Fair points. We actually do buy much stuff used, even clothes. As a principle. Though I always kinda feel bad to buy stuff others could have needed more or are forced financially to do so. It’s a mixed bag…

As for employees that’s another thing. Offline shopping is so annoying that most stores closed already and the inner cities here basically became lil Istanbuls where you can’t even read the signs anymore unless you can read Arabic. What’s left are mostly chains, of which many are US-owned or lick US-boots (nothing against you guys, but the country and its course). So buying there or at Amazon doesn’t change much. Super large companies that shit on employees and would rather own slaves than pay minimum wage.

And the few shops where shopping is still fun, peaceful and with a variety that sparks joy, are often shops not meant for the average Joe. The last one we strolled through was awesome. Except that unless they see your platinum or better card they wouldn’t even talk with you. And we usually don’t look like we’re loaded and we got treated this way. So fuck them too.

I hate offline shopping. And I loved it 30yrs ago. I went to the city core every day and shopped like an idiot. It was fun, informative and efficient. Now that feels like a story from my dead granny

Hm, what’s the difference? 😁

I don’t know where you live, but shopping offline is a nightmare here (germany). Not only can you drive a lot to actually find any store that might have the shit you need, but also have to find parking. And then pay more for that than shipping costs of a fucking 200" TV.

And then you have to deal with overcrowded shops with a gazillion stinky people in line just to endure a totally clueless yet unmotivated employee.

And then they offer one or two of the things you want. Nowhere near what you actually want or way too cheap or way too expensive. Or just plain crap. Or exactly what you want, but in pink hello Kitty design.

And then…despite all our legal rights and customer protection laws, you can fight every fucking merchant ever whenever you the dislike the product after a few days or, god beware, it broke and you need a new one or at least repairs.

Amazon got me 20yrs ago when my top of the line gaming GPU broke after 2 years and they just refunded it, no questions asked. And they still do. I literally saved a 100k on their lash policy over those 20yrs.

I hate amazon from the depths of my heart, I avoid any and every us-company, all big tech and social media and whatnot. But those damn fuckers? I would have to spend triple to get a fraction of everything and drive hundreds of hours. And I’m a goddamn cheapskate that turns around any cent, despite having enough.

We only have one other very big shop here for online, and they only have a tiny fraction. I shop there too, but…

Up to this day I have never had an account and never ever looked at their shit. And guess what I have been missing since then? Exactly. Social media is mostly cancer and Rest Propaganda. Especially if its us-owned.

Hahahahahahahha…but yeah, that’d be awesome. Fucking damn touchscreens in cars.

Of course! I’m deeply sorry the previous version didn’t compile. Here is your absolute 100% final working game “star citizen 2” as requested. And this is why it works: (blahblahblah)

(Any LLM ever)

My system is better and cheaper:

Phone always on DND. Wife goes through, noone else is important enough to disrupt whatever I’m doing just to tell me shit that could’ve been an email.

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It is. And if you’re “legit” then I didn’t present an overly warm welcome 😁

True. But to what purpose? I wouldn’t waste a buck for ads on Lemmy. A majority of critical people (why else they’d be here?) are probably not the ideal demographic for cheap marketing manipulation.

If you are actually real and this is no ad, then I’m sorry and you’re very welcome 😊

Otherwise…well…

With an ACC that only ever posted this? Are we there yet? Ads on Lemmy? I thought this shit wouldn’t fly here.

The only wise approach in these times of unfinished and half-assed games. Just wait a year or so. Added bonus is the discount 😊

Oh lord, yes…how could i have forgotten that. Poor souls, what a dark day for all of us…

Has anyone had any consequences so far? Beside maybe a mild annoyance to have been “caught”

Guess you can’t really prove that, unless you leave comments like “generated by Claude” in it with timestamp and whatnot 😁 Or one can prove that you are unable to get to that result yourself.

So nonsense, yes.

…and still kicking. Right. That one too 😊

how the company can scan neighborhoods for missing dogs

Hilarious. Thanks for making me laugh.

“Windows must both remain an open platform and be secure by default”, says Microsoft in its Windows Experience Blog

…but it isn’t either and will be neither. It will just be even more closed down, like android. It’s so tiring reading shit like that.

No thanks. Good I finally ditched win for Linux. Should’ve done this earlier.