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by aianus 3920 days ago
I still can't believe cooking and cleaning dishes is a thing.
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Absolutely. Deciding on and preparing meals is the single biggest regular struggle and unpleasant time sink of my day. I wish I could get Soylent but they're still a bit slow and aren't selling directly to my country so I'd have to go through an importer/smuggler, upping the cost.

I know some people like cooking. That's fine for them. I like coding and I do that for fun. No enjoy-cooking-people I know want to write software. Different strokes for different folks.

We need to get out of the mindset of some kinds of work being "noble". When I was growing up it was "noble" to clean dishes by hand, repair your house yourself and repair your car yourself.

Now that I'm an adult, most people I know have "failed" and are lazily hiring specialists or using machines for those once-noble tasks. And some are very successful in their lives despite that failing! </s>

>> No enjoy-cooking-people I know want to write software.

I enjoy cooking, I enjoy eating what I cook and I write software because I want to.

When I think about it, I'm actually a bit sad I can't taste my own code :7

Cooking is nice, but I will never rent another apartment that doesn't have an automatic dishwasher.
Whenever I say this to people, they shake their head like I am crazy. I don't care, it's a deal breaker!
Is this a non-USA thing?

Here in the USA the modest apartments I was renting more than 30 years ago had dishwashers. However, I didn't always use the dishwasher because it's hard for one person to generate enough dishes a day to make it worthwhile to run. Especially if frozen food made for microwave heating is a large part of your diet.