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  • Only if we level the global payscale, living conditions, and economy. Otherwise, as long as wealthy nations have vastly more disposable income than poorer nations, they will continue to be exploited. The cost of labor to commercially repair something in the EU or North America is typically higher than the cost to have someone build a new product in India or China, ship it there, warehouse it, and ship it to your door.

    I fix things. I always have. I tinker everywhere. It's not profitable. I can only do it for myself or for friends and family for free. If overall functionality is already lost, I always try to figure it out. I saved a nice gaming monitor from a friend's trash by finding the capacitor on the main power port hadn't seated right before soldering, so it was temperamental. Took 2 disassemblies and 3 hours to find and fix, but has now been running for 6 years flawlessly. When it malfunctioned, it had NO life at all, which likely narrowed it down to between the power socket and the main board. I bet your local labor price on ~2 hours plus risk/profit fee is comparable a new low end monitor.

    I do lots of automotive repair for myself. It's annoying as shit in forums to see people complain "there's no good mechanics anymore, they're all parts replacers now" and in the next reply say "just buy a new brake drum/rotor because it costs the same to have yours turned (refinished)". As if the "parts replacers" can do the refinishing for free. They're mad about the inflation/exploitation combo but taking it out on some other person suffering the same market imbalance.

    There is a reason all the cool hack and repair videos now largely come out of Asia. It's not just sheer population numbers, they're activities that largely don't happen in NA/Eur anymore.

  • I mean it's my general experience, not a hard rule. Just because the TikTok algorithm actively promotes content with high interaction without any requirement for accuracy doesn't mean there's no educational information on the platform.

    Alternatives:

    • condensed clips are crossposted to tiktok
    • self censorship to the strictest level to minimize risk of demonetization
    • self censorship to avoid a mature rating, so viewers don't have to log in to watch
    • self censorship to the strictest degree based on all popular platforms' requirements because that is "the internet"

    People have always doe weird censorship things as both users and admin. Forums used to **** everything. Then things were free. The big companies started facing public pressure for beings the hosts of content and locked down again.

  • I didn't know about the cough reflex. I'll have to check if it's both sides. Can you taste iodine? It's present in hot pink food dye, making things like pink peeps taste worse than yellow or blue for me

  • That degree of censorship usually implies the content is dual posted to TikTok in my experience

  • I had to look it up as apparently I've only seen the most polite of the TV versions, being "I hate everybody"

  • Not sure to what depth of decisions you're talking about, but it sounds like low-impact stuff if they're instant. The vast majority of decisions made throughout the day have no real impact on your life in any measurable way.

    I like a dumpling restaurant near me. I pick anything in my top 5. Why not #1? Because I don't know which is the best dumpling. I can spend an hour trying to perfectly gauge my mood against their offerings, or I can settle for, potentially, 5th best in one minute. That's #5 out of 40. If you ask me why I chose that particular type, I'll say I don't know, and then formulate my inner thoughts into a coherent sentence. It's not lying, it's just translating feelings into words. Feelings that represent a decision that will likely not affect my life. The important decision was to eat, not find the #1 dumpling. Plus, yes, it's nice to give yourself reassurance that you made a good decision. Again, it's not lying to yourself to make yourself believe it, it's reminding yourself that you made a fine decision. It's decided, so you may as well seek the benefits. If it's the wrong decision, you can't undo it, but you can make new decisions to change course.

    How often do you make wrong decisions as opposed to simply less-than-the-best? Probably pretty rarely. Sure, there could be larger school or career choices, but you have no way of knowing how life would have played out on the other path. Maybe you'd make more money, or maybe you're only seeing the highlights reel from someone else. Maybe your current path is hitting a dead end, but maybe the other path included the worst manager of your life. Maybe you got stuck in surprise traffic, but maybe you avoided being part of another accident. Life moves forward and you're still walking.

