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ansitru

*offkey flute cover of Funkytown starts playing*

Get the pattern here: https://studioansitru.bigcartel.com/product/live-laugh-losing-it-digital-download-only

thememedaddy

problemsleuth

a girl who is a noir detective man and a guy who is a femme fatale

queef-queg

divorcedwife

look at the republican calendar and see which animal/plant/item is associated with your birthday ok. if you're born january 14 you get the day of the cat

divorcedwife

solidarity for everyone who was born on the day of the cistern or the watering can or something like that

aka-maggie

Carline Thistle:

" ... feel dry and spiky, so at first glance the plants appear to be dying when in full flower."

Relatable

chronivore

lakevida

neighbor grilling in our shared backyard rn so ive got a box fan in the window sucking all the red meat fumes into my open mouth #urbanforaging

thededfa

I have two black cats, Sera and Ceridwen. They are sisters and look exactly alike and like to sit next to each other in the exact same position.

Sera is sweet and loves to be petted.

Ceridwen is sweet and loves to pretend your hand is a mouse she wants to disembowel.

My kids will stand in front of them both and try to guess which is which, even asking the cats, “Which one of you likes to bite?”

Every now and then I’ll hear a, “Wrong one! Wrong one!” followed by my kids running through the house chased by a delighted kitten

inkdrgn

this feels like the cat version of the thing where one creature always speaks the truth and the other always lies

she’s decadent

decadent

A lot of companies that make things have two separate lines: consumer and enterprise. Consumer is for us poors that the company doesn't need to respect. You can buy more expensive, higher tier consumer items but it's just as fragile. You're paying for more bells and whistles. Enterprise grade is stuff that will actually last because it is often sold in a lot as part of a contract and the contract won't be renewed if the items suck. These things are often just not sold to consumers because why would you ever buy consumer-grade garbage if you could buy this?

For something like computers, this looks like how pricey "gAmiNG" laptops look all fancy but fall apart in about the same timeframe as the lower end laptops for students. But if you've ever handled the sort of laptops for banks or businesses, you'd wonder why laptops can't all be like this. People swear by Lenovo Thinkpads for a reason. Dell's Latitude (general productivity) and Precision (has the power of a gaming laptop but far less bs) lines, HP's probooks, all feel really nice and last for-fucking-ever. But you can't buy them in a store even if you wanted one.

So the trick is to buy what big organizations are buying, but you likely gotta get 'em secondhand when the orgs are done with them. For basic clothes, mil surplus might be a good port of call, for technology see an e-waste recycler or sometimes government auction (you just gotta know what to ask for; ThinkPads, Dell Latitude/Precision, HP Probook/Zbook). Otherwise try to thrift old, pre-enshitification items. The blanket I had as a kid is still going strong and has lived to bury multiple sets of newer bedding (which have worn thin and torn). Kitchen items, see if you can shop at a restaurant supplier.

TL;DR: if you need an item, think "which business needs these to function" and see where they 1) buy theirs (suppliers) or 2) sell their old ones (surplus) and buy that. If you can't do that, look at older, pre-enshitification things.

figtreeandvine

When I buy appliances I tend to go with what I think of as "landlord specials". The dishwasher that does the dishes and nothing else, that doesn't get a lot of service calls from your tenants, and that lasts for at least ten years. The refrigerator that keeps food cold and nothing else, that doesn't have a touchscreen or proprietary filters that need replacing. A stove without AI or wifi connection, that doesn't need a tech support contract to sort out your tenant's connectivity issue on Christmas morning. A landlord wants to pay for an appliance once and only once, not to have to pay for repairs or replacements very often. As I am in effect my own landlord, that's what I want too.

Landlords buy enough appliances to be the product testers for the rest of us, but few enough that they don't have special purchasing channels that exclude the rest of us.

Beware of "contractor specials", however! These are the appliances that home builders and house flippers install to make a house salable. They're designed to be attractive and last long enough for the new owner to sign the mortgage papers.

#think pads are not great in my experience though