That was one of my objections to replacing kitchen appliances for all too long. I’m not even going to consider all the same brand. But they’ve added enough “styling elements” that it’s tougher to fill a kitchen with similar appliances from different manufacturers

The problem is it’s not really people’s choice. Companies have gotten very good at disguising quality tradoffs and marketing has got very good at muddying the waters.

Since this is about tools, I’ll bring up Craftsman as an example. For many years, it was a quality brand accessible to homeowners. But as they changed to be cheaper they still marketed themselves as a quality brand and they seemed like the same price. It was only after the brand value was destroyed, that it became clear how “cheap” the tools had become and people were able to make a legitimate decision to move on

I hope so. It seems like she deserves at least that for the way they acted. If nothing else works to restore law, justice, morality, maybe enough large judgements will hurt their budgets enough to change things

They really need to embrace tourism more. Instead of being known for being exploited, uneducated, dying young, making the worst choices for themselves, toxic water and landfills, mountaintop removal, get their shit together and be a huge attraction for the beauty of their remaining mountains. There are tens of millions of people within driving distance: they need to ask themselves why we’re not clamoring To vacation there, to spend our money in their state

Can you really not think of anything not included in quarterly profit-taking? Long term thinking? Externalities? Tragedy of the Commons?

This is government failing its duties yet again. Higher Short term profits for a few, at the expense of a livable climate, violence related to petrostates, higher costs for consumers, increased injuries and deaths, increased funding needs for military, infrastructure, etc …… including long term viability of the industry

Is it though? Sure they’ll have a couple great quarters, but the US isn’t the world car market. If they can look beyond a couple quarters, they’re just becoming uncompetitive everywhere else and eventually the hammer will drop in the us as well

And after the pre plays out, the land is abandoned back to the government, is listed as a superfund site so the government is in the hook to clean up the pollution

I’ll start a gofundme!

We all should care. Not only is the east wing destroyed but that’s $350M taxpayers money down the drain. If it doesn’t meet building code we’ll also be on the hook to rebuild it. This is yet more harm to the country and its people.

…… while I’m aware taco Don claimed to have secret private donors, does anyone remember how it went for Mexico paying for his stupid wall?

Signing (intermediate) certs have been compromised before. That means a bad actor can issue fake certs that are validated up to your root ca certs

While you can invalidate that signing cert, without useful and ubiquitous revocation lists, there’s nothing you can do to propagate that.

A compromised signing certs, effectively means invalidating the ca cert, to limit the damage

There are gangs of masked thugs kidnapping people at gunpoint. Oh wait

I paid for a real id license when they were first available in my state, and I’ve paid for a renewal. I disagree with the surveillance society they enable but I’m also a realist who wants to travel conveniently.

But I’ve still never gotten one. When it comes down to it, actually getting a real id license requires taking a day off work and waiting in line at the Registry …… whereas I can renew a standard license online and have a few years left on my passport

One of the many ways RealID has been a fiasco is RMV/DMV’s not staffing up to support it

This looks like one of those bad conversions to imperial- instead of 3.28 feet per meter, your spaceship crashes into the surface

We could breed it to incorporate radioactive particles to make it independently self-sustaining

Clippy was always the symbol of my hatred toward technology companies . How did he get redeemed?

And beyond …. Your view of infinity is blocked because the speed of light is so slow

You could argue we finally started making some of those investments in 2022. Over the long run they likely would have increased us manufacturing in key future industries …. But that was all passed been it wasn’t trumps term, so it all had to go

I was going to make a similar point. More people with college degrees is a big win for any society. And lots of degree programs are incredibly valuable even if they aren’t training for a specific job. The problem is we’ve set it up as a direct profit choice for the individual.

I hope current scouts in your country can still treat such things as normal. Here in the US, any patriotic symbolism has been taken by the crazies.

Wait until he finds out our old pack burned flags!

Back when patriotism was “normal”, Scouts along with veterans helped organize and run a regional event to properly and respectfully retire worn flags. It was a huge deal