Capitalism does to products what it does to everything else: the wealth gap, here visible in quality and price tag.
The midrange products are kinda gone or turned to shit. We now have a lot of shitty cheap stuff (getting less cheap by the day in many cases) and very high end quality stuff, unaffordable by most.
On top of that, all the crap technology now allows like subscriptions to be able to use the hardware we paid for are not prevalent.
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I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore! Speech from Network (1976)
I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar...YouTube
Apparently some F16s are late on their way to Ukraine?
Have they tried the afterburner? Might help.
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@geekylou :transgender_flag: that happened to me in the Caribbean last month (minus the afterburner. A330s don’t have those)
Bit of a nuisance.
So, out of interest (I drive a Nissan Leaf, which is in many ways my ideal car, but they’re EOL), what car is available today that satisfies the following:
Battery EV
Not an iPad/SUV crossover
Hatchback with decent boot space (previous comment about not an SUV still applies)
Intelligent cruise control with lane following
If Nissan updated the Leaf to have CCS2 and an actively cooled battery, it would be just perfect IMO, but instead they scrapped it and replaced it with the Ariya, which is an SUV/iPad crossover and they broke one of the Leaf’s best features (e-pedal) in the process too.
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Dear Boeing,
I travel on your planes quite a bit. Please stop making them like they're Teslas.
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Don't think so. The ergonomic engineering of controls in cars is one of those things that looks seemless, but is the result of lots of design expertise. The controls themselves are quite expensive because they have to work reliably in temperature and environmental extremes. Sticking an iPad on the dashboard is relatively inexpensive. It is also a safety nightmare, but hey its so cool 😎.
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I reckon touch-only is cheaper nowadays. Touchscreens are cheap commodity items, note that the CPU behind them is nearly always underpowered and the UI poor, the assembly cost is less than lots of buttons, and it's identical for all versions regardless of features.
Hyundai's design team have stated that they plan to stick with buttons. But they don't really have a Leaf-sized hatchback (maybe Ionic 5, but I think it's bigger, and the looks will be marmite)
Conversation with the wife now about why the angry Christian types don’t froth about Dan Simmons’ Hyperion/Endymion series.
I mean, it’s literally about the second coming of Christ, sent by god to die a horrible death so that humanity can be redeemed, only god is us, if we heed the message, sending said sacrifice back through time, and she’s a teenage girl because apparently the carpenter from Nazareth had one job (apart from the carpentry gig), which he fucked up, so she’s sent to do it properly, and it’s the Catholic Church which tortures her to death this time round.
Anyway, the conclusion was that they aren’t upset because the books are longer than their attention spans.
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Welcome, once again, to, “I see most Reddit mods are frustrated wannabe global dictator arseholes” day.
Wasn’t even me this time. I’m annoyed on behalf of someone else who fell foul of “posted with vowels on the first Tuesday of the year, which IS CLEARLY against subreddit rule 53 a subsection 5 clause z (revised). WILL YOU PEOPLE JUST READ THE RULES?”
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After taking a few hours off in deference to the guilty verdict in the trial of the murderers of Briana Ghey, the UK press are once again back at it, going on about how trans women need to be banned from All The Things.
This, presumably, informed last night’s nightmare from which I woke in a pool of sweat in which I was in the process of being beaten to death by TERFs on a train going from London to Cambridge in a near future UK.
Lovely.
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Spammer just told me that I had a wonderful personality.
No I fucking do not.
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Although I have bsky integration, this post is fediverse only.
Yesterday they were being weird about mayonnaise. Today it’s the ellipsis.
I think they might need an intervention, guys.
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Randomly listening to Muse, and their weird conspiracy thing about how the "powers that be" want your "compliance".
And I find myself wondering, "comply with what?"
And honestly, the only thing I can think of is "paying taxes".
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Fell badly from my SUP yesterday. Initial tenderness in left knee which was bent at an awkward angle as I fell. Managed to paddle several more kilometres.
Later it swelled up and became agonising. Barely slept last night with the pain. Joint remains stable and able to bear load though. Got a compression bandage today. It’s helping massively.
