed panics.
CW - All the shows are truely about the subjects listed and can go past edgelord.
I can't get any of the invidious links to work so here is all the Brass Eyes on daily motion, which hopefully work OK:
Season 2 only has 1 episode because it got their asses CANCELLED.
One thing you have to understand about all the Brass Eye episodes is that not everyone involved knows they are on a comedy show. All the people doing PSA-type bits are UK celebs and their participation is totally in earnest. There are multiple MPs as well as media people who are tricked into advocating totally crazy shit. The absolute best ep for this is Drugs. It shows the lack of vetting famous people do when they are asked to lend support to something. The deceit was not intricate and many clues were intentionally left to allow the people to realize it was a scam. For example in the Drugs episode they all parrot that the new drug is from Czechoslovakia even though that country hadn't existed for a while at the time. Also Chris Morris didn't hide the fact it was his TV show and he was known to do these kinds of shows previously.
They got this guy to seriously say pedophiles are genetically crabs and then symbolically hammer a nail through a crab to fight child sex abuse
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.