Edamamebean [she/her]

While this is absolutely true and I don’t wanna sound at all like I’m downplaying things, does anyone have information on why we haven’t seen any deaths yet despite the high fatality rate?

Eating in bed is like: oh god oh fuck there are crumbs everywhere and this is a sensory nightmare someone please make it stop

The anti lunch break stance makes sense for a tory politician, but what does she have against sandwiches? She claims she eats steak for lunch, does she cook it the night before and eat a cold steak at her desk while she works? Does she cut it up into bite sized pieces before as well? Because there is no way you can cut up a steak and eat it while working. You can sit at your desk and pretend you’re working, but you cannot cut up a steak and eat it while working unless you have three hands. None of this makes any goddamn sense.

Yeah. I recently got a job I really like, but the fact that it’s bookended by at least an hour each way of sitting on a cramped bus moving at the speed of a light jog makes me hate it nonetheless. Fucking sucks.

Adding to this, I hate transit stations that don’t have ticket machines. The BRT station near me has an indoor waiting area, wifi, an arrivals board, but no ticket machines. Gotta go to some random convenience store almost a kilometre away to reload your card instead. Why do they do this.

Oh my god, there are far too many to name and I’m always looking for someone to listen to my ranting about terrible transit. Sorry, but for asking this question you’re now going to get a very large wall of text.

1: A lack of signal priority. Countless hours of collective human time have been wasted in transit vehicles waiting at completely empty intersections for a red light to change because the traffic signal uses the state of the art technology called a timer.

2: Terrible right of way. Way too many transit agencies place their transit lines not based on where demand is highest or where transit will be most effective, but just where land is cheapest or where the transit agency already owns. The principal rapid transit line in my city runs along a river because the city already owned the land, but it means that literally half of the area surrounding the transit line is just completely useless because it’s water. Highway median transit is another example of this, which can often lead to…

3: Terrible land use surrounding stations. Almost without fail transit stations in North American cities are surrounded by parking lots, highway interchanges, or just straight up undeveloped land.

4: The North American light rail obsession. Nearly every single new or recently built rapid transit line in the US or Canada is done using trams, often running partially on the street, with absolutely no consideration for if this is the right transit solution for a given city. Link in Seattle is a good example. It’s absolutely absurd for a city the size of Seattle to have light rail. A city of 4 million people in any other developed nation would have a proper metro, but because Seattle is in America it gets a shitty light rail.

I may return to update this later but this was all I could write for now

Fair enough, and sorry for my response being kinda rude. Social media makes me assume the worst of people and I need to work on that. Also maybe it’s a skill issue on my part, but I cannot make beans and rice (or any other legume) that isn’t bland without some onion and garlic.

Never thought I’d see hexbears chiding people for not cutting out the avocado toast. Could that number be lower? Certainly. Is the problem here people spending too much on groceries? Certainly not. I’m not about to blame people for spending more than the lowest possible amount on groceries when they’re tired, overworked, and short on time. If someone comes home from an 8 hour day that’s actually 10 hours because of the commute, I can’t blame them for putting a frozen pizza in the oven instead of busting out the pots and cutting boards to make beans and rice for the 5th day in a row.

It’s genuinely so bizarre. I understand why people don’t want to wear a mask all the time, but I will never understand the collective excitement to go back to rawdogging the disgusting air of a crowded bus or room.

Warlock. Enjoying plenty of problematic treats but I’m self aware so it’s totally fine

100% agree. The rationalization for school group projects is always “well you’ll have to work together in the workplace” except group projects are not at all the same. In a workplace you are all in the same place at the same time and it’s time dedicated for you all to work on it. Very rarely in a workplace are you required to coordinate all your different coworker’s free time to work on a project together outside work. Group projects are good when you get class time to work on it, like you said. But unfortunately that’s pretty much never because of how condensed academic schedules are.

Cillian Murphy is proof twink death is fake

No it isn’t?

From the article:

But the Chinese people are also showing that it is possible to increase protein consumption without eating as much meat as the Americans, which also benefits the planet.