Yeah, they’re actually pretty affordable and not that difficult to install. I got one awhile ago for about $150 on Amazon and it took about 45 minutes to install (I am not a handyman, so I’m sure someone who is more experienced/smarter could do it even faster).
That is nightmare fuel for me
My point is that one person is only able to produce 1 second hand item at a time. So you’re saying roughly 50% of the population gets to buy new and the other must by used. The logistics don’t make sense long-term. I wear my clothes until they have holes in them. I’m not giving that shit to a thrift store, because they legitimately won’t accept items like that. I know there are plenty of other people who do the same. Pants are actually the most consistently relatively expensive clothing item, usually costing $40-60. Because of that, I only own 3 or 4 pairs of pants and when they start getting tattered, they become my yardwork/garage work/etc pants until they legit fall apart. If everyone does this same approach, there isn’t much of a second hand market, no?
The national average wage in the US according to the Social Security Administration is $66k. People are barely able to pay rent. According to various surveys, anywhere from 40-60% of Americans are living check to check. And a quick search shows the most purchased clothing brands include Under Armour, Levi, Adidas, Nike, Hanes, Fruit of the Loom, etc. All of those btands do make items that cost $50+, but they also sell tons of shit that’s $20 to $30 or less.
Second hand isn’t always practical. For some things, sure. But definitely not even for most things. And if everyone did it regularly, it’d be even less practical/reliable.
And again, you have a wildly inaccurate view of what most folks are spending on clothes. There’s a reason Walmart and other affordable clothing stores like Target, Kohl’s etc are so widely available and used across the US.
Where can we buy ethically made phones, clothes, etc that we can easily afford? I can assure you most people aren’t buying $200 pants/shirts.
Oh for sure. I dated a girl in high school that was pale as hell with vibrant red, curly hair. Both her parents were first generation Mexican immigrants.
That was not the problem in “almost all cases.” Seriously, look up the class action lawsuit regarding it.
You’re vastly downplaying the problem. There’s a reason a class action lawsuit went forward with tons of evidence backing up that it wasn’t simply the user’s error in properly maintaining the joycon. I’ve bought a joycon and had it started drifting within weeks before, even before I had kids. The sticks were just poorly designed, simple as that.
Thanks for the tip in your edit. I had 4 pairs of official joycons drift, I eventually just bought a pair of 3rd party ones to keep mounted on it and those have been working fine for over 3 years now. I still have the official joycons, actually had 2 of them serviced and repaired by Nintendo after that class action lawsuit (Nintendo said they’d repair any drifting joycon for free regardless if they’re out of warranty).
Agreed, he was a shit comic
Carlos Mencia is not white lol. He’s not Mexican though, that’s for sure. A quick search says Honduras descent.
I’m surprised it didn’t make a bigger hole in their bricks.
I mean, it’s the first prototype iteration of it, I’m sure there’ll be aesthetic improvements. Not to mention, this might be something some people would only use for specific situations where faster, more natural feeling conversation could be beneficial (e.g. meetings, presentations, meet and greets, etc) versus all day everyday. Lastly, even if used all day, every day, if you’re turned off from someone with a disability because they use a device like this, then honestly it’s helping that person avoid assholes.
Edit: I’m apparently wrong, this is the 2nd iteration. But the first iteration was even bulkier and more obvious, so it doesn’t really contradict my first point.
Lessons learned, next time they need to stockpile more food. Like what if they had years worth of food haha, police stationed outside just waiting for the day the bunker opens up like some old prophetic myth
You’d be surprised. There’s definitely a ton of interest from consumers. Anecdotally, my wife used it to create a few quick logo ideas for her private practice (she hired a real artist for the final one), my coworkers and I use it for quick boilerplate script template creation, my immediate and extended family have all used it to modify/clean up family pictures, friends have used it in group chats for all sorts of things, etc etc. There’s a reason that it’s being implemented everywhere, and it’s not simply because there’s no consumer interest and it’s all corporate hype buzz. Just because you specifically aren’t interested doesn’t nullify the tens of millions of people using the various flavors of ChatGPT, Gemini, and/or whatever the hell Amazon’s is every day.
But yes, it is not real intelligence. I don’t think I’ve talked to anyone who truly believes it is. It’s just a new, highly versatile tool. Hell, I just saw a video of some jackass on YouTube programming a robotic arm to be controlled by ChatGPT and it had a rifle mounted to the arm. Using voice commands, ChatGPT was able to aim and shoot the rifle with crazy precision and speed: https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/popAFs2kmY
Is HC just a unisex/family bathroom or something? Those are somewhat common here in the US, but not common enough to be reliably present at commercial facilities. They’re mostly common in publicly funded buildings and/or kid oriented businesses.
It depends where you live. But it does majorly suck when you end up needing to change your kid in a place that doesn’t have it in the men’s bathroom (I’m a dude). Hell, it happened to me over the holidays when I went out with extended family that was visiting to a nice restaurant. I was changing my daughter’s dirty diaper on the stupid little countertop area in the bathroom that had all the concierge type amenities. I just pushed all that crap into the corner to make room and one of the staff came in and gave me a look and I just commented they should install a proper changing station in the men’s bathroom in the future.
I was just pointing out a caveat to the comment I replied to. We don’t know the entire context here one way or another (e.g. Is the owner talking about hourly employees or possibly offering pay incentives to salaried employees to work overtime?).
Yeah, tons of small business owners often make diddly squat in profit. They might pull in a 7-digit revenue, but if their overhead and/or debt is crazy high, they might actually only be making like $50k/yr in take-home pay, if even that.
And yet tons of people already believe it.