Where I live, there are water heater rentals. It’s essentially a hardware subscription.

They’re garbage.

For something that needs minimal maintenance and will last at least 10 years, you can rent for the price that you’d break even if you had a new one installed every 5 years.

People will pay thousands of dollars to have the privilege of throwing out the water heater and getting out of the contract. And then pay to buy a new one they actually own.

But some people like it because, yes, if there’s a problem, they come and fix it for you. Or give you a brand new water heater. That you’ve already paid for two or three times over!

how Microsoft couldn’t afford to keep creating e-waste

23 years later, they seem to be affording it quite well! Haha

There are probably some you take for granted. It would be exhausting to be in constant awe at the wonders of the modern world! Haha

What is boy pre salting?

Well, wage goes up, but inflation goes up faster

For context, Doug Ford has also been waging a war against bike lanes that are actively being used by cyclists.

There are problems with the speed cameras in certain areas of Ontario (stemming from problems with our road design), but Doug Ford is definitely doing this as a pro-driver move.

Which is why Ontario keeps voting him into a majority government…

Well, in a lot of Ontario, we don’t really have traffic enforcement. People vandalize these cameras, and then we lose virtually all traffic enforcement.

I dunno, chatrooms serve a very different purpose than emails…

Update game

“Oh hey, the console doesn’t need to update this time! And this 5-year old game is the one I just updated last month, and there hasn’t been any news or anything about the game.”

needs to update

“Wow, these minor bug fixes are (probably) amazing. Especially when it’s 300MB!”

I’ve given up on Purolator.

I just contact customer support/the seller and tell them all the steps I took (filling out my complete address, and on the day of, contacting them with my buzzer number), and tell them that I didn’t receive my package despite being home all day. I also didn’t receive their “sorry we missed you” sticky note anywhere. And no missed calls for the buzzer.

They often try to tell me the package is at a pickup point…I tell them that that’s not the address I entered into their system, it’s not the one that you put on the package, and you need to tell Purolator to send it to my address, or they’re going to return it to you/the sender.

This worked for my $1,000 package, thankfully. It didn’t work for my ~$50 packages. So that got sent back to the sender and I got a full refund. And I won’t be buying from them again unless they stop using Purolator.

Meanwhile, Amazon will drop off $200 packages at my doorstep without a signature – the way I want it! Lol

Purolator said they needex me to print out a form saying I authorize a drop off without a signature. I told them the driver is never going to see it because they don’t enter my building’s lobby let alone come up to my apartment. They said to do it anyway and it’d be fine. When I told them it said missed delivery again despite me following their instructions, they stopped replying to my support ticket…lol

Gatekeeping food, of all things? Lol

I think you were talking about people who believe in not having kids, and the other commenter was talking about people who want to blow themselves up to prevent others from having kids.

Oh, wow! I didn’t know that. Thanks for adding that.

“Trump narratives” contradict reality more often than not

This is a good thing that happened in the US. The point isn’t that he in particular did something good. It’s that a good thing happened.

It was bound to happen regardless of the president. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was in the works under the former president.

I think you’re mixing up my disagreement with not understanding you.

I think you’re making large reaches in your analogies. Are we supposed to have the government come in and bad cosmetic DLC, and then fight a war over it that splits the country (or world) in two? Lol

My point is that cosmetic DLC (and expansion packs) isn’t the problem – the problem is loot boxes and pay-to-win microtransactions.

I have to say that the customer holds some of the blame. If people are obsessively buying cosmetics that do nothing and that’s the only way the game is being sustained…either the game is that good already, or the players are the reason the game sucks.

When players need to spend money to be competitive, I think it’s fair to place the blame jointly on both the devs/publisher and the players. When spending money doesn’t change the game OR provides new content, it generally indicates that the player base is happy with what they’re spending money on. I don’t think that’s a problem.

I think there are far bigger problems with modern journalism than being technically correct in favour of the affirmative voice.

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