and a call for manufacturers and users alike to prioritize function over aesthetics.

People didn’t even want “thinner” products. They were told they wanted thinner products so that businesses can sell them shit that breaks easier.

I hate my generation so much it’s not even funny.

Are light bulbs still designed to fail?

I’m pretty sure the Veritasium video mentioned a historical cartel for light bulbs, but I thought it was something that didn’t exist any more.

I dunno, I prefer liquid glass to the flat shit we’ve been seeing for the past decade.

Soon they’ll be able to shove the ads directly into your heads.

Useful idiots have been supporting this for decades.

I definitely agree with you about being kind in our introduction of free software to the masses.

I don’t think he was being smug though because he’s talking to an audience of tech-minded people.

“Repro” workers

You can always tell what kind of biases an article has based on the slang it uses.

and in response to the Iranian regime’s ongoing aggression against Israel.

Fucking lying piece of shit IDF.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Option

Israel gets to have nuclear weapons that it will use to destroy the entire world if its sovereignty is threatened.

Keep that in mind, and remember who the real Nazis are.

That’s fair.

I honestly forgot about all the fun I had at a friend’s house playing the battle mode. Thanks for the memories.

The only thing that comes to mind is that it’s a Nintendo game and most people with Nintendo consoles don’t have access to the variety of games that the rest of us do.

They’re kind of stuck with whatever Nintendo puts out, so I guess it makes sense they would value it more.

Why do you think that is?

Thank you for sharing this.

More people need to see what this is actually like.

It’s a start.

Ironic how one day we’re going to need Nuremberg trials for a bunch of Jews.