Random Thought Thread

Nathan the Machinist said:
I think this is one of the most amazing times in human history and I'm glad to be here for it. Things are pretty awesome, mostly
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My mom and dad escaped Vietnam, lived in a refugee camp in Malaysia for 9 months, eventually landing in the U.S. with two boys under 2 and just the clothes on their backs.

Things are pretty awesome, always.
 
How long has it been since cooking food at home—using ingredients you bought yourself—has sometimes become a rarity, or even a luxury?


Especially among people aged 20–30.


Most of the time, it’s ready-made food from the supermarket or takeout.


By the way, we also occasionally buy or order food ourselves.


But home-cooked food is amazing.


I wouldn’t be surprised if in 10–20 years it becomes something like a real luxury.
Because everything I’m seeing points to a trend toward ready-made or ordered food.
And honestly, I really think that cooking with your own ingredients—plus the time, washing dishes, and all that—can actually be more expensive than just ordering food.

And it’s not so much about money as it is about the amount of free time.


It feels like, on average, people have less and less of it.


And a family dinner, in my opinion, is often one of those wonderful, classic, important things.


It literally brings people together.
 
Moorik said:
I think the “conspiracy” works like this:


The takeout/delivery food industry → people stop cooking for themselves → no one has time, so everyone eats separately → families become less united.


What do you think tinfoil hat timmy tinfoil hat timmy ?
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I don't think they food companies are working toward that goal, just exploiting the situation.
 
SharpBits said:
I don't think they food companies are working toward that goal, just exploiting the situation.
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Beyond Meat took advantage of the situation with people who want to eat alternative meat and all that.

What happened to them?

Makes me think.
In short, as soon as their stock shows any kind of upward movement, I immediately start shorting it.

So far, I haven’t been wrong even once.

And if we put aside the jokes and my thoughts about it, I agree.
 
Moorik said:
I think the “conspiracy” works like this:


The takeout/delivery food industry → people stop cooking for themselves → no one has time, so everyone eats separately → families become less united.


What do you think tinfoil hat timmy tinfoil hat timmy ?
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Plausible.

Not to mention the distractions Involved with every day existence.
 
Moorik said:
How long has it been since cooking food at home—using ingredients you bought yourself—has sometimes become a rarity, or even a luxury?


Especially among people aged 20–30.


Most of the time, it’s ready-made food from the supermarket or takeout.


By the way, we also occasionally buy or order food ourselves.


But home-cooked food is amazing.


I wouldn’t be surprised if in 10–20 years it becomes something like a real luxury.
Because everything I’m seeing points to a trend toward ready-made or ordered food.
And honestly, I really think that cooking with your own ingredients—plus the time, washing dishes, and all that—can actually be more expensive than just ordering food.

And it’s not so much about money as it is about the amount of free time.


It feels like, on average, people have less and less of it.


And a family dinner, in my opinion, is often one of those wonderful, classic, important things.


It literally brings people together.
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You can only make changes for yourself. Everyone gets to choose what ‘too expensive’ looks like for themselves.

Too me, poor health from crummy food is far too expensive.

I would argue that my health and the food that I eat is worth more than the metric you’re applying as the alternative. That’s just me, though. Perhaps your values are different.
 
Moorik said:
How long has it been since cooking food at home—using ingredients you bought yourself—has sometimes become a rarity, or even a luxury?


Especially among people aged 20–30.


Most of the time, it’s ready-made food from the supermarket or takeout.


By the way, we also occasionally buy or order food ourselves.


But home-cooked food is amazing.


I wouldn’t be surprised if in 10–20 years it becomes something like a real luxury.
Because everything I’m seeing points to a trend toward ready-made or ordered food.
And honestly, I really think that cooking with your own ingredients—plus the time, washing dishes, and all that—can actually be more expensive than just ordering food.

And it’s not so much about money as it is about the amount of free time.


It feels like, on average, people have less and less of it.


And a family dinner, in my opinion, is often one of those wonderful, classic, important things.


It literally brings people together.
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I do love a great Pizza from my favorite place.

I like cooking with a crock pot, because it is so easy and quick to put a delicious meal together (like stew or roasts). I also like to cheat and cut up a Costco rotisserie chicken with fresh corn, broccoli, carrots, spices and chicken stock in a big pot ( my wife and I call it ‘chicken shit’).
 
Moorik said:
Beyond Meat took advantage of the situation
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Honestly, I think they made a fundamental mistake.

I know a lot of vegetarians. (I live in the Bay Area, California.) Some of them have a favorite "meat substitute" they buy sometimes, but for the most part they just don't want to eat meat, which means they also don't want to eat heavily processed salt-patties that try to be meat. They might buy lentil patties or things like that if they want quick heat-and-eat protein, but that's because it isn't meat-like. (And did I mention the salt?)

Beyond Meat is what you get when meat eaters try to make something they think vegetarians are supposed to like.
 
Matthew Gregory said:
You can only make changes for yourself. Everyone gets to choose what ‘too expensive’ looks like for themselves.

Too me, poor health from crummy food is far too expensive.

I would argue that my health and the food that I eat is worth more than the metric you’re applying as the alternative. That’s just me, though. Perhaps your values are different.
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No, that’s exactly why I’m saying this.

Sometimes my thoughts can be contradictory. For example, I can say that about 80% of my food is homemade, but the remaining 20% isn’t always something healthy.

Among people aged 20–30, it’s actually quite common not to cook at all.

On the contrary, I personally support cooking your own food, because even meals that are marketed as “healthy” and ready-made often don’t really live up to that claim.

I’m just sharing my thoughts and observations.

But overall, I’m quite a contradictory person. And even if I say something silly somewhere, I can just justify it by saying I was joking or not being serious 😅 (even though I might have said it seriously at first, and only later realized it sounded dumb).
 
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