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It's the venting.
In the USA, dryers have massive exhaust vents to the outside of the room/building that take the hot wet away and leave hot dry behind.
In many other countries, dryers do not generally have external exhaust vents, and simply fill the room they are in with the hot wet, which may or may not be enough to actually remove the hot wet from the clothing depending on how well ventilated the room itself is.
for this reason 1) you generally can't leave the dryer open in winter without causing a draft and 2) sometimes when you're walking around outside in the US the world will suddenly smell of clean laundry because you're near someone's house and their dryer is running
And 3) Eventually your drier stops drying things so well and you have to hire somebody to bring a ladder up to the vent (either high up an exterior wall or on the literal roof) and clear out the accumulated lint and cruft blocking it
You ought to do this regularly even if the dryer efficiency remains the same, because dryer lint is fantastically competent at burning your damn house down if you let it catch fire.
I'm in Australia (no exhaust vents), and I've found that if your dryer starts making hot wet laundry, you first clean out the lint trap that you already know about and clean every time, and then you go looking for the second secret lint trap that nobody told you about and clean out the year's worth of lint in there that you were blissfully unaware of. The dryer will now mostly dry your laundry again, and give you either hot dry laundry or hot just-very-slightly-damp laundry.
I'm genuinely appalled that dryers outside the US are not vented to the outside world. That much moisture just...builds up in your house/apartment every time you use your dryer?? Does that not lend itself to mold growth over time?
Mine recondenses the water into a little tub that I empty into a sink after use. I could also get a plumber in to vent the water directly into the greywater but I prefer being able to have the dryer in a part of the room with no direct water system access.
That makes much more sense tbh. I was envisioning a steam room and the associated drywall moisture damage every time you do laundry, like "at that point I would just opt for a clothesline" lol.
(Which we do still use in the US, despite the popular conception that we all have dryers. Not as common as it once was, but I've lived several places where we used a clothesline bc we had a washer but no dryer.)
In Australia most people use clotheslines all the time, and even those of us who have dryers tend to only use them when the weather is too wet to make line drying practical. Electricity is expensive and sunlight is free. Can't speak for people living in city apartments and suchlike though.
Iβm in the uk and every dryer ive seen has either had a removable condenser or has been piped into the wall/grey water like derin said. Most people over here use a clothes line or horse.
In the USA, we call those (clothes/laundry) drying racks. There's a bit of variation depending on the brand advertising, but I've never seen them called a clothes horse.
I've only ever heard/seen "clotheshorse" used to refer to a particularly fashionable/fashion-oriented person, typically one with an extensive wardrobe.
They call people that because they are likening the people to the drying racks, acting like their purpose is to hang and display an absurd number of clothes on their bodies.
My guess is that it might be from an ad comparing a clotheshorse setup to a dryer or something, and the 3p refers to the running cost of a space heater. You need a room to be a reasonable temperature to air dry clothes, so if you live somewhere particularly cold then you need to heat the room.
I think itβs actually a heated airer. You plug it in and the rods heat up to dry the clothes faster. I had one in my old flat and it was life changing.
I'm in the UK and my dryer is a condenser (as described by derin). There's also a cheaper kind of dryer where you have to either plumb it in OR, supposedly, hang the hose out of a window.
I empty mine's tank and lint trap after every use. However, it does occasionally stop working and then I have to go around the back and clean it's grease trap. BUT I think that's a fairly niche issue.
ETA oh I am also aware of the second secret lint trap. Real bitch to clean out.
family gathering. playing monopoly. getting close to the end. 12 year old turns to 8 year old brother and says itβs time to become esteemed colleagues. i say what? he says esteemed colleagues. they merge their money and assets and beat me at monopoly
I would like to emphasize that I agree with all of these tags by the way. My post wasn't aiming to pin all of Europe's grotesque racism on the new elections.
A few weeks ago I was at a board game night with some of my old classmates from various mainland European countries. They started talking about how horrible Trump's treatment of immigrants is and how they're so glad to be in Europe where nothing like that is happening right now. I asked them what they thought about the fact that their own governments were complicit in turning the Mediterranean into a mass grave of asylum seekers, and some of them legitimately didn't even know and were surprised to hear that their own governments had enacted policies that caused the deaths of thousands of asylum seekers.
Even here in Iceland, almost nobody has been talking about the fact that some of the far right populist parties have legitimately been talking about wanting to establish detainment camps to keep asylum seekers in.
This post is a few months old now, and the bit about Iceland is now outdated, because AlΓΎingi (the Icelandic parliament) passed the bill approving the detention center for asylum seekers. It will be legal to handcuff and detain children there.
Never let anyone from Europe feed you the lie that racism and fascism are unique to North America in the 21st century.
I'm European. Europeans not knowing what is going on in the Mediterranean is willful ignorance. It's not a case of the government hiding stuff or propaganda.
The Italian news is always filled with stories about refugees dying at sea. No matter how they try to spin it and blame the migrants, if you see those boats and think that they don't need to be helped, you are the fascist.
