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Late to the minimalism/zero-waste consoomity but.... man. It's a bummer to see the few people who begin to give a shit about consumption fall for the same habits they always have. The guy refilling his ketchup bottle at McDonald's does more for the environment than any of these jokers. It's reduce, reuse, recycle. There's already a free set of silverware in your very own kitchen drawer. Just... take care of your shit. Learn some basic repair/sewing skills. It isn't hard.

If you go on amazon and search 'zero waste products' there's a ton of ironic shit. Facebook groups, hashtags, subreddits, etc. tend to have a lot of people showing off some epic 'zero waste hauls.' I've seen some pretty funny shit before, will dig around a bit soon.
 
Levakt said:
Late to the minimalism/zero-waste consoomity but.... man. It's a bummer to see the few people who begin to give a shit about consumption fall for the same habits they always have. The guy refilling his ketchup bottle at McDonald's does more for the environment than any of these jokers. It's reduce, reuse, recycle.
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Some add a fourth R because it makes a little couplet:
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Levakt said:
There's already a free set of silverware in your very own kitchen drawer. Just... take care of your shit. Learn some basic repair/sewing skills. It isn't hard.

If you go on amazon and search 'zero waste products' there's a ton of ironic shit. Facebook groups, hashtags, subreddits, etc. tend to have a lot of people showing off some epic 'zero waste hauls.' I've seen some pretty funny shit before, will dig around a bit soon.
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I'm joining you on that, because I see a lot of "Zero waste swaps" on YouTube and Tiktok and such, when in reality it's best to just use up what you have first. Same for the wardrobe stuff. The most "minimalist" and "eco-friendly" thing you can do it just use what you have already.
  • Reusable coffee filter = Gets gross. Just use a washable filter in one of those ceramic pourover things if you're making hot coffee
  • Reusable tea "egg" = Legit
  • Your own cup = No shit, Sherlock
  • Bidet attachment = Bidets are cool, but you can also make your own with a hose attachment and a spray nozzle and not need all the fancy stuff
  • Cotton wash cloth = Very useful, very cool, much better than paper towels
    • Revisited later in the video with napkins, cleaning cloths, cotton rounds, etc.
  • Mimikaki stick = Only useful if you have dry earwax. If you have wet earwax use a silicone spiral "swab" so you don't impact your wax
  • Reusable tin deodorant = Inconvenient. It's nicer in a compostable tube instead.
  • Nail stone = Depends on your individual nails
  • Menstrual cups = Great for some people, but lord help you if you're abnormally shaped because it can feel like you're getting poked in the cervix and make you wanna puke if they don't fit you right
  • Reusable mensural pads are inconvenient because you need a place to keep the dirties, but I'm sure it's fine if you work from home.
  • Reusable refill containers for bulk purchases = Just reuse jars and shit like grandma. You don't need fancy aesthetic shit.
  • Reusable plates and cutlery = Anyone who doesn't have this is not a capable adult and should be in adult daycare
    • Same goes for chopsticks
    • She doubles up on "Partyware" and "washable trays" later in the video but that's just stupid
  • Reusable straws = Yeah, useful if you use straws on a regular basis, but you can also just drink from the side of the glasses
  • Waxpaper/fabric = Useful
  • Lunchboxes = Useful
  • Metal spork = Stupid. Just use what you already own.
  • Tote bag = Useful
  • Reusable waterbottle = If you buy a glass water bottle, that's a water bottle now. Never buy plastic. The end.
  • Edible packaging = Tastes like shit
  • Reusable gift wrap = Just reuse what you get. It's going to other people and they can then reuse it in turn.
  • Bagless vacuum = Good
  • Silicone baking mats and baking forms = Useful
  • Freezing food = WTF how is this a "swap"? This is just how you store food.
  • Solid dish soap = Sucks
  • Straw cleaners = Useful
  • Natural sponges = Meh
  • Solid shampoo and conditioner = Completely depends on your hair
  • Safety razor = Use what you have first
  • Natural exfoliant(s) = Useful
  • Tongue scraper = Useful
  • Compostable dental floss = Useful
  • Glass bottles = Useful, but people will do shit like buy single-use soap and then pour it into the glass bottles for aesthetics and that's just stupid
  • Upcycling in general = Can be tacky, can be nice, usually a good activity for kids, though. I support it.
  • Silicone bags = Not gonna lie I thought these were dumb at first because "Why not just store things in glass or reuse what you have" but dammit they're actually really useful
  • Water = Why is this even in this video?
 
