I'm in a very far southern area in Canada, and I'm here to report, it's not something that happens here either.
So heading further north, let's see, more rare than "I have never witnessed nor heard from anyone who witnessed it".... Uhhh. I feel like this is like dividing by zero.
It just doesn't happen.
The fact is, it should be legal. It's sexist if it's not legal. Whether anyone chooses to exercise the right to do it, is an entirely different matter.
I really appreciate that we're aggregating this information and starting to call out racist bullshit like this in the media.
I haven't watched or read any actual news in a while because it was obvious to me that they're only reporting on stuff they want to report on.
It always boiled my blood when they're talking about irrelevant shit and the stats say that in the past hour there have been x crashes, y deaths, and z other serious issues that have happened.
It annoyed me when they would make headline news stories about commonplace things like "82 year old grandmother died of old age".... When there's war, famine and death from not "natural causes" happening continually. They'd lengthen the story with interviews of people that knew the person, and interviews with old folks asking "what's the secret to a long life" and get bullshit answers from them.
Who cares? Why are you taking time and attention away from the people who have been shot and killed because the government sent them overseas to fight for the profits of some oil company that wants to rape another country of its natural resources? All those people killed... FOR THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR.
Then I remember, they get funding from those oil tycoons. They've been bought and paid for. The whole thing is corrupt and idiotic.
I'm hungry now.
IMO, there should be minimums set by government to make parts available for a set amount of time.... Like they did with the automotive industry.
Maybe not to the same length, I think for vehicles it's like 20-25 years that parts must be available, for phones, maybe like 6? Years?
It's hard to compete when you're basically a warehouse and your market is the literal population of the internet.
Yeah, microcenter, even if it's the only computer/electronics store for 100 miles, can still only hold so much, and they only reach people in/around their city at most. It's not like people are crossing state lines to get to a computer store.... Unless you live on the border of your state, I suppose.
Amazon has, at the very least, dozens of warehouses across the country that can deliver whatever it is you want with remarkable efficiency because postal/parcel services have been systematically improving over the past 50+ years.
I'm not saying I'm a fan of Amazon, but bluntly, is it really surprising, in the slightest, that Amazon can out price everyone else?
I think I watched a summary of it by a YouTuber.
I'm presently in this loop, trying to take a break from work, by reading Lemmy.
Dunno how you got this out of my head, but.... Does anyone know how to report something? I'm in this comic and I didn't agree to be in it.
I don't think that the otter minds being called thicc.
Who was the apology for exactly?
Usually I'm 6 with 2 happening often. Depending on what is happening, I will visit will 1 regularly.
The same reason that filament based incandescent bulbs burned out. Planned obsolescence.
There's a very real conspiracy (not just a theory) about the "arms race" in light bulbs for long lasting bulbs. Eventually, they made bulbs that lasted so long that they stopped making money.
Lighting manufacturers intentionally made worse bulbs to simply improve profits. They realized that they were driving themselves out of business. Everyone in the light bulb industry agreed to stop development of even longer lasting bulbs, just so they could continue to move units and make money.
Also, with LEDs, the thing that burns out fastest isn't the LEDs (there's usually a dozen... ish, in an LED bulb)... It's the electronics. The power needs to be converted from line power to something the LEDs can handle, which is usually DC. So there's a full power supply in the bulb to convert AC to DC, with a certain voltage to power the LEDs.
Sometimes this conversation is simple, a full bridge rectifier with little more than a filtering capacitor, other times it's very complex.
The power supply in the bulb is usually what fails first.
Okay, but fucking pages sounds like a good way to get papercuts in places I don't want papercuts.
All bodily freedoms, including that pesky bodily autonomy thing that some people seem to struggle to understand, should be freedoms granted by the constitution (or similar document in other countries).
We passed laws that have made things more equal here in Canada. The US should do the same.
I keep thinking about America's obsession with freedom, and from what I see, y'all aren't very free.