Victor Villas @ villasv @beehaw.org

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Bradley Jackson getting more and more unlikable each episode might be their response /s

We don’t prove negatives in science

That's simply not true as a general statement lol it very much depends on the negative in question, or what you define as a negative

One of many of life’s mysteries, such as why people get defensive about their water usage due to handwashing.

You did say earlier that you cook once a day, meal for two. When I do that, all dishes for the day take a third of the maximum load on my machine, so I could wash once every three days, therefore averaging like 3 L per day tops? You handwashing every day are spending 6-8L daily which is more than double.

If it is true that you can spend <8L for an arbitrarily large amount of dishes, though, then I guess there must be an amount of dishes that you will outperform a dishwasher. They cannot handle an infinite amount of dirt, unfortunately. If you hand wash every 7 days you will be averaging less than 1L a day which really does sound unbeatable.

Yeah, it's a decent app with less overreach seeping in from Meta compared with Facebook, Instagram and Threads. Still, it makes me uncomfortable that many communities that I value greatly would be out of my reach if it were to stop using it. For now it's not a problem, but I'm hyper-aware of the danger.

And some things I just toss in there anyway. My Wusthof knifes for instance are not carbons steel and don't have wooden handles, and my machine has a neat spot that secures it perfectly upright so the edge isn't touching anything. I have been doing this for years and observed no noticeable downside.

It's plausible that handwashing uses less electricity, specially if you let the machine heat-dry the dishes. But water? If you do the comparison against a fully-loaded machine, no way. Modern machines use half the water from machines of 15 years ago, and those were already competitive against handwashing. Best case scenario for handwashing (single water bath) still uses about twice as much water. Dishwasher detergent is stronger and the machine takes longer so it has more contact time, the chemistry heavily favours using less water for the same amount of gunk to dissolve.

In your case, as you already mentioned you only cook once a day and you don't want to degrade your high end stuff in the machine, it's reasonable that you won't generate dishes enough to fill the machine. If you would be using a half-loaded dishwasher then it is plausible that you would use less water handwashing, but it's still a close call - which is why I sometimes use the machine filled 1/3 without worry.

In my case, that but WhatsApp. Can't live without it, as much as I'd like.

I'm definitely not on the oily broth soup camp, but I guess that's because I barely make broth-based soup. I do love ramen with sesame oil, though!

I prefer creamy soups for winter, whatever the base: lentils, kabocha, black/brown beans, onions, hearts of palm. Super easy to make, if you have a handy blender to make quick work of it. That or oats & milk porridge for breakfast, I'm set for a chilly day.

If it's worth to purchase a dishwasher... it varies a lot given each ones own priorities and situation.

If saving X minutes a day is a big thing or a small thing... it also varies a lot given how you value your time and how much you enjoy dishwashing by hand. I know a few people who love to do it; no need to take away that joy for the sake of efficiency.

But for the vast majority, if you have a dishwasher idle, those are some minutes you get back practically* for free.

I also cook only for two, but I do it three times a day, and I have a lot to do so I value each minute saved in chores immensely. My dishwasher has been a blessing, without it I would be eating out or ordering delivery MUCH more frequently.

Very true. Love my plastic spatula but they don't have scraping power, so when using one you get the impression everything is sticking.

My biggest tip is to not be stingy with dishwasher usage. If you already have one, use it always.

• The cheapest store brand powder detergent works fine and its way cheaper than liquid dishwashing detergent for manual usage
  • PS: Pods are unnecessarily expensive and you'd need two of them to make good use of pre-washing cycles making it even more wasteful.
• Some people like to think they're super water-efficient doing the dishes, but they're not; dishwasher saves water.
• The only extra cost is electricity, but it's easily offset by the savings brought by cooking more often caused by the reduced hassle of doing the dishes. It's like 1-2 dollars of electricity per use (YMMV but it's that order of magnitude: less than a tenth of a dine out).

It is. Among literal children, TikTok and YouTube wins because it's easy to consume without a real social network.

Among teenagers, though, Instagram goes hard.

Since 2014-15, TikTok has arisen; Facebook usage has dropped; Instagram, Snapchat have grown

It is a good comparison, but it goes to show how the framing of individual freedom supremacy warps any discussion about the collective. As soon as you hit "freedom age" magic number, suddenly you can't hold accountable the powers at play anymore.