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NoneYa , in Combat

And the theme song wouldn’t change.

CptEnder , in E-e-eat the rich?

Imagine the last thing you see is this, Gundam posing over your body yelling “Nani?!!!”

CptEnder , in E-e-eat the rich?

And the menus full tonight boys!

LastJudgement , in mods finally doing the holy work ❤️

based

Yurgenst , in Real

Sure it will work forever, but it also never really worked right in the first place. Those are definitely the fridges where one section freezes and other areas are almost room temp

hobowillie ,

People also have survivorship bias with these things. Sure your refrigerator might have lasted forever but quite a few others did not. There is a reason why appliance repair places existed and were much more common than today.

Voyajer ,
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They’ve also gotten more complex over time, increasing difficulty of repair.

Peppycito ,

That’s to increase perceived obsolescence, where it still works okay but the bells and whistles broke. Also why they put pretty colorful thread on fancy truck seats. Your ass wears it off and makes an $80k truck look ratty.

RecluseRamble ,

Right but often unnecessarily so. Nobody asked for “smart” fridges or washing machines.

frunch ,

Exactly this!! The function of appliances hasn’t changed hardly at all since their inception: washers wash, dryers dry, refrigerators cool, ovens/stoves heat. No “smart” capabilities necessary, or at least nothing that simple mechanical controls and switches couldn’t handle.

booly ,

Plus they’re cheaper, relative to repair professionals’ labor.

If a new refrigerator costs the same as 100 hours of skilled labor, then a 10 hour repair job (plus parts that cost the same as 1/10 of a refrigerator) will be economically feasible.

But if a new fridge costs the same as 20 hours of skilled labor, and the more complex parts come in more expensive assemblies, then there’s gonna be more jobs don’t pass a cost benefit threshold. As a category, refrigerator repair becomes unfeasible, and then nobody gets skilled in that field.

ChapulinColorado ,

While that is true, items are purposely made unrepairable now. You don’t have right to repair movements because John Deere and Apple devices are so much more complex to repair for common failure points. You have those movements emerging because companies make it extremely difficult in the name of profit or style. With equally skilled (and due to the internet more informed) and capable repair personnel not being able to even partake in the process.

umbrella ,
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yeah thats because they are made intentionally uneconomical and difficult to repair now

pyre ,

people underestimate how useful and frequently necessary icepicks used to be.

fmstrat ,

I bet there is a Technology Connections video on this.

Xey ,

If I remember correctly there is.

Edit: youtu.be/8PTjPzw9VhY?si=lZBGgrdze8s2NXfN

uis ,

There is no problem in sticking second compressor wirhout greatly reducing fridge lifespan.

Vespair , in Uh oh

Fuck Duolingo and any other company that thinks it’s okay to comment all over social media. If you aren’t paying those people sponsorship deals to promote your brand, it should be illegal to hijack their page with your product.

Shit is disgusting and there is literally no worse offender of this loophole than Duolingo.

I recommend any time you see them in the wild telling them how disgusting it is that they think they can put up their billboards in other people’s lawns.

Fuck that bird. Don’t even support their entirely manufactured meme status. Just give them zero fucking attention

dingus ,

Bro I get company shills exist, but that’s a big level of paranoia right there.

I swear, some people on the internet act as if you even mention a company name, that you’re some sort of paid corporate shill. No, man, sometimes I just talk about every day things in my life lol.

Vespair ,

I’m not saying OP is a shill, I’m saying that Duolingo manufactured the “Duo is coming to get you” meme intentionally, and people are happy to be stooges so happily accepted it. I don’t think OP has any affiliation to Duolingo, but they’re still normalizing their stupid trend so they can continue to leave meme comments on individual pages and get free advertising. It sucks.

cm0002 ,

Please show the court on this stuffed bird where Duolingo hurt you

pancakes ,
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^1^In this context stuffed bird refers to a Thanksgiving turkey.

arudesalad ,

Every brand does this. Duolingo has just been one of the most successful

Vespair ,

Yes, I’m aware of that, but ubiquity doesn’t make it okay, and my ire for Duolingo is specifically because they have been the most successful exploiter of this circumstance

null ,

If you aren’t paying those people sponsorship deals to promote your brand, it should be illegal to hijack their page with your product.

Huh? Just don’t follow them…

Vespair ,

That’s not what I mean. What I mean is that Duolingo frequently comments on individual user posts on tiktok, which tiktok raises as a high-visibility comment because Duolingo’s size makes the algorithm think it’s quality content. This means that Duolingo isn’t just advertising on their own tiktok page, obviously that would be fine, it means that they get to piggyback on viral content from completely unaffiliated users massively spreading their brand while providing no compensation of any kind to the creator of those viral videos. It wouldn’t be okay for somebody to run an ad before your content without your consent (we aren’t talking about the ads you consented to run by tiktok/youtube/whoever), so it shouldn’t be okay to use the comments as free advertising space too.

kautau ,

TikTok

I think you should take it up with them. I hear they’re super ethical and give a shit about what their algorithms do to people in the interest of farming data and profit

Vespair ,

And for that reason we should turn a blind eye to any and all other broaches of ethics?

kautau ,

No, you should decide with your wallet, which is not to pay Duolingo, and decide with your choice of social media, which is not to use TikTok, and most importantly, you should petition your representatives and vote accordingly. What TikTok and Duolingo are doing is morally shitty, but it’s basic late stage capitalism, and excepting the nations that are actively fighting against the shittiness of using and selling user data, it’s not illegal

zarkanian ,
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Can’t you just block Duolingo?

Vespair ,

Yes, and I have. This solves me the personal grief of being reminded of their bad practices but does nothing to actually solve the problem. Not that I think “awareness” is a great or in anyway meaningful solve, but if talking about the issue leads to a few other people also blocking Duolingo then at least I won’t feel like I am forced to merely accept the situation as is with no protest.

Grail ,
Noite_Etion , in No matter what I do before I die, I will not have a gravestone this cool.
@Noite_Etion@lemmy.world avatar

How did they die?

Car accident.

altima_neo ,
@altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

Nah.

Weed accident. Hotboxed to death.

rbos , in Out came the sun
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Bingo: “I’m stuck in the raaailing!”

aeronmelon ,

“It happened again.”

AWittyUsername , in Benny 😍😍😍

Sounds like he’s speaking from experience of both scenarios.

nifty , in E-e-eat the rich?
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nifty , in mods finally doing the holy work ❤️
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Haha wow what a troll mod

MrJameGumb , in As advertised
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HRDS_654 , in Benny 😍😍😍

“… Maybe you steal her underwear a couple times…” No Ben. No we don’t.

Regardless of it being the fake, the fact that so many (including me) thought it was real speaks volumes.

xenoclast ,

"It’s funny because it’s ‘relatable’ "

HRDS_654 ,

I don’t know about relatable, but it does speak to Ben’s personality that so many people thought this was real.

xenoclast ,

Relatable… relative… his sister…

LapGoat ,
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www.smbc-comics.com/comic/aaaah

fuck ben shapino but also this is relevant

Amir ,
@Amir@lemmy.ml avatar

Tbh that’s right wing rhetoric. “It doesn’t matter that it’s factually false, it’s enough that it could be true”

HRDS_654 ,

It’s really not that deep.

HubertManne , in Apple

oh yeah. this is where they anounced their new file cache system called dumpster.

bookcrawler , in This is ground control to Major Dumb...

without a rocket as a rocket

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