There are tons of models out there that cost half that much. Sure, there are fancy ones with wifi and touch screens you can spend $1000+ on, but a basic washer is like $4-600.

You’re not wrong, but haven’t we already been doing that for, like, a century?

But you still made the comment you did. As I said, criticism is and has always been allowed.

Criticism by itself doesn’t accomplish anything. Sure, mollifying centrists has not been ideal, but unless there’s an actionable alternative, it’s the best we’ve got at the moment. I’m all for alternatives, I just see a lot of social inertia and none of the alternatives I see are capable of offering a better outcome in the face of that inertia.

If you have a suggestion to elevate progressives into office, I would sincerely love to hear it; that is my preferred outcome. But complaining about the dominant strategy without offering an actionable alternative is, as the top comment identified, splitting the left.

Criticism has always been allowed, you’re doing it now. How do you actually secure a better alternative?

Pretty sure mine are passive with a little speaker that selectively transmits low decibel sounds. If the batteries die, it’s still passive protection, I just don’t get to hear people talking.

What is your actionable alternative?

Give it another 15,000 years, it’ll get more interesting

It’s always both. Obviously try and get the most progressive blue candidate you can every time, but corporate Democrats are still at least marginally better than full-throated fascists.

It being “time” for a progressive takeover doesn’t really mean much if progressives aren’t running, or primary voters aren’t supporting them. Do you have a plan to make either of those things happen?

I think I paid around $1200 for my Maytag commercial, not one single problem in the last 5ish years.

People have mentioned energy use and safety, but adjusting for inflation they were also way more expensive, a washing machine in the 50s was over $1000 in today’s dollars. If you’re willing to spend that much, you can find great reliable appliances with long lives.

I’m doing pretty well, all things considered. I’m married to my best friend, we have a house, own two cars outright. We have enough land for a nice little garden, a nice garage I can work on projects in. We make over the median household income but my job isn’t particularly stressful. We have decent savings, can afford to go on a couple trips every year, unexpected expenses don’t totally ruin us. I have time and money to pursue my interests and treat myself to tools and books.

Sure my life could be better, but I’m pretty happy overall.

Bottom up is better, the stem becomes a useful handle for those last few bites

Do what thou wilt.

I asked for Sandman two Christmases ago, before everything came out. Im still glad I read it, it’s good, but I wish I would’ve gotten used copies so at least he didn’t make money off it

When I was a kid I had one of his stand up specials on cassette and I regularly listened to it to fall asleep.

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme

Find your local asian market, buy ramen noodles in bulk. Chop up some veggies, saute them in the pan before you make the noodles. Crack an egg in there. You can buy bulk mushroom powder for cheap too, put that in there. Go to your local grocery and buy the cheapest meat, slice it up and throw that in before the veggies.

Is it going to be culinarily coherent? Maybe, maybe not. Are you going to eat it? Probably. Is it going to hit your macros? More or less.

No way, velociraptor was way smaller, you’re thinking of utahraptor

That’s why I can’t help but scoff when people say “It’s not real artificial intelligence, it’s just a stochastic parrot”. Like my dude, have you ever interacted with the average person?

Headcheese