Wolt and Glovo is how grocery store delivery works where I live. One supermarket chain offers their own delivery, but it's next day delivery at the soonest (sometimes the day after that).

> But just because something is not provable or falsifiable under current scientific knowledge

Do you mean unproven instead of "not provable or falsifiable"?

Something not being falsifiable would mean that we can't detect if it's doing anything even if we tried, which doesn't bode well for its effectiveness.

> The only time its okay to order food its when people came for something else in the first place

When I invite friends over it is always for something else other than food, by which I mean it's for hanging out together. Food just needs to be there because if we're going to be hanging out for 4-8 hours we'll need to eat.

I think you don't understand french culture. Sharing meal together is an integral part of hanging out together there. :)

Meh. I'm from balkans and there are 100 things that you'd say are "our culture" that neither I nor my friends care about. If I couldn't invite friends to play board games without they expecting me to cook, I'd find better friends.

I'd say that if I invite friends to do "anything", it is because I am prepared to feed them if needed. I don't have to cook per se, I can just heat premade (by me or bought) stuff. I also expect them to bring something to drink if they like beers or wine. It is not like one necessarily need to spend hours in the kitchen.

Grabbing a bag crisps and a pizza ready to go to the oven beats having to fire up an app and decide/argue for minutes wether we want sushi, poké, noodles, pastas or a pizza.

> I'd say that if I invite friends to do "anything", it is because I am prepared to feed them if needed

Agreed! Though I think ordering is also perfectly fine, as are the other options you mentioned.

But what prompted me to respond in the first place was:

> but here in France if you invite some friends over, you are expected to cook. The only time its okay to order food its when people came for something else in the first place (moving, doing some handywork...)

Which is just silly.

I think the poster narrowed that to the typical invitation to meet and have lunch.

I wouldn't "invite" people to help me move or do some handywork, it would rather be called "asking for help". And I know there are other kinds of invitations: playing board games, video games or music, making arts, group sex or whatever other activities one can think of that can be done in groups and yes in that case you might not expect the host to cook necessarily. My experience is that in France people would generally bring something anyway or at the very least ask what they should bring, even if it is just a bag of crisps and a few beers when meeting someone at their place.

> In Europe most people don't use cloth dryers

As a European, to the extent that this is true, it's only because they don't know what they're missing.

German here, happy owner of a heat punp drier. To me it's the same as a dishwasher. Something you don't think you'd need until you have it.

And once little people enter the equation, having a drier is a God's end. Modern driers are also gentler on the clothes than the hot air jets of yore.

As a European who currently lives in the US, washes and line dries his clothes, I don’t think mainlanders are missing much. It IS convenient but I’d rather extend the clothes lifespan.

I (American) kind of learned accidentally how much longer clothes last air drying, from drying work clothes and some of my child's clothes, and then expanding from there.

I kind of grew up with line drying, and then stopped, and then started again.

It is pretty remarkable how much longer clothes last with line drying. I only machine dry heavy items that take awhile to dry and/or benefit from it specifically in terms of fluffing up or wrinkling.

I'm tempted to get a heat pump dryer but I'm worried about the size of the ones that are available near me.

Dryers can be set to dry on a lower temperature. Sure it takes 30 minutes longer but clothes last a lot longer. Best of both worlds IMHO.

> What if you WANT to have a career or a job which is now done exclusively by AGI?

> If AGI takes my job as a software developer, my career is finished. I don't know what else to do.

Do you want to have a software developer career for the sake of having a software developer career (because you enjoy it), or are you worried about your livelihood?

It's what I've always been interested in doing, and it's how I make a living.

I don't want free money just handed out like UBI. That would be depressing. I also don't want retirement.

Many people don't want to be forced into early retirement.

"Single" is a stupid word to use as an antonym for "married", even if technically correct according to the dictionary.

On my Macbook Air, if I bring the screen brightness all the way down the screen appears to be completely off.

Ah, great, as if it wasn't enough that most of the offline world is out of sync with us night-owls.

> No custom feedback from real musicians who hear you play?

Of course people who learn at home on their own will, on average, be worse than people going out and playing with other musicians. That would likely be even more true if they bought a VHS tape with lessons, or book with a CD.

I’ve lived in scenarios where people saying either of these things would be a huge violation, and I’ve lived in scenarios where people saying either of these things would be natural.

Living in the latter scenario is a far better place, and nothing like, the former scenario.

100% agree! We had moved to a smaller community in New England and was eating an early dinner when we got a single knock on the door. Before we could get up, the UPS driver opened our door to place the packages inside (and out of the snow). He waved and welcomed us and then off we went. It was a bit odd, but then we realized this was a special place that we would come to love and we did.

I think it's a genuine concern as a landlord. Do you want to have a rotting corpse in your house/neighborhood just sitting there?

Well, you should be able to leave for a week without having to tell your neighbors all about it. It may be different for old weak people who are unlikely to just go to vacation all of a sudden.

While that might be the case, a 'landlord' can't just enter a house or apartment.