cooking-weary moms

it’s me except of course even takeout chinese has never been but a splurge in this life.

Before anyone @'s me, I think there should be 15-min-city-esque big wok sites where a few guys with healthcare and safety nets provide 300 chinese takeouts at a time veganly and then if you want you can order meat on top

True. I felt this necessary posting on account of this site also can get shamefully carbrained at times and I do believe a lot of it is US-Americans unaware of how fucked their situation is, because to them, it is just normalcy

yeah absolutely. Like you’re not gonna be top athlete or whatever but I think the whole idea of 60 year olds being unable to move starts at like 30

I just took the title from the webpage. The situation is not as dire as that suggests, albeit, not once walking 500m a week for transportation needs once a week is still pretty fucking dire.

The study focuses on transportation and as the blurb reads I think this excludes being inside a walmart or similar as being in a place instead of transporting from one to another. Still fucking dire though

Pretty sure this puts you well within the german recommendations about this at least to the level of “won’t just fall apart at 40”

My hot crank take theory is that all the stuff about “ergonomic sitting” is just bullshit pseudoscience. You’re just not meant to sit for 8 hours in a cubicle and no amount of lumbar support is going to fix the underlying problem.

My even hotter crank theory is that much of geriatric mobility issue is caused by just becoming sedentary. We somehow recognize being a couch potato is bad for you, except if you’re over 60, at which point any movement kills you or whatever.

oh god

i work with suburboids who are too scared to go on walks. if it isn’t a walk from the parking lot to the store, or up the driveway, to their house, they won’t do it

This picks up two points I that are dear to me and they’re both just “it’s also very much a cultural issue”. Both on the suburban anxiety disorder and also on the part of how 10 minutes of continous walking is very well within territory of walking to two stores from the parking lot without moving your car. Fuck, some of them driveways in the US, probably.

It is an issue of infrastructure, absolutely, but you have to negatively incentivize people out of cars or they’ll never stop, because that’s like asking them to take a hot air balloon to whereever they’re going. It’s just not an option for them.

True enough but it also points to a cultural problem. That is 500m / 0,3 miles of walking at the low end. That is “not taking your car from one side of the strip mall to the other”-territory and similar cases.

I had sort of the same idea but counting the number of traffic infractions that harm active-travel that you can see. Some of the time, some of the parts of the city it feels like you could rake in about 3000€ an hour if somebody ever just bothered to enforce this shit.

Like there’s a suicide lane next to a right-turn lane here that on every red light phase and often enough even on the green light phase has somebody on it blocking or endangering a cyclist. If you would get every second one at a 100€ a pop there’s your hourly 3000€ right there

I’ll be damned

I think that’s less dogwhistle and more Whedon is just a bit stupid. It’s very bog standard evil sleek shiny empire vs. ragtag bunch of loveable misfits, more in line with Star Wars. The entire crew is way too progressive, excluding Jayne who is explicitly the asshole, for them to be reactionary US confederates.

that’s just an upside down immersion blender

if an immersion blender is a gizmo so is a big mortar and pestle or a food mill

One, the “heroic” war veteran crew were basically US civil war Confederates.

What?

This fits perfectly with how underhated cars are because in any type of built up enviroment at night or when there’s people not in soundproofed metal cages around indiscriminately sounding off the 110dB airhorn from inside one so some idiot in another one doesn’t make you wait two minutes longer because you’re both in the stupidest form of transportation, is ridicolous. I’m literally walking ova heah, fuck off with the noise.

Car horns should be louder on the inside than the outside honestly.

an immersion blender is not a gizmo wtf. what are you gonna do, stab your soup a lot to make it smooth?

perfect but also thanks I hate it