𝕮𝕬𝕭𝕭𝕬𝕲𝕰 @ ALiteralCabbage @feddit.uk

A Literal Cabbage. What do you want from me?

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Fixing things is nearly always cheaper than buying new

This really depends on what you're fixing. My laptop has a crap battery. To buy a new one is a few hundred quid. Plus various proprietary/niche screw bits. Plus the time to actually do it.

An equivalent new laptop is fractionally more expensive, and I can have it delivered to my home, freeing up the time element.

Tomfix my bicycle? I might need some internal components for my brifters; cheap AF and I know what I'm doing (and where to buy from). New shifters several orders of magnitude more expensive.

It's insane.

What gets my goat the most is that farmers take collectve action over the most insanely selfish shit, but are happy to be absolutely rinsed over things that are actively making their lives worse!

Imagine if they actually pooled their resources to make sure they got fair pay from supermarkets instead of shitting themselves over inheritance tax and hunting bans.

I say this as someone who lives and works alongside farmers. I have a huge degree of respect for the amount of work a lot of them do, but fuck me they're a short slighted bunch.

Absolutely amazing take.

Maybe worry about the state of the NHS rather than your election prospects?

Imagine being such a shitty manager that your workforce walk out on you.

Yeah but remember! No farmers no food! They're the unsung heroes who do no wrong and are the guardians of the countryside! /S

It's a difficult sell because it's unreasonable.

Doctors get paid vastly more than most of the public (I'm both the private and public sectors), including the healthcare workers whose labour supports them in their work.

Has anyone seen a rise in wages which is equivalent to the increase in inflation?

So she's been caught speeding and got caught again, and again, and again, and again!

Or tubular!

They have a fairly short list of "bad takes" though, and they have an excellent track record in reporting broadly. Their impressive history of winning libel cases against them speaks volumes to that.

Usually because you actually own the retail/physical version but they can rescind access to a digital copy at any point.

But I usually buy old games or new ones second hand, so, I exist on a slightly different market place...

I get the MSRP outrage, but I mean it's not an unusual cost for launch day titles, especially for physical media.

I don't think I've ever paid full retail for any game or console I've ever owned though. And I do like to own my games by buying physical media (or at least the installer files).

Wild. Possibly market rates are different - don't know if the EUR is particularly weak right now? I don't follow the conversion rates...

What games currently cost that much though, is my question really, I guess. The last expensive titles I can see right now for standard editions of games is like, 70Eur equivalent for AAA type titles.

I mean I own a switch, and I've never paid anything close to that for games... I've gone to maybe £45-50 for launch titles but what games cost £70?

Who the hell is paying 90EUR for switch games?

Portugal is secretly Eastern European, after all...

Only if they're not hardwired in - lots of people where I live just stick them to their doors so there's no wires.

What has kept you in a "practicing" religious state rather than moving away from a supernatural/religious belief system all together?

Most of the people I know who are ex-Christian have become agnostic or atheist over moving to another "faith" (of you want to call it that).

My family know, but mostly because of my lived example rather than any explicit conversation with them.

They knew when I moved to a more liberal church (Society of Friends, who I have a lot of respect for), and when I eventually stopped going there as well, but I never explicitly said.

My sister has asked if id consider "coming back to church" but it was a pretty relaxed conversation to be honest.

It's just something that's the way it is now. Occasional remarks (especially as I'm marrying, legally, without a religious ceremony) but nothing terribly cutting! My mother is a little passive aggressive at times but that's not explicitly to do with my religious practice (or lack thereof).

I also remember hearing that surgeons who play videogames tend to perform better at their jobs too.

Hand eye co-ordination (especially when looking at a screen without direct feedback in your hands), stressful situations, long stints of focus...

There's lots of benefits to gaming!