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Cocktails
fromTasting Table
1 day ago

7 Overrated Cocktail Ingredients That Just Waste Money - Tasting Table

Many cocktail ingredients are overrated and do not enhance drinks, leading to unnecessary costs and waste.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
3 months ago

Miss Manners: You wouldn't believe the gifts she gives me. I want her to stop.

I have a friend from childhood who is a wealthy, narcissistic hoarder. This means she spends all her time buying needless crap from the bargain bins of every box store you can imagine. For example, she'll buy several blenders just because they are on sale, not because she needs one. Her house is filled with this junk. I have politely mentioned therapy, but that just gets radio silence.
Relationships
Renovation
fromwww.archdaily.com
4 months ago

Etxenoi Pavilion / AMA architectural office

Urban renovations often prioritize aesthetic trends and marketing over genuine functional needs, compromising accessibility, comfort, and future adaptability.
fromThe Nation
8 months ago

Want to Understand Global Inequality? Visit the Dump

Vance Packard identified "planned obsolescence" as a sales tactic that encouraged consumers to buy more by making older products seem outdated or intentionally short-lived.
Environment
Digital life
fromBuzzFeed
8 months ago

People Are Sharing Overconsumption Trends They Hate The Most, And Humans Are So Wasteful

Overconsumption trends illustrate excessive and wasteful consumer culture including unnecessary purchases, extravagant beauty routines, and planned obsolescence.
fromFast Company
9 months ago

U.S. water infrastructure is crumbling: It's time to revitalize it

The U.S. wastes more than 6 billion gallons of treated water a day due to pipe breaks and leaks—enough to fill more than 9,000 Olympic-size swimming pools.
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