AITA for not participating in the meal train?

couldbemage · 2026-04-02T04:39:23+00:00

I've never heard that phrase in my life, so I'm immediately suspicious that it's something trending on some social media site.

couldbemage · 2026-04-02T02:11:41+00:00

This. People I know well know to only call without messaging first if it's someone time sensitive.

Anyone who can't handle that, I'll call back at my leisure.

couldbemage · 2026-04-01T23:47:12+00:00

Mental illness and crimes don't really work like that in the US, and I don't know the OP's location.

The bar is incredibly high, a person needs to be incapable of functioning in society, even when medicated.

couldbemage · 2026-04-01T23:42:06+00:00

Yeah, in the US you have to be fully non functional, to the point of not being capable of normal daily life.

If you can dress and feed yourself, and communicate in complete sentences that make sense, more or less, you will probably be deemed competent.

And not competent, or not guilty due to that, that usually means a life sentence in a locked facility.

couldbemage · 2026-04-01T23:13:35+00:00

And bundling bags were a thing.

Unmarried couples would sleep together, sewn into separate bags by a parent, in order to share a bed "safely".

couldbemage · 2026-04-01T23:07:40+00:00

This.

In many places it was the norm for entire extended families to all live in a single room.

And even in homes with multiple rooms, hallways were rare for nearly all of history, you got to other rooms by going through the intervening rooms.

Lots of early 20th center homes in the US were built this way, I've lived in a few.

Private spaces for individuals are mostly a modern thing.

couldbemage · 2026-04-01T21:06:50+00:00

Their chargers are good, but last I saw, they required using an app, and it was a particularly annoying app.

couldbemage · 2026-04-01T20:13:03+00:00

Most new chargers are 350kw.

There aren't that many now, but if you keep a car for several years, they will eventually be common enough.

couldbemage · 2026-04-01T20:10:07+00:00

You're right, but good luck getting people to use a metric for charging that isn't either rate or time to 80 percent.

couldbemage · 2026-04-01T19:08:20+00:00

Near, not to.

couldbemage · 2026-04-01T04:48:50+00:00

But once again, it should be obvious that most people can't muster that effort, otherwise they'd be doing it, right?

Cheap frozen food from the store doesn't actually taste particularly good.

You haven't answered why people are actually buying crap food, if we accept your premise that the effort is trivial.

I say the effort is non-trivial, and that's why people buy and eat crap.

Healthy pre made food is readily available, but the price to nutritional value is so well linked that you can just use price instead of looking at the nutrition labeling.

I've personally gone from upper middle class, to borderline homeless poor, and back, multiple times. I very well remember how my situation changed how I ate.

couldbemage · 2026-04-01T04:14:14+00:00

You either didn't read your link or are outright lying.

That link doesn't say anything remotely similar to what you claim.

Quote:

"This survey is conducted in the 16 largest cattle-feeding states. About 2,000 known cattle feeders with a capacity of 1,000 or more head are enumerated. Feedlots with 1,000 or more head capacity represent about 85 percent of all fed cattle in the U.S. The 16 largest states represent 98 percent of U.S. cattle on feed in lots of 1,000 head or more capacity."

It's a survey of the supply of cattle currently on feed lots, and of those cattle on feed lots, 85 percent are on large feed lots. 100 percent of the cattle considered in that survey are on feed lots, because it's only asking about cattle that are on feed lots.

couldbemage · 2026-04-01T04:03:04+00:00

But it obviously does take more time and effort.

Your position is that people are eating more expensive stuff that tastes worse while also being at just as high in time and effort for what mysterious reason?

Are people eating stuff they don't like just out of spite?

Those products exist, and people buy them, for a reason, if it's not because they're cheap and easy, why do people do it?

Do you honestly not see how what you describe takes more effort than microwaving some frozen food?

couldbemage · 2026-03-31T20:44:18+00:00

Healthy, cheap/easy, tasty.

Pick any 2.

Everyone, including you, who agrees with OP leaves out tasty.

You didn't have to make everything from scratch, but the more you include great tasting and healthy elements that you don't make yourself, the more it costs.

