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Dude @BizyDad this post was legendary and I love it!!Yes.
Hang on, I just need to adjust my tin foil hat a moment. Ok, so...
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And the light bulb and cell phone companies too...
Phoebus cartel - Wikipedia
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You may now be eligible for a $25 settlement from Apple if your iPhone experienced issues due to 'batterygate'
Apple customers who experienced iPhone throttling issues prior to 2018 may now be eligible for a settlement from Apple.www.google.com
I recently thought to just reactivate my old razr flip phone. It actually still works 18ish years later, unlike every other phone I've owned since. Can you believe that? And batteries for that are cheap. Too bad 3G will be deprecated soon.
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Get help with your wireless phone, plans, orders, and voicemail. Learn how to fix common issues or contact us. AT&T has you covered with AT&T Wireless support, troubleshooting, how-to articles, & videos.www.att.com
Damn. Ok, at least that is in the name of a faster, more capable 5G network. We're getting a trade off there.
I read this article today. Hard not to see this as intentional...
PS4's Fatal System Clock Battery Error Reportedly Proven By Player
PS4’s CMOS battery may disable the console.www.google.com
I seem to recall the ps4 being billed as the last console you'll need to buy. Totally upgradable. Or was that the ps3? Meh, who cares? Onto the ps5. Chuck more plastic electronics in landfills.
(Hang on, I have to check and make sure I'm in the rant thread. Yeah? Ok. To continue... )
It's an epidemic (pandemic?) of ever worsening quality and we consumers have been accepting it for ages. Planned obsolescence. Actually, it's worse, we reward companies for it.
What it is about us that we hafta have newer or flashier, as if those words are synonyms for better?
Does anyone know the name of the guy who invented the everlasting light bulb? Why not? That cheesy website is the best we can do? What do we really value here?
Why should we expect vaccines to be any different? This isn't the 1950's. We aren't curing polio in one shot.
Joseph Salk died poor. That's the real takeaway from the history of polio. Vaccine companies (I use the term loosely, as some of these companies that have never brought a vaccine to market before) can't have that.
Sssh, nobody pay too much attention to whether mutations are caused by vaccination, if it does, that'll just lead to increased demand for more vaccination. Winner winner.
Cure? Is anyone even working on one? Can we look into that? Do we cure anything anymore? Did that dream die with Jerry Lewis?
Is it just me, or did the flu vaccine prove the model? The only problem is the low rates of vaccine adoption. How can we fix that?
I swear somewhere along the line we as a society, as a world, got way too "smart" for our own good.
So this is what passes for vaccination in the new go go 2020's. Multiple uses, no liability, backed and purchased by government dollars and insurance pools with a strong arm government marketing campaign.
Anyone actually know how much this stuff costs? Can't wait to see next year's insurance premiums. Who says the government can't get anything done?
Frankly, the staunchest profiteers in the thread should be sitting in the front row taking notes at this masterclass of modern market principles. This ain't your granddaddy's free market...
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Woo, ok, got on a bit of a roll there. The tin foil stuff isn't my strong suit. How'd I do?
h/t to @WillHurtDontCare he shared that one article and I've been cheesed off about the vaccine companies ever since...
Yes, planned obsolescence is real.
And at the risk of being a nut job, yes I believe they are doing the same thing with the vaccines as a massive monopoly-meets-government money grab.
except with this one, it’s
“buy our product or else our (possibly man made) virus will kill you.”
The threatening nature of the monopoly! Wow! Lol
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