Haute couture costs a hundred thousand dollars plus. Even people who can afford it don’t buy it because it makes you have a certain “old-timey/backwards” look.

In today’s democratized world there’s no pressure from society to dress a certain way, so convenience wins. People wear cotton because it’s easy to wash. People wear puffer jackets instead of coats because they cut off at the waist and are easier to move in.

People don’t dress that way because what the garment stands for doesn’t align with today’s people’s values. For men, there’s also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Male_Renunciation

This reads “please start spending tax haven money towards the common interest”

Paywall though

I am creatively bankrupt therefore I will revive an old game

I get the people here saying “just don’t have any of them”. Recently I decided to wipe my IG account’s likes that I left on all posts. You know - so the algorithm knows less about me. Mind you, this was several thousand likes to remove.

There is no bulk unliking option, so I did this by hand. Select the same -teen photos, unlike, wait for the reload, repeat. The benefit is that you get a look atwhat you liked, since you’re combing through it by hand.

What struck me is 99% of those posts were from people I haven’t ever met. They were rando short creators. There is nothing “social” about this medium anymore. It’s a media medium.

Jealous you got the metal one. I bought the earlier plastic version. They’re supposedly making a Echo Nano version too

I’m not Hungarian but I was at Batthany ter from 6PM to 2AM and experiencing history by yourself is much different than seeing it on TV. There was a group of high schoolers in front of me who were hugging among eachother constantly once they knew Tisza won, broke my heart.

When I was coming back, on the shuttle bus to Warsaw Chopin a Hungarian woman was watching a recap of the election night smiling, and when a bird’s eye video of the crowd appeared she was shaking her head in disbelief/pride. Yes, I was watching her phone from above - standing - while she was sitting, shut up

With those kind of rosy-eyed stories in Poland we say “and then the bus driver sat up and started clapping” and indeed I may be on an emotional high compared to people who just saw the facts on TV, though I don’t even feel a fraction of some Hungarians may be feeling.

Also I couldn’t join in on any of the chants but the simplest “-ria, -ria, Hungaria” lol

Same boat. Got a 1kg bag to motivate myself to eat the more and it’s going rather slow. Love the nutrients in those but I wish they just tasted better.

I love it when OP adds their own clarification in the square brackets to de-clickbait a title

not available in Poland sigh

Where does it say that anyone is boycotting anything? Perhaps you’re looking at for !boycottus@lemmy.ca ?

People are also growing cotton in Italy now, so maybe one day we could have cotton that’s not only spun in Europe but also grown there. Still, lyocell and flax/hemp would probably be easier.

https://www.albiniyarns.com/en/news/biofusion-italian-selection-the-first-fully-traceble-and-organic-cotton-grown-in-italy/

So much for “bro RCS is an open standard everyone can implement it bro”

Yeah I’ve had it with Will’s Vegan Shoes. They use https://www.viridis-leather.it/faq.html and say it’s “bio-based leather” but if you go to the link:

Is it recycled, recyclable or biodegradable?

No, it’s not but it expresses its sustainable content because it’s mainly produced using by-products from corn and wheat instead of petrolium based products. Bio polyols always available as renewable resources.

Which type of PU is Viridis® made of?

43 % of PU made using polyols coming from corn and wheat, 31 % of normal PU.

I’m not going to mansplain peeling an egg

Is the in-ovo sexing getting anywhere? The NA brand Vital Farms has this on their website:

[…] we’re committed to improving the lives of animals through food. In early 2026, we plan to adopt in-ovo sexing technology in collaboration with our primary hatchery supplier, Hy-Line North America.

Hy-Line North America has installed Cheggy technology developed by the German company, AAT, which uses a safe, non-invasive scan to determine whether the developing chick is male or female. This determination occurs before the embryo can feel pain, and the male eggs are prevented from developing further — allowing hatcheries to significantly reduce the number of male chicks that hatch.

https://vitalfarms.com/faqs/ > What happens to male chicks

The wikipedia article for chick culling has a citation for their pledge, but they made it 2020…

Hey, maybe the real house flippers will play this instead of putting printed-but-looking-like-handwritten pamphlets into my mailbox.

Dear reader of the above OP - this is the liberal thread. If you want a socialist thread, please scroll down.