that’s one of the common excuses that the mills quote. It’s bullshit of course, but it sounds plausible so they continue to get away with it.

Another bullshit excuse is that they’re providing an additional service by milling and planing the lumber for you, and that the nominal measurement is before that process.

It’s all just greed. If they could get away with selling a 2x4 that was half an inch thick, they would. At least it’s all standardized now.

We don’t have a monopoly on stupid, it’s true. The most stupid though are american.

Does it? I’m using a vpn and I’m on .world and it seems to work just fine.

yeah, but between now and next time I need it I’ll have forgotten wiztree but will still remember windirstat because I’ve been using it for years.

fault isn’t zero sum.

both the driver and best buy can be 100% at fault.

idk, it was the first result for “doubt meme” for me.

this can be easily avoided by using linux.

unfortunately, i setup all my accounts on .world which blocks piracy communities.

so many fixes, this is great

Anyone else have the problem with newpipe that it simply doesn’t work when connected to wifi?

1 year and 6 traffic collisions later (all the fault of the car drivers), I still drive a scooter (not the same one I started the year with) and do not have a car. I believe that I do not have brain damage.

Firefox + ublock origin + sponsor block (for youtube).

i don’t use apple products but it works on everything else

why don’t you have an adblocker? I haven’t seen / heard an ad on one of my devices in 15 years.

I’m imagining it and that sounds hot

eh, pandemic, epidemic, what’s the difference?

I know there’s actually a difference and the difference does matter, but I don’t know what the difference is and I use the two words interchangeably. My point was that shit’s fucked.

new pandemic is already started, look at current measles

If nothing else in my life, it does make me feel powerful how fucking afraid of me that republicans are.

I’m the type to beat my head against a wall until the wall breaks. Then through that hole, I lead my friends. Fewer and fewer of my friends follow me through such holes. Last time I did such, I brought all my friends to discord (and now I regret it). It is hard as fuck to convince normies to adopt a new platform. If they’re not already invested, it will take a serious investment for them to give half a shit. I was able to get some people on discord by promising them that I was running a dnd campaign (I was at the time, but it fell apart shortly therefafter), and those people haven’t been on discord since.

How do I convince them that lemmy is the future? I don’t think I can. Fundamentally, lemmy is objectively better than reddit (not for features, but because lemmy won’t ban you for mentioning green mario and other similar administrative bullshits). I wasn’t able to convince them to use reddit back when reddit was good!

The infrastructure is there, and most of the features are there, but the content comes from content creators and they’re not here yet.

For example, we have grimdank, but we don’t have vezimira and emmawatnot. We have users who repost their content, but they’re not posting here directly.