It's pointless to share links here because you can watch any news programme or look at any newspaper in your (European) country and see what is happening. Those links are for making Americans feel better about their own racism and immigration problems.
itβs the way ao3 has its own canonical tags for like every single thing that is now officially banned on wattpadβs new policy update lmao this is why ao3 will always be superior
to be clear, the U.S. federal minimum wage in 1999 was $5.15/hour, so a worker who made the minimum wage could buy the items on that receipt with 41 minutes of work.
in 2026, the federal minumum wage is $7.25, so a worker who makes minimum wage would have to work 95 minutes--more than twice as long--to buy those same items.
Donald Trump desperately trying to initiate the Red Scare 2 but no one giving a fuck is hilarious to me. The GOP has already villainized and fearmongered about immigrants, transgender people, DEI hires, ANTIFA, etc. and introducing a new supervillain hiding amongst us just isnβt working. I wish there was a communism WAS the greatest threat to America.
During yesterdayβs speech he said something to the tune of βThe communists want to seize your house and give it to your neighbor.β which shows how out of touch he is, how advanced his dementia is and how the Red Scare tactics of the 1950s are not applicable to the 2020s because no one owns their house anymore and most of us would prefer our house being owned by our neighbor instead of our landlord.
The Red Scare tactics of the 1950s are sooooooooo outdated in todayβs world. Saying shit like βUnder communism, the government will assign you a job and you will not get to pick!β would make 85% of my generation be like βThat sounds awesome, Iβm so sick of AI job interviews, just got rejected for the job I applied for shoveling elephant shit at the zoo.β
βgrace put the vials in the centrifuge wrong!!β βthe centrifuge is unbalanced!!β βheβs doing it WRONGGGβ
first of all HES IN SPACE. heβs in a SPACESHIP in the TAU CETI SYSTEM. second if you think Eva Stratt would look at the choice of a regular centrifuge or a self balancing centrifuge and go βoh the self balancing centrifuge is too muchβ or whatever you had your eyes closed and ears sealed the entire time. HER ENTIRE SCHTICK WAS MAKING THE MISSION WORK. why would she allow a fault point in an unbalanced centrifuge if it was a factor she could influence?
the fact that SOME trans women and fems are enbyphobic and transmisandrist doesn't give ANYONE the right to misgender them, deadname them, or be otherwise transphobic/transmisogynistic.
i saw someone call a trans woman a "shemab" for holding those opinions, and that's not something we do here, folks!!! i won't tolerate that!!!
at the end of the day, trans women are our sisters and we should strive to be in community with them, as long as they show mutual respect. but name-calling and such behavior is NEVER acceptable.
No matter how many times a fellow trans or queer person is transphobic towards me, I will NEVER misgender them as βpaybackβ, and I wonβt let that shit slide around me
Going into the Project Hail Mary tag to discover that it's all yaoi of Grace and some random guy was kind of bewildering because first of all I'm pretty sure that guy wasn't even in the movie and second of all the crab is right there
when i was a kid i loved audiobooks (still do) and i always wondered why i had to βcheck outβ an audiobook online thru overdrive and latter libby for a limited time, since if they always had the digital copy of the audiobook there was nothing stopping them from just letting anyone have it, at any time, and for any length of time. i was a kid so assumed it was for some complicated reason that i didnt understand, instead of the uncomplicated and stupid as fuck reason that itβs like that so publishing companies can make money rofllll
Phantom, cradling it to his chest: This is a Ghost Core. A Ghost's Core is basically everything, the brain, heart, lungs, all the important bits, I guess you could say its the truest form a ghost can take, our 'bodies' are more physical projections to protect the core.
Flash: Oh so like Steven Universe?
Phantom, gives an annoyed sigh: You know what? Yeah, sure.
Flash: Knew it!
Phantom: Ghosts only revert into their cores when they're too weak to keep up their bodies, and need to heal by absorbing and generating ectoplasm, but this...this Ghost has been in their core a long time.
Batman, carefully: Do you know why?
Phantom, snarling: Because those ββββββ°ββ stripped away any ectoplasm they managed to build! They used them as a powersource, everytime they gathered ecto, those cultists would steal it! So they can't reform, and-and now they're struggling to generate any ecto at all. *cups the core gently*
Batman: Check the cultists thoroughly, I want to make sure they're not abusing any more cores. If you find more, carefully bring them to Phantom, this is his jurisdiction.
Superman: Can they be healed?
Phantom: Yes, but they need to stay in an ectoplasm rich environment until natural ectoplasm can get them generating their own again. I need to take them to the Realms.
Superman: We'll find any more if they have them, don't worry.
Phantom: Thanks. Sorry for getting angry.
Superman, patting Phantom's shoulder: Don't worry, I get it
What Danny said:
*Those pathetic, degenerate, horrendous CREATURES! I'll tear them limb from limb before severing their souls from their bodies and giving them to the hellhounds as toys!
This beggs an important question. Are all ghost cores spheres? Or maybe is flash not so far off?
