Other way around too. One major reason why the current cohort of 18-25 year olds aren’t getting any is because no one wants to bring someone back to their parents’ place.

I’ve made nearly 300 posts, much of which was OC. I feel like I’ve done my part.

Yes but no but.

On a busy day when I only have a limited time to browse and I don’t want to get trapped in the infinite “just one more page bro” cycle? Yeah Lemmy is good for that. But if I need something to pass the time for more than an hour or so (transit layover, extremely delayed appointment, sick day at home, etc) Lemmy has neither the constant influx of new content nor the archive of old content to allow for hours of distracting rabbit holes to explore.

Again, depending on where in the world you are, you may not have the equipment nor access to ingredients necessary to make these properly. You might be able to approximate, but it won’t be as good, which is the entire point of my comment.

American pizza requires a pizza oven or regular oven with a steel/stone (or dish for Detroit-style pizza), specific types of cheese, and depending on your preference, specific toppings; these may not be available abroad. In some countries, ovens are not considered standard kitchen equipment; good luck making decent pizza on the stovetop.

Similarly, really good BBQ requires special equipment that even most American homes don’t have, and requires a good deal of outdoor space (otherwise you risk smoking out yourself/your neighbors).

Mexican food is more flexible in terms of equipment, but ingredients may be hard to source (especially spices).

For ice cream you might struggle to find the right add-in ingredients depending on what flavor you’re trying to make, but again, the biggest issue is equipment. You can make ice cream at home without an ice cream maker, but it seems like more hassle than it’s worth and still requires some equipment and decent freezer space (fwiw I’ve never done it before; maybe it’s easier than it sounds).

American style pizza

frozen broccoli

You have exactly ten seconds to get the fuck out of my comment section

Obviously this is entirely dependent on where you’re moving to, but I struggled to find the following when living abroad:

• good (American-style) pizza
• good Mexican food
• good BBQ
• certain ice cream flavors (like cherries jubilee/cherry garcia)
• wide open spaces completely devoid of people
• large-group events of a boisterous and goofy nature
• certain types of museums/educational facilities (such as good zoos/wildlife rehab open to the public and interactive science museums)

If you’re looking for something a little different in the gangster genre, the anime series Baccano! might be worth a try.

Check pharmacies; most have been replaced by chains, but some independent pharmacies are still around, and will have a number of home staples.

Ethnic markets in general are a good option for finding locally-owned shops, but they’re going to differ in terms of what staples they actually carry.

Haven’t seen this mentioned yet so:

The honey may not expire, but the container you store it in could. I’d be very concerned about plastic disintegrating and/or leeching into the honey. Glass would be better for that, but it’s also really heavy compared to plastic, so you’d need more, smaller containers instead of one giant tub.

“Just chewing on plastic, what’s going on with you?”

Yes, most chewing gum is literally made of plastic, because of course it is.

To add to this, the “default” for a three-character ensemble in circa 90s kids media was: one (white) boy, one (white) girl, one (non-white) boy, for a 1:2 gender/race and 2:1 “diversity” ratio, which made the media feel diverse (back then this was generally considered a good thing) while still making male and white the default. In other words, a win-win that still was a setback to true diversity. Examples: Wishbone TV show and Harry Potter (if you count ginger as non-white).

Interesting idea, but it would need to be heavily moderated against scams and such that have pervaded other online “handmade” shops.

Cruises are an environmental nightmare; we really should not be promoting them for any reason.

While I appreciate the effort, how is this not an inevitable losing game of whack-a-mole?

At no point has Gmail ever said “we’re no longer allowing you to send/receive emails to/from Hotmail” or has Yahoo said “we’re maintained by a single volunteer who because of real life stuff can no longer continue so we’re discontinuing our email service.”

But this literally happens with instances all the time.

I’m a fediverse supporter (obviously, that’s why I’m here), however what you’re looking for requires a critical mass of users that the fediverse (at least the Lemmy side of it) will never achieve as long as two very critical problems persist:

1. sign up is confusing. People are used to clicking “create an account,” inputting a user name, password, and maybe an email, and then BAM they’re a user. I realize the whole instance thing is the entire point, but no one wants nor expects to have to do significant research and make a decision about how they want to interact with a social media site before they’ve even started using it.

2. the site (or at least lemmy.world) is sooo slooow. Basic functions like loading images take me back to the dial-up era of “click the image then do something else while it loads,” which is downright ridiculous in the 2020s. Again I’ve stuck with it because I want to support the fediverse, but 99% of users won’t.

And no, these aren’t “features not bugs” unless you want to keep the site small and homogenous.

AFAIK it’s primarily (exclusively?) a Canadian thing

Japan is an outlier for numerous reasons, the biggest of which is that housing value there decreases over time (without going into the causes, the result is a feedback loop where housing isn’t built to last because it’s a poor long-term investment, so it depreciates like other semi-short-lived products, such as cars). This isn’t something the government planned, it came about naturally. So I wouldn’t say they’ve “solved” housing so much as their situation has made it a non-issue.

Are you comparing bagged tea or looseleaf? I feel like bagged tea tends to taste pretty similar, especially if sourced from a grocery store vs a tea shop.