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[–] algorithmae@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 22 hours ago

Wait until femanom (and some people in this thread) hear about the drip tray under their own fridge

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 312 points 1 day ago (5 children)

It's all water under the fridge

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 69 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A fridge over troubled water

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[–] biscuitswalrus@aussie.zone 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You could retire off this pun.

[–] Rusty@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago

He is already retired

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[–] stewi1914@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Professional chefs are far worse.

[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You would think they would be infinitely better than this.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

They can afford to pay someone to clean up their messes

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 54 points 1 day ago

Maybe it's because I've mainly lived in temperate climates but this seems like a great way to get a lot of mold under your fridge.

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 35 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] underwire212@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’ll evaporate in less than 24 hours. Not enough time for mould to develop. If I drop ice cube, I allow my cat to play with it without cleaning it up.

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] underwire212@lemm.ee 8 points 15 hours ago

wikipedia.org/wiki/evaporation

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 2 points 20 hours ago

All water evaporates within 24 hours. That's why moisture isn't an issue.

[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Counter-print-out-a-wikipedia-page

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[–] axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorption

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

wikipedia.org/wiki/Adsorption

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

oh, and wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorption

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 2 points 20 hours ago

I'd be remiss if I didn't wikipedia.org/wiki/Desorption

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 10 points 1 day ago

wikipedia.org/wiki/Moisture_expansion

[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 28 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I'm trying really hard not to comment something like "Welcome to one of many, many joys of living with an immature teenage child."

Kicking the ice under the fridge is actually one of the least aggravating of the shitty things to do in the kitchen, but so indicative of what type of person they are. Other well-known classics include leaving a microscopically small portion of milk in the carton to avoid having to rinse the thing out and place it in the recycle bin and using the last clean cup in the cabinet so that you don't have to bring one of the dozen+ dirty cups you've accumulated in your room to the kitchen to be cleaned for reuse. Oh, and let's not forget drop a spoon of peanut butter the floor and leave it for the dog to clean up even though you know she's allergic to it so it makes her throw up and then later on causes a bunch of skin issues for her.

No, I'm not the least bit bitter. Why do you ask?

[–] jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 0 points 51 minutes ago

why would a milk carton need to be rinsed before recycling?

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I have a relative, full grown adult, they threw away a big-gulp cup almost entirely filled with ice into my trash. I do not have industrial trash-bags, I am not a mall, we do not have wheeled bins to collect solid and fluid waste at the end of the day. I have flimsy dollar-store trash can liners, because like most people, I am but a human of limited means.

I grabbed the cup and asked them why they did that. They stared at me without a hint of recognition or understanding. I pressed.

"The cup full of ice, why did you throw it away in the trash? The sink is two feet away."

Still puzzled. "So? it's just ice."

"WHAT IS ICE MADE OF?"

They shrugged. I sighed and let it go.

This story doesn't end there though. Because it led me to the most depressing epiphany of my adult life, which is that people broadly are not thinking. And I don't mean it in an edgy "I'm smarter than everyone" way, because I realized I am equally unthinking about a vast number of things, it's just that most people run on autopilot through their entire day, their entire week, their entire lives. You can be very, very smart and educated, and still not think.

So what is thinking then? It's conscious narrative exploration of current events in one's head, using language, using questions, using tools to rapidly explore the world around you as you move through it. I realized that I do that constantly (and that's also considered being on the spectrum.) It's why I don't throw full cups of liquid into other people's trash bags, but it's also why I'm miserable and overthink everything and have severe anxiety. No filter, no autopilot.

Our population only "thinks" when they're struggling, trying to overcome an obstacle, and for most of us, our obstacles are so abstract and hard to quantify that we just ride through our days. Capitalism has fueled an incentive to seek comforts and conveniences, so the vast majority of our day is in pursuit of comfort and conveniences, so we can stop thinking. The reward we seek is also our doom.

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[–] allidoislietomyself@lemmy.world 90 points 1 day ago (4 children)

My brother-in-law did this at my house the other day! My jaw almost hit the floor watching him try to kick that shit under the fridge. He did it in front of his son too. They didn't seee behind them, so I bent over and picked up the cubes and told them we don't do that in this house. I told my wife and she told her sister, they were both surprised. I had no idea people did this. Just pick them up and toss them in the sink.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 66 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] NOPper@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It doesn't work if you don't pre-print this out.

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[–] icelimit@lemmy.ml 76 points 1 day ago (21 children)

Rinse the ice and then keep using it. It's literally pristine again.

[–] javiwhite@feddit.uk 58 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Something tells me we can trust this user on their knowledge of ice and its limits.

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[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My cats like to lick ice cubes so I'll leave them for them to lick across the floor lol

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 140 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (12 children)

Fake: OP outside their house

Gay: spending time with a man

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[–] Sonor@lemmy.world 100 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)
  • me, an icecube
  • finally, it's my day to shine
  • someone finally takes me out of the fridge
  • clumsy mofo drops me, I'm spiraling downwards into the deep unkown
  • when i think it can't be worse, i got kicked back into the darkness i came from
  • fml
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[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 33 points 1 day ago

Fictictous and Homosexual, anon is trying to scare off the girl.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

girls are so annoying i am constantly wikipedia printout page

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I keep at least twenty printed articles in several drawers throughout my house to preemptively head-off any and all arguments that may arise from situations that may arise contextually from events that could take place in that room.

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[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I do this occasionally, but I live in Arizona.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ah, then you're nurturing the community of scorpions and centipedes. Best to do that so they don't start an uprising.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 72 points 2 days ago (24 children)

Imagine kicking them under the fridge instead of just leaving them where they lie.

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[–] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Doesn't your underfloor heating deal with it pretty quickly?

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