A pipe dream invented by DuPont to make people not feel bad about throwing away plastic!

He kinda was. He was given the option to stop at any time.

It’ll never happen. As long as there is any kind of economy there will be some greedy fuck running nike ads in your brain every time you think about shoes.

Slides Tubular Bells LP out of its sleeve

linux zealots who might blame you for choosing that

I’ll defend them. Like pushing for vegan diets, solar energy, and the end of single use plastics. It’s annoying, it’s not fun but in the long run it’s to make the world better for average people.

You’re in the wrong part of the internet, bud.

Not like the millions or billions of man hours wasted to make 50-ish removed into defacto-gods.

Google used to be the ultimate engine 15 years ago. Now it’s the same 5 sites and 10 ads over and over.

I work at a blast furnace, you can get alarmingly close to liquid iron before you are permanently injured.

Almost like its wealth disparity, not age, is causing the problem after all!

I pumped gas up hill, both ways, all summer when I was 16 and used the money to pay for college, buy a house, and invest in oil. You just need to try harder.

I’ll get on it as soon as I finish this job

So I guess “blatant” is the type.

Pretty much, most of the gen x I work with are indistinguishable from boomers at this point.

kids don’t want to work these days

people need to just save more money

immigrants are taking all the jobs

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https://www.slax.org/ It’s easy, is a full featured desktop, and has persistence on your USB stick.

There are some communities that never transitioned to Lemmy, so I’ll be using them untill old.reddit is disabled.

This is my favorite way to deal with management.

So you want me to disable a safety feature to help speed up production?

Dreams? What about when it locks up and plays a virtual 200db 5khz tone for the rest of your life?

I leeched when I was on limited bandwidth now I am the sole peer for about a dozen hard to find torrents. Balance in all things.

I don’t know the standard but if Google is involved you know they are going to be pushing people to use their own ‘extensions’ of the standard to lock both the hosts and users into their ecosystem. It’s the same thing as Microsoft’s ActiveX making sites IE only in the early 2000s.

Across all wages combined? What if you just look at people who make <100k?