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This thread is wild simply because I don’t know any adult humans who actually take baths, and I have honestly always assumed the reason they exist at all is for washing small children.

I’ve been using my cheap $5 electric candle lighter for like 5 years now. It’s saved probably 10 butane candle lighters from the trash.

Everything reminds me of her

Yeah, love is nice, but have you ever tried a Trident II D5 SLBM with 8 adjustable yield MIRV warheads?

Basically commercial grade equipment. A $10k oven/range which is designed to work 15 hours per day non-stop in a restaurant will last forever in your home. All the commercial manufacturers make “consumer sized” versions of their restaurant stuff for high end home kitchens.

You can buy appliances which will last that long, but they cost a lot of money. The reality isn’t that people forgot how to make things durable, it’s that consumer demand is so conditioned by price, most people “prefer” to spend less on appliances they will replace more often.

The average appliance these days is actually significantly cheaper when adjusted for inflation compared to the 60s and 70s.

I’ll allow it.

Even a switch mode power supply doesn’t really flicker since they have a rectification and smoothing stage on the output to produce a DC voltage. The switching is done on the input to set the duty cycle which controls the voltage/current ratio at the output.

For incandescent bulbs the power drop around the zero voltage cross doesn’t last long enough to extinguish the filament, since it’s basically just glowing from being heated. The only lights which actually do “flicker” under nominal conditions are old ballast driven florescent lights. Most modern LEDs rectify the AC and modern CFLs boost the line frequency to like 20kHz to prevent the arc from getting extinguished.

The absolute gorgeous irony of MLs saying they don’t want to be lectured about politics.

But hey, I’m not your psychiatrist, so if you want to maintain this delusion that ML orthodoxy represents some singular, uncorrupted ideal which actually holds any relevant influence anywhere in the world, then by no means will I interfere with your monumental significance.

No they don’t, apart from edgy internet leftists who haven’t studied any political theory outside of their sheltered internet canon. The modern internationale, Jacobin, etc, actively avoid the idiotic campism and autocratic baggage the tankies cling to as they relitigate the cold war. There has been a century of revisionist leftist theory since Lenin’s “theory” about how everything Lenin does is great even if it is transparently hypocritical. Most of the leftist world has moved on, but tankies still live on that mountain.

It’s not even that. The specific brand of “communist” the ML admins stan is really just redfash, so all other leftists despise them, even as they insist their 100 year old dogma is the only correct philosophy.

It’s also not just that. Dessalines and Nutomic are just basic fucking assholes. Petty and power hungry, and occasionally transphobic, they spend more time banning users and making drama for stupid shit, than they spend writing code, and then have the audacity to guilt people for money.

Dessalines in particular is so fucking cringe, he literally will not post outside of his shitty little fiefdom, because he cannot handle any internet where he doesn’t have his little “I win” ban button.

Your gay friends were having a chuckle. Women don’t smell like fish from any appreciable distance unless there’s a serious hygiene issue. And then it’s more like regular BO with a bit of a twang.

Honestly if this extremely low barrier keeps out the Facebook crowd then it’s doing God’s work.

It’s one of the reasons I think public voting is a terrible idea. It’s a wet dream for hyper-targeted engagement farming. Even to the point it creates a bit of a nightmare scenario for spear phishing and malware injection. The stated “transparency” benefits just seem incredibly trivial compared to the risk, especially when actual malicious actors will simply spam bots and alts, while actual users must navigate this weirdly huge threat surface for basically no good reason.

Bend over and I’ll show you.

Unlike geese, who menace

I would do this and develop a drinking problem.

Like, a bigger drinking problem.

I mean I hate kids but I like money. $12M is honestly about $11.7M past that inflection point though.

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