Definitely not 100% more electricity assuming you’re handwashing with hot water and have an electric water heater. If you’re on a gas water heater, then you’re burning more gas to wash your dishes. You’re also using way more soap than if you used powder or liquid detergent in your dishwasher. And no matter how you slice it, using your dishwasher is significantly more passive as you can run it, go to bed, wake up, and unload it. You washed your dishes in your sleep.

I agree with you that it all comes down to preference, but it’s downright silly to believe that running your dishwasher is an “extra step” lol. Just load it properly (not too much stuff and face soiled sides down and toward the center), run hot water to your faucet before running so that the initial rinse cycle is rinsing with hot water, put some detergent (not pods) in the detergent door but probably only like half full, close the detergent door, put like a teaspoon extra outside of the detergent door, and just run it on normal or medium or whatever your dishwasher says that seems standard. Try it tonight. But check the filter at the bottom and clean it out first. If you have water spots on your glasses when it’s done running, you probably have hard water. You can either install a water softener which would be great for your showers and your laundry too, or you can just buy jetdry or some other rinse aid which will chemically soften the water in your dishwasher. Or your water spots may be from putting too much detergent in. You really don’t need to fill that little cup. Filling it is for running a very full dishwasher with very stubborn, caked on shit.

It’s your preference. Maybe you like spending 20 minutes handwashing. I don’t. I’d rather load dishes as they get dirty to keep it all from piling up around the sink. I prefer to use less electricity, less water, less soap, and less of my time.

Sorry for my passionate defense of dishwashers. I’m a water chemist who has been working in power plants for over ten years and I’m passionate about this sort of thing. I’m a true dull man.

I think you mean “doldrums” here. Noun, a state or period of inactivity, stagnation, or depression.

This. Conservatives have poor media literacy. They don’t understand that they’re the punchline in stuff like that. They miss the point of stuff like RoboCop and Starship Troopers and unironically like those movies for the action and don’t even recognize the social commentary. They watched Team America and guffawed into their 24 packs of light beer at every shallow joke without recognizing that the jokes were intentionally shallow to point out what an idiot would think is a good joke. It’s like the TV show in Idiocracy. The real joke is below the surface.