    If you find yourself dwelling on every decision, taking too long to decide, second guessing it after committing, and then feeling regret that there was a better option despite fulfilling your actual need, those aren't pensive thoughts. That's probably anxiety.

  • I want to claim it was me, but I am only a copy

  • Rail. Buzzword marketing is for the leasing agencies. Everyone else wants test results. The playing field for sales is greatly leveled when everyone has to be certified to industry standards, are selling only approved designs, and are largely playing within a mutually-assured-destruction set of requirements defined by competitors working together. Defects are reported to the regulating body. It's almost beautiful.

    On the other hand, demonstrably good improvements are slow to be implemented.

  • For me, yes, cards are still used. I work in transportation. Half the certified companies are small hands-on repair shops, so there's probably a beige office with a real rollodex. Most traveling auditors are semi-retirees so cards are the default, but certainly not required. Most presenters at conferences are from the biggest ~5 companies, fighting each other for market space, so they like handing out cards with a big company logo and their latest job title. I hand them out because this is the first job that provided them to me, so it's been exciting. Plus, people seem to actually like my company. And, with a box of 500, I'm likely to change job titles before I deplete them at this rate.

    My industry is not trying to be on the bleeding edge or marketing and buzzwords. Product goes through years of tiered in-service testing before market release. It's all about results, not techy contact scans

  • Those guys already stop short of wiping clean and avoid touching their asshole in the shower

  • Better, it hits harder every year.

    I just wanna fuckin sleep

    Bath Salts by Highly Suspect

  • Alright, I'm mistaken on the supplies. And yes, I remember the heat shield was there, hence the ship was still there, but I remember something about it being hot. Wasn't there still something supernatural about how he moved? And how he seemed to take control of the other person?

  • But is he generic? He's survived without enough supplies and in intense heat. I also loved Sunshine up until then, as I wasn't a fan of the supernatural ending. But same with Event Horizon. And Pandorum... Maybe it's my mistake for falling for it 3, no, 4 times. I forgot The Black Hole (1979) is Event Horizon

  • I thought he was crazy. Now I know the sky is the only place without deaf ears.

  • The unofficial Warhammer origin movie of the unofficial trilogy, followed by Sunshine (2007) and Pandorum (2009)

    Edit: optional 4th: The Black Hole (1979). Disney's original take on the space opera is actually just a worse version of Event Horizon

  • Do you happen to be frequently. On the edge of sleep deprivation? Either by continually running short on total hours and/or by ignoring the first wave of sleepiness? In my experience, such habits bring upon The Horrors. I've recently been honing in on those as random bouts of artistic endeavor. If I'm gonna dream it up, I may as well put it to paper

    Anyway, my suggestion is The Jaunt by Stephen King. I think it's only about 20 pages, part of a collection of other short stories. I have yet to read it myself

  • I don't know when this reference gained traction, but watching this movie now is like finding those sunglasses. Suddenly, the memes are everywhere. "They Live!" (1987 I think). Just watched it last year fir the first time

  • You're right, I should go see them live

  • But even with all that, God just can't balance a checkbook. He needs you to give 10% of human created currency to....uhhh......look, just put your money in the bowl. Don't question it.

    Subscription model x ponzi scheme

    It took time to accept it, but reading up on Mother Theresa's controversies was part of my separation. "I'm not trying to ease suffering, I'm increasing the number followers". The healthy don't cry out and ask for God's help.

    Therefore, the tithes must continue until death. You don't want to be stuck outside the pearly gates because you cheated the church of a few dollars in 2051, right? I hope those gummy bears in 2012 were worth it.

    Look at the Vatican. The money there... They could end world hunger. They won't, because they'd lose subscribers. The Vatican ending hunger would be on par with Belle Delphine finally showing her pussy. The chase would be over and the business model would collapse. She's mortal and has more than she can spend. The Vatican thinks it's immortal. Imagine preaching the words of Jesus about loving, caring for, feeding, ans clothing thy neighbor, asking followers to support global efforts, but living in a gilded palace in pasta centro.