ulkesh
@ulkesh@piefed.social
- Comment on The price of soda in 2017 3 days ago:
That’s definitely one take on unfettered corporate greed.
- Comment on How come when paying cash for gas, it is not like a coke machine where you can insert your money? And when it hits that limit it clicks off? 1 week ago:
Anything mechanical adds more risk for failure. And given how stupid gas pump software is, it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if the cash insert mechanism is broken that it would disable the pump even when there are other payment options (such as paying cash inside or using a card at the pump).
Yeah let’s not add more points of failure to an already-failure-prone system.
- Comment on Mars Bar from the 1990s found during house clearance - shrinkflation in action 1 week ago:
You clearly have a better memory than I :)
- Comment on Mars Bar from the 1990s found during house clearance - shrinkflation in action 1 week ago:
I was 12, so I didn’t have 3 cents to rub together, let alone 30. I assumed it was similar to candy bars when I was in high school, which were about $0.50 at the time.
- Comment on Mars Bar from the 1990s found during house clearance - shrinkflation in action 1 week ago:
Factoring in 35 years of inflation. A $0.50 mars bar in 1991 is $1.21 today. The cost of a Mars bar today is at least $1.50 USD (after converting from UK pounds) and that’s being generous.
Companies are greedier than ever and there seems to be no stopping it (meaning because of the oligarchy in the US, Congress will never do a damn thing about it, and certainly the spoiled man-baby’s executive branch will do nothing about it), and no end in sight of it.
Fuck them all.
- Comment on It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History 3 weeks ago:
Well now I get to laugh even harder at the suckers who bought them.
- Comment on Valve says there's no end in sight to the memory crisis, and prices are only going to increase: 'Honestly, it's still getting worse' 4 weeks ago:
If capitalism works, we’ll start to see competitors enter the market and prices would go down.
If capitalism worked.
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- Comment on I would like to play a calm game 2 months ago:
Farewell North
- Comment on The World Is Basically Begging for Another iPod 4 months ago:
Bring on the Zune!
- Comment on Is there a reason that all elected (not appointed) officials shouldn't be subject to a recall vote? 4 months ago:
In the United States, it’s simple: the Constitution does not lay out any provision for such a recall. For better or worse, and it’s most certainly worse right now, the only way the removal of a person in Congress can happen is if the respective body itself expels the person (Senators to remove a Senator, House to remove a Representative), the person resigns, or the person dies. And expulsion has a fairly high bar to overcome.
- Comment on 6 months ago:
Diablo and Diablo 2 entered the chat.
- Comment on 6 months ago:
I’m right there with you. I miss having 6v6 with like half the characters they have now (so I can actually learn them all), with Jeff Kaplan keeping me excited to play. What a fun time that was.
- Comment on ICE agents attempt to arrest US Citizen in St Peter, Minnesota 6 months ago:
The piece of shit Trump wants a civil war. This is how he will get it. Fuck ICE. Fuck Trump. And FUCK everyone who wants this.
