People are people. People like to feel good about themselves. Vanity is still the Devil's favourite sin.
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This reminds me of that story of tesla employees sharing videos of kids being run over, naked customers, or customers fucking in private chat groups:
I look forward to the class action and GDPR lawsuits.
That's good to hear.
That means they're fucked when they inevitably get hit by GDPR claims in the EU.
I was worried they might have had legal prepare for inevitable lawsuits, by ensuring they did the bare minimum. Apparently not. Always fun.
No one’s twisting RyanAir’s arm to be dickheads
No one's twisting consumers' arms to be dickheads by buying products or services from unethical companies. People know ryanair flouts labour laws, treats passengers like shit, and that air travel is destroying the planet. Just like people know cheap fast fashion made in Myanmar or China has quite likely been (in part) made with slave/child labour.
I'm not pretending to be a saint, but why should people who don't give a shit about others, expect the rest of us to give a shit about them? What goes around comes around.
It's not that different to someone some rich Saudi complaining about their slave spitting in their food. I mean, sucks for you, but I've run out of tiny violins Marie Antionette.
A lot of people are in for a very rude awakening as the climate crisis worsens and the global order changes.
'Jahreswagen' is the true base.
New car driven by employees, low miles, sold second hand by the manufacturer. Some have very low mileage, but still the price is significantly cheaper. It's an open secret that it's nothing more than a way to offer price differentiation.
That and dacia.
You get what you pay for.
Sorry OP, but as someone who worked in the industry, I have run out of sympathy with people who fly ryanair.
It's not like it's a state secret that they're scum.
The matrasses too.
They're counting on no one using it, because a matrass is annoying to transport, but that's really worth it.
IME they rarely last ten years, but that doesn't matter. You simply return them every few years, once they start sagging a bit or get dents. Just use a matrass protecter against the worst stains, obviously.
Very affordable matrasses too, compared to other places.
A boring dystopia.
I bought particleboard furniture from a German company ten years ago. One of the planks weighed more than an entire new IKEA book cupboard.
IKEA quality has gone down hill significantly.
It used to be cheap but relatively good quality.
Now it's often (but not always) overpriced low quality stuff.
Europe? Second hand.
High quality but modernish oak furniture? You can often collect it for free. Paint it white if you think it looks too dated and attach a few new knobs.
Want to pay a bit more? Antique cupboards over 2 meters are invariably easier to dissassemble/reassassemble than an IKEA cupboard. You need less bolts if you make stuff from actual wood. Often just 4 bolts for a huge antique cupboard or no bolts at all just wood clamps/pegs. The top decoration can also often be removed. I've transported a 2.4x1.8m cupboard in the back of a VW Passat. But people don't know that and are scared it won't fit in their house or car, so don't buy them.
Wood is also easy to repair. I've bought early 19th century biedermeier cupboards for under 50Euros that now look like they just came out of a palace. The 16th century cupboard I bought, literally came from a castle. 100 Euros. 2m40 tall. Scares people off, they don't realise it's easy to dissassemble and that the top bit is usually detachable/extra, or they want ikea crap because it's what the neighbours have. People will tell you how much they paid for them(often thousands), then thank you for buying them at less than 10% because they simply don't sell and they would otherwise have been forced to chop them up for firewood. Often old people downsizing and moving to a retirement home. They'd be forced to pay hundreds in storage fees for each month it's not sold.
Some of them look bad when you buy them. I either use a (dark) furniture bees wax or pledge furniture renovator. Not a bit, but a lot of the stuff. Quality wood and you can rescue something that's been stuck in a damp shed and covered in pigeon shit for a decade, and make it look like new. Cracks? Two planks, some wood glue, some bricks. Holes? If the bees wax doesn't fill it, there's filler or wax for that. Etc. etc.
Some of my furniture has no screws, all dove tail carpenter stuff. Some has handmade screws, because they're from before industrialisation.
Only thing to avoid is wood worm, unless you have a large sauna, are willing to take a gamble on the wood not cracking as you cook it, and want to spend an entire day filling tiny holes afterwards.
For my needs it works out much cheaper to buy a new android phone every few years, but it is such a waste.
Depending on manufacturer you get up to 5 years of security updates, but the phone usually costs up to 800 euros less so it simply doesn't make sense to buy the iphone.
You end up throwing a perfectly good phone in a drawer, never to be used again.
In ye olden days, it didn't really matter that the phone was less secure. But with banking apps, you have no real choice in the matter.