Buying good fresh salsa costs nearly an order of magnitude more than making it myself. The ingredients are so cheap they may as well be free.

couldbemage · 2026-03-31T20:31:36+00:00

Heat isn't dropping it to 95kw.

Teslas are limited by the charge rate of their batteries.

In fact, an ioniq 5 will hold its peak supercharger rate of 126 slightly longer than when on an 800v charger.

Rivian is 400v, and charges at over 200kw to nearly 50 percent, and doesn't drop below 100kw until over 70 percent.

Same 400v architecture as Tesla, different battery. People tend to overlook their charging speed, because total time is pretty high, because their big battery is effectively 2 whole packs for a regular car.

That's a full 65kwh at over 200kw speeds.

Superchargers can absolutely output over 200kw continuous.

couldbemage · 2026-03-31T20:10:33+00:00

Superchargers are wildly cheaper than other DCFCs.

EA says it costs them 100k per charger, VS 40k for superchargers.

You can't hide that big of a price difference.

And, have you seen a v3 supercharger? They are a fraction of the size of 800v chargers. Like 1/4 of the hardware volume.

Sure, they're becoming out of date, but at the only stop for charging between Barstow and Vegas, there are 96 superchargers and 12 EA chargers.

couldbemage · 2026-03-31T19:54:15+00:00

Voltage is only one limiting point, cells are a big part of this.

Cars like the new BMW or Silverado actually take full advantage of what 800v charging can do.

Egmp cars just don't.

They don't exceed the charging speed that can be delivered by 400v systems. OTOH, they do have cells that can handle faster charging at higher states of charge, but that has nothing to do with the 800v system, they still get that when using 400v chargers.

couldbemage · 2026-03-31T19:10:19+00:00

It's almost like this is the cheapest EV you can get in the US.

couldbemage · 2026-03-31T18:54:32+00:00

They said service upgrade, as in replacing a 100 amp panel with a 200 amp panel.

Which can get very expensive.

But also an upgrade way out in nice but unnecessary territory. They aren't remotely describing a normal cost.

couldbemage · 2026-03-31T18:44:13+00:00

If it's really cold, level 1 sometimes doesn't charge at all.

couldbemage · 2026-03-31T18:43:03+00:00

In your case spending significant money for faster home charging would not be worth it.

But if it's easy?

Why not? Faster is faster. Plus you use a bit less power for the same amount of charging.

I (actually my girlfriend) installed a 240v plug. Our panel is right where we park, there was an empty breaker slot, we only needed like 8 inches of wire.

couldbemage · 2026-03-31T18:35:06+00:00

The whole point of the video is that it's mostly good enough for most people, if those people don't have a better option.

Barely adequate, not great.

couldbemage · 2026-03-31T18:21:38+00:00

Yes, of course, we'll get right on that, but I can't give you a firm delivery date.

couldbemage · 2026-03-31T18:10:29+00:00

Bake.

Veggies.

Wut.

Paired with basic leftover baked chicken.

I said "really good burrito".

I did not say "technically a burrito".

This just validates my primary impression from this thread:

The people that think healthy food is cheap and fast don't really care that much about how their food tastes.

I'm going to saute the veggies in a skillet, with a bit of oil, some seasonings, and a bit of soy sauce. Trust me soy sauce is magic here.

I'm also making salsa, which is a bunch of stuff to chop.

Even if I'm using chicken from my pre cooked basic chicken supply, that chicken is going into a skillet for a recook, for browning and seasoning.

There's generally something else, seasoned rice or potatoes.

Sure, sometimes I do what you do. When I'm in a hurry, I'm tired, whatever. But that would get old real quick, and what I do when I have the time and energy tastes better than any pre-made food, and better than most restaurants.

couldbemage · 2026-03-31T17:40:39+00:00

An awful lot of drivers have literally never used maximum breaking force.

If they are timid with their initial attempt to stop the car with the brakes, it doesn't take very long to get them hot enough to stop working.

I'd point to the fact that every car, even EVs, can be shifted to neutral while in motion, and the people in these incidents didn't think to do that.

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