Drone motors.

People don't buy what they want to buy, they buy what the constant barrage of advertising tells them to buy. Starting with those most susceptible, then peer pressure gets added to the adverts, add in government lobbying and a list of other underhanded tricks, and bosh, job done.

E-cigs, wank tanks, social media, "designer products", the list goes on.

I'm sorry, the government lets corporations draft laws?!

Jesus Christ.

I.... What?!

Biased how?

Don't forget the absolute dregs of humanity, the Vulture Capitalists!

No. Not one bit.

Between the 50Hz fluorescent tubes that were common at the time and the cheap shit monitors running at 60Hz, also common at the time, I had migraines 3-4 times a week.

I categorically do not miss those days.

As the empirical truth tends to consistently show right wing arguments as an utter shower of shit, if truth isn't a matter of opinion that would make them wrong.... And that simply cannot be true, obviously.

"Something went wrong" with the system they're ultimately responsible for, the system that they've stripped to the bone in search of growth in a saturated naturally monopolistic market.

Loss of bonuses should be the least of their fucking worries. -.-

I'm sorry, what?

Where do you live, that they've sunk that low?!

Hot sand storage.

Drops mic

She willingly took on responsibility for the shitshow, risk/reward. She happens to be holding the bag when the music is stopping, I couldn't care less how long she personally has been in the role.

It's not like this class of people works harder than others, so that massive fucking pay packet has to be for something. I assume it's for the risk of taking on the responsibility.

Depending on how overt you want to be, ear defenders or "concert earplugs" might be helpful to you.

The concert plugs are designed to just take everything down a few notches but leave vocal range alone where possible, same as ear defenders in all honesty.

Means you can still hear people, birds and animals, but takes the amplitude out of everything else, making the soundscape far more tolerable.

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Perfect is the enemy of good.

Nope. Mostly gambling adverts. Every other advert, some cuntrag gambling company.

Why aren't you gambling? It's easy, we have an app for it so you can do it on the sly and everything. Do it. Gamble now, all your friends are doing it. Look at all these joyous people gambling, don't you want to be like them? Gamble now!

Not interested. Will never be interested. The more I get advertised a thing, the less interested I get; one of the few useful artefacts of my spergness. Advertising genuinely doesn't have the desired affect on me, it just annoys me and I mentally blacklist any product that advertises at me.

The entire advertising industry is a cancer on humanity as far as I'm concerned. A net drain of resources that serves no purpose other than to prop up the throwaway consumerism that's destroying the only place in the universe known for certain to support life.

Fuck all that shit.

That's the "revulsion reflex", it's a "normal" urge. Useful in evolutionary terms, it instinctively keeps us away from disease vectors. It sounds like yours is... "Well developed" should we say? 💛

I'm not one to advocate for physical violence against children, usually. However, some children, at some point, need a demonstration of what happens when you push a person too far.

Edit: Also worth noting, it's clear when one of those children never got that demonstration, never got that attitude correction, and grew up into an adult.

What if the customer is incapable of some or all of the chain of tasks required to produce the home cooked equivalent?

Could be they work pretty much their whole waking life, running 3 or more jobs.

Could be they're disabled and can't do grocery shopping, or food prep, or cooking.

Before you judge someone, spend a few minutes imagining why exactly the circumstances are the way they are, and aim for a bit beyond the hateboner fantasy you already had in mind, yeah?

My aunt did fine getting shopping delivered, until she had a stroke that took out 20% of one hemisphere. Using a kitchen knife after that was downright dangerous. Is she supposed to avoid providing pizza or similar for her kids' birthday parties in your world?

Just one real world example that took me but seconds. Think beyond your bubble.

So far.

It takes two. You're obviously aware of compromises made, referring to an example as you did. I'm reasonably sure someone aware of -and willing to discuss- such things is someone who makes an effort with others' feelings and wishes. That alone puts you above most people I meet, so give yourself some credit. 💛