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George Lucas said:
I’d say marble is useful for kitchen stuff. Not whole countertops, but coasters, pot holders, stuff like that. As a countertop it’s substandard to granite, but for the small stuff I think it’s actually cheaper(?) and it makes a nice contrast with granite which is usually dark.
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Don't know a lot of stones, other than I think (real) marble looks really nice used sparingly like whole countertop. But I read its inferior, because it's porous.
Anyway, never ever have light countertop. You will get food stains that never go away.

Anyway, the rich debate on what is deemed to be actual rich-style. Well, the normies that aren't rich despise the rich style. But then again, even the actual rich people in my country tend to have the Ikea-style. We have this weird thing in our culture, that everything that is an indicator of that you think you are something. Is tacky as hell. So basically, it isn't allowed to just like this kind of interior. Because you really have to like it for yourself, because the moment anybody else looks at it. You will get a wave of comments that its tacky and you should just burn it. For some reason, many think you're Arabic for liking it too.
Rich people are a special kind of crazy.
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Vingle said:
Anyway, the rich debate on what is deemed to be actual rich-style. Well, the normies that aren't rich despise the rich style. But then again, even the actual rich people in my country tend to have the Ikea-style. We have this weird thing in our culture, that everything that is an indicator of that you think you are something. Is tacky as hell. So basically, it isn't allowed to just like this kind of interior. Because you really have to like it for yourself, because the moment anybody else looks at it. You will get a wave of comments that its tacky and you should just burn it. For some reason, many think you're Arabic for liking it too.
Rich people are a special kind of crazy.
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Teacher, I have questions.
Why do #1 and #2 look so "80s"?
Is that a tub on the left in #3?
 
NoReturn said:
Teacher, I have questions.
Why do #1 and #2 look so "80s"?
Is that a tub on the left in #3?
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Because that's when Versace was at its biggest. The brand died with Gianni Versace in 97, as the sister is an incompetent drughead. I don't agree with all of the choices, in the second pic, he got this black pillow with the medusa head. No, just no. That's tacky. And the fucking furry dog-thing.
Some things were just better before, and why fix something that works? Classics never go out style and normies will never understand that. Which is a good thing, because it's kinda unique.

Here's the article with more pics of the same apartment. Try to ignore the logoflashing which brings shame to the brand

And yes, it's a tub. Don't do that, that's asking for mildew. Bathrooms is a thing for a reason.
A blogger in my city did the same bathtub in the bedroom-thing. Took forever to sell it, and sold at a loss. In the best part of town.
 
Save the Loli said:
That just looks like the cheap version of Boba Fett's gun you'd get as a kid because your parents weren't going to buy you a 100 dollar toy gun. Look at that plastic, it's just so cheap-looking, how can they justify charging three figures for that?

This seems to be a commonality with a lot of Disney Star Wars toys in terms of appearance and quality. A lot of them look like bootlegs of what you'd expect the actual toy to be. I wonder if they can get away with quality that bad because the primary audience for them is people featured in this thread who buy anything with Star Wars on it?
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I remember how for years people managed to mod halloween costume boba fett guns into freaky accurate prop replicas as like a general hobbyist thing. I noticed the last year or 2 when they've been pumping out 200 dollar mndalorian helmets and nerf guns the cheap but accurate enough to be modded into a genuine replica halloween costume brand stuff mysteriously vanished.
 