Dr Google suggests that this is a grade 1 MCL tear. Mild, as the joint still retains full function. It just hurts like a fucker.
Apparently it should heal in 1 to 3 weeks. I’m hoping for 1.
@Jack I mean, this took almost none of my body weight laterally. I was almost in freewill at the time.
And it fucked it.
That's wank, that is. Stupid quadruped joint bodged into a bipedal leg and rotated 90 degrees.
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@antranigv Hehe. Like gallons, gah.
SI is superior in every possible way. It hurts to hear people argue for anything else at this point:(
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I understand the words.
I'm not sure I understand them put together in this order.
I'm not sure I want to.
I think I'm leaving the mayo alone for today.
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The bit that looks like sand wasn't; the tide was in.
But it got uncomfortably shallow at points.
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Oh wow! The new Friendica release now has a list of abuse reports people have submitted to my server.
And there aren't many, but the few that have been submitted are from people who so truly, madly, deeply, need to FUCK RIGHT OFF.
Please clear your browser cache or just hit STRG+F5 😀
Normaly, when you switch to a new Release of friendica, the Browser chache gets purged.
But to a Bug, that was fixed shortly after the release, it won´t get get purged and you have to do it manually -.-
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@anubis2814 As others have said, you need to flush the caches. That worked in Safari.
If you have an iOS Home Screen bookmark, it needs deleting and recreating.
LGBT conversion therapy (yes, including trans people) is now illegal in Portugal.
Penalties of people found guilty of trying to change sexual orientation or gender identity: up to 3 years in prison and, if the victim was a minor, a ban on working with minors for between 2 and 20 years.
Up yours, TERF island.
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Fellow trans women site owners: that HOA guy with the blocklist that blocks Nazis and trans women, but mostly trans women, is back on another instance. Just got the shock of my life when he showed up in my feed. It appears that his new personal instance is h-i.social.
You may wish to preemptively defederate for your own protection.
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Can we get heterosexual women some sort of support?
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I’m all for personal hygiene and healthy habits. But it’s dead easy to stress someone out about the topic. Probably hit a nerve there I’m guessing.
Maybe a carrot would be good? Some collective light peer pressure that “other people like fresh people, not rank people”.
I mean it goes for everyone and all social situations when others are close. Stinky bad is a general thing. Don’t want to sit next to you if you stink.
It has come to my attention that some people think they need 5 gigabit fibre internet.
I am delighted to inform them that they do not. Stop wasting your money on bandwidth you can’t even fucking use, muppets.
You see your 4K smart TV what streams Netflix in Dolby ear destroyer 4K HDR supervision? It’s got a 100 megabit Ethernet port on it. Bet you.
You don’t fucking need 5 gigabits. Nobody does unless they’re running fucking Amazon from their front room or something.
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@Llwynog I’ve done fan stop to driving away in my car (via passport control) at Faro with RyanAir in 4 minutes.
I can’t imagine the “full service” guys coming close to that.
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@Chris Northwood The treatment for it is hilarious. Unlike motion sickness, it is not an inner ear/visual imbalance. Anti emetics don't work. It's neurological.
Sitting in a car in the back seat and reading a book while someone drives works.
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This last couple of weeks was the first time I have flown on “full service” airlines for years, after being a RyanAir frequent flyer.
Now say what you like about RyanAir, they understood the core brief of “airline”, which is “fly people places you say you’re going to more or less when you say you’re going to”.
The “full service” guys include a lot in the very high prices they charge, but it seems what they don’t include is what you actually want: a plane that goes where it says when it says.
I am … very disappointed in all of you. You know who you are. Go and sit in the corner and think about what you’ve done.
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As I am in the Caribbean, I have discovered that there is quite a difference in what things cost. Take apple pies, for example: in Antigua an apple pie costs 9 eastern Caribbean dollars. In St Lucia, it’s 12. In Grenada, 10.
These are the pie rates of the Caribbean.
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@joshie 🏳️🌈 “Oh no, people are realising that we are lying to them” - and the solution is “stop them being able to find out” rather than “stop lying”.
Once the bag is back in my possession tomorrow, I will be filling in Virgin’s feedback form. My answer will be detailed.
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