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joined 3 years ago
ohhhh I get it now. Well shit, I'm sorry. I would honestly kill for a place like that. General thrift stores are... uncomfortable for me, and the more hip accepting places still just don't carry anything that fits me
So it was all well worth it in the end.
I still think its a mixed bag at best but mostly because tech companies' greed and AI bullshit have utterly poisoned the well.
The web is bigger and flashier and capable of doing more than ever, but it requires a pretty hefty CPU to even do basic things that you could do as fast or faster on a midrange tower from 15 years ago. And all the sites are designed to be addictive. Mobile devices are technological marvels more than ever before, but they're also always within like 2 years of being e-waste, and have become almost completely proprietary and locked into surveillance capitalism, locking out DIYers as much as physically possible. The cameras are great but "processing software" (it was verging into outright editing/enhancement for years even before the latest AI boom) has gotten so "good" that photos often no longer look like real life, they look "better". The 4k HDR screens come from the factory with baked in ads and dead pixels, the videogames are all building in gambling mechanics to make money, etc etc. And thats not to mention "AI" shit
proprietary charging cables
2000s beauty standards
silver plastic home electronics
nimh and nicad batteries in everything that lasted all of 5 minutes
paper encyclopedias were kinda before my time but also seemed pretty bad
getting rid of smoking inside of restaurants and bars
my state was early to that so I don't remember it much really, but holy shit yeah. I recently ran across an anecdote from someone probably 15 years older than I am and I could smell the place just reading about it online. Something about how in college his buddies would go and all smoke cigars in the basement dining room of the local pizza joint, but after a while the staff asked them to stop... so they switched to cigarettes and that was of course fine
Those crappy 2000s era phones that filled the void between old school cellphones and smartphones
I liiiiked those, at least the later ones
I probably didnt have one long enough for it to break down or for me to get sick of it though. blackberries were much better in most ways but expensive and not exactly tanks themselves.
everything else is real as fuck but also very much problems of the digital age, created by the digital age lol
pls post about it if you do! I'm extremely interested
some states let you buy them online some don't. Even in states that "don't" you can usually find some identical ones marketed as being veterinary insulin needles that everyone says are fine, but I haven't tried them personally. Lotta states let you buy them in person without a prescription, though the pharmacist might give you a hard time if its a chuddy area. As a fallback, reach out to harm reduction orgs in your area and see where they get theirs/if you can get some, because they will have some. A variety of sizes should work in a pinch so don't stress about getting the exact right gauge and length as long as its close, though you will probably have preferences.
they had a what now
damn that sucks. At least there's still DIY. I should stock up on supplies
What do you mean by larger/oddly proportioned? Do you have a larger waist? If you have a pair of jeans at home that fit you well, I'd recommend starting with measuring those
yeah mostly I just mean fat/tall but also trans so potentially some weirdness in several dimensions. I wouldn't say I have any pairs that fit great tbh, though of course the ones with some stretch are very comfy they're no good for durability or getting a transferable measurement. but I have an idea of my size and can always take more measurements and try a few different pairs/sizes if they're not ludicrously priced
I guess I had conflated unwashed/unsanfordized with raw denim in my head, good to know
if 7zip or VLC or whatever ever get me killed...
what a world we live in
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