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  • If you mean that the common best practice of working 40 hrs/week is inefficient, then yes.

    Governments aren't pushing for 40 hr work weeks, socialists and industrialists of the early 1900s were, and the rest is conservatism.

  • On the topic of pie of the week.

    You can make dishes with similarly upcycled leftovers in burritos, stir frys, pizza, pasty/pirog, and often in a pasta and/or au gratin (with melted cheese on top). Although I find none of them are quite as versatile as the quiche, they are excellent for variety.

  • It looks like a reasonable buy for what you're probably used to in terms of cooking, convenience and diet. As long as you get at least one cooked meal in you each day, you're doing good. Don't sweat it if you don't want to, there's plenty of other things to worry about.

    If you are looking for some input, I would probably add more varied sources of protein (lentils, nuts, eggs, beans) and fiber (carrots, cabbage, kale, wholegrain), but I also live on another continent and have both other availability and tradition than you might.

    If you're worried that your food is too expensive, there's plenty of suggestions in the other replies better geared toward US markets, but I'll also add that you could make groceries last much longer by learning a bit more about cooking. A lot can be gained by using/substituting with local or seasonal ingredients, as well as re-using leftovers and scraps in creative ways.

    If learning cooking is a steep lifestyle change, you could also find a group to share the burden with. Do weekly meal preps together, or for each other, or do batch cooking of condiments/pickles/sauces and swap with each other. It's a fun way to learn from each other, keep to the habit, and might even be a nice way to get to know someone.

    Cooking 3 dishes (to get enough variety) for the week's meal prep is a big ask, but you could do one batch each and swap with a couple of friends.

    Doing batch cooking and canning of sauces is also an excellent way to use up ingredients that are on their way out. Found cheap second assortment tomatoes on a farmer's market? Pasta sauce for a week! Got too much milk? Make some cheese! Someone's apple tree yielding too much fruit? Apple sauce, dried apple crisp/cubes/snacks, base for indian/far east curries/stews, in salads, drinks, snacks as fresh whole apples or wedges, made into jam/marmelade, used as substitute for potatoes or tomatoes, and/or as part of delicious pie or other dessert.

    Also: leftovers can almost always be put into a pie crust (water, flour, butter/oil), covered with shredded cheese, and become a Quiche du semaine/pie of the week. With practice you'll find how much of carbs, protein, fibers and flavouring you prefer in it, and you'll make an actual great dish you look forward to.

  • My biggest peeve is people who start many dozens of porn starlet comms with a handful of posts, or celebrity stalking comms with a handful of posts, or the myriad US sports teams fed by some bot.

    I wish there was a way to just block whole categories of comms, now I've had to resort to blocking the user starting them, which seems like overkill.

  • The US has tons of culture, both exported and not, and definitely distinct from other cultures.

    If anything, US culture differs from others in that the story/identity of the culture is relatively rootless. The American Dream is based on the idea that your heritage can't define who you are, and the rise of post-war consumerism also significantly changed the story of the USAmerican.

    That doesn't mean there isn't culture being done (guns, milkshakes, jazz, jeans, Florida man, Burning man, tech bros), it just means that where other cultures find identity in their deep heritage, the US has made a point of not doing that. Which comes off as shallow from their point of view, and narrow from the US point of view.

  • It's supposed to.

    A collection of personal opinions are enough to create a personal profile, and are thus protected by GDPR for EU citizens who can withdraw consent for them to be used.

    It is also not actually legal for them to change the usage of your protected data before informing you in a clear and concise language, but that part hasn't been thoroughly litigated yet.

  • I want to stress that you are expected to block communities you're not interested in.

    There's no content curation between instances (an instance is like a niche mini-reddit, but seamlessly connected to this one), so you will end up with US Politics next to Furry porn, next to Star Trek memes, next to NZ local news, next to sports statistics, next to AI Porn, unless you start blocking.

    Upside is you can get great science content, AND local news, AND your favorite porn, AND your brand of shitpost/memes in your feed/subscriptions without any hassle.

  • Point of pedantry, your chromosomes don't quite correlate to your outside body.

    There's plenty of XX people with penii, and XY people with mammaries, and that doesn't even scratch the surface of all the other combinations our chromosomes can make.

    So the "sex" part is already difficult to untangle.

    If you then add, which many replies covered, that certain body presentations are pressured to certain social expressions (penis people don't wear dresses, boob people do, penis + boob people break our categories), it gets even harder to keep everything in neat boxes.

    Personally, I think we should stop being so set on categories, nothing in the universe fits neatly into such anyway (note the irony). It's time to find a better way to relate to the lazy sorting our lazy brain does.

  • War isn't won by forces alone, you also need the economy, morale and political wherewithal to endure and survive the destruction.

    Neither EU country could stomach a prolonged war, possibly only the Baltics and Finland are at all prepared for a couple years of war, and won't be able to supply their troops for that long without US support.

    Case in point, Europe is giving about half of the total aid for Ukraine, but almost none of the armaments even though it would be far more preferable for relations, training, logistics, and defence. Part of it is that they don't keep stockpiles, part is that they don't have the industry to replace ammunition, neither of which bodes well for a prolonged conflict.

  • Welcome out from under your rock, here's a Reuters summary of Trumps anti-NATO posturing over the last 7 years. A lot of it based on lies.

    His threats to exit NATO were credible enough that there's now legislation forbidding a president to do so.

    You might want to practice your web searching skills as well, it took me about two minutes to find independent sources describing and confirming this.

  • Capitalism optimises for concentrating resources.

    Dividends, return on investment, profits, etc. are all inefficiencies in the production of value, and require more resources, labor, and suffering per unit of value than for example a circular economy.

    But it does concentrate wealth efficiently, which in turn gives access to enough resources to start larger ventures.