skuzz

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[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 12 hours ago

GM also tends to build in Canada and Mexico for many of their product lines while claiming to be "American" - to say nothing for their terrible build quality and non-understanding of electricity.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Collectively protest the most American way possible. Stop buying anything but the essentials. Don't cut out life enjoyment, but make sure it's for as few dollars as possible. This fucks with the supply chains and their precious stocks.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago

Better-compressed in saved Mbytes, but comparing images, that compression somehow looks more...fake. Hard to describe how.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

I bet they are!

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

Single-stream is great from an effort perspective, if you believe the lies, but much is just diverted to the landfill or plastic bundled up in bales for some magic future when it might be recyclable. As others mentioned though, aluminum (and glass) for the win.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Serious question: How do you go about sitting for 2 days straight without going mad? Obviously you can get up and walk around, but it doesn't seem like the most comfortable way to travel. (Although still, probably more comfortable than an airplane for that duration.)

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago

She's useless, she should have gone into trashy reality TV instead of governance.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago

We should have never voted to allow sports betting in the first place, back in 2019. It is a stupid thing that just prays on the weak and easily-addicted right up there with all the games in the app stores these days.

It narrowly passed (in 2019). It should not have. We don't always get them all right.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago

Oh man, seriously, regulations are the only thing keeping people safe or it would be junk fees all the way down. Take wireless phone service in the US right now, the main carriers say you have a rate plan of x, but then they tack on all the taxes and fees they have to pay and pass them onto you, saying they're taxes you have to pay. The price also then varies depending on where you live, in some places the "taxes and fees" can add $15-20/month to a single phone line. Nowhere near the advertised price.

Now, once or twice a year, they also add on new made up "fees" whenever their quarters aren't looking as profitable as they expect, so you'll see another $5/month or $7/month charge tacked on.

Then they don't let you pay your bill with a credit card if you want an "autopay discount" - a discount that used to exist for carriers to encourage people to stop using paper billing.

More and more people are switching to paper billing and mailing in checks just to make those companies have to waste more money/resources for being so dickish.

If they were regulated, they'd be forced to just have a flat price, you could pay with any money, and they'd still be profitable, and the bill would be less confusing.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A lot of that could very well be French attitude versus American attitude and the doctors offices going, "yeah, no, we're not accepting new patients." Accept 5 new French patients 2 minutes later. Especially given the American attitude given off in the quotes in the article are classic entitled behavior. "You mean you can't make a Martini if it isn't on the menu!??!!"

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago

No, no, that's lemmy users. /s

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