I’ve learned to recognize these fly-by-night “brands” that sell generic chinesium and then disappear before people figure out they are selling junk. For many things I’m buying on Amazon, I’m looking for some sort of established brand name that has a website and some videos on YouTube.

I’m also very aggressive about utilizing the returns system. If it’s crap, it’s getting returned. Thankfully the returns process has been more or less painless, don’t even have to box them up anymore, just bring them to Staples.

For desk chairs specifically, I recommend this brand. I know, the brand and website looks like it’s designed to cash in on AI hype, but I’ve had their ErgoChair Pro since before ChatGPT was a thing: https://www.autonomous.ai/office-chairs

I’ve also learned to buy more from local stores, even if they are national chain big box stores, simply because they will NOT continue to stock garbage if people keep returning it. I’ve found that ACE hardware tends to have better quality stuff than Lowes/Home Depot.

For cheap online purchases, I think some of these sellers understand that people are less likely to return online purchases, so they don’t have as much of a disincentive for selling junk.

If you end up with a small amount of chips and dip left, just dump the small pieces into the dip and eat it with a spoon like cereal.

A one day general strike across the US would be an amazing achievement. If we can pull that off it’s a great place to start. Would a more sustained effort have to be planned? Probably, but being able to achieve this shows that the people are serious about this and the threat of a more sustained strike can be taken seriously.

I want one so that it explains why I’m driving slow. Maybe tailgaters would exhibit a little less road rage.

Also, I want it to flip around to say “Baby is NOT on board” so when I want to drive like an asshole they know I mean business.

Good source of fiber and adhesives!

I enjoyed Being Human. Not normally into the vampires and werewolves thing but I enjoyed it.

I don’t know if this accounts for how inefficient smoking is.

If you have a gram of flower that is 20 percent THC, you’re not* getting the whole 200mg when you smoke that gram.

Have you watched Love Death and Robots?

This is like the tech broligarchs using references to Tolkien while propping up a fascist regime and trying to forge one AGI to rule us all.

I’m aware that the role of the US on the international stage is often not that of the good guys, but I’m not sure how you could argue that USAID and taking care of injured veterans are not examples of empathy.

Keep in mind that there are voters in the US who think that we should take care of our veterans, but somehow agree with Musk when he says empathy is bad. I think it’s important to show those people some examples of empathy that they would support.

He doesn’t necessarily need to be a white supremacist to be a piece of shit jack-booted thug who gets his rocks off by committing violence against defenseless people.

Yeah but he knows that if they think they have to follow rules… Trump supporters that can barely read and write wouldn’t sign up to be jack-booted thugs.

Yes Daddy, press that boot on my neck harder. Yess, let me lick it.

These employees did exercise their right to unionize, but there’s no way to force employers to keep the union. A union just means that you can bargain collectively, and it should theoretically protect employees because what kind of scummy employer wants to fire ALL their employees, right? Turns out Ubisoft IS that scummy.

This needs to become a meme format where we replace the middle panels with shots of current headlines for example “Trump defends ICE murderer” or “Trump updates official website to gaslight anyone who was alive on J6”.

Any kind of spray you have lying around should make their wings too laden to fly. Simple Green, Windex, Axe Body Spray, etc. Could probably just be a spray bottle with water too.

Then you can do what you will with them.

I guess LED lights have some latency but to me it’s still better than some of those fluorescent lights. I’ve had those where the bulb doesn’t light until I’ve already given up and turned on another light.

Many rooms in my place have light switches tied to outlets. Usually just a single switched plug per room. I know where they all are now but it would have been good if there was a little light icon on each plug.

Still, now that I know, I’m not sure I actually want to add that icon, since I know where it is and I’ll either plug in a light (in which case I know easily) or I won’t (in which case I don’t care).

If the switches don’t match I’m triggered. Some small label or abbreviation on the plate might be ok though.

Or little icons that match the style of the plate would be cool. I’m thinking about getting these for the ceiling fans:

The real issue with this picture is not the “user experience”, unless it is a hotel or some public place where customers are intended to interact with the devices.

The real issue is that the switches and plates aren’t lined up right.