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blandfordforever ,

Getting married and having kids is not the ultimate goal in life.
Frankly, the planet already has more humans than it needs.

blandfordforever ,

Without luxury and communism, you just get fully automated gay space.

blandfordforever ,

Haha. I was trying to make the joke without actually being offensive.

I didn't use that word, I just made you think it.

blandfordforever ,

Bourxjeauxaseaux

blandfordforever ,

I think the new version of net metering pays homeowners less than it did previously, for power that they feed into the grid, disincentivizing rooftop solar.

blandfordforever ,

Adam's target audience must be teenagers. That was hard to watch.

blandfordforever ,

You're a downright big dang old dumb idiot if ya darned done don't not be thinkin they dont unhave not the ability to not had that capacity.

blandfordforever ,

The concept of being fed up with water is so alien to me. Water doesn't have some powerful, delicious flavor but the sensation of drinking water is almost always one of satisfying refreshment.

How can you be irritated by water?
"Damn it, this is only exactly what my body needs!"

blandfordforever ,

Yeah but it would be all scattered around and stuff. Some horrible poor person might try to pick some of it up. We certainly wouldn't want that.

blandfordforever ,

No, Sodium like the PlayStation game Sodium.

blandfordforever ,

Bake 'em away, toys!

blandfordforever ,

The Robin Williams movie "toys" is finally becoming a reality

blandfordforever ,

I don't really know how the different economic classes are defined. It seems like everyone who isn't either wealthy or homeless likes to believe that they're middle or upper-middle class. I'd argue that if you can't afford a home, you're low or lower-middle class.

This is not meant to be a judgement against people who can't afford homes. If anything, I'm just pointing out the horrible income inequality and how the "vanishing middle class" has indeed vanished, to a large extent.

blandfordforever ,

Roaming happens when you connect to a different cell network than the one you have a contract with, not when your location data says you are in certain places.

blandfordforever ,

In other news, the WPLG news team has been arrested for resisting arrest.

blandfordforever ,

But in this case, EV's are neither perfect nor good. They're "better" but they're still unsustainable.

blandfordforever ,

If i recall correctly, the stock to flow model predicts that this cycle should peak in late 2025.

blandfordforever ,

I hadn't realized Lemmy was so anti-bitcoin.

Anyway, bitcoin etf's are a new thing and money is pouring in. Only time will tell, but with all the etf money and the impending halfing, the future looks bright.

Is bitcoin volatile? Undoubtedly.

Buy during the dispair period.

blandfordforever ,

Ooh, better go vegan then.

blandfordforever ,

@remindme 545 days

blandfordforever ,

Honestly, if they're actually vegan, then I have a lot of respect for them.

As it stands, I think that its more likely that they're just an annoying, virtue signaling turd.

blandfordforever ,

What I took from this post is that I have a lot to learn about encoding.

blandfordforever ,

You know full well that they did some statistical analysis and determined the minimum possible amount of pasta that they could try to put in that box, taking into account variations in their machinery and moisture content.

blandfordforever ,

Just so that I'm understanding correctly, you're saying a company that sells tens of billions of dollars of pasta per year is not interested in saving a penny ot a fraction of a penny per box?

Do you think anyone is going to win a class action lawsuit against a pasta company that 1-5% of the time puts just barely too little pasta in the box. You think we're going to have that kind of righteous justice? Haha. Do you think people would even be that surprised given that, as you say, "we're talking about one of the cheapest brands of commodity pasta here." No, if this was found to be true, whatever regulatory agency would just give them a warning.

It's not about being evil, is about the way capitalism works. If they're putting more product in the box than they have to, they're fools.

And you don't "precisely calibrate the machinery." You just figure out what the variations are and you set it to the minimum. If you're supposed to have something like 9-11 oz of pasta in your box and you know that your machine will give you whatever you set it to, +/- 0.2 oz of pasta, 99% of the time, you set your machine to 9.2 or 9.3 oz. You don't set it to 10 oz.

blandfordforever ,

I'm not angry and I don't think this is a global conspiracy. I just believe that large companies are motivated to cut costs wherever they can.

Have you heard of pink slime? Its a product of the beef industry. They heat and centrifuge "waste trimmings" to get a little bit of additional gooey fatty animal product and then add it to ground beef. It's pretty gross and it adds only a miniscule amount to the profit margin.

Large companies do everything they can to make as much money as possible.

blandfordforever ,

A. PROFESSIONAL. GOAT. GETTER.

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