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Most people are single issue voters and demographics don't change that. Race/sexuality/gender does not imply some deep overarching ideological alignment to the degree that people treat those as. It's just some single issues and/or social group tribalism and then outside of that, they're often all about themselves and everyone else is lazy/entitled/whatever. Spend enough years regularly doing political/community/social outreach/work, town halls, etc. Things that put you regularly in contact with people in need or saying they have unmet needs and listening to them. Also spend enough time in art communities. Surface level people may sound like they're really about some humanistic standard. Doesn't take long until you unravel to find someone that's just really about getting there's

Watch out of people that make aesthetics, popularity, a major part of the their personality and how they judge people. Social justice as top care on their socials and verbally, but racist as hell in practice with how they date and treat people and talk behind their social group members backs. Social justice peacocking but in practice finds poor people uncultured and disgusting before ever talking to them. If they dress the part, they're an artist. If they're an artist that wears worn down clothing, they're uncultured and likely problematic.

Away from that, I don't know anyone that brags about buying a knife set that's a fundamentally good cook. Someone getting started trying to get good may get one but they usually want to get rid of it not long after trying to fundamentally do well in a kitchen. Social status home cooks may know a small set of recipes but just change the size of their pots and pans and they fall apart. They can't scale with portions and don't know ingredients independent of a complete dish. Knife blocks, people regularly just drop a knife in the slot and dull their knives. Knife blocks also have so many redundant knives where they're like 1cm different in size. Same with pan/pot sets. Also non stick stuff. Have like one for fish and eggs and a silicon spatula to flip. It'll last a super long time. A non stick pot to boil noodles in, fresh noodles are in and out. Dried noodles don't even take that long. If you're cooking some chunky noodles and you can't manage stirring it occasionally for 10 minutes, come on. Other stuff, learn temp control and your ingredients. Stop burning stuff. It's practice. And when you mess up, learn to clean your encrusted pans. You'll get there

Gardening. Develop and maintain your soil. Your aesthetics won't make up for poorly maintained soil. And if you're starting with rocky dead clay, no till gardening doesn't apply to you yet. You can till at least once here to quickly deal with compaction and introduce life to your soil. If it's your first year, be patient and don't be shaming people. At least make it a few years instead of being a first year asshole and then quitting because gardening takes a lot of maintenance. A lot of repetitive busy work

Decor, if you newly own the place, consider how old the pipes, insulation, electrical is. You may want to handle that before piling in new furniture, decorations, painting walls. Also what happened to the whole environmentalism stuff. In my experience people that place a major emphasis on decorations to express their individuality and/or aesthetics are often vocal environmentalist but mostly fail because of their need to show off.

Aesthetics hide a lot of mediocrity. Don't be fooled by aesthetics