thats assuming the plastic bag is used once, but i've always reused them, sometimes had the same bags for 10 years

however i have never re-used a paper bag because they are awfully loud and cannot be compressed. it is the worst kind of bag.

Turning a plastic grocery bag into a small bathroom trashcan liner is IMO the perfect reuse. it displaces a thicker plastic bag and ensures the grocery bag goes into a landfill.

I reused all my grocery store plastic bags for disposing of cat litter and other trash. When those bags went away I had to start buying new plastic bags for the first time.

That’s funny because when my locality switched from plastic to paper bags I was annoyed at having to buy trash bags for the bathroom for the first time but found the paper bags were excellent for litter cleanup since they stand up on their own and are easier to scoop into than a smaller fluttery plastic bag.

My grocery store now uses slightly thicker plastic bags, and I've found that you con reuse them dozens of times; I've had the same bags in my car for over a year.

Unfortunately, when they deliver, they use brand-new bags, and they don't accept them back for reuse, so a lot of them get thrown away after a single use.

> Moving money naively is a commodity; > banks did it for centuries at rock-bottom margins

must have misspelt "ridiculous margins"

overselling the safety is very euphemistic

many years ago we made a list of malware apps on the Mac App Store:

https://www.corecode.io/_malware_on_the_macappstore.html

(yes, the list was made after being disgruntled because totally legitimate apps were refused for nonsense reasons just like in this story)

been on Kagi 2 years, super happy - haven't googled at all for like a year.

Barely legal

all of the text implies the opposite of the headline?

That title really is bonkers, in a flammable/inflammable kind of way.

flickering lights are not "modern decor" but a broken (and possibly dangerous) appliance

You're confusing what they mean: it's not the flickering that you can easily notice, it's the flickering of lights "fps".

To see those, you need a digital camera (e.g. your phone)

Colors are a a continuous spectrum, yet we put them in a bunch of categories.

Organising people by the colour of their skin makes exactly as much ontological sense as organising library books by the colour of their cover.

Can you see the fallacy you are doing here? The parent tried to suggest this: simply because a thing can be in a spectrum doesn't make it unworthy of being a category. You've twisted that analogy into this nonsensical book example.

It’s not a fallacy, it’s a bitter, dark joke.

It sounds like this is an analogy in support of the parent - is that the intent?

on the other hand 14 years of usage of a ~100$ device sounds ok. these days you need to be happy if things last more than a few months…

What electronics are you buying that only last a few months?

> while their children suffer

and (if there are too many of them) the rest of society