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Ankh
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 Posted: Tue, 26th Mar 2024 05:44 Post subject: |
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If you swap healthcare insurance provider once a year, you can get a free electric toothbrush every year here.
These devices are cheap.
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Ankh
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| Posted: Tue, 26th Mar 2024 05:46 Post subject: |
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| iconized wrote: | If you swap healthcare insurance provider once a year, you can get a new toothbrush every year here.
These devices are cheap. |
But thats what amaze me...how can stuff be so cheap when we have limited resources on our planet? Its sick...
shitloads of new stuff in my pc. Cant keep track of it all.
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| Posted: Tue, 26th Mar 2024 05:58 Post subject: |
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Greed, wasting resources. It will not end until we end.
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| Posted: Tue, 26th Mar 2024 06:32 Post subject: |
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| iconized wrote: | If you swap healthcare insurance provider once a year, you can get a free electric toothbrush every year here.
These devices are cheap. |
True, but your effort is money too. The timesink and paperwork of doing that is worth more than a $10 toothbrush unless your time doing something for someone else that is not entertaining or enjoyable (insurance company redtape, as in the end only thing different is a toothbrush) is worth $0 and hour to you.
| Ankh wrote: | | But thats what amaze me...how can stuff be so cheap when we have limited resources on our planet? Its sick... |
Because the consumer demands it. We dont really care the resources are limited, long as we get our cut of it, for as cheap as possible, before it runs out.
Start selling a $10 toothbrush for $25 because resources are limited and a fair price considering finite material, see how many customers you get 
"Long as it last long enough to still be affordable until I myself die" is the common outlook of most. And on the bell curve of 'caring' most only really care enough to be sliiiightly better than average so 'feels good' kick in with no real impact on the issue, just an impact on how guilty they feel (as that is what really matters)
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| Posted: Tue, 26th Mar 2024 06:40 Post subject: |
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The manufacturing costs of an midrange electric toothbrush probably does not even cost a dollar.
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| Posted: Tue, 26th Mar 2024 06:41 Post subject: |
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I was speaking retail, sorry. The amount you would spend to acquire it without it being free.
“I’d rather have questions I can’t answer than answers I can’t question.“ Richard Feynman.
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Ankh
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| Posted: Tue, 26th Mar 2024 16:50 Post subject: |
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Amazon sometimes isnt any better. Over 10+ years I have had the rare returns, 1/2 of them they just send me a whole new one and told me to keep the one I have. Most of the was just a small nuisance of an issue, and wasn't broke, just some part of it was damaged or such. Like my shop vac, the hose end to connect to the vac was cracked and leaked vacuum. Just needed a new hose and got a whole new vacuum. So I have two perfect fine working vacs, just with one hose between them.
I suppose its IS greener, as it's not shipping to me and back from me using trucks, planes, and boxing both ways. But seems wasteful for the actual materials and manufacturing process.
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M4trix
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| Posted: Tue, 26th Mar 2024 18:20 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Tue, 26th Mar 2024 19:06 Post subject: |
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I moved to my other account I never used other than to report my main was locked out. I reset it's password to 'slap the keyboard and hit save' knowing the password reset dont work.
Keeps me out of some of the forums (not many but some) I can't see that I seem to derail with tangential to the actual subject debates.
And didn't feel I fit in with the VIP status anymore.
As if voted on now I doubt I would earn it as much friction as I cause with some. This isnt for a 'stand', or attention, or some declaration of statement to the masses about it. More my mental compartmentalization of: Not the old account, leave that on the dead one.
Plus lets people that want to vent about me (if anyone even cares enough to), have a place they know I can't see to do so free from worrying if I can read it in the VIP area. Don't know if anyone even gives enough of a shit, or care to. But at least offer them that option if they want it.
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| Posted: Tue, 26th Mar 2024 19:51 Post subject: |
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@TheZor
I agree with those forums/subreddits. Get the good one to start with. "Buy once cry once" as they say. I learned this the hard way long ago with woodworking power tools/tools I needed when doing construction. (if you find you use a tool more than a few times a year, get the good one)
just incase anyone not familiar with that that saying means: Cry once for how much you paid for the good one, vs crying everytime the cheap ones break to get a new cheap one.
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Frant
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| Posted: Tue, 26th Mar 2024 21:24 Post subject: |
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Perhaps they just don't stock spare parts and thought it would be pointless to steal the part from a new kit and thus not being able to sell it anyway.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
"The sky was the color of a TV tuned to a dead station" - Neuromancer
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Ankh
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| Posted: Wed, 27th Mar 2024 09:19 Post subject: |
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| Frant wrote: | | Perhaps they just don't stock spare parts and thought it would be pointless to steal the part from a new kit and thus not being able to sell it anyway. |
That is probably THE reason. But its still just so silly
shitloads of new stuff in my pc. Cant keep track of it all.
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Ankh
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| Posted: Wed, 27th Mar 2024 09:20 Post subject: |
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