Brewchin

Similar to: “Tradition” is peer pressure from dead people. 😄

By stores do you mean Amazon Fresh? Definitely.

I thought it was interesting it wasn’t mentioned in the comparison to similar historical false claims.

The most American post I’ve seen on Lemmy to date. 😬

Calibre (Kindle) and Libation (Audible) are essential backup tools.

Y’know, in case their servers are down…

I get what you’re saying, but I’m not sure greedy pigboy is doing that. Everything changes.

It won’t be what it was, and the grift will grow be off the charts, but I think it will evolve into a mix of what it was and grifters grifting. Just delineated by subreddit.

"I don’t like it…

• “…so it should be banned” (for everyone) is never the right approach.
• “…so I blocked it” (for me) is.

It’s a simple heuristic that works in almost every situation.

You don’t know what value something you don’t like provides to others.

Now do January 2025.

The IRL version of the used car salesman meme: “(Slaps roof) We can fit so many months inside this bad boy…”

Can’t escape Cory Doctorow’s observation that the internet is “five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of text from the other four”.

We may be away from those 5 sites, but the behaviours and content from them is very much here.

Your original question was answered by numerous people in the spirit of the community, so you have got best answers it can provide at the moment, but your follow-up comments suggest that you don’t think so.

But I may have misjudged your intent, as looking further I can see you’ve been replying to comments individually. My initial impression was that you were masquerading statements as questions. If I have that wrong, then my apologies.

Yes, but what’s your point here? “Oh no, someone preserve us from… *checks notes* a group of subject matter experts!”?

If that annoys you for some reason, you’d best not learn how the overwhelming majority of products and services see the light of day. Rage aplenty awaits.

Safety and convenience versus the cost of including them, I expect.

The Wikipedia page for BS 1363 says they’re optional and weren’t added to the standard until 1967. I can’t recall having seen a domestic socket without one.

But it seems the only legal way to read the actual standard is to pay for it, and even the HSE website isn’t much help.

It’s a pretty common and wildly successful marketing strategy to put something on social media with one or more intentional errors to force everyone’s inner Reply Guy to fight the urge to do the thing.

But it also works with unintentional errors. My less well-thought-out replies attract responses like flies. 😄

Whether it indicates the success of your thesis or not depends on how you measure it, I suppose.

Waiting for Spez to weigh in with his typical subtlety and even-handedness… 🍿