isVeryLoud
@isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca
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Software Developer
- Comment on Either a grocery store order went wrong or Coca-Cola strikes again 1 month ago:
!shrinkflation@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Tried to order a part before the tariffs 1 month ago:
I believe it has to be declared on the packing manifest, but it relies on the expeditor being truthful. That’s my understanding of it.
I don’t think it’s about the place of manufacture, but rather the place of origin. A lot of items are manufactured all over the place.
- Comment on Tried to order a part before the tariffs 1 month ago:
Any time an eligible item crosses the US / Canada border, a 25% tariff is applied. This is how the US does it, so this is what the Canadian government is copying.
This is terrible for auto manufacturing, where various parts cross the border multiple times between raw materials, loose parts, assembled parts and assembled vehicle. Every time those parts or materials cross either border, it gets tariffed 25%.
I believe if your item comes from the US, lands in another country, gets re-labeled and then enters Canada, it won’t be tariffed, but don’t quote me on that.
- Comment on This is Stupid. 1 month ago:
Impossible, their username is joyjoy!
- Comment on Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks 1 month ago:
Absolutely, I’m not stating that the US’ water is undrinkable, simply that enough municipalities have poor quality or non-drinkable water that it’s easier for companies to market water bottles to people.
Stories like Flint, Mi. go international, and its crisis lasted for a really long time, despite being mostly the exception (see the other commenter’s Wikipedia link). And public access water fountains are not a thing in many cities, leading to an even greater perceived scarcity by consumers.
My point above was that enough municipalities have a drinking water quality problem to drive sales of water bottles across the country, the US’ drinking water is not bad across the world stage, but probably worse than most western European countries.
The solution should be either a water filter, or a filtered water dispenser from a refillable jug. Not disposable water bottles.
- Comment on Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks 1 month ago:
I love the smell of electronics! What I’m referencing is indeed the bitter compound they put on Switch cartridges, it tastes really bad and you taste it for a really long time, a stern warning to would-be choking children.
- Comment on Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks 1 month ago:
I presume you’re not from the US.
Many municipalities across the US do not have drinkable water, and many more do not offer public access to water fountains. Thus, bottled water is a huge market in the US as free facilities are not always available.
I’m Canadian and I legitimately cannot recall the last time I bought bottled or canned water. I bring my two 18.9L jugs to the store to fill them with filtered water for $5 and that’s the extent of my “bottled water” consumption. Elsewhere, I carry a metal water bottle I can get refilled anywhere for free.
- Comment on Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks 1 month ago:
Yeah Stevia tastes like poison to me, super bitter.
Basically all artificial sweeteners taste like either bitter or nothing at all to me. So I’m really angry when I buy a product I’ve been buying for years and it suddenly tastes like a Nintendo Switch cartridge.
>:(
- Comment on Gemini wont talk about Bernie Sanders 2 months ago:
Or you can ask it to respond in pirate English, bypasses a lot of blocks
- Comment on Never have I ever pressed right arrow on a YouTube video, expecting the volume to go slightly up 2 months ago:
And K for play/pause
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Ray Cesum
- Comment on Boomers with their loud Samsung phone sounds 2 months ago:
BO DU BU DUP DUP!
- Comment on "Family Size" has no meaning anymore 2 months ago:
Lmao good retort
- Comment on If you save, we will charge you more 3 months ago:
And then eventually we’ll stop fixing it for that amount of money, pocket the difference and go “tough, pay more” if you want it fixed again.
- Comment on Amazon: The same 31 products you don't want, again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again 3 months ago:
My neighbour
- Comment on The Automated Bot of Experian support phone line, refuses to let me to a real person... 🤬 3 months ago:
The new FTC’s job will be to void all regulations and dissolve itself because some South African got beef with it.
- Comment on This spoon. 4 months ago:
Thar es no spewn.
- Comment on Scales that refuse to measure if the battery isn't brand new 5 months ago:
It’s my first time getting name brand in a while, but it’s possible it’s like OEM tires, where the tires that come with your car don’t have as much tread as a new tire you bought yourself, even of the same model.
- Comment on Scales that refuse to measure if the battery isn't brand new 5 months ago:
That’s exactly what I thought yesterday when I picked the Panasonic out of its packaging haha
- Comment on Scales that refuse to measure if the battery isn't brand new 5 months ago:
Get brand name CR2032, the cheap stuff doesn’t supply enough voltage and electronics don’t like em.
- Comment on Interesting opinions about kodak ultramax 400 film stock 5 months ago:
EMBOMMA
- Comment on Save the kid! 5 months ago:
They’re talking about the broken amber alert not helping anyone
- Comment on You'd better 5 months ago:
I agree!
- Comment on Suddenly firefox on ios shows ads on homescreen 6 months ago:
The Linux kernel is sponsored by many, many large companies who also contribute to it. It is not lacking funds at all.
- Comment on Google now requires JavaScript 6 months ago:
I think they were just referring to the X in the name.
- Comment on M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable 7 months ago:
I really love Kagi, it’s been worth the money for me!
I can block results, re-order result priority, enable or disable any feature I want, and their AI summary feature is actually good and is locked behind a click so it doesn’t trigger on every search. Also obviously no ads and no tracking.
- Comment on M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable 7 months ago:
Nah, I like to suffer.
- Comment on M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable 7 months ago:
Kati
- Comment on Yelp is making me get their app to confirm my restaurant reservation 7 months ago:
Funny
- Comment on My word game had some weird archaic racist word as one of the answers. 7 months ago:
It is also French, but it means claw
