I used to sell printers. Canon printers, more than any other brand, are purely just a vehicle to sell photo paper, ink, and ink subscriptions. Their laser units are another story, quite capable machines (not sure about lifelong reliability), but the inkjets are hot garbage. They have multiple models that cost less to purchase than the replacement cartridges… With the sort of build quality you might expect at that price point. HP, as awful as they are, never stooped quite that low afaik. Brother laser is the way to go, always.

Edit just to shit even harder on Canon, the amount of those printers returned to store was 3x all others put together. Only had one Brother returned in my entire 2 years there, and that was only because of logistics, not the machine itself.

Not sure if this was intentional but your comment reads like classic Halo Elite death screams. I love it. Fits perfectly with imagining execs at denuvo seeing the success of VAC.

Viva Cascadia!!!

I would definitely appreciate that, it’s been a while but I used to read and share poetry and lyrics with some close friends pretty often. It’s been a while.

Understandable, I’d definitely be interested in reading though. Hope things get more manageable for you 🤙

In 2017, disposable vapes barely existed. The vaping industry was obsessed with being the healthier alternative to cigarettes. The vast majority were using devices with stainless steel coils, pure cotton for wicking, and replaceable batteries. When “popcorn lung” was discovered, studied, and diacetyl found to be the cause, the industry largely self-regulated before the FDA ever stepped in. Companies published lab results showing the contents of their juices, and people were largely aware of the dangers around cheaply made coils with questionable metals. Around 2020 (to my memory at least), a huge glut of disposables began entering the market. Undoing the vast majority of progress made in terms of recyclability and health. It’s been a backward slide ever since, and I’m 100% convinced that it was orchestrated by the tobacco industry. It’s no coincidence that British American Tobacco (Lucky Strike, Pall Mall) owns one of the biggest vape brands sold in gas stations, Vuse, which has conveniently evaded the vape bans being passed in California and other states. Altria (Marlboro) owns a stake in Juul, as well as having their own vape company, NJOY.

Do some research if you actually care. You’re blowing smoke. Like it or not, smoking cannabis carries a risk of lung cancer due to the tar, benzene, and hydrocarbons. “Uhm ackshually it cures cancer-” yes when it’s used in the form of RSO. Not just taking a joint to the dome. There’s no getting around the fact you’re inhaling burning plant matter.

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Your description sounds more than interesting enough to me, glad to hear you didn’t destroy it. Is there somewhere I can view your work? Assuming you want to share.

Career politician. If you actually read the blog it explains pretty well.

Because I was raised on media that glorified the plight of the underdog, beset against on all sides by powerful forces. And my grandpa told me “The hardest things in life are the things most worth doing.”

I believe it’s partially because the national debt has always been high and keeps getting higher. It’s been a little while since I checked or heard anything about it, but it got a lot of press time in the 2010’s. I feel like that affected how americans view debt. I’ve also heard the financial advice espoused by banks “it’s financially healthy to have some debt, it helps you build credit”. Which is partially a crock of shit and regardless of the veracity of that statement, it mostly leads to people digging a hole they can’t get out of.

I mean yeah, I would answer your statement as “yes”. But I would prefer to challenge a fundamental assumption within your question, “suffering is good”. Suffering is neither bad nor good, it simply is. Without the experience of suffering, experiences of non-suffering would lose some or all of their meaning. Without winter we cannot appreciate summer, and vice versa.

Definitely the symbology aspect, fresh rose petals are inconvenient as hell. I did the bed thing for my girlfriend one year for our anniversary but used fake fabric petals. No sticking, and I saved them for the next occasion. Your points are exactly the reason why I did that.

Here is a personal favorite of mine. Silence brands everywhere.

Agreed, MS and Google are pretty much on the same plane with regards to company ethics.

Makes sense that it becomes a serious trade-off with usability the more a company tries to DIY. The risk aspect is certainly hard to get around. Seems that a solution to this problem would have to be long-term. Any company that has competed with AWS in the past, afaik, has been purchased and absorbed. It would likely require the creation of a nonprofit with a guiding directive to prioritize keeping the organization independent and never being sold. But I’ve seen that sort of thing fall apart and go off-mission in other industries too.

Considering the above, the only other thing I can think of is a regulating body declaring AWS as a monopoly and forcing them to split. The chances of that happening in the current administration are probably near zero.

Shit sucks, though I appreciate your response.

That’s interesting. I have to think more about this but it certainly makes sense, I certainly don’t feel 100% pure male based on… many things. Thank you for explaining.

How is everyone a tiny bit trans, as you say? Genuinely curious since everything else you said resonates quite strongly with me, I’m just not sure what you mean by that point in particular.

I know. I’m not a web dev nor do I know anyone who is to convince otherwise, to use other services. AWS dominance is undeniably huge. If you know a way to combat that (alternative infrastructure) I would be happy to hear it, and I will share that alongside what I already tell people. Again I’m not well-versed in that space, but my understanding is that AWS is essentially the only full-stack solution that’s also highly scalable. Open to correction if I’m wrong here.

I haven’t given a god damn dime to amazon since 2020, ever since I learned about the piss bottles. I’ve asked (and assisted) others to do the same. What else do you expect someone to do? Speak for yourself asshole.

Alright you make fair points. Easier than multiple menus but yeah, why the hell do they keep rearranging? It feels like an engagement mechanism to make you spend just a second longer on the page or accidentally click something else due to muscle memory.

This is the opposite of infuriating. Do you know what is? Having to poke around all four corners and then scroll down to figure out where the latest update moved the shit I’m looking for. This isn’t very clean I’ll give you that. But it’s still 1000% better than buttons all over the place.