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Mabinogi: Radiator of Ruairi. Formerly Mexh5

[catchymemes]

[mecharose]

why isn’t anyone allowed to be wrong anymore? it’s okay to be wrong. no one should be terrified of every tiny little mistake they might make. being wrong, and realizing you were wrong, is how you learn and grow and change.

[fluffymcmuffins]

Difference between me and u is I don’t need alcohol to send text messages I’m gonna regret

[oncelerfucker69-deactivated2019]

Another epic fail for the free market

[oncelerfucker69-deactivated2019]

Dumb bitch in the notes arguing planned obsolescence is necessary to keep costs down,

[krysthebear]

I thought planned obsolescence was to prevent your phone from just suddenly turning off and never working again? Like it’s meant to be an “oh, my thing isn’t working, I should invest in a new one soon.” Kind of thing?? Like shits gonna break either way, I just thought this let us know like a month earlier than it would otherwise.

[aeonlamb]

I mean… that’s kind of what they want you to think?

Sure, throttling your phone’s cpu so that the battery doesn’t wear down faster is certainly… a thing that’ll extend battery life… but, uh………… Hey, why don’t we just allow customers to replace their old batteries, you know, just like batteries were originally designed to do?

This extends far beyond phones/computers/etc as well. I recall, there’s light bulbs that exist from around the time of their invention that can still burn to this day. But companies only manufacture light bulbs that degrade and burn out over a few years, so that they can keep selling more light bulbs and turn a profit.

There’s a lot of examples of this, really. But, no, the main purpose of this is simply to make people continually have to replace their old “““broken”““ products for new ones, when the only reason they break to begin with is because they purposefully build in deficiencies that cause the product to degrade over time. It’s capitalism, baby

[joanspoliticalposts]

My mom had one vacuum cleaner all through our childhood. That first generation of vacuum cleaners was made to a very high standard because the companies were trying to convince people who had never seen one to buy them. Now, unless you buy the very high end models, they break in five years.

[cerula]

Can confirm, once helped my dad paint a client’s house interior and needed to vacuume after due to all the sanding we did. Dad’s shop vac would have taken us hours to clean since it was made for small messes and not whole carpets. Dad dug out the client’s home vacuum (with permission) which was this ancient heavy metal kirby from the 70s and holy shit not only did it still work but it had the strongest suction I have ever seen in a vac and it was that day that really hammered into me that planned obsolescence was A Thing.

[the-tin-dog]

I can literally go to a junk mall, but a 1920s sewing machine, oil the moving parts, replace the rusted needle and sew on that damn thing for the rest of my life.

And if one part or piece breaks, literally takes the mechanical knowledge of a 3yr old with plastic tools to fix it. I can access every part of that machine and fix it with a screwdriver and needle nose pliers. No special screws so only a “””professional””” can fix it. No parts that can be “so hard to fix you might as well buy a new one”

Corporations CAN make functioning lasting products. They just choose not to.

[red--raven]

Another side effect of planned obsolescence is that a company doesn’t actually have to offer something new. Take, for example, your iPhone. Apple will do what they can from the software side to compel you to buy the next iPhone. But what is new or innovative about the next iPhone? Next to nothing. Because they don’t have to come up with anything new for the next generation when your current generation tech just stops working or “mysteriously” starts underperforming.

Planned obsolescence stifles innovation and capitalists that engage in it are not only responsible, but are engaging in practices that are antithetical to the very ideas they hold dearly about why capitalism is so “important”.

[radiator-ruairi]

[cecaeliawitch]

I firmly believe that unless the couple has discussed and agreed to marriage ahead of time, nobody has any business making a surprise public proposal.

[cisnowflake]

Okay except some people want a surprise public proposal. 

[boreragnarok]

Girl my husband took me to Spain and gave me a kinder egg on the beach, the ring was inside the capsule (Lord knows how he did that) if any feminist tried to take that away from me I may cut a bitch. Best surprise of my life.

[cecaeliawitch]

I wish people were capable of analyzing larger social trends and figuring that a significant number of women end up getting pressured into engagements or marriages they don’t want bc the audience that comes along with a public proposal will think she’s a bitch if she says no - instead of thinking “i liked it when it happened to me, therefore it could never turn out badly for anyone, not ever!!!!”

[rifa]

I think what people are misunderstanding here is that agreeing to marriage ahead of time doesn’t need to be like, asking permission to propose? I surprised my now spouse with a proposal in Disneyland but before that we had several conversations about the future of our relationship, future plans for our retirements and how we’d have to get married eventually for immigration purposes. I didn’t go to her and say “so would you say yeah if I proposed?” or hash out deets ahead of time, but we had enough of a mutual understanding and communicated desire to get married that, although it was a surprise for when and how I proposed, it wasn’t out of left field at all.

