In my attempt to drive a wedge into the ideal of unconditional government faith:

I have deduced that there are five laws of society:

1. State - national or regional regulations, uses prisons, sometimes to protect themselves rather than the community
2. Religious - based on the perception of guidelines of how to live, as per holy scriptures
3. Moral - the societal, generally accepted rules to not be a dick, such as harming others in malice, stealing. Not to be confused with subjective, personal morals
4. Ethical - a broader, more easily agreeable set of regulations, almost exclusively to protect life, the way of it, and the generally accepted ideas of rights for fauna and flora
5. Corporate - enforcement of copyright and intellectual property, a capitalist creation, often used to socially and financially destroy individuals rather than battle other businesses, in some regions utilising state law

The state legal system is sometimes the absolute enemy of the people and morals, especially when combined with corporate law, and shouldn’t be treated like it’s unconditionally justice.

They asked GPT 4o to peer-review the choice and they trust it because they pay US$10/m for it

The next contractor is debugging why the upstairs cloakroom has a breeze running through it, only to eventually realise it should probably have four walls

A good movie for visualising this (IMO) is A.I. Artificial Intelligence.

I mean, it’s not terrible, I believe a rival light source interrupts the waves from the screen so it doesnt hurt as much (is also the science behind monitor bars), but I agree – I’d probably prefer a no-image-compromise, scratch-resistant, effective antiglare coating to a simply brighter screen. Can’t say for sure though as my phone doesn’t have an *obvious coating

Nor does 2000nits screen gang

My head is super itchy though…

That’s cool, but wtf is it a conversation on Lemmy for

Good point, with a caveat. The vast majority of aforementioned demand on China is terrible quality. That doesn’t mean that the only reason Chinese trash manufacture exists is because of foreign contracts. In fact, I believe very few of them were actually ‘asked to make trash’ by way of making it as cheaply as possible.

I am willing to stake that nobody, not even American businessmen, paid those manufacturers to create ten thousand seller pages on Amazon and the like with randomly generated six character names.

And things tailored for Europe that are produced in any other country are miles better than the slave colonies of Guangdong Province. Things made in: England, Scotland, France, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, Finland, Norway, Germany, USA, Canada, Vietnam, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Nepal, even Malaysia and Singapore.

PFF I didnt know the US exported anything good. I never mentioned the US.

EU, on the other hand… There are more than two countries in the world

Original caption is “Country girls make do” and I swear that corn used to drip

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Oatly Barista is the best I’ve had fs. You can’t buy the cheapest available product with the largest percentage of substitute ingredient and expect it to accurately represent the entire range of possibilities.

Not if you look outside China for your products. West Taiwan does export some quality but they’re unicorns

Word of mouth does some heavy lifting here I reckon

Nice 😎

Ooh that’s an interesting stat! My most seeded movie is +1 (over 340 copies’ worth), and for shows It’s Always Sunny seasons take the top 3.

They have powerful little toofs! Have you seen a skull or mockup? Took me seeing a model in the vet’s office to realise they have teeth way further in, loads of molars for the cromch

They blep out the pieces, and the energy is mostly harmless it seems. They love that spicy hay. Can confirm mine were fine with a 24v 0.5a current at the most (partner’s laptop cable while charging) but generally they have tiny hearts and can easily die from it, in theory

Apple users won’t know the difference - I know a lot of the time data and power transfer numbers don’t matter to the average user, but I feel it’s goddamn criminal to use USB C but artificially restrict (for their non Pro phones ofc) to 2.0 speeds, while charging the same for their products as other, far better equipped phones. I have similar beef with Samsung (not their data transfer, that’s good) and their incessant restrictions on any cable that’s not Samsung, offering like 60W of charging speed max. Meanwhile many other Androids are living it up with USB3.2, max 10Gbps, and >100W since 2024

I do my best. It is frustrating when an ‘independent’ storefront uses Amazon Logistics /FBA aha. And I can’t easily avoid Amazon’s primary source of income AWS, but I can reduce their e-commerce traffic at least. I love “Jeff Mart”