Vingle said:
Here's the article with more pics of the same apartment. Try to ignore the logoflashing which brings shame to the brand

And yes, it's a tub. Don't do that, that's asking for mildew. Bathrooms is a thing for a reason.
A blogger in my city did the same bathtub in the bedroom-thing. Took forever to sell it, and sold at a loss. In the best part of town.
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Hey, I've seen studio flats with the shower a foot away the bed in a carpeted room going for €1000 per month. You can make good money from that kind of set up if you don't mind killing people with black mould poisoning.
 
Hoi Polloi said:
Hey, I've seen studio flats with the shower a foot away the bed in a carpeted room going for €1000 per month. You can make good money from that kind of set up if you don't mind killing people with black mould poisoning.
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The question isn't minding it, but if you get caught for doing it.
But I do know a guy that live in an apartment with a bad mold problem in the bathroom. Everything goes with a little discount, just don't rent out to the people that actually care about the legal stuff:tomgirl:
 
Pissmaster said:
That makes me curious as to what would have happened if I ever went as a kid. I know I would have been bored as hell. just wanting to go back to the hotel room to play my GameBoy or something.
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Somewhat of a power level, but I went on a Make-a-Wish trip a couple of years ago with a young kid who had recovered from cancer. He had been on a couple of rides before, but this was his first trip to a big amusement park.

He enjoyed the park, liked most of the rides he went on, still expresses an interest in going back. However, we had one of their Genie passes which allowed us to get in the fast pass line without reservations and the whole trip was free. We ended up spending about 100 bucks of our own money, and that was just for airport stuff on the way home.

If I'd had to pay what the trip was worth, I would have been on edge the entire time. Its so expensive at Disney, and unless you are super into things like getting your picture with Mickey Mouse, the park is really no better than any other average amusement park. Come to think of it, at other amusement parks you don't need to make dinner reservations months in advance, so in fact it's a little worse. It's also really big, so the small children who would enjoy it most are going to be exhausted after traipsing about the park for a few hours, especially in the heat.


If you like roller coasters, you're better off going to someplace like Cedar Point or Six Flags or even Universal Studios. I've seen people take out home equity loans to go on a Disney vacation, and it's absolutely horrifying. The employees are very nice, and some of the rides are fun, but it's simply not worth the money you'd spend on it. If you'd gone as a little kid, you probably would have had more fun in the pool at the hotel.
 
Flaming Carrot said:
Somewhat of a power level, but I went on a Make-a-Wish trip a couple of years ago with a young kid who had recovered from cancer. He had been on a couple of rides before, but this was his first trip to a big amusement park.

He enjoyed the park, liked most of the rides he went on, still expresses an interest in going back. However, we had one of their Genie passes which allowed us to get in the fast pass line without reservations and the whole trip was free. We ended up spending about 100 bucks of our own money, and that was just for airport stuff on the way home.

If I'd had to pay what the trip was worth, I would have been on edge the entire time. Its so expensive at Disney, and unless you are super into things like getting your picture with Mickey Mouse, the park is really no better than any other average amusement park. Come to think of it, at other amusement parks you don't need to make dinner reservations months in advance, so in fact it's a little worse. It's also really big, so the small children who would enjoy it most are going to be exhausted after traipsing about the park for a few hours, especially in the heat.


If you like roller coasters, you're better off going to someplace like Cedar Point or Six Flags or even Universal Studios. I've seen people take out home equity loans to go on a Disney vacation, and it's absolutely horrifying. The employees are very nice, and some of the rides are fun, but it's simply not worth the money you'd spend on it. If you'd gone as a little kid, you probably would have had more fun in the pool at the hotel.
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Went to both Disney and Universal during a school trip to Florida (this was right around the time the new Harry Potter world opened), and most people agreed that Universal was just the better park. If you don’t care about Disney and are over the age of 10, there just isn’t all that much there for you to do. The lines are long and the rides really aren’t anything to write home about.
 
