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Post by Lee on Apr 8, 2019 17:53:59 GMT -5
The mechanical skills to fix things are a nice to have but in a modern reality most town and city people my age and younger don't have these skills simply because household goods don't break often enough to accrue experience fixing things. When they do break it's often a programming issue rather than a mechanical one. Even when it's mechanical there can be all sorts of manufacturing barriers. For example one of my laptop fans frequently sounded like a jet engine about to take off, but opening the cover to clean it would've voided the warranty. Poo on the manufacturers, who would encourage us to be lazy consumers. You could probably order and replace the fan for less than it would cost you to drive or send your laptop to the manufacturer. Warrantees are a capitalistic enducement to cynicism in the first place. Why do I need this warrantee? Oh I see, the product wasn't designed and built properly in the first place. Oh no, we are standing by our product. Oh no, you're saying your product will fail. Warrantees that are sold are definitely a rip off. But it depends who you are. If you're rich it might make sense to buy insurance for everything. If you're poor, you self insure, and you test every inspired expression for bullsh-.
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Post by ellie on Apr 9, 2019 6:20:31 GMT -5
We already do, I guess. One can pick up a cell phone and call anyone anytime, anywhere else in the world. It's still a somewhat slow process. Perhaps at some point we will be able to make the call just by thinking. Even the smallest children are sensitive to the welfare of others. No one needs to tell them. Many names come to mind here!
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Post by ellie on Apr 9, 2019 6:40:02 GMT -5
The mechanical skills to fix things are a nice to have but in a modern reality most town and city people my age and younger don't have these skills simply because household goods don't break often enough to accrue experience fixing things. When they do break it's often a programming issue rather than a mechanical one. Even when it's mechanical there can be all sorts of manufacturing barriers. For example one of my laptop fans frequently sounded like a jet engine about to take off, but opening the cover to clean it would've voided the warranty. Poo on the manufacturers, who would encourage us to be lazy consumers. You could probably order and replace the fan for less than it would cost you to drive or send your laptop to the manufacturer. The manufacturer sent someone to replace the fan free of charge. It was probably just full of dust and fluff. There are tax benefits to having some types of insurance depending on where you live. Rich people would be in for that. I don't think most would bother with things like extended product warranty though. If something breaks they could have a personal assistant source a new product.
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Post by Lee on Apr 9, 2019 9:56:59 GMT -5
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Post by Lee on Apr 14, 2019 6:18:56 GMT -5
Technology has a tendency to make all things modular. Rather than troubleshoot and fix a problem, a common solution is to replace parts until the "animal" works again.
Will people be induced to learn and think in such a paradigm?
I suspect not.
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Post by Lee on Apr 14, 2019 6:25:47 GMT -5
The homeless people live on.
Sacramento built mailboxes by homeless camps so people could theoretically, gain access to jobs and support that would merge them back into society. Did it work?
No. They abandoned the "helps" project because its main effect was to streamline monies to indigents and their drug problems, which the indigents in turn, celebrated and absorbed.
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Post by Gene on Apr 28, 2019 18:18:52 GMT -5
In the video, when the meth-head interviewed is mocking authority, I feel like he's mocking all of us. All of us are being made less respectable over the spectre of homelessness. I think the problem is rooted in too little religion, not too much. A religion that makes right and wrong real to children is constructive. Shame is a positive thing if it's based upon failure to achieve the good. A society without expectations is a society that plans to fail. There's a relationship between gay normalcy and homelessness. Gay normalcy has led to gender annhilation. In the past, we we're men and women, and we were taught how to be right and how to be wrong in those roles. This was important, because it 1) Defined the family and 2) Retained power in the family nuclear, as opposed to ceding it to a proto-savior government, who's definition of charity is taking other people's money to impower themselves at the expense of your escalating dependency. Hey Lee -- here's a local Sacramento service that may help you clarify your thinking: www.wendysebastian.com/
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Post by BobWilliston on Apr 28, 2019 18:46:18 GMT -5
Is Seattle dead yet?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2019 18:53:44 GMT -5
its gonna take awhile for that cesspool to die...
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Post by Lee on Apr 30, 2019 17:00:49 GMT -5
In the video, when the meth-head interviewed is mocking authority, I feel like he's mocking all of us. All of us are being made less respectable over the spectre of homelessness. I think the problem is rooted in too little religion, not too much. A religion that makes right and wrong real to children is constructive. Shame is a positive thing if it's based upon failure to achieve the good. A society without expectations is a society that plans to fail. There's a relationship between gay normalcy and homelessness. Gay normalcy has led to gender annhilation. In the past, we we're men and women, and we were taught how to be right and how to be wrong in those roles. This was important, because it 1) Defined the family and 2) Retained power in the family nuclear, as opposed to ceding it to a proto-savior government, who's definition of charity is taking other people's money to impower themselves at the expense of your escalating dependency. Hey Lee -- here's a local Sacramento service that may help you clarify your thinking: www.wendysebastian.com/Thanks
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