Contemporary appliances actually do fail more often, and earlier, than their predecessors. They have added a bunch of extraneous things to what was a very simple, stalwart, design. These additions have drastically increased the complexity of their designs and created many fold more points of failure than there used to be. It isn’t so much that the manufacturing is sloppier, or that the materials aren’t as good, though in some ways that is a contributor, just not the main one.

If you by a recently manufactured fridge like the following, you will get a fridge that will last decades if you do the minimum to keep it in good condition. However if you buy one that has an in door ice machine, lcd touch screen, complex lay out that requires the basic mechanical devices, to keep the fridge cool, to have a bunch of extra tubing, wiring, connections, etc. it is much more likely to fail because of all the extra points of failure you added.

https://www.amazon.com/GE-16-6-White-Top-Freezer-Refrigerator/dp/B07X6N4Y5X/ref=sr_1_39?crid=IAU5IJE3MQNB&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.7A36GOsFTD0qVFIoLkz3F8wlrWo8FO7xlIypczHMKJgv1VMIp3tBlRi_bTV8_8jYSPL6FYxwlOwiLv6Q-vvdtamFNNvhQk0-VSONuiwbD1vRjilwEtRCDpq6uY6qDaWDUrlbqurr-pQjwP4ABucj-WkmIWQVehuM2EgqYVDp3LXbp9tV74t-gM1pHuO-yJD6Ie2ygW0EI9d4yQ7c5QeP47Nf4U1jvcgUucPe7Kj9K0Pt_OKf1uIhNDR_WT-IjdkY6ugtF2-mMUTpSOt0GTPm0nFyJ2mgISMB0wQxRg05GaY.SX-DBs0wx7Ej_MrCF1WO1OxnimsCnQim24ONGjvQUT8&dib_tag=se&sprefix=ge+basic+fridge%2Caps%2C101

What are you talking about? Land taxes were one of, if not the, most important tax group in medieval times.

would you care to elaborate on what you believe should be done about this?

From their reply, I am assuming white

SOP, got it

Did you kill the kid, beat them, or did you just throw them in jail?

You are talking about Henry Bennett. This is a myth though. While he did have stairs like that, he died in a care home after years of declining health. His actual cause of death wasn’t announced, but it was likely because he had been in rapid decline for years and just before going into the care home, had a stroke.

Concentrated solar plants that heat using a bunch of focused light

Wasn’t one of these built and ended up being a huge failure?

The mass school shootings didn’t really take off off until the mid 2000s. So we are really just seeing the generation of constant mass shootings come into adulthood.

When columbine happened it was rare for that type of shooting to happen at a school. The actual rate of school shootings was rapidly dropping by the late 90s too. It is still much lower than it was, only these mass shootings has increased. So, with it being, at the time, a rare event, and shootings in schools on a rapid decline, it just didn’t hit the way it seems to have affected gen z/alpha.

Ok, for one example, after the 2008 housing market drop, banks bought the debt from other banks intentionally writing bad loans, which they then resold to third parties. This buying up of the debt of the banks that collapsed during this time lead to banks pushing families out of their homes, many of which were paid-up, but the lending institution behind them had failed, in order to resell the property later, when the market prices had recovered, or use the land for other developments. This was enforced by the police. Bankers did not go around forcing people out of their houses, the police did it at their behest.

Another is laws created specifically to punish people for being homeless. Laws like not being able to camp anywhere near a place they might be able to get themselves out of homelessness, e.g. a place with jobs, and other resources, not some place way out in the forest. These are also only effective because the police use violence to enforce them. Anti-solicitation laws fall into this category. Police often don’t realize that (speaking for my country) they are not constitutional at the federal level. Police departments that know about this tell their cops to do it anyway because it’s not like homeless people will likely be able to sue them.

A third is the enforcement of petty traffic fines. Things like window tint, or minor violations in situations where the safety concern isn’t present. These fines are, often, the brunt of how they fund themselves. Petty violations, like tint, are also used to go on fishing expeditions, so they can either wrack-up more fines, or make an arrest, even if that means intentionally escalating the situation, lying about what happened, and giving false testimony in court. More arrests, more convictions, equals more money for the police, and the legal industry as a whole. If you work with, or around, police, like I have, you will hear them discuss things like testilying. Bouncing ideas off of each other as to how they can make bad arrests, and use illegal levels of force, while having a technicality to maintain their immunity, e.g. screaming quit resisting, while in a position where they know cameras can’t really see what is happening. This is just the tip of this iceberg, I would need thousands, upon thousands, of words to detail all the shit I have heard police say, and see police do.

I can go on, but I think I have made my point.

Also Cathode Ray Dude

Also sponge bob skin theory. Dude had a little video putzing around, then a couple years later dropped a couple hour long video to convince people of some absolutely wild shit about sponge bob, then just disappeared.

It is because there is actually no documentation of biden being associated with Epstein, like with Trump and Clinton, that was a lie, and the stuff about touching ranges from photos that are not nearly as weird looking when seen in the context of video footage, to videos that are more like him putting his hands on kids’ shoulders, patting their heads, etc., nothing really that strange for an old man interacting with small kids, a stretch to call it something sinister at best, and a claim that, while may be true, has a number of issues in its story.

It is, as they say, a nothing burger, unless something with a lot more strength behind it, comes forth.

She has an absolutely statue-esque physique. These chuds are so fragile. This intimidates them.

Back in the day I used to work at one of the largest hospitals in the US. In my last year there they had started having doctors record their notes, issues order, and prescriptions, on an audio file, using and issued microphone. Then that stuff was sent to a group of people transcribing everything in text. these scribes would also fill out forms for the orders and prescriptions. they did this in response to a series of lawsuits they lost badly.

yes, lengthy, nuanced, disputations, are just what the four panel comics, on the meme forum, needs.

Let’s just say I call them a lot of things.

yeah, when hillary called the trump cultists deplorable, and a bunch of people wigged out, crying about her saying mean things, all I could think about is how I have heard that, and much worse, from right wing media, for as long as I have memories. At the time people would say “but she did it as a candidate on an official forum”, or something similar, while her rival was just a sewer vomiting this type of sentiment, and worse, on a daily basis. And all the people who spent so much time calling everyone snowflakes, completely melted down over one insult.

this person is a troll. Look at their comment history. Everything is just insulting people, and lemmy, talking about how much smarter they are than everything. Everything says this is a troll personality.

If not, well they are so stupid they aren’t worth talking to.