• Toldry@lemmy.world
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      Decimal time is the representation of the time of day using units which are decimally related. This term is often used specifically to refer to the French Republican calendar time system used in France from 1794 to 1800, during the French Revolution, which divided the day into 10 decimal hours, each decimal hour into 100 decimal minutes and each decimal minute into 100 decimal seconds (100000 decimal seconds per day), as opposed to the more familiar standard time, which divides the day into 24 hours, each hour into 60 minutes and each minute into 60 seconds (86400 SI seconds per day).

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time

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    What are the laws in the US regarding this? In Germany, this clock is clearly defective and must be repaired or replaced or refunded by the vendor at no additional charge.

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      In most places you can return it back for any reason and without one, if you still have a receipt.

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      I don’t know if there are laws about it but most places will let you return for store credit at least.

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      You could definitely get it repaired/replaced by the manufacturer

      But, would you? You can probably return it to where you bought it, but that’s at least 10 mins of your life.

      You could also throw it in the trash… That takes 0 minutes. That’s what they hope you’ll do, and so every other option is made possible, but frustrating

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        Please recycle electronics. Thanks!

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          How? I recycle e-waste personally, because I find disassembling it relaxing.

          What is a normal person meant to do? I’ve been asked and I don’t know what to tell them

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            I’m sure most local/county recycling centers take electronics along with other recyclables (mine does). If not, retailers like Best Buy will take them at the customer service desk. Also, we have an electronic scrap bin at my place of employment, which is what I normally use. So many options!

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      Yes. Theres still a few surviving stores in America.

      and there is a KMart in Australia that is totally unconnected to the other Kmarts that… I believe is still doing well? Not sure, not aussie.

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            Remaining Targets are being assimilated into the Kmart universe. Resistance is futile.

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              I swear to god it feels like you guys are living in another dimension sometimes. Lol truly don’t mean that in a bad way just so very different from what I’m used to, but, very similar to the West.

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                They’re a weird little country smeared around a whacking great desert in the middle of the ocean. Yeah. It gets different.

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            Yeah they merged last year, but its still a work in progress and we still have distinct kmarts and targets

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        Wow. I thought there were no more KMarts in the US. Turns out there are two in the States, three in the US Virgin Islands, and one in Guam

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      The old Kmart headquarters building that’s been abandoned rotting away as urban decay next to a fancy mall for since before the new millennium where the executives allegedly had cocaine parties in the 80s (which may have negatively affected the company’s outcome) is finally being professionally torn down by construction crewmen. It’s so fucking ugly beige reddish rust 80s office building its parts should be buried with humanity’s nuclear waste

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        For a second I was trying to figure out what the urban decay makeup brand has to do with kmart

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    This clock is clearly using the galactic alphabet. Buyer should have looked before buying.

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    always check the packaging to make sure you’re buying a clock that’s base 60. Especially from Kmart

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        I don’ didn’t know there were still Kmarts around. Dollar stores and Wally World replaced them all in my part of the country.

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          Kmart is still really big in Australia and New Zealand. It’s mostly replaced target, and we don’t really do chain dollar stores (we do have them, just they aren’t called dollar stores most of the time and are usually small little independent ones in the corner of shopping centres)

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        Even so, it has already accomplished its purpose. Dealing with returns is the job of the next CEO - this one has already gotten theirs, ca-ching 🤑 !

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      One side of me is asking “Seriously, who thought that dividing a day in 1000 units would be useful?”

      The other side of me can’t wait for me to start saying to my friends “A’ight, meet me at @960”.