FabledAepitaph

joined 1 year ago
[–] FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

No good reason to support a monopoly. Sure, I know we can't help some monopolies (grocery stores, internet service, etc.), but this is an entertainment thing.

There are unlimited ways to be entertained nowadays and YouTube is not a necessity. Let's see how well YouTube gets by if we all stop watching for fun, and instead only watch when we have to, such as when we're trying to learn how to fix a car the one time a year we need it.

[–] FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I will continue to never give Nintendo any of my money on account of their litigiousness.

[–] FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Yeah, 100% the cop's fault. If a person feels it's better to shoot an innocent bystander in the head than risk being stabbed, then they're in the wrong line of work. Get out and let someone with better judgement have a go.

[–] FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

How else will the cops plant drugs in your car if you don't roll your windows down? Duh

[–] FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I think anybody who is sex trafficked for a year should legally get a freebie. Anybody who is willing to abuse or sex traffic another human being should just be at peace with the possibility of being ended by their victims. Good thing I don't make the laws, I guess?

[–] FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Help me build my echo chamber."

[–] FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Its a step in the right direction. They've gone from having hundreds or thousands of AI reviews to having one or two real reviews for the same price. In theory, anyways.

[–] FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Agreed. Not everybody can or wants to own a home even with a 25k bonus. Some people want the freedom to move around and explore without being bound for any more than a monthly or yearly term.

The solution is to pump up availability and let the prices correct themselves. Bind pay CEO as a multiple of their employee wages, and address economic shenanigans like stock buybacks and tax loopholes so that people end up with a larger piece of the pie--that way people can do what they want instead of being forced into one option or another.

[–] FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I thought Google was so cool around 2004. Now I can't wait for them to become irrelevant. I need to stop using "googling" as a verb...

[–] FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

One of the fundamental principals of the RCRA is that dilution is not an allowable solution to pollution. Otherwise, you could just say that any amount of pollution is below applicable concentrations after it mixed into the oceans, atmosphere, whatever. And any company could emit as much as they wanted as long as they diluted it. Oil spills could simply be left alone because they'd eventually distribute throughout the earth.

Concentrations must be considered as they occur in their process streams. The process stream must meet certain requirements first and foremost, and it must be further checked to see if that could significantly affect the air or water in which it is emitted, just to make sure its good to go since water flow, temperature, and wildlife migration change throughout the year. The same is true for air emissions as well.

[–] FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Forgotten benefits of gasoline: you can fix it yourself and you're not locked into a shiny new consumerist downward spiral that demands you buy a new vehicle every ten years when the car can't go 200 miles in a single charge anymore? And the next guy who gets the battery powered vehicle is just worse off than you were, as the poorer along us suffer even worse condition vehicles and the risk of massive expenses in the way of new battery failure. Why is nobody concerned with the fact that batteries are going to lock us into excess and unavoidable consumerism as they degrade? Engines -might- fail, but batteries -will- fail.

List one battery powered device that isn't basically disposable.

 

I've found myself looking for a really good can opener. I purchased my last one, a KitchenAid, from Target and I've been disappointed in it the whole time. Sometimes it doesn't puncture the lid right, and it feels like it got rusty kinda fast--not at all what I want out of a utensil I hoped would last for a decade or more (who wants to keep buying can openers? lol).

I'm looking for a manual handheld can opener. I've always had the type that opens from the top, but a little bit of Googling shows that there are types that open from the side. I'm in the USA if that matters!

What does Lemmy think?

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