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Cake day: July 15th, 2023

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  • America isn’t the only place with stupid people.

    And, Americans are some of the most heavily propagandized people in the world. it’s subtle, but it doesn’t have to be subtle for it to be effective. It just has to be pervasive.

    Is there a problem with poor education? absolutely. Are stupid people voting for trump? absolutely.

    This isn’t saying Americans aren’t stupid. we are.
    This is a warning.

    it can happen anywhere. And it will happen everywhere people believe it can’t happen.

    edit: to add, it’s really only a relatively large handful of americans that are shocked by this. Most of the people being surprised wanted to hurt people- and are really just being surprised he’s also hurting them. they thought they were “special” and that “he loved them” or something. stupidity and bigotry go hand in hand. Others knew it would maybe make things worse, but it was some how “worth it”. Others are in a christian fundamentalist cult and convinced to vote that way because some asshole preacher told them they’d go to hell if they didn’t. Others- the rich fucks- all want this to happen.



  • This is the same company that sells an entire printer at a loss, as a semi-disposable item, so you’ll be suckered into buying their proprietary ink cartridges at the low low price of an arm and a dick. Inefficiency? From the company that makes disposable fucking printers? yeah that sounds about right.

    small point of fact… they’re no longer loss leaders. They’re making a profit on the printer too, now. they only did that to push out other brands in the space- they’re at 20+% global market share… and that’s just HP branded printers. they own some other junky brands.








  • Fixing HP’s statement on the matter so it’s more honest:

    We’re always looking for ways to improve our customer service experience, because this is the first step in not doing that. This support offering was intended force you into less expensive options that didn’t involve live humans because we’re cheap bastards who don’t actually care if your printer works- you’ve already bought it, and it stopped being a loss leader in the 90’s. Seriously. the printers have not changed since then, but we jacked the rates when you weren’t looking and called all those not-actually-new features something new and cool sounding.

    We have found that many of our customers were not aware of the digital support options we provide. because we don’t want you to use those, either. we want you to suffer in silence. and buy more ink. Based on initial feedback, we know the importance of speaking to live customer service agents in a timely fashion is paramount. As a result, we will fire most of our live representatives so that it takes then twenty minutes to get to you, instead of just telling them let you cool your heels.

    also, we’re updating our onhold music play lists. they now include Justin Beiber’s “Baby”, Nickleback’s “Rockstar”, Rebeca Black’s “Friday”, and the entire sound track to Cats, the musical. oh, and in the interest of keeping it diverse, Walker Hayes “90’s country song”.




  • theoretically? yes.

    several problems.

    Food dehydrators typically apply heat as well, and sometimes significantly higher than a filament dryer.

    Then there’s the cleaning and bacterial contamiation issues- food dehydrators are made to be easily cleaned so as to prevent bacteria doing nasty things to you.

    Then there’s the various resins and solvents that sometimes off gas becoming toxic.

    Microplastics is far down the list if you’re desperate, but it’s there too.

    but otherwise, they’re still basically the same device A heater (maybe) pushing warm(ish) air over something.