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i even have one of their swag water bottles
didn't know they endorsed something this sleazy
Stuff that results in unfortunate logic like "Capitulating to the Communist Party of China is fine because if you don't somebody else will do it and then they'll use their overseas profits to come back to your domestic market and bury you."
They've also developed flawed corporate models, moved them into common use and then maintained brand-ownership over them whilst they themselves move on to better systems in-house.
They're basically a slightly nicer version of McKinsey Consulting (which, obviously, also endorsed the Holy Texts).
To play devil's advocate here. Business is cutthroat, and nobody survives on morals and principles*. That's why (sensible) government regulation exists (I'm not a fan of government overreach either).
*I learned the other day that despite all the greenwashing and Fair Trade stuff, the most widely used vegetable oil right now, Palm Oil, only grows super-well where rainforest grew and the one body that's meant to well, "green it up" or at least not destroy people's lives is super bad at that.
Vaguely related; at some point a week or so ago I also learned the Values of Vertical Integration Until Just Above The Point of Legal Liability ie, why companies have "suppliers" versus growing their own palm oil trees and making their own clothes for $.0004 a garment.
Frackin' jerks.
As for me, I am not going to stop eating commercial ice-cream (despite my -admittedly mild- lactose intolerance), or using commercial soap, or... anything, because of this palm oil stuff. It sounds terrible, but it's better to be honestly terrible than a miserable holier-than-thou (or worse, a holier-than-thou hypocrite).
Perhaps I should've bought stuff, I've been thinking about lost of stuff I could be using so perhaps that was a good opportunity to do so.
Edit: Oh yeah, and some stores are also participating in Black Friday here, which AFAIK is the first time it happens.
But if you can handle yourself in a crowd and stuff you want is indeed on clearance
get it on Amazongo all out.Oh also paging gacek; Is this a real thing?
Oh, definitely. "German domestic chemistry" being the literal translation of the phrase used in advertising. Shops specializing in it are relatively common and a longer walk around a town will probably let you encounter one. I have also encountered ads for small scale (less than professional) exchanges, usually organised on parish grounds.
As for the premise being true, we never used German ware, but plenty of people seem to believe it. A bit of a conspiracy theory, plus memory of the commie era and the Nineties, plus a sense of inferiority, plus, ahem, a perception of being perceived as inferior.
Well, thanks for the info!
Oh by the way I found that picture.
I don't think this type of reasoning would ever be employed by a manufacturer unless it also was just a cost-savings mechanism under the guise of helping people out.
Of course, they couldn't lie about it on their packaging because that'd leave them liable to lawsuits.
It's more likely that they'd try to put more chemicals into things to achieve economies of sale which sounds more like a right-wing conspiracy theory I guess.
It's kind of surprising me how much current left-leaning tendencies depend so much on blaming one's self for a lot of things.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brony,_Łódź_Voivodeship
Checks out.
how to lean a static number one way or another:
instead of saying "X" say "at least X" to suggest but defensibly-not-state that there could be more
instead of saying "X" say "at most X" to suggest but defensibly-not-state that there could be less
But also more often I just see so much fudging in a single instance that the individual devices don't matter.
I remember a Reddit thread with lots of people arguing about wether 5 is "at least 0" with sides clearly divided between the more math-oriented ones and those who aren't.
I forgot the name but it's a linguistics thing where it's assumed that you're given the most information the speaker knows about (unless they're lying or have ulterior motives).
The impression I get from the approximately 46bn times I've rounded a number is that there's only one valid opinion on this.
[14:13:29] [GMH> discord is down
[14:13:31] [GMH> lololol
[14:13:39] [GMH> "API Errors / Latency"
[14:14:33] [GMH> "Google is currently investigating an issue with SSD persistent disk in our region (what our database clusters store their data on). We are awaiting their resolution. Given the IO starvation, we are expecting continued API latency - as most if not all our datastores are currently degraded. We will post updates as we get them."
[14:14:53] [GMH> Meanwhile on IRC:
[14:15:01] [GMH> [14:13:39] [GMH> "API Errors / Latency"
[14:15:01] [GMH> [14:14:33] [GMH> "Google is currently investigating an issue with SSD persistent disk in our region (what our database clusters store their data on). We are awaiting their resolution. Given the IO starvation, we are expecting continued API latency - as most if not all our datastores are currently degraded. We will post updates as we get them."
[14:15:02] [GMH> [14:14:53] [GMH> Meanwhile on IRC:
[14:15:28] [GMH> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I mean, of course, this does exemplify why you shouldn't trust bloaty apps run by single companies but still.
Well, okay.
On unrelated matters, I wonder why I have a hard time explaining to people what 3D modeling is, everybody knows what 3DCG animations are but apparently not how they're made.
lol Sure, why not.
I don't know why but as I've gotten older the seasonal stuff has been getting to me more, and I kind of started taking over preparations insomuch that even my grandma just kind of expects it from me.
I might post some Christmas recipes in the cooking thread after I've tried them out, too.
However, I do want to grab 2013 14w by the shoulders and shake all the offended-ness out of him.