This is exactly like conversations about consent, people get up in arms thinking that it means you have to have contracts and serious sit down conversations before doing anything when its REALLY EASY to simply COMMUNICATE with your partner so things like this are done properly, yeesh

[thorvaenn]

“proposal can be a surprise, engagement shouldn’t be“ - saw that somewhere, thought it was the most accurate

[the-future-now-deactivated20170]

That’s Louis Rossman, a repair technician and YouTuber, who went viral recently for railing against Apple. Apple purposely charges a lot for repairs and you either have to pay up or buy a new device. That’s because Apple withholds necessary tools and information from outside repair shops. And to think, we were just so close to change.

Follow @the-future-now

[orasgiveaways]

This is really important and let me tell you why.

My mom has an iPhone 6 Plus and hasn’t even had it for a year when one day it suddenly died and would not charge. So she took it to an authorized Apple repair place and they charged her $50 for a diagnostic only to tell her that she would have to buy a brand new phone.

So she decided to go to the AT&T store to talk to our usual guy that upgrades our phones and handles any problems for us. She tells him what’s wrong and he takes her phone to the back only to come out two minutes later, puts her phone on charge and it comes back to life. 

She asks him what was wrong with it that he managed to somehow fix when the people at the “authorized apple repair place” couldn’t. And you know what he told her?

“There was just a bit of fuzz in the charging port.”

[toenail-draws]

I FUCKING KNEW IT. Listen, I have a MacBook from college. The charger has died twice, and I had to get a new one. This happened for two years in a row around the same time each year. I’m fucking convinced that their hardware is rigged to “expire” in order to force people to keep buying their shit.

[blood-and-pastry]

Wait, people are just now learning that Apple has some of the shadiest business practices?

[xxxtictacion]

You know this isn’t really just apple, company’s do this all the time, everything is rigged to expire and all they want is your money.

[tachyon-at-rest]

Ohhh no no no, this IS JUST Apple. 

All companies want you to buy their new products. None have gone to the lengths that Apple Inc. has gone to make end user repairs as impossible as is legally viable. I have been repairing electronics and computer systems privately, commercially and active duty in the US military for about 30 years. 

Apple puts extra effort into special hardware requiring proprietary tools that are only legally produced by their licensed manufacturer and can only be purchased through licensed repair shops if at all. 

Companies like iFixit can only exist as profit making companies because they are able to make workaround tools and kits that are still profitable but less of a blatant ripoff than Apple. 

[sodomymcscurvylegs]

Apple has been doing this forever. The way Apple treats consumers is abysmal, and people still eat their products up.

[taliabobalia]

[rasec-wizzlbang-blog]

she came for his fucking life, jesus christ

[suspend]

me everyday:

[destinyrush]

Millennials are trying the hardest to change this country and the whole world for the better but are always blamed for every damn thing

[ameliacgormley]

Okay, you know what? Sears was fucking dying and in danger of going bankrupt back when I was just out of high school in the fucking early 90s. Same with BEST and Montgomery Ward and who knows what else.

So the baby boomers can fuck right off with that bullshit because department stores were already going under before a lot of the people we consider millennials were even fucking born, okay?

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Baby Boomer: (Sets their curtains on fire and just goes to sit outside leaving the flames to spread)

Millenial: (Wanders past at the exact moment the rest of the house catches ablaze and it’s too late to do anything)

Baby Boomer: THE MILLENIALS HAVE BURNT MY HOUSE DOWN

[baawri]

President Obama appreciation post

[newtunicorn-deactivated20170531]

i am sad

[radiator-ruairi]

:(

[bellygangstaboo]

liberal redneck? thank the lord stereotypes aren’t always true..

[okay]

DO YOU EVER JUST WANNA SCREAM SO LOUD WHEN YOU TRY TO THINK ABOUT YOUR FUTURE

[babyfairy]

opinion on Breakeven by The Script?

what is that…..

[sailormixt-deactivated20170326]

WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WHEN THE BEST PART OF ME WAS ALWAYS YOU WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO SAY WHEN I’M ALL CHOKED UP AND YOU’RE OK I’M FALLING TO PIIIIIIIIIEEEEEECCCCCEEEESSSSS

[latinahoops]

Why do moms over share things about your life to people who don’t matter

[taylorfeatcats-deactivated20160]

reblog if school has actually made you cry

like the stress, the pressure and everything ya know. everyone keeps saying like ‘school makes me cry’ and stuff but has it really made you cry bc i cried a lot of times tbh