For cheap plastic “thingies” if you know a friend with a 3D printer they can be of massive help. Even if you don’t have such a friend, there are domestic businesses that will print and ship things for you. Granted they aren’t always as cheap, but easily better for the environment due to being more local.

Quitting Amazon to use AliExpress or Temu is like quitting drinking alcohol by switching to heroin instead.

Environmental issues aside, cheap disposable shit that you have to replace constantly actually costs you way more in the long run.

This is always the problem: Monopolies are popular with consumers because their centralization makes everything easy. The trappings of convenience.

Buy stuff directly from stores. Every time I’ve looked, the price elsewhere often exactly matches what Amazon charges because their pricing algorithms are constantly price matching anyhow.

A free trade agreement with orange guy who literally said his favourite word was tariff? Hahah! Oh wait they’re serious? Let me laugh even harder.

It’s convenient timing that Google Chrome is removing support for ad blocking plugins like uBlock right as Premium sneaks ads back in… 🙄

Just going to leave this here with proof that Elmo said cars would be fully driving themselves by 2018: https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/autonomous-driving/timeline-of-tesla-self-driving-aspirations-a9686689375/

The reason is that Elon Musk got caught liking questionable content through the likes page.

So if Spiderman got his powers from being bit by a radioactive spider… 🤔

DEJA VU!

Yes, microwaves are non-ionizing radiation. I would not suggest sticking your head in your microwave while it’s running though.