Americans really think its normal to not have a washing machine in your apartment and instead have to walk down the street and use a laundromat, and thats wild to me cause i didnt know that shit was normal everywhere here after I moved from Romania.
Do Europeans think their lives don’t matter? If they believe their lives matter they should take to the streets to demand free market healthcare because if you use $0 healthcare then you’re sending the message that your life is worth $0.
Dish washers are another scam thing every American has. They basically wash all their dishes by hand, then wash them again in the machine.
That’s because most Americans just don’t fill the soap slot. So their dishwasher doesn’t work properly, which they assume is because they are supposed to be like that. If you actually fill the soap slot like you are supposed to, you can leave crusty old stuff on your dishes and it will still come off most of the time.
What do you mean? They just fill the dishwasher with dishes, and turn it on? No soap?
Nah, they are good, and use less electricity and water than hand washing. A lot of people use the sink method thinking they’re being green, but it’s the opposite.
Most dishwashers get heavy food off plates now, but the majority of dishes don’t even have that, and if you took away my dishwasher I would kill you.
Apparently, dishwashers beat usual methods of handwashing even when the environmental production cost of the dishwasher is taken into account (though that estimate doesn’t seem to include the cost of transporting the appliance, mind you).
The same study suggests one method of manual washing that beats dishwashers: the two basins methods (you fill one sink, plugged, with hot water, scrub the dishes inside that sink without running water, move the scrubbed dishes to a second plugged sink filled with cold water to rinse them).
Finally, that study bases its estimates on the U.S. national average electrical grid carbon intensity, and assumes water is heated in the home through natural gas; and most of the energy consumed is for water heating. So if you’re living in, say, France (where 90% of your energy comes from low-carbon sources such as nuclear or hydro-electric dams), and your water heater is electric, the results might well be different.
Modern dishwashers don’t need a pre rinse though. Just clean the filter after every few washes, takes like 5 minutes. My dishwasher has saved me a ton on the water bill and paid itself back many times. Not American btw.
I don’t understand what is going on in this meme.
Apparently Europe doesn’t have tumble dryers or something :shrug-outta-hecks:
But… we do
Did this guy see a painting of 18th century peasant life and think it was a photo from somebody’s instagram
Idk about the rest of Europe but in Greece yeah we don’t really have them. Like, you can buy them, I just never had them and neither have I noticed people who had them, I’m sure some do. But is it really important? Like, you can just have a clothe line or one of these stretcher like things, I don’t know what they are called in English. I never felt like it was a problem lol
Pretty crucial here there’s maybe two weeks worth of says per year that leaving your clothes out wouldn’t make them worse.
I never had one for a long while, but we got a cheap one because hanging up and drying and ironing 5+ people’s washing is exhausting. But it uses too much electricity, which is expensive, so we don’t even use it anymore.
