The problem with refills is they're never discounted whereas the bottled products are. Therefore you end up paying a premium for less packaging, it's infuriating.
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War was the one thing the US was good at, now they have nothing of value left for the rest of the world.
Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan.
US is good at pumping infinite money into the military. But they definitely aren't "good" at war.
You're being downvoted for providing true information that disputes sensationalism. This place is truly fucking weird
This is a rather sensationalist headline.
Every so often software developers need to eat food and live beneath shelter.
The developer of Boost @rmayayo@lemmy.world provides a free version that's supported by ads, or you can purchase an ad free experience for a one time cost. That's been a standard business since forever.
There isn't any grand conspiracy here.
Then why do you want to see it broken up? Monopoly seemed a pretty reasonable assumption.
Steam is hardly a monopoly.
There are plenty of successfully competing stores. The only real thing Steam has going for it is network effect that every gamer has an account therefore it's decent for socialising, but even that is being challenged by Discord and a multitude of others.
GamePass is probably the closest we're seeing to a potential monopoly. The purchase of activation should never have been permitted.
Everyone likes the idea of Esperanto but nobody can be fucked with learning a language nobody else presently uses.
Especially since we English have somehow managed to blunder and bludgeon our language so widely across the world that it's just accepted as a default.
Yes.
It has always been a pet peeve of mine that I would find an interesting topic while browsing all on reddit, with a healthy number of upvotes and comments but regardless mods will bluster in and lock it because it's not quite on topic.
Back in the early days of Internet forums when moderators found an off topic post they would move it to the relevant sub , and there would typically be an "Other", "Off-Topic" or "Random" as a catch all.
I've never understood why threaded social media is missing such a basic moderation function.
Erm. ChatGPT reckons it's closer to 20-40 cups for the same embodied energy. So my recollection was well off the mark.
I seem to recall many years ago it was reported that a ceramic mug had such a high embodied energy that it was equivalent to 1000+ paper cups.
This definitely needs fact checking but it's an interesting consideration when you're considering the impact on the planet
I guess. I don't get it.
This sums it up exactly!
You aren't just downvoting comments you disagree with, you're downvoting comments because you don't understand them.
By downvoting instead of commenting you never open that discussion to learn about somebody's view.
And by downvoting you're reducing the chance that somebody else might see the comment. Who either does understand it, or responds to continue the discussion.
After 13 years of conservative government it's ridiculous to believe there's any more welfare that could be cut without inflicting unnecessary pain.
£5 billion is a tiny proportion of government spending, and this is money that would immediately be re-spent by recipients so it directly contributes to our economy.
The only reason to push ahead with this is to get some headlines and appeal to some of Reform voters who inevitably moan about benefit scroungers.