Both the original California versions of Disneyland and Universal Studios are overcrowded moneypits I have no interest in going to ever again. Both campuses are quite small and it’s become absurd how much shit they stuff in there. Universal just makes me sad because it has shit like Patch Adams posters. I don’t need to be reminded of all the shitty movies I spent too much money to go see in theatres, thanks.

At least the later parks are larger and have modern design sensibilities and breathing room. Epcot Center is a beautifully well-designed park.

I think the best theme parks in SoCal are Magic Mountain and Knott’s Berry Farm. Magic Mountain is cheap and the coasters are the best in the business. Knott’s is more expensive, but the last time I went (admittedly a long time ago) Ghost Town was as charming as it ever was. It’s the only park that actually retains a genuine Californian identity. They’re not always trying to shoehorn in whatever the latest Disney/Pixar/Star Wars thing is like Disneyland does, so it feels more genuine and less claustrophobic.

I’ve never been to Legoland. Sea World sucks. Go to the Aquarium of the Pacific instead. They don’t have cetaeceans, but they have sharks.

As a bonus, there’s the shithole known as the Santa Monica Pier. It’s the last pier’s end amusement park in SoCal, and it’s overpriced dungheap. The rides are small and lame. Even the Ferris Wheel sucks. The arcade is decent at least, and the pinball tables are in good shape. Pinball is hard to find these days, so I respect that.

Regardless, I would never choose to visit these parks again myself. So much better and cheaper stuff to do down here.
 
None of the food in the three videos below looks like actual food.
LMAO at all the Loungefly bags in the wide shots, though.
Captain Fitzbattleaxe said:
Is that a fucking shopping cart inside an apartment? Why the fuck would you do that?
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To look spontaneous and quirky. You can even buy a mini-one for your makeup setup!
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I’m surprised how people will still consume more Disney product even after the news story where a family had to wait seven hours in line for a dragon shaped popcorn bucket.

Its probably not true, but these e-celebs that love Disney have to be aware of that story. It’ll just be interesting what their reaction is if that ever happened to them at a theme park.
 
albert the programmer said:
I’m surprised how people will still consume more Disney product even after the news story where a family had to wait seven hours in line for a dragon shaped popcorn bucket.

Its probably not true, but these e-celebs that love Disney have to be aware of that story. It’ll just be interesting what their reaction is if that ever happened to them at a theme park.
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they are part of the reason people had to wait 7 hours for it.
These people don't see it as a bad thing, they just consoom and see high demand for even more reason to consoom.
 
albert the programmer said:
Its probably not true
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Oh it's true. There have been videos posted earlier in the thread showing Disney drones standing in lines that stretch all the way to Spain to get one of those stupid fucking popcorn buckets.

If Disney weren't one of the single most evil companies on earth I'd begrudgingly grant them respect and admiration for how masterfully they've cultivated their rabid consoomer fans. It's so cult-like.
 
Hoi Polloi said:
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I can't quite articulate it, but there is something so incredibly irritating about Youtube video thumbnails where people present their collection or new additions to their collection like some kind of incredible event we should all be celebrating and congratulating them on.

I remember seeing Metal Jesus Rocks video game collection update videos with captions like, "600+ NEW GAMES! 5 NEW SYSTEMS! 10 NEW PC GAMES! OVER 50 CONTROLLERS!" as if it were some kind of offer to the viewer, or otherwise somehow benefitted them. No, it's just a middle-aged man trying to compensate for his lack of chin by hoarding games.
 
moocow said:
Oh it's true. There have been videos posted earlier in the thread showing Disney drones standing in lines that stretch all the way to Spain to get one of those stupid fucking popcorn buckets.

If Disney weren't one of the single most evil companies on earth I'd begrudgingly grant them respect and admiration for how masterfully they've cultivated their rabid consoomer fans. It's so cult-like.
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I have to wonder though, is it sustainable? Are today’s kids still going to grow up into tomorrow’s Disney drones?

I feel like the last Disney movie that had any sort of widespread cultural impact was Frozen, and that’s nearly a decade behind us at this point.
 
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