Could the witchy beliefs in crystals with power be based off of an old practice of ghost whitch symbiosis? The whitch powers the core with ambient ecto/power in areas or whatnot and the core uses minor power to protect their keeper?
Could more powerful magic keepers manifest the ghost by powering it, and most just happen to be ghost animals trapped in the living realm. Making the basis for the concept of familiars.
Or maybe because its being fed by magic and not ectoplasm the ghosts can't form like they used to. Trapping them in a weaker animal or creature like form while in the living realm.
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Ok what if Phantom gets trapped in his core after a bad reveal/GIW escape. Only his core is found and sold around the magic markets before winding up in the hands of Zatana / John / the house of mystery.
But because he is more powerful even with the wrong sort of power. Say they pour ice or death magic into him. Danny can still form in his 'little baby man' form. So the entire time he's emerged its just JL Dark trying to figure out what the hell they have and why its so sentient for a familiar.
Meanwhile the realms have started/threatened war on the world if they don't get their king back. All while lil baby man is being a sweet Lil familiar getting the good treats and going eldritch when ppl look too long at 'his ppl'. Mainly Billy and Zatana.
Phantom, cradling it to his chest: This is a Ghost Core. A Ghost's Core is basically everything, the brain, heart, lungs, all the important bits, I guess you could say its the truest form a ghost can take, our 'bodies' are more physical projections to protect the core.
Flash: Oh so like Steven Universe?
Phantom, gives an annoyed sigh: You know what? Yeah, sure.
Flash: Knew it!
Phantom: Ghosts only revert into their cores when they're too weak to keep up their bodies, and need to heal by absorbing and generating ectoplasm, but this...this Ghost has been in their core a long time.
Batman, carefully: Do you know why?
Phantom, snarling: Because those ββββββ°ββ stripped away any ectoplasm they managed to build! They used them as a powersource, everytime they gathered ecto, those cultists would steal it! So they can't reform, and-and now they're struggling to generate any ecto at all. *cups the core gently*
Batman: Check the cultists thoroughly, I want to make sure they're not abusing any more cores. If you find more, carefully bring them to Phantom, this is his jurisdiction.
Superman: Can they be healed?
Phantom: Yes, but they need to stay in an ectoplasm rich environment until natural ectoplasm can get them generating their own again. I need to take them to the Realms.
Superman: We'll find any more if they have them, don't worry.
Phantom: Thanks. Sorry for getting angry.
Superman, patting Phantom's shoulder: Don't worry, I get it
What Danny said:
*Those pathetic, degenerate, horrendous CREATURES! I'll tear them limb from limb before severing their souls from their bodies and giving them to the hellhounds as toys!
Phantom, cradling it to his chest: This is a Ghost Core. A Ghost's Core is basically everything, the brain, heart, lungs, all the important bits, I guess you could say its the truest form a ghost can take, our 'bodies' are more physical projections to protect the core.
Flash: Oh so like Steven Universe?
Phantom, gives an annoyed sigh: You know what? Yeah, sure.
Flash: Knew it!
Phantom: Ghosts only revert into their cores when they're too weak to keep up their bodies, and need to heal by absorbing and generating ectoplasm, but this...this Ghost has been in their core a long time.
Batman, carefully: Do you know why?
Phantom, snarling: Because those ββββββ°ββ stripped away any ectoplasm they managed to build! They used them as a powersource, everytime they gathered ecto, those cultists would steal it! So they can't reform, and-and now they're struggling to generate any ecto at all. *cups the core gently*
Batman: Check the cultists thoroughly, I want to make sure they're not abusing any more cores. If you find more, carefully bring them to Phantom, this is his jurisdiction.
Superman: Can they be healed?
Phantom: Yes, but they need to stay in an ectoplasm rich environment until natural ectoplasm can get them generating their own again. I need to take them to the Realms.
Superman: We'll find any more if they have them, don't worry.
Phantom: Thanks. Sorry for getting angry.
Superman, patting Phantom's shoulder: Don't worry, I get it
What Danny said:
*Those pathetic, degenerate, horrendous CREATURES! I'll tear them limb from limb before severing their souls from their bodies and giving them to the hellhounds as toys!
My most diagnosable take is that honestly. As much as people in social justicey spaces talk about exercising your empathy ... there's also value in being able to turn it off so you're not extremely susceptible to emotional manipulation. Sometimes you have to be able to recognize "oh, this is bullshit propaganda trying to tug at my heartstrings" and stop giving a fuck about like. Colonizer feelings or whatever. Vibes can't override your principles
Like idk being niceys is a good start but your politics can't begin and end with π kindness π or you're gonna get taken advantage of. The worst people on earth will be like "but what if........ I have a sob story about it π₯Ί" & you Need to be able to tell them to Fuck Completely Off
There's a certain strain of ... Everyone Is Valid πΈ style pseudo leftism that ime invariably caters to whoever throws the biggest tantrum. And this is a Problem interpersonally & it's especially bad if you let these people dictate your opinions. Not everyone is valid some of you are racist
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